/lit/ - Literature

How do I start writing?

>>7521527
Mandatory essays testing basic reading comprehension as captchas

>Wake up
>wish more than anything in the world that I could sleep for the rest of my life
>coffee and a cig
>egg on toast
>walk to the bus stop
>school
>2 hours between classes for lunch and reading
>get home
>it begins
>smoke weed
>go inside and shitpost for a half hour
>smoke weed
>watch mindless television
>smoke weed
>video games with the roommates
>smoke weed
>play the same 10 songs on my acoustic guitar over and over again
>smoke weed
>smoke weed
>smoke weed
>jack off until I'm covered in sweat
>collapse into bed as I feel myself drift toward annihilation
>10 hours of blissful dreamless sleep
>dragged back into the world kicking and screaming
>begin to wake up but force myself to go back to sleep because sleep is bliss
>wake up
>wish more than anything in the world that I could sleep for the rest of my life
>etc

>>7356200
/pol/ was right

Gets me every time

>>7328843
It's the equivalent to young adult philosophy and if anything it will only make the complex works more confusing

desu if you're intending to read heavier stuff later I'd recommend something which deals with complex themes but is told in a relatively simple way

Literature wise I would say short stories are your best bet. Joyce's Dubliners along with Hemingway and Kafka are all excellent and their prose is as coherent and understandable as anything else

Philosophy is a bit tougher, but when in doubt start with the Greeks is never bad advice. If that doesn't cut it for you then a general Philosophy 100 textbook would be a good jumping off point.

Camus, Nietzsche and Sartre are all a nice blend of the two, the existentialists usually had a more romantic/literary approach to philosophy and it's endearing to many. Thus Spoke Zarathustra and The Trial are both excellent and require little to no prior philosophical knowledge

>If you had a chance to 'blaze it' with any literary character of your choice (real or fictional, living or dead, doesn't matter) who would it be?

I'd want to smoke weed with Pynchon and just watch cartoons in silence

But my ideal drug + literary figure combination would be doing mescaline and talking phenomenology with Sartre

>What are the most patrician drugs?

Objectively DMT, least amount of sensual pleasure/most amount of soul forging

>Suggested book- mind-altering substance pairings?

Weed and the hobbit for a nice cozy rainy day read

If you can handle reading Phenomenology of Spirit on any psychedelic you're entire world view will be irrevocably altered

>most /lit/ strains of kush?

Girl Scout Cookies for that bohemian cotton candy lifestyle

>what is pynchon on?

Weed and apathy

>where can I get DMT?

If you aren't a pleb you can make it semi-legally

> Is Datura truly the final boss of psychs and the most patrician drug of them all?

No, just notoriously unpleasant and difficult to manage

>>7204143
>Opium Merchant tier
>Heroin Recreational tier

Son...

Bed

Night’s shade; black repose
Refuge from all worldly woes
Where angels and devils dance the tarantella

Lazarus; grandfather figure
Where the oaken well of the bedside table
Supports the falling hand of time

Schopenhauer; endless fall
I never cease to need to sleep
A fiend, I take a lasting steep

Bed

Night’s shade; black repose
Refuge from all worldly woes
Where angels and devils dance the tarantella

Lazarus; grandfather figure
Where the oaken well of the bedside table
Supports the falling hand of time

Schopenhauer; endless fall
I never cease to need to sleep
A fiend, I take a lasting steep

Help me /lit/

How can I know without a doubt that there was a world before I began perceiving it?

Is it really so hard to believe that three fingers can be pointing in the same direction?