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How does /lit/ deal with living with non-literary roommates?
I'd like to find someone who can enjoy classical, art, and philosophy to a similar degree, but as a student, most of my friends are too broke to get a place together, and we're all subjected to worse conditions.
Maybe share some bad experiences for entertainment?
Everyone in university is a hipster cunt and makes for awful roommates
>>7894995
I haven't gotten that far, I'm still an undergraduate studying at a JC. It's a completely different experience when you've got one foot in academia and the other in "the real world". It's made me far more moderate than liberal and fairly cynical of humankind. Most people capitalize by exploiting students in my condition and I do shit work for little pay.
>>7894995
Do you have stories?
What's on your reading list /lit/?
I'm currently going through
>although of course you end up becoming yourself by David Lipsky
>infinite jest by dfw
>if I did it by oj simpson
>without a doubt by marcia clarke
>brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Just finished Miss Lonelyhearts, about to start the day of the locust.
books I want to read soon:
>Death of Ivan Ilych, Hadji Murad
>Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
>Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>The Big Sleep
>The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
>Stories of J F Powers
>Flannery O'connor short stories
>Oblivion
>Welcome to NightVale by Joseph Fink
>14 by Peter Clines
>A dirty Job by Christopher More
>Velveteen vs. The Junior Super-Patriots by Seanen McGuire
Hey guys I just wanted to ask a general question about Everyman’s library.
Are all their translations good?
Covering french works like Les mis and Dumas as well as the russians, dosto, tolstoy etc?
And then the spanish ones aswell fx Borges?
Their covers are phenomenal
And the binding isn't bad either
Not all of their translations are good. The ones for Mann, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy are top notch, though.
>>7894976
How about those for the french novelists, Dumas Hugo etc, or the real classics, Homer VIrgil Dante etc?
Is the pequod just one person?
No it's a boat
dafuq?
>>7894970
Enschuldigen Sie, bitte?
Why didn't anyone tell me this book is so fucking funny?
>>7894949
Because you have no friends.
I picked up this book some 5 years ago and it's the only book I have ever put down and never finished. I liked the WW1 parts a bit.
>>7894968
Reading Céline at 10? That's ambitious.
hey niggers, hope we are all well.
What's the best online dictionary available to a noob bitch like me. happy slapping.
Please don't say nigger on this board.
Yeah there's better ways to try to fit in, at least around here.
>>7894855
exactly.
we're too high brow for niggers.
What would you define "middlebrow" as?
>>7894779
Between highbrow and lowbrow.
>>7894783
classic
I'm trying to find an ebook/.pdf for Difference and Repetition.
It's fine if it's a legitimate link that I have to pay for, I'm sure it'll be cheaper than buying a physical copy anyway. It doesn't seem to be on the typical ebook sites/stores.
This has about the first 30 pages or so but that's about it.
http://topologicalmedialab.net/xinwei/classes/readings/Deleuze/Difference-and-Repetition/English/DifferenceRepetition01.pdf
Also, if you guys have any specific thoughts about him, and specifically this text, I'd...
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http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=4E433EF6E56EDD2DB0E903B3C21B6277
stop being a c u c k
>>7894791
Whoa, cool, thanks!
Deleuze is a schizophrenic who took his own mind to be representative of social reality.
>book contains a talking cat
>op reads murakami
>the book's main character does drugs
>>7894758
>he's talking about a jabberwocky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUnqbBgYZmI
Books you regretted buying.
I'll start.
I was thirteen and I knew it was shit.
>>7894765
my 37 year old friend bought those books for me with a hearty recommendation. she has a phd
>>7894745
i like king but that new collection was pretty mediocre
What is a book I can read to help me overcome my realization that I'm a fraud?
I'm specifically referring to saying you'll accomplish something but never doing it and putting off your hopes/dreams for so long until you realize you don't care anymore.
You aren't a fraud, you're procrastinating indefinitely. That isn't fraudulent, it's lazy. Chances are, you know you don't have talent and so are afraid to even start something.
You special snowflake baby bitch.
>>7894708
either enlighten me or kill me
>>7894726
Nobody cares enough to do either.
Do it yourself. Or don't.
What are some good non-German philosophers (besides the Greeks)? Getting tired of all philosophical discussion being a circlejerk over Kant or Hegel or Schopenhauer or whomever.
Confucius
zniffzek
George Santayana.
What are some essential Christian fanfic? Already read Paradise Lost and The Divine Comedy.
>>7894658
You can try the sequel to Paradise Lost, paradise found if you like milton.
>>7894658
Godric by Frederich Buechner
>>7894658
Does Doctor Faustus Count?
I don't get his works. I seriously don't. How the fuck do I understand Hegel?
You don't. You read Schopenhauer and realize how much of a greater mind he was.
>>7894630
Hegel wrote unintelligible horseshit. He was the Heidegger of his age, as it were.
You get into alchemy, and then you read his works. Trust me.
Is there any literature dealing with the immense urge to do something yet not having any outlet for it so you shitpost into an impotent rage?
does it feel like you have no mouth, but you must scream?
>>7894622
Kind of
Notes from the Underground
