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Do you think puc related is one of dem Literary Works Women Will Never Understand?
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>>9028649
>ultra-sensitive talks about flowers and sensory intricacies for 4000 pages
you're way off, i would even go as far and say that you need to be a little bit gay to get Proust
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>>9028655
this
Gide as well
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>>9028649
literally the opposite
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Are people here interested in languages? I speak two already, but for the past year I've focused my efforts on learning traditional Chinese.
Curious language, in many ways easier than conventional ones. Being logographic, I am able to read with a relatively high comprehension rate while not even being able to speak a word of it
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Would taking Chinese help with learning Japanese? My college offers classes, but I just want to learn Nipponese.
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>>9028494
Absolutely not
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>chinese is so retarded that chinese people need to learn a separate notation just to type on a keyboard
>chinese is so retarded that chinese people still cannot find a way to create a dictionary that works
>chinese is so retarded that chinese movies screened in China are still supplemented with subtiles
>chinese is so retarded that the language still uses characters and words from 2000 years ago, resulting in literature that confuses even native population
You are learning a literally meme language
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What's the best book to read to have a parasocial romantic relationship?
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>>9028403
>parasocial romantic relationship?
no idea, but that's my fetish.
>a romance not bogged down by heteronormativity.
>happy threesomes
>role reversal
>non-sexual romantic relationships
Mmmm. Tell me if you find any.
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>>9028470
are you sure we're talking about the same thing?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction
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>>9028403
>parasocial romantic
See: mentally ill
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So, /lit/, how are we doing with establishing sacred rites? We need to thoroughly venerate our boards divine patron: the ever-virgin lover of wisdom.
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>>9028399
gj faggot
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Truth and music are better
t. Apollonian
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>>9028549
Sink into wine and enjoy the madness.
t. Dionysian
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I'm looking for books on Eastern Europe history, about the Kiev Rus, or Armenia, Romania etc.
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>>9028342
Does anyone here have a recommendation?
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>>9028342
Hadji murat
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>>9028357
Thanks!
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The ghost of David Foster Wallace's past from the future walks into a bar. Pynchon is already seated at the rail. Pynchon is here to see Jonathan Franzen talk. Franzen is talking about his friend William T Vollmann. The ghost of DFWs past from the future notices Pynchon. He asked God what he looked like and God told him. Up on stage Franzen notices DFWs ghost entering the bar. Dave says to Pynchon he's pretty sure Vollmann is out front dressed as a woman trying to turn tricks for cheeseburgers.
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Something on the T.V. mentions riots in Mexico.
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>>9028408
pynchon slings an old banana peel at the tv
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>>9028418
this triggers DFW's ghost and he goes reaching for the gun.. he is thinking something like "how banal is this.." but the gun is already cocked
>book is glued and not sewed
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What, you don't like the pages falling out halfway through?
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>>9028263
>book is sewed and not bound my semen
just fuck my shit up senpai
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>poster is pseud and not sued
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Today is the chinese new year
what chinese lit are you planning to read? any recommendation beyond the four classics?
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>born just in time to see men being better women than actual women
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>>9028272
>better looking
this horseface chumalot? what a belly laugh that gave me.
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>>9028277
>t. roastie
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>tfw wasted years on the self taugh meme
>tfw after all that time wasted I came with mediocre knowledge and skills
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Maybe you just weren't meant for anything more than mediocrity, OP.
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>>9028245
that goat knows what is going to happen :(
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>>9028245
that goat looks so fucking sad
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Others tell you what is lie/whether or not they liked it
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Also interested in this one
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>>9028213
Would like to hear any thoughts.
I've only read Orlando btw.
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>>9028213
pretty good in spanish i would say one of the best novels that i have read, i reread it every year.
>>9028227
Also pretty good if you are interested in mythology apart from the usual greek and roman, the part about the cooking utensils is my favorite.
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Guys, intellectually I'm all spooked out. I can't stand philosophy because of all the unfalsifiable garbage. Many fields like economics etc are just applied common sense and stamp collecting. I see novels as nothing but entertainment despite pretentious people claiming life / philosophical insights and tonnes of people will consider you a disgusting plebeian if you don't initially read shitloads of boring as fuck canon novels.
