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    • SanguisEtAquaS
      SanguisEtAqua
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      Should I read Crime and Punishment?

      Gloria in excelsis Deo.

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      • HitlerH
        Hitler @alpine.raspberry
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        @alpine-raspberry said in /lit/ General:

        Has anyone read "Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy" by C. Alamariu?

        I've skimmed, haven't gotten around to reading yet, but from what I've seen it looks like an interesting piece. You can find PDF online (annas-archive) if you want to skim contents before buying.

        @sunandblood said in /lit/ General:

        Should I read Crime and Punishment?

        Yes. Dostoevsky is a brilliant writer. I have a friend who has read C&P ~4 times. Highly recommends.

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          EzraPound
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          Dead Souls by Gogol

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          • LamassuL
            Lamassu @alpine.raspberry
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            @alpine-raspberry I have, it was altogether pretty dense and repetitive but that's to be expected of a dissertation. imo he also spends too much space arguing with other academics, again to be expected. The sections on Pindar, nature, and the origin of aristocracy were good

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              peatyourmeat Banned
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              my favorite author is knut hamsun

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              • Norwegian MugabeN
                Norwegian Mugabe @peatyourmeat
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                @peatyourmeat I am also a big Hamsun fan, although I detest Hunger. The praise for Isak in Growth of the Soil due to his practical intelligence, strength, openness, and willingness to try out his ideas in the world, is very Peaty. Hamsun's critique of Isak's son who worships dead material, is also very Peaty. That being said, Hamsun had a tragic view of life overall.

                Put yourself on fire for peak energy metabolism.

                Ignore, judge, overcommit.

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                • goldaG
                  golda @SanguisEtAqua
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                  @sunandblood yes

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                  • aristotleA
                    aristotle
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                    Any Peaters enjoy Thomas Pynchon? Currently reading Inherent Vice. Pynchon clearly has high metabolic rate.

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                      peatyourmeat Banned @Norwegian Mugabe
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                      @Norwegian-Mugabe detesting hunger is understandable, though no one can say it's a bad book. Would be lying if I said i didn't see parts of myself in it. I love Isak, best archetype of Boomer ever.

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                      • LamassuL
                        Lamassu @aristotle
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                        @aristotle Mason & Dixon is the only one of his I finished, probably the funniest book I've read

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                          christian @peatyourmeat
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                          @peatyourmeat quickly becoming one of mine as well, loved Mysteries ... still thinking about the blue silk sail ...

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                          • aristotleA
                            aristotle @Lamassu
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                            @Lamassu M&D was the first one I read. Incredible book, deserves to be put on the re-read list once I finish my Obs.

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                            • bradB
                              brad @aristotle
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                              @aristotle I'm a Pynchon enjoyer but never finished Gravity's Rainbow. There was a passage in V that gut punched me:

                              “He was blushing. Crew cut Harris tweed. "Say, you are new," she smiled. "I am Esther.”
                              “He blushed and was cute. "Brad," he said. "I'm sorry I made you jump."
                              She knew instinctively: he will be fine as the fraternity boy just out of an Ivy League school who knows he will never stop being a fraternity boy as long as he lives. But who still feels he is missing something, and so hangs at the edges of the Whole Sick Crew. If he is going into management, he writes. If he is an engineer or architect why he paints or sculpts. He will straddle the line aware up to the point of knowing he is getting the worst of both worlds, but never stopping to wonder why there should ever have been line, or even if there is a line at all. He will learn how to be a twinned man and will go on at the game, straddling until he splits up the crotch and  in half from the prolonged tension, and then he will be destroyed. She assumed ballet fourth position, moved her breasts at a 45 degree angle to his line-of-sight, pointed her nose at his heart, looked up at him through her eyelashes.
                              "How long have you been in New York?”

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                              • juuls for jewsJ
                                juuls for jews
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                                ive been reading fear and loathing in las vegaz... vry kin0

                                i h8 niggies

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                                • Norwegian MugabeN
                                  Norwegian Mugabe
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                                  How great is Eliot's The Lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock? You stand before the rest of your life and you know what you are in for, and you are already tired of the future that you will come to regret.

                                  Put yourself on fire for peak energy metabolism.

                                  Ignore, judge, overcommit.

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                                  • ImrithrilI
                                    Imrithril @alpine.raspberry
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                                    @alpine-raspberry Bennett's Phylactery did a good podcast where he summarises the book and gives his opinion. He says there's more in it than he manages to discuss in the podcast, but it might give you an idea if you want to read it yourself.
                                    https://extradeadjcb.substack.com/p/selective-breeding-and-the-birth

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                                    • Norwegian MugabeN
                                      Norwegian Mugabe
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                                      Dear babycarrot

                                      Babycarrot

                                      Small

                                      Ugly

                                      Lives in the shadow of the carrot

                                      Babycarrot.

                                      • Henrik Ibsen.

                                      Put yourself on fire for peak energy metabolism.

                                      Ignore, judge, overcommit.

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                                      • skylarkS
                                        skylark
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                                        In
                                        Algeria
                                        There is a town
                                        Called
                                        Tit

                                        Good things are immeasurably costly

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                                        • Norwegian MugabeN
                                          Norwegian Mugabe
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                                          Pyotr Mihalitch rode along the bank of the pond and looked mournfully into the water. And thinking about his life, he came to the conclusion that he had never said or acted upon what he really thought, and that other people had repaid him in the same way. And so the whole of life seemed to him as dark as this water in which the night sky was reflected and water-weeds grew in a tangle. And it seemed to him that nothing could ever set it right.

                                          ― Anton Chekhov

                                          Put yourself on fire for peak energy metabolism.

                                          Ignore, judge, overcommit.

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                                          • VirtueAgonistV
                                            VirtueAgonist @EzraPound
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                                            @EzraPound I’ve had it on my shelf for a while but have been told it’s a bit of a slog. How does Gogol compare to Dostoevsky?

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