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Who is the Werner Herzog of literature? Someone who puts a lens on humans and shows how strange they are, while waxing philosophical with a tinge of fatalistic pessimism.

>> No.20580361

Werner Herzog literally released a novel this month.
And it was just OK.

>> No.20580364

>>20580361
It was kino

>> No.20580365

Hesse

>> No.20580366

>>20580361
I was worried someone would answer with that. I don't mean literally.

>> No.20580378

Dostoevsky by far.

>> No.20580388
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>>20580378
I need someone else. read a ton of him already. plus I dont think that is a good fit.
I reckon Ill give Werners book about the dumb Nip a chance.

>> No.20580412

Cioran.

>> No.20580613

>>20580412
bin meaning to read this guy, where do I start?

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>>20580388

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>>20580617
That's a rough one, sorry to drop it on you like that. This should cheer you up sweetheart.

>> No.20580644

>>20580361
wow thanks man im so out of the loop

>> No.20581581

>>20580378
Kurosawa feels more akin to Dostoevsky in several of his films

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>>20580388
It really is all just an eternal struggle isn't it

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>>20581639
and no one can save you

>> No.20581767

>>20580613
Précis de décomposition.

>> No.20581781

>>20581767
I don't speak Spanish

>> No.20581859

>>20580351
this was one of the saddest, angriest days in the last 5 years of my life and someone had to post this penguin, why today of all days
>>20580388
now I'm fucking crying, why are people like that? I hate this world everything is so wrong in it, jesus why was I brought into this hell

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>>20581859
Hey brother, I know it can get hard, but even Jesus dropped his cross. Hang in there.

>> No.20581892

every fucking time I remember all the soul destroying shit I saw in documentaries about penguins and I can't put a lid on it so I keep feeling like shit for hours

>> No.20581898

>>20581887
I know that one too. You're really cruel man. Cruel to people and cruel to penguins

>> No.20581902

>>20581898
you gotta toughen up, kid.

>> No.20581919

the ugly secret is that it gets worse as you age if you let it get to you
it's easy to be a cynical fuck when you're young

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>>20581898
Don't lose hope, there are good penguins out there.

>> No.20581947

>>20580388
what documentary is this from?

>> No.20581971

>>20581923
I can't believe such a goofy and cute animal is the saddest fucking animal on this cursed Earth. Every moment of a penguin's life is suicide inducing.

>> No.20581982

>>20581971
bro, I don't even have the stomach to save the one where the penguin is getting raped to death by a walrus. God is truly indifferent to our suffering.

>> No.20581994

>>20581982
the worst thing of all is that us people were the only species equipped with the consciousness and empathy to become a beacon of light onto this horrible planet, instead we managed to outdo nature itself in cruelty and bloodshed.

>> No.20582081

>>20581994
Your telling me brother, I killed 3 to 5 people in Afghanistan.

>> No.20582129

>>20582081
Fucking hell. How does that feel?

>> No.20582162

>>20582129
probably worse than recording the penguin videos

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>>20581781
amazing

>> No.20582228

>>20581947
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnTU_hJoByA

>> No.20582249

>>20581947
if it is same as OP it is Encounters at the End of the World

>> No.20582274

>>20582129
Let me get a few more beers in me an I'll try to write a new part of my 4chanistan memoirs. I have a few floating around the archives already.

>> No.20582287

i think most modernists would fit OP's description. Certainly Faulkner

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>>20582274
note to self:
drop guns and training the Kteh Khas (afghan commandos)
Accidently smuggling a flashbang back from Israeli
Getting roofied in Munich
Guy breaking leg during fast rope
Recycling ranger school (twice)
Envy at peer getting a kill before me
Carrying and firing the goose
People heat cat'ing on missions
drinking tea with the afghans
parachute failure during training (webm related, i know its small af)

>> No.20582358

>>20582328
more:
Piss bottle fiasco
Shit ponds
towed jumpers
dog chewing on dead guys
stepping on rotting body
smoking private on a 5mile run (rip, he was /lit/ too)
poison ivy during ranger school
Dog city with the regular army
being threated to be skullfucked to death Somalia vet 1st sergeant on first day of RASP

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>>20582358
Pizza hut in BAF
Tripping on Ambien on a c17 to Rammstein (every deployment)
Getting used as a test dummy for Nasopharyngeal Airway Tubes
Chemlight rave party in BAF with the boys
Codenames for every fuckable woman in Bagram
Dick exposure during obstacle course race (I won, pic related)

>> No.20582453

Richard Powers tbqh

>> No.20582535

>>20580388
:(