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>>7463892
The Assassin Legends: Myths of the Isma'ilis by Farhad Daftary

>>7463892
The Vagina Ass of Lucifer Niggerbastard

>>7463892
The Cuckoldry of the Cuck'd Cuckolds. The most Cucks that will Cuck.

maybe read some non-fiction before but you don't really have to. Just jumping into Infinite Jest is fine

Read good old neon and save yourself 1000 pages

>>7463849
Thank you for a serious response. Something like A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again?

Zettels Traum

read the fucking sticky

>>7463009
I have but I'm still unsure where to go. My favorite book is naked lunch which is probably too boring for him.

no, the meme books are good.

>>7462441
They're good; but they are not, as autists will sometimes tell you, the best books ever. I feel personally that if Tolkien could see what his novels have done to the literary world he would regret writing them.

>>7462442
/thread

The Ego and Its Own by Max Stirner

That's all you need.

Yeah, see the difference is that Bukowski is proclaiming it a tragedy that this is the way things are. But he recognizes this is how it is. After all, he wageslaved for decades because he knew the only thing worse would be to put it all on his mom and dad or any other person. He knew it's awful, but he wasn't selfish.
You would rather make your mom and dad experience that pain than take it on yourself. Bukowski was a trapped artist. You're just selfish.

>>7459327
This

You really think no one wants to sit at mom's and dad's and explore what they are interested in? That's what high school was for.

probly a bunch of english teachers in southeast asia, some place you can live cheap and decadently and not work too hard at the day job and still have time to write
but lets see them actually produce something worth reading and not just getting addicted to underage prostitutes and cheap heroin

>>7457146
I don't know about Paris since I've never been there, but I would assume it's pretty shit, what with a million tourists constantly around and gimmicky souvenirs all over the place. I don't think there is an artistic capital of the world, hell art itself is pretty fucking down right now, art and literature. About that lifestyle, I would love it, but the problem is steady money. I wouldn't have a problem living on the bare necessities, but simply ensuring you have that is hard.

>what do you think about living the bohemian-artist life?
Wish it was possible to live it.

>Was this way of living killed by pretentious hipsters and that kind of retards?
I think it was more to do with the art communities around the world dragging art and literature further and further down the drain. "Pretentious hipsters" didn't cause this, they're just the users.

>>7457163
I don't know, when Greece runs out of money and if they decide to get out of the EU, maybe some place in Greece could be the next 1920s Paris. And imagine if Greece hauled ass out of EU in the early 2020s.

>>7457146
French used to be the lingua franca (no shit) until World War 2, thats why its lost its place as the metropolitan center of world culture.

There is no real center today, its just become less important in general for artists to congregate since its possible to form sub-cultures and connect with other creative people a lot easier today with the internet.

Like this very board for instance, not to overstate its importance but its a place for people with a serious interest in literature to meet up and exchange ideas and views that didn't exist just a couple decades ago.

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or, you know I can just post some pics.

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...For night imparts to everything its black colour. Therefore when we go to sleep or even wake up in the night, our thoughts are frequently almost as bad distortions and perversions of things as are dreams; moreover, if they concern our personal affairs, they are usually as black as possible and even frightful. In the morning all such terrible apparitions have like dreams vanished, as is expressed by the Spanish proverb: noche tinta, bianco el dia (the night is coloured, the day is white). But also in the evening when the candles are burning, the understanding, like the eye, does not see things so clearly as it does during the day; therefore this time is not suited for meditating on serious and especially unpleasant affairs for which the morning is the right time, as it also is generally without exception for all work, whether mental or physical. For the morning is the youth of the day; everything is bright, fresh, and easy; we feel strong and have at our complete disposal all our faculties. We should not shorten it by getting up late, or even waste it in unworthy occupations or gossip; on the contrary, we should regard it as the quintessence of life and to a certain extent treat it as sacred. Evening, on the other hand, is the day's old age; at such a time we are dull, garrulous, and frivolous. Each day is a little life for which our waking up is the birth and which is brought to an end by sleep as death. Thus going to sleep is a daily death and every waking up a new birth. In fact to complete the simile, we could regard the discomfort and difficulty of getting up as labour pains.

>>7467194
Bullshit. Kafka only wrote at night. And it's "blanca", not "bianca".
I be asking how many hours should I sleep and that kind of shit.

I don't know, dude, like 7 hours maybe?

William "no you idiot, Marlowe died in a barfight, everyone knows that" Shakespeare

John "boner for God" Donne

Thomas "I'm really not central to the canon, huh" Carew

Ben "it's not my fault my audiences are philistines" Jonson

Aemilia "suck-my-taint" Lanyer

David "foster" Wallace.

fetishizing objects is for freaks

this is a board to discuss literature. not christmas gifts. go away

>>7466497
it's actually for humans

It's the most normal thing in the world

A technique isn't intrinsically "good" or "bad", faglout.

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>>7466053
Nothing is redeemable: intrinsic value is a spook.

>>7466075
>>7466078

This is what autist's actually believe.

>>7465901
It's a way of affirming the community while excluding outsiders (those who don't "get" it). It's an animal instinct.

>>7465901
Why do you write in the language you write in?

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pure ideology

Sailing the circumference of your mother.

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>>7465640

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

The Mysterious Island (be sure to read Leagues first)

also, Verne >>>>> Wells

Around the World in Eighty Days

>>7465408

>Tell me how to run away from adulthood.

Play a whole lot of video games and watch a whole lot of anime and superhero movies.

>>7465418
Shitpost on /lit/ like a two dollar faggot

>>7465432
catch feelings on /lit/ like an absolute spergtron

Storm of Steel - Jünger
Under Fire - Barbusse
All Quiet on the Western Front - Remarque

>>7465490
Under Fire is one of the most powerful book I've ever read. The prose is sublime and made me feel down to my bones, after having studied it for the years, what it felt like to be in the Trenches.

>>7465396
>That sweet Isenheim altarpiece structure