/lit/ - Literature

>>16519304
1st century AD Israel

>>16519304
The Jazz Age.

In Camelot from Tristan and Isolde.

Here.

Here

>>16519304
Argel, and I'd be shooting some arabs prolly

Rome AD 60

Chilling with Enclopius and Giton

Buenos Aires, 1940ish

>white guy living in Kenya during the Mau Mau rebellion
Yikes!

>>16519304
70's Paris during their "gauchiste" Youth revolt

France with a totalitarian Muslim president. Enforced Sharia obviously.

>>16519321
Bible
>>16519325
Great Gatsby?
>>16519335
Hamlet
>>16519356
Borges

>>16519388
>Hamlet
Yes, did you recognize it or did you reverse image search?

>>16519304
First decade of the 20th c Paris (Tarr)

Exactly where I am today, only ~170 years ago.

In the city Tuscon among other U.S.A.'s

>>16519304
Eure-et-Loir, Late 19th century.

>>16519304
I'd be apple picking with my communist Buddies, not in the faggy way

Cadiz, 1811.

I'd be living in a dystopia but it would be the early 2000s dystopia. Now I live in a social media dystopia which is even worse.

>>16519304
>Wyoming in the 1820s
I'm fucked

>>16519304
Chicago, which being invaded by an army of supernatural creatures from the sea. I think I'm going to die.

>>16519304
I'd be living in Tortilla Flat and since the entire population thereat seems at least moderately mentally retarded I would own that squatty little shithole in a moon's turn.

1990s Australia probably would be pretty nice though not sure how I’d fare in their academia.

Hoo boy that is bleak

>>16519304
A post apocalyptic world were there is ash everywhere and no hope

fuck

somewhere in Pynchon's imagination
imma get raped

A post apoalyptic world where there is ash everywhere and no hope.

>Salinas

Is that one of the places on fire rn?

>>16519587
*which is, oops

>>16519304
Utah

>>16519304
11th century Japan (Tale of Genji)

Presumably somewhere in the courts, though whether or not as royalty is anyone’s guess.

At least I could fuck a lot of Japanese girls

Terminus I suppose far off into the galaxy that is.

>>16519304
In Lisbon in one of the pointless and worthless daydreams that constitute a large part of my life.

>>16519724
You'd be a daikon farmer with a goofy top knot who gets zero pussy

>>16519304
20s USSR

Calcutta, late 19th century. I am poo'd.

>>16519304
the city of sofia

>>16519304
Athens during the time of Demosthenes.

Nirvana.

>>16519304
Ancient greece and the world of statistical analysis.

>>16519750
At that point I’d probably just break into the local royals house, take a nice sword, and become a Japanese robin rood until my inevitable demise later that week.

Tokyo around 1925-47.
Fuck

>>16519754
Weak guess, Doctor Zhivago?

>>16519304
New Orleans. Pray for me.
>Pic related.

>>16519304
House of leaves
I'm guess california ten years ago isn't bad
I just need to run before Trump administration

>>16519936
>I just need to run before Trump administration

The Trump administration isn't what's making California go to hell.

>>16519922
Hey Jamie pull up that clip

>>16519304
Late 1800s Asheville, NC

>>16519321
Chicago during the Great Depression.

>>16519329
I'd be in the weird semi-time traveling Camelot of Le Morte D'Arthur.

>>16519304
Walden pond seems like a nice place.

>>16519905
The Twelve Chairs

>>16519304
i would be living in THE FUTURE

>>16519999
That's my next travel destination.

I’d be in The Zone

Too spooky for me.

Too damp too

Chicago

>>16519304
Paris/French countryside - 1990

Whatever city the last winner of any of the four Panhellenic Games lives in.

>>16519304
Baeleron

Japan, somewhere in the 80's

Shack in the woods

(Walden)

In the Mexican wilderness
>blood meridian

>>16519304
Persia under Darius

>>16519304
A hospital for chronic diseases in the Bronx during the 1970s.

>>16519304
90s New York

Directory era French countryside

>>16519304
The Republic, what a nightmare.

>>16519304
>Maxim Gorky
1890's rural Russia.. this wont end well for me will it?

>>16520404
looks comfy

>>16520352
he just looks ridiculous

>>16519304
Some town in Tsarist Russia

>>16520415
Tsarist Russia is incredibly comfy if you look past all the suffering (and subsequent historical events).

Some glass house in the Single State.

>>16519304
I'd be living in Hell

Within the realm of my fucking pure reason goddammit

>>16519304
13th century Estonia

1929 New York with strange buildings designed by some autismo.

fuck

I am so hot and thirsty and there are people trying to make me drink my own shit and piss.

>>16520404
God, I wish that was me.

>>16519304
Russia during the reign of Tsar Alexander II.

>>16519304
oceania

>>16519304
the forests and pastures of central Italy, 1st century BC

>>16519304
West Texas in the 80s.

>>16520434
Yes.

Star Maker. Nothing changes.

>>16519304
Macondo

>>16519304
Medieval Scotland

>>16519304
Tostes, then Yonville

>>16519304
En un lugar de la Mancha de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme

>>16519304
Comfy Californian farm

>>16519304
A fictional Mexican industrial border city in the 1990s

>>16519304
In Sevilla or Madrid, Spain; probably.

