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read what you like
u dum cum kid

jk, jk...

I advice Kafka super shorts they're cool.

Depends on how much you like realistic shit or nah tho

>>8963467
Huh

Raymond Carver
Also read James Joyce's Dubliners

And I saw in that moment how the days pour into one another in an unbroken stream, and how every day is the same. And I saw how dreams exist to hide this from our sight, because if we saw it all at once it would be too much. And I knew all at once that living was terrible, that the unbroken cycle of day after day after day was too much for my brain to handle. And so I went back to sleep.
But I could not sleep. I felt as though a protective layer of mucus had been peeled from my brain, which was now stuck to the wall of my skull like a chewed up wad of gum, cold and still and dry. I could not sleep because it could not sleep. And I knew then that I would never sleep again, and the days would stretch before me like an endless desert. And that would be fine for a while, until the sand seeps into my eyes, my throat, my lungs, and my body dries up entirely, and my corpse is devoured by ants and buzzards until I am nothing.

He coughed and felt unfamiliar tendrils probe the inside of his lungs for damage, an agony which provoked a laugh as if he had been jabbed in the side. His mind pulled sluggishly in all directions under the heavy blanket of medication. Awareness of his situation filtered through the anaesthesia and he fought it off tooth and nail, retreating into half-dreams of warm memories even as his skin howled and grew around skeins of glisteningly black nascent neural pathways. He would push it away and every time it would come back. They’re putting me right in the heart, he thought. Beyond their control. I’ll be alone.
A wave of sedation hit and he spent a few luxurious seconds submerged before the tide rolled out and left reality twisting in the wind again. He groped through his psyche for some sign of his trademark bravado and found none. And what have they done to me? It’s-

Hours passed.
A sensation of cold joinings at the nape of his neck signalled the Rig’s arrival at his brainstem. His misgivings were blown away in an instant and he sat up. Arching his spine hard, he let his head fall back and gazed at the ceiling, trembling.

Standing before this building, I learn something about fear. I learn that it is not the idle fantasies of someone who maybe wants something important to happen to him, even if the important thing is horrible. It is not the disgust of seeing a dead stranger, and not the breathlessness of hearing a shotgun pumped outside of a house. This cannot be addressed by breathing exercises. This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before. This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us before we existed, before this building existed, before the earth existed. This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.

>>8963310
I quit halfway through

>>8963754
so did hasek

>>8963911
lol
Great book, very comfy

If you let women fuck who they want with no consequences they will inevitably fuck the same top percentage (some say 20, but even in that 20% there are different tiers).

The idea that the average or below average man benefits from promiscuous behavior is incorrect.

>>8963235
doesnt sound so much like slippery slope as catch 22 or chicken or the egg, aye?

>>8963256
I've heard of this before, but I wonder if its true?

>>8963566
I havent read catch 22 yet. Is that the one where the dude is gay?

Tell me what you think is wrong with that poem and why it is not deserving of an award.

>>8963221
Maybe he was just showing us. Fucking confrontational faggot.

>>8963238
I was assuming because of the facepalm reaction image of Harold Bloom, known elitist and literati conservative.

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Shameless bump

It's a catch-22. Some fucking Crwank song made me really think about how nearly impossible it is to be sincere. The lyrics were about how he is a leech and knows he is a leech and will do things to make you think he's getting better (acknowledging he has a problem) but only to further drain you of resources. At first I thought, "wow, that was really honest amd self-aware!" But where does it end? Is the song declaring he acknowledges his problem of acknowledging his problem to be a leech not just another tool to seem "deep" or "broken" and garner more attention? Does he know that and does the lyric account for it? It's like an infinite amount of "self-awareness" and "sincerity" that makes it seem more and more like bullshit the more you listen to it. I don't know if being truly sincere is possible. No matter how open and honest you are with people you're always doing it for your ego on some deep level. Even if you write your innermost thoughts in a journal and never plan on showing anyone it can't help but feel like masturbation in a way. It's like asking if altruism exists.

>>8963291
Also sorry to ramble, kinda drunk

Average pleb is infected with post modernist/leftist cynicism and self hatred. World war 2, communist genocides and the holocaust were thst traumatic to the western psyche.

maybe they want to search but are afraid to find something conclusive

>>8963166
woah hot takes there bud, haven't heard these nuggets of golden wisdom before. pls tell me more about the western psyche

>Colonial Cathcart
what the fuck was wrong with him

>>8963148
One of my favorite books, but I forgot too many details after 7 years or so.

Just understanding the expression "a catch-22" is so useful.

>tfw after the first couple of chapters that get memed all the time all I can remember is something about a hooker with bouncing tiddies

need to read this again

>>8963103
It's time to stop posting

>>8963103
>tfw so annoying the people democratically decide to execute you

>>8963103
Yes.

The only important books are STEM textbooks

>>8963116
It literally says "work of fiction", m8.

Stop b8ing a stem vs humanities argument.

>>8963128
A fictional work can never be important.

>that's some catch, that Catch-22
HOW WAS THIS PUBLISHED

>and at that moment, he was, the lord of the flies

wow...

>The the legends are true, you really are the savage detectives
For fucks sake

He's a douche
That Arab deserved it and the justice system knew it
Edgy at times
I need more descriptions of Marie's titties
Raymond should've showed up for my boy

I can only name 4
>its main character is a fag
>it's too long
>too much dialogue
>it ended

>characters ain't the most believable sometimes
>weird dialogs every now and then
>the author tries too hard to generate humor
>sexy talk, always makes me uncomfortable
>still don't know where alaska is
It's still my favorite though.

'Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.'

>>8963031
Salinger was such a fucking alpha..

Slothrop screamed and jumped out the window.

>>8963030
green trolley kills the family
white trolley kills the second family

both trolley collides in the middle

mr. Greene and mr. White fight to death

kek watches over them and feeds on the chaos

>>8963030
They both pull the lever, it's not that difficult

>>8963030
>>>/n/

>>8962954
I would say its profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered. . . .the most accessible of all his works." --Me

>>8962954
is that based on the movie?

>>8962991
Yes man