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Truman Capote !kwxizAOFlk Mon Sep 27 09:18:14 2010 No.1162113 [Reply] [Original]

Which book perfectly encapsulates your outlook on life, /lit/?

I'll go first.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 09:19:14 2010 No.1162114 File: 22 KB, 300x412, brautigan.watermelon.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 09:20:14 2010 No.1162116 File: 21 KB, 190x323, WaitingForGodot.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] More or less.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 09:22:14 2010 No.1162123 inb4 Catcher in the Rye >>1162116 This.

>>	STLFag !IeX.oK0HUk Mon Sep 27 09:24:14 2010 No.1162125 >>1162113 You already posted it.

>>	Truman Capote !kwxizAOFlk Mon Sep 27 09:27:14 2010 No.1162133 File: 13 KB, 450x220, my-son-what-have-ye-done.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1162125 I know, but that thread is gone now.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 09:29:14 2010 No.1162134 Lolita

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 09:32:14 2010 No.1162140 File: 45 KB, 532x392, pirsigbike.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1162113 Zen in the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 27 09:37:14 2010 No.1162147 File: 23 KB, 300x300, stephens_book.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Keep your quasi-religious philosophical bullshit.

>>	STLFag !IeX.oK0HUk Mon Sep 27 09:38:14 2010 No.1162148 >>1162133 wat

Truman Capote !kwxizAOFlk Mon Sep 27 09:44:14 2010 No.1162163
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>>1162148

Sorry I thought you were referring to a previous thread a couple of days ago where I posted this.

I'm glad you were enthralled by Sisyphus too.

Have you read the outsider?

✡יעקןב✡ !068VhxJHLQ Mon Sep 27 11:35:14 2010 No.1162354

"The Picture of Dorian Gray"
Basil, Dorian, and Harry each represent a portion of our own self image, Basil: our self-image, Dorian-what we aspire to be/idealize, and Harry: how we perceive the world sees us. In order to truly achieve autonomous identity, we must find a balance between the three. Otherwise, our lives can never be in balance. Wilde shows this in the novel with Dorian's eventual demise. When Dorian dies, the reader sees that if all three ideas war with each other, only one will survive. We mustn't let who we are outweigh what we aspire to be, what the world thinks of us outweigh who we are, and who we aspire to be outweigh how the world sees us.

[Edit] I think I'm going to put that into my Dorian Gray paper :)

>>	Truman Capote !kwxizAOFlk Mon Sep 27 11:39:14 2010 No.1162366 File: 32 KB, 524x720, george-orwell.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1162354 >We mustn't let who we are outweigh what we aspire to be Try telling that to my sociology lecturer.

>>	✡יעקןב✡ !068VhxJHLQ Mon Sep 27 11:42:14 2010 No.1162371 >>1162366 If your sociology professor suggests surpressing your aspirations in order to fit into a sociological model, tell him exactly where to stick his model. If everyone conformed to sociological norms, we would live in a Marxist society.

>>	✡יעקןב✡ !068VhxJHLQ Mon Sep 27 11:46:14 2010 No.1162374 Unfortunately, gentlemen, I must get to class. I'll be back in about an hour. Until then, keep this in mind: A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

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>>	✡יעקןב✡ !068VhxJHLQ Mon Sep 27 13:12:14 2010 No.1162472 And I'm back. So what's going on in the wide world of /lit/?

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