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my diary desu

>>9739069
Your hair was full of roses in the dewfall as we danced,
The sorceress enchanting and the paladin entranced,
In the starlight as we wove us in a web of silk and steel
Immemorial as the marble in the halls of Boabdil,
In the pleasuance of the roses with the fountains and the yews
Where the snowy Sierra soothed us with the breezes and the dews!
In the starlight as we trembled from a laugh to a caress,
And the God came warm upon us in our pagan allegresse.
Was the Baile de la Bona too seductive? Did you feel
Through the silence and the softness all the tension of the steel?
For your hair was full of roses, and my flesh was full of thorns,
And the midnight came upon us worth a million crazy morns.
Ah! my Gipsy, my Gitana, my Saliya! were you fain
For the dance to turn to earnest? - O the sunny land of Spain!
My Gitana, my Saliya! more delicious than a dove!
With your hair aflame with roses and your lips alight with love!
Shall I see you, shall I kiss you once again? I wander far
From the sunny land of summer to the icy Polar Star.
I shall find you, I shall have you! I am coming back again
From the filth and fog to seek you in the sunny land of Spain.
I shall find you, my Gitana, my Saliya! as of old
With your hair aflame with roses and your body gay with gold.
I shall find you, I shall have you, in the summer and the south
With our passion in your body and our love upon your mouth -
With our wonder and our worship be the world aflame anew!
My Gitana, my Saliya! I am coming back to you!

O night eternal, call me your son
And take me into your arms. I’m a king
Who relinquished, willingly,
My throne of dreams and tedium.

My sword, which dragged my weak arms down,
I surrendered to strong and steady hands,
And in the anteroom I abandoned
My shattered scepter and crown.

My spurs that jingled to no avail
And my useless coat of mail
I left on the cold stone steps.

I took off royalty, body and soul,
And returned to the night so calm, so old,
Like the landscape when the sun sets.

Just my personal taste: but I'm tired of seeing the same mystical creatures and usually the same medieval setting
But that's why I don't bother with fantasy in any form anymore

Resurecting characters.

scottish dwarves

I believe him, he was no longer human. I took it seriously. He reached a point where his humanity was beyond repair. I believe there's a line somewhere you can cross and then it's over.
He didn't have anything new or even interesting to tell me about humanity and society but sure as hell he had lots to talk about being too broken to reach some sort of humanity.
Thank you for reminding me of this book OP.

>>9739001
>Also, can someone recommend other books about what it means to be human?
to live - yu hua

I hated this.

The prose bored me and the main character annoyed me and the plot didn't engage me.

Welp.

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N-no homo

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>ywn smoke a joint and talk politics with P man

>>9738893
I loved the twelve chairs and the golden calf

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>author has two books

>>9738893
>deleuze and guattari
>ortega and gasset

Restart with the greeks

>>9738760
don't forget the Hellenics
then move on to the medievals/scholastics
maybe get some Islamic Aristotelians into the mix

>>9738760
I'd kinda want a chart for this, much the same as we have for the Greeks and the Romans.

>>9738695
I've read it. My mother-tongue is Dutch and I can speak German, so reading the original isn't difficult. (e.g. 'Do wuohs in Niderlanden... eins edlen küniges kint, de vater der hiez Sigemunt, sîn mouter Sigelint' can easily be understood be any native speaker).

I agree that it's a fundamental text in the Germanic literary culture, but let's not overstate its significance.

>>9738695
Well I listen to Wagner I guess.

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>>9738695
Yes, I did some years ago. It's awesome but at least for me the end "Trial" being humans when a lot of awesome shit has been going on it's disappointing. Also the defeating of the gods just by breaking the spear. I know there is a philosophical message in there and mythological reasons but it didn't felt right.

>>9738656
>I liked The Idiot but most people consider it to be a cheap book
I've never heard that opinion before

it's a cheap book if you shoplift. maybe they were referring to that?

>>9738656
I think the majority of Lit likes the Idiot, and if they don't they certainly don't find it Pseudo

I agree with him, I also think that any art that challenges my ideological beliefs is propaganda

Propaganda tells you what to think, art tells you what to think about.

technically everything is propaganda.
if you dont already know this, you're kinda dumb.

>kino
>ocad

kys you degenerate faggot if that's what you got out of the recognitions

>>9738602
Look at me le smart lit man watch me get triggered waaaaaahhhh lmao

>>9738985
underage b&

>>9738346
He's fat and ugly, so he's probably blaming someone else for just how disgusting he looks

>>9738366
>Genetics are the individual's fault
umm what? Dumb nigger

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>>9738366
He's pretty handsome for a 65 year old.
Also
>falling for this atrocious bait

Any recs?

If you aren't blind there is no excuse for buying Audiobooks

>>9738824
They're very convenient at times. Of course, wouldn't expect an elitist book reader such as yourself to understand that.

>>9738211
girls are getting into super heroes, since wonder women showed to be a great success.
i'd place my bets there.

>>9738215
that's the current trend. i need to think 1-2 years from now. superheroes are already being exploited.

>>9738215
This. Write a novel series about a tragic group of superheroes, cursed to live in the shadows, and make the protagonist a new recruit, and make everyone perpetually 16, and write like you are 16.

Oedipus

The Fault in our Stars

Real answer: Metaphysics

Answer if you don't feel like studying his corpus for a year in order to understand Metaphysics: Nichomachean Ethics

>uhh
>*takes a seat nervously*
>*looks to Aristotle for approval*
>ehh?

>>9738090
- Why are you the authority on the absolute purpose of chairs?

>>9738090
>thats a nice purpose your created to better order and understand life