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I use playing cards. Is that fedora tier?

>>9513810
i use old ram

>>9513660
The way we go about experiencing reality is through perception.

What?

Saying things like 'your reality' seems to me you use 'reality' to already mean some sort of subjective state of experience, in which case the answer is trivially yes (i.e. "If you perceive X, and reality is perception, then isn't your reality now X?").

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Welcome to the 17th century, I'm glad you could make it.

>>9513660
haha your pic is from funnyjunk

Joe Christmas in 'light in august' by faulkner

>>9514086
I was looking for something older

>>9513655
Story of Kullervo in the Kalevala?
>O, ye many unborn nations,
>Never evil nurse your children,
>Never give them out to strangers,
>Never trust them to the foolish!
>If the child is not well nurtured,
>Is not rocked and led uprightly,
>Though he grow to years of manhood,
>Bear a strong and shapely body,
>He will never know discretion,
>Never eat the bread of honor,
>Never drink the cup of wisdom.

Doggerel desu.

Bin it.

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COMPLETE SHIT

>Any advice on how to end it?
I suggest hanging yourself or using a shotgun

MY

DIARY

>>9513369
dIARy

>>9513234
>I'm not sure I'm me

Funny. PKD wasn't sure he was himself, either.

>>9513234
Everything has been written before. I accidentally wrote Huckleberry Finn word for word in Middle School and got kicked out for plagiarism.

>>9513262
This is like getting fired from work "for no god damn reason at all."

>>9513211
Little Women

>>9513211
The Bell Jar.

>>9513211
The last few chapters of Wuthering Heights

(pic related)

>>9513112
>4virgins
How about literally any poetry

no. i read 5 of his books. read it if you have no other commentary on shakespeare, but he admitted frye is the better critic. so read frye if you can.

>>9513050

It's fine, but not really as a "read front to back" thing. He meant for it to be dipped into and read out of order, reading a chapter before or after you read the corresponding play. Of course if you dislike Bloom and his books, you'll hate it, but if you're a Bloomite this has some great Bloom in it.

It's a good read if you already like Bloom's style. The problem with it is that it's too self-centered (in more than one way). Bloom focuses almost purely on character, and tends to be very anectodical in his appreciation of the text, even to the point of being pompous. He also has some very questionable opinions on some plays, which sometimes get in the way of the actual, meaningful analysis.

Still, it's an interesting read, if only to disagree with Bloom. Read a PDF or something, I wouldn't spend money on it.

>>9512712
Just get a seperate notebook and make notes in that. It's easier to organize and review them; and you don't have to vandalize your book to do it.

>>9512712
hell yes, only idiots fetishize dumb clumps of mushed up tree pith

It's fun to go back and read what I used to think about thinngs, or be able to flip through a book and find the passage I'm looking for cause I dabbed it with a make note

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Because I take screenshots instead, and give them searchable titles that explain their content and give a terse commentary on that content.

>>9512632
i live in a tiny gray apartment and work odd jobs. All i do is read and write. I dont even have a computer. Just a box of journals and a library card.

Most people would say this life is the lowest a person could live, but i couldnt be happier.

Is this bohemian, or minimalist? i like to think both. Bohemianism isn't travelling around and fucking everything in sight; its living by your own compass.

I just sniffed a bucket of liquor.

Autismbux paid into bank account, live in third world hotels using cash from ATMs.

Spoilers: an actual rat lives under my bed and this room has no window. Fuck KL.
At least, I'm reasonably sure it's a rat. I'd estimate its weight at 200 grams. Too big to be a mouse. But at $15 a night in a big city I suppose I can't expect much better.

Bohemian? Basically what you mean is gypsy-like or free of the restrictions of a 9-5 job. Digital nomads do a less glamorous form of bohemianism. Sponges like myself don't exactly advertise what they do, so even less glamorous.

It's more important, I think, to have /lit/ friends to really do the bohemian thing. Places to crash, parties to attend, big city, everyone smart and witty. You won't find that in the 3rd world.

tl;dr: be rich but idle

Please, enjoy the water

big red son sucks put another one

Beneath it all we know the whole thing sucks, but we pretend to like it anyway

>is reading [...] worth the time
nah books are shit

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>>9512471
Marx's work has garnered responses from most of the world's greatest minds. You're doing a disservice to yourself if you neglect to read what he wrote

>>9512471
marx is one of the few political/economic authors you should read if only because of the criticisms it levels at modernity, which go deeper than materialism. everything else to do with politics is a complete waste of time

>>9512462
illuminatus

the

>>9512462
Naked lunch. The atrocity exhibition. Travesty by John hawkes. Vurt by Jeff noon. Journey to the end of night.

The underground man is Dostoyevsky's response to another writer (I forgot his name) who wrote a story about a sort of utopia where everyone acts according to mathematics and logic. He agued that this society could not exist because of people like the underground man, who purposefully act illogically out of spite and social stupidity. I think that hits certain users here pretty spot on.

>>9512376

My reading of the Underground Man is that he is floating around in a wilderness of Bureaucracy and pointless days, but his conscience is aware that the state of his society is characterized by common immorality.

He recognizes the need for a saint but he refuses to try and become one himself, despite occasional bursts of saintly intention (the prostitute) coupled with occasional bursts of evil intention (the prostitute).

He hates himself for failing to dissolve the contradictions in his soul and decides he is petty and loathsome. It's easier. It lets life carry on like it did yesterday.

>Le Underground Man is literally /r9k/ and /lit/ XD!