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>educated in poetry and literature seminary school, learned Goethe and Shakespeare in translation, could recite Whitman by heart
>was a published poet and author before joining the Bolsheviks
>debated the finer points of Georgian literature and poetry with university professors for fun, even in his later years
>his poems continue to be taught in Georgian schools and many of them are considered minor classics, independently of his name
>used his network of admirers built by his poetry at least once to gain information for a bank robbery
>could read over 500 pages per day
>had a library of over 10,000 books
>wrote lengthy political philosophy tracts
>well versed in Plato, censored the media in accordance with many of Plato's principles in order to shape a new kind of man
>also an accomplished billiards player
Was there ever a more literary patrician world leader in history?
>>8072346
That's just an actor, anon.
>>8072346
>Believing claims about Stalin originating from a country he controlled.
Top kek OP.
>>8072359
No shit, Stalin was a talented leader who knew that image was everything, he worked to create a new myth for his people.
>>8072362
It was noted by contemporaries even outside of the USSR that Stalin had been a voracious reader and most of his poems were anonymized during destalinization and continue to be minor classics. He's no Whitman, most of his works are derivative but they take advantage of the Georgian language and play lots of word games.
Are the Robert Service biographies of Stalin + Lenin + Trotsky good historical works?
They seem to have a lot of negative reviews. Is this because it makes lots of criticisms against the leaders which offends the Communist sympathisers likely to read such works? Or are they simply bad biographies?
>>8072286
One-sided neocon stuff apparently
>>8072292
I get the feeling the neocon accusation comes from commie sympathisers.
>>8072334
"Commie sympathizers" didn't like Bush and Cheney either. You reading their bios next?
They were authoritarians, and I don't approve of them in the least, but I'll be damned if I'm going to read some Foxnewz talking head's books on the topic. Maybe the negative reviews are right.
who else fell in love with esme?
>he actually took the time to read a 1000 page meme book
wew lad
>>8072186
Do you mean there's a character with the name "Esme"?
You need to type it as a real name, anon. Hell, look at that. It even says "Anonymous" in your name field.
Why are so many of you so unable to spell? I honestly didn't know what you where saying there for a while.
>>8072242
yes that's her name.
"This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel — a solution of whyDemocrituslaughed andHeraclitus wept."
Do you laugh at the world, or weep for it, /lit/?
I masturbate till 5:00 PM then I go to Starbucks and read
>>8072184
How do you make money?
I observe it.
Is space horror a thing and what are some good space horror novels, happening on stations, planets, preferably with guns like Doom 3 and System Shock 2?
>>8072187
it seems you are trying to create an echo chamber
I'm looking for books that shake the core of your being.
K on
>>8072145
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch really fucked me up for a while
>>8072145
Mein Kampf, the truth init will shake you.
WE ARE BREAKING THE CONDITIONING!!! GET YOUR FLORUIDE FILTERS NOW!!!! FUCK THE KIKES!!!!!!!!!!
>see the greek's meme
>trying not to be such a pleb so I can shitpost with better accuracy
>Open ToC to Edith Hamilton's Mythology
>Last page is 462 before the index pages
You did not read all of these, liar.
Also, is her writing on myth's anything special? Does it go against, or is it more profound, than what one learns in a Myth lit course? I'm not trying to skip the book, but knowing half(ish) of the chapters are going to be review should keep my morale up enough to get through this book and onto the next.
learn to write
What are you talking about?
Mythology should be used more like a guide for the works as you read them, otherwise you're going to forget all about them.
>tfw you realize only through human suffering can one enter into communion with God
It's more like you gain a sense of entitlement through suffering—very Job-like in the sense that you think you deserve something at the end, since you had to endure all that shit.
So creepy to spin a sense of entitlement into some lofty, inspirational bullshit like "entering into communion with God", but humans aren't too rational, especially when it comes to issues of justice and religion.
>>8072131
>Trw no one has ever "entered into communion with God"
>>8072161
Are you an idiot?
Can someone explain to me how the Gender/Queer criticism lens works and what it does? How is it any different then the feminist approach? Does it only focus on gender and sexuality?
>>8072107
Sounds like nonsense.
Both arenas cover very different issues and have different concentrations in which inter-related topics are placed. You'll have to be more specific.
>>8072120
Peoples identities are nonsense?
I get sudden hard-ons while reading this book. Is this normal?
I get erections all the time. It's normal. As long as you don't constantly think about having sex with twelve year olds, you're probably fine.
>>8072118
Why would that be a problem?
I don't know how, when even the sex scenes are presented in an unsexy, too-cerebral way.
You can pretty much tell the people who haven't read "Lolita"—they think the book is sexy/smutty.
i must be dumber than i thought, i didnt get what all the fuss was about, he didnt strike me as particularly racist in the book
it just reads like she lost her mind for no reason had a bunch of nonsensical conversations with her uncle and yelled at her father for a couple pages
can someone explain it to me?
also why the hell calpurnia suddenly didnt gave a shit about scout?
Go Set A Watchman isn't canon, they forced the book out of her on her deathbed. It doesn't matter.
>>8072061
There's a good reason she didn't want it published.
Can we talk about Juneteenth now?
wut
Is this series worth getting into?
If you haven't hit puberty yet. I loved it as a kid.
>>8072054
Are you a furry?
>>8072054
Is this series worth getting into?
What are some good, 20th century Chinese novels written before the cultural revolution?
>>8072032
Wait Chinese people can make art?
Ping Pong Ching Ling Ding Dong Wong Fan Bong Bing Ping Chong Wang Chung Dang Hung Pong Ping Bong Bing Ling Ling Wing Wang Ching Chong Bing Bong Bong Bing Bing Bong Ching Chong Wang Chong Ping Pong by Wu Shu Mo Fan Tien Shin Han Lo Pan Do No Fo Ro Lu Bu
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Thoughts?
Too autistic but worth the read if you have nothing else on your list.
Even if this isn't YA fiction, it reads exactly like it is.
>>8072030
Isn't being autistic the point of the book?
How does one properly make a teleological suspension of the ethical in the modern world? I'm ready to make a leap of faith and devote myself to the religious mode of existence, but I find it hard to truly suspend my own sense of objectivity and subjective ethics and embrace faith whole-heartedly. How did you do it, /lit/?
>>8071983
You just gotta believe.
FINGER YOUR ASS WHILE HIGH
why don't youask your dad?
