Pick 5 books to save for posterity.

[Anonymous No.15601030]

Say an asteroid hits Earth and these five books are to the basis of human culture. Which books would you choose?

[Anonymous No.15601037]

>>15601030
Don Quixote

[Anonymous No.15601048]

>>15601030
Don Quixote
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Brothers Karamazov
The Republic
Bhagavid Gita

[Anonymous No.15601063]

Anna Karenina
Moby Dick
Collected works of Shakespeare
A combined edition of the Iliad and the Odyssey
The Hammer of God by Clarke (hopefully the aliens would find this amusing)

[Anonymous No.15601330]

>The Cambridge World History (9-Volume Set).
Counts as One.
>Epic of Gilgamesh (Norton Critical Edition)
>>Thomas Taylor Collected Works (The Thomas Taylor Series by Prometheus Trust)
Counts as ONE!
>Miriam Lichtheim - Ancient Egyptian Literature
>Everyman's Library: Montaigne - Complete Works
I might have to flip a coin between Montaigne and Fagles Penguin Box Set of Homer and Aeneid. ALSO ONE.
For I can buy Butler's Iliad and Odyssey in one volume, or I can buy one book cut up into multiple volumes yet we count both of these as single books. One is a book with books in it, the other is two books constituting one book.
Thus a set of volumes is 'one book'. Like Coopers edition of the Complete Works of Plato, this is one book. Or the Bible. If I can't do this nobody here can name the Bible, for it is no more one Book that any other set of inter-connected volumes.

[Anonymous No.15601339]

Moon People That Come From The Moon
Bhagavid Gita

[Anonymous No.15601402]

>>15601030
The Dhammapada
Bhagavad Gita
The New Testament
A Theory of Justice by John Rawls
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

[Anonymous No.15601418]

>>15601030
carlos castaneda, only.

[Anonymous No.15603174]

>>15601330
>Wikipedia printed in all languages
COUNTS AS ONE!

[Anonymous No.15603182]

>>15601402
>Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
AHAHAHAHA

[Anonymous No.15603184]

>>15603174
Yes.

[Anonymous No.15603204]

The Epic of Gilgamesh
Tao Te Ching
On the Nature of Things
Metamorphoses
Kojiki

[Anonymous No.15603231]

>The World as Will and Representation, Schopenhauer
>The Trouble with Being Born, Cioran
>Better Never to Have Been, David Benatar
>The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Thomas Ligotti
>The Philosophy of Redemption, Philipp Mainländer

[Anonymous No.15603271]

>>15603231
Ivans Childood was a useless, but well filmed, movie.

[Anonymous No.15603279]

>>15603271
I think I agree. I don't even remember what it was supposed to be about. But it had great looking scenes.

[Anonymous No.15603327]

>>15601030
-The Iliad and Odyssey with Hesiod at the back
-The Complete Greek Tragedies(shut up I can make it a book!)
-The Complete Works of Plato
-The Complete Works of Shakespeare
-The Bible
+(given the variability of this proposition)
-The Complete Works of Goethe
-The Complete Works of Aristotle
-Vedas/Upanishads
-Tao Te Ching
-Complete Works of Kant
-Complete Works of Heidegger


Ignoring any problems for translation, supposing it is either a perfect translation or no translation needed.

This was too difficult to make.

[Anonymous No.15603332]

>>15603279
Too bad you couldn't actually appreciate the scenes in the movie because of how one follows from the previous.

[Anonymous No.15603335]

>>15603332
It's a shame.

[Anonymous No.15603351]

>>15603335
Tarkovsky said himself that if anything was similar to how a previous film had done it, he made it different. Essentially meaning he just tried to be abstract in the emotion of the film on purpose; now this sometimes works, obviously because he was intelligent and designed some scenes well also using this difference to his advantage such as the aesthetic and its relation to the story and character, but it seems so much more often than not it did nothing other than make a perplexing emotion, which for the sake of the movie ruined it. Stalker seems like the closest thing he ever got to a great movie. Even then, the pointlessness of the whole endeavour by the filming's action, not the story, must be ignored and disavowed from ones mind to appreciate some inner kernel of directive truth in the film. What we may think he was trying to do, anyhow.