/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10808952]

What book would you recommend to an impoverished African banana salesman looking for escapism? Moby Dick?

[Anonymous No.10808966]

12 Rules for life

[Anonymous No.10808976]

>>10808952
Das Kapital

[Anonymous No.10808979]

Any Jules Verne book

[Anonymous No.10808980]

>>10808952
Good on this dude. Probably something comfy like The Hobbit or some shit.

[Anonymous No.10808997]

>>10808952
The Count of Montecristo

[Anonymous No.10809002]

The Bell Curve

[Anonymous No.10809055]

Maybe if he stopped wasting his time reading and started marketing those bananas he wouldn't be so impoverished.

It's not like niggers can understand books anyway.

[Anonymous No.10809057]

>>10809055
>>>/pol/

[Anonymous No.10809075]

>>10808952
The Journals of Captain Cook

[Anonymous No.10809089]

>>10808997
I'd say the Three Musketeers would be better.

[Anonymous No.10809292]

>>10808952
Those bananas are about to rot

What do you do with bananas like that, besides hurriedly stuffing then into your mouth?

Inb4 banana bread. I don't eat carbs

[Anonymous No.10809304]

>>10809292
banana ice cream. Banana smoothie. banana chips. banana pudding. grilled bananas.

[Anonymous No.10809313]

>>10809292
Outing yourself as not having read GR this hard.
mugsfull of banana mead...banana croissants and banana kreplach, and banana oatmeal and banana jam and banana bread, and bananas flamed in ancient brandy"
And the list goes on!

[Anonymous No.10809318]

My Turner diaries desu

[Anonymous No.10809334]

>>10809292
Bananas are healthy as fuck. Full of potassium and shit.

>>10808952
I know this is pol bait, but unironically Ben Okri. He wrote the pants of all the western fly mothafuckers, including Joyce

[Anonymous No.10809339]

>>10808952
The Time Machine by Wells.

[Anonymous No.10809341]

>>10809313
Not to mention fufu

[Anonymous No.10809355]

>>10808952
The foundation

[Anonymous No.10809364]

>>10808952
I got some bad news for this highly rare Negroidus Employus but where I'm from, bananas like those get scanned out and thrown in the compost bins.

[Anonymous No.10809373]

Not recognizing plantains

[Anonymous No.10809380]

>>10808952

Why is he hiding the book in a bucket?

[Anonymous No.10809399]

>>10809380
hes reading lolita haha

[Anonymous No.10809435]

>>10809399
I'm pretty sure the book he is reading is the Bible. It is more read in Africa than anywhere else in the world. To find a bookstore that sells anything but Bibles or bible studies or christian self help in west africa is close to impossible.

Anyway, hereos how Ben Okri opens his 'Famished Road' trilogy

>IN THE BEGINNING there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.
>In that land of beginnings spirits mingled with the unborn. We could assume numerous forms. Many of us were birds. We knew no boundaries. There was much feasting, playing, and sorrowing. We feasted much because of the beautiful terrors of eternity. We played much because we were free. And we sorrowed much because there were always those amongst us who had just returned from the world of the Living. They had returned inconsolable for all the love they had left behind, all the suffering they hadn’t redeemed, all that they hadn’t understood, and for all that they had barely begun to learn before they were drawn back to the land of origins.
>There was not one amongst us who looked forward to being born. We disliked the rigours of existence, the unfulfilled longings, the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of parents, the fact of dying, and the amazing indifference of the Living in the midst of the simple beauties of the universe. We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see.

>>10809373
Plantain is bigger than your dick

[Anonymous No.10809518]

>>10809292
>What do you do with bananas like that, besides hurriedly stuffing then into your mouth?

Banana pancakes.Two eggs for each banana, more or less. Blender. Pan. Control yourself not to eat the whole bunch in a go.

