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124 days until women and men is back in print
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>>9211066
what did he mean by this?
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>>9211066
post it as epub and post The Atrocity Exhibition as well
please do me this kindness
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Who's doing it? Dalkey?
it better have a sick cover I'm gonna flip out
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>read a Pynchon novel
>have absolutely no idea what is going on 90% of the time
>have read 4 of his books and it's the same thing every time
haha i love literature
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You are unworthy
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Seriously though the Egypt sequence in V is fucking confusing as hell
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I unironically didn't think much of TCoL49.
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How many of these /lit/-core books have you read?
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Wrong chart, dickhead.
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you can be assured some of these were posted only by those looking for a pat on the back
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>>9210928
26, plus a few I started and never finished.
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Every day I start a thread on /pol/ that quite simply asks "how did America lose the Vietnam war?"
Example >>>/pol/115824864
It invariably leads to a 300 post thread of vitriol, name-calling, bombastic cock-swinging , memes and other such /pol/ related behavior. They are, for want of a better word, "triggered".
The vast majority of contributors to the thread are American and there is no clear consensus or singular narrative as to what happened in Vietnam. This runs contrary to the usual /pol/ threads which quickly devolve into some kind of consensus or groupthink.
From this it is safe to conclude that the damage to the American psyche caused by the Vietnam war is still a gaping, unresolved wound......even with millennials.
Given that the mainstream and conspiracy based "factual" sources (which your average American, or even /pol/tard) have so obviously failed to capture the nature of this wound, nevermind it's poultice, I wonder if /lit/ could provide recommendations of novels related to the impact of the Vietnam war on the American psyche?
Please direct autistic screeching to the /pol/ link mentioned above. Serous answers only........also I'm more than familiar with Herr's excellent "dispatches"
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>how did America lose the Vietnam war?
Same reason America won the Revolutionary War
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>>9210806
is that Benedict Cumberbatch?
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>>9210835
You obviously didn't read my post in its entirety.
TL;DR I wonder if /lit/ could provide recommendations of novels related to the impact of the Vietnam war on the American psyche?
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i'm 22 and for the last yr i've been having nothing but anxiety attacks and major insecurity.
any books i could read to help.
>what about doctors anon
first time i had a panic attack mistaked it for an heart attack and now i owe the er room 3grand.
went to my primary doctor but he just told me to "walk more" and my bloodwork is fine. but i still feel like utter shit daily :(
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>>9210788
Try kill yourself
saged
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>>9210788
letters from a stoic by seneca
meditations by marcus aurelius
tao te ching by lao tzu
siddhartha by hermann hesse
zen mind: beginner's mind if you want to learn meditation
practice journaling, look up freewriting, there's a zen state you can achieve during it, it's actually considered a form of meditation
start doing MMA or brazilian jiu jitsu. ideally pick a martial arts gym that has a very serious strength training program.
source: i former gigantic fucking faggot with huge anxiety attacks and insecurities, but now just a gigantic fucking faggot
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what causes the anxiety? health paranoia or something? you probably have panic disorder but what causes the anxiety could be anything from PTSD to GAD to OCD s i dunno
ariel is cool
you should read fiction to distract yourself from reality as much as possible
no book will heal you
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>Rolling Stone: Have you ever read Ayn Rand?
>President Obama: Sure.
>Rolling Stone: What do you think Paul Ryan’s obsession with her work would mean if he were vice president?
>President Obama: Well, you’d have to ask Paul Ryan what that means to him. Ayn Rand is one of those things that a lot of us, when we were 17 or 18 and feeling misunderstood, we’d pick up. Then, as we get older, we realize that a world in which we’re only thinking about ourselves and not thinking about anybody else, in which we’re considering the entire project of developing ourselves as more important than our relationships to other people and making sure that everybody else has opportunity -– that that’s a pretty narrow vision. It’s not one that, I think, describes what’s best in America. Unfortunately, it does seem as if sometimes that vision of a ‘you’re on your own’ society has consumed a big chunk of the Republican Party.
