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Are the Japanese translations of the 4 classic Chinese novels better than the English ones?
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>>9820817
わかりません
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>>9820817
どうせ両方も読めないじゃないか
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キャアアア、こんなおちんちんは大好きだよ。
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Why haven't you edgelords read this fantastic work of action, suspense, casual rape and abomination, /lit/?
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>At once truly appalling and appallingly funny, Blaise Cendrars's Moravagine bears comparison with Naked Lunch—except that it's a lot more entertaining to read. Heir to an immense aristocratic fortune, mental and physical mutant Moravagine is a monster, a man in pursuit of a theorem that will justify his every desire. Released from a hospital for the criminally insane by his starstruck psychiatrist (the narrator of the book), who foresees a companionship in crime that will also be an unprecedented scientific collaboration, Moravagine travels from Moscow to San Antonio to deepest Amazonia, engaged in schemes and scams as, among other things, terrorist, speculator, gold prospector, and pilot. He also enjoys a busy sideline in rape and murder. At last, the two friends return to Europe—just in time for World War I, when "the whole world was doing a Moravagine."
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>>9820804
Because I only learned of it's existence when I asked about good poetry books (I hope I ain't mixing the names tho)
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>>9820804
vagine :DDD
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Post the quotes from books that stuck with you the most
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>>9820790
>i want to fuck ronald reagan
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>>9820798
Thanks for contributing
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oats... i have not eaten in a long time, brother...
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Should I fall for this meme?
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>>9820709
If you're interested in the Bible, this'll help you get a grounding that completely put it in perspective, I think I found the final book for this chart btw. Also, I think the Sumerians are interesting in and of themselves.
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>>9820709
Start with the Stone Age cave paintings.
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It's a well-designed meme if you're interested in the topic. Fall for it with the assurance that you'll at least come out more knowledgeable.
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>tfw I realize he is unironically the Nietzsche of our time, a philosophical genius of the highest caliber
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>when the acceleration hits you
he's a pretty interesting guy, all right. more marx/t-1000 than nietzsche but interesting af no doubt & a good reason to Make Philosophy Great Again
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the revolution will not be memed
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he is interesting but also not nearly on noetzsches level
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Was it rape?
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What was?
The protagonist was a whore.
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>>9820681
What was her name anon? Who was it that said no when you asked her to prom, secretly hoping she'd give you a quick OTPHJ as her dad drove you home.
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>>9820659
She came, and she seemed to enjoy it.
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Why don't Ligotti and all the other philosophical pessimists of his mindset kill themselves? I don't understand their reasons. It's always something like
>Well it's a meaningless act just like anything else
>It's life-affirming
>It's absurd
What are they even saying? Why does any of that matter? Am I just too big of a brainlet to understand, or are they just making excuses?
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>>9820600
They're afraid of death. They say they aren't but they are.
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because suicide is hard
if suicide was as easy as pressing a button, say, half of the population would be dead by 20
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>>9820608
Ay, there's the rub.
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Just started reading the Mothman Prophecies and I'm pretty spooked. Can anyone recommend anything similar to this book. Maybe something more up to date that'll spook me good and blow my mind?
>there are plebs out there who think we are dealing with extraterrestrials and not ultraterrestrials
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Inb4 skepticucks
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>>9820550
What is this book about, anyway? 'Bout some cospiracys playa?
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>>9820550
>now a major motion picture
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Is it bad that I agree with almost everything he has to say on art/aesthetics?
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>>9820447
Such as?
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>>9820530
Answer this question
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>>9820530
Lolis being the best
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>Wow, you read that too? So... are you seeing anyone?
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>>9820403
>/lit/ girls = disappointment
>stem girls = comfy denial
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Said no girl, ever.
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>>9820403
>''Wow, you read that too? Wow, really good!
And then we just get to be close friends
I'm going to be alone all my life
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>Dymocks
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>>9820389
I've never seen people browsing in these aisles.
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>>9820389
>Current Events
>It Can't Happen Here
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Pick up that Douglas Murray book.
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Are there any girls in /lit/?
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>>9820232
me desu
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yass
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>>9820232
only the bugsposters
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the novel is dead
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>>9820195
So is poetry.
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OP if you don't delete this thread your mother will die in her sleep tonight
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The novel isn't going anywhere, but novellas will make a huge comeback.
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Why can't the Enlightenment thinkers, skeptics and ESPECIALLY the analytics into wisdom? They seem to lack the faculty for grasping it, deeper and greater as you go from Enlightenment to the analytics. Nietzsche is all "poetry" to them, because he leaves no "evidence" behind for what he asserts, even though to everyone else what he says is very much self-evident, because everyone else has a sense of what wisdom is and can see where he is coming from.
The same thing is happening with Jordan Peterson right now, it seems. He is not a very original man, but he is a good speaker and he is clearly wise. But people on Youtube and on here seem to disregard everything he says because it is lacking evidence. They seem to disregard mythic archetypes as having no meaningfulness whatsoever. What causes a person to have no concept of what wisdom is like that?
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They didnt start with the Greeks.
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They can barely sort through finding a basis for arithmetic. Will be a while before they get to wisdom.
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I'm becoming more and more convinced that you have to be on the spectrum to be an atheist past a certain age, roughly around 25-30 years old. If this is true it would explain so much.
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What can /lit/ tell me about this faggot?
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Good books on doggos
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Allegedy he had a ginormous cock. I'm serious. I read this in a book on literary trivia.
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>>9820155
He was a fucking Chad.