>>16519304
Germany, 1945 but the loonytunes version

>>16519304
Roshar

>>16519304
>Watts - Behold the Spirit
I'm not quite sure. In the mind of a 1940's Anglican clergyman with a heterodox theology, bohemian lifestyle and a penchant for Zen Buddhism, Taoism and Advaita Vedanta? He doesn't really describe a place as such.
What was the last book I read before that?
>Tainter - The Collapse of Complex Societies
I'd be living in a complex society on the verge of collapse. This one would do, but he did go into detail on the collapse of Rome, the Mayan Culture, the Chaco Valley Culture, a bunch of the bronze age cultures etc.

>The Illuminatus Trilogy
Time to start meditating and doing drugs...
>>16521018
The iron dream?

a gulag

>>16520780
...No Country For Old Men?

>>16519304
15th century Poland

>>16520017
It is; I walked around it right about this time two years ago about 11 am and there was no one there but an old lady in a bathing cap treading water somewhere near the middle. Saw loons in New Hampshire a few days later. New England has to be one of the greatest fresh water repositories in the entire world. Amazed at how much wild country's still up there

>>16521018
GR?

>>16521404
Yes.

Holy shit, I'm living in an addict's halfway house in Enfield!

>>16519304
Kallipolis

~1 300 B.C. in Babylon.

>>16519304
Somewhere in the Egyptian desert

>>16519779
>>16520207
>>16520331
I want to know what you read

>>16520765
Virgil's eclogues?

>>16519304
The Land of Oz. Could be a lot worse as far as fantasy worlds go.

>>16519379
Salah Houacsallah.

Arrakis.

>REMEMBER THE TOOTH!!!!
>THE TOOOOOOTH!!!

oh boy. K-Kafka’s Castle?

>>16522557
Exodus?

>>16519304
849 BC. Near the Jordan river I guess?
Wherever Elijah was taken up into heaven. That was the last thing I read this morning.

st petersburg

shangri-la

The fledgling years of the Third Reich

>>16519304
Falklands

>>16522585
Histories by Herodotus

>>16522585
yes

San Lorenzo

>>16519304
France, between two world wars, some rich neighborhood just outside Paris, featuring murder and a very charming new neighbor.

>>16519304
I'd be living in Weissnichtwo, quite literally "Know not where". Not to mention the fussy German intellectuals.

Skotoprigonyevsk

>>16519304
>Stalingrad

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA NO SAVE ME

Present day USA where everything would be fine if only gov didn't meddle with the free market. Thank you, Thomas Sowell.

Germinal

Wherever the sexual degeneracy is

>>16519304
1970's America, infested with vampires.

>>16521263
>>16521468
It's GR.. glad it's over desu

>>16519304
90s Norway, which would probably be one of my top choices anyway.

>>16519304
>the invention of morel
would be the same me sad that my waifu won't notice me. except on a sandy beach with an aquarium than in my neckbeard nest

In freuds asshole

>>16519304
Star Wars Universe, around the same time as Empire Strikes Back.

in the mind of vladimir lenin

>>16519304
Edwardian Dublin

some provincial shithole in C19th russia, thanks turgenev

>>16519304
Troy, 13th Century BC

>>16519304
Civil war era North Carolina

>>16519304
Hyperborea

>Dublin, 1900-190
/comf/

>>16523922
book? i want some malvinas kino

>>16519304
A Nazi POW camp, 1943

>>16525926
In the guards quarters I assume?

>>16519304
1930s new england

>>16519304
On a ship, traveling the high seas and doing whatever I please.

>>16519304
I don't know where Hume's Treatise on Human Nature takes place, I don't read fiction btw

>>16526178
>I don't read fiction btw

Your choice, but the form of fiction provides insights that the essay cannot. On the simplest level, a story can serve as emotional education, cultural information and illustration for your future philosophical reading. Things that it can't hurt to have.

>>16519304
doing drugs with ernst jünger in the weimar republic

>>16519304
Sumer

In a submarine with Captain Nemo

Some small town in Russia that is about to burn down because of leftists

Somewhere in south america looking for Yage with Burroughs

>>16519304
I just read storm of steel. Am I fucked bros?

>>16526474
it would be so cozy

> 1970’s cambodia

Let’s gooooo!

>>16519304
Probably some late 18th or late 19th century novel

>>16519304
Nothing really changes

A 19th century Japanese monk enclave that enslaves women, breeds them, then liquefies and consumes the newborn's souls to gain immortailit

>>16519304
1940's Britain in a Farm in the countryside

>>16519304
In the mind of a depressed person whose negative emotion expresses itself through chronic pain.

I'm gonna guess
>>16519619
gravity's rainbow
>>16520239
A wild sheep chase or norwegian wood
>>16520448
Anna Karenina
>>16525656
Dubliners
>>16525926
Night
>>16525607
The Ego and the Id

>>16526627
Sauce

the mediterranean during the peloponnesian war

>>16519304
Wild west cow town. Epic.

Costaguana

1725 Philadelphia, Colonial America

>>16519304
Chicago in the 40's I think.

>>16519304
The quarter deck of the Pequod, hearing mad Ahab talk 'bout his quest for vengeance on the white whale.

HMS Hermes during the Falklands War.

20,000 years in the future

1960s Japan. Pretty comfy.

>>16519304
Pamplona Spain during the fiesta and 1920’s Paris pulsing fishing in the Spanish countryside.so I’d imagine I’d like it

>>16528183
*plus

Japan, 1950

Comfy.

>>16519304
Massapequa/NYC
Doesn’t seem too bad

>>16519304
19th Century Russia.

Monterey, California during the 1930s

1980's Upstate New York

the last I completed? Roadside Picnic. was coo. unless you count Shadow of the Torturer as a stand alone book which i don't. currently reading Iron Sunrise which is neat.

>>16519304
Lisboa.
Pretty decent, actually.