/lit/ - Literature

>>10789041
Writing analysis essays are hard, especially when you’re trying to make them funny. I have so many books on the back log that I read and need to write about and so many books I have but haven’t read yet. Who knew this Anthony Fantano shit would be so hard

>>10789041
Life is unbearable at this point, I don't have time to read nor study. Nothing feels good anymore and people treat even when I'm kind.
Fuck everything, I wanna zone out for a while so I'll take some acid and play visual novels.
Hopefully that will do the trick, if not I might as well kill myself by overdose.

>>10789041
avanti popolo alla riscossa sieg heil sieg heilPer il duce per il Partito Comunista della Cromosomista Reppublicca Zaratustringa

well, my mom bought me Jordan Peterson's future authoring program. ive spent some time in it but the first question is describe a situation where my ability to stay calm helped me. i spent 10 minutes thinking and cant come up with any situations.

>>10789041
>tfw no gf

>>10789096
>Cromosomista Reppublicca Zaratustringa
figo, dove firmo?

>>10789096
Se voti tu anche alle bestie dovrebbe essere permesso.

>>10789066
gay kys
>>10789096
kys fascista
>>10789103
kys tfw no gf poster

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>>10789114
>>10789104
le donne non ci vogliono piu bene perche noi CROmosoma !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>10789121
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In a not too distant future books will be no more.
Often cited reasons for this decline in readership are the advancements of other media; film & Television, internet /social media etc etc

For decades the decline of males reading has been becoming more & more pronounced.
According to a 2016 survey of the U.S publishing industry, white women make up 80% of those staffing the industry.

Very few people are talking about this, that publishing has become a gynocentric arena catering for female readership while males are put in niche "genre's" & possibly the reason males are reading less than ever is because stories that are more likely to appeal to men are not being perceived by the female agents/editor gatekeepers to the industry.

What are /lit/ thoughts on this?

>>10789131
kill women, of course

i shouldn't have pulled my pud so hard, now the things all red and marred.

>>10789137
besides that
>>10789131
probably need to pull the plug on civilization for a few thousand years

There are two semi hot emo chicks on my couch right now.
Im horny af.
How to proceed.
Come on brain, stop being a faggot.

I've finally come up with a reading list for 2018:
>March: Euripides
>April: Hesiod and start with the Presocratics
>May: Presocratics
>June: Aristophanes and Xenophon
>July: Isocrates and Homer
>August: Apolodorus' Bibliotheca and Plato
>September: Plato
>October: Aesop and Aristotle
>November: Aristotle
>December: Aristotle
I plan to read the complete works of each author I mentioned. How doable/realistic does this look if I plan on reading 1-2 hours a day?

>>10789041
I'm surrounded by nothing but either brainlets who only care about sports and material acquisition or "educated" people who mindlessly parrot whatever the person representing their echo chamber of choice says verbatim and treat it like gospel. Places like this are the only place I can have a meaningful or productive conversation with anyone.

>>10789041
>my response to https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/03/the-rapid-descent-of-quinn-norton-shallow-thinker.html

Wanting to avoid Problematic editorials in the future, NYT disarms itself. Norton writes what she means, sometimes insensitively so, and the mob burned her in effigy for it. If politics twitter is not going to engage in a sincere dialectic then what is the point? Will the blue team shun nazis, continue to be infallible, and just pat itself on the back forever? So far that has only galvanized the Weimar crowd.

Norton speaks her mind indelicately, seemingly without regard for backlash from those who ostensibly would be her people but for her straying from the approved friends list and the echo chamber. Journalists should not be subjected to political purity tests or the cohort will continue to cannibalize their own. While that appeals to extremists and the insincere, and it might even work for smaller magazines, the press should operate in good faith with the public and not function as a mouthpiece for its subscribers.

>>10789439
sorry bruv, i know that feel exactly

>>10789121
(u)

I can't see anything ahead in my future. I've probably ruined my life for good and robbed my parents of a huge amount of money for the eight years they'be supported me trough school.

>>10789244
i think i got pretty high since i first thought about responding to your post, anon, i hope you're knee deep in netting and covered in strange shades of lipstick by now. remind them the universe is nearly infinite and we are nearly infinitesimal in comparison so it doesn't matter if we fuck if you're still just staring at your phone.

i feel awful, all of my plans fail before they've even started, i have nobody irl, i spend my time alone in my bedroom talking to people on the computer, i've started drinking recently, not a lot but just enough to calm me so i'm not just anxiously sat there with my heart beating out of my chest worrying over life passing me by

i haven't had an actual verbal conversation with someone in months (outside of small talk)

each time i even speak to a store clerk it's a nice little release, i always end up being almost too honest with them (i'll say i never socialise much)

>>10789511
Thats not bad man. One of them already left with another guy at the party. I gave the second one a drink and said hi.
She is in the chair across from me.

We have a diborane generator that produces vast quantities of this pyrophoric gas. I'm always marveling that all it takes is a crack in a flask or a bad seal and our lab goes sky-high in beautiful green flames. It's disorienting to think that I teeter constantly on the edge of catastrophe.
that's all I wanted to say thanks

My gf listens to maroon 5, now I think about her everyone I listem to it. Fuck

>>10789642
are you a time traveler from 2010?
why would you ever have to listen to maroon 5?

>>10789610
>Thats not bad man.
getting high's always a pretty safe bet for good times. save that nugget of wisdom for future reference though and talk to that bitch. it's too big a universe to not talk to bitches right in front of you
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSR5TnNGKmo

Thanks man. I asked her outside for a cigarette. We got talking.
Shes in the bathroom with her friend now. Im gonna go try put in that work homie. Peace out yo.

>>10789041
YAS QUUEN SLAY QUEEN
YAAAAAAAAAAAS

>>10789091
stop masturbating so much!

>gf used to be a whore and can't drink around men

Ffs

>>10789883
was she literally a whore?

>>10789883
biological slut lol

>>10789883
Nice

>>10789888
Not literally, just got around.

>>10789939
so you get sex without having to pay for even drinks? nice

>>10789389
>1 whole month for euripides
>1 and 1/2 for the complete works of plato
if you do both in the same pace, I think there is no way you can finish plato in just 1 and 1/2 month. Not trying to discourage you, but I think it would take 2~3 months at 1~2 hours a day, his complete works is very extense, so either save more time for him or only read the more known/important works.

Aristophanes' complete works are very short, so is Hesiod's, you can literally read Theogony and Works & Days in one afternoon. On presocratics, I don't know what you intend to read (you know that no presocratic work survived besides fragments, right?) but generally 1 work on their philosophy is already enough, you shouldn't need a whole month for it (The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists for instance, 400 pages).

Aristotle very likely will take more than that too, his complete works is as extense as plato, but 10x more dense. Can't comment on Xenophon, Isocrates, Apolodorus and Aesop.

Just one question, why are you not starting with homer? godspeed

I just finished watching Trainspotting with my sister and I suddenly got depressed.
Decent film btw.

>>10789950
was literally in the same spot about a month ago, watch trainspotting with my sister and it out me in a little bout of reflection purely because I could relate to it so much, I've let degeneracy and bad choices ruin all my relationships and thought processes.
it was the 4th time I've watched the film but some reason this time it hit really hard

>>10789096
fucking mexicans

>>10789131
They said the same about vinyl. Now it's over a billion dollar industry. Anything collectible maintains staying power over time. Now whether they'll actually be read depends entirely on new forms of tech interfacing, i.e. cerebral circuitry, direct download, etc. etc. But for the next quarter century, books will assuredly remain relevant.

