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Anonymous Mon Oct 10 11:17:34 2011 No.2128969 [Reply] [Original]

Dearest /lit/,

I am interested in books detailing, describing, and explaining genuineness/intellect. Know any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 10 11:20:34 2011 No.2128971 Hermann Hesse.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 10 11:26:34 2011 No.2128975 Catcher and the Rye does a pretty good job of that. As does Flowers for Algernon.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 10 11:28:34 2011 No.2128978 >>2128975 You forgot your troll.jpg

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 10 11:29:34 2011 No.2128981 Genius: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew Robinson

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 10 11:31:34 2011 No.2128983 Hesse is your best bet, among all of these. Demian and Steppenwolf. Especially the "mark of Cain" stuff in Demian.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 10 11:33:34 2011 No.2128987 >>2128975 Well I can agree with the Algernon part. Pretty good encite on the genious mind, and the retard mind.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 10 11:36:34 2011 No.2128993 >>2128987 >encite on the genious I lost brain cells reading this.

>>	None !WvWWh.l.CE Mon Oct 10 11:41:34 2011 No.2129001 >>2128983 What was intellectual about Demian other than not following "the herd"(which would be courage)? Then again, D&E started off by digging out mysticism books from his parent's attic so maybe it is in fact about intellectual beginnings...

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 10 11:42:34 2011 No.2129003 Genius by Harold Bloom (Professor Emeritus of the Humanities at Yale).

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 10 11:48:34 2011 No.2129011 File: 19 KB, 385x383, babby.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2129003 >Professor Emeritus of Useless Bullshit at Yale Fixed it for you.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 10 11:56:34 2011 No.2129021 >>2129011 u jelly that this man can sit on his ass and read books and then occassionally copy+paste his old ideas into a new book and get paid for it?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 10 11:57:34 2011 No.2129025 >>2129001 You're a tripfag, and one of the worst, so I don't really expect you to understand why. And I won't explain, because it won't get to your "in need to trip" brain. Enjoy your sad life of constantly vying for attention.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 10 13:15:34 2011 No.2129099 Daniel Kehlamann - Measuring the World Gauss, Humboldt (Alexander) are main characters. Kant shows up as well.

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