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the first part of the savage detectives cheered me up

>>9767846
Reading A Confederacy of Dunces and Notes From Underground should be enough to steer yourself away from a life of misanthropy and toxicity.

>>9767846
Nietzsche's stuff

>>9767808
this but unironically

>>9767808
>depression due to being unloved is /r9k/
I wanted to kill myself after my fiance left me and said she didn't love me anymore. It's definitely one of the worst feels there is, and I still have crippling depression.

That said, this book looks more appealing every day. Definitely going to add it to my list.

>>9767882
haha fucking idiot was gonna get married

Blood Meridian.
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.

The Judge: Michael Shannon
Toadvine: Jason Alexander or John C Reilly
The Kid: Michael B Jordan

James Franco can be executive producer but he's not allowed on set.

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>>9767779
Laurus

Daniel Day Lewis as old Laurus
Finn from Stranger things as Young Laurus (movie release in 2020)

aronofsky or Nolan at the helm, scorcese producing

>>9767791
Replace PTA with Malick
Replace John C Reilly with Michael Shannon
Replace Shannon as the Judge with Dwayne the Rock Johnson

>>9767743
im not sure what you're talking about. But the whole point of literature/poetry is that is demonstrates something that couldn't be described in any other way, at least when it's successful. If you can reduce a book/poem's point to a sentence than it is most likely poor or mediocre. If you're talking about how authors in oppressive regimes sometimes use irony to say something potentially undermining to the king or whatever that is a different conversation.

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>>9767743
I disagree with your thesis, although considering the amount of Joyce fans here, I will be in the minority.

Post-modern obscurantistism in prose is awful. The point of literature is to convey a story. If you want a mystery, use the narrative to convey it, not page structure. Vollman is particularly egregious in this.

>>9767743

I agree. It's something especially prevalent in song lyrics, a number of artists constantly make obtuse autobiographical references in their works, they are making a living from "my diary desu"

>>9767645
agree, then do a 360 and walk away.

>>9767645
Tell him that he'd be happier if he fixed his digestion problems, then ask him if he can help me with my problems. tfw no gf

tell him exactly

As an entrepreneur or self-employed you can do rather well but in any sort of corporate environment you'll struggle.

>>9767558
Even people with degrees struggle. Occupations like journalist, op-ed columnist, fiction author, etc. are really what (You) make of them, degree or not. If you have talent and a willingness to exploit yourself, you will be successful.

>>9767563

I don't think there's a way to become a self-employed scholar.

His Seminars, which are far less difficult

>>9767501
Also I assume you already read the shit out of Freud, as well as Hegel and Heidegger, which you obviously did, didn't you?

>>9767504
Oh, and Saussure's Course, of course.

Being a holier-than-thou socially retarded person who reads a lot.

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>>9767375
Let me tell you about the literary lifestyle:
>you wake up at 4:00 and brush your teeth
>you eat a yoghurt with cornflakes, grapes and coffee
>you write for 4 hours
>then you go for a half hour run, shower quickly and go to university studying for a useless degree, no matter whether STEM or liberal arts
>when you ahve no lectures you are at the university library studying the material
>at 17:00 you go to the elderly care residence where you clean old peoples' asses and make their beds
>at 20:30 you return home, prepare for gym where you lift weights for an hour
>You shower, then read a book for half an hour until 22:00 when you sleep
>whenever you can browse /lit/ and /pol/ and despair a little more

When you are older you can switch the 8 hours of uni with more reading, work and perhaps a walk. Forget the learned literary circles meeting together to discuss books. Forget /lit/ girls or bros. The /lit/ lifestyle is one of solitude. You will cease to be able to connect to people and people will try to avoid you in return.

>>9767375
William James says conversion is basically when religion becomes the primary mover in someones life.

Being literary is when books become the primary motivation or object of consumption in someones life

Yeah, I regret buying one. It's sterile and useless. I love the way books feel, smell and sho and sho on...

>>9767364
Yeah! And on top of that youo have to read them! What a waste of money.

>>9767394
What a fucking waste of money reading is, honestly I only bought the kindle to read my Mangas.

