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The drawbridge was on fire when me and my men crossed it. Screams surrounded the country side, the cast the hills in flickering shadows and we could make out the farthest people crossing over the mountains.

We burst open the door and let the family out. There were two boys and six girls hiding behind the father and mother. We killed the father, the mother and the boys immediately. Then we led the girls inside. They were screaming and crying as my me and my men took off our armory. We were sweating from head to toe, and the youngest was no older that six years, the oldest not older than fourteen. One by one we, that is me, Oskar, Pin, Gunter, held the girls down one by one and raped them. The pigs squealed in the back, outside the fires roared, the smell of dung, blood, and young flesh burned into my senses and the memory now still haunting the hallows of my concience. I do not regret what I did, for I could not have if it were not meant to be. Those days are marked by many a battle victory and booty, and this not much different but that these were the youngest and fairest children I had ever seen. In the hurry had not properly looked but had we it would have been plain to see the father and mother of good stock by the very appearance their daughters possessed. The fairest skin lay shivering under me, the bluest glowing eyes now watery globes of the sadness, the softest voices whpering and pulsating with each savage ravage. I will never forget that night.

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No discernible talent.

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>>9004158
Realize this is the climax of your rape scene.

>"One by one we, that is me, Oskar, Pin, Gunter, held the girls down one by one and raped them."

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>me and my men crossed it.
Dropped.

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/lit/ Confession Thread 2017-01-21 05:41:51 Post No.9004085
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/lit/ Confession Thread Anonymous 2017-01-21 05:41:51 Post No. 9004085 [Report] [View this topic]

For years and years I thought Don Quixote's pal was Pancho Villa.

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Anonymous 2017-01-21 05:51:26 Post No.9004117
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It wasn't until 3/4 of Catch 22 that I realize it was Cathcart and not Catchcart

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I usually always think something is good prose when a word is repeated twice in a sentence.

Example Lolita:

"That was my Lo," she said, "and these are my lilies."
"Yes," I said, "yes. They are beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!"

I always fall for it. It just sounds so good to me.

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>>9004085
>For years and years I thought Don Quixote's pal was Pancho Villa
top kek

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Handwriting inspo Anonymous 2017-01-21 05:40:25 Post No. 9004080 [Report] [View this topic]

Which one looks better? Bottom or top?

Still trying to improve my handwriting. Show me yours /lit/.

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Anonymous 2017-01-21 05:43:36 Post No.9004090
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First one

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they both look like shit
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>>9004080
Both look nice!

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post /lit/ pics

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I LOVE PRETTY GIRLS WITH BOOKS

I GO TO BOOK STORES JUST TO LOOK AT PRETTY GIRLS HOLDING BOOKS

IT FILLS ME WITH JOY JOY JOY

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Anonymous 2017-01-21 05:29:45 Post No. 9004034 [Report] [View this topic]

I finished It. I liked It. I thought it was better than The Stand and The Long Walk.

Where do I go from here? More Stephen King, or should I go to a new author?

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Anonymous 2017-01-21 05:34:34 Post No.9004055
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>>9004034
>I liked It

You kill yourself for liking genre trash.

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>>9004055
I'll kill myself for something else l before I consider killing myself for enjoying a fun book.

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I've never read It, but I'm reading the Dark Tower series and it's really enjoyable. So I don't know if you'll like it, but give it a try.

I liked the first book of the Dark Tower series "The Gunslinger", but the series does get better as it goes. Some people don't like the first book that much.

>inb4 pleb tier shit

/lit/ hates any genre fiction, so their opinion matters not.

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Anonymous 2017-01-21 05:21:50 Post No. 9003993 [Report] [View this topic]

>eating from the tree is bad
>but you won't have knowledge of what is good and bad until you eat it
Was god a hack?

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Anonymous 2017-01-21 05:23:43 Post No.9004004
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God was certainly a nasty and hypocritical fellow, but nonetheless His creation is quite spectacular. All great artists are immoral to varying degrees, be they human or superhuman.

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You won't know what is good or bad until you are aware of your own suffering.

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>>9003993

Was God the tree?

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Anonymous 2017-01-21 05:08:19 Post No. 9003939 [Report] [View this topic]

I want to get into basic philosophy

Suggest a concrete book or a video lecture that woud give me a foundation

I was told to start with the greeks but what book exactly should I start with first?

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Anonymous 2017-01-21 05:11:02 Post No.9003952
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>>9003939
think for yourself, check socractic method, be in the moment, know nothing, have no memory. also,parmenides.

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>>9003939

Fanged Noumena.