[Anonymous No.10809639]

>>10809055
stop being racist

[Anonymous No.10809694]

>>10809518
Don't trust this guy. Tried this once and only got a burnt crisp and sadness for losing two good bananas
and ketchup gas

[Anonymous No.10809758]

>>10808952
The Revolutionary Catechism by Sergey Nechayev
The Ego and Its Own by Max Stirner

[Anonymous No.10809872]

>>10809694
Yeah, i'm not sure why you wouldn't just add the chopped bananas to the batter right after you pour the pancake?

[Anonymous No.10810290]

Elvis Presley had butter fried peanut butter banana and bacon sandwiches for breakfast every day

[Anonymous No.10810299]

>>10810290
And there he is, in hell

[Anonymous No.10810304]

>>10808952
Gravity's Rainbow

[Anonymous No.10810307]

Nick Land

[Anonymous No.10810308]

>>10808952

[Anonymous No.10810341]

>>10810304
I'll just assume the bananas are references to the arc shape of a guided missle

[Anonymous No.10810424]

>>10809639
why?

[Anonymous No.10810434]

>>10810341
The banana is a lie

>>10810424
The golden rule my newfriend

[Anonymous No.10810453]

>>10810434
nah man, the golden rule is an ingroup thing

[Anonymous No.10810483]

>>10810453
You prefer people treating you like shit?

[Anonymous No.10810508]

>>10810483
I prefer a nigger not treating me in any way.

Also not pretending someone is something that they aren't is not treating them like shit. I'm not treating my dog like shit even if I admit that it doesn't understand books either.

[Anonymous No.10810518]

>>10810508
Do you beat your dog?

If not so, why?

[Anonymous No.10810584]

>>10810518
No because it's my dog and it's loyal. I might beat someone else's dog if there was a reason.

[Anonymous No.10810929]

>>10810584
I'm gonna try to cut this short, but it will be long.

Your dog is loyal because you show it love. Not because you instill fear in it. Dogs are very simple. Human beings are more complex, but still. People will respect and love you for being respectful and loving. Some wont, but those are assholes you need not worry about.

Now, if you create an artificial arbitrary divide between race, or political observance, or gender, or class, or whatnot, allowing yourself to disrespect and hate some just because, then you are doing it wrong.

And what you will get is disrespect and hatred. Dont expect anything else than that unless you are able to meet any sentient being eye to eye without judging.

And this, my dear newfriend, all boils down to the golden rule.

I'm so sorry your life sucks, but hey, if youre being an ass, dicks are gonna fuck you good

[Anonymous No.10810937]

>>10809292

Cut them into slices and make a peanut butter and banana sandwich. They're best when the bananas are soft and almost rotten.

[Anonymous No.10810949]

>>10810929
>boils down to the golden rule
But other people violated it first. They wanted to take my tax money to subsidize their poor choices because "muh abortions" "muh food" "muh cell phone" "muh birth control" et al is a human """right""".

[Anonymous No.10810956]

>>10810949
No. Youre the one whining about "muh money".

Good luck buying love and respect at wallmart

[Anonymous No.10810959]

>>10810299
Elvis isnt in hell

Fuck off

[Anonymous No.10810961]

>>10810929
I hope this is pasta

[Anonymous No.10810966]

>>10810961
Sorry bro. I pulled it out my ass just now

[Anonymous No.10810969]

>>10810966
Smelt fresh, thanks

[Anonymous No.10810993]

>>10810956
It wasn't my idea to take other people's money to subsidize bad decision making. Therefore I should expect people to behave reciprocally to what I consider positive behavior which is simply: personal responsibility. But then they don't and I'm still wrong for drawing a line in the sand? Go back to your socialist utopia, we're trying to be productive over here

[Anonymous No.10811027]

>>10810937
I like my banana raw. With raw peanuts. Not the ones you get at the suprmarket. the ones you get from the african ladies carrying all of it on their head, walking the street, selling it for less than 1$. I get a cluster of bananas and two handfuls of homeroasted peanuts for that. It makes for an excellent breakfast

>>10810993
Fair enough, you didnt create the social structures that force black people to hustle in order to survive. Now imagine youore a ghetto kid, no education worth mentioning, no parrents to keep you up, no chance of getting a job, etc, you know this shit. What will you do?

