/lit/ - Literature

*a menacing queef is heard in the distance*

>>22797322
>suffering
>obviously fixable with neurotech
who else hyped for next-gen manmade horrors?

Any good book where evil wins?

I Literally just finished the Intro for Volume 1 and am impressed by the sheer breadth of his knowledge on so many subjects. He is already my idol and I have only read 50 pages.
Does it get even better?
The passage in the Intro where he talks about the invention of clocks around 1000 AD really blew my fucking mind.
I never thought about it, but ancient man’s perception of time must have been so different from ours that if you were to somehow be in a room with Plato and try to have a discussion with him it would be like talking to an inter dimensional alien

>Flashman and the Redskins
>Les Miserables
>not sure yet. Someone tell me what to read

Hey frens
If I’m trying to study philosophy from the beginning to contemporary, basically I want to learn it from a historical perspective AND a philosophical perspective. where should I go after Republic? This is what I’ve done so far;
1. Oxford’s Presocratics by Waterfield
2. The Life and Death of Socrates
3. Republic
Where should I go from Republic?
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what are some works of literature that will change your life with their insights into the nature of existence and reality. Stuff like Letters from a Stoic

>>12221170
>Western (white) canon books make books seem alienating to women and marginialised groups.
Would she like the Maharabata and Sima Qian?