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I'd give her a right quick one.

Dick Roundbottom

Johan bugglesby

lmao @ the le reddit fedoras!

>>7222355

major top keks at the ledditors

"a driving manual" is one of the top responses

do these fucking morons really derive literary pleasure from fucking manuals? wew lad I had no idea that reddit was actually as autismal as you guys promised me

>>7222349
Why are you mocking reddit but posting Kanye West memes and talking about your love for books that were required reading in high school? I see zero difference between their shit taste and yours.

>>7226103
Your premise is iffy, and your conclusion oh that's right I'm on /lit/ nvm

Because that assumption is all the religious have, give them a break man

>he thinks reality being a quantum fart is a given

It's unnecessary. Buddhism seems about as necessary as learning a musical instrument or lifting weights. It can be a way to feel better, but it's not like it will save you. In the end, I'm still convinced that no matter what color robes you're wearing and what you do every morning you're still a living human going about your rounds, doing the things that humans do- eating, sleeping, seeing, shitting, thinking. Eastern people ended up thinking in different ways than Western people. I'm sure many people have found just as much comfort and joy in philosophy or Christianity as Buddhists find in Buddhism.

Buddhism is a death cult. They worship oblivion and strive for self-annihilation. Buddhism is nothing more than contentment with one's own damnation. There is no God in Buddhism, no salvation. Buddhism is nihilism. They will get what they are looking for on Judgement Day, when God will cast these godless heathens into the Outer Darkness where they will at last have the nothingness they seek. Only a fool would walk that path.

>>6487527
I don't know. How do I get into buddhism?

>>6489762
get laid

Well, just curl into a ball for as long that's matters.
There is no point really.
When you curl out, you just have some fun.

commence with the Chinese

Ebooks, unless you're a Luddite who needs validation from his material possessions.

I used tp be an ebook man but I know understand the appeal of paperbacks, being able to decimate them in extracting meaning from a text, and thair tactility

Physical copies, unless you're a Luddite who needs validation from his futuristic gizmos.

It doesn't matter. Word definitions are made up concepts.

An object or phenomenon intended for display.

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A vaginal prolapse.

Sound & Fury
Faulkner

As I lay Dying too. Probably prefer Faulkner to Joyce tbh.

The Sound and the Fury

>>6464064
Keep tippin it

your taste is really 'teenager who browses /lit/'

>>6464064
>Stieg Larsson


also
>The Razor's Edge
kek

bullshit.

>>6446760
I'd get a laugh from it

>>6446761
It actually happened. He's a fat baby boomer shit, too.

I wasn't even trying to be a contrarian. I was expressing a sincere opinion on a work

flatulence inhalation poisoning

>>6430861
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=JAMES+JOYCE+EYE+PROBLEMS+KILL+YOURSELF+OP

>>6430861
comedy meme bain poasts

Alright, I post some stuff of mine to hopefully get the ball rolling:

Feier

Ich war schon recht angeheitert, als ich mich auf der Feier eines Freundes wiederfand. Der Hausherr hatte mir die Tür geöffnet, und mich in einen großen Raum geführt, der schon rege bevölkert schien mit Betrunkenen und Berauschten und sonstwie im Geiste Verklärten; ich befand mich für in guter Gesellschaft. Der Hausherr sagte mir: „Trinke, so viel du willst! Iss, soviel du willst! Nimm von all den Weinen und Bieren und Schnäpsen, und allen Rausch- und Verklärungsmitteln im Raume! Nur von der großen, klaren Flasche in der Mitte des Raumes, von der trinke nicht!“
Ich mischte mich unter die Menschen, und war bald von Sinnen, und der Raum verdrehte sich mehr und mehr. Ich trank von allen Flaschen und aß von allen Speisen, dass ich rund und zufrieden wurde, nahm von allen Pillen und rauchte von allen Kräutern, dass sich alles um mich bunt färbte. Ich hatte mich im Kreis vorgearbeitet; nur die Große Klare flasche in der Mitte hatte ich nicht angerührt. Im Raum wurde wild und laut gefeiert. Ich genoss mich. Die Zeit indes ging schneller und schneller und blieb schließlich stehen.
Da aber trat ein Verführendes an mich heran, und gab mir zu trinken von der Großen Klaren flasche in der Mitte. Mein Rausch schob meine Neugier an, da alles andere verbraucht war, und so trank ich von ihr. Das Getränk schmeckte langweilig und nach nichts. Mein Kopf jedoch war wieder frei geworden und meine Sinne klar.
Der Raum war nicht mehr verdreht, oder vielmehr drehte er sich wie gewöhnlich. Die Zeit ging wie auch immer. Doch um mich stank, fast verwest, was eben noch duftete. Der schale Qualm ließ mich husten. Die Feiernden waren Fratzen geworden, und wie Kranke, nicht mehr wie Freunde, taumelten sie um mich. Gut zu sehen war einer, der von dem Tisch gefallen war, auf dem er eben noch getanz hatte. Ich fühlte mich wie vertrieben aus dieser Wildnis, denn das Tier in mir war zum Menschen vernüchtert. Nur fand ich keine Tür! Und als ich ans Fenster stürzte, sah ich draußen Nichts.
Als der Hausherr mich bemerkte, wollte er mir zu trinken geben, doch trank ich seitdem nicht mehr.

>>6402844
verpiss dich, goethe!

Bought Im Stahlgewittern yesterday, but had to go to a meeting, so I only got to read five pages or so, but that prose was pure beauty. How can someone write with so much power and feeling? Ernst Jünger have to be one of the greatest authors of all time.

Now anon can write a gripping scifi about vote rigging and submit it uncontested.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/13/1376743/-Freeping-the-Hugo-Awards

this isn't just autism...
it's... advanced autism

>write in campaign for Mein Kampf for all categories

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This is the House of Seven Gables in Salem, Massachusetts. It served as the inspiration for Nathaniel Hawthorne's book of the same name.

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Self-explanatory.

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Street which Darwin lived on while attending college.

>>6398614
Infinite Jest

>>6398614

My Struggle, call me a pleb if you must, but a book that is so relatable and beautifully written has yet to be challenged.

>>6398614
Moby dick
I'll admit I didn't understand what reading 300 pages about very specific whale parts had to do with the story, or what it symbolized.