/lit/ - Literature

>>22064446
renovating one of the rooms in my home to become a rustic library complete with a wheeled ladder. Which will then be filled with doujin and philosophy books

>>22064446
Nice bookcases. I need more badly

>>22064446
I get some (possibly hot) teacher to teach me Russian.

>>22064446
A house with a real library and reading room. I want at least two floors, maybe three of space, books crawling up along the walls with a tiered walkway above. Dimmed lighting to protect the books from UV. A huge set of comfy seating available below as well as a robust study area.

>>22064446
I use my vast wealth to become the literary character

>>22064446
A house to store more bookshelves. More bookshelves. Finally, I will sit down and fill in my gaps to create a complete library of Nintendo Power magazines.

/lit/‘s annotated Moby Dick
Better be at least be 50 million after taxes if I’m spending a cent on a book

>>22064446
One of those twenty volume Oxford English Dictionaries. Ever since I learned about this set from Penn "Trashman" Jillette (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJhQKw2xZIM @28:33) I've wanted one. I had access to the online OED for sometime, but I really want the set for my study

I would give every single poster on /lit/ a golden ticket inviting them to a competition in one year. At that competition they have the chance to win five million dollars. There can be multiple winners. The only thing they have to do to win five million dollars is pass an oral exam on classical society focused on primary sources, pass Latin and Greek reading and composition exams, perform several Euclidean constructions and pass a relatively easy problem from Apollonius' treatise on conics sections, give two one-hour presentations on two major philosophers of their choosing, give one presentation on the oeuvre of a pre-20th century literary author of their choosing, bench press 200lbs, have a conversation in a European language of their choosing which they did not learn as children, and swear an oath never to respect the opinions of unmarried women.

>>22064519
knowing me i'd look it up online anyway if it's got the same info

I would buy a country estate. At least a hundred acres of land.
I would farm it, but mostly to provide forage for pheasants, partridge and deer.
A small craftsman’s bungalow with swimming pool, grill and smoker
A good pedigree German Shorthair pointer for bird hunting
A Beretta Silver Pigeon 12 gauge shotgun
Maybe a AYA 20 gauge SXS for partridge
I might raise a small herd of sheep as well and need a couple of border collies.
A Toyota Tacoma pickup truck for work on the farm
A Porsche 911 for entertainment, picking up the young and impressionable farmers’ daughters.
A couple nice guitars as well
A sunburst Les Paul
A butterscotch Telecaster
A Gibson Hummingbird

A good wine cellar maybe a few choice Bordeauxs but mostly more middle of the road fare like Argentine Malbecs, California Zinfandels and Pinot Noirs and Italian Chiantis.
I would also take a few fishing trips to the Florida Keys and Belize. Maybe take up diving as well.

I probably won’t have much time for reading with all that keeping me busy though

Get some land up in the mountains
Stock up on ammo
Read all the books that the feds don’t want me to read
Wait

>>22064523
I'd invite everyone interested to a remote research institution I'd set up but under false pretext since it turns out to be more of a sadistic concentration camp

One million mass market paperback copies of Catcher in the Rye

I would buy the Strand in Manhattan
I would sell off the duplicate or multiple copies of books and all books by female authors
Get a mattress and a piss jug and move in

>>22064446
A hundred beautiful leatherbound copies of The Turner Diaries to hide in various libraries

>>22064446
A nice tall back armchair. A set of cozy blankets. linen, cotton, and wool for different seasons. A massive stone hearth like the one from Christmas in Connecticut. Then a shitload of the finest whiskey money can buy so I can get drunk in my armchair in front of my fire while pretending to read.

>>22064446
A house to put books in

Call of the Crocodile

>>22064446
back up https://archive.org/details/thetempleofsolomontheking_202006 on IPFS

I'd hire a team of veteran hitmen to cleanse the world of all trannies, tripfaggots and spamniggers on 4channel.org but especially /lit/ and /tg/ (userbase would be back to the numbers of the early 2000s I imagine)

>>22064446
Anything by Alexius Meinong. Shits pricey.

>buy/build 2 story house in the middle of the mountains
>get a real piano and the other studio equipment I always wanted
>gtfo from society to focus on writing and music
I wouldn't mind some coke and/or opium now and then

This expensive commentary on the Daodejing I've had on my list for a while now I guess.

The Daode jing Commentary of Cheng Xuanying: Daoism, Buddhism, and the Laozi in the Tang Dynasty

>>22064455
>Doujin
Degenerate pig fucker

>>22064471
if you win the lottery buy 2 sets so you can scan one of them for us

>>22064446
houseboat

>>22064446
Establishing a yearly endowment to my high school and college library.

And then maybe all the Loeb classics.

>>22064455
/thread

>>22064446
A bigger house to have a library full of Raildex books.

>>22064446
complete works of picrel would be first. after that, the newest Norton and Bevington shakespeares, two shelves of the best shakespeare criticism, complete Freud, complete Proust, complete Faulkner, and then at least one eight foot tall shelf dedicated solely to contemporary literature in translation

>>22064446
>You just won the lottery! What is your first /lit/ related purchase?
I'm gonna buy some artists.

