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I feel as though I have lost some part of my memory or mind through chemical trauma.
I have felt this for no more than a year. I have been reading with little focus a few classics here and there, but nothing seemed to stimulate my mind, until last night when I returned to a book I enjoyed when first I read it, The Recognitions.
I remembered then, the feeling of surmounting a challenging novel, picking apart dense sentences, letting the words rush over me, pushing through my mental ceiling, finally honing my blunted brains.
So I ask you, as a friend, what...
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One of the worst post I've ever seen here.
>>8076177
why?
>>8076177
okay, i guess if you want to be an unjustified asshole, that's your right. but I don't see how this post is unreasonable.
What are some of your favorite Irish works, /lit/? Any favorites outside of Joyce? Has anyone ever studied Gaelic? Also post recommendations about your favorite book from Eire.
Ive only read Joyce and Beckett. Joyce was Portrait and Beckett was Godot.
I think I prefer Beckett but Joyce was cool.
Ill probably look more into Beckett before Joyce.
>>8076123
I see. I recommend Ulysses. The difficulty is a bit of a mean, but it's easy if you sparknotes it. I've never read any Beckett.
Frank O Connor Short stories
thomas pynchon or douglass adams?
>>8076095
Kill yourself and go to /soc/ you attention starved bitch
>>8076095
Never post another picture of this that hideous face. Those blackheads, the pores, that giant zit plasters to your forehead and the wanna-be-unibrow are making me dry heave.
>>8076106
/sci/ is where you go after you die? That's weird.. pretty sure most of htose guys don't even believe in an afterlife...
how do you organize your thoughts?
By arranging my neurons and synapses to the shape of a potato.
>://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer
>>8076046
I rarely have thoughts. I organize them by trying to question where they first came from, leading into a perpetual spiral of self-doubt and uncertainty.
I don't.
What is the literature equivalent of the TDKR opening scene ?
the man in the iron mask by dumas
>>8075951
Draco climbed on top of me and we started to make out keenly against a tree. He took of my top and I took of his clothes. I even took of my bra. Then he put his thingie into my you-know-what and we did it for the first time.
>>8075951
moby dick
Is it ironic or autistic?
>>8075845
Neither, it's a very sincere novel about the state of the internet around 9/11.
>>8075845
I think he's just old.
>>8075848
What about all the neoliberal terrorism and all the Bush did 9/11 implications?
Don Quixote.
Catcher in the Rye
my diary desu
okay goodreads, very funny
I really fucking HATE george w bush and i wish that fucker would GO TO HELLLL ALREADY!!!!!!!!
Well, no conservative would read Finnegans Wake, so it stands to reason a liberal like yourself would get something from Bushisms.
>>8076052
>no conservative would read finnegans wake
U r dum
I'm a total pleb and my job involves driving around for 60 hours a week, can /lit/ recommend any audiobooks that would be satisfying and intriguing to listen to?
Can we have some titles you read before?
Goodreads account posting is fine.
>>8075755
First Law trilogy by Joe Abercromie is fantastic. So is Best Served Cold.
Poo in Loo by Ranjeet is truly moving
275 pages in, when does it get good?
>>8075726
Page 1.
>>8075726
Never, it's a phone book
>>8075726
you are just not ready.
I have been shitposting on /lit/ for 20 hours straight ama
What's your most successful thread so far?
Why? It's too slow to do that.
How many of you actually read this? What do you think about it?
>>8075592
been meaning to. what did you like about it? isn't it fucking long?
>>8075606
who cares if it's long. why do people always say this? if it's good and long that's a blessing. suck a dick you dumb nigger.
>>8075606
It's existentialist, philosophical, fragmented. It's life-affirming. Something to read and re-read for an entire life.
Do you think he actually reads a book a day?
Goodbye, OP.
comic books
>>8075326
It was a serious question. I find it hard to believe that anyone with a job or in school has time to read an entire book everyday.
I've finished with the Greeks, where do I go now in my pursuits of philosophy?
Is the r/philosophy reading list reliable? Yeah, yeah, I know reddit-this and meme-that, but is it reliable though?
>>8075230
>he thinks he's "finished" with the greeks
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/pub
>>8075491
This desu. You could spend a life on Plato alone.
What are your interests? You could hop straight to Descartes or Hume if you will. Maybe you'd enjoy reading some Romans, such as the Stoics or Lucretius. The Platonists are another option, as are the philosophers of Christianity.
Ayy up guys. I know /lit/ doesnt really do SQT's but I have a couple so we might as well do this.
1. can you share your favourites sonnets? especially keats and shakespeare and maybe tell us why you like it?
>>8075167
2. After TLP and PI, is there anywhere left to go with Wittgenstein? I hear he has other posthumous works but not sure which editions are authoritative. Any help?
>>8075167
3. Which is the best abridged version of Summa Theologica? Or is it necessary to read all of it. I'm not that interested in early theology but would like to know about its influence.
>>8075167
