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Anonymous Sat Jan 31 15:12:49 2015 No.6078155 [Reply] [Original]

> From the end of 1914 to the middle of 1919 I read exactly one thousand and eighteen books … kept count of them.
Nabokov, Despair

What's your excuse for browsing the internet instead of reading right now?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 15:17:12 2015 No.6078169 I don't have an excuse Save me, corn father

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 15:17:33 2015 No.6078173 I-I don't have one, cornfather...

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 15:35:23 2015 No.6078241 >>6078169 >>6078173 what's a corn father?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 15:36:29 2015 No.6078248 I'd be a really good writer if I read that much tbh

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 15:39:44 2015 No.6078256 >>6078155 What books did he read then? It's quite an impressive feat. I read already but I don't read anywhere near that many books.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 15:40:51 2015 No.6078260 >>6078241 >"Whoever conceals their mediocre prose does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces it finds mercy." - Cornfather 28:13 (NIV)

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 15:43:41 2015 No.6078269 >>6078155 Holy shit I don't even own 300 books, let alone 1018 of them.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 15:44:27 2015 No.6078276 >>6078155 I'm not Nabokov

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 15:47:57 2015 No.6078287 That's about 60% of a book each day. Fucker's not human.

>>	Tallis !!y+12CeFwYOo Sat Jan 31 15:49:22 2015 No.6078290 >>6078155 too hungover to read shitposting is the only viable and eternally justified possibility for me

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 15:50:17 2015 No.6078297 >>6078155 Despair is a novel though. Is this from the novel itself or from an introduction?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 15:51:20 2015 No.6078298 >>6078155 >200 books a year this is small time. if you guys aren't reading at least 200 pages a day, you are legitimately full pleb. A book a day is easy

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 15:51:54 2015 No.6078302 >>6078290 >hungover It's nearly ten, you decadent Frenchman.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 15:52:14 2015 No.6078303 >>6078287 lol nah he's fuckin lazy he just read really small books and novellas basically shit like who's goin on a bear hunt and where the wild things are

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 15:52:41 2015 No.6078304 That's about one book every one and a half days. I mean it's impressive compared to my or even /lit/'s scale, but it's far from some superhuman ability.

>>	Tallis !!y+12CeFwYOo Sat Jan 31 15:53:50 2015 No.6078309 >>6078302 It's 4pm I'm not a goddamn europoor bitch

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 15:54:21 2015 No.6078312 >>6078155 That means he would have to read about 4 books a week. Average book is about 400 pages. So he would have to read about 230 pages a day to do that.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 15:56:27 2015 No.6078317 >>6078312 That's like 4 hours reading max Why is this a big deal, I easily read this much daily

Anonymous Sat Jan 31 15:57:35 2015 No.6078321

>>6078155

>What's your excuse for browsing the internet instead of reading right now?

Nabokov came from a comfortable economic background plus he was paid to read and write.
I actually have to work for a living and am too overtaxed to do much but drink and shitpost right now.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 15:58:35 2015 No.6078328 >>6078317 I can't read 100/hr. The best I can is 30/hr.

Tallis !!y+12CeFwYOo Sat Jan 31 15:59:39 2015 No.6078333

>>6078312
That would be easy without any internet. I can read 300 pages of dense romantic prose in 2 hours and a half, in a calm environment. Provide me with the early twentieth, nothing to do and an endless supply of books, this feat shouldn't be hard to achieve.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 15:59:57 2015 No.6078335 >>6078328 230 pages over four hours is 60/hr i.e. a page a minute, that's my standard pace

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 16:00:35 2015 No.6078339 >>6078155 To be a true artist of an age one must necessarily partake in the zeitgeist. Funposting on 4chan and browsing /furry/ embody this present moment quite nicely.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 16:01:38 2015 No.6078343 >>6078335 I could do half of that if I didn't work. >>6078339 this guy gets it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 16:01:56 2015 No.6078345 >>6078339 furries are like .0000003 percent of the population spend less time on the internet

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 16:07:35 2015 No.6078369 please no, corn father

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 16:07:56 2015 No.6078370 >>6078345 Pedophiles aren't quite so common I hope, yet Nabakov's most popular work focuses on one. Plus I get to live through the unique experience of dating an otherkin, once even dabbling with similar notions while really high.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 16:09:41 2015 No.6078385 >>6078370 > I get to live through the unique experience of dating an otherkin sounds like an autistic nightmare

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 16:13:29 2015 No.6078411 >>6078155 I'm sure they were all long books

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 16:13:39 2015 No.6078414 File: 583 KB, 1209x914, shame.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6078345

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 16:14:44 2015 No.6078420 >>6078155 You'd think he would be a better writer having read all those books wouldn't you?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 16:15:18 2015 No.6078422 >>6078414 TIL I'm never visiting europe

