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You will go to solitary confinement for the next 10 years. You are allowed to take 3 books with you, the only books you will have during that time. What books will you take with you?

>> No.19919271

>>19919268
Maps of Meaning, 12 Rules for Life, Beyond Order

>> No.19919276

>>19919268
Kants three critiques

>> No.19919286

The Holy Bible, Authorized Version
The Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms
1650 Scottish metrical Psalter

>> No.19919289

>>19919268
KJV, Brothers K,War & Peace

>> No.19919296

>>19919268
Depends on what happens after those 10 years, am I released or do I spend the rest of my life in prison but not solitary?

>> No.19919299

>>19919268
>solitary confinement
>anything but escapist fiction
You're going to kill yourself in a month with half these choices...

>> No.19919305

>>19919268
Collected Works of Shakespeare
Holy Bible with Apocrypha
1001 Arabian Nightsjx2v0

>> No.19919307

>>19919296
imagine not wanting to stay in prison. It's going to be 2042 do you have an idea of how fucked it will be?

>> No.19919314

>>19919307
*2032
derp

>> No.19919316
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>>19919296
it goes straight to the gas chamber

>> No.19919323

>>19919316
then I will just bring three joke books.

>> No.19919325

Collected writings of the Church Fathers
Collected works of Marx and Engels.
Those yellow math books written by that one russian guy.

>> No.19919330
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>>19919316
bliss

>> No.19919332

Das Kapital, War and Peace, Quran.
Id need books with plenty of food for thoughts, and I have already studied the bible.

>> No.19919338

>>19919325
>Those yellow math books written by that one russian guy.
elaborate please

>> No.19919340

>>19919268
Diary of a wimpy kid book one, diary of a wimpy kid cabin fever, diary of a wimpy kid dog days.

>> No.19919357

>>19919268
Three Books of Occult Philosophy
The Works of Paracelsus
Meditations on the Tarot

>> No.19919360
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Jane Eyre
Brothers Karamazov
The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy

>> No.19919367

Bible
My old diaries
Some book about mushrooms

>> No.19919376

>>19919338
He's not Russian.
This guy
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Lang#List_of_books

>> No.19919377
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>>19919367

>> No.19919389

>>19919268
the complete fiction by hp lovecraft (that purple edition)
the iliad
either the bible or the mahabharata
>>19919268
this room is literally as furnished asmine is (minus the couple of boxes i use to store some books)

>> No.19919395

>>19919268
Don Quixote, Borges' Collected Fictions and Ulysses

>> No.19919399

>>19919377
Thank you for this shroomy recommendation anon.

>> No.19919473

The Quran
Al-Kafi
Masnavi

>> No.19919485

Torah with all the commentaries. Plys the other 2 completing the Tanakh.

>> No.19919490

Thickest possible porno mag
Second thickest possible porno mag
Third thickest possible porno mag

>> No.19919501

>>19919268
Any three books on my shelf
Finish them all in a day
Write my eulogy
Kill myself

>> No.19919503

Anna Karenina
Casanova's History of My Life
Orlando Furioso

>> No.19919507

>>19919490
Only good answer.

>> No.19919515

Is it possible to get all volumes of "a dance to the music of time" in one book?

>> No.19919539

>>19919268
the enneads
then I don't know, another philosophical or religious text that isn't the bible because the bible in solitary is like a chemical formula for schizophrenia
>>19919305
shakespeare sounds good
so does don quixote

>> No.19919559

>>19919399
It is the mushroom bible. "Toadstools, Mushrooms, Fungi Edible and Poisonous. One Thousand American Fungi. How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous" by McIlvaine is also quite good, his definition of "edible" is somewhat suspect, man had an iron gut. Fun book.