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>>9003939
>http://www.historyofphilosophy.net/
This is actually great. Read the actual philosophers because just like any 'companion', they are worthless if you don't read real philosophers 'doing philosophy', but they are fun to listen to, and occasionally specific enough to let you think about them.

It's still on-going (very slowly), which is also a plus.

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Metaxy (Greek: μεταξύ) is defined in Plato's Symposium via the character of the priestess Diotima as the "in-between" or "middle ground". Diotima, tutoring Socrates, uses the term to show how oral tradition can be perceived by different people in different ways. In the poem by Socrates she depicts Eros as not an extreme or purity; rather, as a daemon, Eros is in between the divine Gods and mankind. Diotima thus exposes the flaws of oral tradition; it uses strong contrasts to express truth, thus revealing vulnerability to sophistry

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>>9003936
Cool. Where are you going with this?

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Man moves through the world of Becoming, the ever changing world of sensory perception, into the world of Being—the world of forms, absolutes and transcendence. Man transcends his place in Becoming by Eros, where man reaches the Highest Good, an intuitive and mystical state of consciousness

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Much like Diotima did in expressing that Eros as a daemon was in between the Gods and mankind. Love (Eros) is the thing in between

Plato makes Poros, or "creative ingenuity", the child of Metis

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Anonymous 2017-01-21 04:32:30 Post No. 9003825 [Report] [View this topic]

Sup /lit/

What are some novels that "feel" the way this movie does?

I've always loved Stand By Me, but I can't quite put my finger on why.I've probably watched it more than any other movie.

It doesn't necessary have to be about a group of boy fending for themselves i.e Lord of the Flies, but I just mean the feeling that comes from Stand By Me.

It also has a kind of nostalgia for a time I haven't even experienced, which is a weird feeling. The time period of the movie mixed with the freedom of the main characters just takes you out of your own life temporarily

Doesn't have to be a great piece of literature - just looking for something light and somewhat feel-good or coming-of-age-ish to read quickly.

inb4 The Body

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Anonymous 2017-01-21 04:35:13 Post No.9003834
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I love the movie too, anon, I understand the feeling you mean. Nothing springs to mind immediately but I'll have a think.

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mark twain maybe

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>>9003825
>>9003834
Neither of these are a perfect fit but here's what I came up with.

My Ántonia, by Willa Cather - Has a somewhat similar framing device to Stand By Me that ramps up the nostalgia. Focuses on a friendship over the years between a boy and a slightly older girl instead of a group of boys, but it nails that bittersweet feeling that I loved in SBM.

Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury - very low stakes even compared to SBM but a very comfy summertime Americana nostalgiafest.

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Book recommendations on being a gentleman Anonymous 2017-01-21 04:23:25 Post No. 9003805 [Report] [View this topic]

I want to be a gentleman. Not a reddit fedora fag but a proper gentleman. Someone who excels and rises above degeneracy.

I'm already reading Letters to his son on the art of becoming a man the world and a gentleman.

I'm a Christian (aspiring to live a Christian life anyway) And have sinned plenty in the past but I'm ready to live a life devoted to God.

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Anonymous 2017-01-21 04:41:32 Post No.9003855
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Everyone has a different understanding of what a "gentleman" is.

For example, according to you, a gentleman is someone who believes in magic, apparently.

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>>9003805
If you're American, you might well want Emily Post.
Norbert Elias has a history of etiquette which is quite worthwhile too.

Augustine's Confessions or Wilde's De profundis might help on the Christian redemption route.

Alan Flusser for style.

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Anonymous 2017-01-21 04:22:32 Post No. 9003801 [Report] [View this topic]

Jordan Peterson and Sam Harris podcast out

https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/what-is-true

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Anonymous 2017-01-21 04:29:27 Post No.9003819
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Time to BTFO the meme man.

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>>9003819
which one?

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>Surface-level philosophising New Atheist (and his fanbase) gets BTFO by rad and upcoming esoteric Jungian idealist

From Facebook:

>Yeah I had a feeling this one wouldn't go well. I like Peterson, but his views on religion seem so esoteric that they're almost impossible to argue.

Kek, retards.

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Anonymous 2017-01-21 04:22:03 Post No. 9003799 [Report] [View this topic]

English is not my mother tongue. But I want to have better understanding of the language, both its beauty and knowledge. From which book should I start?

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Anonymous 2017-01-21 04:28:34 Post No.9003815
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The Greeks

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A book that you have difficulty reading.

It makes sense. If you don't have to think a whole lot, then you aren't learning a whole lot.

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Lolita.

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