>>10789244
Just start making out with one by using the power of strategic silence. Sexual tension rests on deliberate pauses.

>>10789968
I didn't like the film that much honestly, I've found it too forced in some parts (the part when the baby dies in particular). I felt like it tries to show how miserable junkies are while at the same time it paints them with an aura of "coolness".
The depression came mainly from the fact that all my relationships are going to shit.

>>10789950
>>10789968
read the books. I've read the 3. skagboys, trainspotting and porno, but if I can suggest one, read skagboys. I love trainspotting, and had watched it several times before realizing there were books, and skagboys was amazing, to see how things were before drugs.

>rentboy used to go to college, studying philosophy if I'm not mistaken
>reads kierkegaard through the book

trainspotting was also good, but not as good as skagboys in my opinion, but always interesting to see the book in contrast with the movie, and porno was my least favorite of the 3, but still good, specially if you like the characters.

gotta re-read skagboys.

>>10789491
Free will is expensive. Your future is attributed entirely to your decisions. Failure can be blamed by no one but yourself. Every action and inaction shapes the next. Either build a habit of success or demolish your hope of anything even barely reminiscent of happiness. And no, success doesn't mean wealth; it means actively failing, not passively decaying.

But I'm really just saying this all to myself.

I’ve become /fit/lit/. Join me, brothers.

Our society is morally bankrupt. A society that rejects all real thought and art in favor of one bit, shallow talking points.

>>10789946
Yeah, now that you mention it I should reorganize my time schedules a bit, I think I paid attention to the order of the authors more than anything.
On the presocratics I intend to read the first 2 books of WKC's Guthrie History of greek philosophy and a compilation of the surviving fragments. It should amount to around 800 pages and I'd like to take my time with it. Maybe I'll do Hesiod and the entirety of the Presocratics in april and add a whole month for Plato.
I did start with Homer, I'm just planning on rereading him for fun and because I've heard Plato references him a lot in his Dialogues.

>>10789041

I spent 2 hours late at night walking through a run-down Black neighborhood in the large city where I live so I could get home. The subway had closed and I didn't have Uber on my phone or the money for a cab. Immediately when I stepped out of the bar at the beginning of my journey, the alcohol and drugs making me not care about the cold, a black homeless lady admonished me "cmon go-an putch you hood on ya gun' catch a cold"

I looked her dead in the eyes "The colds just in your head"

"tche, that's wha he sae"

I started walking and was soon out of the bar area, boarded up windows and trash strewn everywhere. Packs of two or three urban youths dawdling around bundled up in coats, eyeing me up from a distance but looking away when I get close and they see that I'm tall and broad shouldered with a quick pace. I passed an elderly black man closing up his corner deli, pulling down a metal sheet to prevent break-ins from happening when he's gone, turning to wonder what I was doing passing through this neighborhood. "Have a nice night sir" I told him, he thanked me.

A few blocks later. Rambunctious music pouring forth from a brick townhouse, crowds of black females in as whorish clothes as the weather would allow in a group outside. Eyeing me up as I walk past but not saying anything, pass a black man stumbling towards the house, a black woman helping him walk. I pass by a McDonalds, it's 2 am. Black woman banging on the door, "Puh LEEZ lemme use yo bathroom, I will PAY Y'ALL, Oh ma Gawd, lemme use yo bathroom. I gotta go so bad puh leez lemme use yo bathroom I'll pay y'all. The east African immigrant workers inside pretending to ignore her, not wanting to risk the chaos of letting in blacks at this hour.

I had been talking with this super-lefty European chick at the club who was on some shit, I mentioned that I supported far-right politics and made ominous hints about unchecked immigration spelling disaster for Europe if it continued. At the drugs fully kicked in she got too upset and refused to speak with me anymore. Only an hour before I had been impressing her with my art knowledge and now I turn out to be Hitler, it was too much. At I walked through the desolate urban wastes I speculated why she couldn't understand that the formation in your countries major cities of ghettos infested with unintelligent and violet minorities had no redeeming features.

I feel like I'm on the verge of a breakthrough. The problem is that I don't understand in what. You know that feeling when you're trying to learn something, where you kinda understand, but don't really. When you're only missing that little piece that makes everything clear as day. That little "trick" that makes it all seem easy. That's the exact feeling I've had for some time now. I'm just missing a little thing to fully understand. The most annoying thing is that I know I have a question. There is something I'm wondering about, I just don't know what it is yet.

Or I might just have finally lost my mind.

>>10789041

Here is the last four years of my life:

>Mom dies of cancer
>Get bad case of wanderlust
>Go backpacking, barely interact with anyone
>Settle into job
>Wanderlust returns
>Realize I'm a sexual degenerate
>Cling to my job because it's easy and pays well, but I hate it
>Make monthly plans to quit and move to Europe to write
>spend my days off trying to write. Quit after two paragraphs.
>grow distant from my family, but keep in touch only through small-talk and holidays
>fear that I'll never leave my job to live my life
>know that I'll die in my thirties from the poor diet and heavy alcoholism
>haven't achieved a single thing
>Don't know what to do to get me out of this rut. Why don't I just leave my fucking job and go adventuring? I have nothing to lose and I'm still a pussy about it.

>>10790098
You sound like a god damn woman holy shit

>>10790094
you cut him in half wtf

Lol, how the fuck can anyone be happy nowadays?

I just finished Herzog's documentary Happy People and yeah, I can see how hunters out in Siberia can manage it, but for everyone else in the Western world- ?????

>>10790094

>>10790052
by all means, take your time with them. I particularly haven't read much on them, mostly read a bit about each and their main ideas. Its very interesting and seems like enough material to extend to 800 pages. Myabe later on I will come back to them.
I am currently going through Plato, started with the 4 dialogues surrounding the apology/death of socrates, then few more dialogues, and now am currently reading The Republic. On the previous dialogues there were very few references to homer and to some playwrights like aristophanes (he actually takes part in symposium, for instance), but on The Republic, references to both Iliad and Odyssey are notoriously constant, I am on page 200, and every single chapter had some reference to it, so its a good idea to re-read Homer, as you said, just for the sake of it, but also because of the references.

but anyways, lists are excellent and I love planning them, but one shouldn't worry much if it gets a bit off track, so if more time is needed for X author, so be it.

Talking about lists, my plan to 2018
>"finish" plato (or better, finish my list of plato's works)
>read aristotle
>read Neoplatonism by pauliina remes
>read the new testament
>finish the elements of Euclid
>start studying theology
>some fiction works in between the books above.

>>10790106

Okay. That doesn't change anything.

I've tried and failed to quit drinking a dozen times. I haven't been in a serious relationship. I am in poor health and it's getting worse. I have $170 000 in savings and still won't quit my job. I'm incapable of laughter or pleasure without drinking. And I'm a big pussy, too. I can't convince myself to write or improve my health and diet. I am literally killing myself slowly, but with nothing to show for it.

>>10790121
>studying theology
massive retard

>>10790138
lol you are a bit late, already got my retard certification 10 years ago

>>10790133
Did you know if you simply stop drinking you will start feeling happy again without drinking? It's hard to grasp, I know.. Perhaps you're one of those types (you know, a brainlet) that should attend AA

>>10790115
Aniki wake up!

