/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16193858]

has anyone read this? is tao off his rocker now? he said in an interview recently he consumes weed and lsd daily

also if you're out there hi tao :3

[Anonymous No.16193884]

The cover looks the part.

[Anonymous No.16193892]

[Anonymous No.16193894]

guy's tryin to solve his autism thru microdosing lsd, hope he's ok

[Anonymous No.16193913]

>>16193894
microdosing is honestly one of the best decisions i've made for my mental health. haven't been able to aquire more for a while but i totally understand why he's doing it

[Anonymous No.16193918]

>>16193858
>ywn Tao Lin's DMT Tunnel

[Anonymous No.16193949]

>>16193884
>04:44:44
Tao's presence: confirmed

[Anonymous No.16193961]

>>16193884
>>16193949
I think he's been able to reacquire some of his MK-Ultra powers

[Anonymous No.16194042]

>>16193918
go shower, peg

[Anonymous No.16194095]

who cares meme author won't make it into the canon plus hes a gook

[Anonymous No.16194103]

>>16194095
imagine only reading what a collective tells you to read

[Anonymous No.16194110]

>>16193892
>detoxification
>cannabis

[Anonymous No.16194115]

>>16193858
Didn't all of you read this when it and Taipei came out?

Guys...just read shit.

[Anonymous No.16194118]

>>16194103
no i wont imagine that, sounds like you are a gay homo though

ps i read taipei, its meh

[Anonymous No.16194126]

>>16194115
>Didn't all of you read this when it and Taipei came out?
they were published 5 years apart, what do you mean?

>>16194118
if i'm a gay homo am i more powerful than a regular homo

[Anonymous No.16194165]

>>16194126
My mistake, I must have heard him talk about Trip in relation to Taipei before Trip came out or something. I remembered Trip coming out much closer to Taipei's release.

It seems like most of the people on here eternally put off reading stuff they say they want to read.

[Anonymous No.16194204]

>>16194165
>It seems like most of the people on here eternally put off reading stuff they say they want to read.
I think nowadays most people on /lit/ don't even carry backlogs no more

[Anonymous No.16194230]

>>16194165
i can agree with your sentiment, but as a fan of taipei and some of his short stories and poetry, i really don't know how much i want to read trip, it's obviously quite a departure for him. but i'd love to hear opinions on it, maybe that's weak of me in your eyes

[Anonymous No.16194318]

>>16193858
>now

[Anonymous No.16194400]

>>16193858
love u, Tao! Remember to sit up straight during interviews

[Anonymous No.16194438]

>>16193892
based tao. we're all gonna make it bros

[Anonymous No.16194439]

the name of my next novel, Leave Society, is a threat to everyone, including myself

[Anonymous No.16194454]

>>16193858
its not very good desu

[Anonymous No.16194511]

>7. You recently created a Patreon “for any nonfiction that would be hard to get published at most places due to the content.” Which type of content do you consider particularly difficult to publish in the US, a country historically known for valuing free speech?

>Content going against the government's story of 9/11. Content that suggests ways to make vaccines safer. Content that suggests the CIA and/or other government groups with secret projects are still using false flag operations, psychological operations, and MKULTRA-like experiments on a large scale. Content that suggests there is such a thing as "mainstream media" in which there isn't free speech, but in which certain topics can't be discussed due to pharmaceutical influence through advertising money, Operation Mockingbird-esque CIA intervention, and other reasons.


anyone here subbed to his Patreon? i wanna know the truth of 9/11

[Anonymous No.16195261]

>>16194400
Ugly feet

[Anonymous No.16195729]

>>16194511
Tao Lin ain't afraid of anything

[Anonymous No.16195738]

>>16194400
I love how you can see Peg's extensors flexing

[Anonymous No.16196294]

>>16193858
Only the epilogue is any good. Wait for the next one

[Anonymous No.16196322]

>>16193858
It's OK, pretty breezy read - finished it over the course of a long train trip. Nothing amazing, but pleasant enough. As >>16196294 says the epilogue is the best part, and admittedly the epilogue is about half the novel.

[Anonymous No.16196332]

Tao Lin shows how bad was the decision to let the plebs think and speak up. How bad is the usual mental ramblings of the plebs which should never have been created if the peasants were not lead to believe they have the faculty of reason

this is why humanism is a problem. the dimwits start to think, and worse they start to think they are smart.and when they reach a high number, the result is millions of people babbling about drug fueled and sex driven faux introspection.

