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James Baldwin is OK

Jason Riley's Please Stop Helping (or something) is a bit of a neocon shill perspective but still pretty good for the autobiographical shit that doesn't glorify self-destructive nigger culture, like that worthless sack of shit Coates does

>>9312457

what genre is this? i can't find it at all

I want something like a memoir of growing up in the hood.ghettos of california or new york during the 80s/90s

iceberg slim and eldridge cleaver apparently deal with this type of stuff, though i haven't gotten around to either yet

Barfing Lady with Tree Hat

>>9312355
I don't think that's it.

>>9312339
The back says "cover illustration shows st. Augustine in the region of dissimilarity, taken from a fifteenth century manuscript. Laurentian library, Florence, cod 1208, fo 132r."

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>>9312132
>be me, early 30s man
>living with mid-20s woman, attractive roommate, nothing sexual
>be hanging out in the living room after work, drinking and talking as usual
>she asks me if I had read The Lord of the Rings in high school
>of course I say yes because this was so
>she asks me if I had sex during high school
>nope.pcx
>she goes on to explain that SHE KNEW IT!!! only virgins read LOTR in hs
>as if this means anything to me, who is busying saving mankind
>she, a grown adult, reads only study books and the occasional self help

she is studying to enter a rather prestigious profession, but i don't think she's got what it takes. would have liked to bang, but it never would have worked between us. she was an empty headed sociopath.

>>9312132
this nigga makes some good ass videos

>>9312321

> i don't think she's got what it takes
>would have liked to bang

i dont think she was the "empty headed sociopath"

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>>9312124
I watched that movie accidentally while on a very high dose of acid, I thought I clicked on a nature documentary. Instead, I got a terrifying french animal rights/mindfuck animation.

Also congrats, you've made it more than most people here.

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>>9312124
Yeah, but I bet its some SJW cuck magazine, get redpilled faggot, cuck cuk cuk

magazines won't save you from alpha male cuck fuck chads, you probably don't even own khaki shorts.

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>>9312124

>not paying for the publication of your own poetry collectoin

Creepy, but at the same time campy, amusing. It reminds me of that Power Ranger head thing the rangers serve/take orders from.

Sage

>>9312083
Zordon. Trip fags are such annoying attention whores.

What I say amounts little to what I never may say,
like polishing dunes as do fine Yggdrasil ash.
And like a lubber, I'll fool the sky-tomato mix with the grain
- both or either the grains, now's the world out of land.
(My sail is a color, and the soup is warm too.
And the color is orange wishing you were here too.)

What's the time when you're lost? Time is hot as sand
when its gear tires chewing a day's bark off the main.
(The ship is all hull. There's no sense in it.
This is all a bad dream, I should wake out of it.)
Anticlea can embrace the wind, and I
have no warmth at sea, nor scent of orange.

He wanted to get plowed by Odyssey man but he died instead

>>9312050
Achilles meant that Life, warm and palpitating, is regardless of whatever trying circumstances the.. thing.

>>9312050
He was renouncing kleos... kind of a big deal coming from Achilles.

Definately a better experience than reading Proust or Kierkegaard y

>>9311946
nothing compared to the literary complexity of Naruto...or Bleach? or whatever it was

>>9311946
read it a longgg time ago. i remember it was a very well written story that i enjoyed. i was actually thinking about reading it again here recently...

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don't worry men like me will defend the west

>>9311740
Wait, /lit is being subverted as well? I thought that was just /pol...
Any man who tells you to give up is your enemy. He is not just your enemy, but worse than your enemy. At least you're spurred on and motivated by rivalry but the cretin who tells you it's over and to give up, well, we know what their goals are.

>>9311740
I wonder who could be behind this post....

>>9311643
Definitely Black Swan. He has an interesting world view but I'm not sold. The bell curve and statistics in its current state is pretty much the best we can do and it's getting more accurate everyday. He says that we should disregard all this because at any moment, some large unknown could come in and wipe out our whole model. Ok that's fair but for the thirty years up until that thing happens, our model works fine and drives the world we live in. Interesting stuff but his argument isn't foolproof.

>>9311643
>>9311717
Like this guy said Black Swan, but he gets crazy fast. He had an interesting idea and just went too far with it.

go back there

People will always produce good works. There's nothing wrong with art.

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>>9311593
Art is the result of its times. Art itself is working fine.
Rather, you ask how do we fix the world.

The answer to that is to end capitalism and the state.

It's turned into a perverse investment/money laundering racket.

once the inevitable fall of capitalism occurs the shoddy foundations that prop up the art world will be washed away and it will be forced to reconsider what its purpose is.....from this we shall get decent contemporary art.

You visit this guy's house and he's hanging by the neck from a belt and just before you leave and apologize he tells you to take off your pants bitch what do

Tell him I am leaving as he is violating the NAP

But my pants are already off, I usually put my pants back on after im done washing my hands and I open the toilet door

there's no going back from deleuze
it just gets worse from here

>>9310991
'On November 4, 1995, he committed suicide, throwing himself from the window of his apartment.'

>>9310973
How comprehensible is that collection?

>I am only able to read a book just one or two hours a day
This is more than 90% of /lit/
The standard is very low here

>>9310999

>>9310896
>Basically my concentration is shit and I am only able to read a book just one or two hours a day.
This is a normal amount of time to spend reading a book every day (for the average person).

Have you tried exercising for a few hours then reading after you've cooled down?

That person also said you were exhausted because you were reading material too difficult for you, and then said he loves him some ol' comte de.
Just read it.

>>9310754
We're not talking about the same thread.

>>9310734
i was under the impression that this was the definitive english translation

>>9310606
Have you tried reading any Shakespeare?

>>9310606
try watching a play maybe