Aliens come to earth. They request one book to help them understand the 'human condition.'
Which book do you give them, /lit/? Why?
>>9290063
my diary desu
>>9290064
>>9290063my novel
>>9290070
Why isn't your novel done yet? Why are you on a stupid, useless web forum when you should be working?
Why haven't you lived authentically?
Don't you know you're dying?
>>9290063
Gucci Manes biography.
>>9290063
the bible with a gun hidden inside
>>9290175
Kek
Harold Bloom's list of western canon.
Fuck those lazy aliens, why wouldn't they read more than one book?
>>9290194
They don't want to waste their time analyzing our collective autism and have more harmonious, beautiful civilizations to visit.
Sex Motorcycle
>>9290063
Oxford's Dictionary
>>9290194
>Harold Bloom's list of western canon
What a shitty meme
Cloud Mows The Law
Charles Bukowski
>>9290194
>human nature according to a bunch of old white guys
jesus christ, you might as well just slap them with your grade school copy of Lord of the Flies.
>>9290063
What human condition OP? whatever made you think there was one?
time to open up your mind, boyo
well I'm a Marxist so admitting the existence of the human condition is akin to capitalist aggression for me so I would probably kill the aliens for spreading seditious consumerist propaganda
>>9290669
>claiming to be a Marxist without having read Marx
>can't into human Gattungswesen
The rise and fall of the third reich
>>9290687
much of marx's actual writings are tedious and irrelevant. he is a truly masturbatory writer. the only absolutely neccesary one is the communist manifesto but today his work is best continued by modern writers like naomi klein and bernie sanders
Gulag Archipelago
>>9290063
The Divine Comedy, because it tells about every kind of human character and every single aspect of life, besides being the summa of half the human history
>>9290914
why
>>9290944
to show them communism doesn't work. and warn them of the dangers of marxism
>>9290944
Because he's currently reading it or he liked it, so he just throw his random 2 cents into the thread, that's all
>>9290203
>harmonious
>beautiful
>not exclusive disjunction
kek
>>9290544
>black culture
The aliens would surely exterminate us.
>>9291089
How are beauty and harmony mutually exclusive?
Congrats on sounding smart tho
>>9290063
Finnigans wake
>>9290063
>implying humans understand the human condition
tell them we are busy
>>9290063
Beowulf
>>9290063
Tropic of Cancer