/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19759317]

>age
>current book
>how you’re holding up

[Anonymous No.19759323]

>>19759317
29
don quixote
day won't pass without a thought of hanging myself

[Anonymous No.19759331]

>>19759317
22
The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman
I teeter between suicidal thoughts and naive optimism

[Anonymous No.19759332]

Data mining thread, don't post your real information

[Anonymous No.19759336]

>24
>Sex and Character by Otto Weininger
Just finished Julius Mobius's Physiological Idiocy of Women

I look forward to being an even more successful lady killer ;)
But goddamn am I Blackpilled about Globohomo and fatherhood

[Anonymous No.19759337]

>>19759317
>21
>nothing
I think I'm going crazy. I think years of social isolation and depression have fucked my brain. I feel like a shell of my former self, like I'm a zombie that walks around pretending to be me but the real me is long dead.

[Anonymous No.19759339]

>>19759317
22
Black Sun by Ed Abbey
Just bought a new used car after I totaled my old one several months ago. The feeling of having a bought a new car has had a chain reaction. I didn't want to go to grad school, and I don't think I will. I want to pack up my camping gear and hit the road for a while.

[Anonymous No.19759342]

>>19759337
you sound like me (>>19759331) last year. Read the Greeks, changed my life.

[Anonymous No.19759344]

>>19759332
Hey I want to know too :)

[Anonymous No.19759349]

>>19759317

37
Mailer essays
Pleased with the present moment, trying to stop annoyance at having to deal with the snow later from drifting in.

[Anonymous No.19759351]

Heh I may type like a neck beard lollygagging tranny meming /b/tard homosexual but you trust me IRL I'm actually a buff giga Chad STEM GOD making GORILLIONS

[Anonymous No.19759360]

>>19759351
Get lost, incel.

[Anonymous No.19759361]

>>19759317
>age
27
>current book
the NRSV Bible (Judges)
>how you’re holding up
I love writing but I fucking suck at it and feel like I never be taken seriously because I can't get published
also I found a testicular lump the other day and have to go to the doctor tomorrow

[Anonymous No.19759362]

>24
>Ludwig Boltzmann His Later Life and Philosophy, 1900-1906

feeling irreversibly pussyless

[Anonymous No.19759366]

>>19759342
>Read the Greeks
I heard that either Plato or Aristotle (or both) had some interesting takes on ethics. I've been meaning to study ethics for a while. Which works should I read?

[Anonymous No.19759388]

>>19759366
Nichomachean Ethics by Aristotle

[Anonymous No.19759392]

>>19759317
25
Blood Meridian
I'll realize on my deathbed that I was already dead the day I was born

[Anonymous No.19759399]

>27
>Mr. Sammler’s Planet by Saul Bellow
>I’m doing alright. Made it my goal this year to make serious gains in crypto. Consequently, I’m studying as much as I can when I’m not working or reading. Need money so I can find a woman and breed her. Our economy is rotting, bros.

[Anonymous No.19759406]

32
Suttree
Thoughts, I've had a few. But then again, too few to mention.

[Anonymous No.19759408]

>>19759399
>Need money so I can find a woman and breed her. Our economy is rotting, bros.

heroic that you haven't given up yet ... I just have a monthly stash for escorting and the remaining days I make due with onaholes

[Anonymous No.19759412]

>>19759317
>25
<Till we have faces
>not good man not good

[Anonymous No.19759446]

>>19759317
29 imminently
that celine book whose title i keep getting mixed up with that eugene o’neil play
coming to terms with the irrevocable failures, things i’ll never be or have. just finding solace in the mundane. living isn’t really so bad taken day by day

[Anonymous No.19759460]

>>19759317
19 & Blood Meridian. I'm trying to get through all the classics.

