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>>8363441
Black humour. The poster is right, but his desperate and heartfelt wail from the edge of madness will only fall into the ears of the malevolent and mocking void, whom we will join in its laughter, realizing that the joke is on us all.

Anon, I realize that the only way you feel superior to the 'plebs' of /lit/ is mocking them via memes, thinking that milking a few replies will feed your narcissistic personality. But without you, without ironic shitposting (or you would call it meta-post-sincere-shitposting, so you feel like you're particpating in the turning tide of irony) this board would be all that better. Why? With posters like you it's far easier to compare good discusion, and people tend to really dislike posters like you.

/lit/'s dissapointed. Your parents are too. Your mother probably weeps each night thinking why she ever had you.
I'm dissapointed.
Stop this, anon. We care about you.

>>8363441
Cant stay away then?
Just turn 360, and walk away, how hard can it be?

The Second Sex

>>8363375
Yeah, I know that one already. I'm looking for something written by a historian. I have a book by Guy Perville about war in algerie and need something that would describe mood of the french society, influence of american and soviet culture in post war paris etc.

>>8363404
At the Existentialist Cafe has a little bit about that in relation to de Beauvoir, but it's not really academic, more pop-fiction - maybe pirate it and check the cited literature?

>>8363292
to many :(

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Razumikhin from Crime and Punishment. He's the epitome of marriage material. I want to bear his children.

>>8363292
Esther from Possibility of an Island.

>>8363285

probably

read it and find out

>>8363285
Yeah, the story never gets boring, the main character is relatable, and the ending was great and summed up what the book was about.

>>8363285
Kind of. You can read it in like one evening so it's not a huge time investment, but it's not the most interesting read

read the bible and find out

>>8363111

What God are we talking about?

>>8363111
God acts and doesn't act.

Humans have free will in the sense they can think of something that was predetermined anyway.

Look up the preceptive will vs decretive will. Basically his decretive will is as we understand it, the "direction" of the universe.

A lot of it is failed to be understood because of perspective. When you look at the natural "way" of things, it isn't even nature, or a thing, simply the will of God. We stumble around in our minds, shining light on different parts of his will he has decided to make known to us through nature or the bible. This is his preceptive will.

Pretty cool stuff, good question OP.

>>8363012
I can't prove you wrong because your thesis is meaningless.

>>8363012
name of the wind
a song of ice and fire

fantasy has never been a better genre

>>8363028
/thread. You validated my point.

I'm Interested in this question,take my upvote.

No. Part of the reason I gravitated toward this site is that whenever I use online forums I tend to post really dumb or embarrassing shit, so I figured- if I'm gonna do that anyway, I might as well do it anonymously.

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Bumping as well for interest.

>>8363042
The problem is everyone else is here for pretty the same reason. Hence why this board is so shit.

>>>/pol/

This isn't your board.

shouldn't you be fucking your hobbit wife Kanye

>>8362933
Well, he's establishing a hierarchy right? I think the mob is the one that's truly above it all a la Bataille's HUMAN OCEAN

>>8362899
Obviously Nicolai auf Werthers Grabe

Ein junger Mensch, ich weiß nicht wie,
Starb einst an der Hypochondrie
Und ward denn auch begraben.
Da kam ein schöner Geist herbei,
Der hatte seinen Stuhlgang frei,
Wie's denn so Leute haben.
Der setzt' notdürftig sich aufs Grab
Und legte da sein Häuflein ab,
Beschaute freundlich seinen Dreck,
Ging wohl eratmet wieder weg
Und sprach zu sich bedächtiglich:
»Der gute Mensch, wie hat er sich verdorben!
Hätt er geschissen so wie ich,
Er wäre nicht gestorben!«

>>8363015
10/10 would read again.

Prometheus and Ganymede read together

Infinite meme, anything by uglee as shit Pinecone or the degenerate fart sniffer Joyce

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>>8362903
>ugly
Are you telling me you wouldn't Pynch this?

>>8362844
But anon, the whole chicken soup series meant for pseuds.
Alongside Readers Digest and Christian Science Monitor

>>8362814
harry potter is for 10 year olds dude wtf is wrong with you

>>8362814
Slytherin GET!

>>8362814
What's happening is part of a phenomenon I wrote about a couple of years ago when I was asked to comment on Rowling. I went to the Yale University bookstore and bought and read a copy of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." I suffered a great deal in the process. The writing was dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs." I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing.

But when I wrote that in a newspaper, I was denounced. I was told that children would now read only J.K. Rowling, and I was asked whether that wasn't, after all, better than reading nothing at all? If Rowling was what it took to make them pick up a book, wasn't that a good thing?

It is not. "Harry Potter" will not lead our children on to Kipling's "Just So Stories" or his "Jungle Book." It will not lead them to Thurber's "Thirteen Clocks" or Kenneth Grahame's "Wind in the Willows" or Lewis Carroll's "Alice."

Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

Our society and our literature and our culture are being dumbed down, and the causes are very complex. I'm 73 years old. In a lifetime of teaching English, I've seen the study of literature debased. There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable.

Hmmm 4chan ignored my epic emoji pics so they are not posted

>>8362763
Try libgen.io
I don't get what books you want exactly but searching for "gcse" gave me 4 pages of hits.

>>8362763
>>>/wsr/

>>8362655
>I really want to be more knowledgeable
theres your problem you little pseud

>>8362659
but dont you think its easier to understand modern works when you are aware of previous art they may be alluding to? next youll tell me you didnt read the bible because youre not christian

>reading for knowledge

shiggy diggy

go back to r/books

A luxurious confusion.

If you just picked that up and don't know what you're in for I'd say you'll have trouble with it.

I've had the Norton critical edition in one of my stacks for over a year and I still haven't so much as cracked it open. Basically everything else in those stacks has been read already. I'm just really bad at mustering the will to read poetry for some reason.

>>8362556
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>ROMAN