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Why does Zarathustra love mankind?
>>7802161
Stockholm syndrome
Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality; consequently, he must also be the first to recognize it.
>>7802161
>love
*tips fedora*
lTT: tastefully depressing books
My life.
>>7802063
Wish you would step back from that ledge my friend
>>7802054
I have to tell how "If" by Rudyard Kipling has persuasive text. Can someone help me with this as i've been working on it for hours and cant find anything persuasive.
>>7801826
"You'll be a man, my son." Is this not persuading someone to machismo and masculine tendencies, enforcing normative stereotypes to a considerable extent?
>>>/hm/
the homework board
>>7801838
>homework board
>hm
>homemork?
"And this is the Lincoln bedroom. This is one of Ronnie's favorites. He likes to relax in here and just read magazines. These drapes are based on the original drapes, a nice maroon color, don't you think," Nancy said, letting her slender fingers slide down the smooth, opulent fabric.
Mr. T reached out and covered her delicate little hand with his large, calloused one. An electricity passed through Nancy's skin, tingling down her body, and she turned to him, now backed against the window, and looked up into his eyes, tender and gentle within his...
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>>7801565
Very good but couldn't you've used somebody german instead of Mr. T?
can't wait till VR is perfected so i can reenact this fantasy for real
>>7801565
I seen that reddit comment too
Just finished this.. wow
It was incredible! What did you guys think? Can you reccomend something similar?
go away
Lobotomy by Ice Pick
>>7801553
Is the Lord of the Flies a criticism of Rousseau's perception of nature and children as fundamentally good, but corrupted by civilization? It is civilization that saves them, and it was civilization (and the conch) that kept them from hunting each-other.
Also, was the pig in the Lord of the Flies about establishing a domestic religion to cope with the fact that they were thrown onto the Island after the crash? Like humans are thrown into existence in a existential way and need religion to cope? (Cfr. Heidegger, Sartre, Camus)
>>7801517
forget to add: Golding clearly adheres to the views of Hobbes on human nature.
Wasn't there just a post about this in the "Odyssey PTSD" thread? Why did you think this deserved its own thread? How long have you been on this board? Do you have a reddit account?
>British writer thinking they can write about "Civilisation" after WWII
While reading, do you instantly look up a word you're unfamiliar with?
>>7801515
If I can't derive a general meaning (not necessarily a correct meaning) from the context, then yes.
>>7801786
Same - ebook-readers are great for this, just tap on the word and get the dictionary entry.
>>7801515
This is one of the best things about my kindle; you can just tap the word and it shows a dictionary definition, if there isn't one it brings up Wikipedia. Especially good for history books
The Divine Comedy is next on my list as I work through some classics. I'm going to order it while I start some Sophocles. Whichtranslationis the best? I don't think I want a prose one that sacrifices all of the poetic qualities for maximum literal accuracy, but I do want one staying reasonably close to the spirit of the original.
Also, something I've always wondered, why does the general public seem so specifically fixated on Inferno if the Comedy itself is (from what I've heard) largely about redemption? Just a morbid curiosity with hell?
>>7801421
for fucks sake, why does this get asked every day?
mandelbaum
I like Pinsky's translation. I also met him when he came to my high school.
>>7801446
>he hasn't met Dante Alghieri
What are good intro books for occultism and kabbalah?
Sry for the broken english there btw
A bullet to the head.
>>7801389
check out manuscript found in saragossa by potocki. there's an interesting character who is a kabbalist and there's plenty of supernatural goodness. there's even a point when the kabbalist summons the wandering jew to regale the characters with stories of his life.
For someone who's read c&p, the idiot, brothers Karamazov and notes from the underground is reading pic related worth my time?
If you've read his four other major works why the fuck would you even have to ask?
>>7801368
i was going to post this.
>>7801350
Yes, without a doubt. Its actually my second favorite of his.
I remember slogging through this in college.
Any fans?
The book is testing. But it solves the hard problem of consciousness, so yes, I'm a fan.
I Am A Strange Loop is an easier read.
Lots of fans. I feel them on my neck often, and seem to be developing a cold.
I've never seen this book complimented without the tone of a stupefied fanboy.
>>7801318
>it solves the hard problem of consciousness
holy shit.
You have to elaborate on such things.
Will reading this be a waste of time?
it depends on what you hope to get out of reading it
>>7801246
I just want to be more smarter
Why is this book so funny?
Did I read it wrong?
Is it the translation?
(It's insanely tonally effective, I love it.)
Go to bed, David.
>>7801191
No, you read it right. Kafka thought his own stories were hilarious. In a lot of ways, I think he was the DFW of his day, or rather, what DFW would've been if he embraced the idea of a self-effacing humor of suffering instead of being a sadsack who tried to write self-help books in the guise of avant-garde fiction.
>>7801212
This post is entirely correct. DFW took the easy way and his succumb to despair (and the Americanization of his work) cheated us all from something great.
How do I go about reading classic literature and epic poetry for fun if I'm not a University student?
Go to the library.
>>7801190
A lot of classics are in the public domain. Most monoliths will have a pdf online and a librivox recording at least. In short: a google search.
>epic poetry
Try Toohey's "reading epic" and the epics he mentions. Big ones are obviously Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid, but then there are lesser known ones like Argonautica, Metamorphoses, Pharsalia, and then loads of minor ones like Punica, Thebaid, Dionysiaca.
Start building a foundation of western lit (Plato, Bible, etc.) and you can move forward to later epic writers like Dante, Tasso, and Milton.
Also check out susan wise bauer's "the well educated mind" if you feel like you really don't...
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If you love books, you may have come upon a book which rises above all the rest! What's your favorite book? Mine is Gone with the Wind, because I love romantic historical fiction! I have a first addition Gone with the Wind book from 1937, and it is super sweet because someone gave it to someone as a gift, and they put a little note on the first page! For that matter, what is your favorite genre too?
>favorite genre
East of Eden.
Am I pleb? I really liked it
The Tunnel