>> No.19919560

>>19919268
>You will go to solitary confinement for the next 10 years
I'll pass

>> No.19919561

>>19919340
I'd go with Rodrick Rules, as I've already studied Dog Days

>> No.19919572

>>19919268
the farey queene (coronation eddition)
thrice greatest hermes (3 volumes in 1)
the hermetic museum (26 alchemical tractates)
yes im going to come out so fucking enlightened bros

>> No.19919583

>>19919572
>yes im going to come out
bro I have bad news for you >>19919316

>> No.19919584

>>19919268
My college study Bible
The Divine Comedy
The Brothers Karamazov

>> No.19919598
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>>19919539
>the bible in solitary is like a chemical formula for schizophrenia
Brother you're gonna be there for 10 years you'll need friends

>> No.19919599

How to Tunnel Out of Prison
Sailing for Dummies
Wilderness survival

>> No.19919611

>>19919599
>How to Tunnel Out of Prison
>Sailing for Dummies
>Wilderness survival
lmao

>> No.19919664

King James Study Bible
Martyrs Mirror
Classic Christianity: A Systematic Theology

>> No.19919684

>>19919268
collected works of frege
collected works of russell
collected works of wittgenstein

when I come out all the bitches will be on my dick.

>> No.19919730

Principia Mathematica
Sudoku puzzle book
Mason & Dixon

>> No.19919754

Homer, Ovid, and Dante

>> No.19919756

>>19919268
playboy: the complete centerfolds 1953-2016
the complete asterix
the complete sherlock holmes

>> No.19919764

>>19919268

Escaping Prison for Dummies
Evading Capture for Dummiea
Making Money Under the Table for Dummies

>> No.19920189

>>19919611
weak
>hypnosis
>OSS disguises
>dim mak manual

>> No.19920193

>>19919268
The Bible
The Brothers Karamazov
Lord of the Rings (3 in 1 volume)

>> No.19920401

In Search of Lost Time
1001 Nights
The Man Without Qualities

>> No.19920422

>Grays Anatomy
>biggest book about math I can find
>dictionary of all languages (I find all the dictionaries with expired copyrights and publish it under one book)

>> No.19920434
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— «EL CRITICÓN», POR: BALTASAR GRACIÁN.

— «POESÍA LÍRICA» DE JUANA INÉS DE LA CRUZ, EDICIÓN DE «CÁTEDRA»

— LA SAGRADA BIBLIA, EDICIÓN DE JUAN STRAUBINGER.

>> No.19920441

Eragon
Hitler’s war
World war Z

>> No.19920446

>>19920441
This and a pint.

>> No.19920449

>>19919268
1. Bible
2. doesn't matter
3. doesn't matter

>> No.19920457

>>19919268
The Bible
Plato's Republic
Plato's Laws

>> No.19920474

>>19919268
stefan zweig anthology
bible
some huge book of chess masters' games

im gonna go insane no matter what

>> No.19920589
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>>19919268
Heraclitus' lost work
In the Realms of the Unreal by Henry Darger
The Philokalia

>> No.19920600

>>19919271
This is a good plan. It'll help you work up the courage to kill yourself in a matter of hours.

>> No.19920616
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>>19920589
>Henry Joseph Darger Jr. was an American writer, novelist and artist who worked as a hospital custodian in Chicago, Illinois.
>He has become famous for his posthumously discovered 15,145-page, single-spaced fantasy manuscript called "The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion", along with several hundred drawings and watercolor paintings illustrating the story.
>The visual subject matter of his work ranges from idyllic scenes in Edwardian interiors and tranquil flowered landscapes populated by children and fantastic creatures, to scenes of horrific terror and carnage depicting young children being tortured and massacred.

>> No.19920716

For him was lever have at his beddes heed
Twenty bokes, clad in blak or reed,
Of Aristotle and his philosophye

>> No.19920737

A book where I hid a loaded gun inside of it

>> No.19920744

>>19920616
If he lived in recent times he'd be a /lit/ incelposter instead of writing an epic 15000 page saga

>> No.19920747
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>>19919340
Not bad. I would substitute Rodrick Rules for Dog Days. Haven't read Cabin Fever but I've heard it's kino

>> No.19920749

The Count of Monte Cristo
Chess Story
Crime and Punishment

>> No.19920753
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>>19919268
Okay, unironically:

1) The Bible
2) The Collected Works of William Shakespeare
3) Don Quixote

>> No.19920834

>>19919268
>Don Quixote
>Arabian Nights
>Machado obra completa
I feel like bringing in any philosophy or religious book will just drive me mad in the long term.

>> No.19920941

Bible
War and Peace
Webster's 1828 Dictionary (yes, read the dictionary) or some single-volume encyclopedia

>> No.19920944

>>19919268
Cant I just cheat and bring a really long ass book like the philiokalia?

