/lit/ - Literature

>>17328513
"Ten Days That Shook the World" is great, though it's written from a rather naive pro-Bolshevik perspective.

>>17328747
I'm not sure I can tell you anything about them that's not obvious from the website. That said, I have this one and think it's quite charming.

>>17328409
I've read das book.

>>17328468
>Stoics would be considered psychopaths my modern standards
I'm not sure you understand Stoicism or psychopathy. Stoicism doesn't advocate ridding yourself of all emotions; Seneca even stresses the benefits of chilling out and getting drunk from time to time.

>>17328241
I second this.

>>17328012
Glad I could help!

>>17327475
Impressive you managed to jam so many clichés into just eight lines.

>>17327841
>People who sing and play music know how unimpressive singing is.
I'm not a person who sings, therefore excellent-quality singing is very impressive, even mysterious, to me.

>>17327797
>I'm Jewish myself so I don't care, but lots of anon seems to have weird fetishes around that, one way or the other.
See the above. If I ever get married, I'd like to step on a glass; that looks like fun.

>>17327841
>People who sing and play music know how unimpressive singing is.
I'm not a person who sings, therefore excellent-quality singing is very impressive, even mysterious, to me.

>I'm Jewish myself so I don't care, but lots of anon seems to have weird fetishes around that, one way or the other.
See the above. If I ever get married, I'd like to step on a glass; that looks like fun.

>>17327836
>Epictetus even was a slave, probably had it far worse than me, yet I am the one getting crushed by this life.
Up to a point, I think what you experience as difficult or burdensome adjusts according to your day-to-day experience. I spent two years living in a mud hut in West Africa; during this period, experiences like getting an abscess or suffering from debilitating diarrhea were considered moderate misfortunes at worst. Now that I'm back in the First World, my sense of what's difficult and what's easy has readjusted, and I suspect that if I got an abscess now, I'd consider it a significant misfortunate rather than a minor one. All this to say, I think that if you spent a few years as a Roman slave, your personal sense of what counts as suffering would readjust. It wouldn't be an unbearable burden, because, to you, it would simply be normal life.

>>17325550
I love the way he describes sexual encounters: he usually notes the hair colors, ethnicities and ages of the women in question, and tallies off a list of sex acts. To my observation, this is a pretty accurate reflection of the way men view casual sex.

>>17326527
This is a plucked-chicken-tier take.

>>17327768
>aren’t really things people give a shit about
You're embarrassing yourself.

>>17325658
Get a bookmark from Mitercraft and thank me later.

>>17327623
Is it really that readable? I'm interested in the topic, but thought the book might be a taxing read.

>>17327731
Oh, come on. If you were born in a Mormon community you'd believe it too. Hell, if you were born in ancient Canaan, you'd be worshiping a cow right now.

>>17327728
>Why live a counterfeit life, or why deny the best life?
If you're cute, go for it.

If not, concentrate on your writing.

>>17325646
It bothers me that everyone obsesses over her tits. She's Jewish AND an opera soprano; those are better attributes to fetishize.

>>17327326
>enough fucking swedetwink memes
Philistine

>>17325870
I’m two books into the Emigrants series. I really need to go back and finish it eventually.

>>17323817
No, but it's still worthwhile. I like turning on something comfy like Beowulf or Sir Gawain when I'm going to sleep.

>>17324436
If you're going Stoic, my advice is to start with Epictetus over Marcus. They're both very concise writers, but Epictetus is funny and sassy, which Marcus definitely is not.

>>17322142
I started with Capital and it didn't do me any harm. I also happened to be working night shift at Walmart, which really helped me get the most out of it.

I loled at "1917" and "glove."

>>17322146
A noble enterprise.

This is one of the few poems I have committed to memory.

>>17321586