Pro tip: You literally fucking can't. No, really. Just give it up.
>>9683824
im redpilled maybe schlpenahuer on women or hitler mein kampf??
idiot bluepilled
>>9683833
>im redpilled
>dismisses the Bible
What are you doing?
>>9683841
ever wonder what would happen if we lived in a white world with women in the kitchen where they belong?
just started, please r8 and give advice.
Spitting flecks of formless cashmere shake in brains, scorn-squeezed.
By the iron shove of work on work,
I owe a sew to you.
A sew for your whipless power,
banking from our desperation.
A sew for your sneering,
for your end.
But still, i move forward.
Lacking the proper outcome.
I haven't slept
I haven't slept
But words upon you I have left
And words so spoken I have kept
For words so broken I have wept
And guilt has seen I haven't slept
I haven't slept
I just got up, I'm out of bedlam
But last I checked it was 2am
I didn't get much sleep
Just a little peep
Now I have to quit my job and study for a final fucking shit work coffee god fucking damn it FUCK SHIT AHHHHHHHHHHHHH
books are things, simple and trivial things.
they got text, text are things, trivial things.
text got ideas, ideas are not things.
things are not trivial ideas.
books are weird text things.
books are not ideas, but weird things.
weirth ideas are not trivial things.
because trivial things at least doesnt matter.
weird people are not thins, but trivial ideas.
weird.
oh, normies, you all should be no more than text.
oh text, shall you be the only i read.
fucking normies get out my text.
This is a thread where /lit/ users can post their thoughts on Frank Herbert's "Dune".
I wouldn't remove my hand no problem. Got my hand stuck in a sander once and it sanded down to the bone but I didn't cry because I'm a big guy.
>>9681325
I have no thoughts of Frank Herbert's "Dune"
my blade hath chipped and shattered
wat do
Any books about overcoming an addiction?
>>9688877
Personally reading War and Peace is giving me a lot of inspiration as I currently battle my addictions. It helps me cope with life and have a desire to live nobly.
>>9688877
Advice, books are a way to overcome addiction. I quit smoking and drinking by doing this. Next time you get an urge that you want to squelch, pick up a book and start reading until it's gone.
>>9688877
What addiction do you have, OP?
Do people actually think this is dystopic compared to the current world?
>>9688817
Overrated piece of crap.
>>9688817
>Another one of these threads
BNW, 1984, et al have some level of accuracy in their foresight. Huxley's universe is a little more comparative to the modern day, where instant gratification and endless distraction have a stronghold over society.
>>9688817
At the time it was dystopian, in another 100 years it will be considered an optimistic view of the future.
Is there anyone else here on /lit/ that, for much of their life, didn't really like reading, and picked it up within the last few years?
>>9687922
With an image like that just go back to redddit please.
>>9687922
most of /lit/ still doesn't like reading
>>9687927
How exactly is my picture redddit?
Thoughts on existentialism?
I personally kinda like it, it's crude and rough but it has something that I really agree. It doesn't matter if god exists because at the end there's just us and our actions. Religion is always used as a justification or a excuse to act as people want to.
>If you want to read about it here's a short speech from J. Paul Satre. He's defending his theory from Catholics and Communists.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/works/exist/sartre.htm
>>9687820
Too edgy for me. I find it to be the philosophy for 18-21 year olds.
>free will
Pass.
No, but I did read Beyond Sleep in high school (dutchfag), it was pretty good.
>>9687732
Dutchfag too, it's a shame his lit is so overlooked outside of the Netherlands. Au Pairs is quite good as well.
Beyond Sleep by him is really very very good. I only read TDoDamocles as a highschooler so I don't know if it's actually good or not. Onder professoren by him is unremarkeble.
Let's make this a dutchlit thread
>The Evenings by Reve
Intentionally grating, quite funny. It's about twenty-something guy going nowhere with his life, making edgy jokes to his friends who are all moving up in the world and getting children. I really identified with the work.
