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Why do people praise James Joyce 2016-08-05 18:10:14 Post No.8364366
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Why do people praise James Joyce
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2016-08-05 18:10:14
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his best book "Ulysses" was a complete rip off of the Odyssey?
both James Baldwin and Toni Morrison were superior writers to Joyce...black excillence they were
Joyce was white mediocrity
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Gee, this definitely isn't a /pol/ shitpost
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here's your reply, great job, proud of you!
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well isn't the first part true, that it was a rip off of the Odyssey?
the second part is a joke though...im a fan of Morrison and Baldwin, but still what a ridiculous statement
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Want to start reading this, anyone have suggestion of the best translation?... thanks
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>>8364357
>reading books about women
cuck
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>>8364357
Read it in Russian (and French), pleb.
Nah. For real, I'm about done with the Maude translation and it is pretty well done. I'd definitely recommend it.
Whatever translation you use it is a wonderful book.
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>>8364359
I'd argue Levin is the main character not Karenina.
Hello guys
I need help in finding incest themed novels in any language, any era. I came to know that lot of old publishing companies like olympia press are not out of copyright but I am unable to find any place where I can get to download them. Any advise or where to start please? I dont care about language or era. I am just fed up with reading the too direct novels of this age. I want some books which explore the issues of incest or rape or anything taboo as a serious subject matter and not stright erotica.
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>>8364334
120 Days of Sodom describes all disgusting practices a degenerate like you might like.
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Thank you kind sir. I did go through it. I believe it represents DAntes 9 layers of hell. I could not read it after a while as the eroticism went away and violence and gore set itself onto the papers
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and as I have specified I am not looking for degenerate literature, I am looking for books which deal with this subject in a serious or academic manner
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>be philosopher
>realize life is absolutely meaningless
>write a book about it
>publish it
>get copies of newly published said book, stack them, climb up on them and use them as a platform to hang yourself
What can /lit/ tell me about Philipp Mainländer, and his "The Philosophy of Redemption"?Or does all his fans just hang themselves too?
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>>8364252
lol did he actually do that?
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>>8364265
yeah
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Philipp_Mainl%C3%A4nder
>Mainländer proclaims that life is absolutely worthless, and that "the will, ignited by the knowledge that non-being is better than being, is the supreme principle of morality.
>on the night on April 1, 1876, Mainländer hanged himself in his residence in Offenbach, using a pile of copies of The Philosophy of Redemption (which had arrived the previous day from his publisher) as a platform. He was thirty-four years old.
he did have a mental collapse too though, believing he was "the messiah of social democracy" and shit
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>>8364278
Got damn. Imagine if someone with this mentality got in a position of high power.
>Mainländer proclaims that life is absolutely worthless, and that "the will, ignited by the knowledge that non-being is better than being, is the supreme principle of morality.
Thats basically "it would be better if it was no life and nuking this planet is the morally right thing to do"
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post a pictue of yourself with your avorite book.
pic related:... it's me!
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>>8364250
Hi! Few things to start off with :] 1. Yes, I responded because you're a female reader, 'tis an awesome thing to see! 2. I'm Sebatian. 3. Don't be intimidated, I'm not a stereotypical guy. If anything, you'll be the one holding the pen =D
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>>8364508
but i'm not like other girls lmao
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>>8364517
Lick my balls
Burgers, talk to me about Faulkner.
I've been thinking about the discrepancy between his reputation in the US and where I live (the UK). Over here he's much less read and appreciated than Steinbeck, Hemmingway or even Twain.
Do you think there's something more particular to America in his writing in comparison to those other authors?
Some googling tells me the French love him though so perhaps not.
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Sartre thought Faulkner was the greatest novelist of his era.
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It's Hemmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmingway. With 33 m's
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>>8364120
Forgive me
finnegans wake? more like finnegans BAKE because you have to be stoned to get this book LOL
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I kind of like the attention the book's receiving lately
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420
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OH SHIET MYAN
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>Penguin finally decides to pick up the works of de Sade
>we are finally liberated from shitty versions
>this is the cover
On a related note, why hasn't there been any proper English versions of the works of de Sade (aside from those thick Grove Press collections)?
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>>8364088
wow that's a dope cover.
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What's wrong with the other versions?
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Neat. St. Peter's cross is neat
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Holy fuck, this book is fucking stupid.
Its like the modern art exhibits where someone took a shit in a sliced orange and put it in an aquarium, to make a commentary on the american veterans from the Iraq war or whatever.
Is there any value here, or have people just agreed to pretend its good?
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>>8364081
Take the redpill cuck its Jewish brainwashing to make art degenerate ad women with blacks
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>make FW thread a few days back
>suddenly FW is the talk of /lit/
you nerds are but pawns under my control
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>>8364107
you are new as fuck
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Are mental and material ontologically distinct realities? Are they simply diferent perceptions or modes of some other substance we categorize as such? Is everything reducible to matter?
Tell me how you solve the problem /lit/. Personally I've always considered neutral monism to be the most coherent. May expand if discussion starts.
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Why does noone read Jean Gebser's "The Ever-present Origin"? Think kind of thing would no longer be a problem. Dualism is a symptom of the deficient Mental mode we currently inhabit
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>>8364071
What does it even mean to say everything is reducible to matter when we are still unable to account for the true nature of matter? I don't think there's any less of a mystery even if the two were not ontologically distinct. Property dualism is probs the way to go t b h
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>>8364133
>we are still unable to account for the true nature of matter
How so?
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who was smartest philosopher
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Kant, easily, without any sort of doubt. Kant is both the start and end of modern philosophy. Everyone claiming to follow in his continental tradition has failed him - everyone who came before him could not begin to match his influence on the philosophical discipline.
Immanuel Kant is the most important and profound philosopher in human history.
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>'Was'
Is Sam harris
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I noticed some books smell terrible.
The newer ones.
It sometimes feels like I have to throw up.
Have you noticed anything similar?
Picture unrelated
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>buying books
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>>8363988
Kindle, problem solved
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>>8363988
No. You may be insane.
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DING DING HONK HONK
step aside confederacy of dunces, this is now the funniest book of all time!
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How many people you think have actually read J R on /lit/
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>>8363929
no one in this thread, atleast
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>>8363932
working on the recognitions now.
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Is it possible to kill an immortal?
This is the biggest question running in my head lately. Well, there are different kinds of immortality. Do you know Hidan from Naruto? He's an immortal yet he's somehow "dead" being sealed beneath the earth. He was amputated and can't resurface anymore since he was lacerated so bad and he was buried alive. Also, according to some myths, the only way to kill an immortal is to make him stone and break it.
Here's the link>>
http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Immortality
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>>8363776
Why the fuck are you asking this on /lit/?
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>>8363776
Unstoppable force hits an immovable object argument again.
Relativity sorts that all out.
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Is it possible to stick a 4 sided triangle up your ass?
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>And Morgoth came.
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>>8363775
Well, Ungoliant was working him with all eight legs and the dark webs of Unlight.
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>>8363775
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer
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>>8365134
>mfw Morgoth's right hand Maiar drowns to death
>mfw when it all comes down to Sauron