>>9767357
I fucking hate that smug fuck

>>9767368
why?

>>9767368
my friend told me his favourite philosopher is Voltaire and i laughed at him

>>9767304
Yes. Blatantly, obviously yes. This is a dumb thread that could've been just a post in /sffg/.

>>9767359
Why would I talk about literature in a genre fiction general?

>>9767396
Nobody is suggesting you do.

>you will NEVER sit in a train compartment with your qt crush and travel through the British countryside on your way to Hogwarts
>you will NEVER walk around the grounds of Hogwarts on a frosty winter morning with your qt Hermione-esque crush who clutches textbooks to her chest as she walks
>you will NEVER win a game of Quidditch in the pouring rain and run laughing back to the Gryffindor dormitory to shower and get warm and eat hot pumpkin soup in front of the common room fire
>you will NEVER attend a grand feast in the Great Hall with candles hovering overhead and the long tables stuffed with food of every kind
>you will NEVER escape your dreary prole-tier lonely muggle existence to go study at Hogwarts with fellow wizards and witches
>you will NEVER walk along the crowded Hogsmeade highstreet with your pure intelligent girlfriend at Christmas time and press your noses against the glass of each store while stocking up gifts for your family and friends
>you will NEVER lie in your four-poster bed at night in Gryffindor tower and hear the wind howling and the thunder breaking outside and pull the duvet up to your chin for maximum warmth and comfort
>you will NEVER sneak around the corridors of Hogwarts at night on some exciting adventure with your small group of friends in an attempt to solve mysteries and defeat evil plans
>you will NEVER have your qt Hermione-esque gf cry as you hug each other on the train platform at the end of the school year, knowing you are unlikely to see each other until the new school year begins in several weeks' time
>you will never muster the courage to ask your Hermione-esque crush to the Yule Ball and have he react to your blushing and stuttering with a shy smile and a little nod that tells you she would love to

>>9767302
>Who is your favorite Harry Potter side-character?
Let me think. It has to be the big guy with the beard, love him lol
>What is one part of the story that sticks out in your memory for whatever reason?
The one when the big guy hiding the dragon
>Which Hogwarts school subject do you think you'd do best in
None XD
>Are you personally excited for the upcoming school year?
I'm not sure what this means lol

>you will NEVER nervously put on your formal robes in a spare compartment of the Hogwarts Express feeling so out of place and unprepared to be around people who have known about magic their entire lives and many of whom know each other already and feel your heart thudding in your chest as you get on a boat to cross the Great Lake and have the kids around you talk and laugh and have one blonde-haired kid stare at you menacingly the entire time until you step off onto a stone platform and follow Hagrid up a flight of winding stone steps towards the main entrance, where Ms McGonaghal introduces herself and reminds you of procedures and tells you to wait there while you hear the sound of hundreds of people talking and cheering in the Great Hall and feel a tap on your shoulder and see the two people you sat with in the train, Hermione an Ron, who you didn't think liked you that much, standing there and hear Ron say "blimey, we thought you'd fallen in the lake or something" and hear Hermione say "where the heavens did you disappear to? and why do you look as if you've seen a ghost?" and have Peeves the ghost fly in through a wall at that moment and swoop down over the hears of your fellow students-to-be and look up open-mouthed as he performs a loop then dissapears through another wall and have Hermione say quietly "really Anon, you don't need to worry, I'm sure you'll end up in the right House. I'm sure we both will!" and have her smile and blush a little and avert her eyes as the doors open and Dumbledore shouts for the older students to stand and welcome the new yeargroup

>>9767287
I took an online test and it told me I am in Ravenclaw. Isn't that cool????

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For me it's Randall Flagg. Intelligent nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor.

I imagine that most of the people here are pretty similar to Fyodor pavlovich

It's the greatest friendship in literature.

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>>9767298
'No'

>>9767260
>I know I am wrong
>But I love the idea of homoerotic relationships too much to overlook any tiny detail that can be extrapolated with post modern thought processes
I think you answered your own curiosity, no matter how you cut it.

Go to bed, James.

>>9767203
kek
/thread

>>9767203
>>9767217
hahahahhaha