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Do any of you use nootropics for reading or writing? I'm so tired and unfocused by the end of the day that it is a struggle to do either for several hours straight. What do you recommend? Not trying to do amphetamines btw
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>>7714670
dude drugs lmao
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>i want focus and energy
>not trying to do amphetamines btw
???
you could microdose acid i guess, i haven't tried it but my friend swears by it. im struggling to think of a non amphetamine drug that doesn't make u sleepy or lose focus.
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I usually keep a bottle of brandy in my desk drawer, I call it my writer juice in my head.
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Can we agree this is better than Blood Meridan?
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take your genre trash back to r/books
mccarthy is garbage
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>>7713888
this desu desu
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Is the title "Suttree" or "Suttree?"?
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New goodreads thread.
What're you currently reading?
>C.S. Lewis - Screwtape proposes a toast
https://www.goodreads.com/christophalus
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>>7711531
throw the book in the fucking garbage and then light the entire thing on fire
thank me later
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>>7711542
What did you think of the previous letters, did you dislike both?
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Laugh at me, budsor i guess we could be friends maybe :<: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/50588049-e
Currently Reading:
- TLOTIAT
- GEB: an Eternal Golden Braid
- 2666
- ISoLT v2
- Dubliners
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Nietzsche's philosophy is literally just YOLO. What a waste of time. Thanks /lit/.
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>>7709527
>living only once
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>>7709527
idk man... nigga hated alcohol
doesnt sound very yolo to me
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>>7709527
>literally
>yolo
Leave.
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RIP
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Wow, she actually made it to the end of her life without admitting who really wrote Mockingbird.
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>>7716061
Francis Bacon.
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If people talked about films like they do books 2016-02-19 15:05:28 Post No.7715927
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If people talked about films like they do books
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>Is there a problem?
>No, I'm Dunhier
A tale of hubris right at the onset. Here we see a guy who's so full of himself. He boasts that he can work around any problem, because 'He's Dunhier', the legendary thief.
However, almost immediately after his first appearance, he is nonchalantly shot in the back. It really delivers Nolan's message about escalation perfectly; the low life criminals in Gotham have no respect, even for other criminals and their previous merits.
Even Dunhier, with all his skills, is expendable
>criminals in this town used to believe in things...honor!...respect!
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>mfw someone talks about the second nolanman movie like it was good, and the third one was totally unforeseen
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Go back to /tv/. They miss you.
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Sure is pleb in here today /lit/
C'mon raise your game betas.
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You can't stop the memes, you faggot.
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better than this thread
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>>7715899
o'reily?
'which way can I hold a book so qt girls will like me'...
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Camus - the Stranger translations 2016-02-19 14:53:06 Post No.7715890
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Camus - the Stranger translations
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What is the best English translation of the Stranger?
Can any frenchbro recommend English translation that captures the language in same manner as the french version?
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matthew ward
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it's a simple book. any translation will do.
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I read 60 pages of this in the library and it was more understandable and enjoyable than Living in the end times (I enjoyed zizek's videos related to it, but the book was incomprehensible) and first as tragedy then as farce (which is similar to trouble but becomes less comprehensible later, but it's better than end times).
I think this should be the new zizek recommendation for laymen
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>mfw even zizek fell for the quirky "john green" font meme
Brb killing myself
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>>7715788
He mentions gangnam style, justin bieber, and beauty and teh beat in the first 20 pages. Philohophy in ruins desu lads
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What does /lit/ think about pic related?
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pretty good. hallucinatory. bombs. herodotus, which i still haven't read.
have to watch the movie as well.
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Celebrity as a Neo-Religious Experience 2016-02-19 10:02:00 Post No.7715378
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Hey /lit/, this may be the wrong board, but I've been thinking a lot about celebrity recently because I'm staying with my friend and his room is covered in posters of famous artists and bands.
I'm wondering if any of you have come across any books that touch on the (very) contemporary understanding of celebrity that has come into play in the past 20-30 years. By this I mean the worship and (essentially) idolatry that most people in society perpetrate through their experience of celebrities.
I'm not sure if you all will get what i mean by this--I'm pretty drunk and high on coke, but I mean, why not ask?
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>>7715378
There's a lot to read on this. Andy Warhol is what you're thinking about, druggo.
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>>7715378
Mao II by Don DeLillo. Really dope m8, give it a try
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What's the most scariest novel /lit/ has had ever read?
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>>7715348
As much as /lit/ shits on Stephen King, Pet Sematary legitimately frightened me on a fundamental level. There was one point I got to, and I just had to put the book down. I didn't end up picking it back up for about two weeks.
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>>7715348
Dracula's first few pages about the ride trough the woods.
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my diary
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So I'm nearly done reading this & pretty impressed so far. Of all the memes I've memed off /lit, this has been one of the best. I don't write off IJ, but this does push it towards YA somewhat.
From the previous threads & even reviews I've read, it seems to me even if ppl have read it, they failed to absorb much of it. The Part About The Crimes is far from a list of 'anally & vaginally' as I'd been led to believe. Also that Dracula scene >.< ma dick.
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People always overstate the monotony and repetitiveness of the Part about the Crimes, of course it does have a lot of anally and vaginally raped in it its not a list of that stuff and the backstory of the detective and the asylum manager as well as Lalo Cura being in it and partial explanations of some of the events in other parts of the book more than make up for any problems with repetition.
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>>7715445
The effect seemed to be in its accumulation, you become desensitized, & then some new detail of the horror catches you off guard & you experience the same despair overload of the various detectives. The whole thing acts to create a hellish landscape where the various detective wander hopelessly lost. I found it very effective.
My one major criticism of Bolano is he isn't very good at writing in people's voices - the many long sections when someone tells their tale all end up being spoken in the same voice & characters poetically describe details they would never have recalled or anyone would have realistically sat & listen to.
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>>7715537
It's an aesthetic choice. If you want real dialogue read tao lin
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>start philosophy
>this theory is rejected by...
>this theory is rejected by...
>this theory is rejected by...
Philosophy is the worlds most pathetic and useless circlejerk.
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>>7715219
Philosophy is about finding wisdom and knowledge in your life. Of course some Philosophers are going to reject other Philosophers theories on different subjects because some Philosophies fit some life styles better than others.
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dumb kanyeposter
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>studying anything other than STEM, law or medicine
You brought this on yourself
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What was it like here when he died? Was /lit/ even around then?
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i also would be interested in seeing lit forums from that time discussing this.
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/lit/ was around . he wasn't as big a meme yet tho, so people didn't really lose their shit.
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>>7714681
So it was literally his suicide that literally made him a literal meme?