Post entries from your sadfuck diaries here. Anything else sufficiently autobiographical is also appreciated.
>>9147455
You first OP.
Today I fucked my dog. It was awful, but I felt like I had to do it. My life is degenerating more and more every day...
Feel free to rate me ane give me advices.
>>9147562
Tldr?
I went to film camp. I've read Sartre. I've read Thomas Pynchon. I've read Ayn Rand. I've been to Italy. I've been to France. I speak french. I've been to Spain. I've been to South America. I've been to Kenya. I've been to China. I've backpacked across Europe. I prefer tea to coffee. I've been to Greece. I love greek food. I'm a foodie. I'm always on the lookout for a great little place to get breakfast. Sometimes I go to Barnes & Noble and lose track of the time. The black people that I've met said I have a lot of flavour. I love my Macbook, but I also love my Macbook Pro, it has the word "pro" on it. Short for "prolapse". I drive an ancient Volvo that barely starts. The Matrix and Inception are the first movies in the last 10 years that made me really think. And yeah I paint, no big deal. I think conventional painting rules are stodgy, archaic. To bend the spoon, you have to realise there is no spoon. Think outside the box. Coexist. Coexist, and one more thing - if you don't know the difference between "your" and "you're", you're a fucking idiot, get the fuck off my Facebook wall.
>>9146843
how did you find this page from my diary desu
>>9146843
When I first heard that spiel in that video I instantly thought of this shithole
>>9147056
TFW u live in Latin America and books are way fucking expensive
I need a first world book sugar daddy to mail me cheap Pynchon, McCarthy and DFW books
haha libgen was shut down xD
>>9145712
since when?
>>9145712
you mean this:
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/
?
Is not working now. Fuck!
>stop destroying authentic culture with capitalism
>>9144800
>authentic
>culture
I like how poltards label cultural capitalism "i.e Pseudo progressive liberalism" as cultural Marxism and cry over how it is the commies fault.
The only way to save Beethoven and Schulhoff these days is by unironic real Cultural Marxism either that or we will keep listen to pop and rap trash forever.
>>9144812
Interesting. Tell us more.
With all the things happening in the world around Islam, I've decided to read the Koran for myself to see what it's really all about. However, whenever I've looked around the internet for a good translation that won't sugar coat or with a bias, the only things I come up with are either Islamist defenders or Islamophobes. Does anyone have a good recomendation for a translation? I heard "A Simple Koran" by Bill Warner was good. However I also found some places calling him anti-Islam. Thanks
>>9144630
Abdullah Yusuf Ali translation is the one I've heard is one of the best.
Haven't read it but back when I was planning on buying a Quran, it was the translation I ended up with after some research.
I haven't looked into this, but imagine it'd be similar to finding a good translation of the Bible to read: the best tend to have been worked on by a wide variety of people. The RSV/NRSV usually stands out among non-KJV translations for that reason.
So, I'd try to go with that.
>>9144641
Do you know if it excludes any passages? I've heard that most do.
Daily reminder to learn a new language
thank you
Autodidactism here is not the best idea. If you don't have money for a teacher who would correct you... it will not make any sanse
>>9143508
*sense
what a nice correction
This scrawny motherfucker averages 60-70 fiction books per year, many of them 600+ pages. What is your excuse, bitch?
>>9142465
holy shit i bet he a liberal and has sex
we must destroy him.
>tfw you only read 20ish books every year
I AM BRAINLET
>>9142465
>his favorite pynchon novel is bleeding edge
Is it really that good bros?
>Post a piece of your own work
>Critique each others work
>Don't post a piece without contributing
Excerpt of a short story I'm working on. It's from the third draft.
http://pastebin.com/zS9AtuDy
>>9124572
>story starts with an A
0/10 do not post again
>>9124714
helpful
>implying joyce ever recovered from this
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/09/21/who-the-hell-is-this-joyce/
>>9149308
Great article.
I admit that I do not enjoy Ulysses at all, and have started it numerous times. I read first as prose, and it doesnt attract me. I read than as verse, to try to enjoy the aesthetics of language and treat the content in a cursory manner, and it repels me. I derive no pleasure of it, and simply do not understand what is so great about it. Finally I put it down for the 15th time and pick up a nice 19th century novel with crisp english, sobbing ladies, and dashing gentlemen.
>>9149328
Well Middlemarch is a better novel, so I guess you didn't necessarily make the wrong choice
>>9149334
tess of the d'urbervilles is a better novel.
How to get into aesthetics?
If you haven't figured it out yet, it's too late and give it up. Read france football or ricky martin's biography "Me"
>>9149282
Have you developed a decent taste for anything?
>>9149282
Literally start with the Greeks.
>tfw STEMlord traditionalist Catholic who reads a novel a week
This is it. I have attained enlightenment.
>>9149114
But can you appreciate beauty?
>>9149123
yes
>>9149114
>catholic
christcuck rapefugee-lovers gtfo
I fell for the meme boys. I'm halfway through the Pale King and it's honestly pretty good.
Wheelocks for scale.
IJ is the scale, you don't need something to communicate to us how fucking big IJ is because you're like assuming an American CAN'T perfectly visualize what a quarter-pound beef-patty looks like when no shit he knows what it looks like, and how big it is.
Yeah, I'm an American, and when somebody tells me a book is 500 pages, my head automatically converts that figure to "approx. .5 IJs."
>>9149065
I knew it was fucking big but jesus christ. I was carrying all three of these around today and It was a workout.
Books that, despite their cultural significance, no one should have to endure.
Starting with this tedious book. I really don't see the point in reading shallow premodern prose.
>>9148911
>prose
>japanese book
lol k
>>9148911
>i read it translated
bitch ass nigga
>>9148980
ive heard that the book loses much of its meaning even when it's translated to modern japanese.
What should I read if I want to learn about Rhetoric?
>>9148273
Rhetoric is a degenerate and sinful activity.
Please respond
>>9148732
Rhetoric by Aristotle
Is there any good literature about dissociation/depersonalisation/derealization?
Go back to /mu/ pathetic faggot. Or reddit, if you prefer.
>>9148084
You sure showed me. Thanks for the bump.
>>9148090
Go back to /mu/ pathetic faggot. Or reddit, if you prefer.