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Well?

>> No.16519321

>>16519304
1st century AD Israel

>> No.16519325

>>16519304
The Jazz Age.

>> No.16519329
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In Camelot from Tristan and Isolde.

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Here.

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Here

>> No.16519352

>>16519304
Argel, and I'd be shooting some arabs prolly

>> No.16519354

Rome AD 60

Chilling with Enclopius and Giton

>> No.16519356

Buenos Aires, 1940ish

>> No.16519357

>white guy living in Kenya during the Mau Mau rebellion
Yikes!

>> No.16519376

>>16519304
70's Paris during their "gauchiste" Youth revolt

>> No.16519379

France with a totalitarian Muslim president. Enforced Sharia obviously.

>> No.16519388

>>16519321
Bible
>>16519325
Great Gatsby?
>>16519335
Hamlet
>>16519356
Borges

>> No.16519407

>>16519388
>Hamlet
Yes, did you recognize it or did you reverse image search?

>> No.16519408

>>16519304
First decade of the 20th c Paris (Tarr)

>> No.16519413

Exactly where I am today, only ~170 years ago.

>> No.16519417

In the city Tuscon among other U.S.A.'s

>> No.16519532
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>>16519304
Eure-et-Loir, Late 19th century.

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>>16519304
I'd be apple picking with my communist Buddies, not in the faggy way

>> No.16519556

Cadiz, 1811.

>> No.16519569
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I'd be living in a dystopia but it would be the early 2000s dystopia. Now I live in a social media dystopia which is even worse.

>> No.16519574

>>16519304
>Wyoming in the 1820s
I'm fucked

>> No.16519587

>>16519304
Chicago, which being invaded by an army of supernatural creatures from the sea. I think I'm going to die.

>> No.16519596

>>16519304
I'd be living in Tortilla Flat and since the entire population thereat seems at least moderately mentally retarded I would own that squatty little shithole in a moon's turn.

>> No.16519603

1990s Australia probably would be pretty nice though not sure how I’d fare in their academia.

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Hoo boy that is bleak

>> No.16519610

>>16519304
A post apocalyptic world were there is ash everywhere and no hope

>> No.16519619

fuck

somewhere in Pynchon's imagination
imma get raped

>> No.16519620

A post apoalyptic world where there is ash everywhere and no hope.

>> No.16519628

>Salinas

Is that one of the places on fire rn?

>> No.16519692

>>16519587
*which is, oops

>> No.16519709

>>16519304
Utah

>> No.16519724

>>16519304
11th century Japan (Tale of Genji)

Presumably somewhere in the courts, though whether or not as royalty is anyone’s guess.

At least I could fuck a lot of Japanese girls

>> No.16519731

Terminus I suppose far off into the galaxy that is.

>> No.16519748

>>16519304
In Lisbon in one of the pointless and worthless daydreams that constitute a large part of my life.

>> No.16519750

>>16519724
You'd be a daikon farmer with a goofy top knot who gets zero pussy

>> No.16519754

>>16519304
20s USSR

>> No.16519779

Calcutta, late 19th century. I am poo'd.

>> No.16519811

>>16519304
the city of sofia

>> No.16519835

>>16519304
Athens during the time of Demosthenes.

>> No.16519860

Nirvana.

>> No.16519866

>>16519304
Ancient greece and the world of statistical analysis.

>> No.16519870

>>16519750
At that point I’d probably just break into the local royals house, take a nice sword, and become a Japanese robin rood until my inevitable demise later that week.

>> No.16519875

Tokyo around 1925-47.
Fuck

>> No.16519905

>>16519754
Weak guess, Doctor Zhivago?

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>>16519304
New Orleans. Pray for me.
>Pic related.

>> No.16519936

>>16519304
House of leaves
I'm guess california ten years ago isn't bad
I just need to run before Trump administration

>> No.16519951

>>16519936
>I just need to run before Trump administration

The Trump administration isn't what's making California go to hell.

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>> No.16519964

>>16519922
Hey Jamie pull up that clip

>> No.16519967

>>16519304
Late 1800s Asheville, NC

>> No.16519997

>>16519321
Chicago during the Great Depression.

>> No.16519999

>>16519329
I'd be in the weird semi-time traveling Camelot of Le Morte D'Arthur.

>> No.16520017

>>16519304
Walden pond seems like a nice place.

>> No.16520113

>>16519905
The Twelve Chairs

>> No.16520125

>>16519304
i would be living in THE FUTURE

>> No.16520134

>>16519999
That's my next travel destination.

>> No.16520137
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I’d be in The Zone

Too spooky for me.

Too damp too

>> No.16520149

Chicago

>> No.16520165

>>16519304
Paris/French countryside - 1990

>> No.16520207

Whatever city the last winner of any of the four Panhellenic Games lives in.

