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>>9692892
i'm too much of a brainlet sorry

Rec center: meat. Need to be strong. Socrates. Every man deserves.... Joyce. He too had this problem. Leopold Bloom in Ulysses when Daedalus is at the counter waiting for him. The early 20th century starting strength was on Poldy's and Joyce's bookcases, undoubtedly. Aurelius though is someone to keep in mind. "If you must exercise then brandish weights but immediately return to philosophy." That's Seneca. Cicero then made it clear that for a wise old age muscles aren't at all a priority.

I should reread Ulysses soon.

>>9692892
Hmmmm i do like to fart beside the seasiiiide, oh i do like to fart beside the seeeeeaaaa!

>>9692746
How else would people know who fought for the Greeks?
It sounds good in the Greek dactylic hexameter too.

>>9692746
I heard so many complaints about the catalogue of ships prior to reading this that I was dreading coming across it, only to discover it's four fucking pages long. Stop being a bitch and read it. I bet the whaling information in Moby Cock isn't nearly as bad as you all say

>>9692746
>is it necessary to honor all of these people who gave up everything to fight and die in this war
I don't know, OP you tell us.

:o

>>9692763
:p

>>9692738
Read Schmitt

bump for interest

Nietzsche was a hack. There is nothing more than what is built upon the Greeks.
Sure, you've learned to write from Cicero, but everything else? The Greeks.

consider reading the birth of tragedy for your answer

>>9692605
What am I looking at?

>>9692608
John green blowing bubbles like the angel he is

>>9692639
Who's Bubbles?

>>9692529
A number of Bodhisattva are inherently Buddha-like.

Buddha, Achilles, Eliot Rogers, A genius, an Autist, a devout man, a rebel and a soldier but somehow all of this and a cringy cuck?

Well? What is it? I don't know what I'm being compared to anymore

Also it's hilarious

>>9692529
Rild in Lord of Light, by Roger Zelazny

way cool sci fi novel btw

>>9692522
Just do it here or in the critique thread if one is up right now. I live for cringe, so please entertain me

>>9692528
You got it, man.
Here goes nothing, some excerpts of what I feel is the best I've got:

The ideas are already formulated and long ready to ship out before it even comes out of my mouth, or written down on paper. What was it again? 4 styles of communication? Written, spoken, and two others. Reading.
Oh, and listening. I really need to stress how sorry I am right now. I’m never so apologetic, because I feel it makes me less of a man. I can’t help it at this exact moment because in reality, I’m a mess. That may be true partially to the fact I just got half my skull blown open by a Mossberg 500 pump action shotgun during a really sweet stakeout. You wouldn’t believe the action going on, it’s just like in the movies. I can’t think straight with half my hemisphere hanging out the perfect V-shaped fissure the bullets so neatly crafted into my skull though. Picture a bunch of dudes waltzing in so elegantly in slow motion into a bank, since I work in one, and you’re scared shitless but it looks pretty cool when everything goes slow since your heart is pounding and you know this could be the end for you, which in this case I was the first to go.

>>9692587
That being said, I’m dead.


I am now sitting in what seems to be a circle of iron-rusted chairs that would’ve been branded Mayor’s Choice if I hadn’t known better, with the overtones of what could be alcoholics anonymous. Would make sense, since I’ve had enough 750ml of whisky bottles enough to club an entire mafia branch. They were positioned in horizontal, vertical, diagonal positions. Stonehenge of green hue bottles, with the last bit of alcohol evaporated yet leaving a nice little sticky residue at the bottom enough to give the corner of the room a melancholic smell of a distant abusive relative at a New Year’s Eve party who asked you about what you would like to be once you grow up, when in fact you were already grown up? Explain that.

>>9692459
I know it's summer, but why would you want to read true crime books? Sounds exceptionally boring. May as well read detective novels. At least those are fun.

Irony at it's finest

>>9692481
I find real stories to be more entertaining than made up ones since they're often full of absurd details no author would make up. Detective stories and other mysteries are always too convenient and tidy for me so I don't bother with them. But if you have a great one to recommend I'll definitely check it out.

>>9692406

Will reading it help me learn the secrets of immortality?

>>9692406
>>9692422
yes

>>9692406
Anyone know about Romance of the three kingdoms? Is it good?

>that's not how you greentext

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>>9692344
Who are you quoting?

>>9692351
>>9692357
>fuck, kill me now bros

>>9692274
No he was just a jealous cuck

Absolutely.

>>9692280
>tfw you fell for Milton's dumb fanfiction

>>9692224

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>>9692224
The only controversy is the original british vs original american.

Pingwing Classic

Butt plug

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>>9692127
Waifu

>>9692127

existence

>>9692095
>pleb
>faulkner
Only if they're trying to read The Sound and the Fury while struggling, just to look cool to their friends, and ignoring the rest of his work.

>he lists non normie authors as pleb to sound to intelligent too post here

>>9692095
Vonnegut, Orwell, Twain, Dickins etc as favorite authors

>>9692025
None. Learn Arabic.

>>9692025
If you don't intend to learn Arabic, Turkish or a Persian translation would do better albeit any of those would be missing since Arabic is a very flexible language and a word may have a hundreds of meanings depending on what kind of side you're reading or thinking about it.

p.s. Read Fazlur Rahman instead.

I'm curious as well I was looking at two at Barnes and Noble yesterday, both titled "The Koran," but they didn't even have similar structure. One had a bunch of books called "sutras" or something, the other one had like 15 stories all called "the cow" and "the hat" and shit.