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Anonymous Wed Sep 1 16:48:33 2021 No.18964378 [Reply] [Original]

What is the most valuable thing you have ever learned from a fiction novel?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 1 16:49:44 2021 No.18964387 >>18964378 I learned that I like doing this more than watching films or tv shows

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 1 17:50:01 2021 No.18964768 >>18964387 Me too fren

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 1 23:09:33 2021 No.18966202 bump

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 1 23:12:35 2021 No.18966211 >>18964378 I have epilepsy

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 1 23:15:00 2021 No.18966222 Not to ever read call of the crocodile :)

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 1 23:28:40 2021 No.18966278 >>18964378 How to structure a novel.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 1 23:29:22 2021 No.18966281 >>18964378 True and accurate whale biology

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 1 23:31:44 2021 No.18966286 >>18964378 To deny materialism.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 1 23:34:15 2021 No.18966300 >>18964378 that it's not that weird and ok to be aroused by women peein

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 1 23:35:34 2021 No.18966306 File: 154 KB, 1416x810, 11E23FF6-F77D-4736-950A-B222E413D23F.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18966222 All jokes aside I read it for the memes. It actually has a pretty good twist. It has its issues but is a genuinely unique story.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 2 01:53:52 2021 No.18966885 That I am gay

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 2 01:56:58 2021 No.18966900 Got an awareness of my behavior around women after reading the seducer's diary. Saw myself a lot in Kierkegaard's character, not sure if that's a bad or a good thing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 2 09:08:23 2021 No.18968274 >>18964378 Reading Jack London and Jules Verne and HG Wells as a kid pretty much shaped who I am today.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 2 09:11:02 2021 No.18968284 That all women are whores.

Anonymous Thu Sep 2 09:13:44 2021 No.18968292

>>18964378
That there are strains of humanity that have persisted across many centuries that are entirely relatable in almost any era of civilization. These are often humorous or ironic behaviour and reactions, but other times they explain so many historical events, trends, and changes. It makes me love humanity despite how much I'm inclined to hate them.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 2 09:16:51 2021 No.18968304 I learnt to enjoy the moment and be emotionally moved by prose

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 2 11:46:12 2021 No.18968970 >>18964378 just bee urself

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 2 16:11:18 2021 No.18970387 >>18968970 Good advice!

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 2 16:17:48 2021 No.18970417 >>18968292 how people never change...that's a good one

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 2 19:25:37 2021 No.18971370 >>18970417 I think some people can!

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 2 19:26:49 2021 No.18971375 >>18964378 achieving gnosis

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 2 20:23:47 2021 No.18971714 >>18971375 What do you mean?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 2 20:34:26 2021 No.18971790 you can't just summarize that kind of thing into a "thing you've learned" it doesn't work that way

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 2 20:38:24 2021 No.18971813 >>18964378 Unhealthy obsessions will destroy you even if you’re able to identify them and are aware that they’re wrong. I have obsessive compulsive disorder, and so learning this was rather eye opening. The book was Moby-Dick.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 2 20:43:53 2021 No.18971853 >>18964378 The only fiction novel I have ever read was about those kids in the post-apocalyptic world or whatever and basically I learned to never eat slime-food.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 2 20:59:10 2021 No.18971927 >>18971853 The Lorax?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 2 21:05:12 2021 No.18971970 >>18971927 I think it was called The Whisper or smth

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 2 21:13:57 2021 No.18972006 >>18971375 every time I say this, I point out that they are still on 4chan, therefore have not achieved gnosis.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 2 23:51:31 2021 No.18972625 >>18972006 Please explain?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 3 00:08:18 2021 No.18972693 >>18964378 Woman judge the value of a man primarily by the attractiveness of his latest girlfriend/past girlfriends.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 3 00:24:31 2021 No.18972752 >>18964378 the you reach the universal by the particular

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 3 00:39:26 2021 No.18972806 I learned fiction is useless

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 3 00:48:06 2021 No.18972840 >>18964378 Most things I learn are just sudden bits of self-awareness when I'm reading about some dude and notice reflections of myself in him that I never saw before, like Otto from The Recognitions or Hugh from Under the Volcano.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 3 00:49:47 2021 No.18972850 >>18964378 that I'm a lazy egoist self centered neurotic piece of human garbage

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 3 00:50:48 2021 No.18972851 Pigs are fucking useless.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 3 01:03:04 2021 No.18972889 From Tao Lin's latest novel, Leave Society, I learned that I should take psychedelic doses of psilocybin and that I should leave society.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 3 02:35:20 2021 No.18973165 >>18966281 based

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 3 02:38:01 2021 No.18973173 File: 24 KB, 1427x758, D3A992DA-A0D2-4533-AD8B-8BC7B123C3A2.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Based CotC poster

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 3 02:42:31 2021 No.18973183 File: 2.96 MB, 854x480, silent hill in 2020.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] how to find the willpower within myself to keep moving forward

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 3 05:47:48 2021 No.18973591 File: 103 KB, 768x1090, Tolkien-potrait-768x1090.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18964378 That not all who wander are lost

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 3 06:18:17 2021 No.18973666 >>18968274 elaborate?

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