/lit/ - Literature

>>17438027
>Ottoman Empire
It actually goes like this: Western Rome -> HRE -> German Empire -> Third Reich -> European Union

>>15518991
following this book will ruin your life, or turn you into a narcissist in training at best. if you surround yourself with fake friends, you will eventually feel like you don't fit in and feel out of place. I would only advise following this book's rules in a workplace setting.

>walk into the bookstore
>want to check the philosophy section for another translation of beyond good and evil
>walk over
>some balding manlet with a cane and a bag from banana republic is literally blocking all three shelves
>wait 10 minutes for this pozzed retard to pick his books and fuck off
>get tired of waiting and approach the shelf I want
>intentionally knock his cane over
>he starts to whine very jewishly
>tell him he's taking too long and I'm not obliged to deal with his handicap
>continues to fuss while I pull my book and walk away
>see him again in line at the register
>look at what he's carrying
>althusser and sartre
>mfw

>>13517537
Ordered it in the mail when I was getting out-processed from the army as a trainee. Outer Dark, Blood Meridian, No Longer Human, and One Hundred Years of Solitude were the only books I had and I read them each several times while I was stuck in the outprocessing barracks (was there over a month). still one of the comfiest reading experiences I've had, curled up in my locker in the dead of winter in Missouri.
>mfw people always came up to my bunk and said "you look really into that book anon, can i read it when you're done?"
>"you're not gonna like it"
>mfw they don't listen and demand it anyways
>mfw they always bring it back within the hour
>mfw they all (males and females both) passed around copies of John Green novels instead

>>13517728
from wikipedia:
>The time and setting are nebulous, but can be assumed to be somewhere in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the twentieth century.
dude living innawoods with his sister Sweet Home Alabamas her, then disposes of the baby. Sister still wants it and sets out in search for it. Story follows those two characters and another separate group of mysterious individuals. Plenty of biblical allusions, nihilism, and the "natural incoherence", for lack of a better term, that is present in lots of McCarthy's work. It's not quite as beautiful as BM but it definitely has the kind of writing you linger on.

>>12895053
>luminiferous ether

>>12609463
utilize

>>12290744

>>12275258

Anytime I see skin defined as creamy I think of fevered thighs done up cottage-cheese style, trembling and gelatinous.

No bueno.

>>11796027

God is for pussies that seek cover in a false belief. Your gods aren't real and therefore they can't give a reason or a heal.
Just shut the fuck up with your autistic stuff, m8. You are weak if you don't accept the fact that religions are created from men, just another abstract object we all agreed upon like money, power and so on. If you realise this and still "seek hope with him", you are just weak.

>>11675435

> There are people on this board RIGHT NOW who don't speak German and French

>>11065864
>being this mad about people venting on an Australian Bean Farming Forum
Why?

>>11016492
Voyeurism. Disgusting.

>>10917380
I mean, Plato said that man was a featherless biped, Spinoza argued that animals are not conscious and Descartes thought apes could speak our language but just pretended not to be able to. Just because someone is brilliant it doesn't mean they are without flaw, especially after long periods of time and development in the field. You don't have to be Michel Roux to say that your food tastes like shit, mate.

>>10640162
>People who don't wear gloves whenever they handle a book
>People who take books outside
>People who don't clean their books before and after each use

>be math major
>take ancient philosophy class for fun
>find it very enjoyable and interesting
>talking to the other students, it seems like I'm the only one who even does the reading
>everybody bitching that Aristotle is too hard
>some of these people are seniors
>realize anyone who would choose philosophy as a major probably doesn't deserve philosophy

>>9893438
>favourite philosopher
>Aristotle
Gross.

>>9778286

>borges tattoo

fashion reader baka

>>9759968

Never say this r9k shit again. Your positive intellectual growth is everything and women are a passing meme until you find the right one.

>>9635646
I'm not even going to pirate it out of pure disgust.

>>9616661
Delete this

> this poor girl just wants to talk about things she likes in a video format to other readers

> internet virgins become obsessed with her, and have entire threads dedicated to a girl who probably just wants peace and quiet.

Holy shit

I think this is the worst thread I've ever seen on this board. Nothing but vapid greentext and no actual discussion.

>>8613882
> that guy who checks his phone in between chapters

>>8554946
>mightn't

Is it really that much of a bother to just write "might not" that you have to resort to an abomination of a contraction, you lazy piece of shit?