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Which book is perfect in your eyes, anon? Not just something you enjoyed, but something that's a full 10/10 for you.

If you can, suggest another book you think that fellow anon may also enjoy.

For me it's Don Quixote. My heart broke when it finished, Sancho and Don Quixote never got to be those shepherds.

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http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/21/is-there-any-point-to-protesting

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fuck off gay redditor burger

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let us not forget that tearing down statues is an act after a regime has fallen. let us destroy this invasive and plaguing regime growing in our midst by instead murdering communist puppetteers, destroying their fundraising abilities, assassinating their brains, not their celebrities, not their facemen who will become martyrs. but eradicate those who hold the keys in their groups, people who know the passwords to their many leftist group funds, let us kill the man with a thousand and one numbers saved in his cell phone, all connections, all groups of bribery, of degeneracy, etc.

let us find them where they sleep, in the gardens of depravity, the warehouses they use to do drugs and connect and plot. let us go and destroy these shadow businesses, placeholders for tax exempt slush funds aided by leftist politicians and controllers. let us destroy their brains. without organizaton, they are nothing but silly rats. that is what makes a smart man, a smart group, to surgically strike the nerve centers, not to overwhelm like barbarous vermin.

i suppose it is not time for men to fight. they do not stand up beneath a true and fierce leader. they burrow underground into mines, factories, mills. they do not wish to fight. shame. they will be destroyed. they will be erased. the left subscribes viciously to might makes right.
in reality, they command the board. they hold the keys. otherwise men would know that holding morality as a higher ground only works when the society is founded upon those morals, when the might is behind the thunderbolts of god himself.

nay, these are nihilists, atheists, anarchists, and communists. men and women and beasts without morals. they must be destroyed, or what we see as morality will evaporate before us into a sodom and gomorrah. i fear it has already come. lawlessness will strike, while police will strike against those who morality dictates to, the ones who believe. the horde will never be smote by the law. they have built a sub-society within america that gives its allegiance to a world without morality.

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What the FUCK was his problem?

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>dude consciousness doesn't exist lmao it's just an illusion bro

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>shootin' the shit with a co-worker
>mention one of my hobbies is reading
>he says "oh I do some reading, but I mainly read magazines and news articles"
>tell him the last book I read was Moby Dick
>he replies "ah man I can't get into the classics, they're just too wordy, they use so many adjectives to describe things, it's hard for me to focus on them"
>mfw

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I want to read Gravity's Rainbow moreso than M&D, but is it necessary to make tons of notes on characters so as not to stifle my enjoyment, or can I just sit back and enjoy the ride?

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This man uses /lit/ for book recommendations. This is not a joke. He admitted it on his livestream. He even has a copy of Infinite Meme.

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Where to start with T.C. Boyle? What does /lit/ think of him?

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Which story is the best and why is it Araby?

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>mid-2017
>he's still trying to write novels

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how is it possible to be an atheist and not believe in free will? to defeat the cosmological argument, you have to deny the ontological existence of causality, and with that, physical determinism goes out the window.

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So why aren't you reading the GREATEST American poet?

Canto CXVI

Came Neptunus
his mind leaping
like dolphins
These concepts the human mind has attained.
To make Cosmos ---
To achieve the possible ---
Muss., wrecked for an error,
But the record
the palimpsest ---
a little light
in great darkness ---
cuniculi ---
An old “crank” dead in Virginia.
Unprepared young burdened with records,
The vision of the Madonna
above the cigar butts
and over the portal.
“Have made a mass of laws”
(mucchio di leggi)
Litterae nihil sanantes
Justinian’s,
a tangle of works unfinished.
I have brought the great ball of crystal;
who can lift it?
Can you enter the great acorn of light?
But the beauty is not the madness
Tho’ my errors and wrecks lie about me.
And I am not a demigod,
I cannot make it cohere.
If love be not in the house there is nothing.
The voice of famine unheard.
How came beauty against this blackness,
Twice beauty under the elms ---
To be saved by squirrels and bluejays?
“plus j’aime le chien”
Ariadne.
Disney against the metaphysicals,
and Laforgue more than they thought in him,
Spire thanked me in proposito
And I have learned more from Jules
(Jules Laforgue) since then
deeps in him,
And Linnaeus.
chi crescerà i nostri ---
but about that terzo
third heaven,
that Venere,
again is all “paradiso”
a nice quiet paradise
over the shambles,
and some climbing
before the take-off,
to “see again,”
the verb is “see,” not ‘walk on”
i.e. it coheres all right
even if my notes do not cohere.
Many errors,
a little rightness,
to excuse his hell
and my paradiso.
And as to why they go wrong,
thinking of rightness
And as to who will copy this palimpsest?
al poco giorno
ed al gran cerchio d’ombra
But to affirm the gold thread in the pattern
(Torcello)
al Vicolo d’oro
(Tigullio).
To confess wrong without losing rightness:
Charity I have had sometimes,
I cannot make it flow thru.
A little light, like a rushlight
to lead back to splendour.