>>22064446
probably hiring an assassin to take out rupi kaur

>>22065131
>Establishing a yearly endowment to my high school and college library.
based but ONLY if you insist on them naming a grant or scholarship in your honour

>>22064446
commissioning hundreds of artists to depict many of Lolita's descriptions

>>22065299
>instagram poet

The Commemorative Edition of Pihkal and Tihkal

>>22064446
My dream has always been to open a publishing house where anons can be published and also just obscure works in Latin and such. So first would be that. Then I fund the opening of an academy to give willing students a rigourous training in humanities (languages, history, literature, philosophy). Then retire to southern France or Greece with a modest house and an immodest personal library, while living a modest life so as to avoid wagecuckery.

>>22065299
it's like a caricature, incredible

>>22064446
a hundred thousand books

If I had a billion dollars I would still spend $0 to download books from libgen.

>>22066018
I didn't mean to write sage, it's the browser's fault

>>22064446
a book publisher

>>22064446
Video editor for my booktube channel

I’d get Gillian Anderson to make erotica audiobooks

>>22064446
I would stop reading books and start living my life

Probably something along the lines of Asset management and protection for dummies, or introduction to accounting so I don't get raped ultra hard by the tax man and end up paying 60+% in taxes and fees.
Or worse, end up in prison because I fucked up some paperwork and the government just takes 100+% of it.

I ain't looking to get my life ruined.

>>22064446
>You just won the lottery
i would get pussy
>but-
you think i would be reading if i was rich? i would be fucking bitches every day until im out of cash

>>22066531
/lit/ related purchase, anon

bumpe

>>22064446
Dunno. How much did I win?

>>22064446
big house big library

>>22064446
I'd pay for my internet, that way I can keep downloading books and then read them in my kindle

>>22064446
I will put something like Eberleins Dornauszieher in my study and hang up postmodern "art" of white children being tortured to make Chuds seehte

>>22066454
What would you publish?

>>22064446
a bookshelf. currently my books are in a pile on the floor. otherwise i shoplift books from used bookstores run by boomers, which is free.

>>22065299
this guy wins. let's start a gofundme

I’d take it all to Santa Anita and try to make some real money

>>22064523
Holy based /thread

>>22064523
no one here other than 3 people can bench 200 lbs you nigger

give me that lottery ticket

>>22065299

>>22068758
Wtf I love Rupi now

>>22064446
Purchase /lit/ and ban whoever I feel like >:)

>>22068065
Translations of works that are not available in my language or have subpar translations - like NYRB editions
Good, archival paper and leatherbound editions of classics - kind of like la Pléiade, but without the Bible paper - and non-fiction
Complete works of some authors
I'd also publish contemporary literature that is not minorities' misery porn or intersectionality babble.

>>22064523
fund it

More lottery tickets

>>22068758
she's a fucking demon.

>>22068758
is this AI generated, because it's far beyond what Rupi Kaur can do stylistically.

Student loan debt for my Bachelor's degree.

>>22064446
Entire work of David M. Gantz.

>>22064748
Christmas in Connecticut is a cozy movie.

>>22064446
Complete Salvador Dali Don Quixote and Divine Comedy signed prints

>>22068758
Kek, she grew up middle class in Canada.

The English translation of Zettels Traum

>>22064446
Massive occult tomes used by the OTO

>>22064446
Probably that book about the Sailor and his problems with having custody of his children

>>22064582
It’s 2023. There are no farmers’ daughters. There are no young people in these places, let alone young women.

>>22064987
this but weed & LSD

>>22064446
I buy 4chan from hiroshim00t, fire all the tranny jannies, doxx all mods, and ban every homosexual on this board. Starting with you, OP.

>>22064446

Invest in a good study maybe get Bottom's Dream and the complete works of William T Vollmann

>>22064446
Put together a team for an Oceans 11 style heist on the Vatican vault, then with the remaining money hiring top-level ai specialists and translators to translate all of it as quickly as possible. Then post them on here as they are completed.

>>22070029
Based

>>22064523
At least I pass the 200lbs
>>22068744
Idiot 200lbs is attainable within 3 months of lifting that's when I got it [no juice]

>>22064446
I start collecting facsimile books which are replicas of old famous books. They cost anywhere between €1000 and €10.000

>>22064446
>Buy very fancy, expensive pistol
>Buy ammo
>Buy premium booze
>Get drunk off my ass while I load pistol
>Finish booze
>Call lawyers and confirm details of estate and wealth management writen in recorded will
>At long last, my lights can go out.

>>22064446
Im going to buy Chekovs gun.

A brand new bookshelf and physical copies of all the japanese light novels I like, starting with Ascendance of a Bookworm.

After that nothing changes because I already have the best ereader (Kindle 3) and more than enough physical copies of books to keep me busy for years.

>>22064446
Going on a trip to newyork to get into a large bookstore and buy physical editions of all those books that are not translated in my thirdie cunt

>>22071460
>New York
Looking for new or used books? New just order off amazon. Used, don't go to New York. Go to Chicago or Portland or San Francisco.

>>22064446
The complete penguin collection

>>22071433
anon this made me audibly snort thank you

I'll lobby politicans that oppose the concepts of "copyright" and "intellectual property"

you're welcome for saving all of art

>>22064446
the entirety of 'Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture'. about 30 books iirc.

>>22071533
i just heard new york has the largest barnes and nobles. in the scenario i won a lottery i could just order amazon here, i'd like to go to an english bookstore once

>>22069400
>middle class in Canada
Brampton, Ontario is basically a third-world country because 'jeets have basically colonized it.