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What do you do after enlightenment?
>inb4 before enlightenment chop wood carry water, after enlightenment chop wood carry water
I want to evolve on my spiritual path but i feel like meditation is the only thing that will help me in life. There is no amount of knowledge that would add to my situation is there?
>>7815092
I already do that actually.
I'm NEET so i have all the time in the world to read books, go on walks in nature, drink tea, paint, meditate, read books and poems and like you said browse 4chins
>inb4 mad wageslaves lel
Read Energy Work by Robert Bruce.
you don't do
that's the point of enlightenment
you no longer do
questions are asked and you answer and that's it since obviously you can't ignore people but you no longer exist for the self
The ides of March are come, /lit/
and so have i
>>7814872
HE WAS A CONSOLE OF ROME
HE WAS MY FRIEND
FAITHFUL AND JUST TO ME
>tfw full time work will continue to drain every bit if your energy and destroy your writing dreams
>Save up a few grand
>Quit job
>Go to third world country for 3 months and spend the entire time writing.
>>7814394
it's what pinecone did
or, maybe he had a rich dad...
>>7814394
Ive already done the first two steps and am currently at step three I suppose, except that im a native to slavshit eastern europe and have yet to write anything more than 500 words
My girlfriend just dumped me. I also just finished Heart of Darkness.
What book should I read next? I want something that will inspire me to get up off my ass and get out there and not be depressed and fall into self doubt for half a year like I did last time.
Reading isn't going to help you. Just find someone else to attach to. It seems quite easy as I have observed.
the young hitler i knew
A Farewell To Arms
You might find out you weren't actually in love and scare you away from isolating into women.
I love reading Pynchon stoned. I pretty much only smoke weed if I'm going to be reading Pynchon. I read the majority of Gravity's Rainbow stoned and it was an unbelievable experience - the prose was insane. I feel I understood it as well as I wanted to for my first read through, as well.
I know Vineland isn't as good, but I'm trying to read Pinecone chronologically. V. and GR are some of the best books I've read written post 1950's.
I find that Tommy P. makes more sense if I'm high.
I'm calling bullshit on this. Pynchon's prose is like the most unaesthetic thing ever. His narratives are what make him interesting, and I really doubt they can be appreciated while stoned.
>muh enlightening drug meme
Read some poetry on acid instead
Skip to Mason & Dixon. It's the only thing he's written that's as good as V or GR. Against the Day is pretty solid too but I haven't finished it. Maybe check out Tristan Shandy or Barth's Sot-Weed Factor (not actually about weed).
*sniff* *sniff* dat ish why dis ish precishhhly ideology today
*sniff**sniff* yesh, I am a communist, but I must warn you my exsshplanation ish quite a vulgar one.
This is how I imagine /lit/ posters to look and behave.
pleb here
if he is so smart why is he a communist?
also what does pure ideology even mean? Is it a good or bad thing?
Horror general
Discuss literature that provides the most horrific things every brought to the artistic medium
to start things off does anyone know anything that can top I Have no Mouth But I Must Scream? Its concoction of the nuclear apocalypse alone is some of the most impressive I have ever seen, not to mention It's descriptions of each of the survivors and the enigma that is AM is frightful in conception as well as performance, a thing that has the intelligence and power of a god but who's psychological development is stunned and warped creating a thing
Huge horror buff but can't for the life of me say they ever truly scared me. I adore the classics but one I've picked up just the other day called Penpal by Dathan Auerbach. I remembered reading it when it was just a short creepy pasta like thing on reddit. It gained such a following the guy decided to publish. Went ahead and bought the book, still creepy as fuck. I guess realistic horror in the form of broken humanity is still spookier than any fictitious horror. Still remember a part in that book that made me put it down and just breathe for a little while. Gaaah...
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Has anyone here read The Ceremonies? Supposedly it was a success when it came out, but I don't see people talking about it much. I'm very near the end of the book, and I'm loving it.
>>7812458
Never heard of it. What's it about anon? Also what's the writing style like?
Let's see those Friday morning bookshelves, and have some cozy literary discussions.
