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Thread #24337195
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/lit/ is for the discussion of literature, specifically books (fiction & non-fiction), short stories...
Write Your Thoughts
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Thread #25116237
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It really does blow cock
Thread #25092400
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Did he really BTFO Buddhism out of India with facts and logic?
interactive lit chart site w/ downloads
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hi /lit/! i posted earlier about this site i made where the top 100 decade aggregate chart is intera...
Thread #25117389
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>Nani?! The cashier floozy that fucks random customers (me) is a cheater?! I must le kill myself!!!
/wng/ — Web Novel General
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I Was Kidnapped By The Strongest Cabal EditionStubbed >>25107999>What is /wng/ — Web Novel General...
/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General
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Glory Days of Pulp Edition>Old:>>25106762>Recommended reading charts (Look here before asking for va...
Thread #25117479
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What's the most boring book you've ever read?
Free Kindle short story
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https://www.amazon.com/Chemical-Divorce-Frank-Zeist-ebook/dp/B0GQHKJPYP/"Forced underground by the f...
Shakespeare or Cervantes?
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Who was the greatest writer?
Mythology
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Am I the only one who after getting a lot into mythology finds gods really retarded, stupid, absurd ...
Thread #25117477
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Best innkeeper in literature? Looking for inspiration for my novel.
Thread #25115760
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Is Fight Club about bipolar disorder?
Thread #25114560
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>ain't no way>lil bro>bruh>no cap>fr fr>chopped>unc>naaah>on a stack>cuh>ayoo>on god>bussin>dead ass...
Thread #25115791
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i know this may not be well recieved, but is there any author who writes purposefully bad stuff to b...
Metropolis
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Which is better, the movie or novel, and it what ways are they different? How relevant would you mak...
Thread #25117319
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can you enjoy both the visual arts and books and poetry?
Doorstoppers
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What are some of the comfiest door stopper books? And not the ones everyone's already read. I want t...
As soon as you start ASOIAF the first thing you notice
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Is the prose. Forget Tolkien, it's even better than Melville. From the first page it leaves you floo...
Thread #25112965
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Is this true?
Anon Serializes Robert Brasillach's Les Sept Couleurs
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Here is the beginning of Part 2, the letters section!https://williammckaytranslations.blogspot.com/2...
Thread #25113554
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Author’s barely disguised fetish out of nowhere. Reading any fantasy author except a handful few i...
/wbg/ Worldbuilding General
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Monsters, Dragons, Beasts, Creatures, Horrors, and Miscellaneous Lifeforms EditionFAQ:>What is world...
Books for Men
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What books will turn the average man into an avid reader? I would like to turn the men in my life or...
Introductory Pagan Reading List
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Hey everyone, As of late I've been researching paganism; mainly watching videos on YouTube and going...
Thread #25116479
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Why don't we have /lit/ book clubs or annual readings?
ITT: Book passages living rent free in your head
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Thread #25117247
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have you read her books?
poetry general
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Talk about poems/poets you like, post your own work, and critique others.
Plato ruined western civilization for thousands of years, perhaps forever.
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There is not a single person who has done more damage to philosophy, literature, culture, or the wor...
Narcissus and Modern life
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Is Narcissus the pitch perfect depiction of our Modern lives and our exaggerated standards for what ...
Why is millennial literature so imitative?
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Plenty of books made by millennials feel like rehashes or even fanfiction of books from their childh...
Books that make you cry
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I've started to read more books in the past year. To keep my motivation up, I'd like to read somethi...
/Shelf/
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Haven't seen a shelf thread in a while.I just started to create my own so that's why I don't have an...
Thread #25115159
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Random bed time thought: is the age of the pervert sex positive "academic" over? The newest generati...
ITT: Your favourite covers
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THIS BOOK IS VERY GOOD
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Obama's top political aide and jewish author Sarah Hurwitz was caught in a recent controversy, due t...
Thread #25116707
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I actually read books. I know that's hard for most of you guys to believe but it's true. I get bette...
Thread #25117213
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Was it a miracle that Horn was revived in the hole? Divine intervention? I never understood.
Thread #25113649
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Is it over, /lit/ bros ?
Thread #25111931
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Very good book. I only don't agree on the part about parochialism and congregationalism. The letter ...
Is this the most underrated incel book?
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This book needs to become an incel symbol, like Notes from the Underground or “Whatever”.
Thread #25115243
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remember, that while women are pleasant to look at and smell; they will distract you, disturb you ju...
Thread #25114491
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I just finished it.And I gotta say, his theory just seems dumb as hell. Basically he starts with a s...
The state of American literacy
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>Schools aren't teaching full books anymore because students cannot sustain focused reading>Novels h...
Thread #25117327
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Is HP Lovecraft worth reading?
Thread #25116630
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OH NO NO NOLOOK AT THE TOP OF HIS HEAD
Thread #25115667
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moronic
Worthwhile NS books
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What books do I need to read to truly understand National Socialism, its ideology, history, and prac...
