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Unironically, start with the fucking greeks

>>9112417
Undoing Yourself with Energised Meditation and Other Devices

Not all "high-brow," but better than normal.

1. The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell
2. Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
3. The Art of Happiness by Epicurus
4. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

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>>9112877
To uphold the ideology of capitalism, of course.

>>9112877

if he was unhappy he would just stop pushing the boulder duh

Because life is, according to the absurdist world view "Sisyphean" - a great unrewarding effort to be repeated endlessly, both in the sense of our every day lives, and the generational cycle, as our children repeat our mistakes ad infinitum.

So you either find a way to be happy with, or in spite of that, or you don't.

Lucifer's Hammer aint bad

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>>9112313
Not new but The Br. Strugatsky are great and most people do not know about them. Their book Roadside Picnic is what inspired the film Stalker.

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Bloodchild and Other Stories - Butler
The Culture Series - Banks
Under the Skin - Faber
The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories (not a typo) - Wolfe
In the Country of Lost Things - Auster
The Road - McCarthy
Four Ways to Forgiveness - Le Guin
Oryx and Crake - Atwood

>>9112766
>Mein Kampf was nonfiction

>>9112766

>thinks 4 people were 1 person

why were you such a stupid little shit?

>>9112770
I was very poorly educated was homeless a lot, and my mother drank while she was pregnant with me.

I'm biased against audiobooks, but sometimes I ask myself why is writing superior to sound? Languages are based on sound.

>>9112236
Because most texts are written to be read. Plays, some poetry, etc. are not, though.

>>9112240
>texts are written to be read

Texts are meant to be read, but they should be read by you using your own inner (or outer) voice. I don't trust audiobook narrators, who can give you only their "interpretation."

judging from the /pol/ reaction image you are definitely a brainlet and should kill yourself

>>9112504
>even though most of it was meaningless and really grasping at straws
Wrong. But yeah, I read for fun and generally don't think deep thoughts about it. That would feel like work tbph

To be honest I don't think at all

Nope, never even tried.

I write short poems for the amusement of myself, my friends and loved ones.

This makes me happy, because it makes them happy, and that's better than getting "into the trash".jpg here, or "Too white, not enough gender dysphoria" from the periodical.

I've self-published a few copies of a book I wrote when I was 22. A pro writer told me it has potential. I never had much inspiration after it though.

>>9112462
Best answer possible. End of the thread.

bump self for later

Include me in the screencap.

>>9112451
teens react to rammstein

>flaws

Anyway, if you hadn't noticed, Omar is also a strong-arm larcenist and a murderer. It doesn't matter that he targets other criminals--these are very serious crimes.

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>>9112458
So if I made my character an edgy badass thats also a persecuted minority...

>>9112470

just sit back and let your bank account swell with that sweet sweet white middle class disposable income

>>9111683
Zorba the Greek

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>>9111683
Phillipans 2:1-4

Read the bible bruh.
Also ditch 4chan
Quit every medium, art, music, literary, films
Get a job or a certificate in disability care and look after special needs people. It's good money.

Volunteer at an old folks home, humble yourself.

He who humbles himself will be exalted, he who exalts himself will be humbled.

Give your best, look up to others and not down and when they despise you, just keep going, as it's Jah who looks on and rewards you.

Remember to pray also.

To live by yu hua

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>>9111578
>A leaf falls from a tree and is ground into the asphalt
>Under the weight of the tire
Life (your life) is being crushed by your surroundings if it is obligations in life or general responsible adulthood
>The waves continue to crash against the shore but there is no more wind
Everyone uses crashing waves as a metaphor or personification, so...
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.
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I like it
(if that means anything)
even if it doesn't really have any form that allows me to recognize a set metre easily like rhymescheme or verse structure would (I have no idea what poetry terms are in English)


>Mixing with dirt until what was once white is brown
/pol/ack identified

>>9111578
Stop writing poetry that's horrible

A (fucking) leaf falls from the Trudeau meme
and is underground into the alfa
Under the wage of the Tyron
The waves continue to crash against the Lighthouse but there is no more Woolfe
No comfort comes from the end of night
And the sun also longer rises
Clouds Atlas Shuggered cover the sky but there is no rain without pain
Foreigns would turn Snowden to Pizzagate
Racemixing with dirt peel who was once forbidden is now encouragement
But the leaves, now chinese
And the house of leaves
Of the Ceremony of Tea.
That was the unlimited joke.

>Lincoln in the Bardo
>blanket of ghosts and talking to the spirit world and pride and interesting made up history
>scat in a sick-box

I will show you fear in a handful of dust

>>9111432
>Prufrock is kinda tedious
what?

Also, he's one of the best of all time.

>>9111460
Perhaps it's because I read it in a classroom setting, but it felt like it too forever to get through. I'm going to read it again now, though.

god tier:
piece of paper used to write down notes and words you dont know the definition of

pleb tier:
bookmark
dog ears

PROVE ME WRONG

>>9111188

>not keeping a reading journal that keeps track of your thoughts on the book

>>9111193
>not writing a 1000 page paper on every chapter you read

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>one-star review of classic literature
>reviewer is a man

I felt this thread warranted more replies than it's getting when I made it

>>9110957
Sorry