>Write what you know.
>Write what is on your mind.
I don't like beer. I maintain that nobody does but the ill (insanity & addiction included therein) and/or apparently the Irish, the rest of us are obliged on occasion to drink beer because it's fashionable. Why? I don't know. I once heard someone recite the postage-stamp theory that history began because of beer, that early hominids committed themselves to agriculture so that they might reliably drink this liquid bread. Beer is an acquired taste I'm told. 'You'll learn to like it.' they say.
She has snaggled teeth, a scar on her forehead, a birthmark on her back like the last worthless "man" she had meaningless sex with spilled a pint on her shoulder and for whatever reason it stayed. Her tits sag, she has a problem with her bones, and she like beer. I had not seen her in five years and I had forgotten that I had not forgotten about her. I had a crush on this girl. On first sight, this wilted crush bloomed like a flower that would catch the eye of a courting devil roaming the finer fields of hell.
I dwell on her imperfections as thought that will induce me to feel less for her but it just empowers the emasculation dealt my way; She feels nothing for me. Oh how I wish society would unravel, those beer drinking hominids saw their project come to naught as roots swallow roads and it all falls apart, us behaving like the beasts we really should be. I should just take her and kill, or take death from, whatever man would try stop me.
This is why men join the clergy and trade their feelings for canon and fine silks, why they flagellate so they might abstain from temptation. This is why men go to war when they are not made too, with the unspoken hope that another, there - perhaps for the same reason, will offer them the shameless salvation from this most vulgar torment. This is why all societies have holy men and wars, so that they might send away men like me, who might otherwise unleash themselves, so that they might carry on drinking beer.
This is why men kill themselves. You'll have to learn to live with it, I say, in part because I believe saying something is more committal than simply thinking it even if it is said to no-one.
"You'll learn to like it." Beer is life, the beverage.
>pic unrelated.
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Reminds me of John Green
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Loneliness
Companionship
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>>9404441
Cool, just needed the confirmation I should fucking kill myself, thanks anon.
Just realised
>I dwell on her imperfections as thought
should be "I dwell on her imperfections as though" and
>she like beer
should be "she likes beer"
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How can Sartre completely do away with the concept of human nature but at the same time cling to the idea of Man?
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>>9404409
maybe cuz one eye was lookin at human nature and the other was lookin at man and they never reconciled
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Child molestation is a guilt that rots the mind. He's a half-baked Franco-Nietzsche beatnik and belongs dead.
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Are all book youtubers 20-something year old women that exclusively read young adult fiction?
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Is there a demand for late 30s men who only read nonfiction?
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>>9404312
I've seen one Russian woman who reads good shit like Joyce, Nabokov and others, and she isn't even a booktuber. I guess it has something to do with identity and not realizing books can be a mindless leisure too.
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>>9404312
There are other ones but /lit/ keeps creeping on them and scaring them into closing their channels.
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/lit/, I'm considering naming my daughter "Lesbia." Convince me out of it.
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>>9404307
I laughed after I read this, so
please do
spread the smiles
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She'll be given the nickname "lesbian" by means choolmates for the first 15 years of her life and she'll blame you for it.
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She's going to be bullied hard for having a gay name. Don't be an idiot.
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If you accept that a religious text isn't meant to be taken literally, then what is the point of the text other than a possible set of moral guidelines and otherwise just pure fantasy?
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>>9404226
Insight into cognitive biases and how to exploit them for fun and profit, of course.
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>>9404251
wtf?! I hate bible now
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So I just bought this. Any insights about it?
I am somewhat new with books but just came from brothers Karamazov, to Crime & Punishment and was going to A portrait of the artist as a young man but decided to read this one first, I am just waiting for the delivery guy.
One more question, I was very interested in reading Infinite Jest and was what I was going to read after Crime and & Punishment, is my detour a more helpful order of reading? Thank you guys xoxo
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>>9404161
>book about how to read a book
Looks like you're gonna have to read the book about how to read the "How to Read a Book" book first, OP, you screwed up
Don't read Infinite Jest..
If you're "new with books" then just browse around Barnes and Noble, pick up books that catch your eye and read the summaries. There's no need to follow trends on this board or anywhere else.
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>>9404211
I can't lie saying I didn't know IJ through all the memes but the first 60 pages were very entertaining for me. Didn't get it the joke in the first sentence because English is not my first language and How to Read a Book looked helpful for a more in depth understanding of what I am reading. Are you a troll, anon?
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>>9404238
Ah, well if english isn't your first language then by all means. I was just making a joke.
But yeah, don't take recommendations from this place, they might appear intelligent or whatever but they're suckers for trends like anywhere else. Those "greatest literature of all time" lists that you can find on google are a decent place to start if you want to get straight into it.
All I mean to say is don't read a book just because you think you should according to what people tell you, read the summary and a little bit about the author or whatever and decide for yourself.
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On its own, without any comparison to any of Pynchon's other work, is it a good book?
