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Don't start with Aeneid, or latin poetry in general, this shit will fuck you up. Read simple things like historical documents or The Bible

Learning Greek currently, I got
https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Ancient-Greek-Latin-Language/dp/0715627589

It's a really great book that introduces things wonderfully, especially for a language nothing like English. He does a good job of joking around a bit as well to keep things from getting dry and setting it down.

He made one for Latin as well, maybe you should check it out.

>>9159731
Don't worry, that image is what I hope to aspire to read, i'm just reading children's books in latin at the moment.

>>9159737
Cheers man, do you think buying a professionally compiled book is better than trying a scattered resource method online?

How'd he fit through the toilet?

I ordered some weeks ago and it should arrive soon
I will read it in english even tho it isnt my native language, first big novel I will be reading not in my native language
I dont know anything about STEM and it seems like the book is full of that
Overall it seems like it will be a pain in the ass to read, but I want to get the memes and I like to have a challenge, reading just whatever you enjoy is for neurotypical normies

Any tips?

>>9159236
Toilets were a lot bigger back then. Most people don't realize that.

That passage is also metaphorical hallucination in which Slothrop conceives of his prewar life, his drafting, his deployment, and that final bit I'm really not sure about.

It's solipsistic and cartoonish. Vividly western and American. But it doesn't really fit with how the preceding fantasies.

I don't think so.

wtf, I love tennis now!

The most famous person to ever browse /lit/ was Tao Lin and even he abandoned this cesspit at the first hint of success.

>>9158426
Better than most American writers though.

>>9158473
>DUDE I FUCK MEN AND DO HEROIN LMAOOOOOOOO

>>9158426
i looked through naked lunch one time, and i saw some strange ritual with youth and blowjobs and stuff like that and that was plenty for me. i hid it on a shelf in my grandma's library. some people, i tell ya.

>>9156810
hungry

>>9156810
My translation made it seem darkly humorous.

>>9157041
Do you know which one that is?

>>9154759
Who is this chowder churner?

>>9154759

>so thirsty he literally includes pics of camgirls while asking this

>>9154759
The worst post I've ever read on this board, when did /lit/ become overrun with philistines?

It's not easy going. Kind of sears something into you and is very intensely emotionally and even physically painful to study. Just attempting to really get your head up into Kabbalah, for instance, at all (and you never 'master' anything, by the way, but strive to undertake some small fraction of a journey) literally hurts your brain... and it feels wrong somehow, like it's remapping the codes of reality for you at such broken down level that it feels sacrilegious, and probably is.

The real significance is that it's about, through practice and study becoming more actively aware of the inner life (not in terms you can really intellectualize this, but it's slowly achieved through contemplation of the metaphors and mysteries it uses and personal growth, in a painful and poetically systematized way). 'Magic', as an intent for this stuff, is crass by the way and incredibly damaging because it's a cheap and cowardly attempt by more wayward types to attempt to game these traditions somehow.

I've had an ongoing study for a long time that began in more loose and playful dabbling in consciousness and then a much more intensive study later on. At this point I don't believe that a relationship with God or any advantage spiritually is gained through esoteric practice, but that salvation is free, and while I'm still interested and kind of dip my toes in the esoteric, it's in more of a passive way just in that I experience reality from that perspective so everything operates from there, but I'm no longer intensely studying it.

My view... it's not for everyone, and probably not advisable at all. Will more likely than not really corrupt you. Just look at occultists these days after all. Largely VERY damaged people.

If you're interested in non-corrupted mysticism, if it's actually for you and not just some thing to fuck around with, I'd say go for Orthodox Christianity. It's the same Mystery knowledge take on things but without the corrupted theology.

>>9140459
Once you realise it's really a branch of psychology, it stops sounding like bullshit. Read Jung.

>>9140459
try this instead:
http://www.ichingonline.net/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAlTOfl9F2w

>print culture had Joyce's fart letters
>future digital culture will have an e-book of every sexual message you ever sent to anyone online and all the porn you ever searched for, including that time you google image searched for discharge-stained panties

>>9163434
It's okay, in my late teens I went to competitive gaming events for Call of Duty, there is a video on youtube with half a million views of me choking and getting 'turned on'. My real name is tagged with the video.

How to win friends and influence people.

Think and grow rich.

Tony Robbins books.

Self help books are for faggots read meditations by Marcus Aurelius

>>9161669
>How to win friends and influence people.
This is actually a really good recommendation. It does what it says on the tin, and it works.

People criticize it for being sleazy and manipulative. Firstly, this is often exaggerated. It's basically just a guide to social interaction for autists. Secondly, it doesn't purport to be a moral guide to good relationships. It says right in the title that it's about winning friends and influencing people. If that's what you want to do, the book is foolproof.

>>9161679
>read meditations by Marcus Aurelius
This. We can pretty much /thread here.

>>9161283
Kill yourself

What the fuck is with all these discords? Why do we need fucking chatrooms to talk about books?

>reading fiction
>2017

Start with Woolf on Middlebrow

There is no literature equivalent. It's a seperate art form. It's as dumb a question "who's the literature equivalent of the rolling stones?"

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>>9161050
Actually, there is a literature equivalent of the Rolling Stones.

>pic related

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>Infinite Jest is the kind of book only pseudointellectuals could pretend to enjoy. I prefer the timeless works of J K Rowling and George R R Martin, authors who provide valuable lessons among well-written material.

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>I've never read John Green

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>John Green is my role model

>>9160493
he arguably is not

He undeniably isn't.

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>>9160499
What about a different angle?

>>9159668

giev me the basic filosofik gestalt on lasagna plz

GERFEEL NOW DON EET DE LASANJA

IT TOO FILOSOFIK IT FULL OF DASEIN

I am in a long, self-conceived process. Writing will happen 5 years from now

Not about literature.

Ask what /lit/'s main characters do everyday. These plebs can only self insert.

>>9159660
This. Though, I'm waiting eleven years.