/lit/ - Literature

Im 30 years of my proud life I've never re-read a book, even once

Who /geniusbutdoesntcarejustenjoyspornbooksandvideogames/ here?

>The left side of my brain had been shut down like a damaged section of a spinship being sealed off, airtight doors leaving the doomed compartments open to vacuum. I could still think. Control of the right side of my body soon returned. Only the language centers had been damaged beyond simple repair. The marvelous organic computer wedged in my skull had dumped its language content like a flawed program. The right hemisphere was not without some language – but only the most emotionally charged units of communication could lodge in that affective hemisphere; my vocabulary was now down to nine words. (This, I learned later, was exceptional, many victims of CVAs retain only two or three.) For the record, here is my entire vocabulary of manageable words: fuck, shit, piss, cunt, goddamn, motherfucker, asshole, peepee, and poopoo. A quick analysis will show some redundancy here. I had at my disposal eight nouns which stood for six things; five of the eight nouns could double as verbs. I retained one indisputable noun and a single adjective which also could be used as a verb or expletive. My new language universe was comprised of four monosyllables, three compound words, and two baby-talk repetitions. My arena of literal expression offered four avenues to the topic of elimination, two references to human anatomy, one request for divine imprecation, one standard description of or request for coitus, and a coital variation which was no longer an option for me since my mother was deceased

I'm going to the bookstore tomorrow, don't know what I'm going to buy yet, thinking a few sci-fi novels and maybe some history. Wish me luck.

>read 5 pages
>reward myself with 5 hours of videogames

Priest > Poet > Scholar > Consul > Detective > Soldier

I enjoyed Fall of Hyperion a bit more, Keats is a great character

>>9477307
>solved

ITT: Favourite opening lines


>I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly consider'd how much depended upon what they were then doing;—that not only the production of a rational Being was concerned in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind;—and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions which were then uppermost;—Had they duly weighed and considered all this, and proceeded accordingly,—I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world, from that in which the reader is likely to see me.

>>9419460
>OP makes a thread asking for suggestions
>suggestions follow
>REEEEEEEE REEEEEEEEEEE REEEEEEEEEEEEE [high pitched autismo screech]

>>9384632
Just finished reading Thomas More's Utopia a while ago, about to start with Cicero's letters and Vulgata as light reading. I've been studying latin since february 2016.

>>9314864
>open MS Word
>type "I think therefore I am"
>save the file
>the proposition, which was induced by me, now exists as it's own entity, and can be conjured separately and at random by a souless, unthinking machine
Love it when modern technology and progress B philosophers of the old TFO

>tfw skipped the greeks and started with the romans