[Anonymous No.19759463]

>28
>The Portable Nitzsche
>my teeth hurt

[Anonymous No.19759465]

>33

>Memoirs of Hadrian by Yourcenar
>Sexus by Miller

>stressful times but I’ve reached a point in my life where I’m content and feel good spiritually so not much is rattling me. Trying to focus on human connections over money and objects. Had to lose a friend this week which always hurts. My dating life is better than it’s ever been at least

[Anonymous No.19759473]

20
Not holding up
Rec me something

[Anonymous No.19759485]

>>19759317
22
Analects of Confucius
Running a constant fever because of an autoimmune disease seems to have destroyed my intellectual capacity

[Anonymous No.19759522]

>>19759485
25
pic related
give me recommendations

[Anonymous No.19759526]

>>19759522
you should finish books

[Anonymous No.19759527]

>>19759317
23, Ramayana and Ficciones, I’m doing great reading wise but felt sick yesterday

[Anonymous No.19759537]

25
Tale of Genji (Waley's)
Doing decently well, stopped torturing myself and am allowing myself to have hobbies again, found some motivation to start working out again.

[Anonymous No.19759544]

>>19759526
I'm almost done with two of them, halfway through the other two. I like to keep a rotation

[Anonymous No.19759568]

>>19759317
>25
>Melmoth the Wanderer -- Charles Maturin
>Doing pretty well, at least compared to may ppo in this thread. In a good manic-sh phase rn with work, reading, writing and other htings. A girl-thing that has been plaguing me for ~1 year will probably be over soon, I hope to good effect, but the uncertainty is killing me

[Anonymous No.19759575]

>>19759332
because someone would waste 10 minutes creating a 4chan thread to find out the age of 30 people, instead of mining hundreds millions of peoples data through facebook/twitter etc.

[Anonymous No.19759613]

>>19759317
30
Frederik Pohl's Gateway
I've been home with COVID since Wednesday, its not terrible but maybe my symptoms are milder because I got the vaccine? I don't know.

I'm currently dating a famous former pornstar and I'll be fucking her on Tuesday so that's pretty neat I guess.

Things could be worse honestly.

[Anonymous No.19759629]

>30
>duel wielding atomic habits and dracula
>ever since putting my life on a schedule I am way more productive and anxiety has subsided, but can't help shake the feeling that chaos is ever lurking

[Anonymous No.19759639]

>>19759317
>27
>Empire of the Sun (J. G. Ballard) and Hunger (Knut Hamsun)
An anon in one of these threads a few weeks ago suggested I try L-Theanine as a quick-fix for anxiety -- if you're reading this, thank you anon. I take 2-3 every day (2 in the morning, 1 at night) and they're working pretty well. I feel calmer, more focused and productive, I fall asleep much quicker, and the nightmares aren't so frequent. I've actually had some pretty cool dreams too, but unsure if that's related to the pills.

Still getting my ass kicked by depression and PhD pressure, but I'm in a much better place now than where I was a few weeks ago. Your decision to reach out with that little morsel of advice ended up substantially improving my life -- thanks <3

[Anonymous No.19759672]

>>19759317
>29
>The Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro
I'm about to turn 30 and I finally have an inkling of an idea about the direction I want to go in life. It's ...difficult not to sink into the regret.

[Anonymous No.19759771]

18
Nothing seriously
Being depressed was better than where I'm at now, I'm just bored all the time; maybe it wasn't but I just want to feel again. Thanks for the blog post thread anon

[Anonymous No.19759851]

31
Sadly, Porn
There's way too many damn footnotes, it's exhausting to read.

[Anonymous No.19759863]

>27
>Just finished David Marr's biography of Patrick White
>Fairly well

[Anonymous No.19759902]

>>19759317
39
Don Quixote part two
Not good, bored of everything, maybe it's time to throw the towel

[Anonymous No.19759909]

>>19759317
22
Nothing yet, family on vacs are looking for some Evola or Greeks stuff for me so hope that in the close future.
Wandering and worrying about the future and present, got a job, force myself to get a "dream"/objective in life just to not become a NEET only to have doubts about it every second but can't back down now cause already threw a lot of money on it, struggling to drop "bad" habits (daily masturbation, vidya, endless online time waste, being an isolationist hermit) and pick up some good ones (more reading, more exercise, serious take on language studies, trying to be more sociable.). Overall, not bad, I'm a walking carcass anyways so as long as my material well being is not threatened I'm pretty alright.