>> No.19920949

Bible
Complete Works of Plato
Complete Works of Shakespeare

>> No.19921005

>>19919268
Holy Bible, Vulgate and Douay-Rheims
Summa Theologica
Theologia Moralis (St. Alphonsus of Ligouri)

>> No.19921018

>>19921005
On second thought, I will take the Divine Office (pre-Vatican II ofc) over St. Alphonsus. Seems moar practical for solitary confinement and covers more ground in combination with the other 2 rather than 2 theolgical works plus Bible

>> No.19921056

Complete Plato
Complete Shakers
Dao de Ching (I would like a copy with the Nei-Ye and Zhuang Zi attached please).

>> No.19921288

1. Gulliver's Travels
2. The War of the Worlds
3. Four Comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, the Tempest, Twelfth Night

>> No.19921341

Bible
Complete Shakespeare
One of the Hero system complete rule books. It's a math-heavy and open ended ttrpg, I'd make up characters and run solo games with dung as randomisers. Would unironically keep me sane.

>> No.19921485

>>19919490
Underrated.

>> No.19921849

>>19919268
Phenomenology of the Spirit. In 10 years I think I will finish the preface this time.

>> No.19921960

Collected works of Virgil
The Iliad and Odyssey
The Divine Comedy

Everything with both the original text and a translation

>> No.19921969

>Ulysses
>One of those big ass motherfucking Norton Anthology of Literature books
>In Search of Lost Time

>> No.19922031
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>>19919268
Course of Theoretical Physics
Lev Landau (Vol. 1–3, 5–8)
Evgeny Lifshitz (Vol. 1–10)
Vladimir Berestetskii (Vol. 4)
Lev Pitaevskii (Vol. 4, 9–10)

>> No.19922046

the book of the new sun
die stadt der träumenden bücher
2666

>> No.19922049

>>19919268
Quran
1001 nights
playboy mag

>> No.19922056

>>19922049
enter as a boy
emerge as a bvll

>> No.19922067

>>19919268
Plato: Complete Works
The Science of Logic (three volumes in one)
Bible with Apocrypha

>> No.19922098

Bible with Apocrypha
Summa Theologica
The Enneads

Bonus book slipped in: The Collected works of Saint John of the Cross

By the time my ten years is finished, I will almost certainly be an enlightened being

>> No.19922106

>>19919268
Notes from underground
Anti-oedipus
Thus spoke zarathustra

>> No.19922122

Some big ass zen Buddhism book by Dogen.
Poetry not sure which.
Yeah maybe Plato I guess.

>> No.19922273

>>19919583
ima be the most enlightened person to be strapped to that chair then!

>> No.19922276

>>19919357
>Three Books of Occult Philosophy
way to repetitive and you should've already read it

>> No.19922303

>>19919268
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki
On the Jewish question
The bible (to hang myself)

>> No.19922689

3 books isn't enough stimulation for 10 years, so I'm going to bend the rules and take multi-volume works as a single book.

>Proust
>Capitalism and Schizophrenia
>Norton's Poetry Anthology

>> No.19922739

>>19919268
>not printing your own books
>not making 3 A4 Sized, ~900 page long, written with the smallest readable font, book collections of hundreds of a bunch of other books.
But to humour your scenario,
the spice and wolf anniversary edition,
the divine comedy
and the complete works of Plato

>> No.19922763

>>19920589
>>19920616
>In the Realms of the Unreal by Henry Darger

>look for book
>only copy on amazon costs €2000

>> No.19922768

Bible, Quran, Talmud

>> No.19922791

Bible, TBK, and something extremely massive like Proust.

>> No.19922810

>>19919559
Edible ≠ Palatable
Toxic ≠ Poisonous
This is especially true when it comes to wild edibles, there's an edible fungus, I forget witch because it's not in my area of the world, that is totally Edible, but it contains a neurotoxin that inhibits alcohol processing enzymes, causing an INSTANT hangover for any one who ingests both within 24-48hrs

>> No.19922820

>>19919268
I don't read books

>> No.19922830

The Technological Society
Philosophical Investigations
Ressentiment

>> No.19922840

>>19919268
I could tear the cloth on that bed, make a rope and kill myself so maybe just some Heidegger before I leave.

