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>spend years 15-21 "falling in love" with girls and then daydreaming and obsessing over them without even asking them out

i wonder how you missed that part that dumas heroes immediately asked their love interests out

also it's not an unique conception to him, it's named courtly love and is mostly a medieval conception

>>8036144
you know who's a medieval conception?

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>used to read enid blyton's and other author's various series like the Famous Five, the Secret Seven, Swallows and Amazons etc
>thought when i became a teenager i too would have tons of exciting adventures with my close friends who i would eventually find somehow

>>8036030
Your picture is the definition of Autism. If you don't think that you're interacting with people behind these Anonymous labels then you're mentally ill. We are people, each and every one of us.

>>8036035
relax, you are looking at what is most likely a nugget of 2009-2012 golden age alt lit alt art

>>8036030
its dead

i remember reading some of his poetry (tfw jesuit education) in high school and not really struggling with it but he is meant to be kind of experimental for his era

I found Hopkins really difficult, too, but not for the word choice (although of course there are words I have to look up). I just find the style tough to decipher. I recognize he was innovative and all that, but it sounds so strange and almost quaint to my ears.

>>8035782
Hey OP it's >>8036383 again lol I just looked up Pied Beauty and it is pretty crazy, like his language just moves too fast to get a proper focus on. Really musical though.

>>8035669
What if you would have met a qt3.14 if you went outside instead of reading it?

This post changed my life, im going to become a fisherman.

Welcome to third grade.

>>8034808
no he sucks. empire of the sun is his only good book.

>>8034808
Yes, read it. Read Crash as well. Don't listen to this twat >>8034816

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movie was pretty good

<Queef ah mong damn

<Chief amon tat ianity EH

<chef mong domme

>>8034603
Are you memeing? Please kill yourself either way

>>8034624
I'm not.
I want to improve the world.

What's your issue?

Maybe we first have to level peoples wealth (or at least remove the poorest class), but given how poor the poor really are, and how many of them there are, this will not be possible

Read Heraclitus first. Much clearer.

>>8034268

He's talking about big black dick cucking the white man.

>>8034971

fucking kek'd

Deadwood is one of the best television shows ever

Not familiar with anything else he's done

>>8034382
John from Cincinnati is great, too

>>8033469
why are his hands so small

my diary desu

Another collection of verses is the Sutta-Nipata. Here is a good series of talks on them by Bhikkhu Bodhi:

http://bodhimonastery.org/sutta-nipata.html

(same content different layout:)
https://discourse.suttacentral.net/tags/bbsnptalks

Both Sutta-Nipata and Dhammapada are from the collection "Khuddaka Nikāya"
https://suttacentral.net/kn

This Nikaya contains mostly verses, some very old.

The suttas in the rest of the canon have a different feel, there are the long discourses
https://suttacentral.net/dn

the middle length discourses
https://suttacentral.net/mn

the connected discourses
https://suttacentral.net/sn

the numerical discourses
https://suttacentral.net/an

For an important sutta with a very different feel to the short verses of the Dhammapada and the Sutta Nipata, try the Mahaparinibbana sutta, number 16 of the Long Discourses:
https://suttacentral.net/en/dn16

Here is a good introductory essay on the Mahaparinibbana Sutta:
https://discourse.suttacentral.net/t/dn16-the-record-of-the-great-transcendent-emancipation-by-alexander-duncan/535

I'm currently reading the Tibetan Book of the Dead.

It's very good.

I started it a while ago but put it down and haven't started again since. I don't remember it being that bad, though; maybe a little flowery. What did you hate about it so much?

>>8032708
The further you go, the worse it gets. 50 page sections where a seemingly insurmountable problem is developed and then resolved in half a page with a Deus Ex Machina, entire chapters and episodes that do nothing to serve the advancement of the plot (or any of the book's dubious 'themes'), secondary characters that have no purpose existing, schlocky, forced, predictable romances, a protagonist who disappears for four hundred pages (no, I'm not joking), labored slapstick comedy, an antagonist who vanishes after the first twenty pages only to return six hundred pages later at the end of the novel...

I could go on. Floweriness is the least of my complaints.

>>8032804
Forget to mention, total lack of character development.
The most well-developed characters occasionally attain two-dimensionality.

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my camera is bad but yeah. love delillo, heard nothing but good things about gaddis but waiting to drop $50 on j r, and the premise of take five sounds interesting

>>8056677
dirty tinfoiled fedora man
>>8056684
memester

>>8056698
>dirty tinfoiled fedora man
Well there are two other books in that stack also. I just seized the opportunity to visit an occult bookstore, since there are none where I live.

Sure.

he probably pays people to read to him

he's very stupid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upC8pX3RY0A

wake up
wash face
brush teeth
>floss
shit post on 4chan
eat/drink
shit post on 4chan
nap
shit post on 4chan
brush teeth
>floss
shit post on 4chan
sleep
repeat

This is my tomorrow. More or less similar each day

Wake up at 5:45
Have morning sex with Jenny followed by fun, loving chat
Go to the gym
Go work in the office for an hour to maintain/update online company
Learn some more advanced guitar pieces
Go to the market and pick up fresh vegetables and fish from favourite sellers, maybe have a chat with them
Have lunch with the girls
Meditate for an hour
Read/relax
Do some volunteer work for some friends/good causes
meet up with amy for a chat and coffee
Have dinner with girls
Go meet up with friends for a laugh and enjoy the sun
Read
Bed/sex with Jenny

>>8058979
Who's Jenny???????????????

>>8056671
Give an example of this

>>8056671

Name some examples please, and go into detail about why they are unrealistic.

>>8056671
>>8056672
>>8056675
ITT nobody actually knows what a relationship between a man and woman is like