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What are some books about the passing of time, the abrupt end of childhood, the morbid contemplation of death, the growing fear that you might never achieve anything great in this life, the shame of being a male virgin?

>> No.14761932

catcher in the rye?

>> No.14762034

>>14761932
>>14761932
I read that one. Maybe it would be better to say that I am looking for bildungsromans in general

>> No.14762038

>>14761885
My diaries

>> No.14762042

>>14761885
Being and Time

>> No.14762048

>time
>childhood
>death
>fear
>achievement
>shame
>virginity

Literally all spooks

>> No.14762066

>>14761885
You just described the The Tartar Steppe

>> No.14762093

>>14762048

Spooks are spooks too. A is A is a logical truth.

>> No.14762422

>>14762066
Read that one too.

>> No.14762592

>the shame of being a male virgin?
I enjoy announcing my virginity confidently to acquaintances and shit to their confusion. I'm just above the looks and speech threshold for it to seem crazy. The co-workers were genuinely confused that I had nothing going on on Valentines day.

It plants the smallest seed on insecurity in them, especially the woman it just makes them think twice about the whole concept of virginity and how the person they lost it to is now completely gone from their life.

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>>14761885
https://discord.gg/nprb8hs

>> No.14763182

>>14761885
The book of disquiet quite literally

>> No.14763204

>>14761885
U

>> No.14763206

>>14762034
As a german i cringe everytime i see a german expressions americanised

>> No.14763209

>>14762592
Based

>> No.14763218

>>14762592

Based if not merely disguised cope. But I am merely coping by calling it based, since having been with many a lady in my early twenties, I find myself with few or none as I approach thirty

>> No.14763236

I-in Search of Lost T-time?

>> No.14763240

>>14761885
Proust

>> No.14763242

>>14763182
This. Paranoid desperation and resentment throughout.

>> No.14763253

>>14762093

But not an argument

>> No.14763260

>>14763218
How is this possible? Women didn't even look at me when I was 18. 25 now and my prospects seem to be improving by the year. Are you unemployed or something?

>> No.14763263

>>14763206
the reverse is far worse. i know a bit of german and younger germans seem to insert english phrases everywhere to an extremely cringey effect. i tried watching some german standup and the guy would routinely use english for punchlines. i also speak some french and russian and the french don't fetishize english anywhere near as much. russians do but they usually do it in a mocking tone, with a patronizing relationship to american language and culture, whereas germans seem to legitimately revere it. is this just another sign of germany being a defeated culture?

>> No.14763272

>>14763260

>are you unemployed or something

yep, also have finally caved to severe depression and cut all friends off

>> No.14763294

>>14763263
Germany is autistic Tiger without teeth. The germans use english excessively and it really cringeworthy. English is more convenient however because its shorter.
English>German

>> No.14763385

>>14763263
Germany is literally an occupied country today, same as south korea

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14763417

Epic of Gilgamesh

>> No.14763430

>>14761885
The Magic Mountain

>> No.14763515

>>14763263
>. i tried watching some german standup
well there is your first mistake.

>> No.14763540

>>14763263
>is this just another sign of germany being a defeated culture?
Well, the UN Enemy State Clause indicates as much, and its getting close to a century on now.

>>14763206
We're English, we take everyone's word; none are safe.