>> No.19922864

>War & Peace
>The Brothers Karamozov
>An english dictionary (my autism would kill me if I were to stumble upon a word that I didn't understand)

>> No.19922873

>>19922864
>war and peace
you'll need a french dictionary

>> No.19922879

>>19919268
Complete works of Shakespeare, The Critique of Pure Reason and a book of songs to sing

>> No.19922896

>>19919268
Bible, Mein Kampf, Crime and Punishment

>> No.19922916

>>19919268
Βίοι Παράλληλοι
Πλάτων complete works
An ancient greek dictionnary

>> No.19922932

>>19919268
this is crazy hard but probably
Douay-Rheims, Vulgate adjacent
Norton Anthology of Poetry
William Faulkner: Novels 1926-1929

>> No.19922942

1. War and Peace dual language edition.
2. Les Misérables dual language edition.
3. A porno mag with Sasha Gray in it.

I'm coming out of there fluent in Russian and French and with a porno mag with all of its pages stuck together.

>> No.19922947
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>>19919268
> You are allowed to take 3 books with you
Only the Bible.

>> No.19922949

>>19920434
this is an english speaking board

>> No.19922962
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>>19920616
Just wait until you learn that Darger painted all of the "subjects" in his art, regardless of sex, with penises...quite possibly because he was a raging autist and didn't know any better. His landlady thought he was the most popular bloke on the block because of all the lively voices of various accents she heard conversing in his room. He was alone.

>> No.19922977

>>19919268
The Holy Bible
The Torah
The Quran

>> No.19923271

>>19919268
The Bible
The 48 Laws of Power
Phenomenology of Spirit

>> No.19923274

>>19919286
>>19919305
>>19919325
>>19919332
>>19919357
Midwit copium

>> No.19923352

>>19923274
no you

>> No.19923374
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The Bible (Catholic - Interlinear + Strong's Concordance)
The Divine Office
Collected Works of St. John of the Cross

>> No.19923405

>>19919268
Plato, Aristotle, The Bible

>> No.19923417

>>19922840
Good luck tying to something, the whole cell is designed so you cant do that. Single person cells are usually monitored and if you try to kill youself a guard will come running to beat the shit out of you and they will take away you shoelaces, shaving razors and will give you a bedsheet that rips like paper and good luck sleeping on it
Been there done that

>> No.19923512

>>19919268
Monte Cristo
Musashi
Lotr 1 volume

>> No.19923535

>>19923512
that's a fine choice anon

>> No.19923616
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>>19923535

>> No.19923712

Bible, Complete Works of Shakespeare and Summa Theologica.

>> No.19923944

>>19922949


NO; ESTE ES UN FORO DE LITERATURA.

>> No.19923971

>>19919268
Just the Upanishads.

>> No.19924007

>>19920737
this, would kill myself before i would inevitably go insane

>> No.19924050

>>19923352
Aww religious chud getting wimpy huff some more of that middle eastern copium

>> No.19924107

1.How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates
2.How to Be an Antiracist by X. Kendi
3.The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet by Neil deGrasse Tyson

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-Complete Shakespeare, and I would act out all the plays myself as every character, and drive the guards berserk.
-Encyclopædia Britannica, the 32 volumes constitute one book, r-right?
-A big book of large colour photographs of naked ladies.

>> No.19924163

>>19923274
>>19924050
Not him and I realize you're probably just trolling, but the vast majority of people who actually do the shit in OP are monks who just contemplate religion all day
Really doubt any secular work could do the trick unless you're an autistic theoretical mathematician or something of that nature

>> No.19924222

>>19919268
dom quixote
the complete shakespeare collection
and for the third one i'd self puplish a collection with every single doujin i have favourited on nhentai and bring that

>> No.19924245

>>19919271
>12 Rules for Life
kek

>> No.19924264

>>19919268
In Search of Lost Time - Proust
Invitation to a Beheading - Nabokov
Infinite Jest - Wallace

>> No.19924270

>>19923512
me likey

>> No.19924298

>>19924222
based

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René Guénon's

>East and West
>The Crisis of the Modern World
>The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times

>> No.19924515

Phenomenology of Spirit
The Bible
The Idiot

>> No.19924565
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>>19919268
Three notebooks, so I have the substitute and spare parts when one breaks.

