/lit/ - Literature

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>>12499219
3/4

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4/4

>>12499218
Why even post if your not gonna put even a little effort into the aesthetics of it

>>12499218
nice armadillo, and i want that spur bookend.

is that some kind of alexa or google or some other corporate surveillance device? why would you have one of those.

what the fuck is the point of these threads

>>12499441
It’s some kind of security system in a box my gf bought.

>>12499218
Why the running black guy?

>>12499456

I used to hope that I could find some good stuff I hadn't heard of or forgot about on these threads. But it's always the same shit I read 10 years ago.

>>12499526
its from 12 years a Slave you numbnut.

>>12499572
That's not what it says

>Bury my heart at wounded knee
Epic Skyrim reference, cunt.

>>12499586
Based retard poster

>>12499218
>A woman looking at men looking at women

Is that what you read before going down on your overweight girlfriend? sissy

>>12499456
it's a proxy interiour design thread and belongs to >>>/fa/

>>12499526
cuz they the first 2 die in a movie

today i downloaded 1500 of the worlds greatest novels and stuck them on my kobo. it cost me virtually nothing.

>>12499740

Building and organizing a physical collection can be an enjoyable experience for people.

>>12499740
good luck when shtf with your electronic jew

What is the best way to organize your shelf? A-asking for a friend

>>12499787
by colour

>>12499219
Do you own a horse?

>>12499844
Naw used to work on horse farms for a living, training, riding, managing, etc. don’t really care for horses anymore after being kicked, bucked off, stepped on, head butted, and seeing all the crazy bitches that love them and the money they pour into their fanciful pastime.

Masterclass shelf coming through.

1/3

>>12500086
2/3

>>12499813
/fa/ isn't /lit/

>>12500095
3/3

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>>12500110
These scream "grandparents' house".

>>12500103
see >>12499704

>>12500148
see >>12499456

Fin

>>12499218
1/3

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2/3

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3/3
Rate

>>12500137
Really? It’s just my dad and step mums shelves. I don’t live there anymore, out in the garage they put some other books but most of their shit is just Jodi picoult and Stephen King.

>>12500246
Yeah, my grandpa had a lot of similar stuff - King, Koontz, James Connolly, books about "tough parenting" and miracle cures, half-finished crosswords. I kind of miss it, oddly.

>>12499552

no one worthwhile posts. i want to talk to this dude so bad:

glowworm . blog/collections/

>>12500737
Those with good shelves don't feel a need to post them for the chance of validation.

>>12500192
How are those Penguin clothbounds? I'm thinking of buying their releases of War & Peace and Anna Karanina, but not sure what the quality is like

>>12499938
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>>12499938
Pretty jealous of your Loebs. Would you say they're worth the price new or should I wait until I find them second hand?

>>12501150
2/2

I need more shelf space badly

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>>12499938
I went bookstore today
One loab please, I said.
Coming right up, he said,
You sure have good taste.
Haha, I'm just learning Greek,
that's all, I say.
Oh, no, these are in translation
says he.
Oh I didn't realize, I say,
Before wolking out the store
vowing never to return.

>>12499218
Jungy dung dung

>>12501194
No one should read this shit

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>>12499456
materialism

>>12501315
>implying we don’t live in a material world

Maybe you meant consumerism, but in any case fuck off. Even mister miyagi had a collection of classic cars

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what is it that you do, friend?

easily the most interesting collection posted here in a while

>>12501621
I'm a farmer. Thanks, they're my favorites. I've spent a whole lot of time going through bibliographies and books to find the best books and I think I would recommend 90 percent of these, so I figured I'd try to save people some time by putting this selection out there.

>>12501206
>interior castle
>no one should read it
fuck u

>>12501685

where are you from, friend? genuinely interested why you're into the things you're into--especially the plato

what type of farming? why?

