Literature

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I've been reading about Russian history lately.... Life really does just keep getting worse and worse for these guys throughout time
@yogthos English, French and Americans are deluded. We all die and most likely not for honour, love or freedom but misadventure, poor health and disease; in the end we all die.
Jack London's The sea wolf - "We are all eating each other, what's the point"
- It's wild how good this book is relative to how few people have read it.
  "The only part I remember is 'I now commit this body to the deep'"
  
  I remember I thought it was awful when I read it in seventh grade, but tbh I trust the opinion of a random stranger online more than I trust seventh grade me.
  The one thing I remember was the kid Kenny who sat next to me in english period looked at the page I was on and picked out a sentence that was something like '"God damn it!", the cook ejaculated." and made a big thing about it and the teacher started yelling at us to quiet down. I genuinely don't think I'd remember the book existed otherwise.
  
  Its one of my favs. On the surface its a character study, but there's a lot of powerful philosophical, social, and psychological questions in there, and a critique of US dog-eat-dog individualism. And it manages to be entertaining also.
- 😆
Same for German literature, tbh
It is a good day to die
It is a good day to die
Read some Mayakovsky then
- can definitely get behind Mayakovsky :)
Who are the authors in each image?
- Shakespeare | Dumas
  Jack London | Dostoevsky
*i will die by a Chinese quadcopter

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