[Anonymous No.19759991]

>>19759465
Sorry to hear about your friend mane.

[Anonymous No.19760008]

>>19759317
29
war and peace
I'm also in 2 Corinthians in my devotional study
I feel very glad in God. He has refreshed me in Christ and I am peaceful

[Anonymous No.19760015]

>>19759361
the bible should teach you to do away with vain glory. Praying for though bro. God will heal your nuts I'm sure

[Anonymous No.19760036]

19
Don Quixote
Honestly not that bad. I’ve been inspired to seriously write so that’s good.

[Anonymous No.19760070]

>>19759317
>25
>thinking and being
>not well

[Anonymous No.19760762]

>21
>Eugene Onegin (pic rel is a stanza that struck me when I read it tonight), Discourse on the Method, and Phaedrus
>Holding up well; classes have started off pretty well save one. My Junior Composition class is shit, plain and simple. The professor is the worst in her department and I didn't have the mind to check her ratings online before signing up. On the flip-side, my Greek class is amazing: I am the sole student and my professor and I are reading some of the New Testament. The class has been very rewarding so far, really getting me involved with the language in a more organic, direcr way than in the past. Have a small tinder date on Tuesday that I'm looking forward to, this is the first time someone has actually seemed interesting to me on that cesspool. Overall, feeling pretty good!
>>19759568
How is Melmoth? It's been mentioned by a couple 19th century authors I like but I've never seen anyone talk about it on /lit/.

[Anonymous No.19760794]

35

Ulysses

Why can't I find a way to publish my fucking book? I'm trying to tell a huge story, a big sci-fi story but hopefully also a literate one. I'm two books in and almost with a short story tacked on, too. I'm trying to find a home for the first book but it's like pulling teeth. I've only gotten one semi-positive response from any of the agents I've queried. I had a small press say they liked it but it was too long. I don't think I could even come close to cutting it to the extent they need. I'm just frustrated. I feel like writing this story is what God wants me to do. But the writing is actually the easy part. I feel very comfortable writing it. Getting it out into the world has proven to be a lot harder. The longer I go on the more I am tempted to self-publish, especially serially.

[Anonymous No.19760833]

>>19759331
Ago Jesse

[Anonymous No.19760839]

>25
>Nostromo
>Six months after a breakup and nothing has improved. The rare attempts I make at socializing or meeting someone new fail. I hate my job and feel trapped in it. Reading doesn't even help anymore, I prefer to just spend my free time sleeping: I was awake for only about 6 hours in total on Saturday.

[Anonymous No.19760872]

>>19759317
24
Long Sun
got a gf ;)

[Anonymous No.19760880]

>>19759317
23
man and his symbols
so horrible, the worst i have ever been, i regret that i was born. please merciful Lord take pity on me

[Anonymous No.19760891]

27
Phenomenologie des Geistes
I feel old despite kinda not being old? I don't know where to go with my life.

[Anonymous No.19760900]

30
Memorial
Hard to answer, it changes day to day desu

[Anonymous No.19760906]

>>19760880
>so horrible, the worst i have ever been, i regret that i was born. please merciful Lord take pity on me
Literally me. I pray to expire in my sleep every night.

[Anonymous No.19760918]

>>19759317
>24
>Oblamov
i have no job or skills nor a desire to acquire either. I'm actually pretty content for the first time in a while but I still feel guilt about not wanting to improve

[Anonymous No.19760942]

22
The Trouble With Being Born
I feel myself losing grasp with reality, apathy is replaced with paranoia and nothing is beautiful anymore. I cannot recall the last time I felt alive.

[Anonymous No.19760954]

>>19759317
>28
>You Must Change Your Life
>how are you holding up

Doing pretty well. The book is pretty annoying, but I got a better job recently(I'm still cooking for a living, so I wouldn't call it a good job, but 24 an hour, a staff meal, and a set 36 hour a week schedule is a big step up from grinding arbitrarily) so I'm not even finding Sloterdjik's unwillingness to just get to his fucking point that bad.

[Anonymous No.19760992]

>>19759317
19
Gravity's Rainbow & The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe shit.

