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>>7737748
>>7737756
>>7737764
Thanks
>>7737768
The corn he refers to is a metaphor. Julius Caesar was using the corn as an image of sociopolitical change against the backdrop of the procession of time, for the Gallic tribes, his army, and Roman society at large. An army marches on its stomach, just as a besieged city will waste its food stores away. The corn keeps growing, and the army keeps marching, and the walls keep coming down. The Gallic tribes would fight together and against each other as the seasons changed, just like political factions in Rome. Caesar was able to comment on this by using the universal truth of this important-for-war commodity as the idealized image of constancy in an ever changing world. Its a literary masterpiece.
>>7737768
>what i read - different shades of shit
>what i expected - dark netherlands
>what i got - poo in the loo
>>7737804
trippy
>>7737801
accurate; great book
I just posted it for this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3svMIuUa4E4
>>7737918
FUCK wrong image
>>7737918
kek
>>7737897
Spoopy.
>>7737760
Looks pretty cool.
>>7737986
Accurate.
>>7739792
>>7737859
how is this book? it comes up recommended after i bought a musil book
>>7737748
>implying the last panel isn't accurate
>>7737867
I wish there were more of the expected honestly.
>>7738865
I'm absolutely laughing my ass off at the absurdity of this image. Anyone with even the faintest knowledge of history would know that the "corn" that Caesar speaks of in Commentaries On The Gallic War is not the corn that we in the west are familiar with, but is rather a poor translation for the word "grain" which in Latin is "Frumentum"
Myself and many others who have read the commentaries would know what you're trying to refer to with your image but it's wrong. Unless of course you were already aware of this and you are posting this ironically. In which case I commend you for your post but it's still blatantly wrong. I would have gone with a collage of images of wheat instead.
7/10
>>7740114
>>7739792
Where is the description of whales species?
>>7739792
Where is thegay sex?
>>7740226
r u a meme scholar?
>>7740228
yes PhD applied memetics
>>7740230
kool post ur thesis pls
>>7737748
>>7737815
>>7740123
oh shit nigga
>>7737897
>Il n'y a plus rien de gai dans le sexe. Les jeunes gens sont laids, désespérés, méchants ou vaincus
Fuck you too.
>>7740222
>falling for the meaning/unmeaning dichotomy
>>7737774
Is it really that shit? I seriously expected what you expected. I don't want to read any more of Evola and get off of his train of radical traditionalism.
>>7741302
>>7741622
yo i just read this a couple of days ago and it was really fucking good. made me want to read everything else by zweig (i've read confusion before and it was decent) but i feel/worry that nothing else will be as exhilarating.
>>7740323
tinyurl com / jgpx75d
Great book btw.
>>7741323
It's not shit, but he spends 90% of the book talking about jungle hunters.
>>7742001
>that quote
>>7740191
Mission accomplished?
>>7742207
I think you made a mistake anon, you used the same picture for your expectation and reality
>>7742270
>I expected a modern dictatorship handbook
>>7737925
>Middle Easterners were too white to be included in that book. That's how cuck it is.
>>7742289
Who are you quoting?
>>7742270
Are you retarded? (rhetorical question)
>>7742303
No one, the '>' was a force of habit typp.
>>7742360
>inb4 shit formatting
>>7737918
As much as /lit/ would like to bash this image for seeming "too /pol/", it's not wrong.
>>7742380
I like how people responded to the image by calling the anon who posted it stupid and hypocritically insinuating he was a stereotypical redneck.
>>7742371
i don't think you read that book
>>7737918
>it clearly states that Muslims are supposed to fight the non-believers and slay them wherever they find them
Go ahead and show us where it says that in the Quran.
I'll wait.
>>7742393
What's wrong with the picture? There's "free love" in the sense of the orgie porgies and as far as I remember the main character is a test tube baby that ended up in the wrong social category. Also indians and drugs etc.
>>7742429
>Quran (2:191-193) - "And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out. And Al-Fitnah is worse than killing. But if they desist, then lo! Allah is forgiving and merciful. And fight them until there is no more Fitnah and worship is for Allah alone. But if they cease, let there be no transgression except against Az-Zalimun
>Quran (3:151) - "Soon shall We cast terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers, for that they joined companions with Allah, for which He had sent no authority".
>Quran (4:89) - "They but wish that ye should reject Faith, as they do, and thus be on the same footing (as they): But take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah (From what is forbidden). But if they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them; and (in any case) take no friends or helpers from their ranks."
Well?
>>7741137
>Fuck you too.
Because of the french or because of the quote?
>>7742453
But le religion of peace!
>>7742453
>"I'll wait"
>doesn't reply
Kek
>>7742453
I think you're misinterpreting Allah's favorite child fucker (pbuh).
