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I don't read books fag

>>9635683
>western education.
I have a teacher that stated that any African educated in a western university wasn't as good as a solely native educated individual that never came to America. Wtf. I get the danger of a single story but still. Ill read anything if its good writing and even read stuff that isn't but provides a different human experience but I still think writing should be held to a high standard...

Also Zadie Smith should get in first.

>>9635683
He looks like be could break in by himself.

reposting from last thread:

>>9635295
>>9635305
Most popular are Stranger in a Strange Land, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Starship Troopers and Time Enough for Love plus his short fiction which is mostly collected in The Past Through Tomorrow.
My personal favorite is Friday.

>>9635541
Time Enough for Love is a fucking mess though.

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We need fresh memes.

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>>9635509
Can't find it anywhere for free, b-ok, irc, mobilism, libgen, archiveorg, gutenberg, random pdf links

Isn't early modern English, just English?

>>9635390

>I'm scared to die.

If you aren't stuck down prematurely by bad luck along the way you'll die a thousand little deaths before you finally get there. If you want to be worried about anything be worried about that.

>>9635390
check this out

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=flsar1hE6MM

>>9635390
Bhikkhus, for a virtuous person, one whose behavior is virtuous, no volition need be exerted: ‘Let non-regret arise in me.’ It is natural that non-regret arises in a virtuous person, one whose behavior is virtuous.

“For one without regret no volition need be exerted: ‘Let joy arise in me.’ It is natural that joy arises in one without regret.

“For one who is joyful no volition need be exerted: ‘Let rapture arise in me.’ It is natural that rapture arises in one who is joyful.

“For one with a rapturous mind no volition need be exerted: ‘Let my body be tranquil.’ It is natural that the body of one with a rapturous mind is tranquil.

“For one tranquil in body no volition need be exerted: ‘Let me feel pleasure.’ It is natural that one tranquil in body feels pleasure.

“For one feeling pleasure no volition need be exerted: ‘Let my mind be concentrated.’ It is natural that the mind of one feeling pleasure is concentrated.

“For one who is concentrated no volition need be exerted: ‘Let me know and see things as they really are.’ It is natural that one who is concentrated knows and sees things as they really are.

“For one who knows and sees things as they really are no volition need be exerted: ‘Let me be disenchanted and dispassionate.’ It is natural that one who knows and sees things as they really are is disenchanted and dispassionate.

“For one who is disenchanted and dispassionate no volition need be exerted: ‘Let me realize the knowledge and vision of liberation.’ It is natural that one who is disenchanted and dispassionate realizes the knowledge and vision of liberation.
Well, stream-entry is seeing sabbe saṅkhārā aniccā, "all conditioned phenomena are impermanent," sabbe saṅkhārā dukkhā, "all conditioned phenomena are suffering," and sabbe dhammā anattā, "all things are void of self." What you are seeing is a universal condition, not just what relates to you personally. To gain such universal insight you start with yourself, then contemplate others, and finally make the inferential breakthrough that this refers to everyone. Ajjhattabahiddhā, "internal and external," seems to imply such a universalisation.

>>9635376
Literature can only help you realize evident truths. You aren't going to read a book and magically become masculine. You have to work and strive for any change fully, consciously, and continually.

That being said, Hemmingway.

>>9635380
I've been reading Epictetus lately, and it's making me appreciate responsibility and self-control, which I suppose are classically masculine traits. I want to accord with nature

>tfw i didnt like to whom the bell tolls

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
Seneca - Letters from a Stoic
Discourses of Epictetus

>>9635344
I had to read it for school. Hated it. It wasn't bad, I just hate Agatha Christie. It's just so fucking boring.

>>9635344
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3ghsO5Avcs&bpctr=1497433309
What is this shit?

>>9635381
Beauty. Pure beauty.

just download it poseur

>>9635232
Poseur? Why am I a poser for asking about purchasing a book?

Fuck you're a loser.

I got it for £2 from a charity shop. Seems pretty good.

i've been recommended the mind illuminated and after some four or six months of following the scheduled regime i'm finally starting to see results

just my two cents, but whatever you do, be patient and don't go too hard on yourself because it'll come back to bite you; make sure to practice regularly and diligently though

>>9635011
thanks, i'll check it out. and i doubt i'll be impatient about it, i've meditated before and even when i struggled it was "enjoyable" in a way

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Read Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. Really good book.

>>9634968
Probably one of those infinite amount of monkeys that'll eventually bang out Shakespeare with their shit covered hand feet.

>>9635007
>t. joe scarborough

>>9635020
I don't know what you're gettin at. Ol' Mornin Joseph is sittin right next to Tuck Fuckerson in the fuckin monkey room, pal.

>>9634932
No Longer Human.

Some anon keeps saying he wrote about it in his diary.

>>9635063
DESU

>>9634822

>reading an abridged version
>patrician

I think you meant plebeian things that only you do.

>>9634830
If the abridged parts were necessary then they wouldn't be abridged.

>>9634822
Every time I take a hot bath at night I smugly imagine the plebeians coming in after me to use my tepid bathwater.

>>9634763

>Character
>Conflict
>Resolution

>>9634804
I get that but my issue is getting it long enough. Getting to 300 or so pages seems very difficult.

>characters
>conflict
>no resolution
>jerk off on half finished manuscript
>sprinkle in radical prose
>rearrange events to make it nonlinear
>win pulitzer

most memoirs are lies, their agenda being "I'm great"

>>9634637
But that is the reflection of the man, no? He is the memoir. The purpose of it's existence is an expression of himself. His every action in life was to say "I'm" great. A fiction book is a dilution of self, shit out by a poor writer.

Fiction is more entertaining.

>>9634571
Bump

>>9634571
Have you read the two other Mormon holy texts, Pearl of Great Purchase and whatever the third one's called?
Mormonism is, like all modern revisionist Christian sects, a collective of Exceptionalism.

>>9634571
>ex-mormfag here
Pretty much all of your issues are addressed in Doctrine and Covenants. That's the book where Joseph Smith explicitly outlines how the church should be organized and function.

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Leave this board and never return if any one of these applies to you:
>you read any form of genre fiction
>you barely know your classics
>you tend to believe that if you like a given work, it is justified on an artistic level
>you think everyone's opinion should be accepted and respected
>you speak a single language
>you read contemporary versions of Shakespeare or Milton
>you read for the plot
>you read for entertainment
>you rarely read nonfiction
>you don't have a solid grounding in philosophy
>you don't have at least have some understanding of the Three Tragedians and Homer
>you have little to no understanding of literature outside of your cultural horizon
>you have little to no understanding of literature within your own cultural horizon
>you mostly read contemporary literature
>you believe 'the author is dead'
>you make your literary analysis proceed from ideology
>you think intricate prose is 'pretentious' and that the author 'should just get to the point'
>your rarely read poetry
>you think Rhythm and Rhyme is just useless rules and laws restricting creativity
>you have a hard time explaining why you like a given work
>you have a hard time forming structured and relevant literary criticism
>you tend to refuse to judge works for yourself, rather relying on the opinions of literary authorities
>you rarely read for more than one or two hours straight

Currently reading The Tin Drum. Oskar is fucking wild.

mein kampf, I hate it because MC is literally trump