>> No.19924602

Honest question...a lot of people are choosing Complete Works-Plato and there is obviously a depth there that would justify having to rely on it for 10 years. However, wouldn't Aristotle (Corpus Aristotelicum) be the more obvious choice given the higher degree of breadth and, arguably, more options regarding the meaningful rabbit holes one could go down?

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Harassment Architecture

Bronze Age Mindset

American Psycho

>> No.19924658

>>19919268
The Bible
Silarillion
Musashi

>> No.19924661

>>19922810
A number of ink cap mushrooms do this. Moderately tasty too.

>> No.19924686

The Complete Essays and Speeches of Mark Twain
Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow
The Complete Screenplay of Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy

>> No.19924724

>>19923274
>>19924050
>I am so smart and you guys are so dumb!
You have to go back.

>> No.19924798

The Bible
Tao Te Ching
Yoga Vasistha

>> No.19924799

The Count of Monte Cristo
Slaughterhouse5
Of mice and men

>> No.19925013

>>19919268
In Search of lost time
The Tartar steppe
Anna Karenina

>> No.19925036

Big book of knock knock jokes
Ripley’s Believe it or not 2016
One of those editions with dubliners, portrait of an artist, Ulysses and finnegans wake

>> No.19925826

>>19922689
>3 books isn't enough stimulation for 10 years, so
It is iiiiiiifffffff yyyyooooouuuuu sssssoooooouuuuuuunnnnnnnnddddd oooooooooouuuuuuuuutttttttttttt eeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaccccccccccchhhhhhhhhhh wwwwwwwwoooooooooorrrrrrrrrddddddddddddddd rrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllllll ssssssssssssssssssssllllllllllllllllllllllloooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

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To be sure to have a step high enough to hang the belt on the ceiling.

>> No.19927841

>>19919268
3 ongoing chinese powertrip webnovel with 10000 chapter minimum

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>>19925036
>Big book of knock knock jokes
this is some 300 IQ shit, how is it possible

>> No.19929324

>>19919268
>Bible
>Complete Shakespeare
>Complete Dante

>> No.19929429

Robert Duncan - The H.D. Book
Samuel Beckett's Trilogy
Lucien Rebatet - Les deux étendards

>> No.19929521

>>19919268
1. The honorable Qur'an
2. Ṣaḥīḥ Al-Bukhārī
3. The Devils Deceptions

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>>19919268
>3 books
What a coincidence, the Goddess of /lit/ has written exactly three marvelous masterpieces.

>> No.19929616

>>19919360
>Jane Eyre
Cute, but Wuthering Heights is obviously the superior Bronte work.

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>>19929521
>Qur'an
Yeah guise let's read the babbling of an illiterate inbred arab mongoloid who made shit up to get personal privileges/money/power ("Yeah Mohammad, you can get an unlimited number of wives, only you... and yes, you can totally rob caravans during the sacred months, only you... oh, and fucking your son's wife? You get it, you can do it, and only you!").

>> No.19929671

>>19922977
torah is the first five books of the old testament. it is included in the bible. lmao wasted a spot for nothing

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>>19924133
easily my favourite answer in the thread

>> No.19929777

>>19929628
Go back to r/atheism

>> No.19929854

>>19919268
Metaphysics - Aristotle
Phenomenology of Spirit - Hegel
Enneads - Plotinus

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>>19929521
>>19929777
Based brother don't listen to this >>19929628
k*fir

>> No.19930107

all I need is infinite jest so that it can sit on my shelf for ten years while I put off reading it.

>> No.19930155

something that's going to take me 10 years to understand, any suggestions?

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>>19930155
Finnegans Wake

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>>19930199
finna woke

>> No.19931539

>>19929605
Rent free

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Romance of the Three Kingoms Volume 1
Romance of the Three Kindoms Volume 2
The Way of Kings

These are all books on my bookshelf that I got as gifts but can never read because they are so boring but well with no other choice I will finally finish them and when I get out I can burn them.