Thread #25113582
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As recent history has proven, all you have to do to write a bestseller is to pander to femgooners.Wh...
I thought George RR Martin invented grimdark
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I was not ready for the sacrifice to MolochJiminy Crickets
Thread #25116253
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I feel like I'm being gaslit. everywhere I go I hear that Dungeon Crawler Carl is this amazing book ...
Thread #25115887
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Is Shakespeare overrated?
Thread #25116839
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Give me one good reason I shouldn't use AI to make dialogue.Why shouldn't I Just tell the AI to act ...
Thread #25117226
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What exactly have these Web Novels done to deserve such treatment?
Thread #25116589
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Does anyone over the age of 5 believe in Pascal’s Wager? This has to be up there with unmoved move...
What is the best "small" language for literature?
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Small meaning not: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Latin, Greek, Chinese, Japane...
/grrm/ - George R. R. Martin General #106
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pentoshi shores editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: https://geo...
/clg/ - Classical Languages General
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Medieval edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>25064706>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥ...
Thread #25116214
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> "I was asked if I liked Brazil. I said no, because the country is full of negroes. They didn't lik...
Thread #25115462
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Will-to-Fuck
Thread #25116928
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What is some good literature that focuses on abused children or kids being pushed around by tyrannic...
Thread #25117073
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The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity as renaissance rationaliz...
Thread #25115560
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>blows all jeet philosophy out of the water (especially Buddhists and Advaitins)nothing personal
Thread #25111677
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Best books where the protagonist is a creep?
Noble and aristocratic education
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Do you guys know any good books on the topic of noble education? I am talking medieval and later tim...
Thread #25112195
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He's got a point.
Thread #25114761
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How would you feel if you woke up one day to find that one of your in-laws had published every singl...
Thread #25106693
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Why do philosophers hate women?
Thread #25115247
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>had a strong anti colonial theme in the African sections of "Journey to the end of the night". >At ...
Thread #25117116
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Best audio books to listen while running? Preferably stuff I can find easily on librivox or Youtube....
Thread #25117099
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I've just started my Liberal Arts Degree, how /lit/ are my textbooks.The Iliad, The Odyssey (both Fa...
Convincing conspiracy books
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What are the most convincing conspiracy books you read?
Zola
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there isnt a better french writer
Thread #25116991
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>buy book>listen to the (pirated) audiobook anywayWhy am I like this.
Thread #25117035
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>my favorite book of all time is Hyperion by Dan SimmonsWhat type of person do you imagine?
Why isn't Michel Houellebecq more popular on this board?
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No other author has described the plight of the dejected modern man so accurately. He needs to be di...
Thread #25111483
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Top contemporary right-wing thinkers in 2026:>Nick Land, Curtis Yavin, BAP, Alexander Dugin, Eliezer...
Thread #25116402
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What are some seminal texts on grand strategy?
It’s not fair
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>be stemfag >can get world class education on fucking YouTube >be literature student>impossible to g...
Thread #25113766
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>The bad guys win sometimes>ASOIAF IS A MORBID HELLFEST BECAUSE GRRM CAN'T IMAGINE HEROISM SO WESTER...
Thread #25114958
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do you think she committed suicide after the lawsuit against stephanie meyer was dismissed?
/lit/ /his/ thread
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Haven't seen one of these in a while, what history books you been readin' lately?>Thread question:Wh...
Thread #25115496
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>It includes the proper rib measurements of the sperm whale skeleton and the way in which the rope w...
Thread #25116096
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Why was Foucault so keen to support islamic theocracy? I thought his whole thing was writing about p...
Is suicide the best solution for S-risks?
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This author is giving me panic attacks because of the idea of worse than death scenarios, like:>1. A...
I bought the whole set because jk Rowling hates trannys
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Thread #25114072
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>reading fantasy/scifi >"Well, you know what they say, curiosity killed the Grunglesnark"
Thread #25113690
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>Crito... Crito we need to pay the cock-debt...>*dies*WHAT did he mean by that?
Thread #25112248
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What was his fucking problem?
Thread #25115398
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>sucess in tiktok >booktok besties
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>published 30 years ago
Ubik
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It's nowhere near as trippy as people make it out to be. I am a third of the way through and it's ju...
Dan Simmons dead
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Can't believe he died before he was given his rightful Nobel!Its like Roth and Borges all over again...
Medieval-Fantasy and Space-Fantasy, what's the appeal and distinction of each?
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I feel like there's a non-superficial distinction between choosing a more advanced space setting and...
Between Two Fires
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Is this book any good, if anyone here has read it? Im not expecting high literature or anything, it ...
Thread #25115016
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I learned how to self-publish with Lulu this week!
Thread #25044548
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—Ulysses! that whole business again, well it's not true it's bullshit I did not read it I'm tellin...
What does /lit/ think of Korean Han?
