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So I’m in love. And the only thing I know about her is that she likes… Well interesting literature. I read all of Sade. (I think so anyway there might be more, pic shows what i got in my library) Story of O, and Grave desires by Steve Finbow, The Monk Matthew Gregory Lewis, Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and Necrophilia Variations by Supervert. What should I read next?
the torture garden by octave mirbeau.
>>7800322
She's sounds like a basic bitch that wants to justify her sex positive movement bullshit:
>>7800322
story of the eye by georges bataille as well.
Why is it 'cannot' instead of 'can not'?
>>7800318
you can use any you like as long as you think people will understand you. no one is going to stop you
>>7800318
Why is it written language and not hieroglyphics?
>>7800331
Why don't we use smoke from fires to communicate?
Who are the best misanthropic authors?
Ludovici is pretty good:
>It has taken us over two thousand years to get back to this position and to restore the ancient Greek's sane and wholesome view of man as a psychosome, whose visible and invisible attributes cannot be judged apart. Meanwhile, such is the havoc that has been wrought by the false dualistic teaching of Christianity that, could an ancient Greek-say Sophocles, or even Aristophanes — be placed at some vantage point in the main shopping centre of any one of our modern cities,...
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Ingenieros. Read his essay "The mediocre man"
>>7800288
where is this from, anon?
>>7800288
Gass is hands down the most misanthropic author ever, which, considering how fucked up his childhood was, makes sense. He makes his close friend--William Gaddis--look like mother Theresa.
Isn't the Illiad an ancient reflection on post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) of war veterans returning home and not being able to adapt to civilian society? Or am I reading it to anachronistically.
>>7800199
>Illiad
the Odyssey* my apologies
>>7800199
kek
>Isn't it
No.
It's not 'about' any specific thing.
Do you read the intros?
Not often, and even then only after reading whatever it is they're introducing. They have a nasty habit of spoiling novels.
>inb4 reading for plot hurrdurr
almost always
If you don't like reading intros then you're not interested in perspectives on literature and are therefore an amateur reader.
Can anyone recommend me some Persian lit/poetry? I've read the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and the penguin collection of Hafez and some other poets from Shiraz.
Here with a loaf of bread beneath the bough,
A flask of wine, a book of verse- and thou,
Beside me singing in the wilderness,
And wilderness is paradise enow!
abu nuwas is what you need
also "conference of the birds"
Stuff on Nuclear physics and bomb making to be honest.
Had to select all the images with skyscrapers to post that.
Coincidence? I think not.
>>7800145
Rumi
What are the pros and cons to audiobooks?
i would imagine it depends on the tone of the speaker
ive never used audio books, also interested
Pro: Read while you're not reading
Con: Not really reading when you do read
Audiobooks make me angry and I'm really comfy right now, so I'm not going to touch this one.
who writes hispanic lit that ISN'T fucking magical realism? tired of that light-hearted crap
>magical realism
>light-hearted
try bless me ultima?
>>7800068
almost everybody, faggot
Try Roberto Arlt
Good books not often discussed on /lit/ thread
Books similar to the movie detachment?
Just watched it for the second time and It is so moving.
QUINTS
>>7800037
>QUINTS
What is the fucking point of this post. If your not going to help please dont bother responding bumhead
>>7800053
but quints are rare
I picked up dubliners at the local libary.
I have read 5 short stories so far.
It's an excellent book.
Is ulysses like this but longer?
nn
>>7800006
>7800000
Who has most closely embodied the ubermensch life in history and presently?
For me, it's Rocco
>>7799918
>embodied the ubermensch
>ubermensch
get a life you faggot
And the answear is Cristiano Ronaldo:
>rich
>famous
>great in what he does
>extremely good looking
>healthy
>strong and atletic
>>7799925
>addicted to sex
>engages in group sex with prostitutes.
nigga nah
hell be fine
where did this meem originate? thanks in advance
i'm glad he's dying
>>7799916
you're dying too lmao
or when do you look up a word?
Not in English but that's because I'm American.
If I'm reading French I can't get very far without looking up words, but in that case I look things up online.
>>7799750
I use my phone for the dictionary. It's great because it's so much faster to look up words on my phone, plus if needed I can look at images to get a better idea of the word. The downside is I can sometimes get distracted and end up on 4chan for a few minutes before going back to my reading.
>>7799865
>Not in English but that's because I'm American.
What are you reading that has no words of which you are unsure the meaning of?
For my senior project I said I would do philosophy essays because I thought it could look impressive and be pretty easy
I have absolutely no idea what to write about
Philosophy rec thread? I need to at least read a couple books to look like I did something.
Write about the metaphysical and semantic incoherence of Kripkean modal semantics of intuitionistic logics that use frames.
>>7799567
How do I learn about any of this
Plato's Cratylus
