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I'm against censorship, but if there was a way to erase the word cuckold from history I would in a heartbeat

>>8257492
I know that OP is a cuck

>>8257496
It would just be replaced by another word with a similar meaning

>>8257488
no one can read that shit, you just look at parts of it
after you pay a couple hundred bucks for it

>>8257488
no ebook = no sale

>>8257498
>>8257663
ITT: poorfags

Don't speak German but my grandfather translates French lit and his German-speaking pals say Woods is very good. I've read his translation of Schmidt's novellas and they were excellent, I had no issues with the translation.

>>8257480
>>>/r9k/

I don't want your kind to be here.

>>8257494
You forgot to recommend a book.

>but end up just fine, happy ending type deal
heh... better get used to the sad endings
you're in one.

>>8257470
true

view from castle rock was boring

>>8257473
/thread

philosophizing is about ignoring fear and trusting words one reads in books instead. It's like a solitary version of socializing to be honest.

>>8257478
Not a single thing shared between good philosophy and what you just said

>>8257426
There's a way of doing philosophy which is only rationalizing and doesn't confront to the fear of thinking. But this isn't the interesting one

Philosophy of the academics? Probably. Not that there weren't good academic philosophers, but if history forgot them it wouldn't forget much.

Philosophers who are actually sticking their nose out? Risking grave loss to say what the masses don't want to hear? You might argue they are foolish--but not cowardly.

>>8257402
rabbis memorize the torah so i dont see how itd be impossible

>>8257416
>Iliad
>Word Count: ~150,000 depending on translation

>Torah
>Word Count: 79,976

And remember, the Iliad we have today isn't even half of the original's length.

Modern bards are documented memorising and repeating the Sundiata stories and Balkan epics in bardic format

Mahabharata singers actually straight-up memorise and don't even use bardic format, and it's much longer than Homer

Dammit, OP, I could have gone my whole life pretending it would be about a frog hospital undergoing management restructuring. Fuck you, I'm going to pretend you lie.

>>8257294
>tale about how women are whores and men are bad people
how is this what you got from this book.

>>8257340

Please, tell me what you got from the book, I'm desperate for other opinions on this.

I got the book, I can scan all the pages for you

>>8257216
nobody "really needs" infinite jest

>>8257216
>cant afford a 25 dollar book
wat

>>8257208
...someone hasn't read Scandal in Bohemia.

You'd have to be pretty delusional if you don't find anything wrong with a coke addicted, anti-social misanthrope that... Wait, I just remembered I'm on 4chan. Forget what I said.

>>8257373
tee hee

The JUST series
By Andy Griffiths

There is no beach in all of australia that looks that pretty.

Add a few fosters cans and some semi-but-not-legally-homeless nigger to the background and I might believe it

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>>8257203
It looks like WA.

>>8257189
It's really good. I find the Russian revolution the most fascinating period in history

If you're the kind of person who uses phrases like 'pro commie trash' you really do need to read more about communism - even if you still disagree with it, books like Reed's communicate perfectly the enthusiasm of what was still perhaps the most important moment of the whole of the 20th Century, doing a good job to explain it as a myth if not as a historical event. Read this book - and some other entry-level Marxist stuff, the manifesto, Edgar Snow's stuff on China, etc. - and you might understand why communism has been an essential part of the global system ever since.

>>8257245
Well nobody wants to read disguised propaganda. I think that's what OP meant

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The secret to happiness within Freud's system was to make your mother a mother again, desu.

>>8257188
Freude was interested in classifying pathological conditions. To be healthy is to have no such condition.

I guess you could call that maintaining a balance between the id, ego, and superego. That's likely how he would characterize mental health. Popper made some cutting and IMO final critiques of that notion of a spectrum, but that is the account he would seem to give based on the works he produced.

>>8257188
stupid goy. Nobody is ever healthy or fully recovered. How else do you keep the scheckels flowing?

>>8257184
legal pads

>>8257184
PC: OpenOffice
Physical: a notebook

True patricians use sticky notes though.

Is someone going to drink that?

The most recent one. I think we'll find that it's very prescient.

>>8257090
id just like to say that you are a funny person, op

The ego and the Fireflies

>>8257039
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnEB2F_v_cE

>>8257039
you read books until you hate reading

>>8257068
I'm wondering if it's actually worthwhile when alternatives like watching films is so much easier and arguably plenty rewarding