Anonymous Sat Jan 31 16:17:57 2015 No.6078432

>>6078385
Surprisingly not. Thought partially because of how much more socially commanding he is over most of his friends. His openness on the matter and others is inspiring. Admittedly my view of events is probably tainted by currently loving him, but he's definitely not the sort of rant and rave on tumblr about oppression and other nonsense.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 16:22:15 2015 No.6078450 >>6078414 Isn't 5.5k ppl out of entire Europe's population something like .00003 or whatever the guy you quoted listed

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 16:26:52 2015 No.6078459 >>6078450 Yes, and it's in world population. https://furrymap.net/ My only purpose was to use a pic that I was unable to post in years.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 16:27:15 2015 No.6078462 >>6078414 5000 makers on a continent of 500 million people

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 16:28:20 2015 No.6078464 >>6078459 Oh, I see. This is indeed a pic with little opportunities to be used.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 16:33:51 2015 No.6078487 The only image this thread is missing now is the depressing pic of guy dressed as some animal and both his parents standing in the same room miserable as fuck There was also cat food in the background or something

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 16:34:23 2015 No.6078490 >>6078155 You've kinda answered your own question there, op. Nabakov didn't have 24/7 access to the internet. I split my time fairly equally between reading, writing, watching TV/movies and browsing the internet. I am disciplined and productive!

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 16:37:06 2015 No.6078502 >>6078464 It's handy to make fun of germurrs

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 16:38:31 2015 No.6078506 >>6078490 >I split my time fairly equally between reading, writing, watching TV/movies and browsing the internet >I am disciplined and productive! you've forgotten "working"

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 16:43:22 2015 No.6078524 >>6078502 Yes, and those Alsace and Lorraine "culturally" Germanic make me smile every time.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 17:09:16 2015 No.6078614 >>6078414 Correct me if I'm geographically inept, but it looks like the vast majority of the markers are in Germany. Why? What's the appeal in Germany that isn't as present in France, Italy, or Poland to anything near the same degree?

Anonymous Sat Jan 31 17:20:12 2015 No.6078656
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let me get this straight:
there was some big ass world war going on together with a kikeish uprising back home that existentially threatened his empire, but all nabokov did was speedreading almost one book per day (i guess it was novels).
knowing this, why the fuck would you still want to read anything written by that man?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 18:54:23 2015 No.6079114 >>6078297 Exactly.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 18:55:58 2015 No.6079123 >>6078506 >he isn't NEET

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 19:37:16 2015 No.6079310 >>6078155 Nabokov didn't have Internet.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 19:39:20 2015 No.6079325 >>6078317 >speed reading Good luck enjoying the prose, fuccboi.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 19:44:39 2015 No.6079363 >>6078614 I am also curious about that. It would also make a pretty good study

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 19:49:59 2015 No.6079398 >>6079310 Pretty much. I'm sure if I was in the same situation as Nabokov the only thing left for me to do would be read.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 19:50:33 2015 No.6079401 File: 97 KB, 800x1360, f2hzJzS.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Anyone know how much other authors typically read? I want to find an outlier so I can justify being lazy.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 19:51:02 2015 No.6079405 >>6078287 > Russian aristocracy during WW1 and early Civil War wow what a suprise he had time

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 19:51:11 2015 No.6079406 >>6078656 Ignoring everything else wrong with this post, he was like 15 in 1914

Anonymous Sat Jan 31 19:54:56 2015 No.6079439

>>6079401
if nabokov is even telling the truth its obviously nothing to be concerned about

as long as you are reading good books constantly, and when i mean constantly i mean you read everyday, you have nothing to worry about

what is more importantly is thinking critically and personally about the books you read

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 21:25:18 2015 No.6079866 >>6079325 >implying a page a minute is speed reading >implying prose is hegemonic >implying I don't enjoy reading at the pace that is most comfortable to me

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 31 23:02:38 2015 No.6080196 >>6078260 >Start with the Greeks - Cornithians

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 1 02:41:24 2015 No.6080846 >>6078420 pity reply

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 1 03:31:51 2015 No.6080965 >>6079401 http://www.pitt.edu/~kafka/k_s_bibII.html

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 1 03:48:21 2015 No.6081003 >>6078333 Tallis why are you no longer in classic threads.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 1 03:50:42 2015 No.6081006 >>6078614 >>6079363 Because they are weak.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 1 03:53:24 2015 No.6081011 File: 68 KB, 587x625, 1376019-stalin4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Papa Joe read 500 pages or more a day, among other things that would put the average /lit/erate to shame. Get on his level, /lit/.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 1 04:03:42 2015 No.6081034 >>6078155 As much as I respect the Robokop I have to call bullshit on this.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 1 11:52:15 2015 No.6082244 >>6078414 THERE'S ONE IN WATERFORD. FUCKING BRILLIANT. BETTER JOIN SO I CAN BURN HIS HOUSE DOWN.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 1 11:57:54 2015 No.6082258 That just sounds like a terribly boring life

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