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Another sunny day in London 2017-06-11 06:01:52 Post No.9624581
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Another sunny day in London
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2017-06-11 06:01:52
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>wake up and go to gym
>strength has been low because my sleep has been ruined by coffee
>bench two plates when I havent benched for a few weeks and its by far weakest lift (to give you an indication of how lifting doesnt help ugly losers no matter how much you lift)
>go outside, just like all the normies say you should do
>tortured by the sight of attractive women everywhere, each with 500 matches on Tinder no doubt, and who are disgusted by non-Chads
>drink coffee while sitting in public, browsing the internet on my phone: 4chan, redpill "jus talk to them bro" cope advice, and occasional blackpill stuff
>sitting in busy stations seeing huge amounts of Staceys
>go home to watch end of the tennis
>buy loads of junk food to dull the pain of subhumanity
>tell myself its the last time Ill eat junk food as I see attractive blondes walk past my window and it gets hotter and sunnier at 4 pm (wish I was joking)
Its incredible how pointless all advice is. Either you are a normie with a social circle or a Chad with tinder, or you are nothing. Even having a job changes nothing.
Oh, and not only all that... If I really was living life like I tell myself to (being the best version of myself), Id be spending EVEN LESS time outside: more reading books, more learning various things, less wasting money by eating out, doing as much as possible at work instead of my assigned work and 2 hour breaks. Kind of hilarious, and a lesson for all the overly righteous red pillers. There are two ways to succeed in this world. Good or above social skills (including looks / being female) or MEGA autism.
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>>9624581
You are the most pathetic being imaginable.
Several of these threads every day for over two years now. Get your shit together already
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>>9624581
tbf we're living in a civilization in decline, it's natural women are going to start seeking out exclusively strong and alpha protectors over providers.
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Things won't get better from here on out.
Might as well sit back and enjoy the decline.
What an interesting time to be alive, don't you think OP?
Who cares about chads, stacies and all that shit.
Name a more iconic duo
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Hitler and Goebbels
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how about a quartet
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or this tandem mysteriosum
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What other books are the inner voice of an 'alpha male'? When I read this 4 years ago it was like Matrix downloading the software of being more self-confident and able around women.
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>your face here
d-does tucker-san want me to be his woman? *blushes*
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>>9624520
lying about your life to seem cool and sell books is being an alpha male?
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unironically alex kierkegaard
>tfw your inner alpha male is so alpha he alphas his way into prison LARPING OutRun so he has more time to play planetary annihilation and do chin-ups and criticize cheese fondue
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Why did Joyce spell aesthetic the burger way? He was such a eurofag.
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Maybe because he was an American? This is common knowledge you dunce
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>such a eurofag
He wrote Ulysses specifically to distinguish Anglo-Saxon diction from Latinate diction. The book is essentially an argument for the former.
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>mfw he was talking about Dublin, Ohio
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Deciding to learn a new language, having to teach myself. What books and which language would /lit/ seem most viable in our world and the world of Literature.
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bulgarian
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Sanscrit
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German
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Im about to start reading The Epic of Gilgamesh for an Edx course, anyone have preferences on translations or free kindle download links?
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nope
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>>9624385
I read a prose version that retained the form of the most important parts as poetry. I think the most important aspect is a good introduction (1.5-2x longer than the work).
As far as translation preference. The newer, the better probably. They're still trying to recover bits of the story and increasing the accuracy of the translation.
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Andrew George is by far the best
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Any good books on the importance of laughing, and humor in general?
I think that humor is everywhere, everybody jokes, everybody laughs, and I'd like to understand its political importance. Are there great books on that subject? I know Bergson wrote something but it seems quite hard to read and I don't know much about philosophy.
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>>9624371
leftists don't have any kind of humor, they're so easy to trigger. They don't have a sense of humor about anything, because they think everything is about politics, and never realize that we could just have a laugh about something genuinely funny, but they also try to make it into a political issue.
FUCK LIBERALS. Humorless cunts
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>>9624378
If that's true then explain Jon Oliver
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>>9625357
That's the thing. Rightists don't find John Oliver funny and are in fact triggered by his attempts to moralize and deconstruct things under the guise of humor. They find this humor "Jewish" and "subversive" and are alarmed by the idea of their children watching it.
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Some days ago I saw a thread where multiple people described someone's favorite works as "good, but basic". That inspired me to think about what makes literature complex.
I only read literature either for fun or for cultural awareness and I don't consider whether a work would be complex before I choose to read it. I rarely read something, understand it and consider it "complex". Now I'm wondering if I'm missing something. Can /lit/ give an example of a complex work they have read and give a brief explanation for why you think it is complex?
