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>>9352235
>I'm not degenerate.
Then you'll never be smart.

>>9352235
>How do you concentrate while reading?

Go to a quiet place without any distractions. Failing that, I probably won't bother trying to read something.

I don't have any trouble focusing on a single task if there aren't any active distractions in my environment.

>>9352235
2/3 > 1/2
so no you dont switch

stop using meme facebook pages and your concentration will improve

My diary desu

My diary desu

Nice quads.

the bible

>>9352196
invisible man. When you're done come back and make a thread about it. i wanna know if its good

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>>9352196
start with savage detectives, then read invisible man, then throw the corrections in the trash where it belongs :^)

>>9352133
This is really something that way too few people do.

>>9352133
>he doesn't know the sublime

>>9352133
>Is it not important at all, and people are just saying so because they've heard this repeated a million times before by smarter people than them and don't want to look stupid, but in reality don't really know why it would be important?
This seems like a pretty convoluted trick that "smart" people would have to be playing for literal millennia

Fucking neolithic people made art, man, stop being a paranoid idiot.

Also I think art is valuable for lots of reasons, not least of which is striving towards sublimity. "Sublime" has a real meaning, if you don't know what it means you can look it up. Not sure why it's confusing to you or what you mean what you say when you ask what it means.

just marathoned the the title
what did I think of it?

>>9351931
that your thoughts determine how you are or whatever

>>9351931

If you think about too much orange stuff your soul will be orange. Orange being red and yellow makes an angry coward.

>>9351931
Zoroastrians and Christ taught the same thing.

>>9351914

A major in English isn't that much of a prestigious achievement.

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>>9351936

this

>>9351914
This is the biggest paradox in the arts. I explain it that once you make money, your entire identity changes. You become a brand. Then you defend the brand with your life. All aspiration went out the window long ago.

>>9351711
Do you want more horror or shift away from it? I quite like the Stand but it's more dark fantasy in a post-apocalyptic setting than horror.

>>9351711
Just finished what?

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>>9351950
IT'S IT

Damn, honestly you're probably way to smart for any book anyone can recommend you. Maybe just read the dictionary and reconstruct every conceivable book in your mind.

>>9351754
this to be honest

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>>9351702
/lit/.

>>9351618
git gud

>>9351621
p much dis niqqa

>>9351618

Stop reading Nietzsche. From an analytical standpoint, he is worthless. And non-analytical philosophy is shit.

google it fag

>translations
shut the fuck up you absolute shit sucking pleb. french is not that hard to learn.

>>9351594

I did and got like, one or two yahoo answers threads. Besides, I trust /lit/'s opinion more

>>9351553
>not editing your work before writing anything down

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Just today I finished editing a two years old poem I wrote. And by finished I mean that I will only edit it again a couple of times.
Are you spying on me?

>>9351553
So? What's the problem? Editing is part of the process. The hardest part has already been done, now just work on it.

turn 72000000000000000000 degrees and drill through the floor

>>9351532
I found the only copy of this at my Unis library actually and hid it on another floor

>>9351532
Swap dust jackets with another book and hope that nobody notices

>>9351319
Well, I'm reading Ulysses now and it's helping me realize how retarded I am...

>>9351319
Ligotti's Conspiracy.

not hard, it just convinces you racionally why life and consciousness is a nature's mistake and we should be dead/kill ourselves.
Any deathwish?

>>9351319
i read the Metamorphosis when i was 9, it was my first time reading anything canon, all of my reading before that were typical kids books, and holy shit did it fuck me up

i was already a pretty anxious kid, but The Metamorphosis just unloaded a bunch of anxieties, both real and imagined, into my young self

>>9351543
The Conspiracy Agaisnt The Human Race is legitimately my favorite philosophical book from this century

>>9351188
Page 54 of my diary.

Any introduction to psychoanalysis so you can attempt to understand your impending urge to be dominated

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