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>>8005059

Latin is next semester because I am taking the summer off to stay balls deep in girls since I spent most of the fall and winter in the gym barely passing my classes.

And I barely have any money because I can barely fucking afford 10lbs of chicken breast, brown rice, and hot sauce to sustain my muffukkan gains bro.

But no, seriously. I'm taking Latin in the fall and looking forward to it. Not only will it help me with literature, but it will make my Medical Terminology that much easier when I know why the fucking words are the words and why those words describe what body parts.

Yes, the main goal is to prescribe myself juice, get huge, be instagram famous, get fired, have a doctor I cut 60 years off my life due to liver damage from juice, actually destroy my entire house by hand, and then shotgun brain myself live on webcam for all of 4chan to see.

>>8005094
fuck yeah

>>8005097
Love you, bro.

Melville spent a considerable portion of his life at sea.

>>8005036
I guess you could say sperm whales were his typee

>>8005036
start with Pierre or Mardi

Post more wankels

A master of himself cannot be fooled by an average person wanking about, and wankers more often than not lose themselves in their wanking.

>>8004989

what if the master just saw the marking

>>8004978
Finnegans Wake.

>>8004978

It depends on your tastes. What would you like to read generally? Fantasy/Non-fiction/Adveture/Russian depressive psychological novels?

>>8004978
Gravity's Rainbow

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>>8004708
>Gaspar noe enter the void

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>>8004725
William Gibson

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>>8004708
50 Shades of Grey

People heavily misunderstand him and the way they write him of as a hack is wrong and more often then not based on ignorance and what they heard from other clueless people.

Here is the red pill on Freud (yes fuck that term but whatever)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zji6xMkOgo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSh37_x5RNY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16WF1jLLyik

>>8004929
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A07DV3FXyPo

In honor of Freud's theories and life I will spend tomorrow doing only useless and wrong things that only retards would appreciate as legitimate.

Retardation

>>8004521
why don't you read it and tell us what you think first, you lazy turd

>>8004521
It's actually quite good. If you've read enough of the basics of psych and philosophy to not get overwhelmed into thinking it's some sort of perfect system, Prometheus Rising is one of the most thought-provoking books out there.

>after playing the game "Dante's Inferno," I'd like to read the book the game was based off of

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>>8004501
You will not enjoy it.

>>8004501
Hi, italian guy here who spent a lot of his highschool time to read and understand the book "The Comedy" by Dante Alighieri, called "The Divine Comedy" after Petrarca's review.
I liked the game "Dante's inferno" too, however, it has nothing to do with the book:
- Dante was never a crusader, he was a knight in his youth that fight for his city Firenze
- Beatrice was never kidnapped by satan, she just died and went to paradise
- Beatrice was just a beautiful woman but of a too prominent family for Dante

The book calls "The Comedy" because a comedy is a poem that starts bad and end well (as opposite of tragedy that start well and has a bad ending), Dante starts at the hell and ends in heaven so... comedy.
The poem is divided in three books (Inferno-hell, Purgatorio-purgatory, Paradiso-heaven) wich are divided in 100 "chants" (33 for books and 1 for the prologue).
Every chant was in ryme, but now there's his prosaic version.
In each books Dante put the V.I.P. of his time (and some of the romanic past) and his ipotetical conversation with them.
The hell is regulated by the "divine's retaliation" so each sinners is punished in a appropriate way (such the schismatics that are divided by demons with swords)
Dante had put in hell all the people that he didn't like, even the Pope of his time (Bonifacio VIII) one of the cruelist pope of all time
In the purgatory Dante meet the souls of the ones that are trying to reedem themselves
In the heaven he meet the saints, Beatrice, and at the end god.
I don't think you will like it because he wrote the comedy to roast and exalt the people he dislike or like and much of them are italian medieval VIPs and he makes a lot of references at italian city and italian's issues (wich I assume you don't even know)
BUT if you want to read just the inferno only to see the cruel punishment and the demons inside go ahead, maybe you will like it.

Be born already gifted into circumstances where that gift is encouraged so you get even better.

I couldn't even flip 500 pages in an hour.

you don't need to become him
just be glad he's reading for US
stand on his shoulders

>that sentence

bagel man strikes again

it's probably clearer in german

wrote down 'vomiting at obscurantism' in my notebook because of this btw

>>8004167
I think he's talking about spirit.

You just remember it that way. It's as YA as YA can get without being Harry Potter.

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>>8004179
Damn. I got meme'd. How about this one?

>>8004159
>>8004179

It's also about as good as YA can get, being YA.

I was about to make an incredibly ironic statement concerning his suicide, but then I Dave'd.

To be completely unironical here, I don't think that I would really be that excited for a meetup with Dave.
He seems like he was a really shitty person overall.

I miss dave

i liked him in murder by death

I loved In Cold Blood for its staggering amount of detail and humanization of a twisted murder

>>8004060
In Cold Blood is probably in the top 5 of 20th Century books/novels or wahtever it is.

'Waverhouse' is clearly the best character

>>8003955
all the english books have the names translated?

I have to bring it back to the library soon and I haven't even started it yet. Is it OK if I just finish the first volume or is it meant to all be read?

Read the twelve of the 1855 edition (in that edition, not in the Deathbed one), plus Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, Crossing Brooklyn River, and When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.

There you have his best poems. The other 2 are on your choice.

>17

what an oddly specific number

>>8003779
Well...
Song of Myself just to start.