What's with all these damn homo-erotic undertones in Moby Dick by Herman Melville? I'm on page 52 so far.

>>10790143

I went 37 days in October/November last year. Then got diagnosed with diabetes and fell off the wagon.

Also: during those 37 days, I didn't write a single word, whereas as a drunk, I write a couple hundred words a week.

>>10790150
>chases sperm whale with lots of men
>not gay
ya dork. his husbandu v nice and kind, and you'll learn about ships, you'll be fine gayboy

>>10789990
Interesting comparison anon.
But, vinyl are coming from an era when you can still feel the heat emanating from the embers of a music industry golden age.
Can the same be said of authors?
My question is, would Hemingway get published today?
Would Fitzgerald?
Would the count of Monte Cristo or the three musketeers get published today?

>>10789041
just got off work, cracked a beer and trying to relax to a youtube stream

>>10790153
>Then got diagnosed with diabetes and fell off the wagon.
kek nigger if you're going to kill yourself stop doing it half assed.

>>10790094
I'll say something that is not what you want to hear, but you may be dissapointed with what you'll find (or rather with what you don't find). To think you are in the verge of a breakthrough can also be interpreted that you are on the verge of an inner change. This is great, anon, but more often than not that supposedly cathartic moment comes out as a dissapointing thing, because it implies a loss rather than something to be gained. Of course, I don't know you or anything about your situation, but at least consider this.

The "little trick that makes it all seem easy" does not exist, not that you can't help yourself making things easier than before, but that you'll always have work to do. Whether it is in life, in philosophy, a trade, a relationship, etc. Ironically, the very thing that makes it easier is abandoning the quest for a thing that makes everything easier. It is this attitude of welcoming the necessary effort you'd have to spend that brings some relief to life. It's about letting go of the security of having things thought out before hand, because it is indeed impossible to think things before, lest you discard all that is new and unexpected, and it is in those very things that you'll find the best opportunities.

You're idealizing the effect of an answer on you even before you can formulate the question. There will always be a new question, there is never going to be a full understanding of things.

>>10790153
I went through alcoholism too man. Got DUI and shit as well. I've also had problems with narcotics in my youth, i've been sent to AA/NA, hundreds of meetings, never did anything for me. One day I just started feeling so shitty (and fat) that I couldn't do it anymore. So I started drinking less and less, and the less I drank those times I did rage the next morning would be more and more unbearable and useless. Quit drinking everyday and then realized how malnourished I was and how foggy my mind had become generally. So I ate better and it just made my brain work better and body feel better each and everyday. Eventually instead of having the feeling that 'I need to get home and drink more than yesterday' was replaced with 'I need to get home and do these things that will make me feel better tomorrow'

>>10790147
anon...

>>10790161
>My question is, would Hemingway get published today?
>Would Fitzgerald?
>Would the count of Monte Cristo or the three musketeers get published today?
grills are their main markets so yeah they'd buy them like they buy pointless figurines, cushions /cushion covers, and fluffy things. vinyl will get there and since it's generally not old vinyl they'll last for thousands of years instead of getting smashed like i wish more of those figurines would.

>>10789041
>tfw I can't write for shit
Will I get better as I read more?

>>10790200
that and as you get clearer about why you hate yourself and how to stop it. gl

i moved my trashcan and now i'm constantly at risk of flicking a booger on the floor

>>10790246
nice

>>10789041
I hurt my feelings everyday by ridiculing myself and calling myself bad and I hate it

>>10790166
Good post, but you seem to be missunderstanding me. I don't expect anything to change. I'm simply intrigued. Ever since I was a child I've been that faggot kid that always had to know the how's and why's, and that has continued until now. I've always had a knack for learning, extrapolating from what I've learned, and understanding how things are connected. Nowadays it goes something like "I wonder how x works/why x is. It should be y because abc." After doing some research on the subject and I might figure out that it was not y, but rather z. That takes me deeper because I need to find out why that is. Sometimes I find that there might be multiple answers, or no one has one, or there might not even exist one.

I'm rambling and going off track, but my main point is that I'm annoyed because I don't know the question, not because I don't have the answer. Not knowing something is wonderful, because that means I just have so much more to learn and think about. I don't want a grand change, I just want to know what I'm asking.

Earlier today, I texted my favorite cousin who I haven't really talked to in a couple years
an hour later, they replied "hey, who is this?"
I replied and they haven't answered in another hour and a half
If that's not her number anymore I don't have any way to contact her
I'm lonely and impatient, /lit/

>>10790334
>having someone to text

normalfag

>>10789041
Are humans and plants truly the same thing in the end? Or are we one at all times.

We feed off of plants, and when we're gone, they feed off of us. And once this happens, and our energy ends up in a seed, do we end up a tree? And when that tree makes a fruit, and a deer eats that fruit, which holds our energy, do we become the offspring of the deer?

Help me /lit/ fags.

>>10790344
It depends on what you define as "self" Who and what are you?

i have no ass and i must sit

who the fuck is billy herrington

I just want to live cozily on my own in some remote location with good internet where I would never have to work and could funnel myself wholly into artistic pursuits without the stress of needing to get by.

Justice exists because of injustice, but the same does not hold true the other way around.

>>10790386
jacking off 10 times a day to trap anime isnt an artistic pursuit

>>10790385
he's big in japan

I ate too much earlier. I am disgusted with the fact that before then, I jacked off to disappointing porn webms on the smallness of my phone screen in the dark to the growl of the neighbor's generator. I despise how this weekend long power outage has led me to waste time that could be used to finish that novella draft. A draft that reads as shitty as I feel right now.

This day has been a waste of sleeping, eating, wanking, and writing thousands of disjointed words, all done in the dark as I await the return of electricity to my life.

>>10790344
plants worry less

>>10790394
this reminded me of that nanny murder trial in nyc, like u feel bad for the exploited nanny forced to work for some rich manhattanite raising somebody elses kids, but then it's like "forced"? she could have done something else, so u feel bad for the richmom having her kids slaughtered by a resentful slave, idk, they both seem like assholes, i guess it's one of those "bonfire of the vanities" things lol didnt read where everybody is an asshole you don't end up feeling bad for anyone, like the opposite of a tragedy where u feel bad for everyone, do theater fags have a name for that

>>10790399
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl6u2NASUzU

>>10790409
bathos, the opposite of pathos. it's when the pathetic becomes hilarious

>>10790402
lol i remember during hurricane sandy i had to fap to a pic of lana del rey that someone had photoshopped a duckbill onto her face, but i was using a cheap chinese android tablet with no battery and the free wifi they city was giving was slow as shit, so i saw my chance and i fapped it

are you in new england? it was windy but otherwise nothing bad happened, just a generic rainy day really

>>10790054
The chick reminds me of a Thai/German guy I know. Very knowledgeable about culture, especially music and food. His politics are as left as they come though. Has a cringey condescending attitude to anything right of European left wing political positions.

>>10789041
i am a person who live in america and have a funny times

>>10790419
Yep. Was driving on Friday and the wind and rain was so bad that everyone on the highway was going under 50.

I've been staring at the National Grid power outage map since Friday afternoon.

