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>>8171980
picture of my backlog from a week ago
about 3 more books have been added

Pff, me too. I still need to finish 5 more books before I'm "allowed" to buy another and while I read a lot, I read everything BUT the books here brought last.

I also have this problem

I think it stems from a desire to have a big ass lobrary to loan shit to anyone who coukd use it

Just listen to trap rap

>>8171953
You probably won't even read 90% of the poems you just bought.

>>8172665
Probably not, but I will read the ones that I find most interesting, and sample a little of each author, as I was doing this morning. I gotta say, the old stuff in the norton anthology of poetry is really fucking difficult to understand. Hopefully the newer poetry will be less epically vague and I can get some sort of sense of what I'm reading from it.

>>8171891

sage faggot

>>8171891
fuck you nigger

build the wall, you faggot kike

Have you got Junger's "On Pain" or Speer's "Spandau diaries"?

>>8171895
Also Ernst Von Solomans "The Outlaws"

>>8171895
have got Spandau, sadly not junger

>>8171867

He was a faggot and a failure. He put his feelings on a paper so other faggots and failures could relate to someone.

>>8171867
AIDS

his repressed faggorty.

If you'd researched Rome you wouldn't need to ask this

for what purpose

>>8171807
Don't need to be condescending, /lit/

|CUMMIE| /FOR/ |MUMMY|

>>8171788
Thou art one of simple mind.

>>8171794
Thou art one of simple mind

;)

>>8171694
Something McCarthy?

Would seem typical of genre garbage

>>8171703
No, but not worlds apart from him.

>>8171712
I should add that I removed the less frequent words, too. The word "fresh" only appears once in this text, for example.

oh god

You're not writer.

>>8171678
back to >>>/pol/

>>8171568
It depends, for me sometimes it's a little slow.

Depends. If you're reading for plot, no.
If your reading for characters and reflection, he's one of the best.

>>8171568
Dislike him. A cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. A prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. Some of his scenes are extraordinarily amusing. Nobody takes his reactionary journalism seriously.

>>8171560
Does it contain info about the goddess Kali?
I know this will sound silly, but I saw her during meditation once despite not knowing anything about her (not even her name) at the time. She had bigger boobs in my vision, but that was probably my imagination working overtime. In any case, she's far more interesting than I expected (>muh silly animal gods), she sits on a dude, is topless, holds swords and skulls and decapitated heads. You may spin it any way you want (personification of becoming and the falsehood of identity, etc.), she'll always be the goddess of fucking and killing to me, even when it's destruction of self-identities or narcissistic enjoyment.

>>8171560
"Through the study of the scriptures alone or with erudition one can not realize the Atman, and even through the intellectualism and the debates in the classroom"
(Katha Upanishad, I, II, 23)

"The wise man, having studied the treaties of religious and secular knowledge, completely abandon these treaties, as one who looking for the seed leaves the rind"
(Brahmabindù Upanishads, 18)

"All that you have studied is but a set of words" (Chandogya Upanishad, VII, I, 3)

"In a frightening darkness enter those who live in ignorance, and in an even worse darkness those who have only a theoretical knowledge" (Svetasvara Upanishad, IV, IV, 10).

Why even read, /lit/? Don't you realise reading is useless?

>>8171591
>I know this will sound silly, but I saw her during meditation once despite not knowing anything about her (not even her name) at the time. She had bigger boobs in my vision

it reminds me...

>In June 2012, some Hindu leaders became upset at the inclusion of several Hindu gods in Smite and the fact that they are player-controlled. The deities that were in question were Kali, Agni, and Vamana, and there was particular opposition to how Kali was dressed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smite_(video_game)#Depiction_of_Hindu_gods_controversy

https://www.amazon.com/Portable-Nietzsche-Library/dp/0140150625

BGE full text when you get to it

Geneology full text too

>>8171553
Nietzs he recommended reading all his texts in order. BGE isn't his best work despite being well known. Maybe, if you don't want to take the chronological route, start with Twilight of the Idols? It's an older text, but it's like a summary of his ideas and it's short and rather accessible if you have the right mindset (not screaming "muh arguments, p > q motherfucker!" every sentence for instance).

>>8171630
Anyone who obsesses over muh arguments will never make it into any of his books, when reading the N-God you must understand that he thought that whether something was true or not wasn't the key thing to be concerned with.

>>8171398
KJV unless you happen to know how to read Hebrew and Greek and are allowed access to the original texts.

the Koran.

>>8171398
KJV with a good critical apparatus, unless you have Latin/Greek/Hebrew, in which case the Vulgate/original NT/original OT respectively

There's nothing wrong with had had. I can't remember seeing a that that anywhere though.

>>8171392
James and John, who are required by an English test to describe a man who, in the past, had suffered from a cold. John writes "The man had a cold," which the teacher marks as being incorrect.

James, while John had had "had"; had had "had had"; "had had" had had a better effect on the teacher.

English truly is the best.

>>8171397
You don't think that "that that" ever occurs? I don't quite agree that that is the case.

Once you get to Part 3, it gets easier and he actually sticks to somewhat coherent storytelling. Also remember it's all a meme :^)

>>8171379
It's good to take notes as you go along, it makes it a lot easier avoiding the red herrings later on in the book

Pynchons my fav writer for sure because my fav thing in books is goofs, gags, jokes and rambunctious behavior, and his books are full to the brim of it. Every novel is like one of those novelty snake cans, you open the book & POP you get a face fulla snakes and you fall back cackling. The mad mind, the crack genius, to do it! and then you think hmmm whats he gonna do next, this trickster, and you pick the book back up and BZZZZZZZZZZ you get a shock and Hahahahahah you've been pranked again by the old pynchmeister, that card. "Did that Pynch?" he says, laughing yukyukyukyuk. Watch him as he shoves a pair of plastic buck teeth right up into his mouth and displays em for you- left, right, center- "you like dese? Do i look handsome???" Pulls out a mirror. "Ah!" Hand to naughty mouth. And you're on your ass again laughing as he snaps his suspenders, exits stage right, and appears again hauling a huge golden gong.