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>try to beat depression
>still dont see meaning in anything
>pills make me feel like a robot
>start smoking weed again
>tfw no gf
For what I've read here, IJ by DFW (pic related) explores themes related to my situation
Should I waste my money on it? Will I find some light?
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>>9914157
he literally killed himself, so how on earth could anything he said be helpful? He entirely failed.
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stop smoking weed
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>>9914157
Welcome to the water XDXDXD
this is water bro, sometimes you gotta go to the grocery store and there is a line, but you don't realize you're in the water my dude!! XD
sometimes you're depressed and pills make you feel like a robot so you start smoking weed and you don't have a girlfriend so you /r9k// post on /lit., but that's just the water and this is water!!!
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Describe the most overwhelmingly happy ending to humanity.
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Free heroin
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>>9914123
Why did you post a blank image?
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>>9914131
rude
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What are the best books about sexuality and eroticism? I have grown to feel that sexuality is almost 100% a terrible thing. My sexual thoughts and fantasies are almost all about dominating someone, and it seems like the more fucked up and twisted the domination, the more I am drawn to it (to a certain point). I can't see sexual thoughts to be anything other than evil, at least for myself. But I know that this may not be the case for everyone. Some of the great artists are able to portray sexuality in aesthetic, beautiful ways. So I've been wondering: what is it that changes and creates our sense of sexuality, what makes it more twisted or evil, and is it possible to manipulate these sensibilities yourself? Is sexuality inherently evil or only evil in certain cases? and what is it that makes it morally acceptable or not? Is intercourse a beautiful act, or a disgusting one? Books that explore these type of questions would be ideal.
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god i wish that were me
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>>9913794
Do you think something is evil just because there is someone in a position of command?
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>>9913812
are you always this bad at reading comprehension?
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Essential Jewcore?
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Arthurian Edition
What's your favorite work concerning The Matter of Britain? Medieval or modern?
FANTASY
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SCIENCE FICTION
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NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
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Jack Vance is (rightly) shilled on here quite a bit, so I'll toss in a recommendation for his epic fantasy trilogy, Lyonesse.
Vance's masterful prose and wry affect is in full effect here, although Lyonesse fittingly contains more somber passages and arcs than usual for Vance. The ending is a tad rushed, but given the proliferation of interminable epic series it's hard to hold that too much against it.
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I did however find the portrayal of the Christian bishop absurd in a bad way; the guy is a relatively major character but seems to have no motivation beyond just being totally evil.
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Ok just ignore my thread I guess then
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What did /lit/ make of pic related, did Humbert do anything wrong?
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hWhomst knows hwhat he actually did?
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i think he killed the mother right?
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>>9914201
Nah she died on accident running out into the street, not looking both ways.
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>doesnt exercise
>can't play music
>doesn't understand basic arithmetic
>thinks he can understand philosophy
Is this you anon?
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I have only learned to play one instrument, was only into music when I was younger. But I can technically play it. Does that count? DOES IT?
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>>9913489
>read philosophy books as self-help books
>takes every prescription literally
>can't concieve more than one world view
>his mind is obfuscated my narratives that he takes at face value
You shouldn't read philosophy, it's too easy to manipulate you.
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Best translation of the Iliad and Odyssey?
One "starting with the Greeks" chart recommends Alexander Pope while another recommands Robert Fagles
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Pope is torture
Fagles is "My parents are rich so I buy every book on the syllabus at full price"
Fitzgerald is patrician
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Lombardo is a badass
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You should start with Kevin MacDonald and not someone with "Fag" in his name.
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Itt: Show your library /lit/
Heres my tiny one. Started buying books that interested me a couple of months ago.
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>>9913048
Wow we got /pol/ incarnate here. Nice collection my redpilled brother. Use your knowledge to secure the existence of our people and a future for white children!
HEIL VICTORY
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tfw this isn't an ironic post
Hey /lit/, what is the best English translation for La Comedia?
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what you should be asking is what's the best italian translation of the culture of critique
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The one by Kevin McDonald is really good.
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Any serious answers tho?
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tao lin thread? he seems to be really, really into drugs now and is soon to be publishing a non-fiction work on terence mckenna. compared to how venomous the rest of the world is right now, he seems like a charming fool and i wish him the best.
maybe he'll be better at nonfiction than fiction, as he seems like he would be very meticulous. the fact that supposedly he pulled a wake-and-bake every day while writing it might not bode well, though.
also i stalked his soundcloud and found a bunch of random audio recordings he made of his day: https://soundcloud.com/taolin/20170419-184756
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Has anybody here read taipei?I kind of liked the first 3 pages I read
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>>9912772
i almost bought it but then i remembered the dude is annoying shill so i put it back
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i read it the whole thing, actually. i liked the part about smuggling drugs inside a cd case. the part actually in taipei had a cozy, almost vaporwave feel to it.
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What are some good novels about a young naive girlie having her first love or her first serious love. With realistic descriptions of her feelings and thoughts.
Some people have suggested:
Elizabeth Barret Browning's Aurorah Leigh
Topaz II
Kierkegaard, Diary of a Seducer
Other Men's Daughters
Anna Karenina
tess of the d'urbervilles
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>>9913803
I'm just curious about what they would think and feel.
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Madame Bovary:^)
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why didn't he win the Nobel prize for this
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>>9912023
have you heard about the man who invented knock-knock jokes? he won the nobell prize
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>>9912480
I shouldn't have laughed at this.
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>>9912023
>Nobel prize
Their greatest sins of omission are Borges, Saramago, and Homer
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Can /lit/ recommend any good horror books?
I've read some King but he's rather hit and miss, and I'm not interested in his larger mythology.
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Thomas Ligotti
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Scary Perry
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King has no larger mythology.
He fills 800 page rectangles with words.
Actual thrills not included.
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Post your favorite writer and your IQ
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>Guy Debord
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>your favorite author
>80
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DFW
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Beckett
>121