>tfw New York gets 1500+ crews to fix shit and the entire state of Mass gets ~400 for its 4k+ outages

dude weed lmao

>>10790142
kek

>>10789041
>no passion
>don't really like reading
>only do it because you guys claim to
>should be trying to make something. might be more happy
>wouldn't matter what it was
>should probably just forget about it and go to college like a normal person
>hate schoolwork
I've heard that things are more enjoyable with other people. That it doesn't matter what you're doing as much as who you do it with. That's probably true. I don't think I'd like posting here all alone.

10:22 PM. I have an essay due at 11:45 but I haven't started it. I've had weeks to do it, and I'm failing that class, yet I feel no motivation to do my work. If I fail this class, I wouldn't be allowed to graduate, but still, I feel no inspiration. Why won't I do my essay? What do I do instead? Should I just do my essay? What should I do?

I posted in one of these threads a while ago and made a lot of people angry when I told them to leave me alone. I don't feel bad about it.

I wonder if I'll stay here, or move somewhere else. Imagine being rich. Imagine being rich now. Imagine being rich in Miami. Simply waking up one day, and doing absolutely anything you want for the next 24 hours without having to worry about the cost.

I haven't decided what personality I want either. Do I want to be serious and stoic, or cynical but devil-may-care? Am I willing to care or will I simply abandon it all? Do I want to settle down and plant my roots, or wander from location to location? I don't know. I'm not asking the right questions. I'm not sure what the right questions are. I don't know. I don't know what I'm hoping to achieve.

>>10790712
>>don't really like reading
>>only do it because you guys claim to
wat

>>10790719
you should do your homework or kill yourself, really one or the other
if you cant write up some babby tier paper for class then you probably dont have many decent attributes going for you

>>10790730
Sounds like you're upset, Anon.

>>10790734
not really upset, but if you dont have the ethic to finish a school paper then there's not really much use to ya is there

>>10790738
*the work ethic, wew

>>10789950
The sequel to that was pretty kino too.
>There were no more Catholics left.

>>10790738
>>10790740
No Anon, you're just upset. It's that simple. I don't know what's bothering you so much, but please don't reply to my posts anymore. Thank you.

The older I get, the more misanthropic I become and the more I appreciate individuals in history who carved their own path antagonistically towards society.

>>10790751
brb replying to ur posts real quick

>>10790143
>If you have a problem of self-harm you can always simply stop doing it. There is no underlying psychological problem at all. Just suck it up.

>>10790766
then address your problem of self-harm rather than keep drinking you mong

>>10790772
You're retarded. It's incredible how people continue to mistake simplicity with ease. Just because a problem has a clear solution does not make it any easier to solve.

>>10790776
>go to therapist
>talk about problems
>they literally suggest a series of pathways you can take to help yourself without any effort than speaking on you part
seems both simple and easy phamalam

holy shit these bootleg ufc streams have gone waaaay up in quality since i last watched

>>10790720
>>>don't really like reading
>>>only do it because you guys claim to [read]
>wat
what did he mean by this?

>>10790805
stay away from the unreliable narrators for a while, anonkun :3

>>10790802
ufc is so boring, now i remember why i stopped watching, i only tuned for the trannyfite main event

just saw an ex-girlfriend on one of those shirtless guy youtube pranks with 3.5million views and im geniuley worried about my health

>>10790877
link us it bro

>>10790877
she probably got throat'd by one of them chads

>>10790882
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmMQXM0tFbQ&t=467s
whas the chances i got aids now

wow i just skimmed /r9k/ and all their sad mopey shit is reinvigorating my will to get laid, i've just been jackin it from a tranny pov for months, maybe if i keep reading their shit i'll get in the mood to get pussy for once

>>10790893
i can't believe people watch this shit

>>10790899
>maybe if i keep reading their shit

Nope. Don't do this. Turn around, and don't look back. /r9k/ is in no way, shape, or form a suitable place for any half-decent person to visit.

>>10790905
i was only watching it because it was linked from a funny h3h3 video but now turns out i am forever bound to the shame

>>10790909
if i just read /lit/ i'll be satisfied to jack it to fantasies of being a cute trap (even tho i'm masc af and would never pass) but when i saw these threads like "this guy is putting his dick in her right now!" type stuff, some base primal sexual jealousy stirred, i felt alive

soukhamtath better finish this stupid hype job rogan won't stop blowing

http://unitedstreams4all.com/mma.php

>>10790957
soukhamtath certified retard, omalley broke his foot and you're taking him down, make him fight standing u dumbfuck

wtf is 12:00 it was 10:30 like 20 minutes ago is it daylight savings or some shit

>>10791026
dude you're totally in the wrong timezone we must have got wasted last night

holy shit is this russian bitch rly gonna beat cyborg? she's bullying her so far wow

>>10791129
lol nevermind

>>10789628
oh no, its even worse than it was before

im on page 52 of The Fourth Turning and I'm not sure I buy it. I feel like the authors are so desperate to convince me. I find the ideas kind of cool but I feel like it could be summed up in 20 pages or less without losing much. am I wrong? should I drop it?

>>10791194
is that the generational thing? it's basically spitballing. take it with the grain of salt you would an anon's generational argument. i think some of the statistics and facts are kind of cherry picked or outright incorrect iirc.

>>10790133
>i have 170 000 in my bank account

you poor soul

>>10791201
yeah spit balling is a good way too describe it. really didn't want to drop this one because I dropped my last book 300 pages in. I was going to read black swan next but my god I think I need to step away from the spitball genre.

>>10790300
>>>/r/iamverysmart

I've completed stalemated my life with philosophical inquiry. No matter what I do it will never be in good faith again.

>>10790738
There isn't really much use to people who can do that for that matter, nor even all thoe who do so with alacrity.

>>10790758
16 is not that old, anon.

>>10790893
>ethan used to make fun of this shit
>as soon as there's something in it for him he jumps aboard

what a flakey kike

>>10790909
We already know he's not a decent person. /r9k/ seems like a perfect fit for him.

After adopting a new mindset in recent years, I feel more alive. I've decided to start reading and I need recommendations for a beginner in politics, history, art, music, plants, novels, a lot of stuff in general. Not really looking for modern novels

>>10789041
I just walked about 15 to 20 miles on vacation yesterday in Chicago and now my feet have massive blisters. That's all I can think of b/c pain. Did manage to read Dubliners at the west town branch library while resting my feet tho

also, Chicago has to be the only city with a chinatown that is actuall almost 100% asian. I actually felt weird walking there as the only white guy around, which I don't think I've ever felt before with asians.

i don't think this site is anonymous at all, just a guise for you all to make fun of the dumb things i say and read

>>10791318
it's not truly anonymous obviously but imagine everyone was a trip fag. ...that's every other forum out there

>cuddling with gf watching a movie
literally no better feeling

>>10789041
board dead, too late

>>10791364
then write or read

fucking idiot nerd

>>10791328
stop laughing bc . i looked up famous tripfags on googleimages and then lied about it here!

the next hopefully final suicide attempt. fears of doctors court ordering drugs that make you too retarded to kill yourself if I fail.

>>10791185
what

>>10791424
Just do it where there are no people, like the library.

>>10789091
take antidepressants and go to therapy
>>10789745
brainlet

Do you ever wonder if people think about you? Do you ever wonder if you are as important to the people you think about as they are to you? How much do you think people think but don't say, what kinds of things might they think? How much of us goes unnoticed, or unsaid, and unknown? Who are we to other people? How close are we to the way we see ourselves versus the other people see us?

