/lit/ - Literature

>>22044466
>age
25
>profession
Excel babysitter
>best book you've read
Toss-up between The Phenomenology of Spirit in Deutsch and Finnegans Wake.
>worst book you've read
My own.
>languages that you can read in
English, German, French, Spanish, Latin, and a smattering of about 10 others.
>sexual fantasy / fetish
Footjob.

>>21976268
You should go back to where you came from then if you can't take the heat. I'm serious about books and I don't need literal randos coming in here with ill-informed opinions who just began their literary journey last Tuesday. It's interlopers and usurpers like you who are bringing down the quality of this board (not that it was any good to begin with) and I'm tired of having to point out why this particular author is bad and this one good to philistines who wouldn't know the difference either way. If you wanted to learn, having just come from /fit/, you would've shown a little more humility and not come out boldly with such a medieval abstrusiosity as "muh atmosphere." It'd be like if I came to your board and started talking about dumbbells and weights as a twink who just joined the gym and had no muscles. Think about it in those terms and you can see why I'm fucking peeved.

>>21974412
>marginal gains
>maybe
>might
You've convinced me. I hereby dedicate the rest of my life to slaving at my job in the hopes that I "might" be happy and "maybe" won't want to end myself. Truly, thou art the man. You've solved it entirely. You've really done it. If I had just had the foreknowledge and resolve to understand that all my problems could be solved by being micromanaged for the rest of my life, I wouldn't be in this rut. Clearly you have some preternatural prescient intelligence that I can only guess at. Everyone here, please read this. He says we "might" and "may" enjoy ourselves for once with our "marginal gains"! Three cheers for Mr. Marginal!

>>21972514
I just did elaborate the why. Right in front of you. But you can't see it because you're incapable of comprehension. You're doing the exact same thing you're accusing me of, hypocrite.
>and her hands like those of the statues of martyred Christians turned outward in all their beckoning towards the foundation of the world where sorrow finally is.
At this rate, McCarthy needs to hire me for all the work I'm doing for him.

>>21971300
No worries. I'm actually embarking upon a reading of Hegel which I've set aside some months for. Currently going through the Cambridge Companion first to get some insight and context. Primarily I want to understand what the nature of these questions is, what consciousness and self-consciousness are, and what we mean when we talk about God. I hope at some point to come back to you all to discuss my findings.

Thank you for being reasonable. You'll have to let me know how Golden Bough goes. I've not read it but have always heard about it.

>Man at the stall, another in a hall, both sharing solitary appall.