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How can you assume a piece of literature is fake or "falseflagging" for lack of a better word. There's this letter that's been bothering me and I'm trying to understand if it's real.
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>>8775485
Accept it, OP, Joyce's fart letter is real. Accept it and move on.
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>>8775485
hey OP, I'm what you would call "woke." Read up on post-colonial theory and start walking on the path towards Enlightenment. Slavoj Zizek might be a good start, either him or Gramsci. You have to learn how to identify ideology and separate it from material truth. Don't fall for the indoctrination tactics of the elites: the lived experiences of marginalized group members give us the best framework for ascertaining reality.
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>>8775485
Stick to minecraft Lewis
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Is this anything more than Econ 101 common sense with 500 pages of flowery language? I feel like this will be one of those boring as fuck novels that I want to finish solely to feel superior to normies but I can't even bear to finish.
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>>8775422
You realize that no one actually reads The Wealth of Nations because it's too overly convoluted. Just read another book that focuses and analyses The Wealth of Nations.
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>>8775422
>novels
Yeah you might as well not even bother reading it dipshit
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>>8775422
Das kapital
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>going to my retailcuck wagie job
>work part time for 6 hours 3 days a week but my week consists of days ruined by work or days dreading the upcoming work days
>do a job that some silicon valley 19 year old should've automated by now (they're too busy with the college fuckfest)
>sometimes get seen by people I went to school with and yhey probably laugh at me
>was laughed at by girls younger than me who knew my name ("Hey look it's Anon") and I didn't even know who they were
>manager realised I've been taking 40 minute breaks instead of 15 and subtly told me to cut it out
>did a degree and I'm smart but lazy
>had lots of graduate interviews but after a lifetime of doing well in academia I can't pass interviews because I'm not a normie
>tonnes of chad and Stacey couples at my workplace, many of them younger than me
>never ever had attention from a girl ever, have had zero social life for years
What's my stake in society? I lift weights but can't motivate myself to stop binge eating or work hard in my free time (on programming stuff). I go to the library and cinema to feel less alone but it never works and I go home feeling conned and sad after seeing hot girls I'll never talk to and people enjoying their youths.
If I got a graduate job then at least I wouldn't be a low status cuck but it would be mind numbing and soul destroying.
Life is unfair. Some posh person who goes to a private school is taught to act in an ubernormie way and skates through a zero work arts degree at university. This is the type of person interviewing me when I go to graduate job interviews in London.
This is humiliating and depressing. Who was the con artist that said that work gives any pride ever?
And pop songs played as muzak, which are the anthems of normies. Images of models and celebrities are shown everywhere. These are the people who post Instagram selfies gloating about "Puttin in da #work" when they had everything handed over to them due to their looks.
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>>8775236
Damn that's a lot of resentment when all of this is your own fault.
Do something about it or just kill yourself.
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>>8775257
>just kill yourself.
Yeah this is probably your only solution if you can't even stand working an 18 hour week
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Write a book about it.
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> /lit/ starter pack?
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>>8775229
Start by reading the sticky /lit/ starter pack (you can find an unmarked version on the sticky).
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my diary, tbqh
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Start with proust
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>Only one enemy remained; two if you counted God.
Surely the most overrated author of all time?
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>not Vishnu
ya blew it
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That seriously gives me chills. What book is this from?
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>>8775207
Holy... I want more.
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Is this a new photo of Thomas Pynchon? It suddenly started popping up in google searches
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>>8775178
looks like he got Hemmingway'd
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Jim Dodge?
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Just found this on Google as well op
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What is the significance of the billboard?
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That's the problem with this book, isn't it? It meant exactly what it says.
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>>8775134
Read the sign at the start of American Psycho and the poster at the end of Glamor, and it'll become clear.
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What does /lit/'s reading space look like?
Pic related, my desk where reading is usually done other than in bed.
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>>8775108
This is from last year, but it's mostly unchanged since then.
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>>8775168
Cute cat trying to block out light. The spot looks comfy.
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>>8775108
>How Britain Made the Modern World
Is that sci-fi or does someone actually believe that?
this is the longest thing i've ever read. pretty comfy in its slow buildup of the characters and world. it's basically YA but did anyone else here enjoy it?
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>>8775096
I love it.
The time skip could be done better, however.
Did you ever read Pact, also by Wildbow?
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>>8777151
The whole thing isn't that tightly written, but the time skip is particularly bad. It's forgivable just because the setting is that good. I haven't read anything else by the author though, I know when I was reading Worm he was finishing Pact and starting up another serial
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>>8775096
Very cliched and too enamored with capeshit stereotypes. Some of the characters were embarrassing to read.
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Posted this on /his/ but it was buried under a mound of inane memery.
I'll start reading "The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century"by Hobsbawm and "The Historian's Craft" by Marc Bloch tonight for a course, any of you read them? What did you think about them? I've read another book by Bloch (the one about the Royal Malaise, don't know how it's called in English) and it was fairly interesting, the man has an eye (short sighted as I presume it became, eh) for sources and ongoing social processes.
Additionally, does anyone have that Death of Socrates photoshop with greentext like "go on, debate me" and "you activated his trap card"? I need it and can't find it anywhere else.
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>>8774941
INANE MEMERY!
DID SOMEBODY SAY INANE MEMERY?
OH BOY (oh) BOYO, WADDA GODDA DO DA GO!?
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>Hobsbawm
I like the bit where his marxism outweighs his jewishness :3 Good historian
Why is it in all this French lit like Beckett and Céline the characters are completely at root with their sexual nature, yet express apathy towards the action itself, and longing on the actor.
Molloy's mistress was cheating on her husband, Molloy longed for love in the actor rather than the action.
Moran's hatred towards his son could be the result of adulterous behaviour on Nilette, but he possesses no ill towards her.
Likewise, Bardamu from Journey mentions how Lola cuckolded him while he was on leave in France, yet expresses ill on the action than the actor.
Is this some Freudian shit /lit/?
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Also, not to mention that Moll's relationship with Macmann was wholly based on self-sexual redemption in the face of death, rather than love.
Which isn't necessarily a cuckold situation, but certainly expresses a negative selfish sexuality, least on the part of Moll, as noted by her low selfimage given to her by her father.
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>>8774830
Because the French are gay
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>Beckett
>French lit
Many keks heard in the dark.
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Why did he grow the afro?
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>>8774801
He had taken the traditional haircut as far as it could go, so set sail for something outrageous and wacky.
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Please delet this
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epic
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DUDE DRUGS LMAO
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t. only read Fear and Loathing.
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>>8774796
>I haven't read Campaign Trail to put Las Vegas into real world context
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I like opis and psys
Please dont hate me lit
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>towards
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>>8774721
That's how you spot a pleb
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>"How a Ship having passed the Line was driven by storms to the cold Country towards the South Pole;"
Fuck you Coleridge, stopped reading right there
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What female author would /lit/ get a 12 yo boy to read?
My little brother reads a lot, but I noticed that he hasn't yet read anything written by a female author.
Charlotte Bronte and Harper Lee come to mind, but I think he's a bit young for that.
Suggestions?
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kys. Tell him to start with the Greeks first though.
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>>8774711
get him to read books of good quality, rather than reading books of every demographic.
If he only reads male authors, why MUST he read a female author? and why stop at female? why not mtf transexual, my not ftm transexual, why not asexual, why not homosexual men, homosexual women, why not communists, why not fascists, why not extreme religious fanatics, why not get him to read obscure chinese medical journals, or popular russian military textbooks?
Why are you shilling your agenda, OP?
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Ayn Rand.