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>>8672836
low test beta

>>8672836
Cain had a weird relationship with God. According to the Biblical context, Cain was the first "real" human. Imagine existing in a world where the only other people who make up all of humanity, your parents, were hand-made by God.
And on top of that, Cain was a gardener. The only gardener, his plants were obviously very important to him, and when he gave his fruits to God they were rejected, that obviously hurt. He probably didn't really understand blood or life, so when his little brother's lamb was accepted that was more salt in the wound. First act of jealous rage, first murder.
Then God's like "hey where's Abel?"
Obviously a touchy subject to a guy just trying to understand the world. He just wanted God's love like everybody else. He was weak because it was a time when there was no need for strength

>>8672836
Would you be upset if God dissed you?

>>8672197
Your assumption is essentially correct. It wasn't an error though, it was simply written in a different time when the possibility of Sauron controlling the rings was something to be afraid of.

The danger at the time of LOTR is not him controlling the rings, it's him returning to his former power. Of course, they could theoretically just beat him back again, but at what cost? With the Elves turning their backs on Middle Earth, none of the wizards giving a shit except for Gandalf, and the kingdoms of men fucking around with internal politics, a victory against Silmarillion-era Sauron would be practically impossible.

anybody know if the rings metaphorically represent something deeper than just power? Why are specific amounts allotted to specific races? Is the eye of Sauron an occult reference, or just borrowed from occultism?

>>8672336
>anybody know if the rings metaphorically represent something deeper than just power?
iirc they represent the corruption of art/beauty by pride and lust for glory, being the creations of an Elven smith but used for evil.

>why are specific amounts allotted to certain races?
Men getting the most rings and elves the least probably alludes to the age of elves being doomed to end with the age of men. An age of great individuals giving way to an age of the collective, so to speak. I don't know with dwarves, they don't fit well anywhere, in The Silmarillion they were a mistake.

>Is the eye of Sauron an occult reference?
Probably.

>>8683211
How do I get into Pessoa? I'm more interested in his poetry.

You mean the country or the language? Ah well.

Eça de Queirós
Machado de Assís
Os Sertões de Euclides da Cunha

Don't forget about Camoes

He advocates eugenics.

He's an antinatalist, stop memeing context,

>>8682986
No he's saying Chad always wins

>>8682812
I used nietzsche as a concrete reason to steal from others
then I realized I misread him and I'm retarded
so I avoid him now

Did ur mum have the clap or sumfin?

>>8682817
Pfff, everyone misreads Nietzsche. Nietzsche probably misread Nietzsche.

because you are an ass hole

>>8682771
Because he sucks.

...On a side note, Nietzsche's main thing is criticizing cristendom and nihilism, so you should read up on that before going for him.

>>8682771
Because he was wrong about everything

>>8682767
No, that's a shitty /lit/ meme.

>>8682770

>meme

Sounds pretty spooky to me.

Does Stirner call it a "Spuk" in German or is it translated from something else?

>>8682785
>bumping after 20 minutes on a slow board
do this again and i will kill you

Sorry, don't know. But Tocqueville is pretty based.

There are people in Europe who, confounding together the different characteristics of the sexes, would make man and woman into beings not only equal but alike. They would give to both the same functions, impose on both the same duties, and grant to both the same rights; they would mix them in all things--their occupations, their pleasures, their business. It may readily be con- ceived that by thus attempting to make one sex equal to the other, both are degraded, and from so preposterous a medley of the works of nature nothing could ever result but weak men and dis- orderly women.

https://books.google.com/books?id=1icdBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA155#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=SnzS-8X0UeQC&pg=PA200

https://books.google.com/books?id=6TO0BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA520

http://oll.libertyfund.org/quote/355

http://oll.libertyfund.org/pages/tocqueville-s-critique-of-socialism-1848

Make me.

>>8682694
You're on 4chan. Some self you got there.

>implying that, after finding it, i can communicate it to any other human being

What was it meant to do?

>>8682690
you asking me to describe the thing called 'language'?

>>8682703
no, just state it's purpose.

We weren't serious when we're seventeen...

>>8682612
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

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Timshel.

>>8682322
... plz /lit/ notice me

>>8682322
Les grands Cimetières sous la Lune is his masterpiece for me. Le Journal is difficult and I would prefer to it le Soleil. But you can begin with what you want, all his work is incredible.

Some others you can like : Bloy and Huysmans

>>8682364
thank you /lit/
i'll check them out

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>>8682320
Hey baby!

>>8682320
Irish person here. Why bother? No one in Ireland actually reads Gaeilge literature and none of our writers ever payed any serious interest.
Even Yeats just invented his own fanfiction.

But then I understand you're a weeb so have no real taste and are just looking towards it as a pretentious consumer brand

>>8682393
>I haven't read it and I'm proud of it

>All happy families start their mornings the same way; but when you're in an unhappy family, waking up to a loud crash is commonplace. But whether it's "CRASH! Mom slept with the tsar!" or "CRASH! The golden retriever is raping the maid!", every morning with an unhappy family is unique.

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>>8682311
>Malachi, light of my life, fire of my loins. My luck, my lack. Ma-La-Chi: The meeting of lips then the tongue that slips between but for the trapping of teeth, taken back and caged against the roof of the mouth. Ma. La. Chi. He was Buck, plain Buck in the morning, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. He was Mulligan in his yellow dressing-gown. He was Bucky at school. He was Buckle in the boat-house. But in my arms he was always Malachi. Did he have a precursor? He did, indeed he did. In point of fact, there might have been no Malachi at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial Irishman. In a princedom by the snotgreen sea. Oh when? About as many years before Malachi was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a fart-fetishist for a fancy prose style.

>I wish I was dead.

>>8682275
Yes, poz loads are the only lens through which we can understand the great work of Foucault.

>>8682275
Foucault was the French Milo Yiannopoulos. He was a libertarian Friedrich Hayek fanboy and IRL troll man who went around college campuses triggering the SJWs of his day. he's only missing the MAGA cap, could any of you lads do me a favor and photoshop a big red MAGA on Mickey F's head?

>>8682326
this is the shittiest b8 I have ever read on this board