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>>8355524
It's the most relevant to our times, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's the best or that all of it is good.

Not even close lol.

It was a necessary movement of self-consciousness, but it was really bad in developing it.

It's just a stepping stone towards a more enlightened and more sincere genre of literature.

Don't listen to faggots like this though >>8355571

Pretty much anyone who starts talking about sincerity and "enlightenment" has no clue what they're on about.

>>8355486
you're retarded; it's not complicated
though as a pleb, good choice

>>8355486
ka-moo le-tra-nger

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>>8355486
I first tried reading it in highschool, a lot of his references really went over my head. Just read it this summer (after first year of Uni) and I got a lot more out of it. It helps if you're at least semi-familiar with earlier absurd thinkers (ie Kierkegaard). Reading The Stranger first also acts as a good intro to some of the ideas expressed in Sisyphus. Also,

>inb4 start with the greeks

It does actually help to a degree. Camus is definitely working from the western philosophical tradition, so one needs at least some understanding of what came before him.

>>8355482
>post examples of what you consider "good"
Romeo and Juliet provided an outlet to talk about sex in the classroom (...)
“Right. I think if they’d never had sex, they wouldn’t have killed themselves and stuff. I saw this video about how sex can, like, release stuff from your brain and make you crazy.” (...)
So tell me, Jack, since you don’t speak up in class and leave me guessing at the thoughts inside that head of yours. What do you think makes someone crazier—having sex? Or not having it?” His eyes widened; it seemed to take a moment for his brain to confirm I’d really asked him that question. He laughed and lowered his head a little, shaking it nervously.

“Ah-ah,” I cooed, this time using all my fingers to cup his chin in my hand and guide it back upward. His fuzzy cheeks had a downy softness. If I squeezed, I would be able to lift apart his top and bottom jaw, open his mouth and lower mine down to meet his. “Here,” I offered, “I’ll hold your head up so you don’t have to worry about eye contact.” Staring at him, Jack returning the stare as the pulse of his throat began to strike against my finger, I felt as though someone were licking my inner thigh.

“I … um,” he started. When he swallowed, his throat strained against the gentle pressure of my fingertips.“I know you have an opinion,” I teased, my words silken. “Everybody does.”

He cleared his throat and sent vibrations up my wrist. “I just wouldn’t know about the having-sex part,” he said. Then, with an afterthought that nearly made me move my hands to his neck and force him against the wall, he added a foreshadowing phrase. “I mean,” he added quietly, now speaking even more quietly than me, “not yet.”

I let out a long breath; it was involuntary. Nearly a whimper. Worried he'd seen too much in my reaction, my hand slipped from his jaw and I took a step back. "Of course." I nodded. There was a long beat of silence. "But the not having sex, just between you and me—I'm curious. Does it make you crazy? I forget what it’s like to be your age. You’re fourteen, right?"

"Yeah." On his brow I noticed the beginning of the slightest glimmer of sweat. "Juliet was going on fourteen. You can tell me, I won’t judge you. Does it make you crazy?"

Perhaps fearing my guiding hand again, he did his best to continue looking me in the eye; ultimately, though, he couldn't do it. His glance wandered to the left. "I guess it feels that way sometimes," he said. "When I let my mind run with it and stuff."

My composure regained, I stepped forward, closer now than even before, touching my face against the side of his head as my lips found his ear. "And when you do let your mind run, Jack Patrick," I whispered, asking him in secret so that not even the walls of the room could overhear his answer, "when your mind is running as fast as it can... do you ever feel like if you don’t get relief you could physically die?"

>>8355541

Placing my hands on his shoulders, I lowered my head and moved my ear against the warmth of his mouth, awaiting a response. For several moments I could hear nothing but labored breathing that sounded like an answer in itself.

"I don’t know," he said, his breath hot upon my hair. When he stopped talking, I pulled more tightly on his shoulders, drawing his mouth so that it actually pressed against my ear. "It can feel intense," he admitted.

Just as my right hand began to move from his shoulder down his left arm, the tardy bell for lunch rang; in the silence of the classroom after our whispered voices, it sounded so loud as to seem internal. We jumped in unison. It felt as though the noise had just caught us there, standing too close. He looked up at me, worried-late to lunch meant a write-up, three write-ups meant in-school suspension. I gave his shoulder a final squeeze, then quickly moved toward my desk as though nothing had happened.

"Don’t worry," I said, my voice back at normal volume, "I'll write you a pass. I appreciate you staying and sharing your point of view with me." He was silent as I wrote, but I could feel him looking at my body in a revised manner, his assumed boundaries having just been proven wrong. "Do you already have any write-ups?"

He shook his head. When I handed him the pass I felt an enjoyable sense of commerce, like I was giving him a check for his services. "Good boy." I smiled.

But the moment he left the room my smile faded. I reached up my shirt and pinched my nipples as hard as I could, my fingernails digging in until my eyes began to water.

>>8355543
what is this from?

>>8355440
Can we make these retarded 'what did he mean by this', 'wow really makes you think', 'wtf i hate [x] now', etc. a bannable offense?

>>8355443
what the fuck I hate (you) now

>>8355443
Here's a (You)

really just anything about an inspiring historical (or contemporary) figure

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>David McCullough

>>8355501

oh, sorry. is he not patrician enough for you guys? Did I just embarrass myself?

it's not said like that?

>>8355372
You thought the B was silent? Dumb frogposter.

>>8355375
First a is like the first a in banana. Second is like "all".

>>8355341
no

Not that i know of, but if you like movies you could try watching Aguirre, the Wrath of God.

>>8355341
Not that I know of, but you can watch Aguirre. Plus there's a conquistador play called something Sun something.

>>8355298
Praise Lord KEK! meme magic will ensure Lord Emperor Trump's becoming president.

Deus Vult, Build Wall, deport Mexicans

>>8355298
are you high or do you simply not know how to type? i'd hate to be your editor.

>>8355298
Ulilililililila of legend of the elemental masters fame wrote a book called the secret in the basement or something.

>>8355246
not for argument but the last thing i read was marx and i'm a >rightist
circlejerks a shit

>>8355246
i don't, it's a huge mistake probably.

I only read novels and I can't disagree with a novel.

>>8355238
>inb4 angry autistic STEM nerds

>>8355245
Angry autistic STEM nerds I'm spending the next 6 year studying with

>>8355238
I am not an actual psychologist but I have great interest in psychology. Psychoanalysis has been debunked and discredited.

>>8355230
I did read it.

I know you want a Butler/feminism-/pol/-tier bashing thread, but it's actually very, very good.

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>21 century
>still bothering with continentals

>>8355230
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2016/08/03/pope-francis-its-terrible-children-taught-they-can-choose-gender/

>>8355223
I would like you to be dead for shitting up this board

>>8355225
U_Death by deathicatio~

>>8355225
why, what's wrong? you don't agree with barthes?

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>book ends in et cetera et cetera

>the last sentence is the opening one

how original, wow.

>>8356621
>the last sentence is the books title
wew

>>8355095
Merrill is your guy.

Yes, Iliad first.

Most poetic and least scholarly is Pope.

Would definitely recommend reading the Iliad first. It gives context to the recurrent characters that also appears in the Odyssey, in what they are expressing, their lamentation, their fate etc.
Of course there are probably good annotated versions out there that supplies this information.

>>8355093
start with the greeks

>>8355101
Fuck off dumb memeposter

>>8355093
Begin with the phoenecians