I'm gonna name this robot as The Nigger Whipper

I love my friends so much. I think I'd die without them. I lost all my old friends and my girlfriend of 5 years, I'm 19, thats more than a quarter of my life. I miss my old friends, I miss my girlfriend but I dont miss the pain and anxiety and the fighting. I miss the stability, now I'm out in the cold again, my new friends keep me warm but they wouldn't die for me, they're not going to freeze with me, I'm just finding it hard to get a light.

I was best friends with this guy on the internet for a year and some change. Eventually things fizzled out, and now I'm alone.
Occasionally I'll see him contemplating suicide publicly, and I'll know he's being sincere. I gave up trying to stop him a long time ago, but theres a determined man inside me, desperate to do something while it remains a possibility. The modern response to this is obvious, self-evident even. Take the side of the determined, vanquish the inevitable, and so on. We have all been indoctrinated with Disneyian optimism, with crude hope, with blind faith in the cinematic universe that composes our existences. I refuse.

I don't know what Im thinking or feeling. I'm all fucked up because it's ironic that the first woman I connect with on a romantic level in years and the first guy friend I've had in years are probably going to end up together because of me and I'm probably going to push both of them out. I love them a lot, but holy fuck I hate this.

>>10789131
technological or demographical soft reset, will solve many problems in ensuing struggle

>>10790098
Please don't come to Europe

>tfw u finish fappin and u hear someone down the hall close their door

wtf creepy, can't i get a nut in peace

>>10789096
I hope your shit country implodes today and all you niggers get raped by the shitkins that are flooding you right now

Every time I drink I just get extremely fucked up and make an ass of myself, I think deep down I'm very unhappy and my behaviour is just a symptom.

>>10791830
no, this is normal behavior for getting drunk
what you need to do is either not get drunk or adopt a more larrikin mindset so that you will not be afraid of fooling around l

>>10789096
Rigatoni

I have a three inch erection and I’m circumcised.
When I was younger, my dad used to shave me, cut my nails, trim my pubes, pop pimples on my face and back, would smell my penis to make sure it smelled nice, would do the same for my armpits, and would sometimes shower with me. This went on until I was around 16 and he would also beat me if I ever denied him.
Every weekend for the past four years, I’ve gone to the movies or taken a nap in my car and told my mom I was out with friends. I’ve also told her I’m dating a Korean girl who was in one of my university classes.
When I was younger, girls at school used to hug me and random and would also tell me they loved me. Eventually I found out they would dare each other to hug guys they found especially creepy/ugly and I was a prime target. One of them also started a rumor I was stalking her because we lived on adjacent streets, after which most of my friends stopped associating with me.
I read and write cheesy romance fiction. I read pic related every year around Christmas

Anyone have a copy of Oxford American English Thesaurus for Writers and Editors? The one DFW was talking about. I couldn't find it anywhere.

>>10789091
overdosing on acid? Just gonna break your mind and get put in a padded room for the rest of your vegetative life.

son goku surpassing his limits yet again achieving a new, incredible evolution and beating jirens ass was freaking epic

replying to my man in the Londonbro thread:

>>10792939
>I am such a useless, superfluous part of society. In fact I'm barely a part at all. My skills are minimal ("aww but you're so intelligent!") and my hatred is overwhelming.

>I still had a chance! I was still young! My looks were pretty decent! But now everything has just faded
Life was better when you were satisfied with your own progress. Shock! Get back into it, anon. And your lamenting your youth is normie tier. You've got the A+ brain, resolve the conflict within yourself. Read some philosophical works that weren't written by misanthropes and create a life worth living for yourself. You seem to know you should be doing this, but have been distracted.

>>10791756
no thats gross

my dog died this month and last week I heard my parents have sex

>>10789091
>I wanna zone out for a while so I'll take some acid and play visual novels.
well there's your problem. even wanting to do that is a sure sign that your life isn't going places

I am turning my diary desu into a repository of bad fiction based on my schizo delusions and, apparently, fetishes. But I can't think of any more ideas atm and I still have 49 pages of bad fiction to write.

>>10793077
>my diary desu
>based on my schizo delusions
>still have 49 pages of bad fiction to write.
wossamatta, greg b coen at the publisher will be furious if its late? furious enough to hunt you down and creep around in the bushes?

>>10793154

Well I plan on killing myself soon so that puts an indeterminate deadline on the whole thing.

Title: Seeking Writing Partner

I used to hold writers’ room meetings in my head
But now I’m on my meds

I propose a new tool to be used by all moral philosophers. I call it the Hitler Test. It goes thus:

If a moral theory can allow us to say that the actions of Hitler were not evil, then it cannot be a correct moral theory.

Where do I submit my paper?

>>10792978
Are you 16 or something? I don't think one's parents (can) have sex after you are over 18-20.

>>10793850
completely wrong, my parents just had a newborn and I'm 19

>>10793850
No I think they don't really care once you are an adult.

>>10793876
By the way how old are your parents ?

>>10791446
the sam hyde picture

If there are any magicians reading this, please please please do some voodoo stuff and make her text me.

Modern women will never find their soul mates because they sold their soul to social media.

i just fapped and the jizz was pink-orange color like a grapefruit holy shit i'm going to assume that's blood wtf i didn't do anything weird i fap like twice a week that's it

>>10794346
It's ball cancer, anon
you have two seconds to live

>>10794355
which board is the most expert on issues of masturbation and semen? r9k? lgbt? fit?

>>10794373
/d/

>>10789041
Who here has read Francesco Pecoraro's Life in Peacetime (2013). I'm currently reading it (almost finished) and I think it's pretty great.

I'm visiting my hometown for a week and am already bored and depressed. None of my close friends are here, so it's really saddening driving around and passing all the places we used to hang out. I was hoping to spend some time with a qt I used to have a thing with, but she hasn't responded. Probably just going to end up reading for the rest of my time.

>>10789041
Dropped the last two books I started reading. First one 300 pages in, the second about 50 pages in.

Though I have a stubborn side that demands I finish, and a neurotic side that shames me for dropping it, I've realized it's more important to cut your losses and move on. Some books just aren't worth my time, others should have been written in a 20 page essay instead of a 500 page book, etc.

Now I haven't read anything in two days. I want to be careful about what I select next.

>>10790032
your a dumb nigger

hows that for shallow talking point

>>10794373
/adv/ would be your best bet but obviously go to a doctor.

she wants the d
she's happy being around me
she's cute
she's probably fucking crazy, isn't she?
what have I done

>>10791522
>Do you ever wonder if people think about you? Do you ever wonder if you are as important to the people you think about as they are to you?
unironically made me think.

>>10790054
Aside from going to the club, which I'm too much of an autist to do, this seems so familiar. Just wandering around on drugs through bad areas and observing things. Be careful though, blacks may not be smart, but they are highly perceptive emotionally, moreso than whites by far. Don't show fear around them, and more importantly be respectful if you want to stay safe.

