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A Kierkegaardian leap of faith

>>7979241
Nobel prize winner eheh

This is my personal understanding. I do not know if this is the academic understanding but frankly given the subject matter I don't really care one way or the other.

When he says "One" he is referring to humankind. Humanity must (note the imperative) imagine that Sisyphus is happy in his never-ending labor because unfortunately being a human is no different since there is no inherent worth in any particular action. If someone ridicules or pities Sisyphus they must ridicule and pity themselves. If one thinks Sisyphus's life is not worth living then they at the same time asserting that their own life is not worth living. Therefore "One must imagine Sisyphus happy."

The biggest way people misinterpret this is assuming that Sisyphus is a tragic character and that Camus was claiming that life is pointless and empty and depressing. In fact it is the opposite. In a life without meaning you are free to create your own meaning and embrace whatever it is you want to embrace without guilt or remorse.

>>7979159
> paperback is 0.01$ in amazon
OP pls

Also it's the worst Leggy Starlitz story

>>7979193
probably used though so that 1 cent doesnt go towards the author but the reseller

>>7979193
shipping cost is $65.

and how can you say it's the worst Lekhi Starlitz story when he forces that Turkish criminal gang leader to vomit bullets, currency and bags of heroin?

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>>7979140

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Too rebbit, maybe

>>7979236
I read this not to long ago and I wasn't too impressed. maybe it is better in its original language. the stupidity of the scientists drove me crazy.

sven hassel ?

>>7979092
You may be be better off asking /k/

>>7979092
they don't exist...

>>7979076

>thinking byron was decent

It's like you want to get beat up. Tennyson was the champ.

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>>7979118
>not Keats

Think again pal.

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.

Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cider-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by hours.

Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,--
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft,
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

And then she:
'Although our love is waning, let us stand
By the long border of the lake once more,
Together in that hour of gentleness
When the poor tired child, Passion, falls asleep:
How far away the stars seem, and how far
Is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart!'
Pensive they paced along the faded leaves,
While slowly he whose hand held hers replied:
'Passion has often worn our wandering hearts.'
The woods were round them, and the yellow leaves
Fell like faint meteors in the gloom, and once
A rabbit old and lame limped down the path;
Autumn was over him: and now they stood
On the lone border of the lake once more:
Turning, he saw that she had thrust dead leaves
Gathered in silence, dewy as her eyes,
In bosom and hair.
'Ah, do not mourn,' he said,
'That we are tired, for other loves await us;
Hate on and love through unrepining hours.
Before us lies eternity; our souls
Are love, and a continual farewell.

Yeats 4 life.

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will bump with a few further works.

What do u hope to get out of Nhilism?
Its meaningless to believe in nhilism as well as practice it if that's what u truly believe

>>7979021
It's not what I believe. It's just fun to indulge in every now and then.

I'm actually quite concerned about nihilism, in the Heideggerian/Nietzschean sense. But as far as literature and philosophy? It's not bad to entertain/understand or at least appreciate on a certain level.

MY MOTHER IS A FISH XD

>>7978984
She smells like one lmaoooo

Yea it's a pretty good series.

Doesn't necessarily have to be commercially successful - but it does have to be new.

I really liked A Visit from the Goon Squad. I think that's the newest piece of fiction on my shelf.

>>7979012
Just read the opening chapter. Good stuff. Will buy it.

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Did pretty OK actually.
Feel bad for the unlucky pop-top that landed Kate Chopin. Read her once and it was bayou cuck erotica in every sense of the word.

>>7978876
You did good that story is hilarious

>>7978876
Anon, be honest, are you in 6th grade?

>Pornography is a powerful catalyst for social change, and its periods of greatest availability have frequently coincided with times of greatest economic and scientific advance.

>/lit/ is for the discussion of literature
>cookbooks
>>>/ck/

>nordic 'food'
>potatoes, fungus and salted/smoked goat meat mixed with guts or feces

>>7978835
this.
"nordic cuisine" is only a hip thing because rene redzepi

>>7978779
disgusting word

>>7978779
>purdy

>>7978779
>frogposting faggot who keeps making the same thread

Kill yourself

>picture of Pepe the frog
>disparaging comment

You're the reason this board is so shit. Create threads with some actually interesting topics instead of this inane trash.

>>7978774
Howard Roark and by that argument his basis in fact, Frank Lloyd Wright is probably the closest I can think of this is not an endorsement of Ayn Rand in any way.

Bob was marketing towards a low class demographic for ratings after the government mandated educational programming for public television.

>>7978800

Ayn Rand's understanding of the ubermensch was remarkably shallow

I'd say Bob Ross comes closer to it in fact than Roark does in fiction

>>7978774
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVwCYKH8DqQ

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>>7978719
Pic related is my favorite in the last 10 years.

The Neapolitan Novels by Ferrante
The Buried Giant by Ishiguro
Vollman has been getting a lot of praise lately and rightly so.

>>7978746
Also James previous novel, The Book of Night Women is pretty great

>>7978746
Thanks anon!