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>20
>san antonio, texas

Currently reading 1381: The Year of the Peasants' Revolt by Juliet Barker and as of now it's just page after page explaining the specific hypocrisies of different prelates. So far I like Agincourt better, but I'm expecting it to pick up once the actual revolt gets under way.

>>8629422
>20
>Denver, Colorado
>Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone
The last actual """literature""" that I read was Frankenstein. I should read Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde again as we approach Halloween.

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>>8629422
>22
>DC
>Franny and Zooey

Just started it. I must say that I'm pretty excited to read it, as I usually really enjoy Salinger's works.

>>8629357

in class, no pics.

- Ouevres de Sully Prudhomme (first edition from 189x-1900-ish, before he won Nobel. $5

- Golden Bough (1 volume) second edition hardcover. $1

- Flight to Arcturus. $1

- Tales of Grotesque and Arabesque, Poe. $1

- Complete Plays of Marlowe. $1

>>8629367

Jesus - those are patrician picks, dude. Are you very well read?

I've never seen a more emasculated Moby-Dick.

Jesus

>>8625910

What's your middle right?

>>8625918
Looks like Dore's illustration of The Raven

Hormones.

Because teenagers lack in the ability to see pass their own lives.

Too dumb to see past the bigger picture.

>>8620766
Retake the falling snow: each drifting flake
Shapeless and slow, unsteady and opaque
A dull dark white agaisnt the day's pale white
And abstract larches in the neutral light.
And then the gradual and dual blue
As night unites the viewer and the view,
And in the morning, diamonds of frost
Express amazement: Whose spurred feet have crossed
From left to right the blank page of the road?
Reading from left to right the winter's code:
A dot, an arrow pointing back; repeat:
Dot, arrow, pointing back... A pheasant's feet! Torquated beauty, siblimated grouse,
Finding your China right behind my house.
Was he in Sherlock Holmes, the fellow whose
Tracks pointed back when he reversed his shoes?

Kinda long (1/2)

Don had now gone off the map entirely.

In the months prior to his disappearance Don’s work had become sporadic. He came to work two, three days at best, per week. The times he did bother to offer an explanation for his absence he’d claim illness, usually food poisoning. Sturvant had reason to believe this wasn’t simply an excuse: as part of his research Don had become an almost exclusive puddingvore. His devotion to a diet of pure pudding was adulterated only by his occasional ingestion of banana bread (for grain) and vanilla wafers (for sturdiness); as Don explained it “even Jainists eat lettuce.” He researched all kinds of pudding including chocolate and vanilla, and a few of his own creation. But of all his mistresses banana pudding was the one to whom he was most faithful. He awoke every day at five in the morning and prepared a new batch of the custard and left it sitting on his kitchen table throughout the day. At the end of the day Don would perform a number shear stress tests on the pudding to measure the amount of shear thinning that had occurred. Don executed this duty with more discipline and diligence than he’d ever applied to his duties as a janitor at Nadefco. He made his measurements at eight pm and dutifully detailed his findings in one of his research journals (Bapuddjos). In addition to raw data Don included graphs, equations, and his own personal asides like “viscosity increases logarithmically with time that -30 degree shear is applied, exponentially with 0 degree shear, cf. ketchup.” The journals began to pile up. He piled his journals next to his piles of cookbooks and newspaper clippings of custard baking competitions, which were in turn piled next to his piles of textbooks on polymer chemistry and non-Newtonian fluid mechanics. The most important force to be studied was compression, since, in Don’s mind, banana pudding mines buried underground would be exposed more often to the downward pressure of the dirt that concealed them, although conceivably an imitation custard mine (which, remember, performs quite well under shearing) could be buried sideways, although then the blasting mechanism would have to be altered so that the mine would blast orthogonal to the horizontal rather than parallel. Thus, real pudding mines should be buried right side up whereas imitation custard mines should be buried sideways.

>>8620883
(2/2)

Of course, Don researched more custards than just banana pudding and manipulated more variables than just angle of shearing. Temperature, altitude, and strawberry were all given due diligence. But banana pudding was the most scrutinized for the sole reason that Don found it the most likely custard to be used in Nadefco’s mines. Don concluded that banana custard was most likely because 1) bananas possess certain properties, such as high fiber content (which makes for a sturdy mine), which lend themselves to being landmine fodder that are not present in other fruits and because 2) after all, the first fake landmine that Don had ever encountered was verifiably filled with banana pudding.

On the days that Don did show up to Nadefco he worked at his own leisurely pace. The tasks he did manage to accomplish were done shoddily. For example, part of his duties as a janitor were detail in a Janitor’s Report the conditions of the corpses he found in the field. The human resources department of Nadefco felt that by considering and analyzing the wounds of a field engineer’s corpse, Nadefco could understand how the engineer had died and then speculate on the mistake he had made while defusing. Janitors were asked to note the position of the body. Had the body been projected or merely crumpled? How severe were the burns, and where was the location of the wound(s)? Don, however, had been neglecting his paperwork, and when he did take the time to fill out his report he rarely did so in sufficient detail, as Harrison from the mortuary department complained to Sturvant.

