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Don't we have one of these going on already

>>7672171
This one is better.

>>7672245
Go read a book.

>>7672153
>Has any literature given you a sense of purpose in life?
No, but it has taken it away many times

Although one of my backup plans is to live a Hunter S. Thompson-esque lifestyle for as long as my money can sustain it and hopefully die of overdose as soon as possible

Why is literature so fucking depressing

>>7672153
Evola and Mein Kampf

My goal is to reestablish a white conservative society where men rule and without degeneracy

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>>7672153
Happiness is my one goal, I would view Wealth, Health, Accomplishment, Knowledge, and Love as merely accessories to happiness that I only seek if they are necessary for happiness.

Right now I'm going for Wealth on account of how being dirt poor is endangering my Health, and being unhealthy makes me unhappy.

Also all literature did was teach me to derive happiness from reading.

Finally, The Ego and its Own.

>>7672030
>'Our Valiant Hamlet [...] Did slay this Fortinbras'.
Moar like Hackspeare.

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Literally the first word Vlad

I can't believe we celebrate this fucking hack. Luckily, I realise that Analytical philosophy is the only philosphy worth reading. Why would I want to read the writings of mentally unstable obscurantists?

>>7671991
I simply disagree.
Why do you call him a hack?
Based on what anon?

Are you sure he said this
Source please

James Ellroy's early stuff, up to about LA Confidential.
I think around White Jazz he got it into his head that sentence fragments was a style.

Alex Casey is pretty good. He's literally Max Payne in a different name and medium.

>>7671946
Not sure if youd call it noir as such but Norman Mailer's American Dream includes society's seedy underbelly, murder and fascination with a moll / dame type character.

I enjoyed it.

If only your mom had been so selective with sperm

>>7671930
It sounds more like you're projecting your self-loathing onto most of the things you read. No one can be that bad a judge of what they'd like.

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An fling with a girl with psychological problems

Ditch it, if you don't think it is good enough destroy it.

Go for a long walk outside. Surprisingly helpful, Thoreau isn't a total fucking hack. Just mostly a hack.


Go to a gay bar. Not joking. The experience will shock your system in one way or another. If you hate gay people, the hatred will be a change and may dislodge you from your rut. If you're okay with gay people, going might get you hit on, which will be new. Which could help.

Try a new drug.

Get hurt. People seriously forget what real, visceral pain feels like. Honestly, feeling it will reconnect you with reality. Don't cut yourself like a pussy, but try getting hit by a slowing down car, or falling flat on your face. Some of the best head clearers i've ever had have happened after I take a hard fall, limp it off, and in one moment truly feel the inextricable connect between my mind and being. Throbbing reality.

j. d. salinger

>>7671847
He wrote poetry? I've only read Catcher in the Rye like most people. Personally, I thought it to be pretty average.

>>7671829
Also it is in the canon and no.5 most taught book in US according to Open Syllabus Project. How?

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>>7671838
Really funny, guy.
The exact same material as yesterday

>>7671829
>So much overrated, it doesn't have much literary merit.
I disagree. It's a prime work on the topic of alienation both of the monster and of Frankenstein's struggle to succeed in his inquiry.

>>7671798
If you don't mind Vonnegut, sirens of titan was basically depression porn.

>>7671798

there are some very sad scenes in James Michener's Hawaii

>>7671850
For being science fiction and incredibly ridiculous at points, that book had me feel too many feels.

Popol vuh maybe

>>7671781

> not knowing where to start with aztec canon
> not posting who this semen demon is

> inb4 in the filename
what has been written can not been erased!

>>7671836
Das no aztec
>>7671781
Nezahualcoyotl

What's with portraits thinking that "black and white" will make a human look more literary? You ask me? Pretty retarded.

>>7671818
90% of the time they pull some dumb gloomy expression, too

it's like, fuck off

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>>7671832

>>7671761
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsgAsw4XGvU

>>7671761
Very, but they're alright for being 3-minutes philosophy videos. It'd be silly to expect any kind of accuracy.

Are you anything like Ignatius?

>>7671733
na

>>7671697

I, too, thought it was quite dull and dropped it after the first chapter. Did I miss anything, or does it continue in the same bland manner? I was barely able to force a smile, but what do I know, maybe it gets funny later...

>>7671652
I ripped off one of pinecone's songs from V. and slightly changed the lyrics, if that counts.