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no, this is a warning:

get off my lawn

yes, stop being a pseud it says

>taking music seriously

Ok. I don't wanna talk about Adorno anymore than that, i wanna talk about Schoenberg, why is he so underrated?

>>9645490
He lived to witness later jazz and it didn't make him change his mind.
>>9645871
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEY9lmCZbIc
>worthless garbage
yore the carbatch

I am

>>9645459
>wearing suede in a place where it snows a lot
no wonder he killed himself

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>>9645459
DFW is /lit/'s guy
Fantano is /mu/'s guy
Mike and Jay are /tv/'s guys
/v/ has no guys, because video game "culture" is full of imbeciles.

>>9645388
I definitely feel more impulsive, emotionally unstable and mentally weaker if I haven't read in a week or so

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>feel that I have quite specific tastes in genres
>have read nearly all the well regarded books in those genres

My motivation to read has hit rock bottom recently. Feels like I have nothing left to discover whilst at the same time knowing that that is due to me not being willing to diversify to genre tastes.

>>9645479
Keep searching. Most of the books I've enjoyed have been at least somewhat obscure. There are countless masterpieces waiting to be discovered. Once you realize this for yourself your problem will be that you don't have enough time to discover them all.

Depends how well you read them.

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Just read the synopsis of 1000 books and you'll be ahead of most people.

>>9645383
None, apparently.

Yeah, I agree with Mencken, who called it a glotified anecdote. Read Tender is the Night

>>9645292
>The Great Gatsby is Overrated
Wow what a strange and weird statement to hear on /lit/! I bet no one here will agree with this!

>>9645292
The pity is that this great book is wasted on high school students, who resent having to read it, like Conrad is as well.

>>9645263
you're a pseud desu

>>9645263
everyone has an author that they "get". It just happens that the one you get is a genius schizo that no one understands

>>9645263
I want to intuitively "get" the source of that image

>>9645225
This is a slow board, you don't need to bump it that often.

Why would you even bump it without checking how far down it's fallen? If you'd lurked for any time at all no doubt you'd have found an answer to your question without having to make a thread, even. Twat.

>>9645220
you're a faggot

i recommend ''un homme qui dort''

No, it's the WWII of our time. The Trojan War is the Trojan War of our time.

>>9645214
Yes and Harry Potter is our Odyssey.

Yeah sure. Except the Greeks would start making up their own facts and characters and blamed the gods for it all.

>>9645212
I dont think theres really anything to read in between gilgamesh and the greeks my man. And if there is, i dont think its been published. Could be wrong though.

hymn to the aten since that's the first mention of the god the jews started worshipping when moses (high priest of the aten) was exiled after the return to polytheism following the early death (murder) of tutankaten (better known to plebs as tutankamun)

Pyramid Texts
Coffin Texts
Book of Going Forth By Day
Book of Gates
Dialogue Between A Man and His Ba (suicide letter!)

>>9645123
Check out Corporatism (it's not crony-capitalism, like the lolbergtarians who bastardize the word would have you believe) and syndicalism. A good tl;dr on the Corporative system is "The Coming Corporate State."

>>9645236
Is rightist syndicalism very different to leftist syndicalim?

>>9645123
Distributism, as espoused by Chesterton.

>According to distributists, property ownership is a fundamental right,[12] and the means of production should be spread as widely as possible, rather than being centralized under the control of the state (state socialism), a few individuals (plutocracy), or corporations (corporatocracy). Distributism, therefore, advocates a society marked by widespread property ownership.[13] Co-operative economist Race Mathews argues that such a system is key to bringing about a just social order.[14]

>Distributism has often been described in opposition to both socialism and capitalism,[15][16] which distributists see as equally flawed and exploitive.[17] Thomas Storck argues: "both socialism and capitalism are products of the European Enlightenment and are thus modernizing and anti-traditional forces. Further, some distributists argue that socialism is the logical conclusion of capitalism as capitalism's concentrated powers eventually capture the state, resulting in a form of socialism.[18][19] In contrast, distributism seeks to subordinate economic activity to human life as a whole, to our spiritual life, our intellectual life, our family life".[20]

>Some have seen it more as an aspiration, which has been successfully realised in the short term by commitment to the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity (these being built into financially independent local cooperatives and small family businesses), though proponents also cite such periods as the Middle Ages as examples of the historical long-term viability of distributism.[21] Particularly influential in the development of distributist theory were Catholic authors G.K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc,[17] the Chesterbelloc, two of distributism's earliest and strongest proponents.[22][23]

>Chesterton believes that whilst God has limitless capabilities, man has limited abilities in terms of creation. As such, man therefore is entitled to own property and to treat it as he sees fit. He states “Property is merely the art of the democracy. It means that every man should have something that he can shape in his own image, as he is shaped in the image of heaven. But because he is not God, but only a graven image of God, his self-expression must deal with limits; properly with limits that are strict and even small.”[39] Chesterton summed up his distributist views in the phrase "Three acres and a cow".

by "The Rat King" I meant King Rat, of course.

a-anyone?

>>9645072
Not sure this is what you're looking for, but The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole is supposed to be kind of spooky.

perhaps

augusto cury

quite possibly

william falconer

>>9645044
David Cordingly, if you're looking for non-fiction

>>9645044
Moby Dick

Try LSD and find out.

That is the most absurd question to ask other people.

you are lying to yourself, so stop that. Once you think you are honest with yourself, you are still lying to yourself and need to stop. Rinse and repeat.