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Should I also read Xenophon's writings about Socrates? How does he differs from Plato?
>>7743409
don't bother, just read Gene Wolfe.
>>7743424
who?
Russian translated into English or French, what would be better/less awkward to read?
>>7743395
Depends on the book. For Dostoevsky, the idiot is better translated to French and the devils is better in English.
>>7743414
Ugh....so neither French nor English is closer to Russian in any way?
I thought maybe French grammar would better capture the Russian language.
>>7743516
They're pretty opposite m8. It feels like every Tolstoy book I read someone mentions the difference between the intimacy of French and the distance of Russian.
FUCK
I boodle over how to focus, read more, be healthier, be more effective, get more money, fuck hotter chicks, not stay depressed, be calm, cool, mindful,... and in the end I regularly have the realization that I just play into the Capitalistic scheme and to escape the class, work isn't enough, you must know people or do something radical that mostly doesn't work
what a fantastic movie!
what a fantastic set of digits!
you can't escape what ails you through that very self-same object!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkpRqxKbgF8
I find myself agreeing 100% with 3:30 to 5:40 here, and it means the system doesn't allow my unspooking and winning out - I play into their hands
>>7743381
zizek is a gift to us all
who is the black metal of literature?
Bukowski. Intelligent, nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor.
>>7743228
Kafka.
No actually, he's drone. Maybe Burroughs?
>>7743266
Burroughs is No Wave.
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Do you like contemporary poetry? Most of it sounds awfully inscrutable to me.
>>7743219
I don't like most poetry after Eliot.
Of course there is some decent stuff but it's few and far between.
Poetry died after the Surrealists and Futurists dismantled it. Nothing after 1930 is worthwhile.
Considering Wallace Stevens was publishing up until 1950, I'm going to disagree with the posts above.
Hey /lit/, I'm at Part Four of pic related, and I'm about to continue reading whilst drunk, am I going to understand it more?
>>7743215
JUST FOLLOW YOUR HEART!
Fuck you, bro.
Well /lit/
Why should one love their country? I'm not asking this because I'm indifferent to it or don't care, I do love my homeland.
But why, why causes people to feel a certain attachment to the land they were born? A certain feeling and duty to serve and protect their country?
Although I haven't started with the Greeks yet, from my understanding they were hyper patriots of their City States and do whatever they could to help their Country, through politics, or serving in war, or living in a clay bowl.
Help me out /lit/
You love your motherland for the same reason you love your kin and your community. We don't give a rat's ass about our kin or community these days, so of course caring about one's motherland is going to be more peculiar. And even bigger issue is that rampant globalism destroys cultural distinction, whereas in the past cultural distinction between communities was significant (there were tons variation in regional dialect and accent), and distinction between peoples was enormous in a way we can't really comprehend today, going to another country was almost...
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>>7743133
was tolstoy really a mason?
>>7743790
When Orthodox Christians call someone a "Mason", it doesn't have to be literal. It's like if say Hitler was Satanic.