>> No.16520215

>>16519304
Baeleron

>> No.16520239

Japan, somewhere in the 80's

>> No.16520243

Shack in the woods

(Walden)

>> No.16520316

In the Mexican wilderness
>blood meridian

>> No.16520331

>>16519304
Persia under Darius

>> No.16520348

>>16519304
A hospital for chronic diseases in the Bronx during the 1970s.

>> No.16520352
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>>16519304
90s New York

>> No.16520361

Directory era French countryside

>> No.16520388

>>16519304
The Republic, what a nightmare.

>> No.16520404
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>>16519304
>Maxim Gorky
1890's rural Russia.. this wont end well for me will it?

>> No.16520415

>>16520404
looks comfy

>> No.16520434

>>16520352
he just looks ridiculous

>> No.16520448

>>16519304
Some town in Tsarist Russia

>> No.16520456
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>>16520415
Tsarist Russia is incredibly comfy if you look past all the suffering (and subsequent historical events).

>> No.16520467

Some glass house in the Single State.

>> No.16520472

>>16519304
I'd be living in Hell

>> No.16520479

Within the realm of my fucking pure reason goddammit

>> No.16520527

>>16519304
13th century Estonia

>> No.16520534

1929 New York with strange buildings designed by some autismo.

>> No.16520572
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fuck

>> No.16520578

I am so hot and thirsty and there are people trying to make me drink my own shit and piss.

>> No.16520605
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>>16520404
God, I wish that was me.

>> No.16520619

>>16519304
Russia during the reign of Tsar Alexander II.

>> No.16520758
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>>16519304
oceania

>> No.16520765

>>16519304
the forests and pastures of central Italy, 1st century BC

>> No.16520780

>>16519304
West Texas in the 80s.

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>>16520434
Yes.

>> No.16520835

Star Maker. Nothing changes.

>> No.16520838

>>16519304
Macondo

>> No.16520841

>>16519304
Medieval Scotland

>> No.16520842

>>16519304
Tostes, then Yonville

>> No.16520844

>>16519304
En un lugar de la Mancha de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme

>> No.16520926

>>16519304
Comfy Californian farm

>> No.16520962

>>16519304
A fictional Mexican industrial border city in the 1990s

>> No.16520990

>>16519304
In Sevilla or Madrid, Spain; probably.

>> No.16521018
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>>16519304
Germany, 1945 but the loonytunes version

>> No.16521173

>>16519304
Roshar

>> No.16521220

>>16519304
>Watts - Behold the Spirit
I'm not quite sure. In the mind of a 1940's Anglican clergyman with a heterodox theology, bohemian lifestyle and a penchant for Zen Buddhism, Taoism and Advaita Vedanta? He doesn't really describe a place as such.
What was the last book I read before that?
>Tainter - The Collapse of Complex Societies
I'd be living in a complex society on the verge of collapse. This one would do, but he did go into detail on the collapse of Rome, the Mayan Culture, the Chaco Valley Culture, a bunch of the bronze age cultures etc.

>> No.16521263

>The Illuminatus Trilogy
Time to start meditating and doing drugs...
>>16521018
The iron dream?

>> No.16521380

a gulag

>> No.16521404

>>16520780
...No Country For Old Men?

>> No.16521431

>>16519304
15th century Poland

>> No.16521454

>>16520017
It is; I walked around it right about this time two years ago about 11 am and there was no one there but an old lady in a bathing cap treading water somewhere near the middle. Saw loons in New Hampshire a few days later. New England has to be one of the greatest fresh water repositories in the entire world. Amazed at how much wild country's still up there

>> No.16521468

>>16521018
GR?

>> No.16521477

>>16521404
Yes.

>> No.16522363

Holy shit, I'm living in an addict's halfway house in Enfield!

>> No.16522423

>>16519304
Kallipolis

>> No.16522523

~1 300 B.C. in Babylon.

>> No.16522557

>>16519304
Somewhere in the Egyptian desert

>> No.16522585

>>16519779
>>16520207
>>16520331
I want to know what you read

>>16520765
Virgil's eclogues?

>> No.16523075

>>16519304
The Land of Oz. Could be a lot worse as far as fantasy worlds go.

>> No.16523244

>>16519379
Salah Houacsallah.

>> No.16523263
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Arrakis.

>REMEMBER THE TOOTH!!!!
>THE TOOOOOOTH!!!

>> No.16523506

oh boy. K-Kafka’s Castle?

>> No.16523642

>>16522557
Exodus?

>> No.16523652

>>16519304
849 BC. Near the Jordan river I guess?
Wherever Elijah was taken up into heaven. That was the last thing I read this morning.

>> No.16523665

st petersburg

>> No.16523672

shangri-la

>> No.16523907

The fledgling years of the Third Reich

>> No.16523922

>>16519304
Falklands

>> No.16523929

>>16522585
Histories by Herodotus

>> No.16524476

>>16522585
yes

>> No.16524805

San Lorenzo

>> No.16524823

>>16519304
France, between two world wars, some rich neighborhood just outside Paris, featuring murder and a very charming new neighbor.

