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>>9772682
past favourites.

Read Celine.

African Diversions by Junger
Demian by Hesse
C. G. Jung

He was a carpenter though

>>9772641
There are heaps of parables with gardening, sowing the seeds, the mustard seed, I am the true vine, etc etc.

>>9772640
Jesus is the gardener and the trees are us.

The stranger - Camus
The plague - Camus

Anti-Oedipus

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The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

hard to call them all essential, but probably many epics / sagas / myths

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what, like one of those military self help books?

Sun & steel.

>>9772463
The only genuine arguments are against the literal taking of the text, otherwise it's all semantics. There's absolutely no downside to at least accepting Jesus. The real patrician thing to do is to accept moral points from multiple religions and ascend typical dogma for enlightenment.

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Faith is a complicated concept. The earth is flat, do not deny such an obvious fact as a flood. Bastard. This book belongs to a few. This book belongs to a few. This book belongs to a few. We are hyperboreans - we know quite well how far apart we live from others. God made us believers. These are the arguments we turn simple metals into precious metals. In the heart of the believer there is not a gaping gap, but something more streamlined. Schopenhauer is in purgatory. Everyone is saint until his birth.

>>9772463
>being this influenced by memes
You're a hopeless retard

Villiers de l'Isle-Adam: Cruel Tales
Guy de Maupassant: Le Horla and other tales
Flaubert: Three Tales
ETA Hoffmann: Tales

Michael Gira: The Consumer

>>9772285
Borges - Ficciones

>>9772276
Welcome.

You kill a thread by making a new one

my uncle had this problem where he was having actual chunks of shit pumped through his heart

Intellectuals had one job: to understand shit without being insufferable hacks. They get comfortable lives, good paychecks, and prestige for it. And what do you think they did with that privilege? They fucking wasted it by pushing degeneracy into colleges, shutting down freedom of speech in public universities, and bashing the working class American who allows them the opportunity to do their cozy pet projects.

Day of the neurotoxin WHEN?

>>9772268
>>9772270
nassim nicholas taleb is an intellectual, of course...

That one is the catholic one, right? Or am I mistaking it with Canterbury Tales?

>>9772277

You seriously don't know what Paradise Lost is? What are you doing here? Also, Chaucer was alright but JON Milton was BLIND. He couldn't see what WAS GOING ON IN FRONT OF HIM. He had to DICTATE HIS PLANS FOR WRITING. That's fucking badass. Chaucer has nothing on that.

>>9772259

Yeah Paradise Lost is amazing. "To justify the ways of God to men". What an inspiring line. God is arbitrary. He does not play favorites. You sin, you will be punished. He also presides over those who would seek to atone, but are held back by the sins of others. Paradise Lost encapsulates the struggle of Lucifer, and highlights the haunting reality of a hero who could have had everything, but lost it with a tragic flaw.

It's French and Serbian.

It's Italian and French.

Does anyone with a knowledge of Persian think it's not Farsi?

>>9772201
Same desu

>>9772201
Indeed. The more you read, the more you are able to appreciate the greatness of great books. OP's problem is mainly caused by the meme that every book you read has to be some groundbreaking existential experience.

Give it another ten years and the cycle will be complete

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hurr durr durr

What exactly is misogynistic about it?

>Also any recommended books on anime and feminism?
You won't find any, but there's a site called animefeminist.com that might be what you're looking for.

>>9772166
Japanese culture is isolated, traumatized, and was jarred out of cultural patriarchy traumatically. If anything the whole country was feminized by the rape of hiroshima and nagasaki.

Furthermore, men and women are drawing away from each other in japan (https://vimeo.com/80542212) and each gender is creating mediums that represent their ideals, indeed you would be flawed if you didnt look at shōjo manga which is the mirror to shonen manga (and anime) and of course not misogynistic. Also, you are wasting your time studying this trash.

Is that Tobias?

He didn't need to.

>>9772119
Today I learned that Allen Ginsberg was a hipster Tobias

>>9772087
its fiction breh, start chronologically

>>9772091
>start chronologically
torrents of spring is kinda meh though

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Short stories
The Old Man and the Sea

If you like what you read, try the longer novels.

>>9772069
Only for men. Women, of course, are incapable of non-maternal love.

>>9772069
obvs
>>9772082
this

>emotion
>profound