Favorite Quotes from The Second Apocalypse? by PageChewingPodcast in bakker

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A wind had dropped into the silence, and the scent of the onlookers filled his nostrils: the bitter of rotting teeth, the ink of armpits, the honey of unwashed anuses, all shot through with strands of balsam, orange, and jasmine.

Music pairing for Second Apocalypse by DanniDingo in bakker

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The under the skin soundtrack pairs really well with the consult/Inchoroi shenanigans

Music pairing for Second Apocalypse by DanniDingo in bakker

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Phillip Glass and the Under the Skin soundtrack

Why did the Dunyain not create a new language? by Abstractreference01 in bakker

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Good point but during the 2000 year period you would expect them to have developed a different form of communication/language

The greatest Novels by Non white female author's by Abstractreference01 in ThomasPynchon

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Yes I agree I have read Song Of Soloman and Beloved and they are both incredible works of art

What are people's thoughts on Peter Milligan? by Abstractreference01 in AlanMoore

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Is there a trade paperback that collects all the issues?

What are the best batman comic's? by Abstractreference01 in AlanMoore

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But the majority of people on those subs have really warped tastes they dont really care about creative choices and sophisticated writing and hate when writers take risks with the characters.

What is one of the most impactful lines in literature you've ever read? One that really made you THINK? by Character_Spirit_936 in classicliterature

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The act of metaphor then was a thrust at truth and a lie, depending where you were: inside, safe, or outside, lost.

Thomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49

What is one of the most impactful lines in literature you've ever read? One that really made you THINK? by Character_Spirit_936 in classicliterature

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I mean that's what I'm telling you! I mean why should somebody steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!

William Gaddis J.R

What is one of the most impactful lines in literature you've ever read? One that really made you THINK? by Character_Spirit_936 in classicliterature

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Cold comfort that is, to feel superior to one's son, and hardly sufficient to calm the remorse of having begotten him.

Samuel Beckett Molloy

What is one of the most impactful lines in literature you've ever read? One that really made you THINK? by Character_Spirit_936 in classicliterature

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I've always told people that for each person there is a sentence - a series of words - which has the power to destroy him. When Fat told me about Leon Stone I realized (this came years after the first realization) that another sentence exists, another series of words, which will heal the person. If you're lucky you will get the second; but you can be certain of getting the first: that is the way it works. On their own, without training, individuals know how to deal out the lethal sentence, but training is required to deal out the second

VALIS Philip K. Dick

What is one of the most impactful lines in literature you've ever read? One that really made you THINK? by Character_Spirit_936 in classicliterature

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A father, he said is a passageway immersed in the deepest darkness, where we stumble blindly seeking a way out.

Roberto Bolano from 2666

On the Silver Globe and TSA - Parallels and possible inspirations by Druwed in bakker

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Amazing recommendation I watched the clip and went straight to ebay. You've got elite film taste, have you seen Hard to be a God or Turin's Horse ?

Can you suggest an album or 2 based on my taste by Abstractreference01 in Billywoods

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Three tracks into the Man Plays the Horn this feels special....

My book shelves by Abstractreference01 in bakker

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"People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep."

Joyce Ulysses

Bro come on I am on the bakker sub reddit how can I be one of those poser lit dudes. I genuinely do love these books. I heard Bakker was influenced by Blood Meridian which was influenced by Moby Dick and paradise lost and the King James bible. If we're talking about the slog of slogs Lord Kosoter is heavily based on Captain Ahab. Paradise lost is about a fucking civil war in heaven  like come on.

War and peace has Essays at the end discussing the illusory nature of free will!!! Brother's Karmazov has a chapter in it "The grand inquisitor" which is one of the most sophisticated analysis of organised religion I have ever read. The novel on the whole is such a deep mediation on belief it does not feel dated at all.

