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Call up your dad and tell him to invent LASIK so he can send you money so you can live in a hip area of Brooklyn, do lots of drugs, and fuck around on the internet all day.

>>9774374
Lettuce and smiles

>>9774374
mi mind read Tan Line

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You wouldn't be, because you'd be busy reading whatever the ASOIAF equivalent in that universe too. Fucking faggot.

>>9774230

I don't see the problem in reading different things even if they're mostly garbage.

If it mentions or alludes heavily to the protagonist's search for God. This is literally (lol) 99% of literary fiction. The other 1% is William Burroughs.

>>9773820
That is the saddest fucking thing I've ever read.

>>9773820
"wandering" passive protagonist in urban setting, keen observation that underscores spiritual malaise that the author-narrator-protag (all same) is too cool to express

Cumpliendo con mi oficio
piedra con piedra, pluma a pluma,
pasa el invierno y deja
sitios abandonados,
habitaciones muertas:
yo trabajo y trabajo,
debo substituir
tantos olvidos,
llenar de pan las tinieblas,
fundar otra vez la esperanza.

No es para mí sino el polvo,
la lluvia cruel de la estación,
no me reservo nada
sino todo el espacio
y allí trabajar, trabajar,
manifestar la primavera.

A todos tengo que dar algo
cada semana y cada día,
un regalo de color azul,
un pétalo frío del bosque,
y ya de mañana estoy vivo
mientras los otros se sumergen
en la pereza, en el amor,
yo estoy limpiando mi campana,
mi corazón, mis herramientas.

Tengo rocío para todos.

>>9773693
>What are you currently reading?
Don quijote

Just finished "Mortal y rosa" by my boi Umbral. Shit was dope. About to read some Aleixandre's poems now.
Does any other hispanic litizen know about Jesús G. Maestro?

>>9773610
listen to this podcast series

https://historyofphilosophy.net/

>>9773610
Start with the Mongolians

>>9773610
The Greeks

>>9773487
Brain is like any other muscle, you exercise it little by little. Be happy because you will get smarter soon.

>>9773494
This is a surprisingly touching post to find here. Thank you, anon.

>>9773494
/wholesome/ comment of the year

last half of three, first quarter of second, sixth chapter of one, third chapter of three, last chapter of two, first tenth of two, the rest of three, pause and read war in peace, then come back and ask for the rest

>>9773401
this obviously

one through three

or just read the abridged version instead of trudging through all the stuff you'll forget anyway

>>9773350

A long list of obvious symbolism any mature reader already knows. It's not really about literary theory or aesthetic appreciation, it's just one type of analysis: "rain means THIS, sickness means THIS, etc." If you didn't pass high school you might find it useful.

>>9773366
This. I looked at the table of control and realized how base the interpretations are. There are much better books dealing with how to read.

>>9773350
High school english class

This is a blue board, you fucker.

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>>9773158
It's fucking lit bro

>>9773111
> How's my prose
Trite, banal, pedestrian, mundane.

>he's actually reading danish unbound autism

>>9772904
fuck off faggot, if you aren't going to answer the question then get out

>>9772779
IIRC it's the difference between an enlightened person who accepts and participates in the sorrow and shortcomings of life/the world vs someone who is able to transcend those limitations perfectly by seeing the presence of God in the absurdity and the failure of logic and reason to account for everything that happens. I think he says there's only been 2, Abraham and... I want to say, the Virgin Mary, maybe? Persons who were the perfect vehicles of God's will according to the Bible. (Been a few years, sorry if this isn't super helpful.)

you are the meme here

>>9772876
Please explain.

>>9772876
/g/ are hung up on procedure oriented programming
/sci/ are hung up on single variable calculus
/lit/ are hung up on the Greek

The difference between them and you is that they actually struggle while you comfort yourself with hubris and self pity. Anything you do in life is just a cowardly escape from your responsibilities.

>Project much?
Yes. I got some bad grades on a couple of my engineering exams and came here for comfort. Now I recent you.

Because it feels better to read on a physical book you fucking retard

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Is there anything better than the cover of a book being a painting that wasn't made for the novel but way before?

I think many many many people agree that physical > electronic. The eventual threat we face is people just not reading books anymore for pleasure. I'm 18, and do people my age read? Look, I socialise with many Oxbridge applicants and even among them reading as a hobby is scanty. What does that say about our future generations? Sorry for memeing and being a 'wow so deep yung pepul dont reed anymuh' but it's accurate, perhaps. I do not know I am basing this all on anecdotal evidence and I have no statistics to back up my claims!

go experiment with drugs until you find the one you're addicted to

Correlation=causation?
You wil. Just let time pass

>>9772670
Hmmm, im no so sure about that, friend.

>>9772462
Because they ushered in the practice of logic and set the foundations of most knowledge and philosophy carried through to modern times on the backs of other great texts and work. If you want to know the history world, especially in relation to the western canon, the Greeks are a great place to begin.

>>9772462
Look at them bodies and ask again.

Read Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy to understand why their culture is fundamentally different and more lively than essentially any that preceded or followed it.

>>9772020
>without giving away the end
Don't read it, this alone shows that it's not for you.

>>9772020

Would like to know too. I read it about ten years ago and all I remember was the main character having profound anxiety throughout. I always assumed it was meant to display the wild meaningless of life, found in a character experiencing a crisis which he could not understand. I always assumed I was wrong because that sounds incredibly simple.

>>9772025
Why? Who would want a book they're about to read to be spoiled? How would wanting this book to be spoiled enhance the reading experience?