[Anonymous No.16196333]

LSD every day would be pointless since it has very high tolerance

[Anonymous No.16196343]

>>16193858
>he said in an interview recently he consumes weed and lsd daily

This is by no means the most retarded thing Tao has said or done recently. But desu he looks like he has a comfy life - all he does is collect leaves, write books, eat cumin, spread conspiracy theories, and vibe.

[Anonymous No.16196367]

>>16193858
>lsd daily
Bullshit, it's literally impossible.

[Anonymous No.16196379]

>>16193894
>>16193913
ive been microdosing, only $105 and i have enough to microdose for like 3 YEARS. 30x220ug needlepoint tabs. 20-30ug per dose, which is on the high end for some ppl, every other other day. so like ~100 days a year if im consistent. 100 * 20ug = 2000ug which is less than 1/3rd of what ive got. ive never done any other drug, not even cannabis, mostly for that reason. i have a friend spending hundreds per month on weed, only to, what, lower his ambition?

anyway it doesnt exactly make me more sane. mostly just very "manic" tho probably not true mania. happy. comfortable in my body. and as far as any sort of hangover goes, i think DFW had it right,
>Hal wasn't sure he concurred. An alcohol hangover was definitely no frolic in the psychic glade, all thirsty and sick and your eyes bulging and receding with your pulse, but after a night of involved hallucinogens Hal said the dawn seemed to confer on his psyche a kind of pale sweet aura, a luminescence.

[Anonymous No.16196444]

>>16196379
>>16193913
What benefits have you found from microdosing? I've only done mild (100ug) or massive (500ug) at a time, and I find myself not wanting to take it more than once every 6 months or so.

[Anonymous No.16196490]

>>16196444
>find myself not wanting to take it more than once every 6 months or so
i feel the same way. in fact ive only done one non-microdose i.e. 440ug and i spent like 12 hours of extreme nausea, most of that anxiously vomiting, with very limited short-term memory faculties. if i could have gotten out of the fetal position i mightve killed myself. the only reason i did lsd again was because i had so much left that i thought i might as well at least see what microdosing is all about

>benefits
for me, it just breaks up the flow of things. i don't necessarily feel more creative, just comfortable, content, more speed and less brakes in everything i do because of it which is beneficial to productivity i think. reading while microdosing is more vivid imo. ive seen studies that it has long-term benefits for people with depression, or whatever, but i can't say for certain.

[Anonymous No.16196605]

>>16196322
it's not a novel

[Anonymous No.16196675]

>>16194511
I wonder if Tao listens to the No Agenda show

[Anonymous No.16196699]

>>16196605
sorry, novella

[Anonymous No.16196700]

>>16196379

I've always loved that passage from IJ

[Anonymous No.16196714]

>>16196699
it's non-fiction

[Anonymous No.16196728]

>>16196714
you mean... that crazy motherfucker actually DID those things? woah...

[Anonymous No.16196987]

>>16196490
One of my bad trips was similar to that, a drop into hell with a new train of thought departing my brain station every two seconds.
I can see microdosing having those effects. Making feelings more tangible, showing mundane things in a new light, etc. I've got pretty bad anxiety though, so I'm nervous about possibly being set off into a panic attack at a bad time.
I've got a 300ug tab just sitting there though, so heck why not give it a try.

[Anonymous No.16197006]

>>16193858
his essay on seung-hui cho is based.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160327094426/http://www.taolin.info/cho

>If Cho Seung-Hui was in my writing class and wrote a story like “Cho Seung-Hui picked up a knife and followed Tao Lin into the bathroom and stabbed Tao Lin repeatedly and put Tao Lin in a bag, brought him home, ate his corpse” I wouldn’t report him for counseling. I would treat the story like anything else that exists in the imagination. I would probably like the story because those are all things I’ve probably thought myself. I have thought about killing people, etc.

>In middle school my friends and I would talk about how we would kill the most white people if we were Native Americans. We talked, for example, about flying over the Superbowl and dropping grenades.

