/lit/ - Literature

>>21679485
It kind of reminds me of in Gödel Escher Bach where he says you can think of an entire ant hill as a consciousness which emerges from the sum of relationships between the individual ants which are its subordinant organelles.

>>18315766
Unironically
Read about the Indo-Europeans culture and religion
Like Beowulf and the Poetic Eddas
and pic related

>>17541123
Changed me.

>>17526538
This is required reading.

>>17250372
You might like pic related. There used to be a guy who would shill it on here, maybe he'll show up and give you a more detailed rundown.
>What are the books a Roman young man would be recommended in Ancient Rome when he asked his elders what a good book would be on how to act as a man?
That never would have happened. Not only is defining yourself based on a book kind of a stupid idea, it's also a modern notion that didn't exist before the printing press and that hasn't really been all that popular until the past century. The Abrahamic holy books might be an exception, but obviously an ancient Roman man wouldn't be reading any of those.

>>17035384
>>17035008
Actually the most important book ever written is Coulanges' The Ancient City

>>16886365

>>16637471
Ellul's Propaganda
Moby DIck
Tom Jones
Don Quixote
The Ancient City
Satyricon
The Shallows
As I Lay Dying
A Canticle for Liebowitz
The True Believer

I think that's it.

You niggas need to read pic related.

No, but it's essential to read the Ancient City by Fustel de Coulanges.