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>>8748829
No I'm quite happy to admit I haven't

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I read like signs and labels a lot

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>>8748751

Yes. Read it. Atlas Shrugged is the book which really projects Rand's philosophy, but The Fountainhead is easy to digest, and a good story.

>>8748751
You're "this" close to getting memed hard son

>Clinically insane

>>8748645
Use a Gary Stu but make his environment reward losing or being weak rather than being successful.

He is perfect, but despite this cannot rise to primacy within society or even his chosen occupation and/or pastimes. He has competitors who are also perfect, and happen to be luckier or better positioned than him as well. In the end, despite his innumerable positive qualities, he despairs at his unspecialness in a society of hundreds of millions.

>>8748624
Need to drop by at the book store, i've just finished re-reading Hamlet and now i'm out of books. What about you OP?

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>>8748624
Just came in the mail, 2200 pages of scripture and exigesis

I live in the South, it's 23/73 here.

Guest asking him about that horseshoe on the door at his house "Lynghuset" in Tisvilde, that he bought for the nobel prize money.

http://www.nbi.ku.dk/hhh/bohr/bohr/nobelprisen/#sidr-main

Use google translate from danish if you can't find a translation.

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>>8748858

Thanks so much. I believe you might have ended an Internet debate that goes on for quite some years now. All sources I found are in the English language so far.

Is this source entirely reliable, though?

Would you be willing to use this on a school paper? I understand the Copenhagen University is as legit as it can possibly get so I'm inclined to fully believe this.

I will contact the Niels Bohr Institute for more info on that quote.

Much appreciated. No words, really. You have a name so I can give you credit for this discovery?

I'm gonna write about this.

>>8749323
It's a pretty dumb quote. Why would anyone want to ride on the coattails of coattails?

>>8748506
My Twisted World

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>>8748511
>My Twisted World

>>8748506
Its not that hard to understand, just look at the viewpoints and motives of the different groups

I've read the one about insects. The general theme and tone stick in my mind (sultry nights in remote soviet coastal resorts) but overall I don't hold it in high regard. I remember one story was about two guys smoking weed in a concrete cylinder only to discover that the concrete cylinder was itself some sort of spliff that some giant was rolling. Pretty gay stuff.

Poмaн Ceнчин is better. But you'll never read him, murrican.

>>8748495
>murrican
>assuming everybody on 4chan is a murican

not even close, mate

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>>8748446
>Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone translates to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in murican

Reminder to always read books published it non -third world countries

>harry potter

>>8748525
>greentext

>>8748416
Pentti Linkola is based.

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>>8748426
Pentti Linkola IS the god of comfort

>>8748416
Barske Glæder - Zapffe
Okologi, Samfunn og Livsstil - Næss

Markens Grode - Hamsun (sort of)

>>8748367
silly, you're doint it now! (isn't this fun!)

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i cnae derstand ulsyses

>>8748367
start with the greeks

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>>8748386

>>8748365

I know the version you're looking for. It's at this site:
http://www.pixlr.com/

>>7628174

Read the fucking sticky. It's right there on top of the page.

Please fuck off, this is the worst bait I've seen in years. Try making it funny next time.

The Temptation to Exist
The Trouble with Being Born
Sickness Unto Death
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
A Short History of Decay
On the Heights of Despair
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Journey to the End of the Night

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>>8748142
if you can get beneath the icy crust which forms an indispensable part of this being a new sincerity board, because it is no less newly sincere to unironically hate life as it is to attempt to live in it, however dated and memelord gmm undoubtedly was, this nevertheless remains a decent alternative to pornography for at least one half an hour and potentially also the other half at some point later on

>>8748166
hahahaha upvoted!

>>8748097
Those choices sound good.
Pope translation for Homer isn't a good idea- he takes a lot of liberties and the whole thing is in bombastic singsong couplets. Try Lattimore (preferably an older printing, the new ones are hideous and lack his brilliant introduction), or maybe Fitzgerald. Avoid Fagles.
Don't cheat yourself with "The Three Theban Plays". Complete volumes of Sophocles are plentiful- even the Signet's edition (Roche) is fine. I can't quite say the same for Æschylus. But the tragedies are so short there's nothing wrong with reading an old translation online in a sitting.
I have the Modern Library's 'Basic Works of Aristotle', which seems fine (with the relevant works and avoiding On Animal Genitals and such), though it's pretty lacking in commentary and elucidation.
I'd say that you don't really need to read in any given order, but that might be because I pretty familiar with Greek mythology from childhood when I started reading.
'Start with the Greeks' should be 'Read the Greeks'. You really don't need them to read anything else. They're not an means to something else, but worthwhile in themselves.
Make sure to pick up Virgil's Æneid. I can't recommend a translation though.

>>8748097
don't fall for the meme dude, only reed first hand work. History of Peloponnesian War, Xenophon, Plato, Homer... everything else is fluff.

>unironically reading the greeks past Aristotle and Herodotus

>asking for unprotected excerpts from my diary desu
are you insane?

I got a handwritten novel titled "Supersponge and the Order of the Jellyfish", it's about 60 pages long and was written when I was about 8 years old. It's a mashup between Spongebob and Harry Potter because why the fuck not but the plot was all my invention. It gets all dark and shit at the end and they all die. I could drop some prime autism for you /lit/, shame it's in German. Anyone interested in a drop later on? It's full of drawings and shit.

>>8748190
I'm already interested. Please do post it.