>>7740036
It's "funny" in a pretty obtuse way. it's interesting and subtle but you really have to be able to derive amusement from contradictions and unreliable narrators to be enthralled by it, i think. james joyce admired the book a lot and i can see why.
>>7737748
>>7742453
That's the English translation, that's not what it says in the Arabic version
>>7742707
>that's not what it says in the Arabic version
A lot of Arabic speaking ISIS members sure seem to think so.
>muh multiple meanings for every word
Yeah, fuck off.
>>7742707
>that's not what is says in the Arabic version
Oh for fuck's sake. Nice Taqiyya, faggot.
>>7742730
Also, don't like the fact that he has it easy with women. Impossible to relate, just like The Fall by Camus.
>>7742750
Just because women want to fuck him doesn't mean he has it easy with them. Imagine being a magnet for people who utterly disgust you.
>>7742758
Women do utterly disgust me. They are absolute plebs of the highest order and fucking degenerates. I still wish they were attracted to me and I wasn't so alone.
>>7739800
>>7742270
Yeah no.
this fucking book
>>7742707
of course it isn't. the arabic version says squiggle squiggle wavy-line dot squiggle. there are several english translations of the quran, and all of them ascribe a similar meaning to the passages quoted. there is no serious mistranslation here. and it's not like that legendary edition of the bible where they accidentally printed "thou shalt commit adultery". the quran really does contain a lot of violent passages.
>>7737748
>>7742913
How much midget sex is there?
>>7742901
>of course it isn't. the arabic version says squiggle squiggle wavy-line dot squiggle
holy shit
>>7742750
>Impossible to relate
Pretty sure you're not supposed to senpai.
>>7742933
mate, they make motley crue look like a bunch of celibate nuns
>>7737748
>>7743009
Tomoko is a piece of shit but would never admit to it
>>7743014
>That fucking cover
Every time.
>>7743020
It's bad, but it does illustrate perfectly the human condition and K.'s development throughout the book
>>7737748
Not to disparage the book though.
>>7737748
>>7737925
Flawless
>>7742245
>what does it feels
>>7742549
jesus
>>7740191
I'm absolutely laughing my ass off at the absurdity of this image. Anyone with even the faintest knowledge of /lit/ would know that the "memes" that OP speaks of in Read/Expected/Got threads are not the "memes" that we in the west are familiar with, but is rather a poor translation for the word "cancer" which in Latin is "tfw no gf"
Myself and many others who have read Read/Expected/Got threads would know what you're trying to refer to with your image but it's wrong. Unless of course you were already aware of this and you are posting this ironically. In which case I commend you for your post but it's still blatantly wrong. I would have gone with a collage of images of DFW instead.
7/10
>>7740114
I hate this fucking pasta, the corn he refers to is a metaphor you fucking retard. Julius Caesar was using the corn as an image of sociopolitical change against the backdrop of the procession of time, for the Gallic tribes, his army, and Roman society at large. An army marches on its stomach, just as a besieged city will waste its food stores away. The corn keeps growing, and the army keeps marching, and the walls keep coming down. The Gallic tribes would fight together and against each other as the seasons changed, just like political factions in Rome. Caesar was able to comment on this by using the universal truth of this important-for-war commodity as the idealized image of constancy in an ever changing world. Its a literary masterpiece.
>>7741234
Wut
>>7744478
unfunny attempt at a forced meme
kill thyself
>>7744518
>thyself
>>7737925
Good one.
>>7742549
The fuck?
Seriously?
Your expectations were right.
Why would it turn into weebshit?
>>7739792
>no gay porn on the right
Faggot
>>7744913
>im triggered!!
>>7742768
I wish this wasn't so true
>>7742451
I'm with him, I really don't think you read that book sufficiently. I don't even like huxley much, but if that was your takeaway from bnw, that's pretty depressing
what have you read before, or was that your first book in a while?
>>7737925
>It's hard to see racism when you're white.
What? It seemed to me like the book was suggesting that there are differences between different races, but the differences could be attributed to differences in environment since people had to adapt differently instead of there being differences in the people themselves.
It didn't seem to have any kind of sjw theme. Although I read it awhile ago.
>>7744603
too much out of these threads is just dumb people making propaganda for shitty books
>>7748012
>thinks BOTNS is shitty
well memed, son.
>>7742233
Mom, I did it again!
>>7742453
LIBERALS BTFO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYAcLudBbhg
>>7743016
she is way to dumb and her self awareness is not even a fraction of the underground man's.
>>7738857
>Leligion of Peace
>>>/reddit/
>>7748037
I am a social liberal and I agree with what you're saying.
>>7737759
that was pretty naive of you anon
>>7748100
I did a "haha"
good job
>>7749574
>social liberal
Either become a comrade or fucking die you centrist piece of shit.
