/lit/ - Literature

>>5109299

One time I drove to uptown and settled into a bar. A man 12 years my senior hit on me and bought me drinks. I was writing, and he was curious. I'm not used to being bought drinks.

I drove home after the bar closed. I was on probation.


One time I blacked out and attempted to evade arrest in my car. I came to my senses driving in on a college lawn and parked on the wrong side of the street, where I was arrested at gunpoint. Spent 2 nights in 2 jails. That was fun.


I drank a 1/2 a 5th of another guy's whiskey after pounding an unknown amount of unremembered liquid. I ended up being convinced to drink a bowl of water as if it were wine, then was driven home raving about suicide. That was a bad time.


The best story? No alcohol:
One time, I wanted weed, but all I could get was K2. Outside the shop was an opportunistic random minority man who wished me to drive him to his friend's house, he told me I could score there. So I drove a random man to a random house, where he got me a 1/4 oz weed for a good price. I went home and was sated.


huh

>>5108117

I assume inability to properly associate stimulus and qualify them would lead to a low IQ.

I also assume that there is a proper method to teach them. Depending on the severity of their schizophrenia.

>>5105425

Ehh I'm kinda similar.

It's more "instant inspiration drawn from novelty/overexposure".

Allows quick connections that make the point which may/may not be forgotten.

>>5109252

http://mith.umd.edu/eada/html/display.php?docs=cortez_letter2.xml

Culture Destruction:
http://www.edurich.net/hansonj/aztecs/aztec_webpage/lesson/primary_source1.htm

http://www.edurich.net/hansonj/aztecs/aztec_webpage/lesson/broken_spears.htm

Fuckin' PBS walkthrough:
http://www.pbs.org/conquistadors/cortes/cortes_flat.html


whatever more elsewhere

>>5109157

Read: Hunger Artist.

Then just whatever.

>>5108811
The Post Office

>>5108764

The men who flew planes into towers spoke nothing to become canonical in our history.

Titian worked for commission.

Very few write to become canon, and those men who do are either deluded or prophetic/unique.

Since we all die, there's no shame in contributing a small amount. I wonder how many Greats would trade more life for less posthumous fame.

>>5109223

*Jared Diamond

>>5108307

haaaa
you lost

>>5109183

Really interesting how the communication of disease across continent(s) implies such broad connection/communication between people(s)

>>5104830

How dare you call that hackwork.

I loved the word kipple.

I enjoyed the migration aspect.

I loved the value he gave life and the strange practices he gave society.

It was a cool book. PKD does cool shit.

But I also love Blade Runner.

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>>5109167
>>5109167
Sweet sweet context

>>5108582

>>5107809

>>5109152

What a fucking scene you built.

>>5108386
>>5108394

Sorry,

I finished the bottle and aborted the conversation.

I wish you well.

>>5109108

You fucking know he was a vector of their demise.

>>5109091

2 good responses. Read both in high school.

Candide isn't long, but it's hilarious and good. Voltaire can play with words. Or his translator.

>>5109043

thucydides peloponnesian war

but there's a lot more in that

Also, Bella Gallica - Caesar is pretty awesome.

Probably read the history of Mao, Ho Chi Minh, the Taiping Rebellion is nuts but different.

Ionno.

>>5108572

Or maybe... a Michael Crichton book.

Timeline, Prey, Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park.

hell, even Travels is good.

Elon "Fucking" Musk.

PhD Applied Physics

Co-Founder of Tesla, PayPal, SpaceX.

Multi Billionaire investor, holder/co-creator of many patents, some of which he just made public property.

I consider the man a polymath.

>>5108964

How is it in English?

I can't believe no one's said it: Seven Pillars of Wisdom - T.E. Lawrence.

The man fucking wrote a serious, talked-about book.

I've not read it. I've bought it. It's in my "to do" stack.

>>5108948

I've read only Dune.

I don't know know about the other words in your description.

What have you read?

Where philosophy and science bind to project futures? Or permutations?