Here are some works I thought were difficult to grasp:
The Stranger - for it's ambiguous message and character intentions
Paradise Lost - for it's heavy use of references and difficult language comprehensibility
Arabian Nights - because of the cultural disparity
A Treatise of Human Nature - not /lit/ but still a good example. "A cause is an object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it, that the idea of the one determines the mind to form the idea of the other, and the impression of the one to form a more lively idea of the other." I can read this, but it takes my full concentration and much backtracking and have to rely on commentary at times.
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People often mistake complex for good, thats why you get comments like that.
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>>9624267
>people often mistake complex for good
>good but basic
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>>9624275
The implication being there's some diminished quality for not being complex.
"Its good, but.." statements are always softeners for what the person really thinks.
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Is there anything like this but well written? Like a bohemian adventure story, but with quality prose.
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The savage detectives
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What do you consider to be quality prose? Anyway check out Melville's "Typee" or Thoreau's travel essays. If you like translations you could read Hamsun's Wanderer books. Really though Kerouac's books pretty much exemplify the milieu you are describing, flawed prose or not.
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I just finished reading "Satori in Japan" by Kerouac and I can't help but wonder if he was experimenting with his style or if he just doesn't give a shit about composition. I enjoyed it but I think it's closer to poetry than prose.
Check out William Burroughs if you haven't already, OP, but you probably have since you seem like an edgelord.
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What books does /lit have on their coffee tables?
Recently picked up Delirious New York and usually have some Nat Geos stacked up.
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http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135012.Without_Sanctuary
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Books to read in the toilet 2017-06-11 02:32:41 Post No.9623921
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Books to read in the toilet
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What books that are separate in very small chapters/parts can I read ? Not looking for fictional stories, more like things interesting or useful to learn. Asking because looking for something to read quickly when I poo in the loo.
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>>9623921
shitposting on lit is for the loo
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Practical Theology by Peter Kreeft is a perfect bathroom book. The book is essentially just some select abstraction from the Summa Theologica where Peter elaborates and clarifies the meaning. The "chapters" are very short so the book can be easily picked up and put down based on the length of your bowel movement.
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Humor genre books. What my parents did. In the backwash of that, I suppose.
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Sup /lit/
I usually don't read that much, but right now I'm going through Eastern Approaches way too quickly. Anyone has anything similar to recommend me? What genre would it fall under? Are MacLean's other books good too?
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Eastern Approaches is pretty clearly a war memoir. I'm not sure what exactly you liked best about it. If you liked the Englishness of it, I'd suggest giving Chronicles of Wasted Time by Malcolm Muggeridge a try -- it's less of a war memoir; although Muggeridge did take part in WW2, he had a much different experience.
If you want to read about someone doing badass stuff, try Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger. It's probably the better choice for someone who doesn't read much.
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>>9623968
Thanks, I'll look these two up!
Thing is, I preferred the first part of the book when he's a diplomat in the USSR. Are the other books of people describing their time in the union?
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Hey /lit/ Newfriend here
Has any ever read "Abarat" I got it randomly from a bookstore when I was young and I remember it being pretty good. Only thing is I have never met anyone else who read the book.
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>These trips going unchecked
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>Checking digits meme on the literature board
Stop
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>stop doing thing
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What are some essential books about death? Either reflections or spiritual and religious thoughts on the whole process and the prospect of an afterlife.
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I like the Tibetan Book of the Dead even though I know it is bullshit.
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>>9623502
I had my eye on that before, but thanks. Anything in particular that touched you?
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>>9623563
tibetan book of the dead will mean virtually nothing to you unless you are some kind of scholar on tibetan buddhism. hippies thought they could understand it and it has since become a meme.
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What are some pre-modern titles you guys would recommend?
I want to give myself the classical/medieval education I never had.
I've already compiled a wish list
- Aeneid
- Plato's Republic
- The Histories (Polybius)
- De Bello Gallico
- Confessions of Augustine
- Divine Comedy
- Decameron
- Kiev Primary Chronicle
- Tale of Igor's Campaign
- Don Quixote
- Prose & Poetic Edda
Medieval Epic style literature highly recommended
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>>9623365
There are some very good recommendations in this list.
https://thinkingasleverage.wordpress.com/book-lists/mortimer-adlers-reading-list/
I would also recommend Le Morte Darthur. The Norton edition is the best one I could find, as it has the full, unabridged text and fantastic annotations.
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>>9623365
Read the Iliad, Odyssey, Theogony and Republic before the Aeneid, and the Metamorphoses after.
You cannot miss out on Shakespeare and Milton, either.
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