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Meditate for half an hour each day

Spend your time on something productive or personally rewarding, doesn't have to be books. It could even be video games so long as you are consciously engaging with them instead of just passively trotting along.

And read shit you want to read. Not shit you want to HAVE read, but shit you actually want to sit down and read about. If you have no personal interest in the material it becomes a total chore.

Out of curiosity, what does your average day look like?

stop masturbating

Just stick with the internet and TV

>>9094558
of course it's worth it, list one downside apart from "i don't have enough time"

>>9094558
As a person with four tongues, yes is my answer. Now go my child!

>Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen.
>~Goethe

Let me guess, 99% of them are Shakespeare

>>9094533
you mean like a pdf? just buy it.
>>9094551
there's some shakespeare in there, but much more than that. everything from Chaucer, Pope, Wordsworth, Milton, Yeats. it's really great and I would recommend it.

>>9094551
It's about 950 pages and Shakespeare covers pages 111 to 134.

There's a small book called Causeries (= "small talks"), which is the text Merleau-Ponty read on the radio during some program, and it's the best "introduction" to his thought, by himself. You can find it online for free, the english translation is called "The world of perception".

Apart from that, some texts in other books (like "Signs") are easier to read than the Phenomenology of perception, but th'yre generally focused on a specific subject.

Er.. what are you having trouble with? It's pretty simple to be honest and I'm having trouble seeing how his examples could be considered opaque.

To be fair, he is the most dense of the phenomenologists.

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Just use a pad and pen you idiot.

>>9094315
yeah, cause that be printed and transferred to a computer really easily! Thanks!

>>9094322
Just get a laptop. If you're having a hard time staying concentrated turn on airplane mode and use a word processor that doesn't have a dictionary, thesaurus, or spell check and can full screen just the composition area.

I really think you'd be better off with a computer, but if you really want one just get it.

>>9094239
You ever read "Theres a Penis in my Jeanus"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69_mWyat9tw

>>9094239
The Butter Battle Book!

>>9094181
Do it first, then write a novel about it.

Don't be inauthentic.

You'll end up like the Million Little Pieces guy.

>>9094212
i agree

paying to have somebody kill you and then writing a novel about it afterwards is actually a pretty original concept

kill yourself and pay someone to write the novel desu

>>9094173
the only person i've ever mate who likes folio society editions of books is a dumb cunt who complains that she has no money while buying all the worthless garbage she comes across.

yeh that sounds pretty accurate

>>9094173
The Shakespeare Folio ones are worth it simply because you don't get handmade things very often anymore. It is good to however indirectly support crafts like that. I'm not impressed by a lot of their editions but some are very nice.

You should read crime and punishment.

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>School of Life
Into the trash it goes

>>9094071
Learnt about Machiavelli back when I was 12 reading a history book. Apparently he was friends with leonardo da vinci. Napoleon named the prince as his favourite book. Later went to the library to find the book hidden in the brittanica world texts series. Ditched it after five pages because I thought it was cruel and scandalous. Off-topic, Galileo's Two World Systems was amazing.

>>9093998
interesting because I had a dream last night that I went to a play with a girl that I like from work but that I myself was also dressed like a girl with a cute bodycon dress and that we were wearing matching sets up underwear.

Then when I woke up I had a wet spot on my sheets.

>>9093998
This is really interesting. Quantifying something like fate is not something I've heard before. If I understood your concept, it means that for an action to manifest into reality, it has to pass a certain threshold of "fate units" which is determined by the agent and environment. So it is possible to "control fate" if you control these "units". I guess this will be a great setting for a 50s noir-style adventure (dieselpunk?)

I like the idea of noir, it could work up to maybe, exposing a crime ring? But I still have no clue how to make the time travel happen. I'm trying to avoid main character death just bc that's been done before

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>>9093981
Interestingly enough a lot of Oe's earlier works or less popular works are hard to find, or aren't even translated for the most part. It is sad since he is a noble prize author and pretty talented.

If I killed myself would my pseudonyms go up?

>t. bitcoin

>>9093948
My diary DESU

>>9093948
Fuck off, satyr

>>9093954
pics or it didn't happen

>>9093901
>immoderately

>>9093901
I don't understand what people see good in a book that makes one who allegedly read it ask questions like that.

>>9094125
I would actually read a book based on your premise, but GR just seems like a lit meme.

>>9093899
Make like a DFW and hang yourself

>>9094066
Once I fail to edit this book, sure

>>9093899
> Riverrun, past Eve and Adam and Lilith, up fall of dam and ‘neath iron bridge to lost mill building where angel haired hipsters lounge smoking in summer's heat between bouts of slam poetry

Dear god this is cringe. Please stop embarrassing yourself and delete this. If you read Finnegans Wake you would not have started "riverrun" with a capital R. And all this faux-Joyce looks like it was made up by an unimaginative 15 year old on facebook

>>9093843
ty for the new wallpaper OP

gorgeous pic

Post your short story

That's literally the only way to help you

The reason you're getting rejected if because your writing is not good

The same thing happened to me several years ago. Normally if a journal doesn't want to publish a story, the journal will send a rejection letter. However, the journal did not send one because your story was never received. Have you felt, as of late, that someone or something-- not owing to a higher power-- was watching you? Have you noticed that your possessions have been moved ever so slightly, so as to be hardly noticeable, and yet you still notice the changing positions? It's thre work of the literary pixies. These pompous fiends have been treasurers of literature, and they've done good work for the most part, but recently they've gone mad trying to preserve old literary eras by shutting down anything they deem unworthy of publication. I haven't had the opportunity to have more than a brief conversation with one of them, during which the little man informed me that my writing was crude and improper, and did not deserve to become widespread and mistaken for art.

Don't mind them. There's a simple solution: pixies abhor bug collectors, especially of the beetle variety. Keep a few preserved beetles on your writing desk, and they won't try to read what it is you've written.