General Chit-Chat Thread: A New Beginning

[Comrade Khan]

Also Jules Verne

 

[Comrade Khan]

Kind of a big fucking deal

 

[Comrade Khan]

Voltaire is downright hilarious'

Camus is depressing lol

 

[Chris]

I only know Voltaire from his quips and place on history idk much about his actual work, that should be my next dive

 

[Grim]

His personal letters to Rousseau are so funny

 

[Grim]

"Bro you fucking suck, I hate your philosophy, you're wrong on everything, now get the fuck to my villa so we can gorge in wine, you stupid idiot."

 

[Comrade Khan]

Molliere makes fun of eccentric rich fucks a lot

 

[Comrade Khan]

Pretty sure he has a play about a play making fun of a king n him getting mad

 

[Comrade Khan]

"Bro you fucking suck, I hate your philosophy, you're wrong on everything, now get the fuck to my villa so we can gorge in wine, you stupid idiot."

classic French bants

 

[Grim]

Speaking of transformative French literature, has anyone read any Marquis De Sade

 

[Chris]

Lmao no but I googled him and I am aware of the 120 days of Sodom

 

[Grim]

Yeah that's probably his most famous works

 

[Grim]

And it is where we get the word Sadism

 

[Chris]

This is off track but recently I went on a dive on "lost works" as in we know they existed at one point bc we have direct reference to them as like a common source in something that survived. Maybe I was just using my own biases but I felt like it was crazy the amount of context you could still gather from those secondary sources on these things we know long have any access to

 

[Chris]

Mostly from Greek and Roman sources, but the most interesting ones are the ones for other civilizations they talked about