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Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:23:26 2020 No.14981046 [Reply] [Original]

What are your favourite Christian poems? Christian poetry thread.

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Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:23:22 2020 No.14981045 [Reply] [Original]

>authors you love with all your heart but refuse to acknowledge because plebs ruin everything

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Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:23:00 2020 No.14981044 [Reply] [Original]

The /midwit's curse is not on himself, but on others. A midwit should see his pseud-ness for what it is, a treasured prize that allows him to be successful in society and be well-off under late capitalism, even the alienation or depression he may suffer is always one dimensional due to his filthy pseud mental capacity, this is unlike the alienation that can be felt by a genius

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Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:06:47 2020 No.14980980 [Reply] [Original]

What does /lit/ think of Werther? Finished this a couple weeks ago and honestly loved it. Maybe just because of Goethe’s flowery writing and I’m a romantic faggot.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:09:22 2020 No.14980991 >>14980980 Therapeutic and instructional. Also incredible prose.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:09:26 2020 No.14980992 >>14980980 It's decent. I don't see how it influenced people to kill themselves. Maybe I need to read it in German.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:10:29 2020 No.14980998 >>14980992 It was another time.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:14:11 2020 No.14981012 >>14980991 >>14980980 which edition should I read?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:16:46 2020 No.14981023 >>14981012 I personally really liked the Penguin Classics (Hulse) translation but that’s just me

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Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:46:04 2020 No.14980910 [Reply] [Original]

>300 pages of a guy sucking God's dick
woa.h.....

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>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:01:01 2020 No.14980958 >>14980910 >that blurb It can be construed to mean that the woman's translation is shit. It wasn't meant that way but still, one must be careful with language.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:01:21 2020 No.14980959 >>14980955 Waint, are you telling me that Augustine could've been a Gnostic chad but he voluntarily decided to become a Christcuck? lmao

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:02:34 2020 No.14980963 Faggot take. Consider suicide.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:04:19 2020 No.14980970 >>14980955 You're a retard, there were ecumenical councils, one bishop doesn't have the power to "convert" Christianity.

Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:19:38 2020 No.14981035

>>14980970
You misread what I stated if you think that I believe Augustine outlawed Manichaeism in Rome instead of the emperor Theodosius I as a result of the Synod of Gangra, so I'll restate my post: Manichaean monks being put to death for their religion by Roman authorities is mostly why Augustine adopted Christian beliefs and later converted to Christianity.

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What to read before Finnegans Wake? Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:42:15 2020 No.14980882 [Reply] [Original]

I finished Ulysses a while back, and to prepare for that I was advised to first read Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist (as they essentially are the prelude to the narrative of Ulysses), and to also read Hamlet, the Odyssey and the Inferno, as Joyce draws on them quite substantially in his allusions and symbolism.

What are the books that one should read before Finnegans Wake, so as to fully appreciate the book? I want to write notes like pic related.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:51:25 2020 No.14980933 >>14980901 >>14980930 and even then you'll only get like 5% of the references in the book

Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:52:20 2020 No.14980940

>>14980901

I've actually seen that list before. Pretty cool compilation but the actually book within which it's contained had kind of a goofy thesis, with respects to the 26 authors he said were canonical. Like

>Samuel Beckett
Derivative
>George Elliott
Who?
>Freud
.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:53:26 2020 No.14980944 >>14980933 Ah

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:57:01 2020 No.14980950 Sentence 2 - 3 is that Aristophanes's The Frogs that's all I got

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:05:02 2020 No.14980973 >>14980940 >Who? dude...

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Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:40:11 2020 No.14980877 [Reply] [Original]

Why are twitter users so anal about the internet archive’s library

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>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:10:18 2020 No.14980997 >>14980982 at least ken jennings didn't beome a total faggot

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:11:47 2020 No.14981003 >>14980989 If I ever become an author I’m going to make my works accessible to all, profit be damned.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:13:20 2020 No.14981009 >>14981003 if you become popular and set up a patreon you'll get more money than you would have otherwise anyway lol

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:17:55 2020 No.14981030 >>14981009 Probably. Most of the authors who are fuming at IA right now probably got fucked over by their publisher and lick their boots to try to justify and cope

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:26:31 2020 No.14981055 What is on the internet archive that's copyrighted? I thought it was all public domain stuff?

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Marquis de Sade's 120 days of sodom Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:39:42 2020 No.14980873 [Reply] [Original]

Opinions on this book please and tell me if it's even worth reading or if it is entertaining in any way.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:42:23 2020 No.14980884 >>14980873 I found it entertaining and hilarous.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:43:20 2020 No.14980891 Shock value/10

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:44:47 2020 No.14980902 >>14980873 If you want to experience the end result of Enlightenment thinking, it is worth reading.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:45:01 2020 No.14980904 >>14980873 it degenerates into a bare carcass towards the end of circrle 1 (out of 4 ) as it's unfinished. shock value dulls with every new mention of shit and assholes. heard Justine is much better

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Reading Challenge Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:36:18 2020 No.14980858 [Reply] [Original]

How are you going?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:22:04 2020 No.14981040 last year I read 12 books, this year I wanted to read double that since I had just started reading more seriously, currently I am at 6 books

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Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:17:42 2020 No.14980817 [Reply] [Original]

Anyone read this?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:28:10 2020 No.14980843 marijuana doesn't come in stone form

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:41:14 2020 No.14980878 >>14980817 YER A WEEDSTER HARDY

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/lit/ movies Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:16:04 2020 No.14980813 [Reply] [Original]

I’ll start

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>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:02:03 2020 No.14980961 >>14980938 >>14980951 >>14980954 it's just some wacky edgy shit for teen edgelords. whatever.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:02:19 2020 No.14980962 >>14980951 Fucking dumb a24 kiddie lol

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:03:05 2020 No.14980965 File: 101 KB, 674x1000, CaptainFantastic.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] [report] >>14980813 The first and only Hollywood movie to accurately represent the leftist mindset.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:04:36 2020 No.14980972 >>14980961 No, it's one of the best Westerns ever. Don't be a r*dditor.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:13:20 2020 No.14981008 >>14980961 No, Jodorowsky is explicitly occultist. There is certainly meaning to it.

