/lit/ - Literature

>>19996977
you can consult other sources too, like the technology board, maybe they have some handy little software

>chapter 1

Literature and the fine arts (primarily painting and sculpture) are the only worthwhile media. Film is on the same vapid level as video games.

>>17021818
If she produces something that people buy... in a way, isn't that literally starting a business? I understand she has pimps that distribute her product and gain a portion of the profit, but whether she has a degree or not doesn't seem to have affected her ability to make money.

Anon... do you believe that people without degrees should be filtered from success? Or is there something deeper going on here?....

Oh, shit. I'm in wonder, now. Are you angry that you wasted time and money for something you thought would socially and financially put you above others? Perhaps... with hopes of achieving some sense of renown? I'm sure it was in something real scholarly-like, too.

>>16818837
>but I'm more restrained with feelings and I avoid all emotional vocabulary like mentioning I'm stressed because I perceive that as self-pitying.
I normally am but the matter at hand was related. This isn't just my professors, it's like an "academic mentor"
>I suffer from extreme anxiety and social phobia
That's a pattern, I didn't leave my room for the first week of uni and almost starved to death. I still haven't even spoken to my dorm mates, who, when they first caught me filling my kettle in the kitchen, where confused at first and when I told them who I was they were like "OMG you're the new guy, my friend saw you moving in but then no one saw you since". The next day I heard her knocking on my door and I pretended I was asleep and stayed dead quiet until she left. I think I write those emails like that because I feel what I'm asking for will make a bad impression so I need to dress it up as much as I can, but then I have to make sure it doesn't seem like I want sympathy. So I end up with this weird balancing act of what I'm trying to say, trying to explain why I'm saying, explain why I have to explain. It's probably a result of my EXTREME ADHD where I struggle to filter or control myself. Every time I act strangely, even in complete privacy I debate with myself without its an act for attention or genuine. Am I fucking nutcase or do I just want to be?
>>16818889
>if you know what you're doing wrong, why don't you stop it
I'm mentally ill moron. I've pretty much accepted I'm going to live hated and disliked because I'm chronically unlikable. I'm not mean or malicious, I'm just unintentionally annoying but also boring.

>>16213153
>Be A*/A student during A Levels
>end up fucking the exam and ending up with an A C C
>decide to resit the two Cs
>covid happens and exams are being based on some mock predictions
>exam day
>get two Cs
>they tell me I'm being penalised for being a resit student and that all resit students are just receiving their previous grades
>student outrage about downgrades in general and the government do a U turn and decide to allow for schools to give CAGs(grades based on teacher predictions)
>tiny sliver of hope
>get email that my uni still decided to decline me
>get informed that resit students aren't being awarded CAGs and are just getting the same grades again
This type of shit is what drives people to suicide. I'm now one year older and worse off than I was a year ago. Brilliant. My options are resit again, go to shit hole waste of money uni, fuck off and do something else, or an hero.

>>15872338
Was forced to read it in high school. Don't read it, it is complete shit.
Essentially it's about african savages coming to terms with changing times which stand for modernity and western civilization.
Chinua Achebe and most other african writers is a PROVEN manufactured psyop by the CIA. It's not organic in any way. See links below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG3nKy1oSwM
https://blogs.loc.gov/kluge/2015/02/african-literature-and-the-cia/

>>15787605
>tfw reading speed below the average
Fuck you at least you can keep up.

>>15622028
>>15622048
Actually let me make a correction: I have known people who were smart and smoked weed and then they went too hard into it and became retards and lobotomized themselves. It's good to experiment but being a druggie is low IQ.

>>15596582
>people believing anything but social interactions helps you in social interactions

Hitting the gym, reading etc. might make you more happy with yourself but ultimately it wont really or only marginally help. If you want a woman you should "mingle". Anything else wont help you. If you have the honest willpower you will achieve it. I dont have the honest willpower. I want a gf but I dont will it. What is the difference? To me it would be nice to have, but ultimatly the hassle of having to confront people does outweigh my natural drives. True willpower can not be stopped. If you have it, you will have a gf in a reasonable timeframe. I have never had true willpower- my comfort and fear are greater than my strongest desires. Admitting that will help you. Read nietzsche

>>15569750
Lmao, you fucking loser. The consciousness is all the freedom you need to be happy. You can think can't you? Think outside of your material hell and enjoy sentience: you're too focused on negativity -- even if you were rich or in prison you'd feel the same because you're choosing to be a whiny little gayboy. You know what they say, "A poet in prison is freer than a fool on a field." Enrich your thoughts and cultivate them, it's not hard or even taxing but it's still the most valuable human liberty.

>>15536136
I inherited a lot of books from my manically depressed father. Camus, sartre, grass some really obscure fuckers and so on. He was the ultimate pseud, a dumb fuck and an arrogant piece of shit. When he died I found books on quantum physics in the basement (he barely had a grasp on mathematics). With a look of sheer disgust I threw them in the trash. I enjoy my pocket camus though and some of the obscure books like ibn khaldun. I swear realising how utterly stupid your parents are is the first true step towards adulthood. The idiot had one advantage over me though, he was a fucking player. Despite being married to my mother for more than 20 years he kept multiple love letters he got from some 70s uni-whores. This piece of shit apparently included pablo neruda love poems to his letters. I still remember him telling me, "do you know what schopenhauer said about women?". I remember being absolutely disgusted by it because I always liked my mother more than him. He wanted to be provocative, he never had a genuine conversation with me as he was perpetually stuck in his teen bully phase. Revisiting that schopenhauer aphorism with an adult mindset was trippy to say the least. I had completely forgotten about our little episode. I dislike my mother as well now as any self respecting adult should but my reasoning for that is a lot less entertaining. I thought when somebody dies you often reevaluate your relationship with them but in my case it was not true. All my antagonisms towards him were justified. In fact I regret never punshing him straight to the face.

>>15463547
Pessoa. Definitely.

>>15381241
One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

>>15375209
Poorly, very poorly. I feel like I'm slipping away and that every moment is the last of my life; I feel paranoid; I haven't slept in 38 hours -- I think I might try to become a different person in my sleep: I keep having absurdly long dreams. Sometimes I argue with myself on whether I'm developing a mental illness or that I simply wish that I am because it would give me some kind of solace to the inevitable failure my life is becoming; I'm worried that by subconsciously wishing to be truly mentally ill, I will cross a bridge to which I cannot return. Amazon also lost my books in the mail.