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>>19919268
The Holy Bible
The Complete Works of Plato
The Complete Works of Aristotle

>> No.19931591

>>19919268
the complete works of mankind
heh get trolled epic style XD

>> No.19931601

>>19919539
*tips fedora*
m'lady

>> No.19931611

>>19919268
Meditations
The Sound of Waves
Los Bandidos de Rio Frio
One for the mind, one for the soul, the last one to not forget my people

>> No.19931682

>>19923944
Este es un foro de carnada

>> No.19931727

>>19923417
>Been there done that
Want to tell us about it?

>> No.19931736

>>19924686
You could become the greatest Baneposter who ever lived

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>>19924107

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>>19924133

>> No.19932094

>>19919754
Three translations I assume

>> No.19932102

>>19924602
Elaborate if you don't mind. What are arguments that you like by Aristotle?

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>>19919271
Phenomenology of spirit and two chonky notebooks. I ask them if they can leave me there for a month. I really want to understand that shit.

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>>19919268
By far one of the best threads in /lit/ for awhile

>> No.19932140

>>19920434
>— «EL CRITICÓN», POR: BALTASAR GRACIÁN.
I posted that book like 2 years ago on this board.

>> No.19932228

>>19919268
>Plato’s The Republic.
>Storm of Steel (1929 translation).
>Decline of the West (Vol. 1 & 2).

>> No.19932232

Ernst Haeckel - Kunstformen der Natur (so I have a variety of natural forms to contemplate)
Boethius - The Consolation of Philosophy (so I remember the good that comes together with philosophical contemplation)
Voltaire - Candide (so I don't forget the evils of society and man's folly)

>> No.19932287

>>19924602
Not him, but most of Aristotle's works are notes on outdated scientific theories with notorious technical errors, whereas Plato's works are almost all dramatic or humorous dialogues that touch upon philosophical topics, which are, by nature, not very likely to be proven wrong and can be pleasant to read for people who enjoy literary treatments of philosophical discussions.
The only works by Aristotle that, I would say, are not completely outdated, are his Metaphysics, Organon, Ethics, and Rhetoric. His Politics does not encompass forms of government that arose after his death, and his Poetics does not (obviously) take into account forms of theatre and poetry that arose as a reaction to rules he prescribed.

>> No.19932305

what kind of retarded thread is this? do you even know what going on isolation for 10 fucking years would entail? three books are nowhere near enough diversion for you brain to survive such an extreme situation, you'd break by the first 4 months, and I'm being generous

>> No.19932326

>>19932305
Nah if they give food and water and access to toilet and shower it's completely manageable, unless you are a normalfag.

>> No.19932332

>>19919268
Dale Carnage, How to Win Friends and Influence People.
The New Outsiders: A Creative Life Outdoors
A Brief History of Time, Hawking

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>>19932332

>> No.19932341

>>19932326
no it's not, even if you're le epic introverted autist there is no way you'd survive on 3 books for 10 years, perhaps if you had access to the internet, but not on 3 books, you'd genuinely go crazy.

>> No.19932354

>>19932305
>do you even know what going on isolation for 10 fucking years
the only difference between this situation and me as a hikki in the last years would be that I wouldn't have my cat. that would be tough.

>> No.19932363

>>19932354
and the fact that you have access to the internet.
would you still be a hikki if you had only 3 books for 10 years? you would kill yourself.

>> No.19932374

>>19920434
>not Alatorre's edition of Sor Juana's poetry
Pls go and stay go

>> No.19932383

>>19919268
Cervantes's Complete Works
Shakespeare's Complete Works
Montaigne's Essays

Basic choice but can't go wrong with them, and 10 years is far too long.

>> No.19932411

>>19932363
>and the fact that you have access to the internet.
Dude every second I spend on 4chan or accessing any kind of media at this point brings me nothing but anger. I just do it because it's become an unhealthy habit. Actually there's a very good chance I'd finally manage to cut myself off the world and immerse myself in the texts I decided to read. If the cell is not filthy and dark I'd feel better in jail than within society. All my anxiety and suicidal ideation come from not having a place in the world. I'm not truly isolated as a hikki, I am in this perennial embarrassment. I'm like someone who is late to an appointment by years and years. In jail I wouldn't feel this way. I am effectively removed from society because that's what jail is for. It would be nice ngl. I want to join a monastery but I'm not religious.

