/lit/ - Literature

>>22757853
>He never shows any rape scene, he just mentions it happening
>But of course you don't know that because you actually didn't read his books, probably just watched the TV series.
Bro crack open a Game of Thrones and read Dany's beginning arc where she's getting molested by her bother then raped by Drogo. The absolute irony that you think I go this from the TV show which handles the depictions of rape with kid gloves.

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>>21891448
Class stratification theory (dialectical materialism); class warfare.
Economical class defining the political, social and cultural super structure of a Society, History’s course.
All bullshit.

just grab a .pdf and read your chapter of choice

Marxism was wrong about
>historical philosophy
>economical theory (capitalism's decreasing profit rates leading to the definitive crisis)
>the progressive impoverishing of the proletariat class (biggest sociological mistake: the proletariat class didn't get poorer, it became "more bourgeoisie" - access not only to goods but also to many other "blessings" due to capitalism)

it's been "not true marxism" since Frankfurt school

It's really this easy, OP

>>21812948
it's a book nigga, not a freaking job interview. besides i dont think anyone besides Joyce understands ulysses anyway. but reading about ulysses can be as much fun as reading about the book. there are entire essays analyzing the significance of the brand of soap that Bloom carries for example (https://www.bloomsandbarnacles.com/blog/sweny-the-alchemist).). and thats not even diving into the amount of schizo theories you see being tossed around about Finnegans Wake, now there's a rabbit hole.

>>21503042
>whoever works with symbols ONLY

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ITT: people who havent read the book
"The modern world is a killjoy, in short. But the ancient Greeks were quite different ... What they admired was a carelessness and freedom from constraint that would shock us, and that upsets especially the dour leftist and the conservative role-player. There was a Hippocleides from Athens, said to be one of the most beautiful youths: Herodotus tells this famous story of a man admired by all the world of the time. He went, with dozens of other youths from various Greek cities, to try to marry the daughter of a very important and rich autocrat in Sicily. This man decided to test out the suitors, to find which would be the best husband for his daughter: he put them up for a time, treating them with lavish parties while he tested them in feats of athletics, wit, conversation, and other abilities. It’s a sign of this people’s greatness that marriages weren’t conceived purely as political or financial alliances, but that their aristocracy paid attention to biological quality in pairings. Very few nations have the freedom from the fear I speak of; only a few peoples have had the sense to raise their snouts from the ground, look to the stars, and consider something other than the utility of immediate advantage in marriage and children. The way our own elite today marries and pairs off, by the way, is anything but “eugenic”: two over-the-hill spent people in their thirties marrying for “practical” reasons…this doesn’t give rise to strong children. In any case, Hippocleides was becoming the favorite of the father, for all his great qualities, his illustrious lineage, his looks and his charm in conversation. At the last party, however, Hippocleides got drunk and decided to start dancing on the table. Then he started to dance upside down, on his arms, moving his legs around! Well, you know that men then didn’t wear the ridiculous constraining clothmo clothes we wear today, such as pants, so the father was offended at the show. He said, “Hippocleides you have just danced yourself out of a marriage” …but the answer was “Hippocleides doesn’t care.” In this one phrase you have the whole attitude of this beautiful, reckless piratical aristocracy that colonized and conquered their known world. It’s an attitude that upsets all the moralfags of our time, of the left and right. Hippocleides went there to have a good time, to display and use his powers and excellences and biological superiority—but these two things are the same! He didn’t care about the gain or loss of a wife. He didn’t go to act like a meek, beaten male ready to dance to some sclerotic’s tune. He was as careless of his own property as of others’—this is what Tacitus says also about the most noble men among the Germanic tribes, who lived only for the joy of war and battle. This is what the great among the Greeks admired.

what in the world do you expect to hear? Just fucking read. wake up, make coffee, read for half an hour.

>>18388292

https://www.nature.com/articles/518288a

What are some books that you enjoy and can read multiple times?
Had to for school:
>Lord of the flies
>1984
>Of Mice and Men
On my own time:
>Animal Farm
>Alice in Wonderland+Looking glass
>The Stand
>20,000 leagues under the sea
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>>17927541
idk i don't really pay attention to my reading speed while reading

>>17574490
Light and Dark.
Festering in Evil.
The human Soul.
Corporate imperialism.

>>17567016
and it actually motivated me to read the myth of Sisyphus for once instead of just pretending like I knew what he was trying to say (like OP is doing).

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>>16055814
I just remembered, the anime is chinese with chinese subs so...you wouldn't be able to watch anyway.

Seek therapy
Go for a walk
watch movie
get a hobby
pick up a sport
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