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>>8637117
you sound like you're lazy, autistic and arrogant. that's a pretty lethal combination of traits it's unsurprising nobody wants to be around you oh you don't want to be around them my bad.
while common interests obviously make it easier to befriend somebody, it has nothing to do with the bonding process.
really, try not being a insufferable sack of shit, you sound like a boring and annoying person to be around it's really no surprise you have nobody in your life.

>>8637138
Hmm, this wasn't helpful at all. Thanks for the laugh though around right here, I like the way you worded that.
>it's unsurprising nobody wants to be around you oh you don't want to be around them my bad.

>>8637117
thanks for the blog post

Why is BEE edgy?
His books show us how nihilism and consumerism are terrible things to live your life by. If anything his books show us how being edgy destroys society.

>>8637158
because people read American Psycho and think it's just a story about a serial killer

>>8636963
The sorry about ppl stealing it ideas. Maybe post a chapter, or a few parts where you think need improvement?? Or find a trusted friend.

Oh and heres the link by the way, I tried to do a faster pace lovecraft type story but you be hte judge if you dare :) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M3RD6SR/?ref_=aga_h_su_B01M3RD6SR_title

>>8636969
Shit lol I mean worry about people here stealing your ideas or good lines and such

>>8636928
Don't say "wiki" we don't know what you are talking about. The wiki of the board in the sticky? Wikipedia? Another wiki?

>Hobsbawm
covers 1789-1991 with Age of Revolution, Age of Capitalism, Age of Empire, Age of Extremes. You can back up Age of Revolution with Carlyle's French Revolution for a more personal feel.
>Norwich
Byzantium triology by him or the condensed version (Short History of Byzantium) if you're really stuck for time
>Frankopan
Silk Roads
>Gibbon
Decline and Fall of Roman Empire

>really stuck for time
>Gombrich
Short history of the world

that's a couple thousand pages if you don't go the gombrich route

>>8636956
>we don't know what you are talking about
speak for yourself retard

O I Am An Immigrant, A Potato Drank My Brandy

> Behold the mammoth hellwrought Spud
> Who comes to drink up Celtic blood.
> It stretches out from hill to sea
> And dwarfs the old distillery.
> Its purpose foul, its flesh like mud,
> What demon set this killer free?
> O none have known this wretched fear!
> A vegetable who drinketh beer!
> No Englishman has told the tale
> More horrific to the Gael.
> With pockets slack and garments sheer
> I left old Eire and set sail.

Wow Yeats got old in his old age

Easter, 1916.

"Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart"

>>8636900
No one would be that pathetic

>>8636900
Arthur Schopenhauer.

>>8636900
/R9K/ is full of snowflake edgelords that blame their failures on others. They also are a lot less intelligent than they think. No respectable author is, well, dumb enough to have done that.

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/hp/hpplato.htm#s3

I just realized that Socrates fails to refute Thrasymachus claim that might makes right and injustice is more advantageous to the individual. Really makes me think

>>8636809
Thanks!

>>8637452
well, it always was the true basis of politics, consider the melian dialogue

>>8636536
You probably can't actually imagine it, you can just bullshit yourself into believing you caught a glimpse of it.

Imagine nothing. As close as you'll most likely get.

>>8636536
He reached enlightenment.
Basically All is One, and the One is all.

Kill your ego and you'll achieve that.

>>8636557
...That's oversimplifying it a bit.
>All the essences see each other and interpenetrate each other in the most intimate depth of their nature.
Add Transcedental Idealism to that and you've reached Unlimited Meme Works.

my dieting diary desu

>>8636528
For you?

Kind of strange how in the first half he goes on a series of different adventures and in the second half he's just a doctor. It's like they're two different books.

I liked when he was in NYC, I got lonely feels.

>>8636475
One of my favourite novels.

>>8636491
this hobo section was the only one I liked desu

>committing yourself to some arbitrary amount of books

pseud tier :)

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96/52, but I've been reading a lot of dialogues and plays.

>>8636433
Depressing.

>>8636380

Reading it currently. Graves gets shit on a lot on /lit/ and I've never understood why, but yes it's a good read especially if you've read Hamilton already

>>8636380
Highly detailed, and his batshit theories on the myths' origins are amusing. Not bad.

>>8636400

How are they batshit? Graves claims that myths aren't mysterious in the least and are metaphorical tellings of historical events.

>>8636359
Fuck off but try Marcus Aurelius.

>>8636362
Thank you.

>>8636359
Nicolas Gomez Davila, Montaigne

It's hard to rank them, but Euripides isn't that far below the other two. Come on, Aristophanes...

>>8636356
I see you just read the birth of tragedy, good anon.

>>8636356

I like Aeschylus much more than the others because of his bold metaphoric style. He is the only other dramatic poet who dares as much as Shakespeare. I found an article about that some time ago:

http://www.theatredatabase.com/ancient/aeschylus_007.html

>>8636119
>reading dead white males

You asked for it

>>8636119

It's almost like it was a teaser for another later series written from a more mature perspective.

Anyhoo, the book is over, Johnny. Go to sleep. You've got a big day at kindergarten tomorrow. I'll read you a Curious George book tomorrow since you didn't seem to like this one.

>>8636119
That's how "mythic" storytelling works

Yes it is shit writing