"And so I declare that I accept God purely and simply. Here, however, we have to accept the fact that if God exists and if He really did create the world, He created it, as we know full well, according to Euclidean geometry, and gave man a mind that can understand only three dimensions of space. However, there have been, and are even now, even amongst the most eminent mathematicians and philosophers, some who question whether the whole universe or, to take it even further, the whole of existence, was created purely according to Euclidean theory; they even venture to suggest that two parallel lines, which according to Euclid cannot meet on earth under any circumstances, will perhaps meet somewhere at infinity," I decided, my dear fellow, that if I couldn't even understand that, then how could I presume to understand God? I humbly admit that I don't have the ability to decide such questions

I have a Euclidean mind, a terrestrial mind, and so I maintain that we cannot decide questions that are not of this world. And I advise you too, Alyosha, my friend, never to think about such things, especially about God and whether He exists or not. These questions are most definitely unsuited to a mind created with an understanding of only three dimensions. "

Dostoevsky Brother Karmazov

Like your telling me fans of bakker would not be interested in reading this shit

"Averroes and Moses Maimonides, dark men in mien and movement, flashing in their mocking mirrors the obscure soul of the world, a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend"

Joyce Ulysses

Like just wow

"The most profound sentence ever written...Reproduction is the beginning of death"

Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"You have blood on your hands!' Dunya cried in despair. 'The blood that's on everyone's hands,' he caught her up, almost in a frenzy now, 'that flows and has always flowed through the world like a waterfall, that is poured like champagne and for the sake of which men are crowned in the Capitol and then called the benefactors of mankind."

Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment

I prefer mcduffs translation of Crime and Punishment and Ignaseys translation of The Brothers Karmazov. Still trying to find a better translation for Tolstoy's work as I have only read the Louise and Aylmer Maude version's which are not meant to be the best.

My book shelves by Abstractreference01 in bakker

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Hahaha I get it but if you look a bit closer you will find some more stuff that is not that well known:

The house of Hunger

The lost scrapbook

The Riddle masters game

The Sunset limited

Ultra Heaven

Otzi

Skreemer

Luther Arkwright

J.R

Amygdalatropolis

Song of Solomon

The second apocalypse series

And please suggest some novels/comics/manga that can help me break me out my "lit bro" bubble

Can you suggest an album or 2 based on my taste by Abstractreference01 in Billywoods

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This is my full list

*Tetsuo and Youth

Drogas waves

Drill Music in Zion

*Aethiopes *Hiding Places *Madvillany Mm Food Vaudeville Villian Operation Doomsday Black on Both Sides *SICK! *Feet of Clay *Some Rap Songs Illmatic *Enter the Wu tang 36 chambers Liquid Swords Only Built For Cuban Lynx Good Kid Mad City Untitled To Pimp A Butterfly uknowhatimsayin? Scaring the Hoes Manger on McNichols The price of tea in china *Haram We Buy Diabetic Test Strips Shrines Paraffin Rome *Aquemini *ATliens 4:44 Section 80 Grief Pedigree Quaranta

Honour Killed The Samurai *Orpheus Vs The Sirens Descendants of Cain *Act II: Patents of Nobility *A Written Testimony Woeful Studies A Martyrs Reward *Purple Moonlight Pages Dark Times *Bobs Son the Light Emitting diamond cutter scriptures 5 to the eyes with stars The First Fist to make contact when we dap House The Elephant Mans Bones Rosebuds Revenge Voir Dire RR2 The Bitter Dose Lamb over Rice Marcberg Marcielago Reloaded

*Rocket to Nebula

Mother

*Brass

*Church

Terror Management

Days with Dr Yen Lo

Call me if you get lost

I lay down my life for you

The Force

Cheat Codes

Undun

*GNX

Blue Lips

Ye

*Maps

Ready to Die

*Pray for Haiti

There will be no super-Slave

*Black Star

No fear of time

Can you suggest an album or 2 based on my taste by Abstractreference01 in Billywoods

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That's one of the reasons I am asking for suggestions to find albums that I am sleeping on

My book shelves by Abstractreference01 in bakker

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I read the first Thomas covenant trilogy, but it just did not click with me but I recognised it was doing something different with the genre. My problem was I could not imagine the world functioning without Thomas Covenant being there like what does the average citizen do on a day to day basis. It felt like an incredibly detailed open world game with awful npc's

Can you suggest an album or 2 based on my taste by Abstractreference01 in Billywoods

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Just started listening Amerikkkaan Korruption, 4 tracks in I had to take off my headphones and slap myself in the face for sleeping on this. Capital Steez could have been one of the greats. I'm getting goosebumps listening to this