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>>9743234
The Stranger

>>9743234
Blood meridian

>>9743234
Infinite Jesst

>My destiny ordained that I should be the first decent human being and that I should feel myself opposed to the falsehood of millennia. I was the first to discover the truth and for the simple reason that I was the first who became conscious, to sense the lie as a lie. My genius lies in my nostrils. I contradict as no one has contradicted before and yet I am the very opposite to a negative spirit.

Yeah I feel ya. I wish I really hadn't read him when I was young because it just amped up my disaffection and let me use my feeling of intellectual superiority to wallow my in depression.

Of course weed did way more damage than Nietzsche. I'm happy to be past that stage

>I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who makes things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.
This is edgy to you?

I did but cbf

>>9743148
But what did you usually put in it?

I keep a diary and write in it every day.

> If so what kind of stuff do you generally write in them?

I prefer to write my thoughts rather than my day-to-day activities, as I feel it won't really matter to my old-self if I went food shopping or went to uni on that particular day. That being said, I do record memorable stuff that happens to me. My longest passages are written when I'm on holiday.

It's one of those things where you have to keep writing in them to make it worthwhile.

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start with the greeks

Norton anthology of theory and criticism

>>9743419
Came here to post this.

>>9742965
Kerouac->Ginsberg->Burroughs

>>9742970
this
and then Hunter S. Thompson
/thread

I'd recommend that you don't. They were all, without exception, talentless perverts.

>>9742914
I've corresponded with a few academics. Just be to the point and bring up shared mutual interests in what you study and they research.

I wrote to Gene Wolfe about a year and a half ago. He didn't write back, unfortunately.

>>9742914
I sometimes wonder if John Green posts here. Hi John

>>9742873
gay af

>>9742873
>getting a dude's name tattooed on your body

>>9742877
Read the novel and tell me you don't love J R. I would be his best friend if I could.

cliff pls go

>>9742605
>Name drops Joe Rogan's podcast
I'm out.

>>9742629

yeah, that put a bad taste in my mouth

>>9742509
More than reading any book, I would recommend just cutting down on your Internet time.

>>9742509
Dr Seuss until you grow some fucking discipline you retard

>>9742550
It's not that I browse Facebook or Youtube, I just get carried away with my thoughts too many times. I like that but I sure do lack discipline, so yeah. I have to work on that.

>I snuffed up that uncontaminated aroma, - literally and truly, like the smell of spring violets; I declare to you, that for the time I lived as in a musky meadow; I forgot all about our horrible oath; in that inexpressible sperm, I washed my hands and my heart of it; I almost began to credit the old Paracelsan superstition that sperm is of rare virtue in allaying the heat of anger: while bathing in that bath, I felt divinely free from all ill-will, or petulence, or malice, of any sort whatsoever.

>Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me; and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers' hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules. Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally; as much as to say, - Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.

>Would that I could keep squeezing that sperm for ever!

I wish I had the dedication to keep with the schedule. I'm only on chapter eighty-something.

>>9742662
I'm at the chapter 88, I'm gonna catch up today.

Read any mediocre self help book.

>>9742398
It's not the self help I want, but the school of thought this belongs to.

>>9742413
The school of thought is called "mediocre self-help".

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>>9742352

>>I'm not even gay

>>9742365
>being attracted to the female form and aura are gay
what did Anonymous #9742365 mean by this?

Really makes me ponder

>>9742352
Yes anon, of course that's what he meant. You can fuck that guy's ass in the happy knowledge that you are an enlightened human being.

Well, why didn't Kafka just say he had turned into a NEET?

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>tfw you view literature through the paradigm of memes.

millennials really have killed the Gutenberg mind

>>9742345
It's a metaphor
>>9742346
I'm so sorry, Franz Kafka. You had never envisioned shitposters molesting your literature.

It's true to an extent but with every guy who wakes up in his Matrix tube and forcibly pries himself out of unconscious existence, and has to sit up in the tube and go
>HEY ARE THERE ANY OTHER WOKE NIGGAS OUT THERE OR IS IT JUST ME AND ALL THESE GUYS STILL SLEEPING IN THEIR TUBES
we get a little closer to reforming a post-tube civilisation

People are already figuring out how to climb down the tubes and reappropriate the hoses and we're going to go out in the decaying ruins of the old world and make a fort

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You need to take the /x/ pill, Anon, and realize that the supernatural, the mystical and the paranormal, never went away at all. You need to realize that our contemporary materialistic civilization actively chooses to ignore the transcendent despite ample avenues of evidence.

Come chill with the saints and the angels and the fairies and the ghosts. We're cool.

>>9741733
Haha, don't know bout you bud but I'm living my life to the full. Sorry yours is so disappointing.

>>9741719
>philosophy
>history
>economics
>psychology

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>>9741719
>Karl Marx
>Great at anything except being the biggest cancer to ever plague mankind

>>9741806
Unironically this. Marx has fucked this planet more than most men could dream.