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Anonymous Sat Dec 12 17:54:44 2015 No.7454963 [Reply] [Original]

Who's the most menacing, evil character in literature?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 17:56:32 2015 No.7454968 Judas Iscariot and the sanhedrin

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 17:57:40 2015 No.7454972 most menacing is probably some weird horror like a lovecraft god most evil is probably iago

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 17:57:58 2015 No.7454974 The devil.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 18:02:11 2015 No.7454989 >>7454968 >Judas Iscariot Jesus literally told judas to do what he did. How is obeying god evil?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 18:03:58 2015 No.7454999 >>7454989 >subtle prediction >literally commanding him to do it smarten up

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 18:06:08 2015 No.7455009 >>7454972 Iago's lack of motivation really bugged be, desu Most evil character would probably be Pechorin. Most menacing character that I know of would be Melkor

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 21:14:51 2015 No.7455678 >>7455009 >Iago's lack of motivation what do you mean

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 21:27:48 2015 No.7455741 Iago was skipped over for promotion, thats why he hates othello, read the play and forget what you heard on radiolab senpai

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 21:30:55 2015 No.7455751 >>7454999 omniscience implies destiny, if he's destined to do it he may as well have been commanded. if god is to be taken seriously, we're all just dominoes falling as designed.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 21:31:31 2015 No.7455758 i'm glad no one's mentioned the judge yet such a plebeian answer

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 21:33:57 2015 No.7455767 Lolita

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 22:03:18 2015 No.7455853 Iago or Richard III

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 23:03:41 2015 No.7456063 File: 109 KB, 985x1050, Bible.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Yahweh

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 23:05:50 2015 No.7456071 >>7454963 Man

Anonymous Sat Dec 12 23:10:09 2015 No.7456085
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posting an obv candidate.

But I think he is not just meme evil, he has a good sense of real Kantian evil about him.

>You speak truer than you know
That fucking shiver down the back

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 23:11:11 2015 No.7456087 >>7454963 God

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 23:13:54 2015 No.7456100 >>7455751 he was destined to have free-will and choose as he pleases, and his choices are known there's no contradiction between omniscience and free-will

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 23:16:12 2015 No.7456107 >>7455751 No, freewill is free and it becomes destined post act. This is theology 101. Please don't imply God can't will a contradiction.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 23:23:38 2015 No.7456133 >>7454963 Zeus

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 23:29:25 2015 No.7456158 >>7454968 You need some master and margarita famiglia

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 23:32:14 2015 No.7456170 File: 121 KB, 817x978, nyarlathotep_by_adrianriom-d8jkhti.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7456063 Agreed.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 23:33:08 2015 No.7456174 >>7456107 God can't make the interior angles of a triangle equal more or less than 180 degrees. Sorry.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 23:34:08 2015 No.7456179 >>7456085 This is probably the clear answer.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 23:34:28 2015 No.7456181 >>7456174 >doesn't know about hyperbolic geometry pleb

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 23:43:31 2015 No.7456216 Judge Holden

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 23:44:35 2015 No.7456220 >>7455767 this

Anonymous Sun Dec 13 02:29:49 2015 No.7456666

>>7456170

This is neither here nor there (and not lit), but the final creature in The Thing prequel (2011), a generally unloved flop that I quite like, looks almost exactly like that.

But now this reminds me that I have the original Thing short story on my shelf and I really should get round to reading it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 13 02:30:51 2015 No.7456670 >>7456666 holy wew even I have to check my own quads. Apocalypse movies indeed.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 13 02:34:50 2015 No.7456683 >>7455758 the kid is the real villian, a traitor to those who welcomed him into their brotherhood

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 13 02:40:17 2015 No.7456698 Dr Benway rides again

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 13 12:53:45 2015 No.7457900 Avril Incandenza

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 13 13:03:22 2015 No.7457933 >>7456698 Benway is too diffuse to be menacing.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 13 13:04:53 2015 No.7457936 AM

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 13 13:06:44 2015 No.7457941 >>7455751 >not knowing that dualism is the one true resolution to this

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 13 13:16:37 2015 No.7457971 >>7455741 >Believing what Iago says >After he literally says "that's not why I hate Othello, but it's good enough" You don't know to read. Iago is GOAT.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 13 13:24:07 2015 No.7457988 Is this a good thread?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 13 15:02:59 2015 No.7458274 >>7457988 Negatory, daddio.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 13 15:12:09 2015 No.7458294 Voland

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 13 15:33:54 2015 No.7458381 >>7456174 walk one mile north, one mile west, one mile south and end up in the same spot.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 13 15:35:00 2015 No.7458387 >>7454963 Mrs. Stoner i say that in every thread

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 13 15:37:32 2015 No.7458393 Fatan

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 13 15:47:13 2015 No.7458430 File: 14 KB, 275x210, HPL-nyarlathotep.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7454963 Nyarlathotep

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 13 16:25:04 2015 No.7458568 File: 502 KB, 400x298, 3 right angles inside a triangle.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7456174 checkmate atheists

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 13 16:33:56 2015 No.7458603 >>7458568 a triangle is a 2d shape though.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 13 16:38:55 2015 No.7458630 >>7458603 take triangle on paper roll up paper triangle now three dimensional shape

Anonymous Sun Dec 13 16:40:45 2015 No.7458639

>>7454963
The Waves.
>From The Waves.

