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>I am 20
>I are tired of life
pick one and lern grammer

I guess like a gun or some pills? I've never killed myself before so I can't help too much in this regard.

You're 20, chill the fuck out, meditate.

>>8708178
Yeah he really did, nothing he predicted of our time has been wrong

Wait, Infinite Jest isn't supposed to be funny?

>>8708182

It wasn't, that's the joke. It was an infinite, unfunny jest - that is to say, joke.

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>Best
The Library of Babel
>Worst
Death and the Compass
>Underrated
Three Versions of Judas
>Overrated
The Garden of Forking Paths

>>8708160
>dat paragraph in The Aleph where Borges describes seeing through the Aleph

makes my dick hard errytime

>>8708160
>Best
The Immortal
>Worst
The Dead Man
>Underrated
The Zahir
>Overrated
Emma Zunz

>>8708296
>Best
Three Versions of Judas/Pierre Menard
>Worst
The Sect of the Phoenix
>Underrated
An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain
>Overrated
The Circular Ruins

>>8708118
that guy looks like he's 25 years old.
'i dont accept that.'
lmao like who are you a movie star

>>8708125
ROFLMAO x'D

>>8708118
what movie is that?

Getting a good well paying job isn't all it's cracked up to be when you're not chasing the paper dream.

There's hardly anything satisfying about giving all your time and energy in a day almost every day to your job when you're merely doing it to do it or for a living.

Sorry m8 it only gets worse from here.

>>8708087
The job is hard and unsatisfying yes. But i really want to be able to stay with the girl i love and maybe someday raise kids.
Art can't promise happiness and the chances that i will fail are huge. I have very real urge to follow this passion, but i can't give up on my love. I would be a fool to do so.

>>8708094
be honest with your wife about it, ask for a year or something, tops, if you can. tell her if it doesn't work out, you'll get back on the grind and work towards both of your dreams. that way you won't have any regrets. she must care about you too.

>>8708031
Sinclair did it way before with It Can't Happen Here.

Is Putin Hitler in this analogy?

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>it's another "delusional libshits think Trump is literally Hitler" episode

2016 presidential election

what a ride

>>8708017
Hamlet.

Macbeth

King James Version
The answers to both of your questions are yes, though the New Testament specifically will enlighten you in this manner--to further meme your shit up, pick up Lattimore's translation of the New Testament. Ganbare senpai

KJV is a meme in this day and age. There are better translations that are more accurate and even some that are as "pretty": the NRSV is highly regarded, and the RSV and ESV are known for their prettiness.

I'll also vouch for the Good News Translation as a highly accurate translation that's not quite as literal, made for the purpose of being easy to read. You don't need to make it your main text, but if you're ever scratching your head, it's available.

IMO, if you want a good estimate of each translation's power, you should read the Book of Esther and weigh up each translations' strengths/weaknesses. Esther is a fairly short, mostly self-contained story (which also doesn't mention God). Here, the KJV easily stands out as being a pain to read and its prose comes across as clunky more often than not.

--

As for reading it as a philosophical text...you mostly can. Even in the Old Testament, one of the biggest lessons (even if it's not spelled out) is to not forget your past or your ancestors -- because the ways that they fucked up are things that you can avoid.

And there's the Book of Job, which, if you read in all its glory is....difficult to pierce. It's an interesting philosophical text, although not very satisfying from a narrative perspective.

>>8707926
KJV has to be read aloud to be properly appreciated. it's not a meme any more than Shakespeare; just because the English is old fashioned now doesn't stop it being a timeless example of great writing in English.

HOLY... I WANT MORE MORE MORE!

I'M GOING TO GET ANOTHER TWO CHAPTERS DONE TONIGHT IF IT LITERALLY FUCKING KILLS ME

>>8707830
IEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEee

>>8707781
johnny gentle is infinitely more preferable...

>>8707784
>...

>>8707781
kys

Borges

it means the words are good

>>8707773
Nabokov, Joyce, Faulkner, McCarthy, DeLillo, Proust, Lowry, Shakespeare, Pynchon all have God tier prose off the top of my head.

What do you mean?

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>>8707758
>democracy is bad when my candidate doesn't get elected
Literally CSA logic desu

>>8707762
Well they were democrats

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>>8707745
It's like 20 pages you tard why wouldn't you read it?

>>8707745
Yeah it's the most important part

>>8707745
If you didn't read the epilogue you didn't read Crime and Punishment.

That's actually a mangled quote from the hit anime and manga series "Hunter x Hunter". The original quote is about martial arts.

The more you know, eh?

>>8707555
Thank you! I came across it at random and was a little suspicious.

Im sick of these faggots gooks telling me to not take things for granted. Despair is a tool based on a relativism, and you are only supposed to be happy once you accomplish your goals.

"Just be happy, enjoy life" is the career version of smoking weed.

>>8707480
Chen by bkub

>>8707480
It looks like a Rosemary Wells character

This art design looks a lot like the one of the Nick show Max and Ruby.
It took me awhile to connect the two since it's a cat and not a rabbit.
Hope this helps, OP.