[Anonymous No.16197209]

>>16196987
>I've got pretty bad anxiety though,
same, i mean, i think the only possible way to vomit for like 8 hours non-stop on lsd is if either 1) it's actually NBOMe, but i used a testkit beforehand, or 2) you have some sort of deep underlying anxiety issues. ostensibly nausea is common but like throw-up-once-and-you-feel-better nausea, not like lasting existential suicide Sartre yet also literal Nausea. also since I already quoted IJ,
>Some people their nerves are in their stomachs. Cisne, Yard-Guard, Lord, you: stomach men.
microdsg gives a stomach-centered body high, like a roller-coaster on the moon. so not quite nausea. no anxiety, or bad feels
>I've got a 300ug tab just sitting there though, so heck why not give it a try.
aw hell yea. enjoy, monsieur. after a few times i think you'll eventually get a rhythm going, and some sort of control system in place for emotional stability

[Anonymous No.16197291]

>2020
>tao lin is still shilling his books on /lit/
go to bed

[Anonymous No.16197738]

>>16193892
>less autistic
>posts the most autistic thing I can

[Anonymous No.16197820]

>>16197738
his leavesociety blogspot is peak autism, all the best to him though

[Anonymous No.16198029]

>>16197820
t. neuronormie

[Anonymous No.16198193]

sweet book

[Anonymous No.16198237]

>>16198029
nope

[Anonymous No.16198516]

go to bed, tao

[Anonymous No.16199545]

>>16198029
yeah this was pretty obvious and irrefutable. wonder how she/xey cope

[Anonymous No.16199669]

>>16193858
was an ok read. the stuff about roundup/glyphosate causing depression wasn't too well researched tho.

[Anonymous No.16199916]

>>16199669
>roundup/glyphosate causing depression
oh, Tao, you!

[Anonymous No.16200213]

>>16193858
Be careful out there, Mr. Lin. You know what happened to Gordon Freeman.

[Anonymous No.16200228]

>>16200213
I've been sending my surplus nofap vibes to Tao whenever I breakthrough

[Anonymous No.16201054]

>>16193858
how long are you s'pozed to stare at the cover before opening it?

[Anonymous No.16201069]

>Tao went back to Cali

[Anonymous No.16201290]

>>16201069
why anyone would plant okra of their own accord is beyond me. Disgusting hairy seedy mushy piece of shit plant, literally no redeeming qualities.

[Anonymous No.16201372]

>>16193858
>he said in an interview recently he consumes weed and lsd daily
source?

[Anonymous No.16201394]

>>16201290
agreed, it's literally nigger food
that said i love me some collard greens, you gotta cook that shit all fucking day though

[Anonymous No.16201397]

>>16201372
https://taolin.tumblr.com/post/135019377622/have-psychedelics-displaced-your-amphetamine
not an interview just a tumblr ask

[Anonymous No.16201444]

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao

[Anonymous No.16201468]

>>16201397
i see. thanks.

[Anonymous No.16201475]

>>16198029
stop romanticizing mental divergence

[Anonymous No.16202127]

>>16201290
>>16201394
t. stewlets
inb4 you brag about your water sauce

[Anonymous No.16202142]

>>16201444
>quaternary repeats of romaine
>"4" occurring in Masonic triplets
>homophony with death
if this photo was visticulating so rapidly I wouldn't be concerned.

[Anonymous No.16202687]

Pretty good book desu

[Anonymous No.16203812]

>>16193858
does Tao praise rocking chairs for any reason?

[Anonymous No.16203844]

>>16201475
i diverge mentally for the sake of it. other people are little control systems that keep you steering in the right direction, and its much more obvious when its happening when you have to steer that much farther

[Anonymous No.16203858]

>>16203812
In an unusually candid response, Tao said, and I quote, "they rock."

[Anonymous No.16204289]

Tao is here. He posted this thread on his twitter

[Anonymous No.16204298]

>>16196332
You are providing the best example of your own theory.

[Anonymous No.16204380]

>>16193858
Read this two months ago not worth it at all

[Anonymous No.16204397]

>>16193918
kek

[Anonymous No.16204826]

>>16201444
Tao, behind you!!!

[Anonymous No.16205009]

>>16204289
i'm not seeing it anon

[Anonymous No.16205075]

>>16204380
Agreed. As a fan of Tai Pei, I sincerely hope he stops smoking so much weed and taking LSD daily. Drugs are not the way in the final analysis. Hope he figures this out and sticks to coffee and exercise.

[Anonymous No.16205116]

>>16205075
Like, isn't it obvious to anyone else that he just traded one handful of drugs for another?
Adderall, MDMA, mushrooms, Xanax
OMG FARMASOOTICAL BAD
for
Cannabis, LSD, DMT
OMG world is lie!!!!
Equally stupid shit. I would know, I've done every drug he's ever mentioned.

Don't do drugs just because Tao did.

The THEME of Tai Pei is that drugs are bad: "And he felt lucky to be alive." Don't you learn from your own novels, bucko?