Currently reading the two on the right, but I've been flipping through some other shorter works recently (some of Borges short stories, Orwell essays, The New York Trilogy, and the odd Shakespeare poem).
Any suggestions for someone starting to feel burnt out on reading? I haven't run into this problem before. What do you anons find works best? Just push forward and get through it, switch to reading shorter stuff, or take a break to recoup your drive?
Lovely collection OP, what translation of the Divine Comedy is that?
My advice would be to just finish what you're reading now and then take a break. Why read if you aren't enjoying it?
>>7798061
Thank you! And, it's the Mandelbaum translation.
That's a fair point, I think I might do that. I've been averaging a book every two weeks or so for several months now, and it's starting to feel more like work than anything at this point. Perhaps a little break would be best.
Though I definitely want to finish Catch-22, first. Despite what I described above, I'm having an extremely fun time with it.
>>7798061
Mandelbaum
ITT we post """""classic"""""" books.
>>7819314
Hey I liked Ethan Frome.
>>7819314
Everything by these three cunts.
>>7819359
Emily is the only one worth reading
>What /lit/ thinks Pynchon is like:
>"Loool, I'll post about myself on /lit/ again!!! *unzips spork* Posting on 4chan while smoking weed and posting Gary Johnson memes is my favourite past time!!?"
>What Pynchon is probably actually like:
>"How did I get on to this /lit/ website? It's filled with degenerates. I never even use the internet either! I'll go and read The New Yorker for thirty minutes before writing an anti-Trump,...
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probably accurate
>>7819067
>Pynchon
>reading the fucking New Yorker
Middlebrow alert! Help, taste police, this man thinks educated people actually read the New Yorker!
>>7819067
>anti-populism
I will never understand the populism is bad meme
his nose literally grows only 2 times throughout the story
for the rest it was bretty ok for child's book
>>7819014
! Is Pinnocchio an analogy for jews?
>>7819039
Nope. He represents the Italian people/nation.
>>7819046
Is that just an alternative interpretation written by jews?
If you had to convince someone to read, what would you say/do?
>>7818925
"You can read this book, or eat all of these eggs. You're free to scream but nobody will hear you."
If u don't read your an faggot
if u read, people will think yuo'e smart, even despite that the average "high browed" author is only maybe slightly a little more intellectigent and perceptive than average..ha ha ha! be sure to peper your speach with obscure references...
watch ...
stirrner: where are the spooks?
prole: hhh... well... here. there are many marxian spooks in the mines, and they are increasingly revolutionary... (etc etc)
any1 who gets this will peg me as a sophisticate for sure
Does any anons here have Everyman's "Notes from underground"?
hello
>>7818904
I have. After twenty pages of autistic rambling I had to put the bloody thing away. I'll stay clear from meme books. Of those of the mad Russian in particular.
>>7819243
How's the translation?Can you take another picture where you can see his full face?
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales – choose your own edition (as long as it’s in Middle English) Some suggestions: Penguin (ed. Mann), Riverside (ed. Benson), Broadview (eds. Boenig and Taylor)
Which of these is the best edition and why?
Riverside. Has all the Tales, and all his other works. Good supplementary additions.
>>7818733
Seconded. You can find cheap used editions in Amazon. It doesnt matter if it's the old one from the 80s, as long as it's the third edition it should be fine.
Why the fuck would you read the Middle English
Is pasifism right or wrong?
We are taught that the right thing to do is to not hit back and just walk away, but countries always go to war.
Man exerts himself over things, things exert themselves over man. Exertion is violence, and violence is everything. Only the dead know the luxury of peace. Those who wish for peace may easily find it by gazing down the barrel of a pistol.
t. me
>>7818818
you combined like 3 famous quotes and pawned it as your own you charlatan
Pacifism is an immoral position, in that it forces other people to defend your rights without any contribution of your own. You can't just stand there and take it on the chin without retaliation and survive in the world, there will always be evil people who will use force to exert their influence over you. By insisting on a pacifist position, you are just passing the buck onto others without taking any risk of your own. Therefore, it is immoral as you insist on having others suffer for your safety.