No. But for real, I'd go with Iago as far as "villains" but as far as truly terrifying entities/writing I find the ending of The Waves to be extremely unsettling. The book works like a small microcosm of life itself and it just gets ruthlessly existential and despairing by the conclusion. Woolf is grown on me a lot.

"Nevertheless, life is pleasant, life is tolerable. Tuesday follows Monday; then comes Wednesday. The mind grows rings; the identity becomes robust; pain is absorbed in growth. Opening and shutting, shutting and opening, with increasing hum and sturdiness, the haste and fever of youth are drawn into service until the whole being seems to expand in and out like the mainspring of a clock. How fast the stream flows from January to December! We are swept on by the torrent of things grown so familiar that they cast no shadow. We float, we float . . ."

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 13 16:44:34 2015 No.7458650 >>7458639 FYI that isn't the actual ending, just a part that I really like from about a 1/4 from the ending.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 13 16:44:50 2015 No.7458652 File: 24 KB, 400x400, AJz3QsDv_400x400.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Cathy Ames / Kate Trask

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 13 16:48:06 2015 No.7458662 The man in black. Stephen King

Anonymous Sun Dec 13 16:49:53 2015 No.7458667

>>7458603
>>7458630
Are you trying to summon the ghost of Wittgenstein to settle the question of both triangles and most evil character in literature?

Because that is how you summon the ghost of Wittgenstein to settle the question of both triangles and most evil character in literature.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 13 16:53:54 2015 No.7458681 >>7454989 >How is obeying god evil? because god is evil, obviously

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 13 17:21:01 2015 No.7458791 File: 49 KB, 414x500, git gud.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7458667 Oh Ludwig, I like you, but you obviously never read my books What would Bertrand think of his student, I wonder?

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>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 13 22:36:28 2015 No.7459983 >>7456116 +10

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 14 00:03:13 2015 No.7460238 File: 175 KB, 720x480, 3653630_orig.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 14 00:09:30 2015 No.7460260 Catherine from the Garden of Eden

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 14 00:20:59 2015 No.7460297 >>7457900 That's not how you spell PGOAT.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 14 04:16:51 2015 No.7460724 >>7456107 >God can't will a contradiction This is the equivalent of a child saying "I'm right + infinity! Haha I win!"

Anonymous Mon Dec 14 04:21:16 2015 No.7460730
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The actual sound -- as nearly as any human organs could imitate it or human letters record it -- may be taken as something like Khlûl'-hloo, with the first syllable pronounced gutturally and very thickly. The u is about like that in full; and the first syllable is not unlike klul in sound, hence the h represents the guttural thickness.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 14 04:31:42 2015 No.7460741 >>7456670 yeah the thing has really heavy lovecraftian themes

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 14 04:58:51 2015 No.7460770 Steerpike is pretty evil and menacing, but only by the end

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 14 07:01:30 2015 No.7460945 Jason Compson

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 14 07:12:51 2015 No.7460966 >>7454963 The Chief from The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea was a real evil bastard. >>7455009 >>7455678 >>7455741 Anon doesn't know that Iago's rage was brought on by his homolust for Othello.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 14 07:19:03 2015 No.7460972 >>7454963 St. Paul

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 14 14:42:30 2015 No.7462049 >>7458791 I never sufficiently apologized for my foul temper with the children.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 14 20:28:06 2015 No.7463523 >>7454999 Jesus died for your sins. This is only possible because Judas turned him in. You should be thanking him m8.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 14 20:32:23 2015 No.7463547 >>7460297 Why the hell would it be JVD?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 14 22:11:06 2015 No.7463914 >>7458650 ty anon. i am officially interested in reading that

Anonymous Mon Dec 14 22:13:23 2015 No.7463925

>>7458639
>"Nevertheless, life is pleasant, life is tolerable. Tuesday follows Monday; then comes Wednesday. The mind grows rings; the identity becomes robust; pain is absorbed in growth. Opening and shutting, shutting and opening, with increasing hum and sturdiness, the haste and fever of youth are drawn into service until the whole being seems to expand in and out like the mainspring of a clock. How fast the stream flows from January to December! We are swept on by the torrent of things grown so familiar that they cast no shadow. We float, we float . . ."

I need to read this book.

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