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Horses can't be god

There's no evidence the Turin horse incident happened. It was probably made up to slander him.
It's not only a fraudulent story, but also plagiarism. The same shit happened in Crime and Punishment.

>>8241413

Nietzsche rejected the necessity of salvation but in the end realized that man does not live by bread alone but by the word of God. He tried to become Christ and failed. He realized that he could not even save a single horse, much less all of mankind, and that his writings were nothing but vanity. His madness was profound despair. Rudolph Steiner says that when he went to visit Nietzsche, he had a vision of one of Nietzsche's past lives, in which he was a tortured monk constantly whipping himself.

Maybe shock set in or he lost his mind.

I don't know they were both religious fanatics. Not ordinary guys.

They didn't "do" it. They allowed it to be done to them.

Passive agreement. Tacit consent.

>>8241315
Yes. Because your brain neither links the dousing yourself in gasoline and lighting a fire to your own death neither does it for getting stabbed in the side.

Try holding your breath until you die. Or drowning yourself in a puddle through sheer will.

That monk died of asphyxiation before he felt the sensation of burning to death. Getting nailed to the cross and speared in the side probably felt horrible although probably good when the body finally gave out.

I'd say V. is both those last frames.

you can't really rate LOTR as 3 separate books imo.

I'll rank 'em like this:
Silmarillion > Children of Hurin > Hobbit = Lord of the Rings

It's been a while since I read the Hobbit and LOTR though.

LOTR is one fucking book man, he broke it up to be able to sell it.

Im a fantasy literature illiterate about to read LoTR once it arrives in mail. Am I in for something good or another full blown meme

>>8241151
Start with Marcus Aurelius' Meditations and then to Letters from a Stoic

does anybody know where i can get quality audiobook versions of shakespeare plays?

>>8241194
aren't there like a lot of them on youtube?

literature has the power to create its own visual art in your head

>>8241114
literature accesses knowledge by primarily intellectual means whereas the visual arts access knowledge by primarily aesthetic means

Communicate ideas via language rather than images.

did you check the recommendation advice in the sticky? if not, delete this post and go there first

>>8241111
I read that in high school. Right now I'm reading the myth of sisyphus

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Hart crane

Rimbaud

Ezra pound

Ferlinghetti

>>8241079
4chanlit.wikia.com/poetry

>>8241171
really?

>>8241262
Yeah really

Princeton Dictionary of Poetry and Poetics
Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism

>>8241331
It's the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, and it won't teach you form if you don't already know what to look for.

>>8241022
4chanlit.wikia.com/poetry

I've read three and the best imo is poetic designs by Stephan Adams.
It's not too long, gets the important points through effectively and has good examples.

Anyone know which translation Borges used? The one he preferred to the spanish.

>>8240808
smollett

>>8240808
Rutherford. Stay away from Grossman.

You think someone smelling like a tree means they're fuckable?

You never lusted after you sister?

What the fuck is wrong with you?

Didn't Benji say say that after she was in a tree?

I thought it was all right, saved by cool prose near the end. It's a rather unique spin on the dystopia theme - a dystopia caused by political correctness and overindulgence on crappy media.

It's a 9th grade tier book, but some of the ideas are pretty sound, especially for today's kids who are becoming more and more exposed to the idea of information censorship in the name of safety.
Also it feel like Boston Dynamics is purposefully trying to make the robodog thing a reality

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>>8240424
It's not a great book, but I like the message. It's sad to see, how this fictional world described in the book is slowly becoming reality, due to the cultural marxist uprising in the west.

A better book to the same topic might be "1984", but I haven't read it yet.

Trump: The Best Golf Advice I Ever Received by Donald Trump, and The International Jew, by Henry Ford.

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>>8239876
best war journal i've ever read

>>8239876
i had a book once about weird places in the usa. like the world's largest ball of twine and stuff like that. i think the book was just called roadside america or something. anyway i enjoyed it.

also mystery train by greil marcus

>>8239784
He writes about how people now are systematically conditioned to be isolated and unfulfilled in life. There's no sense of community, nothing binding us together, nothing beyond ourselves -- we've become a bunch of lonely individuals. I think /pol/ misunderstands him, thinking that because he criticizes the status quo he necessarily agrees with their ridiculous political views.

>>8239784

Because if you speak out against sexual liberation you can only ever be an anti-enlightenment Satan.
It's the biggest ( and maybe only ) victory of the 1960's and thin-skinned boomers can't handle the fact someone offers a convincing critique against their dynamiting of the mores surrounding sexuality and the destruction of the family unit.

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>>8239825
/pol assumes ANYBODY criticising the status quo is either a leftist brony or one of them. And they certainly don\t read stuff on Houllebecq level.

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Self-bumping with hope for some discussion.

>>8239754
Indeed excellent read. It is also important to keep in mind that Dick was bombarded with deadlines, which gave him little time to finish his novels. It's very impressive that he can shit out that novel given that fact, which is probably also why Mercerism wasn't fleshed out. It did make many passages in the book more mysterious, which I appreciated.

Have you seen the movie?

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>>8239815
Actually, the book did feel somewhat rushed.
I didn't see it, but I think I'm gonna watch it soon!

It seems that a lot of people think Philip K Dick was criticizing religion with Buster Friendly's announcement , but I feel that he actually raises a point that it is the principles given by Religion that are the most important as shown by Rick's and Isidore's lack of reaction and what Mercer says to Rick .

Moving onto "A Clockwork Orange" now.