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Ulrich R. Rohmer CLEARLY QUITE ABSURD

Impressive Texts On A Strong Perception: Camus, Kafka, Kierkegaard, Unamuno, Borges, Cortazar And Others

Philosophy
English
114067 Words
Ages 12 and up
864
0

The book you are about to read is a collection of deep and controversial texts. They all deal with the strange phenomenon called absurdity. Life is not about logics following reasonable ways. It rather has absurd faces – at least our perception tells us that story, and we have no difficulties to follow. Although we struggle: life is absurd? Really? Is there not a divine plan? Isn´t absurdity a sign of the absense of the divine? A sign of the devil? A satanic agenda? This is the reason I put those texts together giving readers an easy access to material other thinkers share with us, for both, experience and perception of the absurd has moved humans at all times. The absurd is indeed an important topic in human´s life experience. There is no real answer on the “why” of absurdity, if we are honest we do not know much about it. But we can read what humans have written and thought. That means listening to the voices of our ancestors: they often suffered from absurdity in life too. And by sharing their experiences in books and written witnesses they hoped their children had a better insight and perception – and finally hope. So go and read and look how your inner feelings and perceptions are affected, how some will get clear and some will fade away. You must give yourself time to “digest” what you have read. Go and read and think for yourself, always! You must find answers for yourself! May your journey lead you to deep joy and peace! Nothing else was my intention publishing this sourcebook. [more]

Keywords: Albert Camus, absurdity, divine, devil, joy, peace, inner feelings and perceptions, an absurd reasoning, Myth of Sysiphus, absurd walls, absurdity and suicide, philosophical suicide, Franz Kafka The Trial, Franz Kafka The Castle, Soren Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling, Miguel de Unamuno Saint Manuel the Good Martyr, Jorge Luis Borges The Gospel according to Mark, Julio Cortazar Axolotl, Peter Sloterdijk Rules for the Human Zoo, bioethics, Jürgen Habermas, Sloterdijk - Habermas - controversy, eugenics, topological onto - anthropology, Mary Rorty, transhumanism, transhumanist declaration, Natasha Vita - More, Ray Kurzweil, Thomas N. Naylor, Mat Gasparek, Osho Truth is Absurd, Osho Existence is One, Steven Goodheart Buddhist, John Klocke Christian Absurdism, James Still Barabbas and Christ, Deep Purple Clearly Quite Absurd, Anthony Weiner, Anna North [more][Less]

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Randall J Sokoloff How Facebook Saved My Life

Biography & Autobiography
English
1327 Words
No Age Recommendation
811
6

I existed in a self imposed solitude for years and years. My mind was filled with darkness and [more]

Keywords: facebook, philosophy, spirituality, literature, psychology, absurdity, current events, cultural theory, depression

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Adam Chase Summer Snow Storm

Fiction
English
4503 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Snow in summer is of course impossible. Any weather expert will tell you so. Weather Bureau Chief Botts [more]

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John Galsworthy The Pigeon

Play in the Third Series

Drama
English
16599 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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A Fantasy in Three Acts JOHN GALSWORTHY calls this play a fantasy. To me it seems cruelly real: it demonstrates that the best human material is crushed in the fatal mechanism of our life. "The Pigeon" also discloses to us the inadequacy of charity, individual and organized, to cope with poverty, as well as the absurdity of reformers and experimenters who attempt to patch up effects while they ignore the causes. [more]

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Kalai Selvi Arivalagan The Metamorphosis - a Review

by Franz Kafka

Language & Literature
English
811 Words
No Age Recommendation
168
1

The entire plot of “The Metamorphosis” revolves around an instance of absurdity. Gregor Samsa wakes up one day to find himself transformed into a big bug. This sudden transformation keeps his family and his employer at a loss. When the family finds alternate ways to support their financial requirements, they start to neglect him. Gregor realizes that he has become a burden to the family. He decides to come out of his isolation and regain the love of his family. [more]

Keywords: #metamorphosis, #franz kafka, #review

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Edward S. Ellis The Launch Boys' Cruise in the Deerfoot

Fiction
English
54043 Words
No Age Recommendation
202
0

This book was published in 1912. This is one of the two books from the Launch Boys Series. Ellis also the author of stories for The Flying Boys Series, Deerfoot Series, Boys Banner Series, Foreign Adventure Series and many more. The tale begins: I once hear the bravest officer I ever knew declare that the height of absurdity was for a person to boast that he did not know the meaning of fear. Such a man is either a fool or the truth is not in him, was the terse expression of the gallant soldier. [more]

Keywords: The Launch Boys' Cruise in the Deerfoot, Edward S. Ellis, The Launch Boys' Cruise in the Deerfoot By Edward S. Ellis

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Geoff St. Reynard The Giants From Outer Space

Fiction
English
24926 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Grim terror lurked in the void many light years from Earth. But Pinkham and his men were unaware of it -- until suddenly they discovered -- the giants from outer space. The first of the marooned survivors turned up on an asteroid. She was a gorgeous woman, and for all that her spacesuit had kept her in stasis for twenty-eight years, she'd hardly aged a day. The Martian was different. He'd been there four thousand years. . . . At least! Maybe longer. The ancient Martians might have made it this far away, but their spacesuits were nothing like those of Terra. So crew of the Elephant's Child was face to face with a hopeless absurdity -- an alien couldn't be there. [more]