Who's correct here?
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ur mom
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Ayn Rand is illegal
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>>9210666
Obama seems to be in the right
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Which society is a more realistic vision of the future?
My vote is Brave New World.
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>>9210573
Bumping with my idea:
Brave New World
>apathy ensured through freely available drugs
Meanwhile 1984 is dependent on igorance, yet they don't bother to suppress an entire half of the population, not to mention the incredibly messy censorship system
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>>9210573
The American future is closer to Brave New World.
The European future is closer to 1984
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>>9211176
1984 depends on ignorance and fear.
ignorance is easy. you just dry up funding for schools, america being a case in point. fear is easy; give them an enemy they can't touch but who can hurt them.
it's been a while since i read Brave New World, so i can't remember how they got around the problem of feeding all those mass-produced people.
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how accurate is this, /lit/?
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go back to twitter
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>>9210538
/thread
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>>9210535
it's entirely and utterly true
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Is the art of writing skill-based, or talent-based?
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>>9210149
Skill based, though some people are better with words than others. Build your vocabulary and learn another language or 2. You'll expand the way you articulate yourself.
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Skill is Technical so like a copywriter.
Talent is just how gifted one is at a skill.
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>>9210205
skill is just how good your talent is.
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First time /lit/ poster here. I think I'd like to get myself to read books. I didn't like it as a kid, I think because I had always seen it as something forced on me that I had to do and it was great if I could avoid it. Now I like to read long texts about random things online every day (as silly as it may sound) but my problem is that when I start reading a book or a story I lose track of what happened before or simply can't remember what I read. If for example after finishing a 20 pages book someone asked me to explain it a bit to him, I wouldn't know what to say. Am I unrecoverable?
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>>9210089
Take adderal and then read
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START
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>>9210089
>I think because I had always seen it as something forced on me that I had to do
Now that I can choose what to read when and how much I want I really enjoy reading finally.
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Is he the greatest Jewish author? Does anyone else even come close?
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>>9209921
The best Jewish author and the best author full stop
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>>>greatest
>>>jewish
pick one.
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That woman that write holy bible
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Are there any authors that offer a more optimistic view of the modern age or at least disagree with Houellebecq's analysis of today?
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noting more boring than nihilism
>bawww muslims are taking over
yeah tell me about it, it will take 30-40 years though and you'll be old or dead by then.
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>>9209838
Dude its hard to find any author that doesn't have a more optimistic view than Houellebecq
David Foster Wallace in particular (ironically given his suicide) presents a very positive attitude while not really disagreeing with Houellebecq's framing of society.
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>>9209851
Come, now, you know better. Fundamentalisms in all their forms are bad faith reactions to nihilism and too much self-knowledge. That they are so WILDLY popular really should give you pause, as it means a huge portion of your fellow humans are incapable, as it stands, of living in the world as it actually 'is', and will go to great lengths to refashion it along lines suited to their regressive mindsets.
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What is /lit/'s opinion on Cavafy?
I really like his poetry, and if you haven't read it would definitely recommend it.
Also general Cavafy thread if there's any interest.
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looks kind of like the feels guy
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>>9209666
it was a doodle by hockney.
He had a big nose tho.
also check'd
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gay.
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Read my books.
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fuck off you pizza faced buffalo bill wannabe. you wish you were half the talent john green is.
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>>9209563
What the fuck did you just say to me kid? I'll have you know I sucked over 40 different cocks.
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>>9209578
bet all those dicks belonged to 70 year old vietnam vets with gangrene on their scro
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Why do some people think this book is pro-Christianity?
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>>9209063
Gee, maybe because Ivan, the atheist brother that can't reconcile his arrogance with his knowledge about God goes crazy? Maybe because Aliosha Is one of the best examples of Christianity? Maybe because Dosto denounced the materialistic fixation of the Church at the time and because the Great Inquisitor is one of the most beautiful pieces of Christian apologetics ever done?
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>>9209063
Because they can read.
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Because they've read and understood it