>> No.19932421

>>19919268
>KJV Bible
>a printed and binded collection of fitness and nutrition PDFs I've accumulated
>the odyssey & illiad
I'm sure they allow a rotation of books in prison too, but that would be my picks.

>> No.19932440

>>19932421
A lot of people in these threads are unaware of the implicit rule that collected anything is cheating. The only exception is >>19924133 when he says Encyclopedia Britannica which is effectively not a collection but one title, it just happens to be 32 volumes. But Complete Shakespeare is not permissible.

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>>19921018
Second this. I’d maybe swap your last choice with Gregory palamas myself.

>> No.19932446

>>19932440
Yeah, but it's one binded piece I'm gonna print off this Thursday actually. It's going to be only 300-ish pages.
>>19932421
Maybe I'd get more by taking a collection of Arthurian works.

>> No.19932454

>>19932446
What counts is how many titles, not how many physical books they're bound into. Large books like War and Peace often come in several volumes. On the other hand you have one volume collections of several books. You do not get to bring your nutritional PDFs, sorry. Also I don't get what you'd want to do with them, it's not like you can cook in jail. They give you what's on the menu.

>> No.19932456

>>19932454
>3 books
I think that means 3 physical books faggot.

>> No.19932480

>>19932341
One of the books I picked is 8 volumes, and one other is 6. So even though it's three books it's actually 15 vols. You don't know how badly introverted I am. I genuinely suffer from it in daily life but what can you do.

>> No.19932490

>>19921005
if this guy's allowed to bring Summa Theologica in, I'm allowed to bring the Nag Hammadi Library

>> No.19932493

Reminder that your solitary confinement cell is a limited physical space and you cannot bring more books than it can contain

>> No.19932497

If it's three "physical" books
>Holy Bible
>Collected Works of Shakespeare
>Being and Time

>> No.19932498

>>19919268
Infinite Jest
Finnegan's Wake
Gravity's Rainbow

by the time i get out i'll have only read the first chapter of IJ a few times

>> No.19932503

>>19919307
one of my shitcoins will have mooned by then, i'll leave the can as a king

>> No.19932508

>>19919490
monkey's paw scenario here is you get to your cell and its all furshit

>> No.19932518

>>19932508
>its all furshit
at least it's not anime, saves you from inevitable trannification

>> No.19932519

>>19932440
https://www.amazon.com/Complete-William-Shakespeare-Wordsworth-Editions/dp/185326895X
why not, it's one package and not even that long. i think that's a more reasonable ask that a multi volume encyclopedia

>> No.19932525

>>19932519
He's just trying really hard to be a smart ass faggot. Must suck when he's gotta live his life with crippling anemia.

>> No.19932527

>>19919268
Mansfield Park
Emma
Persuasion

>> No.19932531

>>19932525
>>19932519
Hey don't shoot the messenger, I didn't make the rules.

>> No.19932544

>>19932531
Get the fucking needle out of your arm. You're gonna bleed out, faggot. OP said "3 books" not "3 works". If it's all under a single cover it's a single book. A collection of volumes is several books to comprise one work. You better take your iron supplements, because you forgot to do that along with actually eating something today.

>> No.19932561

The Talmud, 12 Rules for Life, Atlas Shrugged

>> No.19932562

>>19932544
>OP said 3 books not 3 works
He obviously meant books as in titles, otherwise he would've specified by saying "physical book", "tome" or "codex"

>> No.19932589

Bible
Complete Hegel
Complete William Blake

>> No.19932594

Bible DR
Divine Intimacy
Complete Shakespeare

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Call of the Crocodile (Treat inmates/guards as if they are responsible of the loosh they cause upon the fictional characters. Read over and over le' dante style. Get out of jail card received)
Gamer time

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>>19932589
>>19932594

>> No.19932645

>>19919268
critique of pure reason - kant
juliette - sade
dream of the red chamber

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>>19932561
>>19932527

>> No.19932674

>>19932562
I smell of fisher

>> No.19932687

>>19924724
Nah with that attitude he fits perfectly here

>> No.19932751

KJV with "apocrypha"
Complete poems of Emily Dickinson
Jordanville prayer book

>> No.19933923

Bible KJV, Oblivion manual, The Hobbit

>> No.19933937

>>19933923
Based x3

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>>19919268

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>>19924661
>>19922810
>>19919559
>>19919399
>>19919377
I've read this interaction with the voices of Paramedic and Snake, truly a pleasure.

