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>Suppose two men at cards with nothing to wager save their lives. Who has not heard such a tale? A turn of the card. The whole universe for such a player has labored clanking to this moment which will tell if he is to die at that man’s hand or that man at his. What more certain validation of a man’s worth could there be? This enhancement of the game to its ultimate state admits no argument concerning the notion of fate. The selection of one man over another is a preference absolute and irrevocable and it is a dull man indeed who could reckon so profound a decision without agency or significance either one. In such games as have for their stake the annihilation of the defeated the decisions are quite clear. This man holding this particular arrangement of cards in his hand is thereby removed from existence. This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one’s will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.
holy.....
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>>8616892
Who's the one who wrote this and can we throw him in a gas chamber?
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>>8616892
Only one enemy remained; two if you counted war.
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Futurism?
What is this? It sounds interesting yet sick.
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>>8616892
Is "holy" used in jest or seriously? I can't tell sometimes
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>>8616913
...i want more...
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>>8616892
gnostic themes thanks
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>it is a dull man indeed who could reckon so profound a decision without agency or significance
so he bases his reasoning on whatever he finds to be the least dull? absolute garbage.
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>>8617937
It's called irony, my dude.
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>>8618054
/lit/ you are so fucking incompetent at reading comprehension and logically illiterate, it's fucking killing me.
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>>8617929
Lol it's cormac McCarthy .
But more to the point, it's Schopenhauer. In other words McCarthy basically rips Schopenhauer's idea of the Will to Life here.
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>>8618080
it's garbage
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>>8616892
>Dude war is like a chess game xdddd
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>>8616892
This is pretty good until the hackeneyed war analogy. Talk about explaining your own metaphor. The mark of a great writer is knowing when to stop.
>pic unrelated
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>>8618110
>The selection of one man over another is a preference absolute and irrevocable and it is a dull man indeed who could reckon so profound a decision without agency or significance either one.
The "selection" being made here is by fate, a 'preference absolute and irrevocable", and a man would be dull to not realize he "choice" to enter his life as a wager was of some significance, given that "the whole universe for such a player has labored clanking to this moment".
You fucking slime mold.
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>>8618120
damn......... made me think.......
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>>8618123
they were already talking about war before that point
maybe LE READ LE BOOK??!!!! XD
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>>8618077
That is literally what I asked, my dude.
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>>8619435
You posed your question as a disjunction between comedy and seriousness, when irony is a fusion of the two. Ya dummy.
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>>8616892
I really need to read Blood Meridian
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>>8616892
I read this passage a couple days ago.
It's Blood Meridian by Cormac Mccarthy
Such a brutal novel, going to finish it tonight.
The Judge, man, that's all I'll say.
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>>8619435
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S8470021
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>>8619952
Prepare your anus for the ending.
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>faggots
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>>8620230
Just did. I'm dancing brother.
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