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if you're nostalgic for dotcom bubble era nyc might as well read it, but it's not that good
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Nah just read Neuromancer instead.
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>>9404169
come on now, neuromancer is a piece of shit, bleeding edge may suck but it's still pynchon
ITT please post aphorisms of your own personal invention.
Do not be ashamed that you are cribbing ideas from others; there are no truly original ideas. What is essential here is the /novel turn of phrase/.
I came up with this recently, and I am well satisfied as to its truth.
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Those who say they can do it and cannot do it are usually right.
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Those who think they live life to the fullest live life not at all.
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damn op that is super corny, "to sell is to lie" sounds mighty edgy dude, but do u suppose "to sell is to educate", "to sell is to inform", if you have a great product you have to tell people what it is and how to use it, stop reading so much angsty frankfurt school bullshit
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>your grandparents are trafficking you to their Norwegian cabin
>the cabin has large windows to see out of, but you cannot escape
>you will subsist on a steady supply of soylent (slipped through the letter chute) and tap water
>if you dont complete a masterwork in 5 years, they're going to pimp out your boyhole to get a return on their investment
>you can only bring 5 books with you
What books do (You) bring, /lit/?
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>>9404023
Can I bring a JC as my muse?
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>>9404023
>>if you dont complete a masterwork in 5 years, they're going to pimp out your boyhole to get a return on their investment
What's the catch?
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>>9404023
That looks more like the Alps.
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I can't believe I'm resorting to /lit/ for help with my philosophy class..
So I'm reading the Theaetetus, and a question I've been asked is how does Socrates treat Theodorus and Theaetetus differently? How does he pose questions to them in a different manner?
I'm really struggling with this. Can anyone help me out?
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Fuck off go do your own homework and then comeback with legitimate interest in discussion.
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>>9404010
They're both mathematicians but Socrates seems only to be interested in Theodorus as a means of locating promising youths such as Theatetus, whom Socrates seems to regard as a potential philosopher.
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>>9404063
>potential philosopher.
this is my new word for "i'd be raping you but i got a court date bby"
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So, is it true /lit/? Will it make me write better?
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>>9404008
you're going to do it anyway, so why come to us for validation?
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>>9404057
Read too much Cummings dude?
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Recommend me books or philosophy on physical pain and how it might make you a better person.
I'm already familiar with:
>Aurelius, Seneca
>Book of Job
>Nietzsche
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Only one /lit required reading:
'In the Land of Pain' by Alphonse Daudet, with the introduction by Julian Barnes
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>>9403998
I have arthritis and suffer significant pain every day and it has in no way made me a better person or made my life better, yall are pseuds
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/w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_letters/1984/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_11021984_salvifici-doloris.html
i swear that's really the vatican site, just the vatican doesn't believe in https it seems. if you just search the date and/or title at the end you can probably find alternative versions.
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/lit/ made me realize all my preconceived notions were a lie. Now my whole life is empty. Books are the ultimate redpill
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>>9403997
>Now my whole life is empty
That among so many things as are by Men possessed or pursued in the Course of their Lives, all the rest are Bawbles, Besides Old Wood to Burn, Old Wine to Drink, Old Friends to Converse with, and Old Books to Read'.
-William Temple
embrace epicureanism
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What have you read? Do you want to talk about it?
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>>9403997
time to be Beatty from F451 and hate on books for the rest of your life
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Hey guys, I'm trying to expose myself to more literary critics beyond the basics of Harold Bloom et al. In the process I would like to put together a basic reading list of at the very least some authors to check out, especially authors who focused on novels more than poetry or plays. So far I have:
>T.S. Eliot
>F.R. Leavis
>John Middleton Murry
>Denis Donoghue
>Matthew Arnold
>Sainte-Beuve
>Theophile Gautier
I feel like I'm focusing too much on people active in around the 1940s with just a peppering of 19th Century Frenchmen. How can I even this out?
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If you want some theory from successful novelists, I liked these:
The Art of the Novel by Kundera
For a New Novel by Robbe-Grillet
Aspects of the Novel by Forster
Lectures on Literature by Nabokov
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>>9403943
I've read bits and pieces of Forster's essays but never anything from Aspects of the Novel so I'm likely to check it out. I'm not a huge fan of Kundera and I've heard some hot opinions from Nabokov; do you think those would still be worth reading?
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>>9403924
definitely Auden, probably Wyndham Lewis and TE Hulme/Read
Baudelaire might balance Gautier, maybe pick up Asti Hustvedt's The Decadent Reader.
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Has anyone come up with a reading list for someone who wants to have a good general understanding of history? I know nothing about this world's lore except what I learned in high school, and my memory of that is fuzzy. It's a sad state of affairs.
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>>9403843
Do you read books? Should i provide you with a list that has depth, or should i find a list of ok pop fiction?
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>>9403855
>pop fiction
pop history
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>>9403855
Of course I read books. Why else would I be here? Don't recommend pleb shit.