>> No.16524825

>>16519304
I'd be living in Weissnichtwo, quite literally "Know not where". Not to mention the fussy German intellectuals.

>> No.16524920

Skotoprigonyevsk

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>>16519304
>Stalingrad

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA NO SAVE ME

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Present day USA where everything would be fine if only gov didn't meddle with the free market. Thank you, Thomas Sowell.

>> No.16524954

Germinal

Wherever the sexual degeneracy is

>> No.16525451

>>16519304
1970's America, infested with vampires.

>> No.16525478

>>16521263
>>16521468
It's GR.. glad it's over desu

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>>16519304
90s Norway, which would probably be one of my top choices anyway.

>> No.16525596

>>16519304
>the invention of morel
would be the same me sad that my waifu won't notice me. except on a sandy beach with an aquarium than in my neckbeard nest

>> No.16525607

In freuds asshole

>> No.16525627

>>16519304
Star Wars Universe, around the same time as Empire Strikes Back.

>> No.16525642

in the mind of vladimir lenin

>> No.16525656

>>16519304
Edwardian Dublin

>> No.16525681

some provincial shithole in C19th russia, thanks turgenev

>> No.16525691

>>16519304
Troy, 13th Century BC

>> No.16525739

>>16519304
Civil war era North Carolina

>> No.16525772

>>16519304
Hyperborea

>> No.16525821

>Dublin, 1900-190
/comf/

>>16523922
book? i want some malvinas kino

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>>16519304
A Nazi POW camp, 1943

>> No.16526121

>>16525926
In the guards quarters I assume?

>> No.16526133

>>16519304
1930s new england

>> No.16526160

>>16519304
On a ship, traveling the high seas and doing whatever I please.

>> No.16526178

>>16519304
I don't know where Hume's Treatise on Human Nature takes place, I don't read fiction btw

>> No.16526209

>>16526178
>I don't read fiction btw

Your choice, but the form of fiction provides insights that the essay cannot. On the simplest level, a story can serve as emotional education, cultural information and illustration for your future philosophical reading. Things that it can't hurt to have.

>> No.16526409

>>16519304
doing drugs with ernst jünger in the weimar republic

>> No.16526456

>>16519304
Sumer

>> No.16526474

In a submarine with Captain Nemo

>> No.16526476

Some small town in Russia that is about to burn down because of leftists

>> No.16526525

Somewhere in south america looking for Yage with Burroughs

>> No.16526532

>>16519304
I just read storm of steel. Am I fucked bros?

>> No.16526538

>>16526474
it would be so cozy

>> No.16526553

> 1970’s cambodia

Let’s gooooo!

>> No.16526592

>>16519304
Probably some late 18th or late 19th century novel

>> No.16526614

>>16519304
Nothing really changes

>> No.16526627

A 19th century Japanese monk enclave that enslaves women, breeds them, then liquefies and consumes the newborn's souls to gain immortailit

>> No.16526639

>>16519304
1940's Britain in a Farm in the countryside

>> No.16526661

>>16519304
In the mind of a depressed person whose negative emotion expresses itself through chronic pain.

>> No.16526678

I'm gonna guess
>>16519619
gravity's rainbow
>>16520239
A wild sheep chase or norwegian wood
>>16520448
Anna Karenina
>>16525656
Dubliners
>>16525926
Night
>>16525607
The Ego and the Id

>> No.16526780

>>16526627
Sauce

>> No.16527116

the mediterranean during the peloponnesian war

>> No.16527124

>>16519304
Wild west cow town. Epic.

>> No.16527254

Costaguana

>> No.16527290

1725 Philadelphia, Colonial America

>> No.16527716

>>16519304
Chicago in the 40's I think.

>> No.16528072

>>16519304
The quarter deck of the Pequod, hearing mad Ahab talk 'bout his quest for vengeance on the white whale.

>> No.16528173

HMS Hermes during the Falklands War.

>> No.16528176

20,000 years in the future

>> No.16528179

1960s Japan. Pretty comfy.

>> No.16528183

>>16519304
Pamplona Spain during the fiesta and 1920’s Paris pulsing fishing in the Spanish countryside.so I’d imagine I’d like it

>> No.16528189

>>16528183
*plus

>> No.16528210

Japan, 1950

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Comfy.

>> No.16528273

>>16519304
Massapequa/NYC
Doesn’t seem too bad

>> No.16528502

>>16519304
19th Century Russia.

>> No.16528902

Monterey, California during the 1930s

>> No.16529077

1980's Upstate New York

>> No.16529192

the last I completed? Roadside Picnic. was coo. unless you count Shadow of the Torturer as a stand alone book which i don't. currently reading Iron Sunrise which is neat.

>> No.16529201

>>16519304
Lisboa.
Pretty decent, actually.