>>10796049
>be respectful

yes negroes are extremely prideful and will escalate a small perceived slight into a fight to the death

>>10790161
You're referencing only the "greats," makers "high art." The truth is, people only remember the hits. However, pulp fiction makes up the majority of sales. Airport novels consistently sell well, and they continue to do so. And that's not to mention the fact that legends only arise in retrospect. There are still fantastic writers today, we just need to allow the dust to settle before we herald them as "one of the greats." While reading is no where near as popular as it once was, it still has a steadfast grip on various dedicated audiences. I don't really see anything replacing books considering the fact that no other medium can achieve the same level of depth, which will always have a demand, even in degenerating societies. If the argument is that books will become increasingly unused, then I'd agree. But information exchange, the cornerstone of culture, will simply always need the robust medium in order to continue to thrive. Brick and mortar Amazon bookstores reinforce the idea that despite a waning readership, books aren't going anywhere anytime soon. The only thing that could replace it is some sort of Matrix style cognitive info download through bio-interfacing, but that probably won't be universally adopted for quite some time.

I've decided that suicide is the rational answer. I don't want what little intelligence I have to fade, to suffer the loss and depletion loved ones, or experience the dread of seeing my impending doom over the horizon. In all probability, I will accomplish nothing of note in life, so it is best to die with the fantasy that I had the potential to be great than to die on the bed having regret and failure. Either way I will be forgotten, but at least I can take agency and die in blooming youth rather than decaying age.

>>10796361
dude, first record a couple hiphop tracks in garageband so your parents call tell everyone you were an aspiring rapper and were just turning your life around, lil shitpost left us too soon!

>tfw no gf
>ever

>>10796562
but you're sure if there was a fascist/communist revolution all that would change, it's not your awkward personality and poor grooming that repulse women, it's because capitalism/jews/technology!

>>10796572
no, it's solely because of my antisocial choices and cynicism

>>10796572
those bad traits are from bad genes which can be directly traced back to techno-capital spreading and causing dysgenic births

Eliot, my cat, is breathing fast and superficially. I hope it is not liquid in his lungs or some shit like that.
The vet clinic opens in about five hours, I don't think there is anything I can do until then.
If it is anything serious and I have to put him down, I don't think I will get another one. I had a great time with him, but I feel like shit when things like this happen. I can only imagine how stressful having kids must be.

>>10789041
I want to die.

>>10796608
yeah i had a bunch of cats and a couple dogs as a kid, but once they croaked i was like no point in torturing oneself every 15-20 years when they inevitably die, maybe when i'm like 60 and super lonely i'll get a cat and have a contest to see who can live longer

>>10796018
What conclusions have you come to?

>>10796586
>Human genome can be altered this much in such a short period of time
This is your brain on communism

>>10790094
C-C-C-COMBOBREAKER

>>10789041
I can't get these voices out of my head. They keep switching from good to bad.
Whenever it pushes too far in bad it turns good until it has lulled me and switches back.

It takes the entirety of my focus away. I can't enter my normal mindscape and perceptions. It forces me to be in grossness and simplicity. It won't leave. One moment in meditation I felt the freedom of not having these fingers in my brain and the presence and voices/entity leave but as soon as I started coming down from peak of meditation I felt it rushing back.

>>10796572
your line of thinking is right, but the current atmosphere of hypergamy in the West means that the vast majority of women continue to gravitate towards the top 20-25% of men. naturally there will continue to be more and more unfulfilled men as a result

>>10789041
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People are so obsessed with being funny nowadays, something likely stemming from internet culture. Everybody tries to make jokes about everything. Have you ever seen conversations on social media where both people keep trying to make jokes following off the other's previous post? I see it all the time, it's like they don't want to have normal conversations or are incapable of it.

>>10796361
I feel exactly the same way. I hate the stigma associated with suicide. There are 7.6 billion people on earth, I think society could afford to lose a few. I wish I could go to a suicide counselor and legally obtain a cyanide pill, or better yet, go to one of those booths from Futurama so I wouldn't have to interact with anyone.

>>10797042
where do you live? I can fight you if you want

>>10797049
look up sprezzatura anon. it's important to remember humans have always been shit and progress is illusionary

>>10797049
>>10797252
Different anon. What about the proliferation of black (edgy) comedy through memes? Did that exist in some form before the internet?

>>10797042
This makes a pretty nice wave pattern on a phone screen. Thanks anon.

>>10789041
I hello type in my penis for mongers whip see that which done who my blanket masquering finance industry forlorn why wont she text you misses penis monger forlon torn between whip whip whip whip bang abng goes my for fingers making tinder poppie mcdoopie flagrent use of sllabals for comedic suicide

>>10797303
>What about the proliferation of black (edgy) comedy through memes? Did that exist in some form before the internet?
samizdat

Iago did nothing wrong.You can't give him a jail sentence based on his actions. I am not sure what the laws were at the time, but if he gets anything else besides a "What the fuck were you thinking? Get off my sight." from the judge then the system is complete bullshit.

I have no fucking clue what I’m doing.
I’m in a school where everyone is so sure of their life yet here I am just drifting with the wind. Most of my class friends have experience in the stock market and yet I have never received a paycheck in my life. Why am I here? What was I thinking? Where do I go? I have nothing to lose and everything to gain yet I am paralyzed with fear in regards to living.

I get it. I wish it happened sooner.

>>10797025
What makes you feel this way?
Do you know? Can you trace it back?

>>10797025
What makes you feel this way?
Do you know? Can you trace it back?

>>10797748
Nobody has any fucking clue what they're doing. they look like they do but they don't. we're all just bumbling aimlessly.

>>10790009
It's just a huge toxic echo chamber and it's infectious and I never realized.
I'm really quite afraid of what's going on.

>>10797109
Every human life is valuable.

>>10797025
Keep meditating
You want to reach the state where you do not associate at all with those thoughts in your mind.
As you know.. the mind can be quite hostile. But it can be your greatest friend if you properly train it so keep meditating.

>>10797748
They probably aren't that sure of their life. I get that impression all the time. Because I'm an open person that likes to talk about everything and I have very little to hide.
A lot of times I hit a border with people, where they get defensive and rather not share some crucial things that are going on. I guess that they would rather maintain the impression that their life is perfect from my perspective. That sometimes puts me into situation that I would rather have their lives, than live out my misery and that I think that what they have is better than what I have.

One example of this. I had a professor in college, that hid a gun under his desk, or somewhere else. I remember that he talked about it and I knew that he was a ex-SWAT guy. The thing with people like that is, that they have seen a lot of shit and they have a certain aura to them. You have them feeling, like if they would take you down in a matter of seconds if you made one fast move while being close to them. I remember saying to my friends that I was afraid of the guy and they told me "Haha, there is no reason to be!" I knew that they were afraid too. Did he follow the trump system early? I'm not even in America.

Keep you head up anon. Things gonna be alright.

>>10790019
Not that guy, but I need this. Thanks

>>10797829
Another guy. I needed your response to that.

I think about all the other websites that need registration in order to comment on the topics and all the comments that are left unanswered and all the other ones that are written just to appear on the upper half of the section.

On 4chan you at least get a reasonable chance of having a discussion, however shit it might be, if the thread is small enough.

If I had to choose between posting on anther site, where I would get thousand replies, and here, where I would get at least a "it's gonna be ok anon", I would choose this place.

>>10797505
Quality
>>10797798
Well, I imagine this is where to start after having some pretty goddamn scary revelations. Time to remember and reflect on these and internalize what I've learned so I can be a better person in this moment...the testing point.