>>12501685
favorite books on ancient religions/occult? I saw you had some interesting ones, I want the one on Ancient Mysteries

>>12501685
oh shit you have stuff from Frances Yates! How is "The Art of Memory". I read "Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age" by her and it was quite enjoyable

>>12501794
I'm living in the most beautiful place I've ever seen, west US. Making enough off a small patch of Western smelly plants to make ends meet, tucked away on top of a mountain with a room full of books. I've had a lot of time to read. No nine to five for now. I think all of the subjects in the selection are related to each other. All of these approaches aim at the same thing but use different terminologies and methods. I've been most interested in Plato's approach because there is still so much that is a mystery about his philosophy and I keep learning new things every time I read his stuff and I tend to have a lot of success understanding his style. I've listened to the republic four times this week while trimming. It has been a surreal experience, but if I were to hear any other book on repeat (after reading it many times in the past) I might get sick of it. I don't know, I love it more and more.

>>12501960

how old are you, friend? is there some way to contact you outside this board?

>>12501960
I wish you the best of luck with Plato. This website has been a great resource for me as I read through the dialogues, his approach is fascinating.

>>12501975
28, I'm sure there's a way. What's recommended? Would an email address get spammed to hell if posted around here?

>>12501830
I'ma try to give you a better response on the mystery religions tomorrow, but short answer is in pic related. Top three are great compilations of primary sources, the others are great for mystery religions (but I like Proclus, Iamblicus, Philo for that, eventually, but they talk more about the philosophies of the mysteries than practical, like, factual information about the mysteries

>>12502074

that's cool--i'm around your age. Tell me, friend: what is your background? what is it you are aiming for?

what do you want most out of this world?

>>12502168
this is creepy

>>12502168
Degree in economics because income inequality is fucked up. Economic policies won't change without change in politics. Politics won't change without a change in the religious right's misunderstanding of Christianity. I go to get a master's of theology to try to convince people of what seemed obvious, Jesus would have been looking out for the poor. I don't think the dude existed, but that would certainly be his stance. Graduated, but I'm not going to change a conservative's mind by writing about it. Now my goal is to learn all of this stuff. I'm hoping that through meditation, practice, and learning I'll achieve a frame of consciousness that is essentially more enjoyable than the one I have now. I have other goals, but this is my one true goal.

>>12502237

that was the type of answer i was hoping for.

tell me: i dont care whether you believe in god or not, but i am curious--under what conditions would that belief for you, whichever it is, change?

>>12502289
The best evidence I can think of to convince me against the possibility of God would be some ancient authority I trust (but that is only because I can't think of anything else that could convince me against the experience), and spiritual experience would probably be most persuasive in favor of God. But I think when most people say 'believe in God' they really mean 'believe in justice and the eternal nature of the soul', but these would still be my answers

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>>12502158
Have you read much Vedanta texts anon? I ask because I went through your whole series of pics and it seemed to be one of the few major mystic traditions that you didn't have anything from, and because you have so much (neo)platonic stuff I'm surprised because it aligns very beautifully with it. I see you have some Guenon and Coomaraswamy, those authors are top-notch but even they are like childs-play compared to the actual Vedanta texts they mention like Adi Shankara's commentaries, the Yoga Vasistha, Tripura Rahasya and so on; you may really enjoy checking some of those out and since you've already read those authors and all the platonic stuff you'd be perfectly situated to understand it well. There's a quote from an essay by Coomaraswamy where he lists the stuff someone should read before studying Vedanta and most of its in your pics. "A European can hardly be said to be adequately prepared for the study of the Vedanta unless he has acquired some knowledge and understanding of at least Plato, Philo, Hermes Trismegistus, Plotinus, the Gospel of John, Dionysius the Areopagiite, Meister Eckhart and Dante" - AKC in the essay "Vedanta and the Western Tradition" (roughly paraphrased, I can't copy the exact text on my phone)

>>12499456
It's gratifying

>>12502343

tell me, friend: are you interested in politics? if i tasked you with something like: "convert for me a man from the left to the alt-right, or vice-versa"--is this the type of question that interests you? if so, what would your answer "generally" look like? (i know i know, very on the spot; still, you have been kind to entertain my questions so far, and i appreciate it)

>>12502344
No I haven't, but I will. Thanks for the names to check out, I saved them and I'll look them up

>>12502382
Yes, I'm interested in politics. That is a question that interests me. I'm not sure I know what you mean when you say 'what would your answer generally look like'. Were you looking for some other answer?

