This has to be the greatest book I've ever read.
I mean... It's literally "pretentious faggot hipster BTFO" the novel.
What do you think of this masterpiece?
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It made me believe that OP is not a faggot.
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Gaddis anticipated people getting into English or art school for the fuck of looking cool.
I bet Gaddis knew there was going to be shit like Bon Iver and Pitchfork.
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>>7574777
Nice trips. Never read it. Is it really that good?
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>Wittgenstein’s response to me was humiliating, and his response to female students who tried to attend his lectures was even worse. If a woman appeared in the audience, he would remain standing silent until she left the room.
Hahahahahahahahahaha!!! Witty knows what's up. Yet /lit/ pathetically tries to pretend that literature can be worthwhile when it's saturated with females.
WE'VE GONE THROUGH THIS. Women are the sexually in demand sex and will therefore NOT be incentivised to work hard in areas that require results / risk / standards of work that can be objectively judged. Women in any field is a sign of its deterioration. Go and do something worthwhile such as pure mathematics, brain surgery, garbage collection, theoretical physics, etc
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>Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!
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what would wittgenstein say of /lit/?
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>>7574702
But one of the 2 students he gave the blue/brown books to was a woman (pretty sure)?
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Anyone else here read Warrior Cats?
I'm so excited for the 1st book of the 6th arc to release in March!
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>>7574546
Thought this series ended.
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>>7574547
Oh no! the most recent book to come out was in November 2015, Its still going on and I love it
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>>7574552
Sounds good, never got into this series, went for Redwall instead.
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What does /lit/ think of alex supertramp
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Seeing this photo reminds me of when we read this shitty book in high school senior year. There was a qt 3.14 in that class but I never grew the balls to ask her out to prom and then she ended going with someone else. /wastedyouth/ ;_;
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he dead
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he died doing what he loved to do
starving
Can you recommend me anything else to get my sea legs?
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>>7574326
The Aubrey-Maturin books by Patrick O'Brian
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The Nigger of the Narcissus
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Lord Jim
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"This is nihilism, or this is truth. He has to push in past boundaries. There is the outline of a body, distinct, separate, its integrity an illusion, a tragic deception, because unseen there is a slit between the legs, and he has to push into it. There is never a real privacy of the body that can coexist with intercourse: with being entered. The vagina itself is muscled and the muscles have to be pushed apart. The thrusting is persistent invasion. She is opened up, split down the center. She is occupied--physically, internally, in her privacy. ...
"There is no analogue anywhere among subordinated groups of people to this experience of being made for intercourse: for penetration, entry, occupation. There is no analogue in occupied countries or in dominated races or in imprisoned dissidents or in colonialized cultures or in the submission of children to adults or in the atrocities that have marked the twentieth century ranging from Auschwitz to the Gulag. There is nothing exactly the same, and this is not because the political invasion and significance of intercourse is banal up against these other hierarchies and brutalities. Intercourse is a particular reality for women as an inferior class; and it has, in it, as part of it, violation of boundaries, taking over, occupation, destruction of privacy, all of which are construed to be normal and also fundamental to continuing human existence. There is nothing that happens to any other civilly inferior people that is the same in its meaning and in its effect even when those people are forced into sexual availability, heterosexual or homosexual; while the subject people, for instance, may be forced to have intercourse with those who dominate them, the God who does not exist did not make human existence, broadly speaking, dependent on their compliance. The political meaning of intercourse for women is the fundamental question of feminism and freedom: can an occupied people--physically occupied inside, internally invaded--be free; can those with a metaphysically compromised privacy have self-determination; can those without a biologically based physical integrity have self-respect?"
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>>7574055
I watched OP's pic on youtube. That discussion was great. I wish we had shows like that on television now. The closest thing we have is Charlie Rose but he's too typical a host. Watching Burgess was a delight and Dworkin, to her credit, was a great guest. She was an incredible blasphemer. Nearly everything that woman said sent me into apoplectic fits.
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She was so close to returning to a traditional framework. If only she wasn't abused by shit men she could have been a reactionary.
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>>7574099
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rRHpw50QJI
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I'm not a trained reader or anything, but it seems my main takeaway from most literature is a completely incommunicable "feeling" more than anything else, like a song gives you
I don't really know what it is, does anyone interested in criticism or analysis have a term for this? I often wonder if people get the same "feeling" from books as me.