Assuming you are a /lit/icen I take it you appreciate Oscar Wilde?

Read this with particular attention to the section that talks about wellfare and crime:

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/wilde-oscar/soul-man/

>>10810969
You are welcome. I have a runny tummy (from the beer I suspet), so anytime

[Anonymous No.10811040]

>>10808952
communist manifesto, and I'm not even a commie Most blacks with an IQ above 100 let it get to their heads and become fucking miserable.
>see: every wealthy intelligent black person who has ever existed

[Anonymous No.10811051]

>>10810993
>subsidize
jewish ledger concepts have no place in discussions of morality. Life isn't a fucking checkbook. There's a place for discussion of economic systems and wealth distribution, but whatever you are it should have no bearing on how you think of individual people or their choices.

[Anonymous No.10811056]

>>10811040
Man, you dont know. In Africa that shit dont fly. Every African to ever take Marx seriously got assasinated. True story. Except J. J. Rawllins. But that guy was a gangster

[Anonymous No.10811101]

>>10811051
>if someone pumps out kids because they get more government dole per head, and works part-time to remain under the income threshold to be eligible for benefits, it shouldn't have any bearing on how you think of them
Hearty alt+f4

[Anonymous No.10811119]

>>10811101
Sounds just like white trash to me... But anyway. You cant really blame a cat for eating a fish you leave on the kitchen table. You can complain about politics and so forth. In your shoes, I'd be happy politicians have kept the rebellion down

[Anonymous No.10811820]

>>10810929
>Your dog is loyal because you show it love. Not because you instill fear in it. Dogs are very simple. Human beings are more complex, but still. People will respect and love you for being respectful and loving. Some wont, but those are assholes you need not worry about.

My dog is loyal to me because I am it's master and it follows it's master by nature. Human beings will respect me because I act in accordance with the norms of my society whatever those may be, not because I show respect unconditionally.

>Now, if you create an artificial arbitrary divide between race, or political observance, or gender, or class, or whatnot, allowing yourself to disrespect and hate some just because, then you are doing it wrong.

Why would I be doing it wrong? Ethnic and social divisions are not arbitrary but natural and inescapable.

>And what you will get is disrespect and hatred. Dont expect anything else than that unless you are able to meet any sentient being eye to eye without judging.

Nonsensical. Any community will respect and love someone who has destroyed the enemies of that community.

>And this, my dear newfriend, all boils down to the golden rule.

Nah man, the golden rule is an ingroup thing. Universal moral theories are universally failures because they misunderstand what morality is.

>I'm so sorry your life sucks, but hey, if youre being an ass, dicks are gonna fuck you good

My life does not suck and I am not a dick even to niggers. Doesn't change the fact that niggers are dumb.

[Anonymous No.10811859]

>>10811101
Why do you think anyone does this? Why aren't you upset about one of the quantitatively substantial ways your tax dollars are being abused or overspent? You know welfare takes up like, a fraction of gov spending? Do you really think that extra .5 percent or whathaveyou going towards military or infrastructure or education would have any seriously changing impact on the state of the nation, is that what is holding America down? Is that the solution to our country's pressing issues?

[Anonymous No.10812752]

>>10811820
Ouch... Saw this coming as soon as I saw the misuse of the golden rule

[Anonymous No.10812766]

bakunin

[Anonymous No.10813485]

>>10810424
nigga you know why

[Anonymous No.10813493]

>>10808966
"CLEAN YOUR ROOM!"

>tfw no room to clean

[Anonymous No.10813499]

>>10809055
Maybe he's reading a book on how to market those bananas, you never know.

