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Anonymous Mon Nov 27 18:52:22 2023 No.22764575 [Reply] [Original]

>start reading novel
>protagonist isn't imbued with the Faustian spirit(or is a woman)
>instantly dropped
Am I the only one who does this?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 18:52:54 2023 No.22764576 Perhaps you have tremors?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 18:59:55 2023 No.22764593 >>22764575 Women are the Faustian sex tho

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 19:06:32 2023 No.22764616 >>22764575 Faustianism is retarded bullshit that destroys societies and traditions.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 19:08:11 2023 No.22764628 >>22764616 But it makes for interesting writing

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 19:11:39 2023 No.22764639 OP here, forgot to mention that I'm tranny btw, not sure if it matters

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 19:16:48 2023 No.22764678 >>22764593 That’s what he’s aiming at. >>22764616 In what ways? I know the general story, I’d just like to hear your interpretations and objections

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 19:25:18 2023 No.22764714 >>22764678 I know, I just wanted to make sure and also dab on women.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 19:33:23 2023 No.22764754 >>22764616 Not if you’re aware of it and direct it

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 19:35:21 2023 No.22764763 >>22764754 >the answer to cancerous teleological thinking is more teleology bro! This is why you're a retarded pseud.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 19:39:34 2023 No.22764779 File: 114 KB, 946x1346, 1697895925312609.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Are cats the new frogs? Can we post frogs again now?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 19:46:04 2023 No.22764802 >>22764779 No. Get out of here.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 20:34:44 2023 No.22765023 File: 134 KB, 687x657, F9394481-4421-4E0D-BFE9-7118FC10B194.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22764714 >trying to dab on Faustians

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 22:49:41 2023 No.22765650 >>22764779 pepe is obsolete

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 27 22:53:01 2023 No.22765663 File: 817 KB, 900x900, 1695414992958.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 01:10:19 2023 No.22766095 >>22765663 Based

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 01:18:36 2023 No.22766125 >>22764575 you are literally me although I would never start to consoom a piece of media with a woman mc/creator

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 04:52:40 2023 No.22766644 Why would you ever want to read a book with a woman protagonist? feel bad about yourself.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 05:10:11 2023 No.22766688 I am fully fine looking dumb to ask the question. What do you mean by Faustian spirit in context?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 05:14:32 2023 No.22766703 >>22764575 I love cats so much bros

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 07:53:28 2023 No.22767029 >>22766644 >>22766125 Doesn't the OP say that he drops the book if the main character is a woman

Anonymous Tue Nov 28 10:04:22 2023 No.22767285

>>22764678
For starters, they're clearly the more Romantic sex who want to have their cake and eat it too. Notice how Faust, Manfred, and Victor Frankenstein are all effeminate in their demeanor. They do as they please and passionately, sensually, throw hurl themselves towards all consuming ambition yet recoil and beg for charity and respite at the precipice of oblivion.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 13:44:13 2023 No.22767772 >>22764575 These pfp's are so cringe man fuckkkk

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 13:44:58 2023 No.22767776 >>22767772 Cats cannot be cringe

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 13:45:11 2023 No.22767778 File: 67 KB, 96x96, 1000007043.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22764779 reminder that anti frog posters are trannies and will get the rope

Anonymouṡ Tue Nov 28 15:21:11 2023 No.22768085

>>22764575
Cats are nice, OP, but you still need to post your three top Faustian protagonists. Lead by example and I might offer a few myself.

>novel
The novel is undoubtedly the least Faustian of all literary forms. Who are your favourite protagonists from classical mythology, epic poems, ballads, limericks, plays, short stories, pantomimes, fables, jokes, tall tales, shaggy-dog-stories, campfire-style spine-chillers, opera, ballet, 4chan greentext, children's books, autobiographies, prose poems, songs, graphic novels, movie screenplays, real-life anecdotes, urban legends or other quasi-linguistic endeavours with some Faustian zip in their heels?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 16:42:56 2023 No.22768356 >>22768085 Tullio Hermil from L'Innocente Moravagine from Moravagine Mafarka-el-Bar from Mafarka il futurista

Anonymouṡ Tue Nov 28 17:16:16 2023 No.22768451 [SPOILER]

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>>22768356

I have to admit I haven't heard of any of them. Hard to take D'Annunzio seriously. The middle guy seems a bit distasteful. The last one looks as though it might have promise.

Anyway, three for me:

Faustian in that he seeks knowledge even at the risk of his own sanity:
Odysseus (Homer)

Faustian in that he rejects the world and creates his own value:
Captain Nemo (Verne)

Faustian in that he is impelled, turbulently, ever onward:
Toad (Grahame) [see picture]

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 17:26:01 2023 No.22768476 >>22767778 “Get the rope“ is such gay wishful fantasy. Ten to one you can‘t even tie a noose.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 17:29:09 2023 No.22768490 >>22764763 that's not teleology

Anonymouṡ Tue Nov 28 17:32:29 2023 No.22768498

>>22768476
I was reading the autobiography of some guy who was assistant to Britain's hangman in the 1950s and he said the worst execution he ever took part it was some really fat guy and the force pulled his head off (lol).

Just a random thought: there are so many morbidly obese people these days, it might actually be hard to do proper hangings. You'd have ropes breaking, heads coming off everywhere.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 18:01:33 2023 No.22768590 >>22764575 Yes, you are the only autistic sexist in all of 4chan.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 18:06:59 2023 No.22768609 >>22764763 It’s not necessarily teleological. It’s just an impulse for something that tends towards teleology.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 19:51:19 2023 No.22768874 >>22768498 >execution he ever took part it was some really fat guy and the force pulled his head off What does that mean

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 19:52:01 2023 No.22768878 File: 1.74 MB, 1012x1008, 1000006154.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22768476 yeah I don't know cuz I will never need it t.not a antifrog troon

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 20:04:36 2023 No.22768924 >>22768874 Please can someone explain this to me too I don't understand, but it seems interesting or funny>>22768498

Anonymouṡ Tue Nov 28 20:55:30 2023 No.22769070
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>>22768874
>What does that mean

>>22768924
>I don't understand

Obviously there's a typo. I meant "the worst execution he ever took part in".

I slightly misremembered the anecdote but not much. The author describes it but it was before his time. (Notice how, in 1885, a 15-stone man was considered outrageously obese, haha.)

The book is "The Hangman's Tale: Memoirs of a Public Executioner" by Syd Dernley.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 21:07:24 2023 No.22769109 >>22764575 QRD on this Faustian spirit? Is it similar to being 'based and redpilled'?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 28 21:27:06 2023 No.22769183 >>22769109 What that mean?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 06:47:37 2023 No.22771099 >>22764575 >Faustian spirit Terrible meme

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 06:50:28 2023 No.22771101 >>22771099 OP is a faggot >Verification not required.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 13:05:05 2023 No.22771852 >>22764575 WTF is the Faustian spirit and should I read the play or will I get bored?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 29 13:18:34 2023 No.22771871 >>22771852 it's a german cope made for nihilists to feel something before they ineluctably commit suicide

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