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>>7883591
the sickness unto death (i.e., despair). dazai is honest about many things, though, including his pessimistic sense of impending nihilism.

>>7883591
depressing shit

The news

>>7883533
Snow Crash
Altered Carbon

>>7883533
god that book was such a rush

>>7883552
thanks for recs, looking to delve into cyberpunk

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>He is abandoned by Helen who runs off with a black slave and continues to Egypt where again a workers' uprising takes place. He leaves again on a journey up the Nile eventually stopping at the lake-source. Upon arrival his companions set up camp and he climbs the mountain in order to concentrate on his god. Upon his return to the lake he sets up his city based on the commandments of his religion. The city is soon destroyed by an earthquake. Odysseus laments his failure to understand the true meaning of god with the sacrifice of his companions. His life transforms into that of an ascetic. Odysseus meets Motherth (an incarnation of the Buddha), Kapetán Énas (English: Captain Sole, literally "Captain One", a Greek folk expression for people who are insubordinate and single-minded to a fault), alias Don Quixote, and an African village fisherman, alias Jesus. He travels further south in Africa while constantly spreading his religion and fighting the advances of death. Eventually he travels to Antarctica and lives with villagers for a year until an iceberg kills him. His death is glorious as it marks his rebirth and unification with the world.

Last Temptation

>>7883421
Zorba. I think Zorba is the simplest demonstration of his overall philosophy which plays itself out more fantastically in Last Temptation, and long-form in Odyssey 2.

I don't know, is water free or are water free?

>>7883218
2nd 1 m8

all the people i have met are mean
every person i have met is mean

a book

>>7883144
Just read porn or whatever entertains you. Then you'll have something other than watching porn and youtube videos. Sure, it's just one more thing, but it's a step in the right direction.

Also go outside.

>>7883144
bible

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I haven't read the novel but I do know the author is well known for silly things? Is it more-or-less similar to Zeitgeist?

how come there are never any calls for "diversity" with regard the federal reserve? for at least the last generation it's just been one jew after another, isn't it time to let some wise latina woman or some funky black brother take the reins for a while? oh ok, i see

>>7882992
>implying the jews didn't put that shit in his wiki to discredit him

i bet all the ip address making edits to that page are from tel aviv or brooklyn

>forwards
>backwards
>towards

Just stop.

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>prior to

>>7882787
>us-toward
really Ezra?

Have you tried reading any sutras?

>>7882749
I haven't. I thought getting some sort of secondary literature type overview might be a better way to get acquinted.

Would you recommend just diving into the sutras? If so, which ones?

>>7882873
Go in hard: Lotus Sutra

>Does brandon sanderson pander to absolute retards?

Answered your own question. He basically writes bad anime

>>7882637
>Is there any good fantasy at all?
Tolkien

>>7882863
there is, especially all that isn't sword & sorcery.

What's academic poetry?

id fuck that deers ass

>>7883589
yiff in hell furfag

What kind of novels do you find on these Russian sites?

Nice try, breck. You will never steal my enlightening, Orwellian and Kafkaesque novella. /lit/, you'll have to wait...

>>7882467
newb tier shit, but that's okay

>>7882388
Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape
Of deities or mortals, or of both,
In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?
What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?
What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone:
Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave
Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;
Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,
Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve;
She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,
For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!

Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed
Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu;
And, happy melodist, unwearied,
For ever piping songs for ever new;
More happy love! more happy, happy love!
For ever warm and still to be enjoy'd,
For ever panting, and for ever young;
All breathing human passion far above,
That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd,
A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.

Who are these coming to the sacrifice?
To what green altar, O mysterious priest,
Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies,
And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?
What little town by river or sea shore,
Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel,
Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn?
And, little town, thy streets for evermore
Will silent be; and not a soul to tell
Why thou art desolate, can e'er return.

O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede
Of marble men and maidens overwrought,
With forest branches and the trodden weed;
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought
As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
When old age shall this generation waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."


'nuff said.

>>7882388
4chanlit.wiki.com/poetry

>>7883891
4chanlit.wikia.com/poetry

Art as Experience by John Dewey.

Gotta read it slow though, I got the audiobook and there are big chunks that I was completely uncertain on

Even though it isn't really what you're looking for, Tolstoy's essays on art are pretty good.

>>7882412
>>7882429
These both sound great and I really like aesthetics (hence why I want to get more into art history), but I'm looking at something that will enhance my understanding of works of art. As in, identifying what are the intentions of the artist, the style and technique, the differences between various periods and schools...
I guess I'm still looking for introductory texts, as I feel a bit overwhelmed by all of it.

>>7882355
haven't read the book , but tarkovsky's film is better.

>>7882364
How do you know it's better if you haven't read the book?
>>7882355
Anyway I did read it and it was quite IMO.

>>7882364
No, the novel is better

sci-hub.io

now go away

>>7882354
go to a university library, download pdf to flashdrive for free

university library and ask if they have computers for the public to do independent research

JSTOR sucks anyway