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>The only characters I can recognize are Captain Ahab and Dorian Grey, everyone else on there could be fucking anybody
>Please, from what book is the trio?
The absolute state of this board.

thx.

Machiavelli is worth idolizing, though

master & margarita.
it's terrible.
>inb4 try a different translation
three of em. all terrible. you have shit taste.

You seem to be new here. You see, we don't read, we just post.

You have objectively shit taste. Go back to Hunger Games or whatever it is you read.

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>it's le russian and edgy and therefore...le good!

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Sure, but he's known for his connection to the term "Machiavellian" and edgy people reading The Prince. It doesn't matter if Machiavelli himself was a naughty motion picture villain or not.

I haven't read a single book outside of high school and I can recognize every person there.

Who is bottom right?

betcha i've read more russian lit than you.
the soviets killed ruski lit. fight me, kulak bitch.

Are you implying M&M is "Soviet Lit"?

Why wouldn't one idolize Shakespeare and Dante? They're two of the greatest authors of all time.

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as a period, absolutely.

Harry Haller

They're two of the biggest frauds in history.

>not idolizing judge holden or patrick bateman
bitch hands made this image

Bateman is a literal loser who is simply the punchline to a joke.

there is literally nothing edgy about any of the advice within the prince. stop vomiting pope propaganda

Wanting to be feared is evil.

why?

It is not good to want to cause negative feelings in others.

It might be inevitable that bad people would have negative feelings about you if you're a moral person, but that doesn't mean you should WANT that.

i don't read, but i know who they are from lurking alone

NTA, but: Gay.

Want moral things

Stop being a stupid fucking nigger and read what I actually wrote. I never said Machiavelli is a mean villain, I said that's how people (read: the public) perceive him. Go read an actual book to fix that comprehension issue of yours

t. did not read the whole quote.
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the joke being that if you are affluent enough you can get away with being a murderer and/or schizo?

But he doesn't? Did you read the book?

Get laid faggot. Sage.

No. I don't read.

i don't think fear is necessarily a negative feeling. fear can be quite edifying. to embrace it is to be incalculably powerful.
as to wanting people to fear you, what about evil people? arguably, without the fear of say, the police, you aren't very safe walking the streets, as it stands it seems you're willing to let others hold fearful positions as proxies while you benefit from what you see as evil.

Again, it is inevitable that bad people might fear you. That doesn’t mean you should WANT that, you should WANT people to look up to you and want to be like you.

It is wrong to WANT people to fear you.

Did you? When does he get punished for anything? What did you take away from his final speech? In the end he has not changed.

That IS his punishment. He's still a pathetic, delusional loser who hasn't done anything with his life, either good or evil.

no matter how many times you emphasize the word want, i'm not going to be convinced by it.
no, i think wanting to be feared by evil is quite a positive thing. idealism, to me, is much more evil than acceptance that some creatures are ne'er do wells who must be restrained by the threat of violence and dealt with accordingly.
do you believe in god?

If you desire to be the cause of negative feelings in others, you are not a moral person.

God has no part in this.

god would have me fear him. does that make him evil? i don't think so. wanting to be feared is a matter of course, not a moral cruelty. it is just and even prudent to exercise puissance in the face of evil.

Are you saying you should be judged by the same standard as God?

Why the fuck is Dante there? Nobody idolizes him, he's simply held in high regard as a great author of Italian literature

>Dante
>Shakespeare

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in this sense, absolutely. god is an excellent source to base an image of an all encompassing good. arguably the only source.

Your use of the term “loser” is pretty pedestrian user. If I were ever to be a schizo, I’d prefer being a rich 27 year-old one that graduated from harvard and that has multimillion dollar apartment overlooking central park.

First off, you are retarded. But you didnt have to be. I thought you were about to talk about the “accepted image” as is “what the characters means to represent is not set in stone and there are different interpretations of them” and that would have been a good point. “Is ahabs rage against the universe ultimately heroic, or should it be seen as madness to be shunned”, but no.

You fucking meant their visual representation you absolute retard. Your unintential misdirect towards me thinking you were smart deserves a thumbs up idiot.

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Ah yes, the apocryphal and perpetually overlooked writer known as Shakespeare

To be fair, that's not a real portrait of Shakespeare.

Who the fuck would think Ahab’s insanity is heroric?

What's wrong with crollalanza?

me.
you do know what heroic means, right?

My definition of heroic does not include sacrificing the lives of innocents for personal gain

why are there authors??

>...Why are you guys here if you don't read books?
it's not even summer yet newfag. lurk moar

i haven't read a book since 2003 and i recognize all of them

what the fuck are you doing

Retard