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>The positivation of the world allows new forms of violence to emerge. They do not stem from the imm...
Thread #25108134
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>Tries to find novel with lonely protagonists with no social life>Find article about books with "los...
Thread #25116003
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About to read all the ASOIAF books for the first time, what am I into?
Thread #25114754
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Who are some /lit/ approved middlebrow writers? I'm a midwit who isn't ready for big boy books yet.
Thread #25116543
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>call for submissions >Views from the Overlook is looking for short fiction set in the infamous hote...
Thread #25113374
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I miss him, bros
Thread #25116601
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Then Fingolfin beheld (as it seemed to him) the utter ruin of the Noldor, and the defeat beyond redr...
Thread #25112190
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This is what Patroclus looked like, so Achilles rage is sort of understandable
Thread #25116105
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I started reading Ulysses today.What is the best analysis/commentary on it?I finished the first chap...
Thread #25111973
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>read DublinersHated it>read Portrait Hated it Do people just pretend to enjoy this hack ?
Thread #25107882
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herro my name is rucy and this is my stolly about my white boyfliend
What shouldn't Gentile read?
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Post things gentile SHOULD NOT read ITT
Thread #25115904
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Is there any modern fiction that's just comfortable and feel good that isn't just power level slop f...
Economics Books
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What are some of the best books to learn about economics and the market as a whole as a beginner?
Sunday Morning
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>Deer walk upon our mountains, and the quail>Whistle about us their spontaneous cries;>Sweet berries...
Thread #25116385
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how is this?
Makioka Sisters
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This is just sublime. Beautiful, funny, but also harrowing and thrilling - just as life itself. A tr...
What's the book equivalent of this?
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Thread #25114297
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More like Infinite Turd. The author should kill himself.
Most interesting philosophy thought experiments?
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E.g. the Chinese Room thought experiment, or Peter Singer's drowning child thought experiment.
/lit/ periodicals
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Why can't we publish ones with essays and articles and maybe the occasional poem? No one wants to re...
Oh, my valve!
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"The true and the genuine would easily find a place in the world if those who are incapable of produ...
Thread #25107861
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>The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & H...
Thread #25114030
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Was he in the right?
ITT: Bronze Age Mindset by BAP
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He's just describing One Piece
Best deaths in fiction
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Ahab's death, being hung by the very harpoon he sent into Moby Dick and then dragged deep into the d...
Thread #25115839
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>wypipo be creepy n shiet
Thread #25115898
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>Every dead person from every era comes back to the life. Including extinct animals. Society collaps...
Thread #25112385
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Who was he writing for? Who was the target audience of War and Peace?
Thread #25110534
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Teach me some morals...Thank you..
Thread #25114099
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Was Deleuze a lowkey crypto-perennialist?
Reading list for Lent
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What are people reading in the period of Lent (besides the Bible)?
Thread #25110718
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ITT: Short kino
Thread #25116064
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Just marathoned this lit kino. What did I think of it? Why did Hulga talk like a first year student ...
Thread #25112276
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One of the rare good modern horror/weird fiction authors died. Reddit's response: "Good writer but c...
Thread #25115992
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>predicted the witless stupidity of Tolkien that had not yet come to be>somehow mogs fantasyslop any...
Thread #25113643
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>ITT we give better titles to classic works of literatureI'll startThe Iliad>Epic Fury
Song of Roland
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Hey /lit/.I've become interested in the Song of Roland but I'm unsure which translation to check out...
Thread #25114428
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>Zizek was right all alongApologize this instant.
Favorite black authors?
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Also chart thread
Thread #25114954
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In at least 2 movies that I know of, Mr Hyde is portrayed as basically steampunk Hulk and Dr Jekyll ...
Thread #25114091
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>be me>be beyond good and evil>be me>therefore be am>be think>be am>be me >be thinking>therefore be ...
Thread #25109025
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It seems ironic that many left-leaning intellectuals are way more serious about conservation than ac...
Thread #25114469
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richard dawkins doesn't like fake titsand wants to use selective breeding to give women bigger titst...
Therapeutic books?
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I know this isn’t a request board, and I do hope that I can be forgiven for that, but I’m in a v...
Thread #25115515
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>mfw Godot still hasn't arrived
Thread #25111569
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I recently read Pride and Prejudice and enjoyed it way more than I thought I would, I just wish it w...
Why am I the first philosopher to discuss how lanklets are useless cunts?
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Galileo, Lance Armstrong, Mozart, Leonidas, Homer, Caesar, Bach, Hitler, Neil Armstrong, etc. etc. e...
Anyone know where I can get a hardcover of this in 10 years?
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Thread #25112275
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My favorite kind of philosophy is the one where it's all entirely dependent on obtuse metaphysical c...
Thread #25114074
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>calls himself smart and erudite, the reasoning being he has read a lot of books>doesn't understand ...
Ortega was right…
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Where the fuck do you even find a good essay or paper in 2026 that's actually relevant to anything?E...
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