>tfw you accidentally read the real redpill
>>8712605
What translations are gud?
>>8712605
>tfw you read the ramblings of a bitter old man that are devoid of any philosophical merit and mistake them for "redpills"
>>8712611
That one.
Is it ok if I read this as my first philosophy book?
>>8712598
Thats not philosophy but go ahead
>>8712598
I mean, it's probably not a smart decision to do so as you won't appreciate the importance of the people he writes about, but do what you like my family.
>>8712598
>reads first philosophy book
>commits Giuseppe
Is there a certain amount of pre reading and preparation I need to do before I can truly enjoy stream of consciousness style writing? Or am I just not smart?
>stream of consciousness chapter
>start reading really fast
>>8712532
>He starts to touch her feet
>begin beating real fast
it's bullshit, from autists arrogant enough to think anyone gives a damn about their innermost thoughts, and who are too lazy to create a coherent narrative. because that's like real work.
Any books out there that will help me talk to women without wanting to kill myself 5 minutes later?
>>8712507
yeah its called stop being a pussy
its by your dad
no llores miguel
>>8712507
Gorilla Mindset
So are his other books good or something? Why did I get memed into buying this?
We live in the Internet age, m80. If you don't want to get meme'd on, just get a free reading sample from the Amazon Kindle Store or Google Play Store or wherever.
It takes 2 seconds, and you can easily say, "lmao this dweeb doesn't know how to use periods hahaha fucking retard" and trash the book.
>>8712480
you don't care about literature, you just thought the gimmick sounded cool
I sing the swords and spears and Him, the fated fleer,
which came from Troya’s bays unto Lawina’s shores,
who hither thither thrown to oceans, nations far,
by Yuno’s Wrath and by Her holy, haughty Force,
this all and war endured, to build the wallèd Town,
to Latyum bring the Rites, from whence Latinum’s Race,
our Alba’s Fathers thus, and highest Roma’s Walls.
I'm finna bust a nut onto this niggas balls
>>8712458
We have dedicated critque threads. Post in there and I'd be glad to give you some pointers
Kill yourself and I'll be glad to critique your performance
https://archive.org/details/MarxEngelsLettersAmericans
A guy I know just scanned this. It's in PDF format.
Engels to Friedrich Sorge, September 16, 1886: "In a country as untouched as America, which has developed in a purely bourgeois fashion without any feudal past, but has unwittingly taken over from England a whole store of ideology from feudal times, such as the English common law, religion, and sectarianism, and where the exigencies of practical labor and the concentrating of capital have produced a contempt for all theory, which is only now disappearing in the educated circles of scholars - the people must become conscious of their own social interests by making blunder after blunder. Nor will that be spared the workers; the confusion of the trade unions, socialists, Knights of Labor, etc., will persist for some time to come, and they will learn only by their own mistakes. But the main thing is that they have started moving, that things are going ahead generally, that the spell is broken; and they will go fast, too, faster than anywhere else, even though on a singular road, which seems, from the theoretical standpoint, to be an almost insane road."
For other works on US history from a Marxist POV (as well as more stuff by Marx and Engels, as well as Lenin, on the USA) see: http://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=202462.msg4376235
>>8712295
Nice OP. Too bad he didn't make it to the states and build the revolution there, he vastly underestimated how vicious and all-encompassing capital's attack would be against the American worker, physically and mentally.
tfw disadvantaged millionaire
>>8712353
If this is a jab at Engels, then I'd reply that if he were a cave-dwelling hermit it wouldn't make his writings any more or less valid.
Jefferson was a slaveowner and yet he defended the Jacobins and their policy of revolutionary terror against feudalism while many of the other Founding Fathers, who didn't own slaves, opposed the French Revolution.
Jefferson,
>In the struggle which was necessary, many guilty persons fell without the forms of trial, and with them some innocent. These I deplore as much as any body, and shall deplore some of them to the day of my death. But I deplore them as I should have done had they fallen in battle. It was necessary to use the arm of the people, a machine not quite so blind as balls and bombs, but blind to a certain degree. A few of their cordial friends met at their hands the fate of enemies. But time and truth will rescue and embalm their memories, while their posterity will be enjoying that very liberty for which they would never have hesitated to offer up their lives. The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood? My own affections have been deeply wounded by some of the martyrs to this cause, but rather than it should have failed, I would have seen half the earth desolated.
i think we can all agree that johnny is basically /lit/, no?
Johnny probably based his entire life on the misconception that Nietzsche was a nihilst.
>using /lit/ as an adjective to encompass all the traits you hope to emulate to further your pseud image
>>>/fa/
>>8712186
OP here. My point was actually that Johnny is basically the typical /lit/ poster, which is a criticism of /lit/ for all the reasons you've pointed out.
Are Hemingway's short stories any good?
Any good: short stories, never read
Yeah. One cool thing about them is that they're so stripped down you can spin interesting interpretations off of them. I'm still convinced In Our Time is largely a criticism of forced masculinity.
The Big Two-Hearted River is the comfiest fucking story I've ever read, also.
>>8712042
Better than the novels for me. Still can hardly read Hemingway cos I loathe his female characters so much.
So the Canadian literary/musical artist named Leonard Cohen has left us.
Discuss.
I'm glad desu ne
Giving the Nobel to Bob killed him.
Literally who?
What would you ask him?
How did it feel not getting published for 9 years with Dubliners?
>>8712038
What does poop taste like
Why didn't you burn the fart letters?
I'm hesitant to ask, but fuck it.
I cannot understand why Blood Meridian is considered asthetically superior to Gravity's Rainbow. Perhaps it's capable of reaching a wider audience, but that doesn't make it better...
GR terrified me much more than Blood Meridian; it also made me laugh hysterically and, yes, at times, shed a tear or two.
I've tried and tried to find the superiority of Blood Meridian, but I can't. I think it's undoubtedly a great book, but nowhere near Pynchon's masterwork.
If anyone thinks differently, I'm sincerely asking you to make the case for Blood Meridian over GR.
>I cannot understand why Blood Meridian is considered asthetically superior to Gravity's Rainbow
you sound like a fucking idiot and i doubt you actually read either book
>>8711959
Define your system and I'll help you quantify the aesthetics
>>8711959
>I'm sincerely asking you to make the case for Blood Meridian over GR.
You make the case of GR over BM first
Would learning the French, German or Spanish language be a better investment /lit/wise?
Spanish.
Prominent german lit is mostly philosophy, so translations should be good enough.
French is worthless
>>8711772
This, pretty much. Even if German has some literature (The Man Without Qualities, Zetels Taum, Magic Mountain, etc)
German and French by an unfathomably enormous margin over Spanish
Jesus Christ people are saying Spanish? "German has some literature?" "German lit is mostly philosophy?" Why are you giving advice on a topic when you know fucking nothing about it?
Will there ever be a good millennial author?
>>8711737
Probably
>>8711737
Me desu. But seriously, joshua cohen is a talented writer
>>8711757
>Cohen
aw hell naw
Horror recommendations?
>>8711637
Just fuck off, retard
>>8711668
DIARY