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what's the most emotionally devastating book on this list?
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My
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diary
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diary

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What am I in for?
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>>8080092
you're bout to be sent up for twice-nine!
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A bunch of boring vignettes about early 20th century ireland
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>>8080101
This.

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Do you really believe strength and intelligence are mutually exclusive?
Is this just jealousy from weak nerds who want to feel superior?
Or are physically smaller people really smarter than stronger people?
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>>8080076
It's not weight or strength necessarily, but height. Manlets will pretend to read to appear as an intelligent weakling cliche, and thus at least vaguely fit in better.
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>>8080076
Why not both? Its possible if you try and start to walk out of your room and stop eating chips
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>>8080076
Smart people know how easy it is to stay moderately fit, I take it as a starting assumption that fat people especially are less critically engaged

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where to start with burroughs, /lit/?
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This. And then you can move on to the Tarzan series.
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>>8080062
junky
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I've read junky, and I really like it, but I'm not sure about reading Naked Lunch, at least now. It seems to be almost the same(just read foreword). Is my prediction right?

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I have to write an informal essay on anything related to education, any ideas?
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write about the dangers of quantitive easing and how that has led to a liquidity trap which might end up causing the central banks to lose control which might result in another crash
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>>8080031
What does that have to do with education
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Anyone

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Recommend me good books on morbid reality: war, genocide, cults, natural disasters, mental illness, poverty, famine, crime, etc.
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>>8079944
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The 3rd harry potter is fucked uppppp
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>>8079944
The Recognitions
The Tunnel
Women and Meme

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you guys keep hurring and durring about how great this book is but it's boring as hell. i thought this was fiction too, i don't get it.
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I shitpost here about 12 hours a day and i've never seen this book
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>>8079865
So funny I forgot to laugh!
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Let me try to explain your circumstance in a mathematical formula:

e * [ (memed)^2/(ln(47)^-10E23) ]

>Anon, what experiences fuel your fiction and poetry? Oh, you had a middle class childhood and went to university? I was part of the 101st airborne division...
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your mother's Grande Pussy fuels eternally my inner fire
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I'm a psychoanalyst and have been judging the temperament of this board.

Posts such as these show signs of deep insecurity and a misrepresentation due to fear instilled when young (often by parents) that people are naturally going to be condescending, rude, hurtful.


I recommend a therapist
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>life experience directly translates to the quality of your work

Are you seriously serious?

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What does lit think about Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)?
After reading it, I wasn't too sure whether I enjoyed it. I seemed to find other lighter novels on existentialism, namely The Myth of Sisyphus, far more pleasing to the mind. Nausea was a bit too hard hitting for my liking, it seemed to change my outlook on life completely.
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>>8079759
Are you memeing? Don't read existentialist fiction if you don't want to be disturbed, especially Sartre he's a sadist
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>>8079759
Sartre was a no-talent hack. Avoid.
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How old was he when he wrote Nausea? It has this youthful angst to it, even though the protagonist seems to have spent a lifetime aimlessly wandering.

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> He is a writer, art historian, and photographer.

> He is the Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College and photography critic of the New York Times Magazine.

More here: http://www.tejucole.com/
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>>8079732
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Get some taste you poor bastards.
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>>8079736

Glasses that make your eyes seem smaller are always pig-disgusting

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Good at what he does, but what he doesn't isn't really worthwhile
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interesting but really haphazard, he fills people with tons of pop sociological ideas that people think are huge, world changing revelations but are actually only half explained in the book with any opposing evidence omitted, leading to stuff like the 10,000 hour meme (already proven wrong), the "50 person" meme (insanely dubious)

read his books, then read the supporting and opposing evidence
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>>8079612
he looks like simon and garfunkel merged together in a transporter beam accident

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>book doesnt have emojis

why are publishers so behind the times?
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>book doesn't give the option of upvoting sentences and paragraphs I think are mad cool
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>can't search and replace the n-word with something less barbaric
why are pl*bs still using paper format books again?
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>>8079604
i never understood this image. what is happening?

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Why are notable young authors almost non-existent? Age or life experience shouldn't be a deciding factor into what makes an author great.
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>>8079583
>he doesn't know that you'll never be great if you aren't published and acclaimed by age 25
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Luna Miguel, I know you're reading this. Don't post in here, you have NO DISCERNIBLE TALENT.
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>>8079583
It depends on the circumstance

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Is there something to read beyond Nietzsche? I've been on the train of Philosophy since the start and I think this is the final station.I've been told Heidegger but does he really add up anything substantially new?
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>>8079498
kill yourself
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Sam Harris
Stefan Molyneux

These 2 are the philosophical descendants of Nietzsche. True thinkers in the best sense. And we are lucky enough to have them around today and see them actually speak and so on.

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>I don't really look up to anybody, I guess I have some favorite people that I like a lot. But I don't emulate anybody, I'm not that fascinated by human achievements. At one point in my life I was more inspired by people but as I've grown humans stopped being my source of inspiration. It's all internal.

Was he right?

Do you agree with him or not?
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>>8079376

> The kingdom of God lies within

The more i read the work of these philosphers, the more i think that they probably just needed Jesus in their life.
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That's not Stirner.
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How can I agree or disagree?
Jesus phrase your shit better

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