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Too much arbeit

My professor said he was a proto-fascist and responsible for Nazism. There's good reason not to translate some works.

>>7501042

Assuming you are the same fellow from the last thread, did your professor explain anything about his views and Junger being responsible for Nazism? To what extent did he just use 'proto-Fascism' as a reason to shove Junger into the Nazi box?


>there's good reason not to translate some works

Restriction of knowledge and ignorance is not one of them.

"A man with no fear is a man with no ambition
But a man with fear and no ambition is a married man"

"The Devil may visit, but God lives here!" - Victor Hugo, Les Miserables.

"Deserve's gotnothin' to do with it."

"You know what time it is, when the "relentless march of technology" starts to weary you? It's time to die."

"It's always a bright and sunny day on planet earth, it's just a question of having enough elevation."

"Star attraction, movie premieres, sports events, red carpets and gala openings: the eternal war between depth and appearances. But there is no war at all between them, since the purpose of depth is to create a stronger, and thus more beautiful, appearance; to transform itself into appearance. Those who scorn appearances and evangelize depth are precisely those who are incapable of much, if any, depth: the pseudo-intellectuals, which is why it is by no means an accident that all of them are ugly."

yeah i can tell you just turned 20

>>7499829
Blood Meridian, American Psycho, Matterhorn, The Forever War, Notes From Underground.

Usually I think lists like this are silly and pointless because nobody will read them or care, but it's a nice conceit to order your thoughts and reflect a little bit

>>7499829

Petersburg-Bely
Midnight's Children-Rushdie
V.-Thomas Pynchon
Herzhog-Bellows
The Pendragon Legend-Szerb

Sophistry.

It is not.

>>7497272
Yes

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That's never stopped anybody.

>>7497137
Then write, mate.

the whole point is that you make the shit up as you go

Excellent book. One of my favorites alongside 1984 and Fahrenheit 451.

>>7493658
who was yr favourite character?

>>7493670
My favorite character was Anna Karenina.

>>>/his/

>>7489835
9/11

unironically either the wire or the sopranos

the worst part is my dreams arent even that good

>>7502793
literature

>>7502793
>Not incorperating fantasy into reality for an amazing and imaginative life full of whimsy

Full pleb

I was browsing tumblr the other day and a gif said my destiny was to be a sissy cumslut, is that true?

>>7502282
What is my destino, O genie?

>>7502292
no, anon. you will write a generic biography of russian tsar peter the great. it will be used as a standard textbook in a few american universities for about a decade, but never be translated into the russian language

>why do women pretend to like things for social leverage
because they're machiavellian monsters

>>7502080
So they can decorate their rooms

My question is whether that was actually a joke about adapting books into film. Whereas one reader may picture a scene as a close up, another will picture a long shot. Essentially, there is an interactive element to reading that would be lost in a film.

George Orwell said something along the lines of 'If you can cut a word, do it.' I think this is generally true. Makes the writing flow better and feel less bloated.

>>7502365
>George Orwell said 'If you can cut a word, do it.' The writing flows concisely.

Did I do it right

I think he is slain in battle, and he's taken to the house "of night" i e judged in the afterlife, after the old woman sounds his death knell

>>7502001
Thanks for yout insight. Yes, it's what I always thought. But there seems to be more to it than that. I should have probably mentioned that the pic is a representation of the tale made by Sidney Sime, Dunsany's collaborator. In it you can see the "house where the two men hang". Also, the hook is mentioned earlier in the tale, and the left-hand thing left me completely wondering.

I mean, I doubt this is what you're asking, but "those" is the subject. That could be tricky for a non-native speaker.

Those [men] whose duty it was to carry away guys like Thangobrind, indeed carried him away to the house where the two men hang.. They switched Thangobrind for the hanging man on the left of the two. The doom that Thangobrind had feared fell on him.

But I don't understand "as all men know though it is so long since." Or what the two men represent.

I'll be reading corinthians.

>>7501926
Good choice. Merry Christmas!

Plato's Laws.

it's on my list. after russian.

i've been told the Aṣṭādhyāyī, the grammar thing, is amazing

>>7501181
What methodology do you plan on using for starting learning Sanskrit ?

>>7501197
i have a system. i just find a hopefully interesting professor willing to teach 1 on 1, then I relocate to where they live and study or work nearby for a couple years.

scholar.google.com

>>7500975
jstor

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>>7500975
I sincerely hate everyone who enjoys this piece of shit show. I want to pour glue into these two faggots' mouth and keep punching their stupid face untill all of their teeth falls out like two fists and shove those far up their asses.