/lit/ - Literature

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>/lit/, how did your love for books start?

School.

I didn't particularly like reading, but at age 7 I'd far outstripped my classmates and my teacher bought the first 3 books of 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' for me to read while she taught the class. After I finished those I realized how much fun reading could be, and then started to pick books off the shelf for myself, the first three of which were White Fang, Call of the Wild, and Robinson Crusoe.

>Unrelated, but how do I quit video games to read more?

"Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions: as the habit of walking, by walking; of running, by running. If you would be a reader, read; if a
writer, write. But if you do not read for a month together, and instead do something else, you'll see what will be the consequence.

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Upon the whole, then, whatever you would make habitual, practise it; and, if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practise it, but habituate yourself to something else."

-Epictetus, 'Moral Discourses'

Never.

Even the female 'professors' at my university are intellectually pathetic enough that I can regularly humiliate them by demonstrating their profound lack of understanding in just about everything.

The only area in which women have surpassed me is in social skills.That's due to an inherent low cunning rather than intelligence though.

>"Nature has not destined them, as the weaker sex, to be dependent on strength but on cunning; this is why they are instinctively crafty, and have an ineradicable tendency to lie. For as lions are furnished with claws and teeth, elephants with tusks, boars with fangs, bulls with horns, and the cuttlefish with its dark, inky fluid, so Nature has provided woman for her protection and defence with the faculty of dissimulation, and all the power which Nature has given to man in the form of bodily strength and reason has been conferred on woman in this form. Hence, dissimulation is innate in woman and almost as characteristic of the very stupid as of the clever."