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>>9731422
The Oversoul by Emerson

>>9731434
Cont. Although, of course, it's not a miracle cure, and in many cases using medication is probably also a good idea.

>>9731438
Cont. Also, I should say, I've never had depression. But cognitive therapy helped me with anxiety, moderate gloominess, and social phobias.

I like his books.

your GF is a keeper

>>9731433
why do you like his books?
she is the gf of my friend.
What do you mean by "a keeper"

>>9731420
He's pretty lame from what I remember but who cares

"The Rainbow" by DH Lawrence
"Patterson" by William Carlos Williams
"Portrait of an artist as a young dog" by Dylan Thomas

>>9731397
treatise of human nature

>>9731397
crying of the lot 49
lolita

i'm a butler myself
it's the true literary lifestyle

it's your valet not your butler. your butler handles bottles and opens doors, while your valet tends to personal needs.

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>>9731274
>he doesn't make his butler do odd things for his own amusement

So...

a handful of dust was really good
the ending took such a bizarre and hilarious turn

>>9731087
read that section in Cloud Atlas and that was enuff for me LMAO #bodied

>>9731014
He was liberal. Liberal is the worst compared to conservative world with hiarachy and tradition and racial segregation

>>9731014
I dinnae ken

>>9731018
Was actually just asking if his writing was any good but thanks.

>>9730891
literature

>>9730891

Arguing against sex-change operations for minors

>>9730891
Pedophile erodica. Unless you're like sade and you're work is an epic fuck you to civilized society and religion, and has a philosophical edge to it. Then you should probably not work with children (although it probably wouldn't hurt, but just to be on the safe side), but you should definitely not be barred from a high school, and certainly not a college.

>around 10k
>no opinions on anything anymore
>don't know don't care

>I would say in the 300's range
>I can't really say except I know a lot of facts I learned from books and facts about those books. I know it has all had an effect on me but if I look at it through the lense of daily life other factors seem predominant.
>Rimbaud changed my life for once and all, and all of my interests, my attitudes and actions I feel are tied up in the moment, at 15, I shoplifted a copy of his complete works from the Barnes and Noble in the D.C. train station.

>>9730398

Probably 200ish, spanning from when I could first read to now.

I don't know. The most obvious change is that I became more empathetic, but I can't say I understand the world or people any better than I otherwise would.

>>9730236
Read Garnett. It's better than the original

>>9730236
This is my thinking exactly. As a result of this realisation I only read my own works. Even books written in English by other people are open to misinterpretation, so I don't bother reading them.

>>9732318
/board

>faggot doesn't realize you only need to read the first 20 pages of a canon novel to glean enough superficial observations about prose and subject matter to fake having read it for the rest of your life

>>9730328
Reading the classics feels rewarding, and what can I say, I'm an honest person.

>>9730174
Em...Go do it?

>>9730077
Hells Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of an Outlaw Motorcycle Gang

>>9730077
>The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy
>Down and out in Paris and London by George Orwell
>The Sun Also Rises by Hemmingway
>The Open Boat by Stephen Crane
>The Arabian Nights

Bumping since a few people recommended I read Naked Lunch and I wanted to see what /lit/ has to say about it.

>>9730062
the 7th edition is on libgen

>>9730073
oh you're right. thanks.

Any other good recommendations for books on film theory and criticism /lit/?

Still better than the new

>>9730084
t. Jew

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>>9730054
No. We are not even close to agreement on this.

The Book of Isiaiah sucks? Are you kidding? I've read chapters 50-66 at least five times they are so awesome.

Ezekiel's vision of God sucks? Are you kidding? There's a reason William Blake and Raphael painted paintings of it.

Joshua and Jeremiah suck? Are you kidding? How many other ancient books written entirely in a puzzle-like meter do we have today? Not to mention the epic stories in Joshua, and Jeremiah's poetic voice.

I can literally do this for every book. Including Leviticus. Yes, Leviticus. The Book which lays out much of the symbolism needed to understand the rest of the Bible and Christian writers - including the New Testament. The book which contains prophetic symbolism of Messiah's coming as a revelation to the Hebrews.

The Old Testament is awesome. You simply aren't challenging yourself enough.

>>9729818
>philosophy
Its just some feel good quotes, the french look like logical atomists compared to asian """""philosophy"""""

Asia's a big continent, famalam.

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>>9729818
MEDITATION KILLS WOMEN

http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/06/york_county_suicide_megan_vogt.html

To divide is to be alive.
Split the loam, plant a seed,
split the vine, bud a leaf.
When it's grown, pick the food,
wash the grime, eat the fruit.

Famished fish chase for spawn.
Careful deer pass through grass--
Father leading little faun
'long some granite cemetery
finds a body mourn a body
hearing planetary song.

Rhythm after rhythm
divide within spaces,
combine leaving pauses,
compose offbeat paces:
To be living is division.

The body stares at letters etched
and raised above a sunken grave;
A two-foot tall monolith
standing just at half his heighth--
tribute to dividing patterns
spawning inconsistent matters.

"Who am I," the body states:
Splitting loam, planting seed,
splitting vine, budding leaf.
"I have grown--I'll just bloom,
not divide forbidden fruit."

>>9730804
The spoken words have no fluidity. It's not very fluid in tones and unnecessarily so. If anything this poem should be quite flowing

I promised my father to not be a bother
To all those who share in our name
From dear old grandmother to sweet baby brother
I'd cherish them all just the same
But father is dead and I find that instead
They are driving me fucking insane