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Hi /lit/, I have a question about a psychological phenomenon I've been experiencing my whole life, but I've never heard anyone talk about. It's a category of feelings, but I don't know the word for it. The closest thing would be nostalgia. Think about the way that nostalgia can condense an entire year, if not more, into just a single moment, or a collection of moments. Those moments hold the entire context of the year: the atmosphere, the characters, the feelings, etc, and it all expresses itself as a single kind of feeling inside your mind. And then different...
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I think you would really enjoy My Struggle by Karl Ove Knaugaard
Different parts of your life are associated with different feelings. It seems like the potential feeling you could have are endless, and if you live your life in a routine kind of way, you stop feeling new things.
You're very sentimental about this.
Not sure why it even would be described or pointed out like that. But then again why not. It reminds me of a monologue in the movie "Her" btw.
might want to look into the phenomenology of syntesthesia or something similar
What is your favorite Lovey Banh book? Mine is "And Read Korean Don't Touch My Dick: 6900 private PRISON MAKING 2.7 BILLION EACH (next door never send us a car)"
http://www.amazon.com/Lovey-Banh/e/B00MSC83ZW/
>>7987304
Honestly, 10,000 Ants on My Underwear is my favorite book my her, and the $999 price is a BARGAIN!
I'd always suspected Burroughs couldn't really have died
>Probably the second or third best book I've read about a woman that has a fly in her vagine, but worth a read.
Could the future of my brother Nietzsche be different regarding his works if Salomé paid attention to him instead of fleeing with the other guy?
I kinda feel bad for the guy to be honest, he was a cool dude and drowned in bitterness after that happened
b-but then no rilke
>>7987251
That guy would have been the same without her.
Nietzsche instead couldn't get over it
>>7987288
He wouldn't even be Rainier, he'd probably have some faggot name like Marie.
Nietzsche was over it; you've read less of him than the apocryphal ponyfaggots have.
>-- Just one moment.
>-- Yes, sir, Stephen said, turning back at the gate.
>Mr Deasy halted, breathing hard and swallowing his breath.
>-- I just wanted to say, he said. Ireland, they say, has the honour of being the only country which never persecuted the jews. Do you know that? No. And do you know why?
>He frowned sternly on the bright air.
>-- Why, sir? Stephen asked,...
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Ulysses is pretty much all about der jude
Leopold Bloom is the son of a Hungarian Jew immigrant to Ireland.
He's been involved in shady money schemes and getscuckholded
It's like how a story taking place in 2016 will almost certainly mention Trump.
The Jews were widely disliked at the time and whether or not you followed the sentiment, you still encountered it in weekly life.
>>7987197
Because Joyce saw tons of casual anti-semitism in Irish culture and felt that it was misplaced. He was antisemitic in his youth too and felt bad.
I don't think that part is actually particular to jews though honestly, it's just prejudice in general. The joke of Deasy's joke is that 2 chapters later a jew in Ireland becomes the main character. Deasy is an idiot.
Damn, this is so good! Do you know these books?
>>7987188
>genre fiction
>>7987188
Lel I hope your trolling. This shit is unartistic, unoriginal, and intellectually empty.
Genre fiction is shit that literally anyone can write given mildly above average intelligence and creative ability and enough training. Its just plot driven bullshit. Nothing to separate it from any other book with an "exciting" plot. Real literature speaks to the soul. Its about emotional expression and catharsis, existential exploration, and commentary on the place of man in human society and the natural world.
>>7988274
>an insect
What are some good audiobooks for understanding all of American history.
mildly funny bait
heres a good start
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHywdoaa0E8
You will never understand all of American history?
Is literature obsolete in the internet age?
>>7987130
The internet can be unreliable.
No you pussy. Hypertext literature is the future.
>>7987130
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/07/tom-mccarthy-death-writing-james-joyce-working-google
What section of philosophy, or how would you label self-help books under philosophy categorization?
It has nothing to do with philosophy.
what do people think of critical theory?
the media/culture/society aspect of theory are interesting to me, but i worry i'll have to deal with dogmatic pc sjw bullshit and disrepute the field gets (ostensibly)
how does it compare to a philosophy (analytic) major?
am pursuing econ as well.
Most people seem to only understand it at a very superficial level, applying some concepts here or there to this or that. In the end, none of it makes any sense without a firm philosophical background in everything up to and including the 19th century.
What do you hope to achieve with your economics degree?
>>7987092
>What do you hope to achieve with your economics degree?
a living
i plan on doing a second major in something i'm interested in
>>7987111
focus on your degree m8
if you study too much critical theory you might realize economics is bullshit
Are books written by Robert Greene any good? I've heard mixed opinions about them, and was wondering what you guys think.
>>7987065
I'm a big fan, but don't expect any love from the leftists of /lit/.
"Human nature is a meme"
You are gonna get mixed opinions here as well. Why don't you just fucking read if you want to and make up y our own damn mind
>>7987065
Im not a fan as despite being a history graduate he literally falsifies history when it doesnt suit the arguments he tries to push
How /lit/ is Brendan O'Neill?
>The openness of the internet is too great a gift to let easily offended Guardianistas destroy it. Those of us who stood up to the blue-rinse lobby that wanted to make the internet a safe space for children (ie, drain its sass and danger) must now stand up to the pseudo-liberal lobby that wants to make it a safe space for self-important columnists and feminists (ie, drain its frankness and craziness). The bottom line is this: too much liberty is always, but always, better than too little. In the words of Thomas...
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>>7987053
Sounds like someone who needs to get off twitter and facebook and back into the read world.
Outside of college and social media you dont even run into this shit.
>>7987053
>'Libertarianism'
He's as much of a shill as the Guardian crowd, just a slightly different breed of shill.
Bought it because it sounded interesting, and in the past I have enjoyed surrealist books. Just finished book 1, and am left confused - it hasn't made much sense to me.
Is there any chance that I will begin to understand and enjoy reading it by the end?
>>7987041
Do you like surrealism or not?
>>7987055
I have done in the past, yes.
/lit/, what are good "books to keep on hand'? I thinking books that you can read a small section of, and even skip around, but still enjoy and get something out of it. Probably something that's good to carry around in a backpack, and read bits of when you get a chance, but at the same time "dense" enough to settle in for a long session.
The only books I know of like this are Leaves of Grass and Metamorphoses
The Norton Anthology of Poetry is great for this, you can even get the shorter edition if the size/weight are too much; just turn to a random page, and read a random poem.
>Pic related
Read it when I was young and even back then it was cheesy as hell.
how about a terrible book i didn't enjoy
even when i was 12 i knew it was shit
to this day the trilogy has a 4.32 on Plebreads
this one would be considered good or great by normal standards but would be considered terrible here
thrall and tirion's stories are fun as fug
Hi /lit/, I'm writing a thing about a family and I need to read more novels on the subject.
Please give me advice on books centered around a family. Stuff like Buddenbrooks, As I lay dying. Just lay it on me.
Any time period, any region. I just want some families to read about.
>>7986943
Brothers Karamazov
>>7987374
It's on the list, thank you.
