/lit/ - Literature

I wish I had a nice little cozily obscure IRC community to belong to.
I had it once, something born out of unique, unrepeatable circumstances, it was really fun and it was great to have this little corner of reality where you can always retreat from everyday life, in the comfort of your glowing screen at night, among people who are at once strangers and intimately close. It was the cornerstone of my "online experience". Whatever else I was doing, that was always in the background, and always more important. Fun times were had. I don't have it anymore because I stupidly let "real life" pull me away from it and still regret it, years later
I now idle and occasionally spout a line on some IRC channels I really don't care about because there's nothing better. I can't forget that feeling of having that little, uniquely personal space on the web. It really felt great being part of a "secret club" and I wish I could recreate it but it's impossible.

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The Hobbit
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John Williams' The Long Goodbye / Angelo Badalamenti's Fire Walk With Me
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Coffee
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Sleep deprivation
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I think in English, despite it not being my native language and having never been in an English-speaking country.
Is that interesting? Probably not. I'm hard pressed to think of any interesting or even particularly distinct habits I have.

I have a headache again. I really enjoy them. I'd never really thought to wonder why, apart from it giving me an easy excuse for sulkily apathetic behavior. I think I get it now. It makes me more aware of the moment. Alive, present. Mortal. It keeps me concentrated on being, seemingly giving me something I lack in everyday life. Strangely enough, it also helps me think. It appears that sleep deprivation and headaches are the things which most reliably awaken my creativity. If only I knew what to do with it.
I really love the atmosphere this image evokes.

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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera

>the shipping news - proulx
>ideas: a history of thought and invention from fire to Freud - watson
>dunno, maybe I will Continue With The Greeks, read some poetry or sci-fi,bot just listen to some academic podcasts

Looking for books, nonfiction or fiction, where the author did crazy shit for research. Like they joined a cult or got admitted to a psych ward or something just so they could write about it. Thanks.
Also, do you think this approach is retarded? Do you think people could basically get the same information just by researching and applying sufficient imagination? I'm kind of interested in doing something similar

I just started a job that requires me to travel 3 hours every day. What e-reader is the best one?

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