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What does /lit/ think of Robert Louis Stevenson?
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>>8400825
never heard of him senpai
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>>8400831
lmao sure
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comfy
>you will never hide in the heather and crawl around Scotland with your pirate buddy
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hello /lit/, there's an eight year-old kids next to me who claims he read all literature there is to read.
I'll ask him questions you post here and reply with his answers.
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can i fuck your tight, virgin boipussy ?
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Is IJ a meme book or a real masterpiece ?
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YYAAAAAAAAAAAWN
*lips smacking sound*
What a jolly good morning for a NEET! I wonder what I'll do first today, betwwen finishing my dawn-of-the-next-century baroque novella or rewrite Finnegans Wake in a more obscure fashion, maybe even translate a play from the Middle age.
Huh? What's that? Who's there? OH! It's only you, wagieslavie! I almost hadn't notice you, you're so easy to miss though. What are you doing here during plain day light hours? Shouldn't you be in mr Shekelstein's office sorting trivial documents and wishing you had more than two days break? Oh and, by the way, thanks a lot for basically funding my lifestyle, I really appreciate it. How's that very mediocre and common short story you're writing? Not happening? And that thing about reading the grecs? That too? Uuuuh, that's a real bummer.
Oh well wagieslavie, I won't keep you too long, have a fine day!
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>implying you do anything other than shitpost and jerk off to anime
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>>8400828
I sell my vintage arlequin collectible books online for about 100$-200$ online, not only that but I only consume the best and top notch of litterature, notably the Bronte sisters and Vilier de l'Isle Adam. I also write books for a living and am pretty succesful with my poetry branch.
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>>8400805
~ slack tight, frogger ~
Is the NEET the hermite of our century?
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I fear I'm starting to agree with this handsome motherfucker, please recommend me some economic garble from the other side of the fence to balance it all out.
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>>8400796
Lol there aren't two sides to every argument; sometimes one interlocutor is just right
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>>8400796
Bumping this because I've been meaning to read it and want recs.
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>>8400796
Neat title.
Hey /lit/ so I want to quit my job and write full-time, but I don't want to be NEET and I have no other way of staying alive.
My question is, are there any illnesses (other than autism) I can purposefully succumb to that will allow me to not work and that will also not kill me.
I've been looking into lupus (Flannery O'Connor), lyme disease and tuberculosis (Kafka) and the latter seems like a pretty good one but it isn't really that popular in this century.
Any tips? Advice?
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asperger or autism? maybe severe depression or other shit that cannot be easily diagnosed
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Trust me, you don't want lyme disease
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>>8400779
I'm pretty sure I am autistic (probably not aspergic since I have extremely self-aware and empathetic) and it's very likely I'm depressed, if not severely, already. I'm looking for physical ailments really, mental ones are a bit difficult to pull off.
>Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano BuendÃa was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice...
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Post your feet
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What am I to do with this?
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>there is laughter in the vestibule of the temple, the echo of laughter in the temple itself, but only faith and prayer, and no laughter in the holy of holies
Post your Uni and reading list!
>SFU
- its ight, decent group of students, and not the pretension that UBC profs have
>Reading List:
WASTE LAND, PRUFROCK & OTHER POEMS
WAITING FOR GODOT
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE
HAMLET
FRANKENSTEIN
CANTERBURY TALES
BEOWULF
BOOK OF MARGERY KEMPE
And a few math textbooks
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UBC
Reading list:
Short stories of Melville
The liberation of Jerusalem
Annals
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I don't go to a Uni....
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Unemployed
The Western Canon
and a few PUA handbooks
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Who is greater: Milton or Shakespeare?
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>>8400652
Stylistically: Shakespeare
Intellectually: Milton
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>>8400652
Shakespeare, by far
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>>8400652
Milton, by far
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Harry potter and the cursed child
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I am very disappointed in this play. The characterization is abysmal. I can tolerate Draco calling Harry "harry" instead of "Potter". I can tolerate Scorpius and Albus being geeks. Fuck I'll even accept a grenade. But when Albus called Ron "Ron" instead of "Mr. Weasley" it broke the camel's back. This is not canon. Not even close.