[Anonymous No.19760994]

>>19759317
19
Male Fantasies, Klaus Theweleit
i'm pretty content, very sad i can't find a HOI4 mod that lets me play interwar Germany (tcs will never release)

[Anonymous No.19761010]

>>19759332
meds

[Anonymous No.19761039]

>>19761010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO9ewCO7TYI

[Anonymous No.19761068]

>>19761039
based

[Anonymous No.19761100]

>>19759317
29
I’m reading 3 things at the same time
- Rimworld (sci fi)
- Fortune de France (historical fiction)
- The Art of being French (not meming - lite philosophy)

I’m doing alright, enjoying the first book, loving the second, the jury is still out on the third.

[Anonymous No.19761109]

27
The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell by Brian Evenson
Probably going to get a hefty raise soon, teeth are fucked up and it's taking forever scheduling the necessary appointments. Pretty sure I got covid since I completely lost my sense of smell, which really sucks. Just kinda feel empty and apathetic most days, spend too much time aimlessly browsing and lurking instead of doing shit I like.

[Anonymous No.19761112]

>>19759317
>26
>Churchill - Andrew Roberts
>honestly incredible. Never been happier.

[Anonymous No.19761125]

>>19759485
>Running a constant fever because of an autoimmune disease seems to have destroyed my intellectual capacity
are you me?
Also 22
I'm reading some Whitehead and some Kant at moment. I'm also slowly reading Breasted's history of egypt alongside the oxford illustrated history of ancient egypt
Jesus Christ this shit sucks ass in every conceivable way. Wonder what fun new symptoms I'll get next. On bad days the brain fog is so bad I literally can't understand every day speech. Plus, I now have exactly zero friends because I can no longer relate to anyone else cause they all live life on easy mode, but think they are living it on hard. Cherry on top is a constant sense of impending doom, a common symptom for inflammatory issues. Literally feel like the floor will fall out from underneath me at any moment.
On a more psychological/epistemological note: I no longer have the slightest clue of what's real anymore. I have had several precognitive dreams in the past that I just dismissed as either extremely unlikely coincidences or false memories. One night I had an extremely vivid dream from the POV of my cat along with a feeling of fear. Never saw the cat again. I have never had a dream from someone else's point of view before, much less an animal. so that was enough to make me start keeping a dream journal for the last year and I have now recorded 3 dream events that have ended up happening in real life within a month of the dream. I guess either determinism is true and we live in a block universe or I am somehow seeing possible futures. Maybe my brain is just unconsciously playing 4D chess at all times, rendering me the best predictor in the world.

[Anonymous No.19761139]

>>19759317
23
Beckett's The Unnamable
consistently considering suicide. probably by helium

[Anonymous No.19761143]

26
Madame Bovary
Off the booze for three weeks. Feel like my life is over.

[Anonymous No.19761152]

>>19759317
26
Revolt against the modern world (and the bible on the side)
Feeling terrific after finishing my thesis recently, and for new things to come. There is underlying anxiety about my future career, there being no time to catch up on my ever growing reading list, and upcoming fatherhood.

However with God's grace I know full-heartedly everything will be fine and turn out according to His will.

[Anonymous No.19761176]

>31 (almost lost track by now)
>Eclipse Fever

More afraid of people than I’ve ever been, but on the plus side I almost don’t have to deal with people, currently

>>19760794
dw friend just keep on trucking. You wanting to write the book is the important thing. And don’t forget to drop your fellow Anons a pdf when the time’s ripe.

[Anonymous No.19761192]

>>19759317
18
The Book of Five Rings
I should start working out again

[Anonymous No.19761279]

>>19759317
22
God Emperor of Dune
p good actually. just got a job where im pretty chill and ive been talking for some weeks with a chick who i have chemistry with so i cant complain

[Anonymous No.19761290]

Fuck this thread is sad. I can't believe we live like this.

