/lit/ - Literature

Moby Dick - Melville
The Critique of Pure Reason - Kant x9
The Three leaps of Wang Lun - Döblin

Take up the White Man's burden—
Send forth the best ye breed—
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild—
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child.

Take up the White Man's burden—
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain.
To seek another's profit,
And work another's gain.

Take up the White Man's burden—
The savage wars of peace—
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch Sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.

Take up the White Man's burden—
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper—
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go make them with your living,
And mark them with your dead!

Take up the White Man's burden—
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard—
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:—
"Why brought ye us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?"

Take up the White Man's burden—
Ye dare not stoop to less—
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloak your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples
Shall weigh your Gods and you.

Take up the White Man's burden—
Have done with childish days—
The lightly proffered laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years,
Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers!


RUDYARD KIPLING THREAD NOW!

what is the nature of based? is based an ethical or aesthetic judgement? is it merely a rehash of "cool" with a thin veneer of internet culture painted over it? is being based merely contrarianism? how do phrases like "based and redpilled" and "based, but bluepilled" differ?
are there any authors to study the nature of based (not just be based)?

>being and time
>discipline and punish
>difference and repetition
>simulacra and simulation
what is it with these authors picking two subject matters and stitching them together? ooooh was dissecting the nature of Being just not good enough Heidigger???? you gotta have Time as well????? I will never read any of the books by these hack pseud's.

What are some books about the commodification of the Negro in the age of mass culture?

> Is reading the key to enlightenment?

No.

The man in the middle is the enlightened writer. The people surrounding him are his loving readers.