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>>7827125
This is the book I have anon

>>7827125
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/zp2ppnxjwj28c//Cynicism

Diogenes the Cynic by Navia for Diogenes alone, Classical Cynicism by Navia for the Cynics in general.

>>7827125

Where did you find that picture you posted?

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>>7827121
pick originality over safety every time

it's hard to advise someone on how to improve their prose without reading it first

Keep reading, keep writing. It'll evolve.

when it comes to any art you have to master old forms before creating new ones

Ireland doesn't have such a big heroin problem so no.

>>7827099
Not what I meant, and you've obviously never been to Dublin

>>7827101
i always believed that irish were more into cheap whiskey and farts.

>>7827078

Same here. Also I can never figure out mysteries before the solution is revealed.

I feel like I don't think very much in general regarding fiction. I sometimes take notes but it becomes tedious. Do you get tons of connections and meanings just by analyzing one book for a very long time?

They help to contribute an interesting rereading so I don't mind missing them on my first read

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>>7827024
>excluding Antarctica

>he doesn't know

Africa - Things Fall Apart
Asia - God of Small Things
North America - Crying of Lot 49
South America - 100 Years of Solitude
Europe - The thief lord
Australia - Remembering Babylon

1600s - Don Quixote
1700s - Moll Flanders
1800s - Count of Monte Christo
1900s - Gravity's Rainbow
2000s - Microserfs
2010s - The High Mountains of Portugal

Murder on the Orient Express
The Left hand of Darkness

i dunno lol
i dunno lol

Infinite jest lol
Fight Club

>>7827024

Without looking:

>>1 book from each continent excluding Antartica.
Africa - Things Fall Apart
Asia - Kokoro
Australia - *sigh* [something by Peter Carey?]
Europe - In Search of Lost Time
North America - Moby Dick
South America - Hopscotch

>>1 book written in each century starting from the 1600s
1600s - Don Quixote
1700s - Robinson Crusoe
1800s - The Brothers Karamazov
1900s - Ulysses
2000s - Purity

>>1 book by a female author post-1950
The Handmaid's Tale

>>1 book by a female author pre-1950
Frankenstein

>>2 books written in the last 6 years
Swamplandia!
Ready Player One

>>2 books written in the last 20 years.
The Bleeding Edge
Agape Agape

wow do you really not know how to read russian

depends on what you're looking for

>>7827073

Accurate and readable.

OP: Iv owned this Encyclopedia for sometime now
I just started reading it from the very start(only read small segments) and was interested in /lit thought's of Manly's work

Iv made a thread in his/ but also thought lit/ might be more appropriate.

He doesn't use any sources, meaning that there's no discernible difference between his Masonic babbling, and Ripley's Believe It or Not

When I first started reading that was one of the first books on my list to purchase. That was a long time ago, and I'm glad I never bought it.

>>7826711
Yes. You will eventually stop comparing though.

Yes. It's not even uncommon for people who move to different countries to eventually start forgetting their first language.

>>7826729
My father was born and raised in Sicily, moved to Canada when he was in his early twenties.

I'll never forget the day he woke up and told my mother he had his first dream in English. Bittersweet.

Aristotle sucked ass at physics let's be honest ok I mean he was a smart dude but jesus man go back to fuckin philosophy or whatever because sheesh that shit is wackk

>>7826667
Probably not. A lot of his physics would today fall within the domain of metaphysics, and there's nothing wrong with that.

>>7826717
this is the future

No, literally read the wikipedia page about Kafka and you'll see he liked that book a lot.

>>7826477
Hmm I am ctrl+f the wiki but I cant find anything specific about the book other than vague references to Dostoyefski characters punished?

Could you link me the Karamazov part or quote it here?

>>7826476

It's not even the most Kafkaesque of Dostoyevsky's works
Look no further than that pic

>>7826470
The Elegance of the Hedgehog is about a depressed preteen but it neither edgy nor emo.
Also pretty much anything by Melville or Hawthorne.

>>7826470
Good Old Neon by David Foster Wallace, A Perfect Day for Bananafish by J.D. Salinger

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Edouard Leve - Suicide

Actually comfy in a weird way

Try googling
>emergence of western subjectivity
>invidual vs. dividual
>historicizing the self
>historicizing the ego

>>7826441
Thanks. I never actually heard of those phrases before.

I initially wanted to ask this question /his/ but I feared it would turn into some kind of /pol/ shitfest.

Hey OP this may not be the kind of thing you're looking for but Erich Fromm provides an interesting history / theory on the development of individuality in the West over time and its contribution to modern anxieties in particular.

I have like twelve pages of quotations and I can post (read: spam) them here if you'd like.

Dongs don't fucking matter. If you're a world-conquering demigod of intellect you can have harems of teenage girls who will suck your weird shrimp boner and lick your asshole and pour their piss down your throat from beakers while roleplaying that they're lactating anime cowgirls or whatever the fuck you're into. Women will do literally anything you want if you achieve "famous genius" status. Being Salieri with a huge dong is a lot like the movie, where you're a sad old man reminiscing to a guy who doesn't give a shit that IF you had banged girls they would have loved your adequate dong.

Women are fundamentally psychical substrates. We'll never know how big Einstein's or Feynman's penises were, because whatever the truth, when you're an Einstein or a Feynman you can just command a womanbrain to reorder itself to a new reality. Napoleon could have had no penis at all and all the women he bedded would collectively agree it was 14 inches long, because he was Napoleon.

>>7826434
napoleon was a huge cuck

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>>7826423
I've tried average dick and no talent for long enough, so I'd be up for a change.

>>7826398
fag·got
ˈfaɡət/
noun
1. informal offensive
a male homosexual.

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>>7826398

>>7826398

It means Herningway wanted to play with Lincoln's Log.

>know about historical figure
>hurr id better go stand in/near the geographical location where he transisted

>live in Nantucket
>the only harpoon I sharpen is my dick

>study history and literature in Oxford
>constantly confronted with all the amazing authors at our university, and my own literary insignificance