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On the topic of Camus how would fans of his rank The Plague versus his more noteworthy works... Asking b/c I have heard so much good about Camus but while reading the plague I was utterly bored and felt like I was forcing myself through it for some pay off that couldn't possibly be worth the drawl... I put it down but recently got a copy of OP's book.

>>8603809
>>8603787
Long and short of it, OP, I would not recommend The Plague. Although I am interested to know what well read fans of Camus' have to say about it.
Hope you don't mind I butted in a bit on your post.

That's the only English translation I've ever seen.

>>8603729
garnett.

>>8603729
If you can find a revised Garnett translation, that's great.
McDuff is good.
I read Monas and enjoyed it.

P&V are only liked by Russian academics who enjoy accurate literalism and people who don't know what they are talking about

Garnett or McDuff

I've been having trouble deciding myself.

i want to sow her womb with my seed then protect her for 9 months with a bone club made from the femur of a wooly mammoth

what have you read

Who is this girl? i think I've found my truemate

30 pieces of silver

>>8603649

And a concert in his(her) honour!

>>8603629

Let it be Kundera. He may die soon.

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>>8603433
VERDE.

Not doing the summary in greentext for your school assignment buddy

>>8603433
>tfw the woods are lovely
>tfw the woods are dark
>tfw the deep
>tfw promises to keep
>tfw I promised my gf I would fuck her tonight
>instead she initiated

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First for Jean Woof

>>8603240
>Another reminder that The Bard Quarterly from /tg/ is looking for short stories.
>>http://thebardquarterly.wixsite.com/home
>The deadline for the next issue is November 11th.
Fuck off.

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Does anyone else hate how it's impossible to be a classy /sff/ fan any more?

Where are the days of Tolkein and Wells, noble men who wrote deep philosophical tales and characters in thrilling fictional worlds.

Now /sff/ is vidya, movies, D&D and LARPing shit. I'm sure it's no less fun for people but it's certainly much less classy.

I just want to discuss literature and ideas, why am I forced into a group with these excitable idiots.

>>8603177
You don't. Egoist-anarchism is not egoistic: it is spooked.

Even being an egoist is ultimately spooked. Stirner said as much.

The only thing to do is what you please. This might appear to be spooky as fuck, or it might not, but it doesn't matter because caring about such things is spooked.

For example, you might feasibly join a nationalist death squad if that's what got your socks off. Or become an ascetic, whatever.

>>8603183
What if joining Egoist anarchism gets my socks off?

>>8603186
Then it's egoistic.

However, you'd almost certainly have to build it from the ground up, unless you happen to be Italian, in which case you have to build it from slightly above the ground.

Also, dealing with the law's going to be a bitch. You're despooked, so you don't care about following or defiantly not following those fascist pigs, but presumably you'll want to be illegalist if you want to go egoist-anarchism.

Dear diary,
Today I killed myself.
The literal end.

See you, space faggot

For sale: my life, never lived.

>>8602952
>Play it again, sam.
>Ok, but FYI you should have enjoyed it as much as possible the first time, you slut.

Time and space are both infinite, given enough time, anything that can happen will happen, and any change, whether progress or degeneration is only a temporary flux. Even your own death is only a temporary change. Wait long enough and somebody indistinguishable from you will be born, and experience the same things.

Because of this you should man up and stop complaining. All the things you hate will happen an infinite amount of times, If you can't live with them, then that's a weakness on your part. Hoping that they change is an improper response because in the grand scheme of things, nothing changes.

Or something like that. If I'm wrong I'd appreciate a better explanation.

>>8602965
Where did it came from?

Cultural Marxist hogwash.

>>8602690
ive literally never heard anyone say that ever
what community college do you go to op?

>>8602690
it means, go back to /pol/ you meme loving fuck.

>inb4 sjw
no dumb cuck, this is not literature

>>8602615
Fantastic book. I see its influence everywhere.

I'd be curious to hear who /lit/ thinks influenced him.

>>8602657
>>8602657
Ginsberg, Miller, Beckett, Rimbaud...
Because I Googled it.

>>8602615
I can think of two things wrong with that title.

The Blind Owl Band is a pretty sick bluegrass group

>>8601977

Cool

the quran

>>8601800
occasionally

>>8601800
English degrees and all like it won't get you a job and you can study them independently now. Whats the point? You can gain the same amount of knowledge for free on your own as any Stanford course.

>>8601816
First of all, an English degree from a top 10 university on the planet is going to land you a job somewhere. Maybe a BA from Mediocre State won't get you the internship at the cushy publishing firm, but a BA from Brown or another elite school will.

Secondly, unless you're the rare autodidact with powerful connections, discipline, free time to study and practice, and a source of fast and useful feedback, elite universities are going to be more helpful when it comes to getting published than bumming it own your own.

Agents are looking for the Stanford graduate who has the blessing of his nationally acclaimed professors and a great manuscript, not some no-name dropout of a second tier state school with a great manuscript. Sad but true.

>>8601536
you wouldn´t post here, if this was true!

>>8601540
why not?

>>8601536
I'm happy for you. You'll never be this happy. And if that makes you happy, then I'm happy.
:)

>>8601128
1984 by George Orwell.

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>>8601128
From Sickness unto Death
Crime and Punishment
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
The Problem with Being Born

Man's Search for Meaning - Victor Frankl

This shit can change your life perspective depending on where you are in your life