>>12499456
I don't know.

>>12502442

i mean: if i sat you down in a room in front of someone with political belief X (for sake of argument, lets say a commitment to modern day leftist progressivism) and asked you to convert them to political belief Y (let's say, modern trumpism)--do you think you could do it? what would you go about doing?

unrelatedly, do you work best by yourself or with others?

>>12499456
hookups, evidently

>>12502552
hey, you seem cool, want to grab some coffee (I prefer tea) sometime?

>>12501181
Is Catafalque worth it?

Reminder that buying all these prestigious books doesn't count as having read them

>>12502480
It would completely depend on the type of personality I were talking to, but if I were to push from left to right, I would make the person understand authenticity of the Podesta emails, make sure they know that none of the authors of the emails deny authorship, and I would go through a number of email threads that show how truly fucked the incest-pit of wealth, media, and establishment politics really is. People on both sides require direct quotes, fingerprinted evidence to be swayed at all, and the Podesta emails hold a wealth of that type of evidence. I researched those emails like scholarship. There are a lot of email thread narratives that make the establishment look horribly corrupt, but these narratives haven't been put in an accessable format. If the subject can appreciate the wiki leaks thing as a view inside the operations of a global empire unlike history has ever seen, I think he/she could reconsider the media's narrative on the matter and completely lose trust in the left on account of shady business presented in the emails. I would put together a few lists of other factual evidence that would flow through certain categories based on the response to previous categories of information. Oh goodness, fun exercise on my phone screen, and I apologize if the response was less than general. Depends on the type of work, I come up with ideas alone, write alone, my biggest strengths, but in any sort of group activity I'm great at being whatever the group dynamic needs and other people's impressions of me mean a lot to me, so that is another stimulant on the side of group work.

>>12502620
Hahaha, GREAT QUESTION. NO! It's trash. No analysis at all. I was so excited for it, as I haven't found anything about the red book that is actually worth reading.

>>12502630
Do you still have faith in democracy? What is your ideal form of government?

>>12502630

i disagree with your approach, e.g. i think you fall hard on a convincing rather than persuading registrar (to take a kinda wittgensteinian view of the problem), but i like the way you think. you especially seem self-aware and very honest, which i prize greatly. straight up: i teach at princeton and run a political consulting firm and private library in DC. i seek out a very specific type of talent, and I think so far you fit the bill.

i am interested in understanding more about your ambitions, and would like to talk to you further. if you are all interested, please email me: cicindelaes at gmail. it's a throw-away account, and i will delete this post in about half an hour. if you are at all interested, include some proof that it is you. of course, as the time comes, any and all proof of my claims will be made available in whatever form you would like.

i look forward to hearing from you.

>>12499978
is that the french ed of jerusalem? like it a lot

>>12500159
brainlet

>>12499218
2.73mb photo still cant read the titles

>>12501192
I hope you're published.

>>12501192

i unironically love this

>>12502449
(((Neil Gaiman)))

Been waiting to extend because I know I'm moving soon but this is getting untenable

I'm disturbed by the lack of funko pops on these shelves

No h8 plz

>>12503607
Looks real nice. Why do you have 2 W&P though?

>>12501192
Sorry you had to go through that, anon

>>12505053
I can barely see anything, anon

>>12504207
Comfy-tier

>>12502570
How about peyote tea this Sunday?

About 2/3rds of my collection.

>>12506052
OP here. Are you me?

>>12506336
Nah. I still haven't gotten around to buying the complete works of Jose Canseco.

Similar tastes though. I have the same copy of Annals of the Former World on my other shelf.

If you like Ray Chandler you should read James Crumley and Charles Willeford. Dashell Hammett too if you haven't gotten to it yet. Burn you chuck palahniuk