/lit/ - Literature

Came the closest to killing myself today than I ever have. Threw my bag away on my walk home and started playing chicken with the passing cars, my feet feeling so light but not being able to make that final push in my head and do it. I wanted to tell someone first.

If I want to kill myself, then I should run away first(barely legal who doesn't know true pain and doesn't want to, especially if he can't handle what he already has). Experience the slow, spiritual death of homelessness, maybe get lucky and die to a random crime so someone else can do it for me like the coward I am.

>>23372169
lmao. My grandmother (dad's mom) inherited a lot of land and sold it for a huge amount of money and gave all of it to my dad's sister and her husband. She even bought a house for my dad's sister's husband's brother. She didn't give my dad shit.

>>23372187
Nigga no. I made contact, started an impromptu conversation. Te depressing feelings were when I would spend all semester in class with a girl and never get the balls to say hi. This girl is way too different from me so it wouldn't work. But I tried and that counts.
It was also an ego boost because she clearly thought I was good looking. She walked literally the entire way across campus, opposite from where she parked to talk with me because I "seem like a chill guy." So I'm a pretty boy confirmed. Too bad life isn't like an anime where a shy pretty boy gets stalked and femdommed by an assertive female.

>>23372080
Anything outdoors. Hiking, fishing, camping, shooting. Also try exercise and sports generally.

Ordered 1 plushie from China. It will take several weeks to arrive.

>>23371711
When you read Hemingway what you are reading is Stein made safe for a middlebrow audience.

>>23371711
Condom, never worn.

Because sequels imply plotfaggotry. That said, see: Proust, Knausgaard, Fosse.

Don Quixote
Faust
LOTR (fantasy)
In Search of Lost Time
The Book of New Sun (sci-fi)
2666 (if you count it)
The Man without Qualities
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Beckett's Trilogy

>>23371787
Oh and the bible

>>23371787
oh and the bible (fantasy)

>>23371709
Depends what you mean by /lit/. Here's the first twelve I thought of:

Anthony Trollope — Barchester chronicles [The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington, The Last Chronicle of Barset]

Hilary Mantel — Cromwell trilogy [Wolf Hall, Bring Up The Bodies, The Mirror And The Light]

Robert Graves — Claudius [I, Claudius, Claudius the God]

Patrick O’Brien — Aubrey/Martin [Master and Commander, etc]

William Golding — To The Ends Of The Earth [Rites of Passage, Close Quarters, Fire Down Below]

Cormac McCarthy — Border trilogy [All The Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities Of The Plain]

William Faulkner — Snopes trilogy [The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion]

Mark Twain — [Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn]

John Updike — Rabbit tetralogy [Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit At Rest]

John Le Carré — Karla trilogy [Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy, Smiley’s People]

D. H. Lawrence — [The Rainbow, Women In Love]

Samuel Beckett — [Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameable]


This is without children's literature (Laura Ingalls Wilder, L. M. Montgomery, etc).

>>23371700

I think The Hour of the Dragon is good character showcase of Conan

Red Nails is very good but Rogues in the House is truly a distillation of Conan imo.

>>23371683
>plato's cave tells a story of enlightenment being achieved only after being freed from the theater. there is also a moral command to return to the theater and free another prisoner.
this might be the key point im looking for...

freeing oneself from the trap of how society is organized with the few greats and many commoners... what does such a life look like?

>>23371698
>theft of date
THE out of date.

Shit site won't let me correct it.

Dostoevsky.

>>23371698
Do you think feudalism and absolutism are the same thing? Is this what you're trying to convey?

>>23371665
By the way, "feudalism" is now an outdated term like the "Dark Ages." There wasn't an explicit feudalism, and it's based on old historians looking at a specific place and time and extrapolated that to a thousand year period over all of Europe when in reality it was very diverse.

>>23371665
Me. I'm stealing this idea so I can be remembered

>>23371818
OP already named the paradox
>'The paradox of the workaholic'

>>23371850
Which works, because you shouldn't be with your wife, you should be with your woman, as a man, and with your man if the situation is reverse.

I think this is similar to something people commonly say about masochists.

>>23371926
Don't forget that etymologically, 'wife' comes from 'waif' (Middle English), which has a negativelishly undertone, at least, where I'm at.

>>23371875
It could not be about the gains, it could be about the process, the state of applying skills and learning, and enjoying that state of what Csikszentmihalyi calls 'flow' (I haven't read it, but I know its premise), Which is also a gain, of course, but I think I made a point.