[Anonymous No.19761293]

>>19761290
why

[Anonymous No.19761312]

> 21
> The Three Body Problem
> Terrible but could be worse

Picrel

[Anonymous No.19761326]

just turned 19
shadow of the torturer
could be worse; am currently doing civil service and thus not able to get anything done during the week; weekends are very productive though

[Anonymous No.19761368]

>>19759317
23
The Pillars of the Earth
Not too optimistic about my future. Whenever I feel down or like complaining about it I just think of this quote from Werner Herzog.
>“I'm not into the culture of complaint.I roll up my sleeves and somehow I get it together.”

[Anonymous No.19761372]

26
Broken April by Ismail Kadare
From bad to worse

[Anonymous No.19761390]

>>19759522
Drei Kameraden by Remarque is a good one as well

[Anonymous No.19761410]

>>19759317
27
François Villon's poems (I read multiple books at once)
I'm doing alright. The relationship with the beautiful woman I was dating has evolved into a friends with benifits situation, which I'm fine with.
I've missed a few days of work cause I'm sick. I had to get tested for Covid, still waiting for the results.

[Anonymous No.19761422]

>>19759317
25
A Critique of Pure Reason
Nothing ever happens and I am growing increasingly tired of this purgatory

[Anonymous No.19761432]

14
Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy
At the present I think video games are awesome and everyone my age is talking about girls but they make no sense to me.

[Anonymous No.19761434]

>>19759317
>>age
>>current book
>>how you’re holding up
if I say those you will doxx me in goodreads

[Anonymous No.19761438]

>>19759317
29
Glide (it's a self help book, basically to chill out)
Been ok. Bit depressed about effects of March last year. Me failing a unit in my nursing degree. Adds a year. Losing two front teeth at the same time. The cost of implant surgery for the two front teeth. Just kinda blows.

[Anonymous No.19761442]

>>19759317
25
faust
uh i'm fine. wish i was better with women. don't want life to be bland either. at least i have one, thanks to money, not to say about my personal will, which is pathetic.

[Anonymous No.19761469]

>>19761432
this will be the last (you) you will receive before jannies nuke your ip for no reason

[Anonymous No.19761479]

>>19760918

[Anonymous No.19761526]

>23
Alternating:
>The Theory of Poker Applied to No Limit
>Blood Meridian
>doing pretty great but need to get my sleep schedule fixed. Very mad at myself for not reading more while I was on bed rest after my surgery. Love my girlfriend to death but wish she didn’t hover so much.

[Anonymous No.19761549]

21
A cognitive theory of consciousness (B. Baars)
Idk I cant complain

[Anonymous No.19761559]

20
The I Ching
horribly romanticly lost and retarded

[Anonymous No.19761867]

19
Blood of Elves (Witcher novels) ((I know its gay but I recently concluded TW3 and I want more))
Pretty great. I pity those in this thread who have not found the Lord Jesus Christ

[Anonymous No.19762045]

>>19761867
Nothing wrong with reading pure entertainment now and then, as long as it's not the only thing you read.
Monkey brain needs to rest

[Anonymous No.19762048]

>>19761559
>horribly romanticly lost and retarded
Tell us more anon, am willing to listen

[Anonymous No.19762083]

19
>Thus Spake Zarathrustra
>Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
>Beyond good and evil
>A critique of pure reason
>Not sure which one I ought to get a better handle of first
Yes I am a newfag retard who doesnt quite understand how to read these people properly and so I just sort of stare at the page and form theories in my mind as to what these gentlemen from the past can teach me.

[Anonymous No.19762107]

>29
>Fight Club
I just bought my first house and I'm doing pretty well financially. Also just finished my 3rd manuscript. It'll be the first I actually try to query though. Life's pretty good right now bros.

[Anonymous No.19762155]

>>19759317
>19
>Propaganda by Edward Bernays
>Not too good, bros... not too good

[Anonymous No.19762172]

>>19762045
>Nothing wrong with reading pure entertainment now and then
Reading literally anything is a step-up from social media, video games, TV, all of which I have quit at different points over the last 5 years.
But yes, I fluctuate between mindless fiction and non-fiction. The latter puts me at risk of burnout as I tend to make highlights and notetake. I don't tend to bother with fiction.

