/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11460746]

ITT:
>Age
>3 books you'd take with you for a 1-3 year remote stay
>Dream job/lifestyle

Me:
>26
>In Search of Lost Time
>Montaigne's Essays
>William Blake's complete prose and poetry, or the Romantic Poetry books sold by Costco
>Work in remote and picturesque military-industrial complex R&D site that tests peaceful tactics instead of violent, like Men Who Stare at Goats' "New Earth Army". Like we have a chemical bomb but instead of harmful chemicals it's really potent marijuana/hallucinogenic smoke and we cover an area in it, move in, and negotiate peace treaties.

[Anonymous No.11460778]

>>11460746
bump

[Anonymous No.11460823]

>>11460746
>22
>Borges' collected fiction, The Bible, a collection of love poems.
>I would like to be rich, in my country, living in a big house with a huge backyard, travel around the world, drive a nice car, have a pretty wife. The normie lifestyle.

[Anonymous No.11460832]

>>11460823
That's it?

[Anonymous No.11460834]

>>11460746
>20
>2666
>Of Mice and Men
>something by Kishon
>musician, pumping out soulless pop tracks while pursuing more pretentious things and traveling a lot

[Anonymous No.11460849]

>>11460834
I can see that being extremely fun if you actually don't take it seriously

[Anonymous No.11460881]

>>11460849
i dont take anything seriously so im probably all set

[Anonymous No.11460883]

>>11460881
you've literally won at life tbqhfam

[Anonymous No.11460891]

>41
>All of Shakespeare's plays/poems in one collection, everything written by Anne Sexton, everything written by Gertrude Stein
>astronaut on my way to Mars

[Anonymous No.11460901]

>>11460746
>21
>Zarathustra, Sun and Steel, collected works of Shakespeare or something
>Curator of a travelling space library/museum of collective experience that patrons could relive through VR

[Anonymous No.11460909]

>27
>Complete Shakespeare, Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Der Einzige en sein Eigentum
>Comfy portfolio management gig with minimal effort and good returns so that I can live in luxury and pursue my alternative passions

[Anonymous No.11460924]

>>11460832
yea im a man of simple pleasures, but I'd remove the bible and put some Bolaño, instead.

[Anonymous No.11460950]

>>11460746

>25

>The Idiot
>some Edmund Burke
>one of Paul Edward Gottfried's central works

>being sent as a reporter to remote places or scenes of public interest, turmoil, war, humanitarian crisis, urban underground worlds, business conferences or whatever for an acclaimed magazine or cultural institution
>having some weeks completely off from work 3 times a year
>coming home in that time to my not too big rural house and not too dependent wife with our kids
>writing fiction for leisure and probably some philosophic pieces to satisfy my drive for personal intellectual achievement
>foster my kids talents and nature and teach them to be cool and decent
>being a reliable and loving friend to all the guys and girls that I share a story with
>die with the knowledge that my kids and other younger relatives have everything they need to surpass me

>>>11460823
good luck with that. see you on the boulevard of broken dreams.

[Anonymous No.11460978]

>>11460746

28

Balzac, Zola and Proust's novel cycles.

Working some kind of sinecure that regularly puts me in contact with others.

[Anonymous No.11460981]

>>11460901
This is awesome

[Anonymous No.11460991]

>>11460891

>all of X
>everything written by Y
>everything written by Z
>( (( 41 )) )
>being on 4chan

you're lost dude

[Anonymous No.11461012]

>25
>a journal to write in
>Plotinus, Ennead 1
>Parmenides, On Nature
>cyber security for a hospital as vocation, making fun 2d games with some educational value as avocation

[Anonymous No.11461020]

>>11461012
This one is cool

[Anonymous No.11461260]

>16
>The idiot
>The flowers of evil
>No longer human
>Have no fucking clue,i feel if i do one lifestyle thing ill miss a bunch of other stuff in life.Maybe follow in the footseps of Hemingway,travel and write i guess.

[Anonymous No.11461327]

>>11460746
21
the book of disquiet
zhuangzi
life: a user's manual
anything that gives me time to read, lift weights, work on my art, and supports my minimalistic lifestyle. librarian always sounded comfy to me though desu.

[Anonymous No.11461328]

>>11460823
Willy loman

[Anonymous No.11461345]

>>11460746
>21
>The idiot
>The bible
>War and peace
>My current job, compliance officer at a recruitment agency but with a better commission structure

[Anonymous No.11461367]

It makes so happy to see other people rate the idiot as much as I do.

I love that book so much and it gives me such pleasure to see it being appreciated by others. I know the brothers may be better but the idiot just clicked with me

[Anonymous No.11461447]

32
the lord of the rings, the bible, the divine comedy
writer, bartender in a small seaside town

[Anonymous No.11461924]

>>11460746
1
My Diary Desu
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
A Thousand Plataeus
Male Prostitute

[Anonymous No.11462000]

I'll cheat and say the complete works of Plato, Aristotle, and the Bible.

[Anonymous No.11462073]

>>11461367
I'll have to read it

[Anonymous No.11462080]

>>11460891
Nice

[Anonymous No.11462106]

>>11460746
>27
>The Brothers Karamasov
>Meditations
>The complete works of some author maybe shakespear or something
>Making 8 to 10k a month passively so I can pursue my passion of surfing, coding, reading, /fit/, /lit/ and creating things that are useful to people and /trv/. I also wanna bang some sluts.

[Anonymous No.11462321]

>21
>Something I havent read yet. I don't fucking know so here's three from the top of my to read list: the painted bird, Der wehrwolf, The worm ouroboros.
>Living in a huge mansion with obedient slaves and a huge farm allowing me to live perfectly autonomously but still in great luxury with my beautiful wife and kids. And more realistically: autonomous lifestyle on a small farmstead with wife, kids.

[Anonymous No.11462468]

>>11460746
nice honeypot thread you got there OP

[Anonymous No.11463863]

>>11460746
19
Infinite Jest
The Recognitions
The Bible
I'd go into academia, hopefully landing an art professor job

[Anonymous No.11465150]

>>11463863
easiest job in the world academia in the arts is literally useless