What are your goals for the year, /lit/?

Reduce my liquor intake to acceptable proportions, stay NEET, acquire more ataraxia, read some books.

To finish both meme trilogies.

to read at least one book

To win my second pulitzer

>>7569875
which trilogies are that?

>>7569891
please don't post if you haven't lurked here for a while

Publish my novel. Keep on reading. Die, maybe.

Keep making myself happy with my art

>>7569891
The first was Ulysses/Gravity's Rainbow/Infinite Jest.

The second included 2666 and Women and Men, can't remember the third (The Recognitions, I think?) The idea of a second "/lit/ approved" meme trilogy was largely forced by one or two shitposters but they're still books I want to read.

>>7569950
I thought the second was The Tunnel, The Recognitions, and Women to Men?

>>7569954
Could be. 2666 has been sitting on my shelf since 2010 so it's probably just me that wants it to be on there. I'll read it someday, I promise.

>>7569891
>>7569950
>>7569954
>>7569979
>no Pimp

plens

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>>7569849
>Work my way through the Greeks
>Learn French
>Develop a decent writing style
>Start first draft of philosophical work.
>Drop 80 more pounds
>improve penmanship

>>7569849
Become a famous billionaire karate master.

>>7569849
>lose virginity (already have gf)
>work out and get some muscle
>always being reading at least one book
>figure out what to study or which trade to learn
>learn Polish as my family is Polish and I barely have a grasp of the language
That's about it

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Find a nice girlfriend and lose my virginity before I start med school this year.

Continue reading through the bible

Write more, read more

Finish studying presocratics.

-read bible
-get into poetry
-be able to read easy novels in spanish
-52 books

>>7569849
Finally work up the courage to kill myself.

Read Moby Dick and/or Mason & Dixon
Read 39 books
Get at least $5,000 in the bank
Pay off my GODDAMN MEDICAL BILLS WHY THE HELL DO I NEED TO PAY HALF MY ANNUAL SALARY FOR WHAT WAS AT THE TIME A LIFE-SAVING OPERATION AMERICA WHAT THE FUCK
Adopt a cat

30 books. I read ~35 last year (with around 4 months worth of a break) so I expect to surpass it easily.

>>7570159
>LIFE-SAVING OPERATION

What happened anon?

>>7570170

Emergency appendectomy. I had really shitty insurance at the time so I essentially paid for it out of pocket.

First time I was put under anesthetic in my adult life. If dying is anything like the 90 minutes when I was unconscious, I no longer fear death.

1. Do Yale Directed Studies without actually being at Yale.

Reading list:
http://directedstudies.yale.edu/literature
http://directedstudies.yale.edu/philosophy
http://directedstudies.yale.edu/historical-political-thought

2. Get a job.

3. Marry Kristen Stewart or at least amass a quality collection of high resolution pictures of her.

lose my virginity to an escort
break the 2000ug barrier on acid
read the koran
commit suicide

>>7570180

Glad to hear you're okay. Sorry about the bills, our healthcare system is fucked.

>>7569875
>>7569950
>The second included 2666 and Women and Men, can't remember the third (The Recognitions

That is not the second trilogy. It was some cunt anon trying to force it on us

They have you reading such a shitty translation of Nietzsche, Kaufmann is way better for everything.

>>7570159
>Pay off my GODDAMN MEDICAL BILLS WHY THE HELL DO I NEED TO PAY HALF MY ANNUAL SALARY FOR WHAT WAS AT THE TIME A LIFE-SAVING OPERATION AMERICA WHAT THE FUCK

Aren't you glad when Trump becomes Prez your situation will become the norm?
Imagine that filthy Muslim Obamacare being killed and more cases like yours on the rise, like it was meant to be. This is what it truly means to be American.

>>7570192
koran's not that great
can't say i recommend

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>>7570192
>read the koran
>commit suicide
Oh dear... That sounds like it's going to be a real blast.

catch up on my back log, about 15 books

>>7570258
What does that suppose to mean?

>>7570306
It's you, the lib.

>>7570314
Not even americlap

>>7569849
To peek up that girls skirt, as I walk up the hill towards her.

Or no fap 2016

I plan to read minimum 100 pages a day until summer. I live next to a big ass library now and they seem to have a pretty wide selection.

>>7570864
the easiest way to reduce ur faps is to move into a shabby rooming house where everyone can hear everything through the walls like something out of a balzac novel

i feel lucky if i can get off two nuts a week

>>7570914
i've tried that but it only makes me fap more

move in with this girl and out of my parents house.

>>7570914
>what is stealth fapping

>finish reading Greek drama
>read Shakespeare
>read KJV bible
>finish Plato and Aristotle
>finish primary and secondary source Roman history
>read Cervantes in Spanish
>read Proust

Someone (maybe on /lit/) mentioned reading 10 pages per day of Proust, taking about a year to finish Lost Time, and being sad once they were done. I want to give that a shot.

