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>>8629390
10/10

I don't think Nietzsche understands what nihilism is about

He's all "will to power" but nihilism is really about how mum and dad won't let you get a motorcycle license or stay out past 11

jesus fucking christ NEETzsche get your shit together and stop being wrong

>>8629398
>muh entry level psychoanalytics

Get cucked low IQ faggot, this is OP btw

I'm too embarrassed to post any. I used to post them on critique threads and would always get shit on.

>>8629380
joke's on you i burned it all

>keeping anything at all that reminds you of your past

it's like you want to be overcome with suicidal regret again and again

>>8629380
I burned it all when I was still in college and was heavily into drugs. It was supposed to be some "ritualistic" thing where I would throw the old me into the past or some shit like that. Bit of a shame. I feel like I could had rescued some of the themes and ideas.

>The flamboyant fascist features of the Trump campaign – and still more of his excited Alt-Right supporters – are deniable only by fools.

heh
good job, way to get your point across by using ad hominem
What's the point of an opinion piece if you just want to convince those that already agree with you?

>>8629404
>missing the point of the article so hard
This has to be bait. A good one though.

>>8629404
When Nick Land calls something fascist it's different than the Huffington Post doing so.

Yes.

No.

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>>8629314
>>8629320
>>8629334

This is a general russian lit question. Who's the better translator: P&V vs McDuff

>>8629267
House of Cards (original TV show and remake- AFAIK the original book is actually less good)
Wag The Dog
Richard III, if you can count monarchs
Macbeth, if you can count monarchs again
It Can't Happen Here (I'm assuming the leader in that is corrupt as well as a fascist)

>>8629304

thank you :)

>>8629304
>Richard III, if you can count monarchs
>Macbeth, if you can count monarchs again

I am using them as models, but I want a modern set. But thank you very much foy your suggestions, especialy the Sinclair Lewis novel.

Haven't read it, but I'd imagine I, Claudius has a fair bit of corruption going on even if the narrator is a good guy.

What's a quarter life crisis?

>>8629158
Now is the time to begin seriously studying the I-Ching.

>If some years were added to my life, I would dedicate fifty years to study the book of I, and then I might come to be without great fault.
said Confucius at age 70.

>>8629158
Notes from Underground

Bob Dylan saving literature.

>>8629079

good odds he won't show up or even acknowledge it ever.

When Bob won it, an insuffarle amount of people who adore him claimed they didn't give a fuck. "I don't give shit about a pretentious prize, makes all the same to me. It's about the rock, man. And he's the greatest, dude".

Yet these same people are so stuck up their own asshole about what is "quality music" and what is not. For years they've scoffed at other musicians who simply don't live up to Dylan.

Yes you do care and you can harldy control yourself but you have to because if you show any emotion you won't look cool.

>>8629063
Start with an immense envy of the Greeks.

>>8629063
Why ancient Romans? The Romans were destroyed by the Ottomans in 1453, you should try to read literature works that help you become the incarnation of an Ottoman janissary.

>>8629114

The Ottomans were destroyed in WWI. He should read Johnny Got His Gun and saw off his limbs to truly become patrican.

>>8629012
last time I greentext'd it I was told it was "too anime" so I'm considering revising it

>>8629012
The protagonist abducts and sexually enslaves some Kwhorean sluts, forcing them to suck his cock, wear collars and be whipped, take massive dildos up their asses, lez out on command- and of course enjoy it all.
Of course that's just a piece- it's actually to the Iliad what Ulysses was to the Odyssey, with extreme sex replacing extreme violence.

>>8629012
4, 1, 3, 2

>>8628980
Who are you quoting?

pygmalion created the work of art that was his love

you just watch a cartoon made for teenagers and obsess over it

>>8629072
Sentences begin with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark. Hope this helps!

I'm sorry for your evolved intellect, I hope someday it can come to terms with your emotional, bodily and sexual self.

>>8628926
stop hanging out on /lit/ and go to /sci/ where the real intellectuals are.

>>8628926
>>evolved intellect
>>posts panel from children's comic book
kek

Essays in Idleness came pretty close, don't know many more, just look into taoism

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>>8628861
>>8629308

also this, one of the best books i've ever had the pleasure of reading

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>>8629317
Let sound once more in me the Persian’s verse
calling to mind that time is the diverse
web of eager dreams of which we are made
and which by a secret Dreamer are dispersed.

Let it affirm that fire will lose its heat,
that flesh is dust, that rivers are a fleet
image of your and my and all our lives
as slowly they move on with quickening beat.

Let it affirm that monuments hard won,
if built on pride, are like a wind that’s run
its course, and that to Him whose sight lives on
a century passing is a moment begun.

Let it tell that the golden nightingale
but once in the sonorous depth of night regales
us with its song, and that the frugal stars,
whose treasure is held back, will never pale.

Let moonlight come to the verse your hand now writes,
as moonlight comes again to the blue twilight
of your garden. The moon itself in vain
will seek you in that garden all the night.

Beneath the evening moon let cisterns be
your lowly archetype. In them you will see,
repeated on their mirror surfaces,
a source of everlasting imagery.

Let Persian moon and the diffuse golden spread
of setting suns, desolate to the point of dread,
come back. Today is yesterday. You are
all those whose face is dust. You are the dead.

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>>8628795

I'm hoping to read in in 5 years. (I'm 25 now).

If anyone has recommended pre-reading for this. let me know. (Don't fucking tell me entire western cannon).

Or is the idea of preparing for a read like this just absurd? I hopped on the meme train before and just jumped into GR (read a few Pynchon books beforehand though...) and didn't get much out of it.

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>>8628795

>>8628795
more like finnegans piece of cake lmoa

>believing in merit of any kind

>>8628779
>teenagers that post frogs

>Harry Potters that defend literary frogs of teenagers

I only recognize Shakespeare, Joyce, Austen and Kafka (?).

I have read all of those, at least.

Dead white guyz

Joyce
Shakespeare
Camus?
Vonnegut
Douglas