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who made up this shitty file type and why does it keep getting use

>>7427539
Shitposting is a bannable offence

>mobi

If I Did It - George W. Bush

the Illuminatus! trilogy. Purely fiction but it gave me a sense of what everything was really all about

>>7427445
Freemasonry for Dummies by Christ Hodepp.
It's sadly American, but it covers a lot of material.
Were you wanting intro stuff, or more advanced reading?

>>7427376
>And that doesn't even touch on how heavily symbolic and allusive everything is, how nearly everything has multiple meanings and senses.

unlike modernity

o wait

>the more it seems as though the Medievals were smarter than us, not dumber

the idea that intelligence waxed and waned throughout history is idiotic

>It's operating on a higher level of understanding, of consideration, than a lot of contemporary literature, or at least it seems that way to me.

do we have a word for medieval weeaboos yet

>>7427376
selection bias senpai only the best a brightest could read and write and compounding this people don't bother preserving shit

>>7427376
i think there less to detract from human consciousness back then, from the serf to the noble. there was very little to impede upon mans direct contact with reality, nature, other human beings, the arts, etc. actions back then carried so much more weight, emotions more raw, nature more unforgiving. there were idiots and geniuses like in all time periods, but life was definetly more authentic then than it is now for those of us in the consumer industrial technocrat world.

Yes very possible

>>7427193
write twilight, harry potter, 50 shades of grey, or name of the wind. you'll do fine.

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>>7427193
might is right. If you ask me permission to be successful one more time i'll make you get on all fours and show you how to take what you want.

>>7427187
Count of Monte Cristo, or Brothers Karamazov

probably The Count of Monte Cristo but i haven't read most of the classic, renowned "doorstoppers" (crime and punishment, war and peace, les miserables, etc.)

>>7427187
I'm pretty sure that it's War and Peace.

>>7426931

The Regine dynamic is the most interesting part of Kierkegaard imo.

>that there's a sort of subtext in all of his philosophical discourse of his attempt to cope with not only leaving her

I think on his death bed he said how he regretted leaving her. But he probably would've failed as husband due to his autism and depression.

>>7426931
>tfw you're still on the Greeks so you can't discuss these philosophers yet

>>7426957
I totally agree on it being interesting. I'm fascinated with the idea that such a broad and important tradition like Existentialism could've been influenced by one man's tragic love.

>But he probably would've failed as husband due to his autism and depression.
I think that's what he thought as well. There's an interesting line in his journals where he says that he wanted to love her and be her husband, but was simply "incapable". It made me think because of how similar it is to how in Fear and Trembling his pseudonym is similarly incapable of understanding Abraham.

>>7426975
M8 just read it, and try to hit the Greeks as well on the way. You can always re-read more modern stuff afterwards anyways, if anything that would make it even more rewarding to see how your views on it have changed. Just give one of his publications a shot and I guarantee you will be happier than if you hold yourself back purposely.

>>7426899
What's in the box, OP?

>>7426902
Belonging.

How was your day, anon?

There is already a tinychat thread

supposed to

Haven't read it. How does it compare to Gravity's Rainbow?

You are. It is pretty idiotic to read 80 pages of bad literature

>>7426751
Schopenhauer

Schopenhauer

Chopin Hour

Seriously, listen to his nocturnes for an hour

To try what? First, literature isn't a puzzle-game; and then none of these references even matter in the least anyway

no

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Only autists look up every little thing.

Seriously, the only literally literary autist I've ever encountered loved Ulysses. Owned every single commentary and monograph on Joyce. Looked up every explanation of every weird little thing on databases.

Dude was a fucking nightmare to talk to and sacrificed so much room in his mind, room for big themes and interpretations, for useless little factoids.

>He was, an Infinite Jest
what a shitty ending

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>>7426695

>And at that moment, Joelle realised that Gately was not only a REAL human being, I'm talking prays-every-day and counts his blessings real, but also, as the events that landed him in hospital show, a REAL hero.

>Yes, sure, the movie was called Infinite Jest. But Infinite Jest sort of, in a crude way, described Hal's situation. Not to be cliche, but sometimes cliches are cliches because cliches reveal a grand truth. Also, in Hamlet they say "Infinite Jest."
All that revealed in the last chapter

none

politicians haven't been good at writing since athens fell

Madison wrote part of the Federalist Papers
(but most of it was Hamilton's)
Kennedy supposedly had a ghost-writer for Profiles in Courage. I'm not sure about "While England Slept" whether it was his or ghost-written.

Jimmy Carter's books are adorable. He has like 18 of them now. He's a really nice man, with respectable and well established ideals.

He has books on everything from specific issues, to stories from times with his friends. Really colloquial and intelligent as a writer.

Probably not what you're hoping for - none of our presidents have been philosophers - but you either get ideology ridden attempts historical revisionism presented as "clearing the air", or you get genuine but not particularly worthwhile.

I haven't read pre-20th century presidents though.

>>7426552
Infinite Jest.

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>>7426552
get her a book sculpture cut out to be both of you dancing together made out of her favorite book.

>>7426553
>>7426568

So no one on /lit/ is buying christmas gifts. Ok.

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>>7426503
A B S O L U T E
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>>7426488
Infinite Jest.

>>7426491
>Infinite Jest
>he lengthy and complex work takes place in a North American dystopia, centering on a junior tennis academy and a nearby substance-abuse recovery center

Wat.

>>7426488
read some terry pratchett or douglas adams.