[Anonymous No.19762236]

>>19762083
Start with the grecos

[Anonymous No.19762242]

>>19759317
>30
>A Canticle for Liebowitz
>pretty good actually

[Anonymous No.19762249]

>>19759332
Who could possibly benefit from knowing what an anon is reading and how shitty his life is? All this info is probably available from other sources anyway

[Anonymous No.19762257]

>>19762249
4chan schizos screech whenever people ask anything about them. Its probably autism.

[Anonymous No.19762265]

26, soon to be 27
Pensees by Pascal
I'm doing just fine, avoiding responsabilities like a pro. Should've finished university first semester last year but I'm still going with my thesis, barely doing anything and I haven't talked to my professor in months.

[Anonymous No.19762273]

>>19759392
>I'll realize on my deathbed that I was already dead the day I was born
Gay

>>19762083
Honestly Nietzsche doesn't really need much preparation. If you have a passing familiarity with Greek philosophy and myth you'll get the point well enough. I don't understand why people bother to read Kant as casuals. That shit is for academic philosophers as far as I'm concerned.

>>19761867
Find these nuts you teenage bitch

[Anonymous No.19762274]

27
Blood Meridian and harry potter when my brain is too burned from work to understand the former (i'm esl)
Pretty good overall. Today was the birthday of a good friend of mine from work and i was thinking about gifting her a book.
I only know that she likes to read verne and that she doesn't have much time to read so i thought maybe something short and funny like bunbury.
Any recs?

[Anonymous No.19762282]

>28
>critique of pure reason
>in september i got kicked out of university for three years and i'm trying to appeal the ban so i can return next year

[Anonymous No.19762291]

>>19761559
Are you reading the I Ching cover to cover or are you doing readings? I had a period where I did at least one reading a day and it was hugely important to me

[Anonymous No.19762300]

>>19762282
>kicked out of university for three years
Lol what did you do?

[Anonymous No.19762323]

>>19762282
please tell me you didn't take an epic stand on some culture war issue lol

[Anonymous No.19762340]

>>19759317
19.
histories by Herodotus and fictions by Borges.
Stressed as I'm supposed to be studying to start a maths degree next year but I'm not sure im smart enough for stem.
Doing an arts degree and then living a quiet life, reading and painting every day while working just enough to support myself sounds heavenly desu but I'm afraid id come to regret it once I get older (I've worked wagie jobs in high school and everyone there who was over 40 just looked like they wanted to die all the time).

[Anonymous No.19762874]

>>19759317
1
el biblio.
not to shabby

[Anonymous No.19762925]

>>19761867
> 19-year-old zoomer Christian.
Get out there, enjoy your life, and don't put yourself in a box at such a young age.
There will be plenty of time to lead a devout lifestyle after your 20s.

[Anonymous No.19762987]

>>19762925
If you believe, you believe. I can't just say "Father, you are in my heart but I'm going to stay away from divinity until I've concluded my 20s of drugs, alcohol and fucking whores". And what if I die in the midst of that? Tomorrow isn't guaranteed.

By the way, I am a zoomer in the literal sense but do not act like such. I started lurking here before I was old enough to post and I'm a complete hermit. I don't engage in zoomer/normie culture whatsoever.
Now excuse me as I continue reading the summa theologica

[Anonymous No.19763059]

28
The Golden Bough
I'm feeling alright today.

[Anonymous No.19763066]

>>19762987
>I can't just say "Father, you are in my heart but I'm going to stay away from divinity until I've concluded my 20s of drugs, alcohol and fucking whores"
Augustine could do it. Why can't you?

[Anonymous No.19763106]

>>19762987
Not him but you sound pretty earnest about your faith at least, it's just annoying to see all the larping and condemnation on this board coming from people who 9 times out of 10 don't live anything near to pious lives.
As for the "not acting like a zoomer" if you go and meet real people outside a school setting you will find that the perception you have of our generation (I'm 19) is mostly predicated on shitty online culture that doesn't usually stretch that far into the real world, there are obnoxious faggots from every generation and strata of society, the only people who think zoomers are worse spend too much time on Twitter or have never been out of education.