[Anonymous No.10813505]

i once saw an african guy try to hustle the window lady at the post office out of 800 bucks, it was a very clever ruse, quite ingenious, sadly i had to get to work and didn't see how the situation was resolved, but i thought wow if these african fuckers put that much cleverness into legitimate enterprises instead of scams and fraud their countries wouldn't be total shit

[Anonymous No.10813555]

>>10813505
you seriously can't be this much of a brainlet.

[Anonymous No.10813563]

>>10810304
Came here to post this.

[Anonymous No.10813582]

>>10813505
Notice he doesn't explain what the ruse is.

[Anonymous No.10813585]

>>10811820
>My dog is loyal to me because I am it's master and it follows it's master by nature.

I can see right there that you have a great problem with egocentrism. I bet you don’t like cats because “you can’t trust them” and they “don’t respect or care about you”.

[Anonymous No.10813586]

>>10813505
They pay loads of money to gang leaders in order to learn the hustles.

Also: There are lots of real entrepeneurs in west africa, that do legit business and earn big money, but it stays in their pockets.

[Anonymous No.10813589]

>>10813582
>Notice...

what did he mean by this?

[Anonymous No.10813596]

>>10813585
they're literally bred to be suicidally affectionate. williams syndrome

[Anonymous No.10813603]

>>10813586
>there are some rich guys in west africa

every human culture that develops beyond hunter gatherer production produces inequality, am i supposed to be impressed that there's inequality in africa? wow man

[Anonymous No.10813670]

>>10813603
Im not trying to impress anyone. I just provided some facts people seem to be oblivious about. A lot of people spout shit about africa being a shithole and whatnot. They don't know anything about the reality in west africa. It's like those faggots calling Joyce a bad writer without having read him

[Anonymous No.10813679]

>>10813670
>people are actually arguing west africa is not impoverished

wasn't that last deadly virus outbreak (which is easily contained and treated in a modernized country) in west africa? yeah, it's pretty obvious the region is underdeveloped.

[Anonymous No.10813682]

>>10813585
So in order to not be egocentric according to you have to deny reality and pretend that dogs don't attach to their master due to their nature? That is how they are whether you like it or not.

I have no particular antipathy towards cats despite them obviously having different characteristics. The problem is that you confuse conduct with assessment of reality. Acting cordially or empathically towards dogs or niggers does not necessitate entertaining fantasies about their nature.

[Anonymous No.10813683]

>>10813670
you shouldn't even bother with that dude. He'll be forever ignorant.

And that's is his fault.

[Anonymous No.10813687]

>>10813682
shut the fuck up you troglodyte.

[Anonymous No.10813711]

>>10813682
>So in order to not be egocentric according to you have to deny reality and pretend that dogs don't attach to their master due to their nature? That is how they are whether you like it or not.

No, I just thought that you liked dogs because they were submissive and had the tendency to flatter their owners. I have met many people who liked their dogs because of that and hated cats because they didn’t show such obvious signs of affection and servitude.

But I was wrong, it was just a guess.

As for what that Anon told you:

>>10810929

I think that you would feel better, more light-minded if you didn’t indulge in aversion towards other people simply because of their genetic material or culture. I honestly think that you would feel better; in a way it would not be a favor to others, but to yourself.

[Anonymous No.10814039]

>>10809364
what if that's where he found them?

[Anonymous No.10814059]

Africa is a shithole country, so my recommendation is guides on how to make the country better.

[Anonymous No.10814100]

>>10814059
>Africa is a shithole country
>Africa is a shithole country
>Africa is a shithole country
>Africa is a shithole country
>Africa is a shithole country
>Africa is a shithole country

[Anonymous No.10814280]

>>10814059
Pray tell how many African countries have you been to?

I've lived in the US, and I can verily verify than it's more of a shithole than the African countries I've lived in.

[Anonymous No.10814632]

>>10809055>>10809002

>>/pol/

[Anonymous No.10814675]

>>10814280
Verily I verify unto you.
Also the guy in OP is obviously reading "A Perfect Day for Bananafish"