Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 3829. page

>>8041031
Get a real job, you waste of oxygen.

>>8041041
That's what I'm trying to do!

>>8041031
First off, yes you can study literature or classics. Google that shit

Here's the advice part. Go out and experience more of life, I guarantee you that you will find other subjects to pursue. You're a kid still, don't limit your horizons

>b-but I have experienced a lot and I do know that Literature is my one source of enjoyment/purpose

You haven't. You define yourself as a literature-person and limit your own horizons to protect your self image. The fact that literature is your thing in the first place is a red flag for not having lived a full life- the stereotypes are often true, the kids I knew who read literature rarely had broad horizons.

Its not impossible that literature is what's right for you, but it would be best if you spend the next year, year and a half doing as much different stuff as possible. This is the time to use GE's, extra-curriculars, and personal exploration to give yourself as many options as possible.

Or just major in Literature, it will be way easier and demand almost no personal growth

>>8040763
bostrom ("human enhancement") is not an idiot... everybody else seems to be one for some reason, but it's not really my particular interest

When we become transhuman does this mean gender will finally be destroyed?

>>8040777
No

All of it is shit from retards. People in those days were real dumbasses, I'll tell ya.

>>8040722
Unlike the fine specimens of today such as yourself, anon.

>>8040838
No, you.

Philipp Mainländer

>>8040719
You could've gone on to say something other than just a name... but thanks

>>8040738
You want his phone number or something?

dfw lives?

But I'm writer.

>>8041277
No you just think you're a writer

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2/? Other top shelf (literally) stuff.

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3/? Douchey philosophy books. And some Burroughs.

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4/? Degenerate DeSade and Proust

no spegetii

>>8040217
Forgot to set his alarm.

Hey was old and grumpy

it's not tolerant to say such things about a woman

>not raising your kids to be independent pirate captains who get the neighbour kids to read to them
it's like you don't want better for their lives than you had

>>8040120
True. Tolerance is shutting up about wrongs. Intolerance is speaking up about wrongs.

Like dreams,
Wasted hours are blurs.
Hours.
Hours like sand through a sieve,
Or leaves in autumn,
Fall to the ground
And are rendered useless.
No use trying to pick it all up.
It’s impossible, anyway.
Too many.
Too many hours,
Wasted.
Looking back at them wasted,
Looking down at the ground,
Feeling the headache of intoxication,
Looking back at the paces taken,
Watching it all blur into a solid wall,
Notice skin.

Notice it wilt and fold.
Notice the blur of a past.
Notice it plague the future.
Notice it all come together.

Watch as dreams of a chocolate death
Begin to appear hallucinated.

Notice how he hasn’t moved at all, but he knows very well.
Watch as the blurry illusion approaches him.
Watch as he catches the hint...
Watch as he laughs as if he hadn’t anticipated it from the start.
Observe.

He waits in the mist.
The hours wasted begin to slow behind him.
He accepts that there are too many.
He knows he can’t pick them all up.
The fog before him grows near.
He welcomes it.
He does so with a vast emptiness.
Emptiness as state of mind.

He’s felt this ever since ‘16.
Every day he’d just pour sand into his sieve.
Every night he noticed how much had fallen.
He’d rest the lights and he felt this feeling.
He woke up, sat in class, and fallen asleep in this state.
He was bored.
Internally, out, and all around,
Bored.

There was no great relief because it had all blurred.
Like dreams,
They seem to fog up.

And he had felt this as he watched himself here.
He feels this as the mist engulfs him: bored.
He had felt this way throughout the dream of traveling to chocolate deaths: indifferent.
And now he feels it the same way as he leaves,
As he did writing this.

>>8040105
op here

this was supposed to be in the post

reminds me of something you'd see on /r/creepy

>>8039892

Idris Elba is a good actor and ironically you faggots throwing up a stink are the niggers.

>>8039904
Casting a black man destroys the storyline. There is no reason to do it other than to appear progressive. It ruins the story and I won't be seeing it.

>>8039913

Or because Idris Elba is a good actor and would do the character justice whether he's white or not? Movies fuck up a lot of things when it comes to books.

>>8039874
A lot of shit.

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Selected Works - Ezra Pounds
The Waste Land - TS Eliot
The Sweeney Poems - TS Eliot
The Four Quartets - TS Eliot
Ulysses - James Joyce
Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
Selected Poems - Hilda Doolittle
Selected Poems - W. B. Yeats
Selected Poems - Li Po
Song of Myself - Walt Whitman
The Quran
The Iliad - Homer
The Odyssey - Homer
The Aeneid - Virgil
Metamorphoses - Ovid
Beowulf - Anonymous
Journey to the West - Wu Cheng'en
1001 Nights - Anonymous
The Epic of Gilgamesh - Anonymous
Old Testament
New Testament
The Republic - Plato
The Complete Works - Aristotle
Inferno - Dante
Purgatorio - Dante
Paradiso - Dante
The Complete Plays - William Shakespeare
Paradise Lost - John Milton
ナルト - Masashi Kishimoto
The Western Canon - Harold Bloom
The Eastern Canon - Sun Tzu
Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
War, What is it Good For? - Leo Tolstoy
The Pan-Galactic Memory Bank - Kilgore Trout
U. p: up. - Denis Breen
The Complete Laverne & Shirley - Garry Marshall
For sale: baby shoes, never worn - Ernest Hemingway (optional)
Photoshop CS6 for Dummies - Peter Bauer
Cease and desist - Your ex wife
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace

I sometimes I wish I could have been a historical, literary matchmaker.

Had Pound met Evola, he probably would have become something timeless.

As it is, history remembers him as some sort of (rightfully) pseudo-remorseful fascist; and The Cantos are a load of incoherent shit.

The Brothers Karamazov

there's no way out

someone will post the holy bible in thirty seconds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Book_(Jung)

>>8039572
Borges is trash. Literally middlebrow trying to be highbrow -- the Franzen of his time.

>>8039590
Thanks for giving an argument for your shit opinion friendo

Bumop

started actually reading at 15, YA novels mostly cause i was an angsty little shit

>>8039596
Hm, okay. So it's not too late for me to actually start reading? The last book I read was Lolita, but I played video games for most of my life and I totally regret it.

I'm 18

Beating myself to death with Looking For Alaska.

>>8039391
who the fuck is that some illiterate douche who's good at playing sportsball? then again with that jew fro he might be in a leftwing numetal outfit that raps abut the glory of illegal immigrants or something

>>8039391
William S. Burroughs