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Have you ever read a book so bad that you considered destroying it afterwards?
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I don't believe in destroying books. But this book helped me review my opinion. Got it as a 'light' read to entertain me (my books were all boxed as I was moving). Some books are not books.
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>>8464640
The Illuminatus! Trilogy.
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>>8464640
Most of them.
I actually so burn them afterwards.
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did / do any of you anons keep feeling that you're growing in mental ability as you're going through life and feel a slight sense of euphoria (inb4 memes)
do you feel in some ways that reading builds the mind?
do you read for pleasure or the later, or both?
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Yea and I read for pleasure because gaining knowledge is pleasurable.
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>>8464710
Saved
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>>8464631
It less a feeling of constant change and more a feeling of having "woken up" when you look back at different periods of your life
E.g. "boy I sure am a lot smarter and a much better person than I was n years ago." [The older you get the larger the number of years becomes since you obviously change much more rapidly closer to your birth]
That feeling occurs more than once throughout ones life and I believe some people aka common retards never experience it, those people noticeably lack any and all self awareness
Have you read On the Sufferings of the World? It's the most succinct but elborate description of the human condition.
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/pessimism/chapter1.html
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I read On Women desu
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>>8464596
All the essays in Studies in Pessimism are great to be honest.
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>>8464593
No, I don't read pseudo philosophy that's more of a parody that could only seem adequate to a "literary" mind. Still better than Arendt though "HURR DURR HANNAH WANT SPACE SHIPS; PRISON PRISON KEK KEK".
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What does /lit/ think about Daphne du Maurier?
Just started House on the Strand. 'Tis comfy.
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top notch lezzerlit, her short stories are very good and broadranging.
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>>8464584
Rebecca is one of those classics I expected to loathe but ended up loving.
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>>8464601
I found it to be really girly, so I didn't finish it
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Dear god, hold me /lit/.
Harry
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>>8464498
>Nirvana's vag
he means Kurt Cobain rite
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>>8464498
Sås?
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Izvor?
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Is it good /lit/?
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I was never really interested in his Call of the Wild books, but I bought The Sea-Wolf from a local used bookstore the other day and I've been wondering if I should read it?
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Do you like pulp with a bit heart? That's what I feel most of London's books are. Not to disregard them, Call of the Wild is a decent read whether your 12 or 32.
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>>8464392
It's so strange that Martin Eden (also written by Jack London) isn't a classic in America. It is in Russia, as it should be elsewhere. It's one of the greatest novels ever written by an American. Before anyone brings up his sympathetic attitude towards socialism, just look at Steinbeck. He had a similar attitude and yet his novels are still considered classics in America.
worth reading?
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Depends, are you gonna go fight a war, kid?
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>>8464329
I'm already fighting a war.
I'm fighting the war of life.
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I would only read it if I was going to be on Survivor.
Who is..."Vicious Zenith Maxim?"
V. Z. M.
A story by Passive Observer.
Who is Vicious Zenith Maxim? A question I read somewhere...
They say he is yet to come, but has already been here before.
Already dead but yet to be truly born.
It has been said that he has been know to destroy the past with the future, across the boundaries of space and time.
Some say he just an allegorical concept of the highest form of human, physically and mentally, but some contest he was a real person, who was born in the past and never really died.
Most versions all expound his almost fanatical energy to contemplate,- only rivaled by his steadfast and easy-going assured demeanor.
They say he was the only truly perfect person to have ever lived, The one who lived the ideal life, and if given the choice would relive it endlessly forever.
It was said he graciously appreciated adversity and obstacles because he had those to thank alone for his perfect life - for they are the resources of growth and empowerment.
They say he alone truly realized the value of difference, without trying to blur all the lines into grey, nor mitigate all differences into mediocrity.
When asked about morality he simply stated that was mindful to not self-suffocate on social pressured morality, but audit consensus reality from all perspectives he could see.
The worlds most optimistic skeptic, knowing deep down on the rails of destiny the track was true, but that the ride was not without bumps either, when he spoke he spoke to his contemporaries and those who everyone as they might as well achieve their own zenith- and that he lived such a life to demonstrate its feasibility, as the obvious answer to those in depression or considering suicide, or mercantilism.
It is said that he was the only one who really lived a truly free life, while never once needing to take away another's freedom.
He never once attempt to hide his individuality or blend in because he wasn't afraid to be discovered to be different. Nor was he a stranger to things that were beautiful
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He was the one who casted his regrets, false external guilt aside, formed his own behaviors, and achieved self-mastery in harmony with the world.
