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>>8876204
a-anyone?

>>8876238
/lit/ is a slow board.
>How can you resolve the issue of the injustice of the world and accept your own happiness?
What do you mean with that ?

>>8876204
>to me, this doesn't seem like sufficient justification: it seems more like acceptance of faith for one's own selfish reasons, one's own happiness.
This looks like a terminal case of spooks.

>>8876129

>implying the people know a damn thing

>>8876129
What makes you think that Virgil -was- actually trying to suck Augustus's dick in regards to everything in the poem? Why can't Latinus be an ambiguous, flawed human bound by circumstances, history, the will and force of the gods, like everyone else is?
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20162871

>>8876172
/pol/ needs to leave

>>8876187
But that's the thing, Latinus isn't flawed or ambiguous. If everyone would've listened to him, there wouldn't have been a problem in the first place. That's what's weird about him

>>8876062
>>>/ck/

>>8876062

For me it's Eggnog. Reminds me of my grandma's rustic, old house in the middle of nowhere, filled with clutter, smelling vaguely of her Pomeranian they do called "Dumb dumb". I still don't know if that was the dogs "real" name, actually.

We also used to do some kind of punch, with ginger ale and sherbet. Not traditionally Christmas-y, but I dig it.

>>8876426
*that she called

Speaking of hitting the eggnog. . .

there's nothing but face value here. "words we would like to be" is a terrible phrase.

How is this poetry, again? Remove the needless line breaks and it reads like prose. There's no meter, rhyme, imagery, or use of a metaphor. It's also written like a "deep" facebook slogan

>>8876068
>>8876063
OP here
yeah that's what I figured. someone sent me that, and i couldn't help but take it for face value hahaha

>>8875891
I hope they release a mass market paperback edition. The hardcover is about twice as large as it needs to be

>>8875891
Congratulations. You have been immersed so far into the meme culture that you have become part of it. You have learned the language through osmosis, have assimilated the customary behavior and have learned and become first an honory citizen and then a real one. You have set foot in the river of memes, and have dissolved into its waters. You have climbed to the peak of the mountain of memes, where you can feel the cold, memey air on your cheeks, and where you can see the meme-flags of great memers whose steps you have just retraced. You are a meme amongst memers, a veritable meme-lord, a maestro of memes. You are a fucking meme.

>>8875903
I think any book that becomes popular on this board becomes a meme though, this book became a meme before it was even out. The original meme trilogy was Ulysses, Gravity's Rainbow, and Infinite Jest. I hated all of those because they are pedantic and overall trite when they actually tried to make a point. 2666, despite being part of the new meme wave, was actually a beautiful text. It's okay to have opinions that agree with the whole sometimes, just like it's okay to disagree. I would be lying if I didn't say that Jerusalem had some of the most beautiful prose and wittiest writing that I have ever read.

>بكره في المشمش

>>8875778
Moses' books are notoriously dry, most don't make it through Deuteronomy.
OT is mostly Bible stories, poetry, aphoristic wisdom, and prophecy
if you want to just skip around:
>Ecclesiastes
>Job
>Isaiah(read before gospels)
>Gospels(Matt, Mark, Luke, John)
>Corinthians
>Revelations
that should get the ball rolling

Might as well just read a fairy tale

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>>8876233
edgy teenage atheists pls go

So, in your mind, if an author's prose isn't beautiful, then reading a plot summary of their 500-page novel is no less impoverished than reading the novel itself.

>the point of reading such books isn't just to maintain some kind of appearance but to struggle with and understand the ideas laid out and through this process better oneself.

Call me shallow, I read because it's fun, and therefore reading a plot summary of a novel is no substitute for reading the novel.

>>8875765
It's a thought that occurred to me, I'm not wholly convinced by it but I wanted to discuss it and see some arguments for (or as well more likely be the case) against it.

>>8875767
I don't think reading for fun is shallow. Shallowness comes from doing something for sake of appearance. Not for private personal enjoyment (which I should have included with self-betterment).

>>8875571
what setting?

>>8875580
inside of mark zuckerberg's anus

>>8875580
an imageboard setting

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Get inside Richard Dawkin's 'Inner Circle' by paying a few thousand dollars every year!

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>>8875498
That is probably alot of money

>>8875511
Really makes a lot of sense why he'd want to hide it, these charlatans really don't like being criticised

Γαμήσου, σουτζουkάkια.

>>8875493
>>8875503
Is it aliens?

>>8875505
Το kεφάλι σας είναι γεμάτο με νερό.

>>8875487

Eh. Like most 'black' literature, I think most of its popularity is a result of it being politically hot right now.

Ton Morrison, especially I think made it because she was black rather than by virtue of being a good writer.

There are excellent non-western writers, even in translation (Arab, turkish, or even Japanese writers like soeseki come to mind). But African American literature tends to be non-stop 'woe is me' and poorly written at that.

>>8875492
>Ton Morrison, especially I think made it because she was black rather than by virtue of being a good writer.

Song of Solomon is legitmately, unironically good and I'm a white cis male who is proud of it.

Invisible Man is also great.

>>8875492
>I think most of its popularity is a result of it being politically hot right now.

In other words, they say something relevant? What's wrong with that?

If you don't read it in the original italian you should kys asap

>>8875392
>italian
Um.

Some people like Hays but boy that book sure looks like SHIT

That's why you will cop the Patrician's Library edition asap

>>8875347
the one enemy that remained. or God, if you count him

Me, in my diary desu

>>8875290
I pretty much just make do with pdfs, if I can't find a book online I'll go to the library.

The only time I buy books is if they're in a different language and I can't find them online or in library, so I order them.

Or if it's a book I really love and have read many times and will read many times more.

What I think I ought to do aside, what I actually do is tend to buy aspirational books - thick novels and histories - and take books I'm ready to read immediately out of the library. So I've read a bunch of books, but all from the library, and I'm in my bedroom, lying on my bed, surrounded by great thick novels I haven't read.

>>8875303
I would use pdfs more, but it's difficult for me to read on screens. It hurts my eyes (though that's probably because I spend all day on 4chan). Is the link in the sticky the best place to find of books?

>>8875227
>https:/blogpost.suckrat.es/OP_has_his_first_inklings_he_might_in_fact_suck_cock.html

Homosex is OK anon. It's 2016.

>>8875227
This is really beautiful. You should write about it. You've already expressed it very sensitively and wonderfully here.

Good luck, anon :)