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>>8302847
To keep his massive brain from spilling everywhere

>>8302847
cause he'd sperg out all the time and perspire heavily

>>8302847
he swat* a lot

*I am trying to make everyone realize that we need to exchange sweat in past tense with swat. Not like to 'swat a fly' but 'swat' as in the 'a' in tank.

>>8302834
Stop turning everything into 'muh epic memes'. It's pure banalization

Everything Thersites says is completely correct, that's the fucking point. He's the opposite of a shitposter.

>>8302844
This

>>8302853
>Everything Thersites says is completely correct

Odysseus is the shitposter. Lets his home fall to ruin then slaughters a bunch of people for doing what he told Thersites was the smart thing to do.

>>8302809
well he isn't wrong, but that doesn't necessarily make him right.

>>8302820

Thanks /lit/ for making me giggle

It sounds like every poster on r/books has this quote printed out or committed to memory.

>This book was too intellectual, a pretentious writer trying to impress everyone by using overly complex language. It wasn't too hard, not for a Chem engineer like me, it was just pointless when he could have used simpler writing. It was also really boring! Now, The Name of the Wind, that's real literature.

>>8302798
>false dichotomy

>>8302798
Surrealism

http://www.strawpoll.me/10796684

forgot to add the poll

>>8302787
>>>/pol/

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>literature of Syria

kek

Arabs have killed off most of the real indigenous peoples of the middle east who actually had authentic mid east culture , history, poets, myths and music.

>>8302797
Right, but how will the Said of the 21st century perceive ISIS and the Kurdish struggle?

sages of /lit/ halp pls

>>8302750
Kierkegaard
>some understanding of Hegel, Descartes, Kant, the greeks, Spinoza, Fichte and Schlegel
>Socrates, specially early Plato's dialogues
>his thesis on Irony is REALLY important to understand his other books
>Goethe

Nietzsche
>Schopenhauer
>Dostoevsky
>Greeks
>Montaigne
>some understanding of Hegel, Descartes, Kant, Leibniz and Spinoza
>Goethe

any further knowledge is nice for both. But I think that's enough

>>8303014
And I guess it's implied you have to know some of the Bible too, for both.

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>>8302707
>non-fiction

>>8302707
this

Anglos are the wolves in sheeps clothing. Jews are the sheep.

>>8302665
>being aware of the Jewish problem
>insane
reported

The Eternal Anglo is the problem, not the Jews.

roberto pinchas

>>8302650
came here to post this

he's probably the only REAL cyberpunk author still writing with relevance to today's culture of technology

>>8302650
>>8302658
ill check him out

>>8302633
I'm waiting for someone else to read it and post about it.
I don't like old mystic white dudes or British humor, or social commentary, or pretension and superficially speaking this books cuts too close for comfort, but I don't know enough about it.

Lemme know how it goes

I don't believe it's out yet

>>8302633
Is this the Wayside Stories sequel?

>>8302619
They don't. You just have ADHD, possibly autism.

>>8302619
Are Donna Tartt's books based as kek?

>>8302628
Well autism's a given, I don't see where the ADHD charge comes from.

Jack Vance's weeaboo nephew.

how about going back to /jp/

>>8302689
Gene Wolfe is not a chinaman

>>8302546
>What order should I read them in
One at a time, lad. One at a time.

You don't need anything else, just read the Iliad first and then the Odyssey.

>>8302546
>>8302552
Don't listen to this cunt. Read them both simultaneously, one line from the Iliad, one from the Odyssey, all the while noticing the subtle stylistic differences that have provided clues to scholars pointing towards one of the poems having been authored by a woman (which?).

It's not; it's a lesser-Pynchon. Not the same as Pynchon-lie.

>>8302540
>>8302568
What's a good starting point for Pynchon? Other than lot 49

>>8302574
Lot 49 in the best imo because it's short, so you don't have to invest much, and because it has a lot of that energy that's characteristic of his best stuff. Other than that Inherent Vice is also good because it's easy to read (though not necessarily easy to follow the plot) and is a lot more relaxed, but it's like 400 pages. There's also a movie to go with it.

>>8302537
>Commonplace book

Is this some sort of british cobbleknockle wollybog term

>>8302562

It's a kind of journal, but less about laying out what you did / how you feel day to day and more for writing down things of interest to you. Inspiration, quotes, musings, etc.

It used to be pretty normal to keep one but it's fallen out of favor in modern times. Still, I figured if anybody would keep them it'd be people from /lit/.

>>8302537
I hadn't heard of this either, but it seems like a cool idea. I might start one.