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No /lit/ for this precise scenario, but this song might cheer you up :3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf6mkYz4mx0

>>8726455
thanks anon, you're a good person

>>8726452
at what point are you failing. MCAT, Med School, Residency, or inability to get the appropriate grades in hs.

>>8726306
Yes. I don't read poetry, I win by default. Rimbaud doesn't count.
Poetry is as dead an artform as plays and tapdancing.

>>8726312
Then why are you even on the literature board.
>>>/literallyanyotherboard/

>>8726306
Expect all answers here to be Blake, Rimbaud, Pessoa and Crane.

>The names in this letter have been reduced to letters
fucking dropped desu

>>8726398
>>using real names on 4chan
>putting effort into fake names

T b h

>>8726398
fucking european writers used to do this all the time. It's so fucking stupid, just choose a different name you stupid fucks.

>>8726287
My diary desu

>>8726293
beat me to it

also GRRM

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>>8726285
http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/from-yao-to-mao-5000-years-of-chinese-history.html

Fucking great and easily pirateable

I found pic related serviceable, if dry.

>>8726296
Will check out.
>easily pirateable
What isn't these days?

I read the first 50 pages of The Search for Modern China and liked it.

>>8726264
Get up.

Ting Tang Walla Walla Bing Bang

I PUSH MY FINGERS IN TOOOOO MYYYY

>>8726256
hahahahahahahahahaha
Where did you get this picture from?
Renaming the filename to make it look like you took the photo was a nice touch. 6/8 edgelord b8

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>>8726256
Yuck.

Pic related and A Bright Shining Lie were quite good.

That said I think you need to move on to another subject.

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>>8726301
Also this, which is sort of the high water mark for trashy conspiracy as """""Non-fiction"""""".

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>>8726224
While I am deeply sympathetic to Catholicism, I avoid "Catholic" devotional materials as they are almost never in their complete form and always have some sort of agenda. I always try to approach from a scholarly point of view, or if I want to read for literary merit, KJV.

>>8726224
I haven't read that one, so I can't give it fair appraisal. It really depends on what capacity you're reading it. I'm not Catholic, but perhaps you could explain what you want out of a good bible, how familiar with it you are, &tc. for some other helpful anon to point you in the right direction.

>>8726232
Not him but I have the New American Bible which is a Catholic edition, and all the foot and endnotes relate to post Vatican II encyclicals and church stances.

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>>8726209
cmon man. make up your own damn mind. besides, women in general are horrible, so why would you want to stop? lemme guess, you lost the "ugh, why are you so critical of women all the time, anon" argument with your girlfriend? stop being a cuck.

>>8726209
The truly quality feminist lit is hidden because its morale is that women are actually evil but so should you be.

And I don't know if that's what you're looking for and/or if you can be trusted with it.

>>8726209
seriously though, just balance it out with hatred for men, and become a cynic and stop giving a shit if you end up a misanthrope.

>>8726119

Our Steppenwolf was way too patrician and educated for r9k

>>8726119
lel too optimistic for me towards the end.

How did he afford rent?

Misanthropy doesn't imply misery.
Will and Representation was a sick read.

i would rather ask you: can you even see beyond his own misery? because, true, his experience tainted his views, but what is valuable in his, or anyone's work, is the form not the content.

he reached important truths and exposed them with the tools life gave him.

No he could not.

That's why the last 150 pages of his main work are all about how to see past your own suffering and live decently.

Idiot.

>>8726077
You ideally need to have experience in academia and the ability to quickly but accurately skim read articles and absorb the main ideas. Most people in publishing don't have the luxury of fully reading all of the papers they receive, not enough time.

>>8726082
Ligotti has said in interviews that he was able to read a tone of obscure fiction during his time at Gale (23 years) and that he found many "weird" writers through his work there. It seems like such a comfy job. I have an amazing memory but at the moment I'm wasting it in a job that requires me to remember data rather than information that may be beneficial to my literary ambitions.

>>8726102
Ligotti's job sounds very specialised, so I doubt there are many other people doing what he does. Does sound comfy though.

read the meme classics, hamlet, mcbeth, rodeo and juliani

>>8726071
Legend of sleep hollow

>>8726071
Take the real Redpill™ and read The Merchant of Venice first.

I wonder if OP's dad made this face when he walked in on him jerking off to anime

>>8726039
>poetry

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>>8726039
he's right you know.

>translated philosophy

>>8725954
>I need this shit in hardcover
You don't.
Print it out and bind it yourself you massive archaic faggot.

>>8725958
Except that Kindle does not let you do that. You literally do not own the book.

>>8725963
just because you're technologically illiterate doesn't mean it can't be done