/lit/ - Literature

>>20498596
Matthew Harris

https://files.catbox.moe/cd0tsi.pdf

>>20292487
he knows the darkness of man's heart

>>20246079

What are some books I should read if I'm not sure what I'm interested in? I want to get autistic about a subject but I simply don't care about anything, probably because I don't even know what I don't know.
I spend most of my time drumming or lifting weights and when I read it's just short stories from collections I have from Kafka, Varlam Shalamov, Chekhov, etc.
Are there any good entry level books about economics, history, art, philosophy, religion or anything really that give a broad view of the subject?

Read something that is not fantasy nigga.

YOU GUYS ARE ALL FUCKING RETARDED
Every single one of you that thinks you have even a chance of coming out ok are fucking mongoloids. It's not the lack of things to do, it's not the lack of people to talk to, ITS THE LACK OF TIME.
In isolation chambers like these, those lights stay on 24/7. That means that not only do you have no idea what time it is, you won't be able to sleep properly and your circadian rhythm will be completely fucked up. THIS WILL GIVE YOU BRAIN DAMAGE AND DRIVE YOU INSANE. It's not a matter of willpower or mental fortitude, your brain cannot operate without some semblance of proper, regular sleep.
EVEN IF you are able to turn the lights off yourself, it won't change the fact that your sleep schedule will be completely nonexistent. You'll be left helplessly guessing how long you've been awake, how long you slept, if you even slept, if you're sleeping right now, how long you've been inside--and all those guesses will be wildly inaccurate. If that doesn't drive you insane, the literal brain damage 100% will.
THE ONLY WAY THIS WOULD BE EVEN REMOTELY DOABLE IS IF THE LIGHTS WERE ON A REGULAR, 24 HOUR SCHEDULE. Then you'd be able to keep track of the days and the nights. But in the examples of these I've seen, they don't grant that luxury.
I give anyone a two week window before they've lost it.
and yes, I am seething. You guys are so colossally stupid and have no grasp on reality.

Have been reading The structure of Scientific revolutions. Anything you'd suggest to delve deeper into this kind of books? Anything that can get me started on the history of science and help me get more and more into details

>>19549184
They also don't know how to use a condom and think giving a small village body count of blowjobs is totally safe.

I really regret fucking women in college man. No regrets with prostitutes who know how to have safe sex. My ex gf would pound her ass to pop every condom through. Sex with prostitutes is just better mechanically. More skill. Less risk. Sure less emotional chemistry but c'mon as if we're having much of that these days without the media turning them into demon voice puppets.

Japs are supreme artistes and I cannot compete. I am nowhere near as spiritually profound and erudite. Just look at these lyrics to a powerlifting banger of an OST:
Long ago, in the distant past, they fell into decay
The philosopher’s path The river of glory
Even the saints resting in the darkness
rise up without response and block the way

Can you hear it,
the silent voice that calls to you?
Can you follow after it,
grasping at the straws of ignorance? (1)

Rage, oh Indra,
with an anger hot enough to burn boulders,
embracing the child of darkness
who swings his sword in the nothingness!

They remain hidden away, unseen even in dreams
The golden flowers The songs of Shangri-La (2)
You are denied even a night of prayer
The rapids of time thrust you ever onward

Can you hear it,
the silent voice that calls to you?
Can you cross over to it,
drinking the water of this impure river?

Rage, oh Indra,
with an anger hot enough to burn boulders,
embracing the child of darkness
who swings his sword in the nothingness!

Protect him, oh Indra,
this ignorant child,
and for but a brief moment,
purge these roads of rage!

—-

Notes:

(1) The “ignorance” that muyou refers to is a kind of spiritual ignorance known as avidya.

(2) Tougen is a shortened form of tougenkyou which, as I mentioned in the translation for Tobira-jima, is also the title of a Chinese fable that tells of a hidden paradise. I chose to translate it as Shangri-La this time for purposes of alliteration.

>cigarette and soda
disgusting

>>19224415
>Most of /lit/ complaining about Nihilism and lost values
>Someone writes a book about values and calls it a stupid meme title so that people buy it
>Nooooo you can’t do that le self help is bad, let me continue to jerk off mentally by just reading and never applying jack shit

>>19189986
Please tell me you have a thick accent
>>19190010
The Strand kinda sucks. And like the other guy said, the point is to socialise, not gawk at books and buy things
>>19192938
I certainly hope so. There seems to be some interest. We'll have to see if it keeps up as we get closer to the end of October
>>19194660
It looks like it's gonna happen at the Ulysses. Pretty decent bar

>>19192936
>Nah dude. As someone who sleeps in a comfy ned everyday, it isn't all it's cracked up to be. You might get that comfy sleep a couple of times, but most of the time it's very hard to fall asleep and surprisingly uncomfortable. You still have to make your bed everyday and actually washing your sheets every couple weeks is always a headache, even with a washing machine.
Go tell this to the methhead hobo who's been sleeping in amazon cardboard for the past 8 years and find joy in the new rusted tetanus blade betwixt thy ribs

book...

>>18962128

>>18754286
The world the french intellectuals wanted is represented in /b/

>>18668737
The Fellowship of the Ring

>>18656227
>>18656260
>HE CANNOT TALK ABOUT ANYTHING
He's reached a dimension of knowledge you wouldn't even be able to imagine. He's decades ahead of you. The fact that you can't understand why he's not able to talk about anything just shows how long of a way you have ahead of you. You might not even make it.
Maybe try actually reading instead of being a dumb faggot.
Also, you have to be over 18 to post here.

You need to edit the last paragraphs of "I have no mouth and I must scream" to match to what would say a man who is severely demoralized about being circumcised to the point of insanity, the last words should end with "I have no foreskin and I must cream".

>Here is the text:
AM has altered me for his own peace of mind, I suppose. He doesn't want me to
run at full speed into a computer bank and smash my skull. Or hold my breath till I
faint. Or cut my throat on a rusted sheet of metal. There are reflective surfaces down
here. I will describe myself as I see myself:
I am a great soft jelly thing. Smoothly rounded, with no mouth, with pulsing
white holes filled by fog where my eyes used to be. Rubbery appendages that were
once my arms; bulks rounding down into legless humps of soft slippery matter. I
leave a moist trail when I move. Blotches of diseased, evil gray come and go on my
surface, as though light is being beamed from within.
Outwardly: dumbly, I shamble about, a thing that could never have been known
as human, a thing whose shape is so alien a travesty that humanity becomes more
obscene for the vague resemblance.
Inwardly: alone. Here. Living under the land, under the sea, in the belly of AM,
whom we created because our time was badly spent and we must have known
unconsciously that he could do it better. At least the four of them are safe at last.
AM will be all the madder for that. It makes me a little happier. And yet ... AM
has won, simply ... he has taken his revenge ...
I have no mouth. And I must scream.

Remember that for this to be possible you need to scan the literature about the harmful physical effects of circumcision, I would also suggest to replace AM with Mom since she inflicted this upon the man.

1. wear shades and neon clothes
2. go to festival
3. take MDMA
4. cede control
5. ???
6. profit