>>10789041
>holy shit my cource work is starting to pile
>I need to Finish tower of swallows
>cant wait to finish the books before i replay the witcher 3
>how can i get help for depression?
>will i always be alone?

>>10789041
I'm looking for good horror channels like Night Mind.
Can't fucking find any. Don't even know which phrase to use to search for it.

>>10798155
Love night mind, I know brendaniel has started reading SCPs

>>10798169
Thanks dude. Don't know them, but SCPs are kind of hit or miss. I'll check it out, though. Going through ScareTheater stuff right now, but I like the really in depth stuff.

>>10791349
then embrace the moment, son

>>10797748
if you talk to more people you'll realise no one has a clue what they're doing

remember that we are all marginally-improved-apes in a world of variables

>>10798095
want some real help?
stop playing video games.

even if you use the time you would spend playing videos games just staring at a wall stop playing them.

especially rehashed dreck like the witcher nonsense . it does NOTHING positive for you or humanity in general it is a waste of time and brainpower.

>>10798420
at least a video game is a memorable experience, 4chan is just youtube promos and judeo-nazi shills, utter waste of time

I hope I can end this disappointment trip. I hate being a disappointment. Stop watching over me, I might disappoint you. Stop taking care of me, I might disappoint you. Stop making me disappointing you. Stop owning me, stop expecting a lot from me, stop looking at me, stop loving me please.

>>10796608
There was liquid on his lungs. They tried to remove it, but he suffered a cardiac arrest while at it. Rest in peace, Eliot.
I wish I spent more time with him.

I wish I like reading. But what is it about reading that can actually improve myself, besides coolness point? Smartest people on this board that I've seen has been /pol/tards. /lit/ people don't really seem to be intelligent or creative or patrician. You're all just like /r9k/, only a little bit better.

>>10797794
I don't feel valuable.

>>10798472
>/pol/tards
>smart

i mean if you consider high school dropouts horribly misreading history 'smart' ok i guess

>>10798496
Let's just be honest here, no one here can outdebate them. We're getting closer to what they are. The more we learn, the more we become like them.

>>10798551
they just use the same debate tricks as communists but instead of capitalists behind everything it's jews, you might be a brainlet

I am inconceivably blessed to have such a beautiful vision of life. In its shadow, every instance in my life is rendered ineffably meaningful. That meaning was always there, and I hope you all find it in our earth.
I am so horrible and rude sometimes, but all I want is to help others see this beautiful, primal vision of life. When I see others so against it, willfully or not, it just drives me mad.

>>10789131
Books are a dead medium. Please take your crap back to /pol/. Thanks!

>>10790121
>muh griks
Stop reading that life denying shite. Skip it all, it is the worst of all propaganda.

>>10798591
homer and sophocles are great, all those ridiculous pseud 'philosophers' are shit

>>10798606
>pseud philosophers
Aren't you ashamed of yourself ?

>>10798625
out of the piles of scribblings aristotle left behind maybe a few dozen pages are worth a piss, if plato should have been 'lost to history' nothing of value would have been lost

Is it a pseud tendency to feel a need to always read new books instead of revisiting old favorites? Is the very nature of this question pseudointellectual? How do I combat the feelings of insecurity/inferiority and need for approval characteristic of a pseud?

>>10798551
this
never argue with stupid

>>10798661
>Is it a pseud tendency to feel a need to always read new books instead of revisiting old favorites?
Depends on how you live it. If you read new books out of genuine love of new things then no, if you do it because you want to learn more then maybe, if you do it because you think that's what someone such as yourself should do (or what someone shouldn't do to be X) then most definitely yes.
>Is the very nature of this question pseudointellectual?
I'd say yes.
>How do I combat the feelings of insecurity/inferiority and need for approval characteristic of a pseud?
Stop thinking yourself in relation to others. Read because of your love of reading and nothing else.

>>10798675
>Depends on how you live it . . .
For me it's a combination of all three. There is at some level a desire for novelty, but this seems corrupted in that it could simply be a desire for entertainment. As far as the second and third points go, it's not so much that I think it's what someone "such as myself" should do, but it's what I think I should do to become the person I want to be (the person I want to be knows more than I know, therefore I want to learn more, and in order to learn more I should read more / new things).

>>10797721
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat
>Samizdat was a form of dissident activity across the Soviet bloc in which individuals reproduced censored and underground publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader.
I read further, but I don't see how this relates to edgy memes.

Mao's Sexual Activity
"As Mao got older," Li wrote, "he became an adherent of Taoist sexual practices which gave him an excuse to pursue sex not only for pleasure but to extend his life. He claimed he needed the waters of yin---or vaginal secretions---to supplement his own declining yang---or male essence, the source of his strength, power and longevity.

Many of the women that Mao slept with were daughters of poor peasants who Li said believed that sleeping with the chairman was the greatest experience of their life. Mao was happiest and most satisfied when he had several young women simultaneously sharing his bed, and he encouraged his sexual partners to introduce him to others. He often told the young women to read the Taoist sex manual The Plain Girl's Secret Way, in preparation for their trysts." [Source: "The Private Life of Chairman Mao" by Dr. Li Zhisui, excerpts reprinted U.S. News and World Report, October 10, 1994]

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Mao with women in 1950 Mao was very possessive of the women he had sex with. He quarreled with ones that said they planned to marry and once sent a guard to a labor camp after he touched one of the women on the buttocks. Li wrote, “He came to trust women more than men.

"Mao's sexual activity was not confined to women," Li claimed. "The young men who served as attendants were invariably handsome and strong, and one of their responsibilities was to administer a nightly massage as an aid to sleep. Mao insisted that his groin be massaged. In 1964, I saw Mao, naked, grab a young guard and begin fondling him. At first I took such behavior as evidence of a homosexual strain, but later I concluded that it was more an insatiable appetite for any form of sex." [Source: "The Private Life of Chairman Mao" by Dr. Li Zhisui, excerpts reprinted U.S. News and World Report, October 10, 1994]


Mao's Sex Drive Increases as He Gets Older
Mao's sex drive seem to increase as he got older. In the 1960s, Li said, he often went to bed with three, four or five women simultaneously. When Mao was told he was infertile, he responded, "'So I've become a eunuch, have I?,'" Li wrote, “not understanding that it meant his sperm was abnormal not that his sexual desires were reduced." [Source: "The Private Life of Chairman Mao" by Dr. Li Zhisui, excerpts reprinted U.S. News and World Report, October 10, 1994]

On Mao, Snow wrote, “some people might have considered him coarse and vulgar” He then described how Mao liked to scratch himself and conduct meeting naked when it was hot. He also said Mao occasionally “absent-mindedly turned down the belt in his trousers and searched for some guest---namely fleas and lice.

In 1972 Mao attended the funeral Marshal Chen Yo in his pajamas. In 1954 he met the British Prime Minister Clement Attlee in pair of trousers that had their backside patched up. According to a biography by historian Chen Jin when Mao was asked why didn't wear a different pair of pants he replied, “It doesn't matter. Who will look at my bottom?” Mao had a spittoon at his feet when he met Nixon.

