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i second this, i don't trust those hari krishna translations, i want one done by some asspained old british orientalist with a 100 page long introduction and a shitload of footnotes

>>9820821
my copies by Easwaran are solid

>>9820948
I should say his "Essence of" commentaries on these works are fantastic as well, amazing if you don't come from Indian tradition to create some context for the ideas.

>>9820775
Sample first paragraph: With the immediacy of a shut off faucet, the street din mellowed out as he closed and locked the heavy door behind him. He entered into the dimly lit foyer, the stench of yeast on his lips. Solemnly and slowly he hung his dreary coat, and having it secured, grazed his hand across it. Rough, dry, bumpy with lint. This was no way to present himself. He had been lucky enough to be invited to such a distinguished event and yet he still disappointed. Appearance is everything; that is the law of business and even life itself. The old mantra of the company. What does it matter to feel, mortally? He looked about the wide display of lined coats, possessed by full figures of men and women elsewhere, and lamented the fact that he was neither professional nor as suave as his peers. He envisioned them now, underneath the strung levitating lanterns’ urine leer, brows shaded and giving way gleaming perfect teeth, grinning at some obscure joke told in such elegant accents, their forms intermingling until they became indistinguishable and eternal. No, he was neither professional nor suave and he could not fake it. A woman should've dressed him, but he had no wife and he could not live with his mother at such an age.

Full story here
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bq-fN2Zuhq7XguK3MnniD0IgYwAcG6s5lQ_yo5TGu8A/edit

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I leased the apartment about a month ago.
It wasn't perfect, but a place to call home.
The worst parts about it: there were claw marks
etched into the bathroom door, and piss stains all over the carpet.

I never asked the landlord about it,
but she had a sad look about her
when we got to the scratches..

I had another breakdown tonight.

Loneliness driving loved one's to my sight--
My mother. Lost friendships; visions of I--
I cried, and promised with hope, not a lie.

Forcing myself to try and sleep, a soft
pup's nose brushes my hand, then hops
between my open legs to find what it had lost.

The bathroom door will soon be replaced.
Tomorrow my mother will visit the place
for the first time since I refaced.

>>9820774

she looks like every stocky, dried up jewess professor who spouts her nonsense.

She meant what she meant and the meaning means to mean alone.

Everyone's a hack.

>>9820728
Let any man who remembers enter here.

Take acid or mushrooms. your choice.

>>9821294
This.

>>9820689
Read da Bible. Read da Man and His Symbols by da Jung. Become symbol-literate. Read theology and myths.

>>9820668
I've been reading a lot of Mesopotamian stuff, and I think it sincerely deepened my understanding of the bible. I'm not really religious now, but it still feels like that first time I understood Paul's gift of the Spirit, or when the Genealogies started making sense.

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>>9820668
>read a book
>realize how little I know
>look down on others less
>get along with people better
>repeat

>>9820497
Dont worry, crispr and an airborne viral delivery system will take care of it. Petty racism is so 20th century. Now we have neo-eugenics!

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2016/07/29/does-the-human-warrior-gene-make-violent-criminals-and-what-should-society-do/

>>9820505
>Dont worry, crispr and an airborne viral delivery system will take care of it.
Retard, the military still needs cannon fodder.

>>9820505
>mfw we're becoming a species of limb wristed twinks

I always say doggie

I don't care how it is really pronounced because memes

>>9820468
It is pronounced DOE-SH

>>9821443

GRAB IT WHILE YOU CAN LADS

>>9820410
Does he even do philosophy?

He's a world-class theologian with a gifted pen and a beautiful mind.

>>9820465
I suppose he is, admittedly, a bit nebulous on the philosophical/theological spectrum. All really good Catholic thinkers are, because philosophy directly informs theology and vice-versa.

>>9820368
That's worse than I ever could have imagined.

who knew reddit could be so epic

>>9820416
Really? Because that what it does

>>9820423
You know degenerates in ghettos have a ton of kids and no one can stop them from passing their genes, it's not really a matter of them being undesirables.

>>9820445
they're more desirable than post-modernists

>>9820304
>my diary desu

Post links to other board's carrot posting, faggot

>>9820316
I've seen it on /tv /p /fa and /mu
>>>/mu/74216019

Try Big Sur, I enjoyed it more than Tropic of Cancer, but then again Tropic of Cancer never exactly appealed to me.

>>9820296
Miller's a mixed bag, years ago when I first read the beats, I thought he was a pseud hack who tried to ham it up in Paris and all that, but years later, I realise he was actually quite a good writer, serious in his study and practice of literature.
In a nutshell, any man who teaches hismelf French by reading the works of a genius like Balzac, and then matching that with a work of terrific perversity like Moravagine must be incapable of bad writing in my book. But that's just me.