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I don't know if it's the best but when I took a 300 level Plato course with Tim Maudlin it's the edition he assigned.

It's a very literal translation.

I thought this was a compilation of many different translations.

pinecone

White Noise
Under the Net
Infinite Jest
As I Lay Dying

>>7777360
saki

>>7777267

>The period is late-antiquity early-dark ages.

Of course it is.

H O M E R
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Keep it short, brief, and concise. Nothing is worse than going on and on about the banal actions each character undertakes in a battle (e.g., X swung the sword while Y dodged. X then threw a falcon-punch toward Y's face, etc, etc.)

no

it is by memes alone i set my mind in motion

but anon I'm reading infinite jest

the master and margarita

op my back hurts

but it is a funny story indeed le russian

Shadow over innsmouth or dagon, perhaps? Stay away from at the mountains of madness.

You wrote longer, NOT other. I see that now. In that case disregard my advice, except from staving away from atmom, its fucking pulp shit.

>>7777180
>>7777184

Don't listen to him, At the Mountains of Madness is quite good.
Just don't begin with Herbert West

>10k

>>7776955
I know it isn't much but doing it everyday is something man.

>>7776966
10k words a day is an immense amount.
But why am I responding? Shoo troll, go back to torment some cave, or bridge.

it has some good guidelines on how to not be a dick to everybody u meet, so yes

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>>7776911
A cuck philosophy for cucks. What you need is The Ego and His Own by Max Stirner. That and Niccolò Machiavelli.

I read it in 7th grade and it cured me of my autism.

>read Mein Kampf in public
>people keep looking at you funny and calling you names

One old lady straight up asked me, "How could you read something like that?" but I was caught off guard and didn't know what to say, so I just went back to reading. Is there a good answer to that question?

>>7776597
You can't hide from reality. It's better to try understanding it than to hide from it.

>>7776597
just say "know your enemy"
or
"if you want to prevent it from happening again, you have to know how it happened the first time"

>>7776442
What's Orange Fedora Day?

>>7776445
That's the question. So what do you buy?

>>7776474
I don't know. They closed all the book stores close to me. I live a mile from Detroit and the adult illiteracy rate there is around 50%.

>>7776331
speaking of pedophiles, i remember an obsession with butterflies in his Dr. Faustus, and interestingly enough, Nabokov was also a lepidopterist who called his catches "nymphs".
I wonder if there's a connection there.

>>7776334
Mein Gott, /lit/ ist voller amerikanischer Idioten.

Everything Mann wrote was gold - maybe the English translation isn't good, but I don't think that could be a drastic change.

It's an amazingly structured story of a downfall, full of references to Greek structure, style, and mythology. Death and decadence are everywhere. That Mann can cram so much into so little space is testament to his genius.

>>7776353
>full of references to Greek structure, style, and mythology

It was mainly this that bugged the hell out of me. It seemed completely out of place and over the top. He would describe everything by making an analogy to some Greek god, goddess or demigod. Mann describes everything 'classically', but in my opinion it only came across as an exaggeration.

>>7776194
I don't know but posting more sickczheck memes is a good start!

>>7776216
>le ebin /pol/ boogeyman

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>>7776216
>muh anti semetism

>>7776133
Virtu

>>7776133
A PENIS
t. literary great

>>7776135
I'm not educated in philosophy but I think this is where I was going. In particular stability of personality derived from virtu. Got any authors except stoics?

>>7776111
where's the top of that guy's head gone?

>>7776119
into the abstract

>>7776121
top kek my friend

Does OP a faggot?

There's no Godot.

If I were in drama Lucky's speech would be one of my goals

>>7775671
hays translation, modern library hardcover

>>7775970
Just purchased. Thanks very much.

>>7775671

Why are you reading it? Meditations is pretty much the Bible for bohemians and libertines; they use it to feel good about their hedonistic lives.