He never mentally spent too much time dwelling in the past (depression) or spending too much time thinking of the future(anxiety).
He was the final survivor. The triumphant. And he didn't consider this negative because he was never afraid to be alone in his own company. He didn't hate himself, nor did he ever avoid himself.
He successfully formed his own values and acquired his own information, and simultaneously acknowledged the constant flux of all things.
He was an archiver and cartographer of systems, and architect of ideas and systems. An innovator, a monk. He was a warrior, a peace-maker, a slave to the universe by its encompassing nature and a master of his own in perception and reaction. He was an artist; painter and a sculpter. He was a poet and musician, in some form or another. He was also aware of the shortcoming of labels and archetypes and realized the limitations of language on the formation of new free thought, and for that reason he called himself ....Vicious Zenith Maxim, the one with self knowledge, and by extension posed knowledge and true meaning of the world. The one who was not at the bidding of others, but could lead, and follow at the proper time. He was the most significant carrier of the torch of the past Into the future - the dawning of new man.
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>>8464300
I heard VZM frequented the local gay bars and that he would advertise himself as a human toilet
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>>8464333
Nice one dude, this is why I write Didnt mean to jostle your triggies
Also fixed all the spelling and shitty grammar errors, just having fun.
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what are the best works on metaphysics?
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Works of Aristotle, Aquinas and Feser's contemporary writings on those.
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On the Plurality of Worlds.
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The Scientology opus.
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Fall blew in where I live right as September arrived, so I thought it would only be appropriate to start reading The Hobbit, which is such a great book both for people who love literature and young people (who simultaneously want to read something comfy). I love anything and everything comfy, so of course I started rereading this again today while the cold rain and wind was blowing outside. I kind of have a thing for coffee and cool weather and the ageing quality of nature during Autumn. The Redwall books, Jack Kerouac's autobiographical books, Harry Potter, Stephen King, The Magic Mountain, Watership Down... All of these (and more) have quiet, warm/cool qualities to them. I'm looking for more like these, and I'd like to start a conversation about this sort of stuff.
What are some more comfy books perfect to read during Autumn, and what are the best things that go along with Fall and the books that fit the season so well?
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hp memecraft
his books are actually pretty comfy tbqh
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Mason and Dixon is supposed to be uber-comfy
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>>8464286
Super comfy, super funny, but kind of melancholic too, I would consider this a good fall book, in fact I just inspired myself to reread it.
Ghost stories too, it goes without saying. I like Algernon Blackwood. I always thought it was funny that that was actually his real name. It's like his parents wanted him to be an occultist and ghost story writer from birth.
best translation of bible??
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I've always liked the New International Version, although people on here will tell you to read The King James Version (for both posterity and literary value), but if you want to read something that's like a novel and which takes a good approach to being both relevant and in-context of the past events in which it takes, you would like The Message.
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Douay-Rheims.
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You can translate it yourself, OP. What you have to do is get a match, find yourself a copy of the bible, any copy will do. Then light it on fire and let it burn completely.
I started writing and I wrote a sentence and not sure if it makes sense grammatically. The more I looked at it I wasn't so sure. I could use a second opinion on it. Does the following sentence make sense grammatically?
"Good riddance to not having to play that horrid video game anymore"
Is that sentence grammatically incorrect?
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>>8464131
yeah it is
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>>8464146
But why anon? The sentence makes sense to me.
I need enlightenment if I am to be the new Tolstoy.
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>>8464146
I thought so yeah. How?
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Are there any historical novels based in the ancient Near East?
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My Diary Desu
t. Tut
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My Diary Desu
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The Tale of Sinuhe
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What's the best edition/translation of the Illiad and/or Odyssey. I mean, is there one translator/editor/publisher which you would recommend above all others, or are there different editions of each which surpass the other's companion?
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I really liked Fitzgerald's translation of The Iliad (Oxford). Reading Shewring's translation of The Odyssey at the moment (think I made a mistake with this one).
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>>8464059
Well, I made this thread the other day, and what I found helpful is reading the opening paragraph from a bunch of different translators. It really is a matter of taste, OP. I went for the lombardo translation because I found that it was the most simplified, and really what I want to do is understand the text more than anything. I find most of the texts to be very difficult to understand, but you can decide for yourself which one you like most https://www.amazon.com/review/R3LFEJMQ4NO0E1/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0199645213&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=283155&store=books
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>>8464059
pope
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/lit/ I need help with my English paper, what's a good word for "one who flees?"
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Fleeee
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I think im just gonna use the word 'refugee'
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Fleant.