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>m-muh Buddah
>Fucking Bourgeois
>Plebs don't into fucking eastern spirituality reeeee

Hack?

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Can we have a thread to discuss any discrepancies/incoherent plot points that irrtate you?

Here's mine
>LoTR FoTR Frodo slashes at the witch-king's shin with a numenorean dagger
>Aragorn finds ragged cloak with the slash but claims that no blade can harm the wraith
>Frodo's sword doesn't disintegrate though, later he bradishes it at the Bruinen and the witch-king shatters it.
>Get to RoTK
>Merry stabs the Witch-King's calf
>numenorean blade apparently does horrific damage and disables the WK.
>disintegrates

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I just received a first edition copy of The Recognitions, and I think that it's a fake.

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Why have so many notable men struggled so fundamentally with women?
I got a book with a collection of (love) letters and there are letters from nietzsche, kafka, kierkegaard, rilke, tucholsky, schiller, goethe, rousseau, dickens, hugo, fontane, heine, etc

The absolute worst being nietzsche and kafka.


Honestly, it is painfull to read. The autism is screaming. It was no wonder they failed with women. How can they be so genius in reading humans and so unable to interact with females?

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Which book have you reread the most times?

>He had bought a large map representing the sea,
>Without the least vestige of land:
>And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be
>A map they could all understand.

>"What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators,
>Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?"
>So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply
>"They are merely conventional signs!

>"Other maps are such shapes, with their islands and capes!
>But we've got our brave Captain to thank
>(So the crew would protest) "that he's bought us the best—
>A perfect and absolute blank!"


>"I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch—
>I said it in German and Greek:
>But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much)
>That English is what you speak!"


>When the verdict was called for, the Jury declined,
>As the word was so puzzling to spell;
>But they ventured to hope that the Snark wouldn't mind
>Undertaking that duty as well.

>So the Snark found the verdict, although, as it owned,
>It was spent with the toils of the day:
>When it said the word "GUILTY!" the Jury all groaned,
>And some of them fainted away.

>Then the Snark pronounced sentence, the Judge being quite
>Too nervous to utter a word:
>When it rose to its feet, there was silence like night,
> And the fall of a pin might be heard.

>"Transportation for life" was the sentence it gave,
>"And then to be fined forty pound."
>The Jury all cheered, though the Judge said he feared
>That the phrase was not legally sound.

>But their wild exultation was suddenly checked
>When the jailer informed them, with tears,
>Such a sentence would have not the slightest effect,
>As the pig had been dead for some years.

kek every time

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What does /lit/ think about Chinese philosophy?

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I've been getting into books a lot recently. In total I've read about 50 books yet Catcher In The Rye is still my favourite book of all time.

Am I turbo pleb?

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>“What I wanted was to die among strangers, untroubled, beneath a cloudless sky. And yet my desire differed from the sentiments of that ancient Greek who wanted to die under the brilliant sun. What I wanted was some natural, spontaneous suicide. I wanted a death like that of a fox, not yet well versed in cunning, that walks carelessly along a mountain path and is shot by a hunter because of its own stupidity…”

what did he mean by this?

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Want to get into Literary Theory, where should I start? Which movement should I start with?

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What are some good books on the philosophy of anime?

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What does /lit/ think of Welsh?

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>And his sons were blah, blah, blah, who had blah, blah, who went to blah, blah, blah, and his sons were blah blah ...

I really hope these names in the bible aren't important to know.

How do you guys take notes on big books like the Bible and such?

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Is she as good as Joyce?
Or is she a meme?
Personally I like her books because the gibberish % is less than Joyce

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Any novels about precognition, or other forms of telekinesis?

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>Tough times produce tough men, tough men produce good times, good times produce weak men, weak men produce tough times

can this be said to be true in any historical setting? cause it sounds deep but comes across like a gross generalisation

I keep seeing variations of this posted a lot on social media, but can't seem to attribute the quote to any source

are we living at times of weak men?