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Hermy Melville

>Bartleby
>Moby Dick
>Billy Budd
>Clarel

optional Pierre, Benito Cereno, Encantadas

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>>7492676
Albert Camus

1. The Myth of Sisyphus
2. The Stranger
3. The Rebel
4. The Plague
5. The first man


If nothing else read the Myth of Sisyphus

>>7492686
Very good selection litrade, I do feel MD stands well on it's own but so do all masterpieces though so all in all a great addition.

>>7492712
I really want to get into Camus, haven't read him at all but he seems really interesting, did you feel you needed to read something before him to get an understanding of his philosophy?

>>7491817
>He is also a sci-fi nerd
Dune.

a legacy of totalitarianism in a tundra

>>7491817
has he read house of leaves?

>>7490696
Story? Exodus, John, Samuel and Kings.

>>7490696
Most interesting to me was Acts.
Least is probably Numbers or Deuteronomy or something like that

>>7490696
Job :^)

Brave man unsure of their future, draged by the circunmstances but ready to proof themselfs.

Mexicanfag here, do not be to hard.

>>7485450
>the guy next to me vomited on my boots
>where are the french women
>they said we'd be eating bonbons
>I wanna go home
>this party has no mademoiselles
>are they listening to edith piaf? So 1939
>my feet hurt

wild turkey

The Last Night:

A man sat by a table
And with effort so slight
Pulled two wires together
And then there was light.

What a sight, what a sight
The bulb glowed so bright
And in an instant he knew
That he had been right.

It was warm
Brilliant and white
Shadows and darkness cast out of sight.

The battle was over
The end of the fight
And mankind would welcome
With joy and delight
That man who brings the bulb to invite

The eternal day,
and the death of the night.

Were I man of more years,
And greater means
I would travel this world
By foot on land, and sail on sea
To learn what it is that I am.

I would walk in the woods,
And I would know the earth to be a living earth. And the sun to be a warm nurturing sun.

In my travels I would meet every kind of man and woman and child. And I would do as they do,
And feel as they feel,
And see as they see.

One day I would ask myself
just what are these creatures called humans?
And I would know the answer.

Were I to travel the world.
I would walk in the woods.
And i would feel the wind blow.
The kind sun would set on the good earth,
My eyes would close,
Peace would surround me,
and I would be at peace.

>>7484560
like this one a lot

>>7484571
like this one too but it remind me of the boringer parts of Leaves of Grass

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>>7496997
>He reads 'literary fiction'
>He thinks he is 'above' pop culture

Is pop philosophy stuff like Candide/The Stranger/Anthem? Can someone recommend me more pop philosophy.

>>7497082
Nausea

>>7496850
never happend

None of us is simple.

Not none of us be simple.

Why are all the threads pure shit at the moment?

Just get an used netbook, faggot

>>7496524
Finish first grade before entering Europe, then go with a paper and pen. (Is the problem reading or writing? or both?)

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>>7495956

Bump

The 2nd question is especially pertinent

Why was the thread deleted? We were having an autistically dank discussion about Aquinas' status as a philosopher and epistemology

>>>/his/

>>7496264

Why is philosophy easier to conflate with history than literature?

We aren't >>>/r/books

>>7495834
It's like the entirety of /b/ in writing with a /pol/ twist

>>7495864
Does this shit ever start to make sense? Have I been meme'd into thinking this is worth over 1000 pages of reading?

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>>7495869
Pic related my face the first 25 or so pages of this

>>7495618
i just wait until a few decades go by and let the critics tell me what to read.

They're all bourgeois trash

RIP HTMLGIANT :'(

gr8 b8 m8 i r8 9/11

>>7495402

If it accomplished anything, it made all the art a far more interesting study for future generations. Scratch that, it made everything in the time period a far more interesting study for future generations.

And that's all I have to say about that.

9/11 revived the Western future. From 1992-2000, the Western future died completely, replaced with stately neoliberal efficiency and effectiveness and the all-consuming feeling that the world is going to end essentially in perfection very, very soon (on a historical scale). The realization that thousands of countrymen could be slaughtered in an instant made the entire West (at least the part that matters, the U.S. and NATO) reconsider its belief that the end was near. There was still a conflict to address. Old enemies hadn't forgotten what we'd done to them before.

Before 9/11, we were reading the epilogue of the comedy that is the West. 9/11 was the final line teasing a tragedy-bound sequel.

kys mm

i see the reddit shitposts are in full effect

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>What special affinities appeared to him to exist between the moon and woman?

>her antiquity in preceding and surviving successive tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependance: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising, and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waining:

>the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent waters

>her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest with beauty, to render insane, to incite to and aid delinquency: the tranquil inscrutability of her visage:

>the terribility of her isolated dominant implacable resplendent propinquity:

>her omens of tempest and of calm: the stimulation of her light, her motion and her presence: the admonition of her craters, her arid seas, her silence:

>her splendour, when visible:

>her attraction, when invisible


>shit writing

Kill.Self.

The Iliad is the only place to start with poetry.

>>7495024

Some Yeats is, if you're familiar with or prepared to sketch over the run-up to the 1916 rising. September 1913 is beautiful regardless, and accessible IF you grok the context. Other stuff, eg Sailing To Byzantium, is quite beautiful but requires more involved familiarity than a wiki page. The Second Coming is heavily dependent on knowing exactly when it was written and understanding the geopolitical situation at the time (there is some bonus to be got from appreciating Yeats' own perspective on that situation, but a bonus is all it is, if you ask me).

>>7495029
>not the epic of gilgamesh

>>7494857
Was it seriously on Oprah's reading club? I wasn't aware

Sex is absolutely disgusting.

So no, you're right.

>>7494845
I fapped to the movie.