/lit/ - Literature

I have very low verbal IQ. What can I read to remediate this? I have the brainpower to learn multivariable calculus and multiple foreign languages (I'm fluent in English and Spanish, and capable of reading children's books in French), however, when it comes to expressing complex ideas and thoughts I often find myself fumbling for words to accurately say what is in my mind (very often having to look up words or translating ones that accurately express what I want to say from one language to another).

Another problem I have is that the ideas and thoughts I have are extremely simple. For example, when Lolita is discussed on this board (which happens often) my only input is that I really liked the picture Mr. Nabokov painted with his descriptions of 1950's America. That's it. I just don't have anything else to say about it. Or when Blood Meridian is discussed, I really liked how gory and violent it was. That's it.

What can I do to alleviate myself from being such a simple-minded (dumb, perhaps?) person?

He was right.
There is no god, all morals are wrong and evil and man is only man when he gets to determine his own destiny.
He was right.

>Yes, I read Nietzsche
>Not even Nietzsche believed in the will to power and the genealogy wasn’t supposed to be an ethics work

>>17228283
I meant that I want to be dead anon

>>17052819
>Oh, you're ESL. Nevermind then
I will hunt you for sport one day, Americucks

Okay, so academia is dead for the humanities. May it rest in peace. What will take its place?

giterature?

>>16218755
Looks like Mendelssohn's wife

Are there any good books about a 'downward spiral' into suicide? Possibly like a literature version of this album.

>>15904509
>"Military History" -> "HISTORY"
pretty pathetic

>Everything else -> "MISCELLANEOUS"
>no philosophy
>no poetry
>no biblical exegesis
>no scientific magazines
>no natural sciences

>>15882368
this, nietzsche couldn't cope with his incel face

How old were you when you realised that the anti--natalists are right?

>>15695500
For me, it's Edith Stein.

I'm trying my hardest to refute this book but I can't.

Progressives look to the future, conservatives cling to the past, I attempt to look beyond the veil and toward eternity. See beyond ancestral traditions, see beyond idealism, are we not all committing the same sins as our fathers and their fathers before them? It is time to go beyond it all and look towards divine reality. Lest we be trapped in shackles and chains by the will of the dark age and ultimately suffer righteous judgement.

>>15283266
Well sir. I have noticed that you have managed to save the oc i made and did a great honor to me by posting it in your thread. I suppose it is either happenstance that i saw this thread , or my oc is quite the rage.

I am going with happenstance. Be well and carryon. Thank you.

pic related

An unexpected comfy read, though I had an old Cambridge edition with terrible commentary

I have a book project which is fully conceptualized but I need to put in grunt work joining the dots over lockdown. Caffeine isn't really doing the trick, does anyone have experience with ritalin/uppers in general? I'm moderately worried about side effects as I have an addictive personality.

>>15081938
>Based schizo, are you self-medicating?
Why, yes, I have skin in the game. How could you tell?

>>15080128
>What books might reconcile me with (post-) modernity?
unironically this

it's a decent introduction to the work which gets groups together as "post-modernism" and the key ideas therein

>It's not rocket appliances