I think I am painfully adapting to the idea of the Internet age / information overload by abandoning any pretension that I can be an all rounder or even dilettante in everything. There are ten trillion books called "Introduction to [broad and important field]", even if you only have one of each field.
History is similar to novels. Shitloads of reading along with a shitload pretension thrown on top telling you that you truly cannot no nuthin unless you have an in depth understanding of the Greeks / Romans / Christianity / USA / WW1 / WW2 / financial systems / or shitloads of other topics I can't stand it. And then there's current events. I don't care about climate change, outer space, inequality, China, the EU, applied psychology, the education system, diversity, Russia, South America, refugees, nutrition, mental health, and more. Admitting just one of these would make me an iredeemable idiot, no doubt.
Has anyone else had similar thoughts? The spooks are powerful and must be removed but their removal leaves your mind in a promordial state that is more susceptible to spooks than before.
I go to the city centre and see people shopping and the streets are busy, which is comforting compared to when they're empty, but walking through then brings no epiphanies.
I am so past watching movies or tv shows, even ones that pander to "edgy" young males. I just about read books but only because society tells me I should, though I don't derive much enjoyment
And obviously I have an existential crisis but /lit/ is fucking pathetic in demanding that anyone who has one should immediately "grow up" and become a monotheist and wagecuck. I fucking hate wagecucking. Seeing attractive young people is humiliating. I tell myself every day that I'll soon work intensely on one thing but I can't bear to do this. If you're really good at one thing then there are people lining up to call you a tard for not watching opera or being able to run a marathon or whatever shit. So I do nothing.
Every "thinker" is at their core an utter fucking fraud. Nietzche is a Tony Robbins tier Rorschach test. Science and mathematics provide non trivial insights but only in ultra specialised ways that probably require autism to appreciate. I listen to In Our Time podcasts and Bret Easton Ellis podcasts and I think at heart everyone cares about nothing more than social drama.
I think we all need to man up and admit that money, youth, videogames, and good looks are as good as it gets. But not everyone gets.
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>>9028118
what's wrong with stamp collecting?
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Diablo II
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>>9028118
>Science and mathematics provide non trivial insights but only in ultra specialised ways that probably require autism to appreciate.
You nailed it here.
Every other form of human activity is just solipsistic posturing aimed at fulfilling biological imperatives in obtaining money/sex/resources/affection/status.
Only empiricism can drag you out of being wrapped up in the trivialities of your entirely subjective and ephemeral conscious awareness.
But I think you already knew that.
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Am I missing something, or is this book not that good? Feels like YA to me. And I loved Mother Night by Vonnegut, so I don't know why the writing of Slaughterhouse-Five annoys me so much.
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>>9028074
It's for middle-schoolers. doesn't make it bad, but you should know what you're getting into
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>>9028074
Name your top 10 books
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>>9028074
Mother Night was even worse t b h. S5 was ok.
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This is one giant fucking gimmick, even by postmodern standards
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>>9028023
so what. it's still amazing.
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Why do you think so? I plan to read it soon, i thoughts those are some surrealistic stories with fancy prose, to read while stoned
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>>9028082
>le second person xD
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>just read A Little Cloud
>realise I'll never amount to anything
Relatable as fuck desu. Even down to the "my name isn't Celtic enough" part.
What's your favourite story from pic related?
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I guess I liked Eveline.
I don't see the appeal though, reading about characters with disappointing lives. Literature should be relatable but also offer something to live up to. Sad or normal people just leave me indifferent.
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>>9028022
Art is an exercise in empathy
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>>9028022
I think that's a pretty immature opinion to have. Reading about unfulfilled and disadvantaged characters, especially if they're written in a relatable manner, gives me more ambition to change my life than stories about successful people. The latter is more vaguely reassuring than actually inspiring.
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Are there any post-Soviet Russian novels worth reading?
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>>9027880
This gif has aged like a fine wine.
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>>9028216
I loled.
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>>9027880
Day of the Oprichnik