/lit/ - Literature

I'm a old loser.
How do I become mr philosophy doctor so I can be a teacher or something?
As quick as possible
Can I get into a program without a bachelors if I self study?

I want to spend years studying the most key complete philosophers
I want the list to be short so I can gain depth not breadth
Is
Plato Aristotle Aquinas Hegel
Good enough
I wanna be smart like you guys I wanna do something with my life but I'm like a pencil neck lover so this is all I got.

I don't wanna do English doesn't sit right wit me

I wanna self study hard and get into a good university any of them even if it's not American

Without an objective moral grounding via theism, what is there stopping one from adopting Holden's worldview?

It baffles me how socially clueless, even gullible men have girlfriends and come here asking for advice on what I assume would be basic social awareness in a relationship, while I am here as a KHV, and never had a girlfriend.
Maybe being a genuine sperg is how one gets with girls these day.

>>21029552
> Lack of real life experience and this massive exposure to fiction leads to people thinking that they know what they want
The seems like a recurring theme in Dostoevsky's works. I have yet to read Notes from the Underground but I've read a similar analysis given to the protagonist of that book. Reminds me of pic rel, I guess. This "penance" phrase is probably much tougher for young adults of the modern era, who consume much more fictional media, which also tends to be much more fantastical and escapist in nature. I'm glad I ditched anime before my 20s, even at the expense of being able to relate to my peers, but that was when I've started to become more interested in literature and even now I find myself looking at my life as though it was a novel of sorts, with recurring themes and motifs and symbols. Fortunately I have the awareness to know all that is retarded.

>>20924470
I feel the same way. I wonder if the normies also feel this way or if they genuinely enjoy all the pointless small talk and socialization? Today while I was waiting for class to start (and reading a book) I overheard two students talking to each other. They were both talking about classes and were complaining to each other how hard the material was. It seemed like such a pointless thing to discuss. One of the guys clearly seemed distraught about his academic performance though, the way he talked to some stranger who had just sat down next to him was a bit too awkwardly intimate, but it seemed like he had been bottling up those feelings forever and finally had someone to tell about his difficulties with his studies. He wasn't no phony. They talked until they had to go to class. In the end I suppose that wasn't much difference from me reading a book until class started. Socialization is just like any other surrogate activity. A pointless thing to do to pass time.

Catcher in the Rye

>>20789615
oh. nvm I just hate John Lennon even more now. I wish I was the one to kill him. I'm jealous of Mark David Chapman now. I would've made Holden Caufield so proud.

>>20625601
>phony

The Catcher and the Rye, Jane Eyre, The Water Babies, Anne of Green Gables, The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan, the Oz books, the Narnia books, etc.

What marks a children's novel as literary, or even classic, rather than a YA genre work?
Is it originality, like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland? Is it popularity combined with time?
Is it a sliding scale, gradient, continuum between "children's literary fiction" and "YA genre"?
What are the telltale signs of an amateur?
Will Harry Potter be called a classic after JK Rowling dies, or is it slotted neatly within the YA genre of the British school story, among other series such as Enid Blyton's Malory Towers?

>goddamn
>hell
>damn

Immaculate vocabulary.

You got filtered

I wanted him to get it together

He never got it together

Maybe I'l never get it together