opinions?
what even happened tho
>>9517735
Juan Preciado was in a literal hell created by his father's unrequited love.
>>9517786
was it hell? i thought it was maybe just some kind of ethereal plane
Do cigarettes help you become a better writer?
>>9517703
No. Cigarettes are degenerate.
>>9517703
Yes. Cigarettes are degenerate.
>>9517725
Touche, good sir.
I'm attracted to Stoicism but I have no idea how to actually implement it. Are there any books or websites that list a few techniques, habits and so on to actually improve endurance like that?
Only experience makes a veteran. Practice it's priciples to learn it, pleb.
smoke heroin
Just whatever you do, avoid Ryan Holiday's pop-stoicism bullshit.
woah
this is the kind of shit you figure out in high school
>>9517605
le upboats so good advice so original post! XDDDDD
>>9517609
long before that even
Is there even a point in writing if it doesn't get you audience pussy ?
Why do /pol/tards love this misogynist meme? Saged.
>>9517597
David (Alph)er Wallace
>>9517607
>implying anyone gives a shit
Just pre-ordered Sam Hyde's book
What am I in for?
Anyone own the first edition?
>$49
No book is worth that price.
>48.95 for a book-length racist diatribe
>>9517793
That's not totally accurate, anon. It's also 40% drawings of penises.
I just ended to read this guy, who hurt him so much?
>>9517238
Humanity.....All of his suffering has been at the hands of humanity, particularly women.
>>9517238
It wasn't really people so much as it was his insomnia and probably his expatriation under duress.
He had his sad-sack pessimistic,correctoutlook on the world FIRST. Then this attracted some negative attention from others, along with the positive. Still, an anecdote states that his mother told him that if she had known how he would turn out, she would simply have aborted him. That's not "good" for any psyche, in the conventional senses.
But on paper he was a full normie who did just fine in life. Emil Cioran:
-had a comfy little apartment in Paris France for Chrissake,
-was a respected writer who had been offered multiple literary prizes and even accepted one for fuck's sake,
-always kept suicide in his back pocket (as we all do), and yet despite his outlook, existence never became so interminable for him that he felt compelled to actually play the ultimate card dickballs,
-had some friends that he would actually spend time with now and again jesus nigger,
-and /actually had a gf of many years/ ghdfhcjchdjchuehceueuceuhiuhwwqqq
Schopenhauer was more of a robot.
I believe that in terms of mental constitution, Cioran was actually not depressive in the clinical sense. If he were, he would have crumbled under the weight of his own sincereyl held thoughts decades earlier.
>>9518846
I remember from an interview with his disciple that Cioran used to get money from the scholarships from the various universities he attended, that's how he sustained himself while being possibly jobless for all his life.
Even so, I'd not call him a "normie", he was a quiet person that had very few friends, he spent most of his time alone in his room reading or going out for walks.
What does /lit/ think of invisible man? Started reading it yesterday and this is my favorite quote so far:
"Once when I asked for a cigarette, some jokers gave me a reefer, which I lighted when I got home and sat listening to my phonograph. It was a strange evening. Invisibility, let me explain, gives one a slightly different sense of time, you're never quite on the beat."
>>9516918
I want to read it badly but school is currently getting in the way of my education. I heard it was Kafkaesque, is this true?
>>9516990
yes and its a little bit of everything honestly. I'd say just read for 10 minutes a night. The book is very episodic and manageable.
>>9516918
Is it bad I kept confusing Harlan Ellison with this guy?
How do you use big words without sounding pretentious?
>>9516780
You don't.
Use short, complex words that should be used more.
>>9516790
t. Hemmingway
Verbal vs written speech, don't sound autistic.
Any book recs to match the feel of pic related?
crowley or something
whatever /x/ reads
Definitely Crowley. I would start with Liber Al Vel Vegis (The book of the law) and then possibly check out Diary of a Drug Fiend.
The Magus -Fowles
1984
Farenheight 451
A brave new world
the greeks
>>9516637
It really doesn't matter. As a non-native speaker I've found 1984 more accessible than Brave New World.
>>9516637
1984, but both are much better than Fahrenheit 451.
Why don't I like reading anymore?
I used to be able to devour a book in a day, but now I struggle to read more than 15 pages in one sitting. I just get restless and bored.
Maybe it's because I can't find books that keep me interested.
Maybe it's because the Internet ruined me.
How do I fix this?
>>9516618
Stop spending your time ranting about semites, Jews, blacks, and women online and stop posting frogs
>>9516628
>>9516628
I don't :/
>he reads for prose
>>9516609
>he reads for the plot
>he reads
>>9516609
You all know very well that the only truly embarrassing one is
>he browses /lit/
Best Modern English translation of Beowulf?
Keebler's
>>9516551
Little elf person?
>>9516547
Heaney was born to translate Beowulf and fulfilled his destiny.
YAWN
Went downhill after he grew up
I just wanted more Irish babytalk prose
>>9516501
Tell me about it. Jimmy j is boring as fuck. I wanted to blow my brains out during 85% of dubliners, 100% of ulyssess and also 100% of pic related.
>>9516533
>I just wanted more Irish babytalk prose
Stop pretending like you like it. You hate it. You hate every single second of it and you know it.