“Look, all of his ‘ideas’ and ‘research’ aside, you would at least expect him to show some basic concern for human life.” Harrison held up Don’s most recent report and shook it in the air. “This guy,” he said, indicating the report “this guy could’ve been you, Don’s only friend here, one day Don might find himself cleaning up after you due to a mistake that could’ve been avoided if Don had properly documented the states of the corpses he finds.”

Sturvant, who never made mistakes but forgave Harrison’s lapse in judgement, tried to explain that Don’s mental state was very bad, that he probably wasn’t in a position to be filling out paperwork, much less performing janitorial labor. That he really shouldn’t be coming in to work at all.

“Sturvant, yeah, Don’s gone a bit crazy. But this, this is just crossing the line. Look here, look what he wrote in the conditions of the corpse section.” He handed the report to Sturvant. In a section to which half a page had been devoted Don had merely written “well-done.”

>>8609275
>'I'm incredibly insecure and need to constitute my idealized self-image by posting pictures of books, so please validate me, internet strangers!'

>>8609284
Exactly.

>>8609287
10/10. Now you can hopefully fuck off

>>8637615
Selfless unwillingness to let myself known Because of my lust.
Body low on the substance,The substance that entered my soul last night, And the night before
This is new, It was old at one point
Periodically felt attractive to the submissive
Submissive needy souls
Very recently.
They have an erection in mind, She wants a certain one, Feeling like a confident mouse in a trap, Taboo laughed upon words
Conservative critiques
Dead nicotine, no more supply, One thing is on my mind.

>>8637620
I live for it
I need someone to submit
I need her to desire my ambiguity, My taste of sour nostalgia
Quivering excitement I can control
I desire these things I Cannot conceive
I express myself under a lampshade
Quivering anxiety rips my soul
The braveness I desire I can't take the leap
From experience I am able to only under ignorance
I don't want her last time
I don't want her next time

>>8637623
I want one but not knowing who
I don't know myself I just look in the blue
I don't practice anything
I don't repeat everything
I can't comprehend the things
The things I want to put into action
So how can I work on myself
Myself works on I
Unwillingly
I want to will myself into my dreams
How can satisfaction be found in this!

>>8637544
>Did not read the thing
>Goes to wikipedia to see what it's about
>Sees critics
"Kite Runner's popularity didn't really begin to soar until [2004] when the paperback edition came out, which is when book clubs began picking it up."
>Kite Runner
>Soar
Jesus Christ

>>8637544
I liked it. It was a good read. Nothing to complain about.

>>8637555
You should give the book a chance. Its not bad. Its a very easy read and the characters are somewhat good.

>>8637243
I need to be near black out drunk to start believing there is something worth writing.

>>8637243
>affect

>>8637243
I drink and my creativity spikes. Then I edit while sober.

>>8637115
you think we know who they are except that they are some poorly drawn toons with yellow faces?

>>8637115

. . .
Light novels?
They're pretty much manga/anime in (cheap) book form

>>8637115
>but I would love to see the stories in my mind and not drawn
why

the double
the idiot

if you're still interested and want longer then crime and punishment and brothers karamazov
if you want more humour and shorter, then village of stepanchikovo

>>8637019
Thanks.
What you think about his other works?

>>8637019
Add The Gambler to this list, first work of his I read and I don't regret it

Would a dictionary of terms/concepts be useful? I'm planning on reading Interpretation of Dreams, Freud's case studies, his introductory lectures. But I'm lost as to where to go from Freud (straight to Jung?), and also I want to get to grips with Lacan

>psychoanalysis

Just start a dream journal, you'll learn just as much useless information

The Interpretation of Dreams
Chapter V. The Material and Sources of Dreams
Chapter VI. The Dream-Work

Lacan:
The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience
The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious
Signification of the Phallus

Hegel Phenomenology of the spirit: chapter on master slave dialectic

Erich Fromm Psychoanalysis and Religion. Also you might enjoy some of his other works, especially his writings on the split conscience.

There's also other stuff, but this is the groundwork pretty much.

>>8636604
>Morality is actually an extension...

That line alone shows his bullshit.

>>8636604
>Is he right?
No. He's giving a book valour not on it's logic and what ideas and possibilities it introduces, but rather on how much he disagrees with the author's philosophy.
0/10 shit review.

>>8636625
>>8636652
You are aware that OP knows this right? Who are you explaining this to, exactly?

>>8636591
All English translations, since it is the superior and most beautiful language.

I read that Knausgaard's "Min Kamp" has better prose in English than it has in Norwegian.

Everything Spanish, basically: Borges, Marquez, Bolaño, etc.

>>8636588
why do i still come to this shithole

>>8636588
>if you wanna learn the piano, why not just lift weights until you develop your own, deeply unique piano skills

oh wow, really makes me unthink

>>8636588
OP, autistic thread.
Au
Tis
Tic

Coming into contact with others' views doesn't force them to follow them, it does, however, give you an opportunity to test your beliefs against critique and test others views.

If you are so easily indoctrinated that, if you see someone else's works you immediately attach it to your own views, you make me sad.