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>those menopausal redundant trophy wives whose beauty, their only redeeming value, has long faded
>essentially an unlimited amount of free time every day for decades
>spend the whole of it reading fluffy garbage the likes of which drugstores will not even supply
>a boundless erudition of cheap harlequin romances
yes

>>7477491
Depends on what you read.

Yes.

Example: Me.

>>7477446
>The message resonated with my own views of the world

So you're a fascist then?

>>7477452
Maybe he is what's it to you?

>>7477459
While fascism isn't necessarily bad, it has historically sucked ass.

>>7476905
Untrue. Yesterday I read my grandfather's obituary and it gave me a great deal of stress

>>7476905
Reading takes full attention and concentration. Music and walking don't.

So it would make sense that immersing yourself in a book murders more of the ruminations, fears, anxieties, and insecurities that fuel stress.

>>7476905
No. That is at best a very incomplete statement. Balance and so on.

>>7476571
Erysichthon

>>7476652
this is a nice one

>>7476653
this is a nice one

Schedule your time; write a to-do list and allocate time for those activities; ensure you have time for relaxation, socialisation, and physical activity aside from your study.

for math stuff do x pages a day
keep it around five to ten
you'll finish it in around a month, which is amazing if you consider that text being taught over an entire semester
the key is slow and steady
this isn't like reading fiction or even regular non-fiction

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>>7476568
>(like statistics

wtf???
why you want to learn statistics?of course you cant force yourself to read it cos its retarded
read something you like
if you dont like reading dont read

Yeah

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>>7476540
>>7476548
Thanks homies.
Great thread
Looks like I came to the right place when I heard start with the GEEKS XDD

>>7476550
you made this post shit from the start with anime

Imagine a world without free will

Imagine a world where you ARE the little girl

Imagine a world where everyone could have a literary Jewish gf

Start by reading my diary, tbqh

>>7476272
Aristotle's Rhetoric

i also have this issue. sometimes i pretend to be mute.
keep in mind you've never heard Thomas Pynchon's voice

someone who writes is a writer you fucking faggot. die of aids, faglord

>>7476176
dont you say.

>>7476176
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Shameful self-bump

>>7475945
Oscar Wao bb
though I personally don't care for either
doesn't diaz work at like, MIT or something?
he looks like the warden from Orange Is The New Black
what a ridiculous man

>>7475945

This is How You Lose Her. I love that collection so much.

No one understands Lacan. He's not a real thing.

http://www.richardwebster.net/thecultoflacan.html

He plagiarised his only idea. The only thing you'll get out of Lacan is forcing yourself to scour your eyeballs with his worthless Ecrits, edited by his faggot High Priest who won't let anyone know the spooky secrets of how he anoints the original source texts in the Sanctum Sanctorum, until finally it clicks, consciously or unconsciously, that there is just a short list of factoids you're supposed to know about Lacan if you want to be a "Lacanian."

>read Diacritics
>occasionally someone will mention Lacan
>it's always some non sequitur island in the text like "Lacan's central idea is that man is a mirror of himself." just so the author can show he is influenced by Lacan or something
>has no bearing on the rest of the article
>actual hardcore "real" Lacanian shit is relegated to journals on par with FRINGE ONCOLOGY JOURNAL ISSUE CXIV: "DO OJIBWE FART CHAMBERS CURE SECOND STAGE LYMPHOMA? - ANNUAL HOLISTIC ONCOLOGY SYMPOSIUM ISSUE"

>>7475872
That's pretty much how it goes, that's the general feeling you'll get from such writers, but especially from Lacan. Just try to picture what he is describing on a theatrical scene in the unconscious and try to make the best of it.

It helps if you go along with him even if you might disagree on some points, even fundamental points. The unconscious as a theater that I mentioned is such a point, even though it has itself been contested (by Deleuze & Guattari for example).

Even if you end up disagreeing with him, you'll no doubt pick up plenty of interesting things along the way, even if just because Lacan used a ton of philosophical concepts (from Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and so on). A useful indication of how it should go is given by how Lacan opposes the "the emperor has no clothes" scene to the joke "that woman is naked underneath her clothes!". This means, basically, that our desire is defined by things that do not exist as such: Man and Woman might have empirical examples, but mere representations do not say anything about our own positioning as man or woman, regardless of our actual biological gender.

>>7475894
>>7475896
I love you /lit/, thank you.

>>7475794
I can end you.

I'm coming OP.

>>7475794

I do this all the time. Then people question my integrity because I am close to have read 600 books this year on the challenge.

>>7475794

Thirty-two pages is a novelette.

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>>7475768

>>7475774
what are the best ones from that list?

>>7475790
any of the Russians, all the continentals

shameless cash-grab

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>>7475708

>>7475708
>>7475752

Neither of these speak of the content of the book. No wonder /lit/ is shit.

publish on kindle

>>7475636
>can't resort to using a big firm
why?

>>7475644
Use caps you heathen.