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All those Wizard books are shit and you deserve to be conned for buying obvious fanfiction. Grow up.
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.When I first got it, I stayed up all night to read it. I almost convinced myself that it was rad as hell, too. But the more I thought of t, the more I realized how many false notes the characters hit. Draco was fucked, and the whole friendship between him and Harry was cringeworthy. It read like a slash fiction where they never ended up fucking.
I actually liked Albus and Scorpious, though (even though Albus was just Harry Lite). I didn't mind reading those parts. But the parts with the established characters were almost intolerable.
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>>8400663
Agreed. I've always wanted a sunny Scorpious so I don't mind that too much either. But some of the parts in this script is too much. It's too american in a way. Too modern compared to the wizard world.
>>8400661
Nuh uh, they aren't shit you are. But yes, I deserved it. It was a moment of weakness.
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Is this the clearest attempt at bridging the gap between video games and literature yet?
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I've seen this posted before. Is it a meme? Is it entertaining?
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>>8400626
it is a meme
it is entertaining too
can be described as a play adaptation of a role playing videogame
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>>8400626
Read the opening paragraph on amazon. It's a terrific detailed foray into the mind of an autistic man.
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I want to read east asian poetry, should I choose to learn Chinese or Japanese? Does anyone know a bit about their poetic traditions?
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read wuxia instead
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>>8400617
Bump
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>>8400617
go with japanese. just read about kobayashi issa's life and it should be enough to convince you.
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I wanted to research a little more about idealism. Any books you can recommend?
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>>8400588
Just stick to ur ideals man. B urself, follow ur dreams: no book can teech you that
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>>8400588
Read up on Hegel and Schopenhauer
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>>8400588
Why is your pic one of Plato?
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You guys know any good books on buddhism?
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>>8400572
I just read Buddhist Texts by Penguin Classics. It was alright. The Dhamapadda is ok too, and the Konjaku Monogatari Shu is basically Buddhist propaganda.
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>>8400572
i thought those were sushi rolls at first
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What The Buddha Taught by Wohlpal Rahula or something. Good short book and probably the best intro to Buddhism you can read.
Does it surprise you that environmentalist literature isn't a bit more fashionable nowadays?
The ways in which we're fucking the planet are many and varied. This isn't a secret, everyone is at least vaguely aware of it, but we don't particularly care. We can see the cliff edge and we're apathetically plodding on towards it.
I can understand why romantic depictions of the natural world such as those of the transcendentalists might be seen as a bit corny today. But do you think we'll see a more pragmatic style of environmentalism in art and literature in the near future?
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>>8400568
By the time we're in deep enough shit to start caring, art will be a luxury that few can afford
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>>8400568
>the environment
too spooky
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>>8400568
No because this ge faggots is too self absorbed to care about anything except in passing so that they can be seen "caring" and never actually have to commit in any way.
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Having spent this year reading Murakami and whacky existentialist french philosophers, I'm feeling a bit out of touch. I've been recommended to check out Greene's Art of Seduction to help me out, and I could use a break from the genre.
The only thing I can find about it is on seddit, and all they ever say is to read "models" by manson instead of any other book. I can't get an answer because of their cult towards that book.
So is The art of seduction a decent read? Is there anything to really get out of it?
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>>8400529
I don't know how much these books really help, I think personality, how you carry yourself, and how you're driven seduce women alot more than actively trying to pick them up. It's more what you do and how you carry yourself than it is walking up to a girl and saying something.
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>>8400552
I'm looking to get other stuff out of it, not "getting the girl" but rather how to be an appealing and charismatic person as a whole. I'm pretty good with people, but I'm losing my edge.
As a stem guy, it's not as important usually, but I need to learn how to be more socially active. For example, in college I'd just do my work and get good grades, but I'd see other students chumming up to profs which landed them connections and opportunities.
Of course, I wouldn't mind learning how to be a Casanova as well, but it is my impression that being socially successful is related to being romantically successful.
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