Infinite Jest means something to me on a completely abstract level .. is it different to everyone?
sorry if this gets posted alot or is completely stupid
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n-no not really
if you can't form it into words then that's probably not a sign of the nature of the thing that you have read
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>>7574039
That just means you should read more. Maybe then you'll get a vocabulary.
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Well you're not describing the feeling at all, so it's hard for us to say. What do you mean by feeling? Do you mean an emotion or a sense? What are its effects on you? We can't read your mind y'know.
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Light Yagami is smart and doesn't afraid of anything.
Which would his favourite books / works be?
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>>7573871
>Ain't no one alive who doesn't enjoy this.
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>>7573934
what about some philosophical books?
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Which version of Faust should I read? In German of course.
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gerter
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Garter
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>>7573643
I literally just bought this edition. I like the way it read when I thumbed through it, and I can learn German.
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Draw arguments old from out your store,
Venture subtleties never used before.
If you fear your audience uninitiate,
Unable profundities to penetrate,
Rest easy out of fashion is naivete."
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'What shall we ever do?'
The hot water at ten.
And if it rains, a closed car at four.
And we shall play a game of chess,
Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.
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So let Zeus look on human arrogance, and mark
How lusting for our flesh makes an old stock grow young with perverse desire,
While crazed resolve goads without respite,
And mischief pursuing illusion is pursued by pain.
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Could bird eat flesh of bird
And yet be pure? And can a man mate with a woman
Against her and her father's will, and yet be pure?
Even after death, in Hades such an act can never
Escape sentence; there too, they say, among the dead
Another Zeus holds a last judgement on men's crimes.
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What are some good books (fiction or nonfiction) that read like a wise older man giving advice to a young man?
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>>7573340
Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson
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meditations
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>>7573340
Schopenhauer's 'On Women'
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
Evola
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>>7573247
>Is someone who isn't /lit/ /lit/?
Please delete your 4chan account.
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his Twitter is mainly haikus so yes
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Not literature not lit
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What is the word for someone who is involved in society, but refuses to participate in personal connections or relationships with others?
Someone like pic related
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>>7573070
Independent
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>>7573070
He's a psychopath.
You are an autist. They are nothing alike
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>>7573100
Do you deny that he
>refuses to participate in personal connections or relationships with others
because otherwise you're the autist, bucko
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/lit/ please stop recommending me fucking cuck shit like pic related. I am already close to breaking point and the books you keep recommending me are only making things worse. Last book I read because of here was The Sun Also Rises. I picked this one up thinking it would be something more inspiring, but it's cuck shit again. Not just cuck shit but self-effacing overindulgently nihilist cuck shit. I have a girlfriend who loves me but I treat her like shit because of these books. My therapist says every time I read one of these books I am feeding a self-pitying ego falling into a pattern of disrepair and masturbatory suffering. I almost read Infinite Jest but I guess that's cuck shit too. I came on here to get away from /b/ but you guys are just the same, it's awful.
Please can I have a trigger list before I pick up another cuck book and destroy my life some more.
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>not a cuck
>goes to /lit/
Get out.
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Hey OP you should read Ernst Junger "Storm of Steel" next. Or Celine's "Journey to the End of the Night" or Hamsun's "Growth of the Soil". Despair is presented as sensitivity to young intellectuals in order to cuck them into a life of effete liberal servitude. Basically, just read anything that was written by an author with Fascist sympathies. "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" is good as well. It isn't "pro-nazi" but the badass moves that Adolf made as a young man and the Rise of an empire in general are vitalizing themes. In terms of American /lit/, read some Thoreau or Jack London or "You Can't Win" by Jack Black (not the fatass actor)
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>>7572884
Hadji Murat is next on my list. I am serious though is it possible for a list of cuck books that I can avoid? I have a suspicion for example about Infinite Jest. Don Quixote. The Great Gatsby. Literally anything where the focus of the book is women not loving you because those books are tearing my life apart.
Hey Lit,
What's your favorite font? We all know how important aesthetic is to the overall experience of life, so what font did you choose to write your magnum opus?
I'll start:
SORTS MILL GOUDY
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Calibri
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Comic sans