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Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:08:15 2020 No.14980786 [Reply] [Original]

So I made a post a few weeks about this novel, "Possession: A Romance" by A.S Byatt. I mentioned that I was starting it and wondering if peeps had any opinions. Alas, no one replied. Well, I finished it and I must say, it is one of the best reading experiences I've had in a while! The poetry that's in the novel is so good and could easily be put in a collection of Robert Browning, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Emily Dickinson, and Christina Rossetti! The prose is strong, blending dense metaphors with a poetic nature. Once again, I ask, if anyone has read this book, or any other works by A.S Byatt, and whether they enjoyed "Possession: A Romance" or any of her other novels. Even criticisms or annoyances are welcomed!

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:03:14 2020 No.14980966 sorry bud, no one on this shit board reads books by women

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:04:00 2020 No.14980967 >>14980966 i read them sometimes but have'nt read this one

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 02:05:17 2020 No.14980974 >>14980966 >sorry bud, no one on this shit board reads books fixed

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I hate reading Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:05:35 2020 No.14980776 [Reply] [Original]

books are shit

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>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:09:26 2020 No.14980790 >>14980776 Then you came to right place

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:10:11 2020 No.14980794 >>14980776 I hate life. When does God start giving lectures on philosophy where he explains everything?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:10:31 2020 No.14980797 >>14980776 same

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:32:19 2020 No.14980852 >>14980776 How's /b/ doing these days? Still just a bunch of porn?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:38:37 2020 No.14980870 >>14980852 OP here. /lit/ is the only board I've ever posted on. I post here all the time, and I've never read a book I wasn't assigned for school. I hate books and reading. I'd rather make threads on here and talk about literature.

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Works that make you feel like you are astral projecting and don't exist thread? Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:01:15 2020 No.14980762 [Reply] [Original]

It's my favorite type of literature. From There Will Come Soft Rains to Hopscotch (by Cortazar). Shit that makes you doubt if things are real at all and why we are here. Basically, the perfect mix between surrealism and existentialism.

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Anonymous Mon Mar 30 00:55:49 2020 No.14980750 [Reply] [Original]

wake the fuck up. you reading finnegan's wake? you relaly gonna read a book called o'hoolihan's funeral? or infinite jest? Lotta: Laughs the book?

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Favorite Writers and Philosophers Anonymous Mon Mar 30 00:54:39 2020 No.14980748 [Reply] [Original]

>favorite writers
George Orwell
Aldous Huxley
Thomas More
Edward Bernays
J.D Salinger
Stephenie Meyer
John Green

>favorite philosophers
Karl Marx
Vladimir Lenin
Albert Camus
Adolf Hitler
Diogenes
Max Stirner
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ayn Rand
Socrates
Muhammed the Prophet
Rick Sanchez
Garfield
Jacksepticeye
Sans Undertale

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:02:30 2020 No.14980763 I’ll keep it short and sweet >writers - Celine Goethe Dostoevsky Cioran >philosophers Schopenhauer Nietzsche Mainländer

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Anonymous Mon Mar 30 00:43:38 2020 No.14980707 [Reply] [Original]

How true is this book?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 00:46:53 2020 No.14980717 might be fine if he weren't a neocon bitch to israel

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 00:48:36 2020 No.14980724 >>14980707 It dances around the JQ so it's worthless.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:13:44 2020 No.14980805 >complains about mosques replacing churches >is an atheist himself

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 01:13:54 2020 No.14980806 >>14980717 >>14980724 based

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Anonymous Mon Mar 30 00:35:15 2020 No.14980686 [Reply] [Original]

Is it finally happening? Are we about to enter the post-postmodern era?

Anonymous Mon Mar 30 00:37:19 2020 No.14980691

>>14980686
Yes, but it will be cringe and depressing. We'll have all the baggage of postmodernism's decadence, but without the comfortable material conditions that fostered them. So we'll face modern and premodern hardship with no comfort, only stupid horseshit that we memed ourselves into believing while nothing mattered.

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Anonymous Mon Mar 30 00:26:59 2020 No.14980654 [Reply] [Original]

One of these

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Anonymous Mon Mar 30 00:09:53 2020 No.14980565 [Reply] [Original]

I'm a narcissistic sociopath, what books do you think i would enjoy reading? Maybe something that i could relate to or written by a sociopath? Or something completely different really. Just give me some ideas, im bored will be stuck at home for a long time.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 30 00:13:34 2020 No.14980591 Why are you self-isolating if you're a narcissistic sociopath. Also nice blog post, faggot

Anonymous Mon Mar 30 00:20:12 2020 No.14980623

>>14980591
I'm bed bound rightnow pretty much, also being one doesn't mean we all act 100% alike. I have only mentioned it cause it might affect reading, im not a psychologist but i assume i might relate to certain books different than other people would

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