/lit/ - Literature

>>15530447
Rioters are half-assed insurgents, same way cops are half-assed armymen. No one has the follow through or dedication to commit seriously to their role. This entire shitshow will be completely fruitless. Just another theater play like every other day. Rodney King 2.0 but with less drive.

she likes reading and is done with all the classics for kids (harry potter, agatha christie, lord of the flies etc). she’s pretty smart so i thought she could handle crime and punishment but i guess that was a big miscalculation from me. she wasn’t too into brave new world when i gave that to her either. what books should i get her to read to help her as a stepping stone?
pls no CitR, giving her that would be the equivalent of telling her to listen to panic at the disco and it would probably set her back a year.

>23 almost 24
>was briefly engaged and common-law married but she wanted to live in the city and focus on her career and being with her and living that life made me feel like a loser
>get bullied out of college, screwed up one shot at academia and now stuck in an endless stream of repetitive, dead-end manual labour jobs
>currently living in parents basement as a NEET while I try to self-study the equivalent of a college education
>parents will kick me out in a couple months once my sister comes home from University
>hair is starting to thin out
At least I'm kind of popular with women I guess. My plan is to move to Europe and completely fabricate my background while I try to charm/sleep my way up the social ladder.

At least you aren't me, and I don't even dislike my life that much. What you should do is read the unabridged autobiography of Casanova, it will teach you more about life than life ever could, and it's insanely long so it will keep you busy for a solid year by the end of which you'll have an intimate knowledge of 18th century Europe.

>>12673061
I don't think you're gross, I think your life is gross. The way your parents subtly manipulate you into this academic career, and the way you use this over-socialized careerism to deflect inherited feelings of low self esteem and guilt, the cosmopolitan west coast city lifestyle. All of it is something I saw a lot of while I was university, and seems endemic in academia as a whole. It's a sad state of affairs. No disrespect intended.

FWIW I didn't read the last three lines of your greentext till now. It gets meme'd a lot, but you should really read Industrial Society and It's Future (if you haven't already), I feel like it would resonate with you.

>>12671987
Stifled ambition is a horrible thing, bitterness is expected. The extent you project onto my life is remarkable. Did your father not love you enough as a child?

>>12673639
Spanish, French, Portuguese, and the obvious. My current plan is to work and study for the next ten or so months, live cheaply, and then take off for Italy and North Africa to pick up Italian and Arabic. While learning a whole different family is a pain in the ass, it's also a lot of fun. I've recently been reading a book of rudimentary Ancient Egyptian grammar/vocab and it's quite fascinating. The way you would read their hieroglyphs could be in any direction, but you have to associate the images in the correct way so that you read animal pictographs head to ass. They don't include vowels (much like Arabic, and other Semitic languages), so academics are at a loss as to what the language actually sounded like. The most interesting thing though, is that they would use symbolic pictograms at the end of certain words, to add an extra layer of meaning to it. For example, taxes could be ended with a pictogram of a man with a whip, and while it would be pronounced the same when spoken, it would have an obvious textual political message. The question of how the language developed is also an enigma, because while some words are obviously phonetic and others obviously symbolic, there are a bunch of phonetically composed words which also have symbolic images within them (for example, wine containing the symbol for mouth composed alongside the symbol for wicker stool, while work is literally symbol for soul and the symbol for a loaf of bread composed together). For me what's really helped is to get a good book an a language and really just skim it the first go around. Get a feel for the art of the language, how sentences and words are composed, the regularities and quirks, to try and understand a bit the soul of the language before jumping into the hard work of memorization and practice.

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>>12332475
Thank you for ruining my day.