>>7569849
To finish writing my book, I've been planning the story and fussing over the first chapter way too long, time to finish it or quit before my life is ruined by this delusional obsession

Well it was reading don quixote in spanish but it kicked my shit in and I'm currently regrouping.

be happy be healthy :)

Not buying any new books until I finish my shelves.

>>7571363
This
Also, finish the fucking Anna Karenina and Moby Dick
Protip: DON'T START READING MORE THAN ONE DOORSTOPPER

Rediscover love of reading. Same for writing. Finally decide to either finish the novel or lay it to rest and move on to something else.

>>7571013
Hint: read Parmenides and Heraclitus before them.

>>7571441
>Moby-Dick
>doorstopper

kek

>>7571775
I already did.

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something like this body with a more clearly defined adonis belt (six months from now probably??)

finish my novella's first draft (only 55% there)

uhh that's about it. probably also not relapse into addiction.

Taper off the grey market benzodiazepine I find myself dependent on.

Write better essays.

Determine a better career path.

Vacation to central America and SEA.

>>7572495
what's your novella about

>>7572523

>Taper off the grey market benzodiazepine I find myself dependent on.

Godspeed anon. Addiction is a bitch. How long have you been on, and how are you going about it?

>>7569950
Cratylus - Plato

>>7572541
about a grown woman with a sleeping disorder banging a teenager because he looks like her. she also takes up chess to hang out with an old celibate man.

>>7569849
>Get a decent job.
>Move out of te family house. Never see any of these assholes ever again.
>Finnish college after dropping out once.
>Learn French and German, after failing those courses at college...
>Go back to the psychiatrist. I regret having drop the antidepressants, but I'm too ashamed to come back.
>Do something productive, for once in my life.
>Stop being delusional and accept my stupidity.
>Hopefully avoid trying to off myself, like last year.
>Read more nonfiction.
>Study more.

>>7572622
>>Learn French and German, after failing those courses at college...

gonna be hard to learn both in one year

try to keep your goals attainable or you'll end up hating yourself because you didn't live up to unrealistic goals

>>7572628
I know. It happened before when I took French and German in the last semester.

>>7572554
>>7572554
I've been dependent for only a month or so. Started with strict rules and they just broke down as I got more stressed. I'm just gradually reducing the dose.

>>7573765
But I have been using sporadically for a year or so

Finish three books.

Yeah, I'm a light reader.

To minimise the reasons to hate myself.

Look around for modeling opportunities
Keep working at same company for reputation
Keep writing novel
Quit cigs
Reduce weed tolerance

Not kill myself during forced wage slavery.

>>7572495
>6 months
That's pretty ambitious unless you're already halfway there

>read more
>finish my screenplay(s)
>get into a school
>not killing myself
>shrug off my depression
>hopefully find a job
>travel to NZ

I was going to aim for 2 books per week, but I'm planning on reading some 1000+ page monsters so there's no way I'm hitting that goal. Aiming for 100 pages per day instead.

not die

Continue processing in my job.
Read more.

Start Don Quixote (and hopefully finish by the end of 2017)
Get a gf
Learn more about philosophy
Finish about 5 books by spring break

>>7569897
Go fuck yourself idiot

Get my dick wet

wait you asked about literary goals

write a long ass poem about getting my dick wet, continuously improve on it for 50 years, release it to the unsuspecting overlib masses, pull in fat loot for being ~timeless~

- pass my final actuarial exam. This will free me of the five year albatross of studying and I'll make more money. Evaluate reading goals at this point (I'll know pass/fail right around midyear) because I'll be able to read freely then.

- finish The Recognitions, which I'm dumb for starting since studying is ramping up and it's long.

- get ulcerative colitis symptoms under control. I poop blood alot and haven't made enough of a diet change to fix things. Medication only doing so much. I'm a morose jew working in finance with a gastrointestinal disease, am I /lit/?

- propose to gf. Should be going down this Saturday.

>>7570950
you are me

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electro-convulsive therapy

>>7569849
To shit post /lit/ to death

>>7574595
hey could you post using a trip from now on? thanks.

>>7570056
>has gf
>still virgin

nigga that should be your goal this weekend

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>>7569849
to finally die

>>7575115
What unhealthy behaviors will you be engaging in to contribute to your goal?

I want to expand my knowledge of history.

I also want do something about my job prospects. Just finding a better one would be a start but I really need to put the effort into something like school now instead of putting it off and working shit jobs for years.

>>7575095
kek

Read In Search of Lost Time (past Swann's Way), Finnegans Wake, The Man Without Qualities, The Recognitions, The Book of Disquiet, Beckett's trilogy, The Canterbury Tales, Arabian Nights, Montaigne's Essays and Faust.

>Read 50 books that were not assigned as course work.
>Move into new apartment
>Write
>Sell some damn art

>>7575732
The Canterbury Tales are actually good fun. Hope you enjoy it.