My doctor who I am now not seeing claimed I may be lapsing into schizophrenia now he is absolutely fabricating this and it is not true but what is some literature that has to do with that mindset
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>>8466255
Doctors don't just fabricate things and schizophrenia is not something to be taken lightly. If this post is serious, go seek help or at least consult a second Doctor.
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That guys probably a fascist. Read Deleuze
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>>8466255
2 years ago my psychiatrist told me I was almost certainly developing either schizophrenia or bipolar disorder and I thought they were full of shit. Then this spring I completely lost my fucking mind. It was actually very beautiful but holy shit I went so insane. It turned out to be just intense bipolar disorder, where the manic episodes are often quite similar to schizophrenic delusions.
The actual mania was not a problem, but when the depression started to come back after a few months I became extremely violent and alienated a lot of people.
Idk why I'm posting this really but probably if your doctor tells you that you should take it seriously, at least consider it. I have probably irreparably fucked things up recently because I wasn't medicated
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Just had a thought while walking through the gardens and wrote a quick introduction of sorts. Feedback?
"He lay back and ran his eyes over her pale body, coated in a faint film of sweat she glistened. She twirled around the room, opening each window in turn and singing to the birds in the gardens below.
It was a peculiar song, a blend of melancholy and euphoria. The raised fist of the father, the gentle touch of the mother. Red river of the battle, the blood of the womb. The brutality of killing, the violence of sex. She smiled at him, a tear crept down her flushed cheek."
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>tfw just had it explained to me why Jonas knows the story of Theseus so well
FUCK ME, why didn't I think of it myself? But then it's so subtle. God, Wolfe is brilliant.
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>>8466200
no one cares about your 'le epin secret reading', faggot
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>>8466200
if he's so brilliant, why will i never read him?
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>>8466200
No, it's obvious, you're just dim
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Why read nonfiction histories and biographies? 2016-09-02 22:57:26 Post No.8466185
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Why read nonfiction histories and biographies?
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I've been reading a book called "The Plantagenets" by Dan Jones. It's a narrative history and pretty good: it's not as dry and scholarly as other books I've read. But that got me thinking. Why do I read these books when I could just go to wikipedia and find the kind of generalist information I need? I'm no scholar. I just want to have a basic grasp of things. I don't need to know every little thing Richard the Lionheart did for example, I want to know the major things and the kind of person he was, and I can easily find all of that information on wikipedia--or, if that isn't good enough, another encyclopedia like Britannica or something.
Why should I read histories and biographies?
It seems I should instead read literature and fiction, books that tell a story and which are aesthetically pleasing. Nonfiction histories and biographies are not aesthetic works, they are works of information and instruction.
Is there something I am missing?
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Why are you asking us?
Do you think we know why you in particular should or shouldn't read certain books?
The answers to your questions should be obvious with some personal contemplation.
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>>8466215
Because I am interested in discussion. I want to understand why anyone who isn't a specialist should read book-length treatments of topics that would be best understood from summations.
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>>8466225
Because they are interested in the topic and gain pleasure from receiving information on said topic.
General information does not feed their hunger sufficiently.
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> YES
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>>8466175
>1953
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>>8466175
>1953
WUT
PS:
“The closer men came to perfecting for themselves a paradise, the more impatient they became with it, and with themselves as well. They made a garden of pleasure, and became progressively more miserable with it as it grew in richness and power and beauty; for then, perhaps, it was easier to see something was missing in the garden, some tree or shrub that would not grow. When the world was in darkness and wretchedness, it could believe in perfection and yearn for it. But when the world became bright with reason and riches, it began to sense the narrowness of the needle's eye, and that rankled for a world no longer willing to believe or yearn.”
- A Canticle for Leibowitz.
Science fiction has its good and bad, as does everything else.
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Tell me flaws about penguin publishing.
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They're good.
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>>8466133
They have a remarkable feat of filling already finely printed books with errors.
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>>8466133
old translations and questionable paper binding
that is it
Name my book, it's my shitty iteration of One Hundred Years of Solitude
Dubs name it
Trips override dubs
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>>8466101
One Thousand Years of Solitude
That way your book wil be 10x better
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A Century of Aloneness
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>>8466101
One Hundred Years of Solitude: A Shitty Iteration
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Is it wrong that I agree with the underground man? Isn't he an anti-hero?
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No. The underground man is literally right about everything.
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I thought this book was fucking hilarious. Also hunger by knut hamsun, which is similar, made me crease.
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>>8466063
the underground man is LITERALLY /r9k/!
THE AVERAGE ROBOT BROWSING THE BOARD /r9k/ IS LITERALLY JUST LIKE THE UNDERGROUND MAN
Notes from Underground is basically just /r9k/: the book.
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Why did they do it?
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>>8466062
They wanted to find big guys.
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>>8466095
For me?
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>>8466062
That's how most NEETs end up.
What is the best Hitler biography?
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>>8466054
Just stay away from the libcuck ones written by emasculated numales that try to make him seem like a bad guy.
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>>8466055
This.
Go for redpilled ones that paint him truthfully as a proud white Christian defender of Europe against Islam and the Jews.
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>>8466055
Fuck off /pol/, this is why I'm always reluctant to bring up Hitler on any board
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Into how many languages can /lit/ translate this line from Virgil's Aeneid?
"Ibant obscuri sola sub nocte per umbram"
I'm curious to see how many languages we speak as a whole, and the profficiency at translating that we have.
The verbatim English translation renders:
“They went obscure under the lonely
shadows”
Though I would preferably translate it as:
“They went in darkness lonely by the shade”
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>>8466018
evidently nobody here knows literature
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>>8466106
And this surprises you why?
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>>8466108
because the name of the board is /lit/
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ITT God-tier opening lines
>Renowned curator Jacques Saunière staggered through the vaulted archway of the museum's Grand Gallery.
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>>8465959
Gregory Berrycone had found the evening pleasant...
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Isn't that the Da Vinci code?
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>>8465959
“Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”
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So far i have read confessions of a mask and a handful of his shorts stories, and i really liked it.
Confessions of a mask made me feel things that any other piece of literature could not.
So where i go from here? Will forbidden colours a good choice?
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>>8465869
>reading degenerate bugchasing fags
back to /r/books
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>>8465888
Who are you quoting?
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>>8465888
well memed my friend
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What is that word that means when something is done because it once served a valuable purpose, and while it is no longer needed, it continues to be done simply because people expect it? I'm having a mental block here.
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>>8465857
Marriage
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>>8465857
Democracy
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comme d'habitude
force of habit
rite
tribute
homage
$5, never read any nathaniel hawthorne
should i cop?
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>>8465850
Absolutely. Scarlet Letter and Seven Gables are great.
But his short stories are even better than his novels imo. The Birthmark and Wives of the Dead are both fucking amazing.
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>>8465850
I can't tell without knowing who did the translation.