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what even happened tho

>>9517735
Juan Preciado was in a literal hell created by his father's unrequited love.

>>9517786
was it hell? i thought it was maybe just some kind of ethereal plane

>>9517703
No. Cigarettes are degenerate.

>>9517703
Yes. Cigarettes are degenerate.

>>9517725
Touche, good sir.

Only experience makes a veteran. Practice it's priciples to learn it, pleb.

smoke heroin

Just whatever you do, avoid Ryan Holiday's pop-stoicism bullshit.

this is the kind of shit you figure out in high school

>>9517605
le upboats so good advice so original post! XDDDDD

>>9517609
long before that even

Why do /pol/tards love this misogynist meme? Saged.

>>9517597
David (Alph)er Wallace

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>>9517607

>implying anyone gives a shit

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>$49
No book is worth that price.

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>48.95 for a book-length racist diatribe

>>9517793
That's not totally accurate, anon. It's also 40% drawings of penises.

>>9517238
Humanity.....All of his suffering has been at the hands of humanity, particularly women.

>>9517238

It wasn't really people so much as it was his insomnia and probably his expatriation under duress.

He had his sad-sack pessimistic, correct outlook on the world FIRST. Then this attracted some negative attention from others, along with the positive. Still, an anecdote states that his mother told him that if she had known how he would turn out, she would simply have aborted him. That's not "good" for any psyche, in the conventional senses.

But on paper he was a full normie who did just fine in life. Emil Cioran:

-had a comfy little apartment in Paris France for Chrissake,
-was a respected writer who had been offered multiple literary prizes and even accepted one for fuck's sake,
-always kept suicide in his back pocket (as we all do), and yet despite his outlook, existence never became so interminable for him that he felt compelled to actually play the ultimate card dickballs,
-had some friends that he would actually spend time with now and again jesus nigger,
-and /actually had a gf of many years/ ghdfhcjchdjchuehceueuceuhiuhwwqqq

Schopenhauer was more of a robot.

I believe that in terms of mental constitution, Cioran was actually not depressive in the clinical sense. If he were, he would have crumbled under the weight of his own sincereyl held thoughts decades earlier.

>>9518846
I remember from an interview with his disciple that Cioran used to get money from the scholarships from the various universities he attended, that's how he sustained himself while being possibly jobless for all his life.

Even so, I'd not call him a "normie", he was a quiet person that had very few friends, he spent most of his time alone in his room reading or going out for walks.

>>9516918
I want to read it badly but school is currently getting in the way of my education. I heard it was Kafkaesque, is this true?

>>9516990
yes and its a little bit of everything honestly. I'd say just read for 10 minutes a night. The book is very episodic and manageable.

>>9516918
Is it bad I kept confusing Harlan Ellison with this guy?

>>9516780
You don't.
Use short, complex words that should be used more.

>>9516790
t. Hemmingway

Verbal vs written speech, don't sound autistic.

crowley or something
whatever /x/ reads

Definitely Crowley. I would start with Liber Al Vel Vegis (The book of the law) and then possibly check out Diary of a Drug Fiend.

The Magus -Fowles

the greeks

>>9516637
It really doesn't matter. As a non-native speaker I've found 1984 more accessible than Brave New World.

>>9516637
1984, but both are much better than Fahrenheit 451.

>>9516618
Stop spending your time ranting about semites, Jews, blacks, and women online and stop posting frogs

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>>9516628

>>9516628
I don't :/

>>9516609
>he reads for the plot

>he reads

>>9516609
You all know very well that the only truly embarrassing one is

>he browses /lit/

Keebler's

>>9516551
Little elf person?

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>>9516547
Heaney was born to translate Beowulf and fulfilled his destiny.

Went downhill after he grew up
I just wanted more Irish babytalk prose

>>9516501
Tell me about it. Jimmy j is boring as fuck. I wanted to blow my brains out during 85% of dubliners, 100% of ulyssess and also 100% of pic related.

>>9516533

>I just wanted more Irish babytalk prose

Stop pretending like you like it. You hate it. You hate every single second of it and you know it.