[Anonymous No.19763151]

>>19759991
Thanks. He’s been dealing with substance abuse issues lately. I’m the furthest thing from unsympathetic as a recovering addict myself but I had to reevaluate this friendship as it’s brought stress the last few times we’ve gotten together. I had to lose all my friends and suffer consequences before I got clean. I can’t enable. He was bringing up times hes lent me $20 ten years ago when I was using. I found that manipulative as I used in secret so it never looked like I was borrowing money for drugs. He makes twice as much as me and is broke a couple days after pay. He texted me an ultimatum about our friendship after I took him to a couple sports games and had to pay for everything. I did it willingly but still. I tried to give him some advice about drugs but he didn’t want to hear it. I realize this isn’t who he really is and if he ever gets clean, I’ll be right here. Friendships are generally easy to regain when you get clean. I’ll help him if he ever needs it but he has to want to want it and ultimately do it himself. /rant

[Anonymous No.19763198]

>>19762987
based

[Anonymous No.19763214]

>>19763198
Are you living like this anon?
If not, why?

[Anonymous No.19763220]

>>19759317
>27
>macbeth, lolita, dune
>stressed

[Anonymous No.19763466]

>>19759317
21
The Iliad (tr. Anthony Verity)
could be worse

[Anonymous No.19763552]

>>19761479
read keats all morning cuz of you thanks anon

[Anonymous No.19763557]

>>19762048
Keep trying to find love, Im trying to balance this sort of unfairness of it all. How can I go on to have someone else like me, not reciprocate those feelings, and then not expect it to happen to me in return. The problem is I suppose for the last three people Ive been romantically interested in the same thing has happened, I guess i just get my hopes up again and again just to get them dashed on the rocks. Just went on a date the other day and it went well, we had good chemistry, talking about maybe a relationship. And now the other person is not so sure if they even want a relationship. Im not the hookup type. Maybe Im just reading too deep into what they said and should focus on having fun, getting to know them, and building to a decent relationship. Its just so demoralizing and insulting when it happens again and again

[Anonymous No.19763567]

>29
>Omnibus Homo Sacer
>not vety well

[Anonymous No.19763570]

>>19759317
>29
>The Trial
>could be better, could be worse

[Anonymous No.19763571]

>>19762291
I am reading the Wilhelm/Baynes translation cover to cover. But I have been consulting the I Ching alot for wisdom concerning relationships funny enough. Sometimes Inthink maybe a taoist tradition isnt exactly the best type to consult for that though. lol.
Maybe Ill start a daily consultation just to consider and meditate on throughout the day.

[Anonymous No.19764146]

19
The Trial
in a rush to do something meaningful with my youth

[Anonymous No.19764320]

>21
>paranoid mage
a little better than usual though I hate having to speak to so many people on a daily basis
I might get some alone time soon but I'm not sure when, people from my past and present keep popping up everywhere I go and live and I can't just ignore them outright, it's exhausting. I just want to keep a single social mask on all day and not have to switch

[Anonymous No.19764452]

>>19759317
>25
>Walden
>life is good, this too shall pass

[Anonymous No.19764461]

>>19762323
>>19762300
i wish it was something like that, where i just stubbornly defended the use of the word nigger or something. the reality is a lot stupider: i was too anxious to complete any coursework, and then I missed the drop deadline for a course, and then was too anxious to write an email in time that would have saved my ass. I was already on probation, and already got kicked out once for a year, so this time around it was for three. being an anxious wreck and being a philosophy student go hand in hand sometimes, i guess.

[Anonymous No.19764765]

>20
>Albert Pike: Morals and Dogma
>Ok, kinda burned out in general, waiting for spring, hoping to get my drivers licence, planning my allotment garden patch with the family, I've worked for 3 years with 2 weeks off each year at the family biz which is doing great but me and my dad are workaholics and forget to eat some days, gonna dall asleep to Walden
>>19759332
The feds are already watching us through the drone bird surveillance devices on the power lines
>>19759361
Good luck on the sac bro, and don't write for other's sakes but for your own passion, besides Luke and Matthew dictated their books to scribes
>>19759473
Zhuangzi

[Anonymous No.19764772]

>>19764146
You are in good company my fren

[Anonymous No.19764776]

>24
>Foucault's Pendulum
>Life's good

[Anonymous No.19764782]

>>19759317
>19
>The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck

I just keep moving forward. It is all I really can do at this point.