Mao was addicted to sleeping pills, and he rarely bathed or brushed his teeth (he rinsed his mouth with tea after he woke up and chewed on the leaves). "He resisted all attempts to get him to see a dentist," Li wrote. "One aide said 'the chairman's teeth looked as if they were painted with green paint'...Mao's teeth were indeed covered with a heavy greenish film. When I touched the gums, puss oozed out. An infection of that sort usually causes considerable pain. Mao hated doctors and illness so much that he often endured pain in silence." [Source: "The Private Life of Chairman Mao" by Dr. Li Zhisui, excerpts reprinted U.S. News and World Report, October 10, 1994]

Li treated Mao for insomnia, dizziness, itchiness, and occasionally anxiety attacks. Wherever he went he had an aide next to him in case he lost his balance. Sometimes he would stay in bed for months, rising only to make an occasional speech. [Source: "The Private Life of Chairman Mao" by Dr. Li Zhisui, excerpts reprinted U.S. News and World Report, October 10, 1994]

>>10789041
I often get these periods where very few things interest me. I don't mind my computer much, and a lot of people suddenly seem reallu plain to me (even really good friends). In these periods I do all sorts of weird stuff just looking for some authentic deeply felt feeling. I'll take extremely long walks (something I usually don't like) listening to really sad music, or start to meditate again. I think I get this idea into my head that this will give me a specific feeling, and that I will feel something stronger than ever before. It just ends leaving me restless most of the time, bad sleep and drinking too much. I don't know exactly what I'm expecting or waiting for, but nothing truly original seems to happen either (and how the hell would I know when it would or what it would be?) I don't know why I do this, I feel really silly.

>>10798466
Rip Eliot.
It's happened to me before too anon. It sucks a lot. You'll pull through. Sometimes it takes a while but you'll pull through

>>10798466
Sorry to hear that, anon. Hope he lived a good life. >>10798472

that feel when no money, no job, no passions, no family, no sex, no memories, no hope, no prospects, no achievements, no skills, no friends, no healthy relationships with another human being ever

>>10798850
i think you need to look up memes.

>>10797721
>>10799382
no u. Explain how Soviet dissenters evading censorship with hand copied text in any way relates to internet memes. Unless you demonstrate otherwise, I will continue to assume that you are a retard, incapable of articulating your thoughts beyond "ironic" one-liner shitposts. You are the one who brought up samizdat, the burden of proof lies with you. So either justify bringing it up, or fuck off.

>>10793786
g-good idea anon

>>10793786
fuck off commie scum

I thought I could get myself a qt /lit/ gf. We once talked for hours over a bottle of wine about literature and poetry, then later met to exchange books. That was all before christmas break; since then she ghosted me. Today I met her getting off from an elevator at my uni library. At first I wasn't sure if that person with quite a heavy makeup who did not give me so much a second look was her. But it was her and she walked by.

Books for this feel? I'm going to sedate myself with xanax now.

>>10799661
>i'm so fedora i don't need to read dawkins
>memes came from 4chan in the 1970s
ok

>>10799849
Meditations if you're looking for a way to logic your pain away. Otherwise just anything comfy to lose yourself into for a while. Sorry anon, people can be really fucking awful sometimes.

I HATE math with a PASSION

>>10793786
b8?

>>10799864
>Unless you demonstrate otherwise, I will continue to assume that you are a retard, incapable of articulating your thoughts beyond "ironic" one-liner shitposts.

>>10799886
This is THE most brainlet post I have ever read.

>>10799811
>>10799892
Enough people do it implicitly that we might as well make it formal.

>>10800005
Fuck off
I know how to do it but it kills me on the inside, the monotony of it hurts my soul

>>10800014
No you're fucking retarded. You probably think calculus is "advanced" math. Kill yourself.

>>10789558
Connect with someone from your past. It doesn't matter if your relationship with then is poor. Also, go to church.

>>10796301
You are correct. Everyone wants success in their lifetime so the pursue the present market. The greats don't do this and don't get recognition until after their death. So really anon has a great chance if you think about it!

>>10800015
are you saying Newton was not advanced

>>10800206
Not by today's standards, no.

>>10800200
Haha, let's call it a chance—don't know how great it is

>>10789041
Dumbass here. I'm trying to remember something from high school English. Who was it (actual person or fictional character, not sure) who was madly in love with a girl but he never dared meet her for it might ruin his perception of her. Virgil was the first thing that came to mind but I can't confirm with my initial searching.

I should go to the gym, but instead I'm fapping to pregnant chicks for the 5th time.

>>10800391
me desu

>>10800206
The calculus non-mathematicians learn is a shadow of what Newton did, it's a glorified set of formulas. Which is a shame as there's a lot of beauty in the details, ie, a continuous function is one whose inverse takes open sets to open sets.

>>10799886
you're gay

I'm in a professional writing program and the only trained literary critic. The peer critiques are a joke. They can't even recognize a revised scene

>>10800559
>trained literary critic
>revised scene

lol u sound stupid

I hate my fetishes, I think they leave me in this really unhealthy state of mind and I haven't ever been able to shake them off.

>>10800577
My guess is you don't know what either revision or a scene is, and apparently that an English degree leads to the formal title of trained literary critic.

Also, it's "you."

>>10799886
Math is really cool. It's so beautiful and perfect. I wish I had a magic computer with infinite precision that could represent all the numbers exactly. I would write programs for the computer that did cool things like draw shapes and model things. Math is hard work though, especially when there's no one there to help you when you're confused. And I'm so tired. It's hard to learn things when you're tired. I'm so tired. God. I'm so tired all the time.

>>10800625
now u sound even more retarded

>>10800636
Evidence?

>>10790098

I don't think I'll ever be able to fuck anyone in my life. I have too many conditions and I am literally autistic. I don't know what to make of it, I'm sure I could get laid if I really wanted to, but I don't have too much an interest in it anyways. It might happen some day, though.

>>10800660
>>10800625
owned lmao

I've very recently been given advice along the lines of, "It's best to start your story from the ending so you know where your writing is going." Now I find myself trying to outline in reverse the story I want to right. I'm finding that it's trickier than I expected.

Everything was going great. Full-time job with flexible hours that allowed me to go to grad school two nights a week. Finally got my own place without needing a roommate. Then my department was eliminated and suddenly the bottom was yanked out from underneath this recent course of success. I'm destined to be miserable

>>10789041
Senpai

>>10790098
God damn you lack focus

>>10797917
Keep at it bucko

Resistance means youre hitting boundaries that must be surpassed.

DO YOU EVER WORRY YOUR LACK OF AMBITION AND DRIVE WILL PERMANENT LEAVE YOU IN A STATE OF PERPETUAL PASSIVITY? CELLS

Seeing a beautiful girl on the train then watching her leave and knowing you'll never see her again is truly the worst feeling. I've been thinking about talking to them but I don't think most girls would appreciate being hit on by a random guy on the train and I don't know how to communicate that all I really want is to talk and know them at least a little before they dissolve back into the mass of humanity.

I've been lonely for the past 6 years, and recently I matched with a girl on tinder that I randomly met at work soon after, now she's very inviting, she offered me coffee at her place. Yesterday we were at work together in a night shift and I had some opportunities to "make a move" but I was afraid that someone might come in, as lots of people work there at night and the rooms are open. Then I read in this book >>10785022 that I shouldn't care about that and that my boldness in "making a move" even in front of other people will be a sign of courage. Still I can't do it, I'm too stressed. But she seems so emotionally healthy that she can just make a move because she wants to. After my workout I'm gonna call her, we're both tired from after the night shift but maybe I'll get some coffee at her place.