>Back to Oestgeest by Wolkers
Colourful ,funny and interesting just like Turks Fruit, great light read. It's really just Wolkers writing down the story of his youth with his brothers death as the centerpiece. Would recommend.
>Max Havelaar by Multatuli
Not that good, shouldn't be a classic
>The Disovery of Heaven by Mulisch
A dutch 'epic', really enjoyable read, great idea but ultimately I don't feel like he had anything significant to say.
>The Metsiers by Claus
Not that great, apparently it's his first work, which shows. Feels like he is heavily borrowing from Faulkner. I'm still intending on reading Het Verdriet van België
Anyone got any dutchlit recs? I've got Bordewijk, LP Boon and Claus on my to do list already
>almost 21 centuries since its inception
>still nobody has formulated a satisfactory solution to the Ship of Theseus
/lit/, what is your hot take on it?
>>9687580
Well consider the new quandry.
We find a way to emulate and copy human consciousness (reading the electrical signals, synapses, reasoning and intelligence, and brain matter storage and transferring to SSD) before death.
Is that still the persons soul? Or some electrical homunculous. What about a cut and paste instead of a copy? Does this person still have rights, or is it an image of the deceased?
The Soul of Theseus.
It is a false problem related to the brain's prioritizing quick and practical abstractions over true correspondence.
>>9687590
There is no soul you mongoloid. All there is is electrical and chemical reactions inside a meatchunk. If one can copy down the medium in which those reactions happen AND maintain a continuity between the original brain's reactions and the new medium's (the bit-by-bit replacement concept), then you have the same person in the sense that their continuity of experience WILL continue in the new medium.
We know this works because the brain and all other parts of the body continuously replace their own atoms, with total atomic replacement estimated to happen around once every 7 years in adults. Now, the nature of whatever the new brain medium is and how its sensory, locomotive and mood-regulating systems will interact can and almost definitely would change the personality of the individual whose mind was copied, but that's no more creating a new person than is blowing a railroad spike through someone's skull. The person before and after the change are not metaphysically different.
>>9687375
How did this book profoundly effect you. Did you become a serial killer or Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions?
>I was 11-12 years old
>>9687387
It was the first book I read with a real clever and effective use of an unreliable narrator.
You shop at ThriftBooks right
>>9687317
>not abebooks or alibris
those books look gay as shit my man
>>9687362
A Confederacy of Dunces is a good book but that's a shit cover
What in the holy name of fuck am I reading?
This piece of shit is 50% advertising for multinationals, 25% applauding outsourcing to India/China, 20% revisionist history and 5% interesting factoids.
Have any of you read this? Does it get better after the first half? I have dropped it for now, but may be convinced to finish it if there's something of value later.
It's globalist trash similar to the work of nations
no because thomas friedman is dumb and consistently wrong.
about 30 years ago he was walking along and looked around and said to himself "gee Tom, a lot of people are talking to each other on cell phones now." and he's written about 30,000 op eds and 5 books about this same theme for the last 3 decades.
It's actually impressive that he can talk so much and say nothing of substance.
http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/i-swear-to-god-this-is-a-real-graph-from-thomas-friedma-1789428361
Just bought pic related and The Stranger by Camus.
What am I in for?
>>9686900
People are going to be very angry for no reason, but the truth is that they're very good books if you want to get into reading.
>What am I in for?
Sister rape
Just read them you faggot.
>Who here ADHD?
How do you manage reading?
E-reader. I say this everytime, but there's something about only having to focus on 200 words, or whatever at a time makes it a lot easier.
Turn on music. Do it when your bored aka at work.
I honestly struggle. I want to read. But then when I start reading I want to game, when I game I can't decide what to play and go back to shit posting, after that I watch TV.
What do you think of Alain de Botton's erotic literature?
http://pornastherapy.com/
Jesus Christ why did I ever clink on that link.
that was the gayest i've ever felt looking at straight sex
>this exists