[Anonymous No.19764835]

>23
>picrel
Im good, just waiting to get kicked out of the military. Currently dating the woman of my dreams, and waiting to start the rest of my life in a sense. I feel like I’ve already lived a lifetime, though I’m leaving the military it’s given me so many new friends and adventures I can’t wait to tell my children about.

[Anonymous No.19764843]

26
Le Français par la Méthode Nature
The Inheritance of Rome by Christopher Wickham
Pretty great

[Anonymous No.19764924]

>>19759317
>29 (30 in a couple of weeks)
>The Exorcist/The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ (usually read one fiction and one non fiction book simultaneously)
>feeling better than I was towards the end of last year, but still contemplating necking daily

[Anonymous No.19765827]

>>19759317
>22
>For My Legionnaires
>Got an autist tomboy GF who wants to build a home in the mountains with me, have a job as a millwright lined up when I graduate soon, and life is looking better than it ever has

[Anonymous No.19765841]

>>19759317
>23
>faust's goethe, part 1 (david luke translation)
taking a semester off. not sure what to do.

[Anonymous No.19765905]

>>19765841

[Anonymous No.19765910]

33
The Moral Animal by Robert Wright
Doing OK, looking forward to finishing up Uni in Fall

[Anonymous No.19766018]

>23
>re-reading Extension of the Domain by Houellebecq
>That is the first thing I read last year and I’m hoping kickstart my reading habit. I’m depressed about being unemployed, but I think I’m going to try and be a butcher. I think I gave up on grad school. I have been sick since the summer ended. I’m in a serious rut :-(

[Anonymous No.19766070]

>>19759317
25
Tacitus' annals
up and down, mostly down

[Anonymous No.19766125]

>late 20s
>Michael Rabo's Chronicle (detailed late antiquity history compiled by a sectarian)
having a mental breakdown
also gonna point out he mentions jews holocausting christians whenever they got the chance. just gonna leave that one here. and the way he mentions it gives the impression this is a known regular occurrence, and yet still the christians even of that day just took it up the ass and never declared war on jews

if christians ever woke up and remembered their own history we would have ten simultaneous holocausts

[Anonymous No.19766227]

>>19759317
25
Temple of the Golden Pavilion
slowly but surely improving my life but still can't get past all the dark thoughts and insecurities I have. That's why I'm reading Mishima lol

[Anonymous No.19766238]

>>19759323
why is everyone here depressed Jesus. maybe reading isn't a good thing after all?

[Anonymous No.19766242]

>>19766238
>why is everyone here depressed
it's 2022

[Anonymous No.19766252]

>>19759317
>40
>mirror of my heart: 1000 years of Persian poetry by women
>living on a tropical island, taking 6 months off from work, just creating, reading and hanging out - blissful

[Anonymous No.19766302]

>27
>crime and punishment
terribly, just terribly. I had such high hopes for this year as well and it's all come undone. Money is tight, I'll probably be living in my car soon and i'm alone. I thought I had set everything up so well.

[Anonymous No.19766304]

>>19759317
>28
>Manufacturing Consent, Mein Kampf, Dead Souls
>Doing really well, job is tolerable and low hours, relationship with family and girlfriend is good, can't complain!

[Anonymous No.19766352]

>>19763214
I try to as much as I can if you mean do I live as a Christian should.Not a hermit though.

also,
23
History of the Gestapo by Jacques Delarue (gift from gf)
Doing pretty well, have a healthy amount of love for myself and those I hold dear.

[Anonymous No.19766374]

>>19759317
>age
33
>currently reading
No country for old men, been a few years since i read McCarthy.
>how you holding up
Im not dead. Still work a job that a 30+ man shouldnt still be working, but hey its easy work and i make more than minimum wage.

[Anonymous No.19766780]

>>19759323
what