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Very long time lurker here,
I've found that I do not have a great many of political books. I'd like to change that, what are some gems that you've come across?
I've considered Mein Kampf for the pure historical context that goes with it. Has anyone read it?
Thanks guys.
Are you legitimately retarded?
>>8241588
I don't know. I was tested twice and the results contradicted each other.
>>8241588
Nope, just looking for some good political books. Thanks for the help
any booktubers as good as this guy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcF48z6TVf4
>>8241548
He's better than all the women book tubers who are simply worthless and intellectually inferior
>>8241603
IKR. At 5:19 he even says "I mean my god".
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“You idiot, boy! Stop reading those fairy tales for a moment and help with the fanning!” the smith roared.
“C-coming!” the apprentice dropped the leather-bound cover and scampered to the bellows. A push on the handle to fill up the bags, then a pull of the handles to release it.
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“You idiot, boy! Stop reading those fairy tales for a moment and help with the fanning!” the smith roared.
“C-coming!” the apprentice dropped the leather-bound cover and scampered to the bellows. A push on the handle to fill up the bags, then a pull of the handles to release it.
The nozzle huffed and puffed a good mighty blow, then filled the forge belly with a sweep of hot air.
The sword seared in a trial of fire; then sank into the sea of black coals. Grit’s...
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>>8241515
Lol still fucked it up with the last paragraph
>>8241479
Is this a literal joke?
bookshelf rate thread?
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Just before he went mad Nietzche signed his letters not by his name but by "The Crucified".
>what did he mean by this
Extra point questions: Did he see Christ in Turin Horse? Did he accept his crucifixion in the form of madness?
>late life Christian conversions general
Horses can't be god
There's no evidence the Turin horse incident happened. It was probably made up to slander him.
It's not only a fraudulent story, but also plagiarism. The same shit happened in Crime and Punishment.
>>8241413
Nietzsche rejected the necessity of salvation but in the end realized that man does not live by bread alone but by the word of God. He tried to become Christ and failed. He realized that he could not even save a single horse, much less all of mankind, and that his writings were nothing but vanity. His madness was profound despair. Rudolph Steiner says that when he went to visit Nietzsche, he had a vision of one of Nietzsche's past lives, in which he was a tortured monk constantly whipping himself.
Was Jesus able to endure the cross in the same way that Thich Quang Duc endured the flames? How did they/he do it? Buddhist enlightenment/detachment?
Maybe shock set in or he lost his mind.
I don't know they were both religious fanatics. Not ordinary guys.
They didn't "do" it. They allowed it to be done to them.
Passive agreement. Tacit consent.
>>8241315
Yes. Because your brain neither links the dousing yourself in gasoline and lighting a fire to your own death neither does it for getting stabbed in the side.
Try holding your breath until you die. Or drowning yourself in a puddle through sheer will.
That monk died of asphyxiation before he felt the sensation of burning to death. Getting nailed to the cross and speared in the side probably felt horrible although probably good when the body finally gave out.
ONE OF THESE
I'd say V. is both those last frames.
Rate Tolkien's books.
For me, The Hobbit > Fellowship > RotK > TT
you can't really rate LOTR as 3 separate books imo.
I'll rank 'em like this:
Silmarillion > Children of Hurin > Hobbit = Lord of the Rings
It's been a while since I read the Hobbit and LOTR though.
LOTR is one fucking book man, he broke it up to be able to sell it.
Im a fantasy literature illiterate about to read LoTR once it arrives in mail. Am I in for something good or another full blown meme
my question is what essential books are there for me to read after homers work, i want to delve more into philosphy and stoicism and the work of plato interests me
the only problem is there is so much that im not sure what to buy and not to 'waste' my time
>>8241151
Start with Marcus Aurelius' Meditations and then to Letters from a Stoic
does anybody know where i can get quality audiobook versions of shakespeare plays?
>>8241194
aren't there like a lot of them on youtube?
What can literature do that visual arts can't?
literature has the power to create its own visual art in your head
>>8241114
literature accesses knowledge by primarily intellectual means whereas the visual arts access knowledge by primarily aesthetic means
Communicate ideas via language rather than images.
So this is one of the first books I read on my own accord and I really enjoyed it
What do you rec from here?
Preferably shorter readable ones to begin with
did you check the recommendation advice in the sticky? if not, delete this post and go there first
>>8241111
I read that in high school. Right now I'm reading the myth of sisyphus
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How does one get into poetry? Where do I start? The only poetry I've came across was some Bukowski and it seemed like something a drunk scribbled down without much thought or any editing.
Hart crane
Rimbaud
Ezra pound
Ferlinghetti
>>8241262
Yeah really
What is the best book on poetic form meter and structure?
Princeton Dictionary of Poetry and Poetics
Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism
I've read three and the best imo is poetic designs by Stephan Adams.
It's not too long, gets the important points through effectively and has good examples.
What is the best translation of Don Quixote?
Anyone know which translation Borges used? The one he preferred to the spanish.
>>8240808
smollett
>>8240808
Rutherford. Stay away from Grossman.
"Caddy smelled like trees." What did he mean by this? Do many Americans want to fuck their sisters? Is Faulkner accurate?
You think someone smelling like a tree means they're fuckable?
You never lusted after you sister?
What the fuck is wrong with you?
Didn't Benji say say that after she was in a tree?
