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The Book of Disquiet.

>>8166102
>preferably non-fiction
What exactly are you looking for? The science behind sadness? Philosophy relating to sadness? "Self-help"?

>>8166102
I bought a book called Against Happiness that's a refutation of a joyful life. I haven't even touched it though so I couldn't tell you if it's any good

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The theory that James Joyce had syphilis is unsubstantiated nonsense.

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>>8165972
This can't be real.

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>>8165984
Not just real, my friend. The first result.

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>>8165972
>>8166396

what the fuck

>>8165929
Go back to /r9k/, weirdo

>>8165929
I'd suggest a noose. Maybe a gun or one of those exit bags. Or a tall building if you don't have any money.

miss lonelyhearts

Whatever you do don't read the things she has said to you. Inevitably you'll find out through those messages she is cheating on you. Let her give it to you later on with the "we're so far away, it's so hard" garbage. It's a lot smoother than the inadequacy you'll feel.

>>8165923
>there are bugs in my house
>Rec me some books to get
you already know what to read

stream of consciousness gives me a headache

>>8165837
It's ok. You're just not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

>>8165837
That's because you haven't read enough.

>>8165681
Uh, because it's a children's book?

Is your wife 11 years old?

>>8165681
Because it's a children's book and you're most likely an adult or at least something resembling one. Just tell her that you're not into it. Don't be a pussy.

>>8165689
She is heavily into young adult fiction.
I agreed to read this to get her to read The Once and Future King.
Maybe Ivanhoe next.
I am trying to work her up to Dank Quijote.

Oddly specific and oddly baseless criticism

>has uninformed and basic opinions and views about all culture across all time and space before 1969
>all Victorians were prudes
>everyone in the Middle Ages ate dirt and was stupid

>>8165653
>The dark ages weren't dark meme

Yeah, they weren't outside of Europe.

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>>8165451
>Would you say this book is even worth reading?
no

>>8165451
It's dogshit

>>8165451
Francisco has some of the funniest lines I've ever read.
The book seems way shorter than it is, and this is totally one that you can unabashedly audiobook instead of reading.

>>8165445
Why don't you read him instead of trying to align your views with whatever "/lit/" thinks?

Brilliant thinker, but many don't understand him because their elitism blinds them from the start (not even kidding), or they pretend not to like him because they're elitist. I've read and understood all of the famous philosophers, the big names , and a lot of the lesser known ones, and his is still the most solidly thought out philosophy I've ever come across.

>>8165470
I know what I think of this book and of him

I've just never heard any other opinions on him
So I don't know of any blindspots I might have

What if what /lit/ has to say is more reasonable than what I think?

>>8165322
Listen to music. A Moon Shaped Pool was pretty good.

>>8165322
Oh my God, I just want to rip those jeans off, spread her ass cheeks and bury my nose and tongue in her asshole

>>8165333
I want to claw your dick off and shove my nose up your cockless pelvis tear.

>>8165215
The main character of my diary, tb h

I find the kid more interesting honestly.

>>8165215
Ōba Yōzō from no longer human

>>8165010
I bet she raped young boys

>Now I am a teacher and I get my pleasure from administering the punishment. The boys I teach are between ten and fourteen. I regularly take one to my room where I administer the whip and cane, having ordered him to strip naked. I enjoy punishing him but I enjoy it most when I see him getting an erection. I wear provocative clothes and I enjoy embarrassing him when he gets the erection.
>I have never punished a girl, mainly because I never had the opportunity to do so. But I often daydream about it. I imagine her being strapped to a bed with only panties and a bra on. I then order one of my boy pupils to strip her and to torture her. The tortures I normally dream about are pulling the hairs from her pubic region one at a time, inserting needles into her breasts, burning her with hot candle grease, whipping her, caning her, while at the same time making her admit filthy thoughts, masturbation, etc.
>I also dream about having intercourse with one of my pupils. Some of my thoughts and indeed my actions are very diverse and queer, and I find it hard to put on paper. I have never before told anyone about these things. Sometimes I feel frustrated and I would like to know if my practices are very unusual. I would be elated if you could give me some information on what other girls think. It would make me feel easier to know that others like me exist.
>P.S. I find it difficult to get the type of whips that I would like here in Chicago, so I would be grateful if you could help me.
- Ayn Rand (From a letter to Olga Nabokov)

>>8165087
When schools were great.

thinkin about gettin a pint after work

You're gonna be on SEP more than you're in the book most likely

>>8164971
Sep ?

>>8164931
Are you making any money?

Damn! Where are they getting published? Any links to previously published poems?

>>8164940
Through the writing? Unfortunately, not from the 2 poems thus far, just copy of printed material.
There were a few sent out to actual paying gigs.

Hoewbeit, in general, yes, one must strut that ass to keep up with the world.