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>>9020731
What you need is rope tightly wrapping your neck, OP. That surely would strike up the beauty in this world!

>>9020731
Sure! Why not? Wars give aspiring writers plenty of material to work with.

We need people to put down their smartphones to strike up creativity. Maybe an ascetic movement will arise out of WWIII so we'll see.

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>>9020713
Are you the same person that posted this exact question within the past couple of days?

>>9020719

I posted it yesterday yes. I need better answers quite frankly and since I am an alcoholic I don't have the capacity to learn on my own right now sorry.

>>9020713
I don't think it's a symbolic or inner death. As far as I know, Pascal doesn't mention that kind of death( that is, death of the soul whereas life itself hasnt reached its end yet). Several christian authors do (there's many kinds of "death" in St Augustine), but to me it doesn't suit Pascal's thoughts and style.

Also, more generally speaking : diversion is miserable, but it actually IS necessary. It's not like it would get you to hell. Diversion takes you away from yourself, but it's not like you could be close to God without diversion anyway (for it doesn't depend on you).

ASOIAF is okay so far, but I'm only a book in. I'd suggest checking out Dune as it's science fiction worthy of being called literature.

>>9020674
Im only a book in on ASOIAF as well, well on like the last few chapters NO SPOILERS plEASE

>>9020666
Lemony Snickett may be more on your league.
Better'd try Twilight rape fan-fiction, though.

It's about a road. Written by a guy named Cormac, if I remember correctly.

its pretty dull

>>9020661
Yuh huh
>>9020668
Heartbreaking, haunting and emotionally shattering you mean?

You must commence with the chinese

start with the sikhs

>>9020618
Initiate with the Indians

I havent read PL unfortunetely, so i cant compare. I liked DC tho

>>9020608
>>9020603
Haven't read DC. I enjoyed PL, but it was rather long.

>>9020957
Milton takes himself a little too seriously but it's all good

I read Bostonians. It was pretty good, but at the same time boring (maybe it's problem of translation). Nice SJW trolling though

>>9020571
Not tryna troll. I just don't see the appeal of his work beyond the literary influence of it. Like I understand why he's important but something about his writing style is just so tedious to work through

>>9020571
g8 b8 m8 al8.

Of course he made it, I mean the man is still fervently praised on a Taiwanese aspie forum to this day

>>9020564
The true mark of a canonised author

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We're all gonna make it brah

The orginal Indian name of the town translates to, "Mudhole, full of assholes."

My hometown, c'est l'hiver

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Whitewashed homes stand in the narrow shore-line, shaded by the pine.
Stark rosemary grows with sweet thyme, on dusty walls where small lizards hide.
Fig trees offer their fruits to the sun, incense children dance to the Indian drum.
Here Odysseus charmed for Circe fell.
Her perfume still lingers, and also her spell.

>hate on

Stopped reading.

Ironic... not really. What gets me is that people seem to completely misunderstand the book. People constantly complain that he's a whiny bitch, but no. I can't think of a better description of a teenager on the cusp of adulthood, afraid of the responsibility and his indoctrination into a perceived world where no one is honest with each other and deeply unhappy.

Teenagers want to be cool, maybe. Adults will reread it and think, oh yeah, that's what it was like.

I think it stems from this expectation that protagonists are supposed to be likeable. Deeply troubling for me, because I think that teaching empathy is one of the greatest functions of lit.

I want to have sex with Machida.

>>9020452
dumb weeb

>99.99% of people won't even be able to distinguish which is which unless told in advance.
are you really this retarded

>>9020431

Frick off, this was the first and best bromance of all time.

>‘Hear me, great ones of Uruk,
>I weep for Enkidu, my friend,
>Bitterly moaning like a woman mourning
>I weep for my brother.
>O Enkidu, my brother,
>You were the axe at my side,
>My hand's strength, the sword in my belt,
>The shield before me,
>A glorious robe, my fairest ornament;
>An evil Fate has robbed me.
>The wild ass and the gazelle
>That were father and mother,
>All long-tailed creatures that nourished you
>Weep for you,
>All the wild things of the plain and pastures;
>The paths that you loved in the forest of cedars
>Night and day murmur.
>Let the great ones of strong-walled Uruk
>Weep for you;
>Let the finger of blessing
>Be stretched out in mourning;
>Enkidu, young brother. Hark,
>There is an echo through all the country
>Like a mother mourning.
>Weep all the paths where we walked together;
>And the beasts we hunted, the bear and hyena,
>Tiger and panther, leopard and lion,
>The stag and the ibex, the bull and the doe.
>The river along whose banks we used to walk,
>Weeps for you,
>Ula of Elam and dear Euphrates
>Where once we drew water for the water-skins.
>The mountain we climbed where we slew the Watchman,
>Weeps for you.
>The warriors of strong-walled Uruk
>Where the Bull of Heaven was killed,
>Weep for you.
>All the people of Eridu
>Weep for you Enkidu.
>Those who brought grain for your eating
>Mourn for you now;
>Who rubbed oil on your back
>Mourn for you now;
>Who poured beer for your drinking
>Mourn for you now.
>The harlot who anointed you with fragrant ointment
>Laments for you now;
>The women of the palace, who brought you a wife,
>A chosen ring of good advice,
>Lament for you now.
>And the young men your brothers
>As though they were women
>Go long-haired in mourning.
>What is this sleep which holds you now?
>You are lost in the dark and cannot hear me.'

i was pretending to be a girl once on omegle so guys would help me talk through my troubles without just leaving, and one guy with a foot fetish explained my situations solution through the epic of gilgamesh

>>9020431
fragile masculinity is relatively new.

i know a woman who likes it very much so its probably dreadful

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It is amazing. Here is a shit version of Naked Lunch.

>>9020468
I'm about 70 pages in and really enjoying parts of it. But it keeps devolving into endless descriptions of orgies and violence, does that have any significance or is it just supposed to shock me?

>>9020424
Yeah if you're not retarded

>>9020424
Description of a Struggle is totally nonsensical and easily his best work

>>9020424
the trial is basically young adult so

>believing science can found morality or ethics

Stopped reading right there!

No. Peterson has not a definitive conception of the world. He's trying to articulate ideas, not win the argument.
Harris however was completely exasperated.

>>9020402
>He's trying to articulate ideas
Well he's doing a shit job at it. At some point Peterson actually says "facts are not necessarily truth", kek.
I'd glad Harris actually called this fuck on his hypocrisy towards SJWs and didn't allow the discussion to move forward, he sacrificed the show but at least he didn't permit Peterson to interject his weirdass doublespeak interpretation of truth into further discourse