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>>8423410
>10
No memory whatsoever
>13
Puberty starts. Begin to hate myself.
>16
Extraordinarily miserable. I do not talk to anyone other than the brief conversations with strangers in the world of warcraft random dungeon finder. At this point I begin to watch art house films and read literature to compensate for my feelings of inferiority.
>18
I have left secondary school and my spirits are somewhat uplifted. I begin to drift around Skype groups found on various image boards. No meaningful relationships are formed.

I have not yet reached any other milestones.

>10
I never went to a sex ed class, but I had a mother who is a medical doctor. I was given the basic rundown on my near future (puberty) which left me scarred for years. I was obsessed with Pokemon, and just starting to get in to Digimon and Dragonball Z.
>13
Dropped out of high schoool this year. Had a weird time at school while I was there. All of the other kids were trading drugs in the locker rooms and I couldn't really find any friends. I was lonely, bullied, stressed, and eventually it caught up with my health and I left school.
>16
By this stage I'd had epilepsy for two years, and was particularly concerned by it. I cannot recall anything else about this year.
>18
I'm starting to look at universities. By some miracle I have managed to attain the top high school qualification, in spite of working at a snail's pace with correspondence from home.
>20
Dropped out of uni, into a psychiatric hospital, where I stayed 9 months. I tried to kill myself twice while I was there but was interrupted once by a nurse and had an inconvenient seizure the other time.
>21
Left the psychiatric hospital halfway through this year with a "Sorry, we misdiagnosed you and can't actually treat you" and went home to become an extremely anxious recluse.
>23
I was less reclusive and anxious by this stage, and doing some activities outside of the home. I did not find 23 an exciting year to be alive, and just kind of spent most of my time existing. I was on the good meds, though, and got a lot of writing done.
>25
Bad year. Lot of depression and suicidal intentions. Currently trying to find new antidepressant and manage seizures. Not very happy -- no job (too epileptic), nothing really to do. Existence is something to be endured as best as possible until I get cancer or something and can die in a socially acceptable manner.

>>8423410

>10
I am in the middle of freedom and constraint. Sometimes I just want to be naked but I know I can't.
>13
I am firmly within constraint. I do not know how to interact with these people.
>16
I am firmly within freedom. I have finally become happy. I think.
>18
I am now in the middle of freedom and constraint, but the constraints I have are all of my own making and for my own good. I am still happy. I think lots.

>>8423344
is funny because city frozen

What made/makes this the most expensive novel in publishing?

I don't wanna google just in case this is some spooky normie shit that wants my page views, but if you don't want to explain I understand.

>>8423540
This is famous for the author having been paid a 2mil advance, and nothing more. Nobody's read it and nobody cares to.

>>8423343
life

>>8423343
Probably cirrhosis. His liver hurt.

>>8423343
>thinking knowing his illness matters
What's it like being the worlds biggest pleb?

>>8423256
Meme trash. Grown ups read books that actually have bearing on reality and could teach them a skill that would actually make their life better.

>>8423301
>a skill that would actually make their life better.
you are a little bitch. motorcycle maintenance is way more necessary than your shitty philosophical studies. your dad should be ashamed

in a world full of thinkers, the last thing we need is a headrunner of novelists writing about writers. you are a weak person. grow some figurative balls

>>8423301
Havent even read it, but this sounds like the kind of thing someone who reads self-help books would say.

>>8423202
Not really.

On Kindle though you can save your fave moments/lines and reflect on them later.

For non-fiction books you should always write notes as you read, otherwise the point of reading them becomes redundant.

Books aren't supposed to be read just once. They are supposed to be read IN FULL once, and then re-visited regularly to refresh your mind, furnish it with beauty, and return it to the upper echelons of human intellect.

God speed.

>>8423215
Thanks for the reassurance, sometimes I'll recall an event from a novel I've read a few years ago. However, I will not be able to accurately recall the events which occured and it worries me.

>>8423234
>I will not be able to accurately recall the events which occured and it worries me.
then open the book again and re-read that part.

>>8423171
It's all bullshit. Anyone with a PhD in lit is undoubtedly a layabout bohemian with no work ethic.

Oh that doesn't sound so awful, OP. Haven't you ever read a good creepypasta? Even Slenderman almost got a girl killed (the Wisconsin stabbing.) Anyway, what else would you use for a "modern" representation of horror?

>>8423195
>the guy who is teaching OP's class lurks /lit/

Masochism?

>>8423170
Christianity.

>>8423174
or dolorism (older concept, refering to christianity)

If you have several sources and they are precise enough (actual publications or books, not elements off-handedly attributed to such or such famous source), use endnotes and make it a proper bibliography.

>>8423163
Literally every college student does this.

yeah this is pretty much what i do
ideally you would spend time researching before you begin an argument but due dates usually force students to come up with an argument and then find "sources" that confirm their biasis

Hahaha you're a foriegner get walled bich

You could give it a go and then help a literate native speaker edit it for you. But I don't understand why wou wouldn't write it in your own tongue first.

>>8423161
Why the fuck are you asking anyone if you should attempt to write fiction? Just do it. Everyone sucks when they start out and there are plenty of non English speakers who write brilliantly. What the fuck do you want to hear?

>>8423071
First for fountainhead love :)

>>8423071
>Ayn Randy

Fucking DROPPED, you autistic manbaby.

>Reading Ayn Rand

LOOOOL

*tips*

Fuck off back to le reddit you edgy FAGtheist.

>>8422945
Work load?
What books are you reading?

Maybe take up a different kind of mental exercise. A physical one even.

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>>8422945
Stop watching tv. Read the news. Exercise. Eat healthy. Participate in discussion. Don't drink alcohol often.

>>8422956
>a physical mental exercise
wow never thought of this before

pls respond

Unless the chewing is distracting you I wouldn't worry.

But if you feel like deep-down it is somehow affecting the way you retain what you're reading then maybe you could assess that, but I have no input further.

Who honestly gives a shit?

Maybe read philosophical fiction? Zarathustra etc.

Plato's dialogues are essentially that. Read it like a story.

>>8422936
I had the same idea. But that would narrow down my philosophical options to a very small pool of books, or?

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Read for pleasure. Yes do this >>8422936
And maybe even overview books. (Durant's, Russell's) You can develop your own philosophy without delving so deep into a dying tradition. No real need for source texts. Unless you want to stagger on

His brother sent him money.

minor aristocrat, father (reluctantly) sent him money as part of his estate

He had a patron

read the sticky

http://bookzz.org/dl/2514491/11453b

>kids growing up today will never know what it was to have an Amiga 500 with Deluxe Paint