>>23371649
im a workaholic because its what i know and its easier than doing something else i dont know. its a kind of depression, to dilute and fast forward life by business, a slow motion legal and moral suicide by old age. scary part? it works remarkably well. no money issues, but having off days or no work or max vacation hours so they must be spent is done drinking alone at home because there is no work being done. the work then is in self destruction instead of production to fill the void

>>23371950
you are a westerner aren't you anon
I swear too much wealth and freedom spoiled you firsties

>>23371616
>kill cromwell and his jewish banker backers.
Stay mad, anglican. The reformed faith is the only faith that follows the bible correctly, and the church of england needed to be reformed. Imagine actually believing that the bible teaches the idea of an episcopal government.

>>23371979
how is this relevant to keeping the jews out of england?

>>23371631
Forcing people to accept obvious lies is the ultimate power move.

>>23371613
>absolute monarchy

Yeah if you plan in reading textbooks and such

>>23371596
That's gay af

>>23371589
No. Why would colors make any significant difference?

They prefer the term African e-reader

>>23371704
News articles or non fiction books will often have color graphs in them.

>>23371584

>>23371584

bump

>>23371584
Just watch Passport to Pimlico.

>>23371577
Unlucky day: Jeff Davis captured, John Wilkes Booth born, Stonewall Jackson died, and now anon renounces Emily Dickinson forever. Pic a valedictory, merely

>>23371837
He advocated for god

>>23371859
Deism does not.

Because the world is full of people who would rather sit around, gossip, and bitch about the elite masonic order rather than join it themselves.

>>23371872
>rather than join it themselves.
Implying you could join them.

>>23371859
He did, you have not read Kant. Read Prolegomena and the First and Second critiques.

For less than the cost of a Big Mac...

>>23371472
If you want any .pdf files of his books just ask. I have all of them.

>spin a whitehouse album
>sotos track comes on
>the ol' skiparoo

>>23371639
His tracks are much more intense than any others because he solely relies on the voices and sounds of raw, authentic human suffering. It's sound taken to its absolute extreme end

International law / Human Rights Law isn't really an option for a monoglot, right? trying to figure out what speciality I want to go into

>>23371434
I took a survey course back in undergrad and from what I remembered pretty much every single important treaty and court decision is translated into half a dozen languages. However, that might only be the case for public international law (which includes human rights).
That being said, it would definitely be helpful to know French/German in addition to English because both those countries have rich traditions of legal theories and commentaries, most of which have never been translated.

>>23371428
>Justinian
calling him a jurist is a disservice, he was a pompous upstart

>>23371419
What the fuck.. why do we celebrate these groomers?

>>23371419
Based. Can you give some more recommendations, I already read most of those

>>23371419
You forgot Isaac Asimov, his son ran basically a Blockbuster for CP and was caught with literal thousands of tapes, so there's a good chance he molested him.

>>23371514
I will do more research to discover more names. I have suspicions about Dostoevsky. Do you know any others?
>>23371515
Interesting, I didn't know that. Pic related, a usenet(?) post about David Asimov made two years before he was arrested. Looking at Asimov's Wikipedia page, it appears Isaac was accused of sexually harassing lots of women. I suspect Orson Scott Card has pederastic inclinations.

>pedophile
>into teenagers

>>23371710
Du penis, habe gerade gesehen, dass dein Autocorrect dich verraten hat. Das Buch heißt All Tomorrows, blamier uns nicht so sehr, ok?

>>23371713

>>23371717
>How did WE fuck up so badly?
Tell OP to write in context. He's an embarrassment

>>23371713
>do you even know what book OP is talking about?
It is rather vague.

>>23371780
My bad I wanted to reply to the other idiot. You are right in your critique

No.

>>23371724
Kabuki def is though, jury still out on Noh...

is there such a thing as a good written light novel?

>>23371364

dan schnieder

bring all my bitches back

it's amazing how whores like jennette mccurdy admits in public that they are whores.

>>23371379
What's amazing about it? People love whores, they're a lot of fun to be around. Unlike prudes, ew.

>>23371379
>>23371418
Thats because whores are for the public
They are public property
People love whores, individual persons rarely do
Or at least they like them as a fun passtime, not something you tie your life to and can rely on

I watch 99% boob and spend 99% book

>>23371314
I tell other people I book but I actually boob

>>23371314
I used to book but now I boob

>>23371314
15% booba, 39% bok, 73% booba book