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The Bible is much funnier than any of us realize; but even if we could see the joke, we would be in no position to enjoy it while we are still struggling between heaven and damnation.

I have heard that some Jews have discovered humour in the Old Testament.

>>8650483
https://bible.org/seriespage/iv-literary-forms-bible
control+f irony
sure it's been so long that it's lost in translation, but the bible's a lot richer, even in a literary sense, than we give it credit

>>8650483
>>8651516
Reading Genesis now. Why are all the Hebrews such cucks? When Abraham tells his wife to pretend to be his sister so dudes won't try to kill him so they can fuck his wife. But then after they find out that she's his wife, they're like, dude wtf. then he fucking does that shit again. Then his son does that shit. It's pretty embarrassing.

>>8649242
Beowulf
Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid
Tennyson's Idylls of the King

Parzival by Wolfram of Eschenbach
Gerusalemme Liberata
Parapharsalia
Orlando Furioso
Faust II

Epic of Gilgamesh and maybe Cantar de Mio Cid.

ralph ellison - invisible man
everything by james baldwin

nobody ever reached Cam's level so you might as well just stop there.

>>8649171
Ugh, why do white people hold up someone as black as Pushkin as being the best black lit has to offer? It's just co-opting blackness for you own; a literary colonization

>>8649145

It was Nietzsche, but I still like Kant desu.

>Tfw you will never be invited to one of his dinner parties

>>8649145
Kant

Hegel.

i can guarantee this thread wont get any replies after this line

making enough money at a job I don't completely hate to fund my hobbies and allow me to be creative. also volunteering is the shit.

>>8648771
Every day, I get to see something beautiful that I had not seen before.

That's it. The only reason I need.

It's okay, you just have no talent. Join us 7 billion

>>8648770
I have literary talent though.

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>>8648877

my genuine feeling is that he is extremely intelligent, but he uses his intelligence to strongly support and self-justify a status quo that exists in opposition to my continued existence on this earth
i think he is 'in the right' in this freedom of speech issue, but after listening to many of his lectures, it's apparent that he is overwhelmingly hypocritical in various ways and seems to have avoided integrating any feminist or postmodern philosophy into his 'worldview' in any meaningful way

Just old. I listen to Red Eye Radio, a late night trucking podcast about politics and they have the same opinion as him.
The substance of your argument, what do you believe, then I disagree with your beliefs so what's your argument for them?

It wins every time. He gives the lefties far too much credit, tries to point out where he differs instead of getting the main point which is that he grew up in a different era. Also that they are contradictory, that their speech is weighted more heavily because it's personal injury to not respect their preferences and other nonsense.

When all the kids shouting about limiting free speech are old they'll probably do the same to whatever the kids are doing. They are unhappy people for a living, that's not going to change.

Probably would have helped his case if he weren't overtly biggoted against trans people. All he did, ultimately was say some very inflammatory things that caused two groups of loud unlikable people to get angry and protest and get violent with one another.

>>8648340

>Being this devoted to Marx
>All in English

lol

>>8648340
Why is volume 3 so much worse for wear?

Good entry level stuff there. Time to move on to real economics

http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/sofortprogramm.htm

>>>/sffg/

>>8648046
Good ideas but the prose is really lacking

Used to be my favorite when I was growing up. Still love it but it just feels very entry level to me now and not a very challenging work. Hate how people compare it to 1984 all the time

>>8648016
I despise C S Lewis. What was this like though? Anything like Narnia?

>>8648021
Not really anything like Narnia. More adult-oriented I guess. Especially the third.

>>8648048
Are there religious themes?

Those covers look comfy as fuck

>>8648093

>hiding deeper in your stupidity while simultaneously thinking you're above it

even his non fiction shit, is shit though, i wish the name wasn't blurred so we could see the art.

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http://thehealthywarrior.tumblr.com/post/12643733123/date-a-girl-who-reads-by-rosemarie-urquico-in

If there is a witness to my little life, To my tiny throes and struggles, He sees a fool; And it is not fine for gods to menace fools.

Stephen Crane

Songs aren't poems

>>8647321
It's a poem.

embarrassing.

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kekso

>>8647154
Ozymandias said,
'I once met a traveler--'
Or something like that

Don Quixote.

>>8646996
Yo soy español. Si me deres la sauce de tu picture te dire buenos libros para leer

Anything by my boi Calderón de la Barca.
>>8647037
Where u at primo?

>>8646934
natch'. got any more, senpai?

>>8646906
good list..

https://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/undergraduate-admissions/philosophy-politics-and-economics-reading-list