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Sound and fury, signifying nothing (just a guff)

"There's the rub"

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"O fuck."

notes from underground

>>7804913

That's fictional.

>>7804978
Everything is fiction.

>>7804806
why don't you read it and work it out for yourself you stupid lazy fucker

yes of course it is, it's brilliant
you stupid lazy fucker

it's the most british book ever

>>7804806
Yes. It's one of the best books written in the last 30 years or so. Hilarious and heartbreaking.

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>>7804616
>Reading the Greeks (the republic)
>Getting gradually smarter and more wise
>Understand more and more everytime I read
>It's helping me read other books better
>tfw I don't rely on external circumstances to determine my existence

Daily reminder to read your books and shut the fuck up.

>>7804897
Republic and Nicomachean ethics fine to start with philosophy wise? I have the Iliad and tragedians lined up.

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>>7804897
>>7804928
>going straight to the Republic

Ride the Tiger for modern day hermits.

>>7804565
my diary

Most of this is about monks who lived a communal life, but that is close to hermitage by the world's standards.

St. Athanasius' "Life of St. Anthony", the first great Christian monk (and hermit)
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2811.htm

Selections from "Sayings of the Desert Fathers"
http://www.stmarkchicago.org/Selections-From-The-Sayings-Of-The-Desert-Fathers.pdf

Philokalia (collection of works, mostly monks, over many centuries)
http://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/Philokalia.pdf

Little Flowers of St. Francis
https://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/FLOWERS.HTM

Life of St. Charbel Makhlouf (recent saint and hermit)
http://www.mysticsofthechurch.com/2010/10/saint-charbel-sharbel-makhlouf-maronite.html

Fr. John Hardon, S.J. (Jesuit).
Origins of Western Monasticism, Part 1
http://www.therealpresence.org/archives/Religious_Life/Religious_Life_009.htm
Origins of Western Monasticism, Part 2
http://www.therealpresence.org/archives/Religious_Life/Religious_Life_010.htm
The Rise and Growth of Western Monasticism: Part 1
http://www.therealpresence.org/archives/Religious_Life/Religious_Life_012.htm
The Rise and Growth of Western Monasticism: Part 2
http://www.therealpresence.org/archives/Religious_Life/Religious_Life_013.htm
The Rise and Growth of Western Monasticism: Part 3
http://www.therealpresence.org/archives/Religious_Life/Religious_Life_014.htm
The Rise and Growth of Western Monasticism: Part 4
http://www.therealpresence.org/archives/Religious_Life/Religious_Life_015.htm

>>7804494
Sauce

>>7804498
Answer and you shall recieve more

>>7804494
specifially and only in the context of the roman class system, anything else is cringeworthy - presumably the answer as to what makes somebody a patrician has something to do with education, land ownership, wealth, etc. but i'm sure a simple google will clear that up!

He was the best Humbert he could be.

>>7804308
Doesn't strike me as Humbert, desu. He should have a handsome yet disgusting look, no? Like overly manly, a contrast to Lolita.

>>7804342
No, I think that his appearance is spot on. He is supposed to be a handsome guy who people don't want to think is abusing his stepdaughter. The rottenness is all on the inside.

your moms biography
i wank myself to it especially in the parts where i appear :)

>>7804235
Things like Kurt Vonnegut's books.

>>7804243
Daddy?

I sure hope not, because that conclusion would be a tragically mediocre one.

>>7804232
>>>/out/

>>7804210
richard zenith's book is alright, but you might want to read fernando pessoa first before making such a bold statement.

I don't think so honestly. That comes with the "punk" aspect of the title.

Post-Cyberpunk.

While not all examples are lighter (in fact, many of the darkest cyberpunk novels are post-cyberpunk) post-cyberpunk is on the while gentler and softer. It's from writers who grew up with Apple and who watched the Japanese economy implode on itself.

I'm interested to see Post-post-cyberpunk in the coming decades from writers who've grown up with the smart-phone arms race and watching China take over the world.

Anything set in the contemporary real world

this picture is so upsetting

in answer to your question, i like to have one or more collections of short stories on the go as well as whatever longer work of fiction i'm reading. i can balance multiple narratives. i can even keep up with multiple television shows at once as well

>>7804195
lol lion got rekt

>>7804203
>i can even keep up with multiple television shows at once as well

I kekd

>inherent glory of war and the greatness of conquest
You've never been in a real battle, haven't you?

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"Hanson is perhaps best known for his 2001 book, Carnage and Culture, published in some nations such as the U.K. and Australia, as Why the West Has Won, in which he argued that the military dominance of western civilization, beginning with the ancient Greeks, is the result of certain fundamental aspects of western culture, such as consensual government and individualism. Hanson rejects racial explanations for this military preeminence and disagrees as well with environmental or geographical explanations such as those put forth by Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel."

http://www.amazon.com/Carnage-Culture-Landmark-Battles-Western/dp/0385720386

>>7804041
have you

I don't have it but I saw one in a book shop and it had really unevenly cut pages. Is this true of all of them?

>>7803940
was it used

>>7803950
Nope: brand new, and ordered in from the USA to Europe.

Probably just a shit translation.

>>7803807
Im just guessing here, but maybe he ment it in a platonic love way, between 2 intellectuals - because they discuss and shit
ps. never read shit

>>7803807
Fucking questions like this are what happen when you don't start wth the Greeks and get a shit edition with zero critical apparatus.

This is literally the origin of "Platonic love."

>>7803789
Were they good?

>kevin_hart_reads_manly_tears_novel.jpg

>>7803789
post them