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Various Various : The Atlantic Monthly, Volume V, Number 29, March, 1860 (Fiscle Part-X) A Magazine Of Literature, Art, A

Essay
English
88429 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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The American Character Is Now Generally Acknowledged to Be The Most Cosmopolitan Of Modern Times; And A Native Of This Country, All Things Being equal, Is Likely To Form A Less Prescriptive Idea Of Other Nations Than The Inhabitants Of Countries Whose Neighborhood And History Unite To Bequeathe And Perpetuate Certain Fixed notions. Before The Frequent Intercourse Now Existing between Europe And The United states, We Derived our Impressions Of The French People, As Well As Of Italian Skies, From English Literature. The Probability Was That Our Earliest Association With The Gallic Race Partook Largely Of The Ridiculous. All The Extravagant Anecdotes Of Morbid Self-Love, Miserly Epicurism, Strained courtesy, And Frivolous Absurdity Current Used to Boast A Frenchman As Their Hero. It Was So In novels, Plays, And After-Dinner Stories. Our First Personal Acquaintance Often Confirmed this Prejudice; For The Chance Was That The One Specimen Of The Grand Nation Familiar To Our Childhood Proved a Poor _Émigré_ Who Gained a Precarious Livelihood As A Dancing-Master, Cook, Teacher, Or Barber, Who Was Profuse Of Smiles, Shrugs, Bows, And Compliments, Prided himself On _La Belle France_, Played the Fiddle, And Took Snuff. A More Dignified view Succeeded, When We Read "Télémaque," So Long An Initiatory Text-Book In The Study Of The Language, Blended as Its Crystal Style Was In our Imaginations With The Pure And Noble Character Of Fénelon. [more]

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Henry Fielding Amelia (Complete) (Fiscle Part 13) of 1

Short Story
English
164905 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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The Various Accidents Which Befel A Very Worthy Couple After Their Uniting In The State Of Matrimony Will Be The Subject Of The Following History. The Distresses Which They Waded Through Were Some Of Them So Exquisite, And The Incidents Which Produced These So Extraordinary, That They Seemed To Require Not Only The Utmost Malice, But The Utmost Invention, Which Superstition Hath Ever Attributed To Fortune: Though Whether Any Such Being Interfered In The Case, Or, Indeed, Whether There Be Any Such Being In The Universe, Is A Matter Which I By No Means Presume To Determine In The Affirmative. To Speak A Bold Truth, I Am, After Much Mature Deliberation, Inclined To Suspect That The Public Voice Hath, In All Ages, Done Much Injustice To Fortune, And Hath Convicted Her Of Many Facts In Which She Had Not The Least Concern. I Question Much Whether We May Not, By Natural Means, Account For The Success Of Knaves, The Calamities Of Fools, With All The Miseries In Which Men Of Sense Sometimes Involve Themselves, By Quitting The Directions Of Prudence, And Following The Blind Guidance Of A Predominant Passion; In Short, For All The Ordinary Phenomena Which Are Imputed To Fortune; Whom, Perhaps, Men Accuse With No Less Absurdity In Life, Than A Bad Player Complains Of Ill Luck At The Game Of Chess. [more]

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Robert Huntington Fletcher A History Of English Literature (fiscle part-IV

History
English
129259 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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This Book Aims To Provide A General Manual Of English Literature For Students In colleges And Universities And Others Beyond The High-School Age. The First Purposes Of Every Such Book Must Be To Outline The Development Of The Literature With Due Regard To National Life, And To Give Appreciative Interpretation Of The Work Of The Most Important Authors. I Have Written The Present Volume Because I Have Found No Other That, To My Mind, Combines Satisfactory Accomplishment Of These Ends With A Selection Of Authors Sufficiently Limited for Clearness And With Adequate Accuracy And Fulness Of Details, Biographical And Other. A Manual, It Seems To Me, Should Supply A Systematic Statement Of The Important Facts, So That The Greater Part Of The Student'S Time, In class And Without, May Be Left Free For The Study Of The Literature Itself. I Hope That The Book May Prove Adaptable To Various Methods And Conditions Of Work. Experience Has Suggested the Brief Introductory Statement Of Main Literary Principles, Too Often Taken For Granted by Teachers, With Much Resulting Haziness In the Student'S Mind. The List Of Assignments And Questions At The End Is Intended, Of Course, To Be Freely Treated. I Hope That The List Of Available Inexpensive Editions Of The Chief Authors May Suggest A Practical Method Of Providing The Material, Especially For Colleges Which Can Provide Enough Copies For Class Use. Poets, Of Course, May Be Satisfactorily Read In volumes Of, Selections; But To Me, At Least, A Book Of Brief Extracts From Twenty Or A Hundred prose Authors Is An Absurdity. Perhaps I May Venture To Add That Personally I Find It Advisable To Pass Hastily Over The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries And So Gain As Much Time As Possible For The Nineteenth. R. H. F. _August, 1916._ [more]

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