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Read things like The Stranger or Notes From Underground.

Both contain characters that are distanced from society in one way or another.

Also if you're having an existential crisis, both of these books should be wonderful for you, as both are quintessential existential literature.

Hermits aren't edgy.

Also, why can't he just eat other stuff? He could go live in the woods, hunt animals, and raise lots of crops and livestock.

>>9394024
He can eat other things but they're not as pleasurable as humans.

This is going to sound lame but here's the explanation: he's an alien yes, or rather more like a parasite, but these things take over a host body and when they do they sometimes become overly intoxicated by the humanness of their host. They, by their design, are not made with emotions or feelings or really anything you could attribute to humans rather instead their only drive is that of a parasite: to eat and sustain itself. When paired with a human however they become intoxicated, drunk on the human's emotions and even more so should that host be more charismatic or emotional than others. In some cases, like with the MC until about halfway through, they forget who they are and take on the human identity until they wake up and realize themselves again.

I don't know how much I want to reveal, but to answer your question, basically the parasites take on the host form and continually eat humans so as to overindulge in the drunkenness they get from it. Kinda vampiric but not really.

I suppose they COULD eat other things, but it'd be unnatural for them to do so. Something akin to telling a crack addict to stop.

>but why tho xD
Socrates was a fucking child

>Imagine if things are different from what they are xD

Plato was an idiot too

>Things are subjective

Damn what a stupid premise. I can't believe all these "eggsistentialists" have the nerve to act like things like language aren't something that is materially real. Dude, everything has a specific purpose and metaphysik, and it's WHAT I SAY.

Does Stoner count? It's about the quiet passion the English language and literature.

I cried a few times. Keep in mind, it's also a sad book.

The Name of the Rose

Ficciones?

>The wraith feels along his long jaw and says he spent the whole sober last ninety days of his animate life working tirelessly to contrive a medium via which he and his son could simply converse

Now what?

>the more she drank, the more she shat

>her cunt became the world

Try being happy instead.

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>tfw stoic forcefield is malfunctioning again

>>9392489
Ray Bradbury explained that this is Beatty's motivation behind burning books in Fahrenheit 451. Because he was well-read himself, he realized reading cannot grant a man happiness.

bougie trash

>>9392505
How tho

they look like faggots

Why not just work 40 hours a week?

Whether it's to write a novel or not, working 80 hours guarantees that you live a cucked existence.

>>9392428
dude it worked for john grisham

>>9392428
How much money do you have saved?
Enough to retire today?
If not, don't quit your day job.

nice thread

>>9392415
Noice thread, mate. I got some noice lulz. Is that how most of /lit/ feels and does?

>study for an exam for hours
>check out /lit/ every once in a while
>hope a good thread pops up among all this shit
>it's a worthless autistic 'be me' greentext by a retarded animposter
>tfw

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>>9392391
I know (believe) you to be wrong
get fucked kiddo

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>>9392391

All belief is knowledge

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All proof is belief

>>9392289
We can't know nothin.

Why would 'inherent' value be any more valuable than 'assigned' value?
Imagine if an angel descended to you from the heavens right now and decreed that the true purpose of life is to fart 100 000 times. If you stink up the room this number of times, the purpose for which you were brought up into this world would be fulfilled. Would you immediately busy yourself with eating beans and BRAPing all day long?

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>inherent

Dasein nigger

>>9383471

The guy's famous for making lists of books.

What do you think?

He's a meme, but in a good way. Literary autism personified. Start with the Western Canon. As a critic he's a bit shit lately, though, and quickly approaches Scaruffi-tier.

>>9392249

Camus
The Stranger
The Plague

>>9392253
Thanks, I've read the Stranger which I liked a lot and plan on reading more by Camus. I'll try The Plague next.

>>9392249
Demian by Hermann Hesse

That's pathetic, my man

>>9392241

Trying to trick someone who knows a great deal about a book into thinking you've read it is retarded and you're likely to stumble into getting caught.

However since you're a faggot you probably deserve to get caught.

Wait until she asks you what you thought of The Grand Inquisitor then kiss her on the lips.

>>9392355
No it's a way of making conversation without spending hundreds of hours I don't have reading ancient books.

>>9392238

It's a shit book shilled by redditors.
>muh violence makes things cool dead babies awesome!!!

>>9392358
There is nothing "cool" about the violence in that book though.

>>9392238
no.

>>9392215
The Alt right users of Pol literally carried out its tactics unconsciously

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>>9392242
Interesting. Do you have any examples which tactics they unconsciously use?

>>9392242
>unconsciously
heh heh heh so (((you))) think...