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Holy shit. Can we please talk about this book? I don't think I'll ever read a more emotional book than Stoner.To W.S.
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>>7643303
dude weed lmao
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I really enjoyed the Young Thug song of the same title.
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>>7643303
If you read the sticky it'd tell you to use the fucking archive, dude, this thread has been done to death
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>Christianity robbed us of the harvest of the culture of the ancient world, it later went on to rob us of the harvest of the culture of Islam. The wonderful Moorish cultural world of Spain, more closely related to us at bottom, speaking more directly to our senses and taste, than Greece and Rome, was trampled down (—I do not say by what kind of feet—): why? because it was noble, because it owed its origin to manly instincts, because it said Yes to life even in the rare and exquisite treasures of Moorish life!… Later on, the Crusaders fought against something they would have done better to lie down in the dust before—a culture compared with which even our nineteenth century may well think itself very impoverished and very ‘late.’—They wanted booty, to be sure: the Orient was rich…. But let us not be prejudiced! The Crusades—higher piracy, that is all! German knighthood, Viking Knighthood at bottom, was there in its element: the Church knew only too well what German knighthood can be had for…. The German knights, always the ‘Switzers’ of the Church, always in the service of all the bad instincts of the Church—but well paid…. That it is precisely with the aid of German swords, German blood and courage, that the Church has carried on its deadly war against everything noble on earth! A host of painful questions arises at this point. The German aristocracy is virtually missing in the history of higher culture: one can guess the reason…. Christianity, alcohol—the two great means of corruption.
Safe to say Nietzsche was the most profound philosopher who ever lived? You can't even comprehend him without reading him dozens of times.
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>>7642392
it's like frogposters on /r9k/ having a hardon for ISIS because it's the closest thing to a beta uprising they can get
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>>7642412
If you're equating Christians with normies, you fundamentally misunderstand Nietzsche.
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>>7642426
Yeah, Jesus was all about the meek losers of the world, chastity, and people give their money to NEETs. Hell, monks were a bunch of voluntary celibate losers with autism who did nothing but sperg out about the bible and hate on normies and the rest of society.
Jesus started the original beta uprising
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What is so great about him /lit/? 2016-02-01 18:32:45 Post No.7649471
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What is so great about him /lit/?
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"Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known." - Henry James
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Kipling, Rudyard. A favorite between the ages of 10 and 15, and thereafter. Read complete works between 14 and 15. Nobody takes his utilitarian moralism seriously. A genius.
The Jungle Book. Incomparable prose artistry. The supreme masterpiece of 19th-century literature. - Nabokov
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The actual quotation, as far as I can find - Kipling, Rudyard. A favorite between the ages of 8 and 14. Essentially a writer for very young people. Romantic in the large sense.
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Read Plain Tales. You'll understand.
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William T. Vollmann - The Dying Grass - Book Review 2016-02-01 17:37:54 Post No.7649293
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William T. Vollmann - The Dying Grass - Book Review
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRzw27ewc6M
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Am I a pleb for thinking this is shit?
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it's ok
don't know why it's "shit" it's at worst mediocre
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Why is it shit exactly ?
Is it because /lit/ told you ?
Then yes
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no. it really is shit
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happy birthday IJ :^)
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>"yeah just make sure you get the encyclopedia in the shot ok?"
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>>7649058
Today, the NY Times published a pretty good piece about Infinite Jest: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/books/review/everything-about-everything-david-foster-wallaces-infinite-jest-at-20.html?_r=0
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>tfw you die at 60 and your son reads your diary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjuk8f02yQc
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Why would he record and post this ?
The internet is fucked up
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>>7648845
He must be a lonely dude.
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>>7648861
I feel bad for him actually.
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Why was tragedy considered a higher art form than comedy?
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Tragedy managed to revive the consideration of the object which the protagonist had aimed at.
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>>7648816
Will you explain this more please?
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Can anyone think of a Greek comedy that is a farce? Like Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice?
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English is not my native language, so this explains everything.
I'm looking for (I searched for some time) a short novel or a story by, I guess, a French author I readed long time ago. As I remember, the main visible argument is as follows:
>A dissident political activist has the possibility to travel to the future.
>The time travel is occasional, unique and can not be repeated.
>Members of his group decided to use the occasion for a political purpose.
>The time traveler will kill the tyrant in the future.
>The plan fails because the tyrant knows the plans of the plotters.
>In the future, they were waiting for the time traveler.
>Alone, defeated, the last member of the group writes the chronicle of his teammates and the failed plot in a library.
>Save the manuscript into a book.
>He wonders who was the snitch.
>Bitch don't realise is he himself.
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what's /lit/'s opinion on chingiz aitmatov? the day lasts more than a hundred years is one of my favorite books
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That book shows up from time to time as a recommendation, but I've never seen actual discussion. I haven't read it. You should start. Godspeed.
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So did anyone else get a Scooby-Doo vibe from the first Harry Potter book?
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>>7648550
i never read harry potter or saw the movies, so I don't know
pic related on the other hand
>de debbil killing monks was just a ruse
>the ghost in the library was just a funhouse mirror
>he would have got away with it, if it wasn't for those pesky Franciscans
of course it also has plenty of medieval history and the debates about poverty between the Franciscans and the papacy.
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What is the derived utility of memeing?
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>>7648468
gets me 1.2 funposting hedons a minute mate
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sublimation of the parallax
(oc pls do not steal)
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supernormal stimulus of social interaction
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Some people say Don Quixote is nonsensical, others say it is a hard read but people say many things.
Is Don Quixote a worthy read? Im going to read it anyway just cant decide if Ill buy this or illiad, maybe epictetus discourses first.
What is your opinion on this book lit?
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It's completely sensical
Don Quixote is just a guy so obessed with knighthood that he sees everything through the filter of his medieval books
He sees windmills as giants-OP related, bar owners as kings and bars as castles etc. While the true picture of the world around him is given to us through his sidekick.
It's just a satire book breh
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I think Don Quixote is the most relatable and timeless piece of literature ever written. I'd even say that it is more relevant in our days than it was in Cervantes' time, in a different way of course. Just think of all the bronies and weaboos you see on 4chan. Not even mentioning the effects of all the formulaic movies and celebrity worshipping.
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Don Quijote is the ultimate dreamer, he refuses to adapt to the world but instead tries to adapt the world to himself. While it was probably intended purely as a satire as >>7648343 says, it is also a depiction of a man who wants to change the world all by himself and never surrenders doing so in spite of the fact that he has no chance of success. It's in a way also a very romantic story in this sense.
In general I think it's a great novel that isn't as dated as people think it is
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so what was in Kublah Kahn's pleasure dome??????
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>>7648274
A damsel with a dulcimer?
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>>7648282
don't forget gardens bright with sinuous rills
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Marco Polo's fresh boipucci. With every thrust of The Great Khan's horse cock, the Venetian will tell as quickly as he can the story of a city in the Empire.
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>tfw poor imagination and can't construct the characters and background in my head in a satisfactory way
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go out, observe people doing every day tasks like waiting for their number in a bank, take notes.
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well you can try other forms of art OP. Painting for example.
post it here after so we can check if you are taking the patrician route.
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>>7648425
my paintings? I draw, mostly practicing, but I'm no good.