How has life fucked you over? As a kid I had a habit where if something touched my right side I would touch it with my left side also so as to not be asymmetrical. Around puberty my OCD kicked in fully and I never got diagnosed so I ended up ignoring all feelings of being off balance entirely. I've never been able to make friends or talk while being taken seriously since then.
>>8339424
I'm not op, but fuck you. Knock off that obnoxious crap.
I used to grind my teeth as a teenager, and never wore a mouth guard until I was 19. I don't have any cavities and my teeth are straight but they have basically no enamel so they're sensitive to hard foods, sugar, and anything that isn't room temperature. I'm also a vegan. So basically, I survive on rice, lentils, non-sugary vegetables, nut butters, hemp protein, and a multivitamin. and I drink all my water at room temp.
I have avoidant personlity disorder, but... I don't know. I can't imagine anything else.
Originally from /v/, I've been playing only vidya everyday for the majority of the day. Occasionally browsed /pol/ during this time and the NatSoc threads got me to turn my degenerate habit into something more productive.
Anyways since I've started, I've been doing all my reading in bed or on my couch. I always end up dozing off after a handful of pages though which is killing my progress. Where does the average /lit/erarian do most of their reading?
>>8339275
Maybe your body needs more sleep than you're currently getting?
>>8339275
Also, how much time a day do you guys spend on reading? Just curious.
I read while taking a shit.
>inb4 triggered squatfags
Is there any way to discern the true literary figures of an age, whilst they're alive? Reliable as posterity may be, and however many authors find their fame posthumously because of it, there are many instances where great minds have recognized other great minds in the same lifetime.
Goethe and Carlyle exchanged letters, Hemingway and Joyce hung out, etc. How do we tell if a writer is going to be one of Schopenhauer's 'stars', as opposed to a mere comet - a flash in the pan?
Many authors resign themselves to the aforementioned hope of posthumous fame, although Nietzsche made a convincing hope against doing so - and to strive for recognition whilst alive.
>>8339264
>Is there any way to discern the true literary figures of an age, whilst they're alive?
Having good taste.
>>8339264
You know it when you see it.
>>8339264
>Goethe and Carlyle exchanged letters
Good letters too.
Goethe sent Carlyle and his wife presents almost every time.
The gifts for his wife included necklaces/etc. Almost as if he was trying to cuck Carlyle.
A short bit of very pertinent thoughts I would like to share.
>>8339307
please don't do that, it's annoying.
Did you write it? It's painful to go through.
>>8339324
Yes, I wrote it.
ITT: we post the worst pseudo-intellectual we've ever seen
>>8339186
>>8339189
I really, really like this meme
Can I save it?
Myself desu. Even my drunken self tarot reading said I'll continue being a pseud for the present time.
Do you care about that, or is it irrelevant?
>>8339170
who the fuck cares
that movie was actually bretty gud
>>8339173
If OP wants to actually read Tolstot, and not spend all of his time fapping to that sweet Victorian ass that is Keira Knightly, I'd go with a different edition.
Recommend me irish novels about drunk peoples
I recommend you irish novels about drunk peoples
>>8339164
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
William Carleton's "Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry", they pretty much created the meme of the drunken paddy
What books will make you a better/smarter person by reading them? Fiction or non-fiction, historical or hypothetical, anything.
Specific topics like how to quit smoking are cool too.
The God Delusion
>>8339165
For atheists only?
A Brief History of Time - Steve Hawkings
Which Greek god would you fuck? I'd fuck Artemis for sure, shit would be so cash.
ares fiery pussy must taste good
Apollo.
Too bad she's a virgin and wouldn't fuck you.
Aphrodite for me.
Have you ever originally thought of something as bad/vulgar, and then changed your mind based on the reasoning of someone else? What was it?
A number of things. The biggest being reason itself. The second biggest being capitalism.
>>8339069
I was bluepilled all my life before I found /r9k/ and /pol/. Soon I learned that all that I had found 'bad' was actually good
>>8339073
>muh slave to the passions
Hi friends, I would like to read more Cormac McCarthy. I have read Blood Meridian and No Country for Old Men. Which of his works should I read next? What do you think of him as a writer? I really enjoyed what I've read so far.
I like his early southern gothic novels. Check those out if you can.
>>8339025
Suttree
>>8339035
This.
Post your latest hauls
>>8338958
This is most of them
>>8338958
>>8338990
>three books by foucault
>wretched of the earth
>confronting fascism.
Wew lad. That's a lot of politics. Not going to say its uninteresting, but perhaps you should look into both sides of politics?
Not even memeing, I plan on reading pro and anti fascist books, marx as well as friedman.
You can't trust anyone but yourself to choose what seems most rational.
Thoughts?
>>8338926
9/10
Great book.
Genre fiction done right.
>>8338926
A true example of an ubermensch
>>8338939
>Genre fiction
?
why does /lit/ circlejerk stirner when marx destroyed him?
Does this board really love the underdog?
>>8338857
We hate Marx after the redpill won
So take him back to tumblr, sweetheart
>>8338857
while marx did out do stirner, his attack on him is actually kind of sad
stirner is definitly wrong though, it's pretty clear when you read hegelians for a bit, but he deliberately moved himself into an "undebunkable" position, so it's hard to engage him
apparently there's a rare book by a late young hegelian that does a good job of dismantling him
>>8338874
>Marx
>not the original redpill
>(((We)))
/pol/ was a mistake
Pic related is the first book that I'm to read for my English literature course. What am I in for?
>>8338759
Drop the class. Your teacher is a retard.
>>8338759
>English literature course
>translated by
u wot
>>8338759
>reading novels centered on roastwhores
CUUUUUUUCK
Read Schopenhauer's 'On Women'