>> No.19934199

>>19924050
no you

>> No.19934283

>>19922962
>painted all of the "subjects" in his art, regardless of sex, with penises
I remember my first wet dream
the women genital is as clean and flat as a ceramic
because I know girl don't have dick but I don't even know vagina exist

>> No.19934300

>>19931727
Oh im just a sperg anon that stabbed his stepdad to death in self defence and went to jail for a couple of months, they let me out now but the prosecutor found loli porn on my pc and thats apparently illegal in my country. Waiting for trial, might go to prison idk

I read the bible, tartar steppe and suttree while i was in there, so those are my picks

>> No.19934312

>>19934300
mental

>> No.19934346

>>19932518
do you seriously buy into ray blanchard's theory?

>> No.19934555

>>19919332
>Quran
>Food for thought

WDYM?

>> No.19935067

>>19934300
Lmfao, you did this all to yourself bud, sounds like you deserve prison. I hope you get fucked in the ass by a huge muslim or nigger..

>> No.19935266

>>19934300
>Oh im just a sperg anon that stabbed his stepdad to death in self defence and went to jail for a couple of months
based, did nothing wrong
>but the prosecutor found loli porn on my pc and thats apparently illegal in my country
ffs every single time. pedos deserve prison

>> No.19935290

>>19919332
>Quran
Oh yeah your gonna get a lot of mileage out of that.

>> No.19935308

>>19934555
>>19935290
The Quran is a lot more than what meets the surface. There are massive, mutlivolume commentaries on it. Tafsir al-Mizan for example is 27 volumes.

>> No.19935316

The complete up to date Pokedex book
recipe book for how to make wine
The ford falcon story: an illustrated history

>> No.19935337

>>19935308
Yes, Quran is so boring they had to write 27 volumes of commentary.

>> No.19935348

>>19935337
You don't understand what you're talking about.

>> No.19935362

>>19919276
Based
Critique of Pure Reason
Decline of the West
Canterbury Tales

>> No.19935364

>>19935348
I do, even L. Ron Hubart wrote better religious lit. The Quran is the only major religious text in the world that simply is meaniness and holds no meaning.

> hur dur yo gotta readin da arabic

Fuck off. The psalms translate well

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>>19919268

>> No.19935387

Basically nobody posts books that will actually help you survive solitary. There are three subjects.

1. Volume on stretching and strenght training, will keep you busy and healthy.

2. Volume of lucid dreaming, the easiest way to escape for a while.

3. Volume on meditation. You wont experience loneliness if you are in a deep meditative state.

Voila

>> No.19935398

>>19935348
Listen, I went through my islam phase as well, but you kind of realize that its more or less an ethnocentric religion that if you dont understand arabic or other things, you just wont get into it. You cant. There are some things about it that are really cool but thats always going to remain a problem. That and its rejection of Christ of course.

>> No.19935411

Complete Shakespeare (because I haven't read Shakespeare yet lol)
Complete poems of Emily Brontë
Works of Epictetus

>>19935387
Yeah fuck art just read about starting strength and sleeping.

>> No.19935423

>>19935364
Some parts of al-Mizan are translated. Check it out.
https://almizan.org/
>>19935398
I am learning Arabic but it’s not completely necessary. Sunnism is an ethno religion but Islam isn't.

>> No.19935476

>>19935387
Those are skills that ought to be mastered before solitary, that way you don't need to waste the three books on them. Ideally, you would spend between 1-4 hours in physical activity, meditating between 3-8, and sleeping at least 10-12 hours per day. Any down time between doing this (aside from eating and shitting) should be spent on a totally different task, such as memorizing and reciting the Rigveda, Quaran, Bible, Iliad, etc (take your pick). After 10 years, you will be a buff bard-prophet.

>> No.19936194

>>19924107
The sum of human knowledge

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Qur'an
Complete Hadith collection
Ihya

>> No.19936860

>>19935387
You don't need a book to know how to stretch or meditate. Lucid dream maybe, but you'd be better served taking some giant occult tome which deals with all of the above (yoga, AP/lucid dreaming/meditation), and much more.