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lets say there was a breakdown of society and the land descended into chaos under the rule of violent mobs. Your'e living in a makeshift monastery which used to be a library but the barbarian plebs are at the gates and will soon fuck every fart out of your tender asshole. You have time to escape with the complete works of ONE author. Who do you choose n why?

>> No.5576054

bump

>> No.5576057

I don't know, who writes the best survival how-to books?

>> No.5576060

These scenarios are getting boring

>> No.5576063

I don't escape.

I laugh bible in hand, as I see the whole monastery collapse on their heads while they try to chase me, blinded by wrath and lust, trapped by their own primitive instincts.

As I watch over the ruins of the monastery, hearing their suffocating cries for help, I approach their bodies, and make em eat random pages of the book, which I throw after I have finished, over the pile of stone and rot.

I gaze at the horizon, as white vessels descend from the skies. I lower my head and raise my arm and finger to the sky.

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>>5576063

>> No.5576071

>>5576052
The Bible or this>>5576057

>> No.5576114

>tfw no favourite author
Probably a philosopher to keep me strong when I'm feeling like absolute shit

>> No.5576257

>>5576052
Mark Rippetoe obviously.
Aint got time for intellectual circlejerks in a wasteland.

>> No.5576306

>>5576052
The KJV Bible

>> No.5576370

Imagine taking a book other than The Bible. Going to your grave knowing that you singlehandedly ended thousands of years of Western culture and nobody else, for as long as humans exist, will ever know that the Bible even existed.

Heavy stuff. I'd take the Bible almost out of moral obligation.

>> No.5576389

fault in our stars to help get over any angst i felt about the whole wasteland thing.

>> No.5576396 [DELETED] 

BEE

The world will have to continue living on with this fucking faggotry because of me.

Get.

>> No.5576416

Stirner - The Ego and His Own

>> No.5576589

>>5576114
Kierkagaard would be a good choice.

>> No.5576598

>>5576416
this guy knows

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I prepare a banquet and take a place as designated alpha slut, duh. It's as if you didn't know how to live outside of the most controlling society.

>> No.5576665

i wonder why your kind are always sluts
probably it's due to male kind of sexuality

>> No.5576685

>>5576665
Pardon?

>> No.5576696

>>5576685
iinm >>5576649 is an avatarofag, they are a trap or a trans

>> No.5576698

>>5576696
Does that make you uncomfortable?

>> No.5576719

>>5576696
I was just using an image to make it easy to understand, I'm sorry that some people react badly to paratext.

>> No.5576721

>>5576698
why, i don't care, i just wonder why instead of picking best of all genders they usually pick worst of them

>> No.5576728

>>5576696
>>5576719
Oh, didn't see the other post.

It's just 4chan pretending, in real life disphoria makes it absurdly hard to go outside and interact with people so we overcompensate here.

>>5576721
Because if it were for me I would pick to be okay with myself, duh. If I eventually commit sudoku it won't be because I felt it was the best thing possible.
Also, I hope you're saging since this is offtopic shit.

>> No.5576747

>>5576728
i'm not sure if you understood me since i probably poorly worded it. i meant best and worst traits, they pick, ugh, let's call it hysteria from females and promiscuity from males... anyway it's offtopic

>>5576719
how it's even related to image

>> No.5576806

To retain some sort of topic:
I would probably take some sort of fiction that allowed me to convince myself that things could be better, maybe Dune; or something where people live in a variety of conditions different from the ones I was rise in like Misteriosa Buenos Aires.
If I was serious about surviving I would probably go for any guide by John Seymour, my dad had one of his biggest compendiums and it had everything from how to make moonshine to how to build a greenhouse, including tending crops or having beehives, with schematics, step by steps, and lots of details.

>>5576747
I assumed you have a problem with "avatarfagging" when I was just using a single pic to convey a meaning, even if I tend to use the same pic a lot.

I think I'm a pretty mature person, and I cringe whenever I visit /lgbt/. It has a lot to do with people on hormones going through their teen years again only that with the freedom of an adult. Strong emotions everywhere, pointless tantrums and all that. After 3 or 4 years it stabilizes again.

>> No.5577188

Proust.
With all the time in the world I would still be hardly able to get everything there is to get, so if I'm curse to re read for ever at least it can be rewarding.

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>>5576052
>lets say there was a breakdown of society and the land descended into chaos under the rule of violent mobs. Your'e living in a makeshift monastery which used to be a library but the barbarian plebs are at the gates and will soon fuck every fart out of your tender asshole. You have time to escape with the complete works of ONE author. Who do you choose n why?

The nearest library to me has walls that are mainly 2-story windows; it's the last place in which I'd be hiding from barbarians or anyone else.

With that said I'd run in and grab the complete novels of James Ellroy before finding a secure place to hide, and then I'd daydream about rebuilding the screaming violent corrupt US of his mythos.

>> No.5577801

Shakespeare of course.

>> No.5578708

'The Essential Babyfucker, Third Warlord of the City State of Los Angeles'.

I would learn from his example how to subjugate the horde.

>> No.5578711

>>5577801
>Shakes
why is this the first and only correct answer in this thread?

>> No.5578732

>>5577801
Good luck escaping with all of that.

>> No.5578740

>>5576052
Borges.

Razed the garden, profaned the chalices and the altars, by horse the Huns broke into the Monastic library and they tore the incomprehensible books and they vituperated them and they burnt them, fearing their symbols and characters might be concealing secret blasphemies against their God, who was an iron scimitar...

Yet a part of me wishes to cast down his sadistic and cold writing and instead grab the books of his charismatic long lost brother, Calvino, whose works were full of warmth and idealism.

Who won: the emperor or the traveller?

>> No.5578741

>>5578732
Not really, it's hardly heavy.

>> No.5578795

A memory card with as much literature on as possible and whatever books would make the best camp fire.