It's time to tell the redditors to leave. I have seen the quality of posts decline significantly. /lit/ is progessively becoming shit again after /his/ cleared the idiots out. We can't have this. This is the last bastion of 'OK' literature discussion. Don't stand for it.
REDDIT GO HOME
>>7568852
Yeah
You're a fucking loser. Get a life.
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I tried to post this on /pol/, but I figure this board is better if we're to have an actual conversation What do you think of these books? I got them for Christmas.
2 and 3 are useful to read, 1 is optional, last 2 are garbage
>>7568814
The Wealth of Nations is THE seminal work on optimizing pin-manufacture in a 18th century factory.
>>7568820
Agree with this fella. I'm no economist however. What you could do is see what the recommended reading is for uni courses are in unis like Oxford or Yale.
Ever joined one? A book club, that is? How was it? Pleb tier, patrician tier? Got laid?
nope, thinking of starting one.
two friends and I read Dhalgren ~75 pages a week, met once a week for an hour. It was great. Picked up on a lot of stuff I wouldn't have otherwise.
i did sleep with one of them around that time, but I don't think it had to do with the book club. she also kind of left me hanging.
>>7568705
I have one of those friend too, but we discuss any book being read or having been read. She never picked up a single book from the Lumières era, but she likes my funny maymay picture books! :')
What did Evola mean when he spoke of transcendence? I'm reading his work right now and I'm a bit stumped by this.
>>7568653
Name a more pathetic ideology than the NeoReaction. ProTip: You can't.
>>7568682
I'm not NRx. I assumed this was kind of obvious from the image I posted.
>>7568682
Anarchism
>read book called "less miserables"
>they become more miserable by the end of the book
hugo you lying sack of shit
>>7568624
>read book called ''1984''
>year of the action is never specified and feels kinda 1960s-y
Eh Orwell...
>reading trials of socrates
>By the end Socrates confesses his crimes and says i owe you an apology
Plato you hack
>"Who is it?" she questioned.
>"Looks like the sailor who fell from grace with the sea," he replied.
Mishimia you fucking hack.
What it says on the tin.
>>7568479
what a small room
>>7568479
How much did you overpay for that tiny room with that shitty view? Awful, anon. Just awful.
who is "next"?
>>7568182
to die? as far as you know the pynchonmeister might have kicked the bucket already, what makes you think there would be a press release?
Bloom
>>7568199
We better get a sticky when he kicks the bucket.
just started my collection desu
I know you are proud of your new collection but I've already seen you post it twice within the last week.
>>7568171
Yeah man, not be rude or anything, but like the other anon said there's no need to be posting your bookshelf this many times.
>>7568186
Fuck off, there's almost nothing wrong with that shelf.
MOM'S GONNA FREAK!!!
>That one friend who insists Gregor was turned into "vermin" but that Kafka never said what kind and so gets all huffy and puffy when he sees any rendering of Gregor as a cockroach
well the apple that was thrown was embedded into the exoskeleton, whatever vermin it might be there are things it can't be
I'm a lot like Kafka. Intelligent, nihilistic, and with a wicked sense of humor.
Shoud I buy this, /lit/?
>>7568106
If you want to read it, sure.
Is that cover a real thing? Did they really have Cornellá do that?
>>7568117
Yes.
Type the current line you're on in the book you've been reading most recently and then guess and critique their book.
Here's mine:
"Mr. and Mrs. Antolini had this very swanky apartment over on Sutton Place, with two steps that you go down to get in the living room, and a bar and all."
>CitR
>underageb&/10
I won't bother posting, no one will ever guess it.
>>7567881
I'm actually re-reading it at the moment because I remember reading it back in the day.
Keep in mind that I was never some edgelord who agreed with Caulfield, I always knew he was a faggot.
Translating a translation, so it's probably pretty off:
Never on my travels had I come as far as Aldema.
What's the most famous novel set where you live?
A River Runs Through It
>>7567864
The Hobbit
Ulysses
Whats the point of the dust jacket?
To protect the book from dust, damages, and getting dirty. It's mainly relevantly useful in the shipping and storage process of the book.
>>7567720
>dust jacket
>DUST jacket
Make a guess.
The kind of cloth binding used on many books before the 1940s was textured, not smooth ,and during shipping dust would get in it and cling to it making books rapidly look dirty and worn even when they were not. A lot of booksellers discarded dust jackets before selling the book, regardless of the condition.
Hi /lit/.
Stupid question for wise anons.
Am I the only one that murmurs/whispers when thinking alone? I mean, when I'm thinking alone I articulate the words in my mouth and kinda whisper to myself, or talk (low) like if I was talking to somebody.
This is not b8. I think what I do is completely normal, etc, but I would like to hear it from other anons to be sure. And I know this board is full of people that at least think once in a while, that's why I'm not asking in /b/.
Seeking social validation? Do what works, fuck what anyone else does or think m8
>>7567735
You're right, and I know this works for me and that's all I should need. But still, here I am, so I guess I need social validation.
The problem is, after my experience in buddhism and tantra, I feel uncomfortable when I realise that Im hearing my voice inside my head (which is normal discursive internal thinking, everyone does it, blah blah).
I've told myself so many times that thinking is bad, etc. (Im simplifying it a lot) and Im so unidentified with my own thought, that I almost NEED to whisper to be able to think.
I guess this is an extremely personal experience and anyone can relate. But I wanted to let it out.
>>7567803
Sometimes when I'm thinking I drift between words and moving my lips, and just thinking. The deeper I am in my head the less I noticed whether I'm speaking or thinking. I try to only do that when I'm not near people though
Anyway it seems that this isn't actually about speaking but rather you trying to avoid thinking. If you want to speak, speak, but you should probably try to destroy such a weakness in yourself and get over the insecurity / inability
Does anybody know the source of this? I've tried looking for words like frogs, fairytale, etc. but I found nothing...
>>7567696
“Boys throw stones at frogs for fun, but the frogs don't die for 'fun,' but in sober earnest.”
―Bion of Borysthenes
Could be a picture of the reverse of this, the frogs getting revenge?
my life tbqh
>tumblr stealing /r9k/ meme
>They even re-do it
Fucking normies, man.