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>texting solid 8/10
>Going great she invites me over
>Going to get the keys to my mom's car when my iPhone vibrates
>She texted me
>Wait do u sub-vocalize?
>Tell her yeah it's nbd
>She doesn't respond
>Show up at her place
>Lights are off no one answers the door
>Never hear from her again
...

I know that feel. I try to add dramatic flair in my head when I read which makes no sense since I am my own audience.

Link to the website?

>>7992190
Source?

Melvin

>>7992137
that dudes name is Hiram, OP

>>7992137
Zerubbabel

It means dispersion of confusion, or 'wanderer of Babylon' in Hebrew

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I heard this is comfy.

V. by Pynchon.

Comfiest thing I've read in a while, but there's one chapter that everyone on /lit/ complains about.

>>7991675
Is it the mouse sex chapter?

>>7983561
Yet people will read him and write about him for centuries while OP will probably die anonymous. Pathetic indeed.

>>7983561

You sound like the beta king, right there max.

syphilis is a hell of a way to go.

Regardless, The Birth of Tragedy is a beautiful piece of theory. You're just an anonymous faggot, surrounded by other anonymous faggots.

>>7983571
trig
>>7983776
gered

thread inspired by this one from a few days ago: https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S7963782

>>7977471
i think the interwar period was a good time for literature with the developments of swing jazz and the whole "roaring twenties" aesthetic. But also the seedier aspects too. There's a reason Dashiell Hammett still gets taught in universities to this day

>publication dates
>relevant

the past century is a long time. or do you mean since 2000?

>>7994653
I mean since 1916, my man. I'm curious to see what people would consider the best of the West's contribution to literature.

Probably high school-core like 1984, Animal Farm (representative of concerns regarding totalitarianism and Stalinism - reflective of political concerns during the century); The Great Gatsby (representative of how "the american dream" is superficial and false); Ulysses (some of the most expressive literature conceived); and then I'm at a bit of a loss.

>>>/int/58809858

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>>7994222
you bastard

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>>7994230
fuck off limey

>>7993138
If a hobo can do it so quickly then it should be a cinch for you to explain how.

I work in a place that homeless people often frequent and recently sent half an hour watching one jerk off at one of the computers.

>>7993142
What was he watching? Anything good, did you recommend anything?

Isn't it out in mid-May?

Just bought the signed edition from Barnes and Noble with that pretty cool coupon. Will get it Wednesday or Thursday.

H A U N T I N G
when the doctor finds his daughter behind the ice tanks :'(

>>7989943
gender trouble is ok but it relies heavily on foucault

>>7989945

Thanks, checking it out

are you talking books with feminist themes or books on feminist theory?

>>7989569
Pull it out and flip the pages while blowing on them.

Though to be fair, I've never dropped the ENTIRE book in the bath, just dipped corners.

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Don't read in the bath you ass

Never been an issue. I do my reading in the shower.

I'm not a religious person and loved The Screwtape Letters. It is obviously based in Christian rhetoric and dogma, but the themes are easily understood from a non-Christian perspective. It is more about the general flaws of people, how they arise, how and why they operate, etc. than it is about being a Christianity.

What I also appreciated about it is how applicanle Lewis' points are today. As a basic example, he explores the idea that to corrupt a large number of people, it is easier to corrupt one person with widespread influence (e.g. a political leader or celebrity) rather than corrupt each person individually.

The epilogue is also one of my favorite scenes of anything I've read, but I won't say anything more so you can go into it fresh.

Haven't read Mere Christianity, so I can't comment on that, but The Screwtape Letters I can highly recommend.

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>>7987973
Grow the fuck up, if you don't learn about the opinions of those you disagree with you can't intelligently refute them. You should always read authors who have different opinions than your own, that's how you learn.

>>7987973
If you're as fedora as your sound, you'll hateit just by knowing a Christian wrote it. The Screwtape Letters are fantastic, though.

>>7986475
mein kampf

>>7986475
Anything pre-19th century?

The Manipulated Man Paperback by Esther Vilar

>criticizes American politics
>calls the book "democracy"
>doesn't understand that this makes him part of the problem
>"reeeeee I was ironic" -Noam Chomsky
>"irony is the song of a bird that has come to love its cage" -David Foster Wallace, citing someone

I rest my case.

>Noam Memesky

Try reading a real leftist first, not this anarcho-liberal hack

>>7985267
you're fucking retarded ;^)

I can't tell you what it really is, i can only tell you what it feels like. The more i suffer i suffocate, right when i'm about to drown she resucitates --me. Just gonna' stand there and hear me cry, but that's allright, because i love the way you lie, love the way you lie.

I don't know as much about the world as i claim to. There's a lot that's happened between us that I'd like to take back but even more that i wouldn't. And that's the truth. Here's the truth: I'm sorry I'm leaving in August. I'm sorry that you didn't leave that party when i did and now you're on probation. I'm sorry that we can be what we wanted to be. And i wish your brother would go back to school; and i wish that pops was in better health. And i wish that you'd stop blaming yourself for every little damn thing you've done wrong because it isn't your fault. But more than anything I'm sorry for or anything that i wish for, i hope that you make it through. I hope that you grow old and you never forget how to see the good in life and not the bad. Because we will grow older; and we will move on; and we'll think about each other sometimes.

>>7984339
Thank you, Anon. This was a great read. Is this fiction?