[Anonymous No.16205126]

>>16194511

How is it hard to publish when Youtube is shoving it down your throat all the time with their skewed algorithsm. Azns trying to jew

[Anonymous No.16205146]

>>16205116
if you can't see a difference between the dysfunction of his life in taipei and the unchecked consumption of such a wide variety of drugs vs the strict ration of weed and tiny amounts of lsd he consumes today, and the relative calmness and health of his current state of mind then you're being intellectually dishonest. he's doing what's working for him and you should stop moralfagging about it

[Anonymous No.16205156]

>>16205146
If you can't see the sameness in what he's doing, then you're missing out on the Tao. His purpose in life is to escape these polarities and see the bigger picture.

[Anonymous No.16205173]

>>16205156
i think it's pretty obvious you have no basis for these claims or special insight into his mind or well-being. i love tao for his mind and his tolerances, see >>16197006
and you are being merely intolerant.

[Anonymous No.16205213]

>>16205173
OK then, believe that I know nothing and worship him. You'll see one day that what I've said is true. He will give up drugs all together and publish a book on it.

[Anonymous No.16205320]

>>16203844
that's fine as long as you dont use it to become the male equivalent of ketamine girls that are just fascinated with the aesthetics of being mentally ill

[Anonymous No.16205556]

>>16193858
Tao, are you in Florida? Do you still eat pizza?

[Anonymous No.16205840]

>>16205213
worship and respect are not the same thing. you have no respect, only ego.

[Anonymous No.16206401]

What a great day when a Tao Lin thread catches is already nearing 100 replies in full vibrancy.

[Anonymous No.16206434]

>>16206401
Peg posting is really so nasty that I really ought to get off this board

[Anonymous No.16207002]

>>16206434
Did they have a divorce?

[Anonymous No.16207203]

>>16201290
fry it
>>16201394
boil it, salt and pepper it generously when you serve

[Anonymous No.16207652]

>>16206434
go and ponder peg in your tent of woe

[Anonymous No.16208678]

>>16201290
there are varieties that grow year round, which makes them practical. if you build sauces (lol) you'd have come across the elemental contributions for these tough plants. try not being a total loser in all things at some point down the road

[Anonymous No.16208757]

is the whole 9/11 truther thing a bit or

[Anonymous No.16208830]

>>16205126
what year are you living in? youtube started scrubbing all their conspiracy stuff around 2016/2017, in my experience it's harder to find those kind of videos. yet alone get them recommended. I remember when searching for 9/11 used to get you all sorts of raw footage and long form conspiracy docs. Now it's 3 minute sanitized clips from approved news outlets

[Anonymous No.16208859]

>>16208757
or the government hasn't told the truth about 9/11?

[Anonymous No.16208883]

>>16208859
>>16208757
>hey, citizen, anything we overlooked in the inexplicable disappearance of lower Manhattan real estate?

[Anonymous No.16209098]

>>16206401
No joke I miss /lit/ in the Tao posting days. Maybe it's because that's when I started browsing the board but I much preferred it when we actually discussed new literature rather than just rehashing the same old culture war bullshit. Alas.. at least the Jordan Peterson posting isn't as bad as it used to be.

[Anonymous No.16209231]

literature peaked here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjcOK2T0lPo

[Anonymous No.16209263]

>>16209098
agreed. i think /lit/ had tremendous potential in its early days. i'm glad that we at least have archives dating back very far

[Anonymous No.16209347]

remember to reward your teeth with animal bones, anons

[Anonymous No.16209368]

>>16209231
absolute legend

[Anonymous No.16209392]

>>16209231
R E T V R N
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[Anonymous No.16209666]

>>16209347
who beeth this jizzum prism?

[Anonymous No.16209796]

>>16193858
Tao, let's have a picnic. We can bring a large blanket or some sort of cloth-upholstered tarp and be compliant if that's helpful. But otherwise it would simply be the ancient act of food shared across imponderable chasms, no less real nor more important than any other meal, it could be as special as we deem to construct. Perhaps we commence a conflagration that feeds a multitude of people, and neither of us so much as eats as we hydrate and sling, gripped by the friscillating fissure, Tao-torn, a half-wink to his local fambase, thereupon piling out the goodnesses from somewheres beyond, from floating animisms, prelithics, gnashings, unrelenting our extraction and delivery until we are outside our material, and there we remain until our fathom collapses like a silly balloon and gives way to nestled exhaustions upon grassy cool Earth

[Anonymous No.16209821]

tao has a blog again and will respond to your comments, according to his twitter

[Anonymous No.16210419]

[Anonymous No.16212286]

[Anonymous No.16213156]

reminder to leave society

[Anonymous No.16213263]

>>16213156
what do you take with you tho?