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I'm going to be institutionalized in a mental ward any day now. I'm fine with it, but I need books. What are the best books to study and meditate on, if one has aspirations to be a writer?

>> No.6836028

>>6836023
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

>> No.6836033

>>6836023
Interesting as fuck

>> No.6836045

>>6836028

Kek

You should study graduate psychology text books and fuck with your psychologist. Then write a book about it.

>> No.6836055

>>6836023

Books to read while institutionalized? They'll only let you bring it books that are "positive". When I had to stay in a mental ward, my brother tried to bring me my copy of Crime and Punishment but they didn't let him because it didn't look healthy for me, but when my mom brought to me a copy of The Alchemist, they said it was okay.

>> No.6836109

>>6836023
what happened? why are you going to be inst.?

>> No.6836163

>>6836109
I want a woman, and I'm on an involuntary treatment order. If I do a runner I get brought to hospital, where I plan to stay until I meet a woman crazy enough to fall for me

>> No.6836168
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6836168

>>6836023
This helped me through a rough time

>> No.6836170

>>6836163
I think you're mixing up the romanticized take on crazy, 'let's elope to spain and have wild and passionate sex', and the 'use a sewing needle to make pock marks on your face while you sleep' crazy.

>> No.6836176

>>6836163
not a bad plan tbh

>> No.6836190

>>6836170
I am literally sick in the soul. I'm what fathers dare not warn their daughters about lest they be tormented by endless horrific nightmares. I need to impregnate a woman but it can't be rape so it has to be in the ward

>> No.6836213

>>6836190

Read Artaud

>> No.6836221

>>6836190
Interesting as fuck

>> No.6836259

so far here's what I'm getting

>One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
>Collected Works of Antonin Artaud
>guns germs and steel

is there any essential science fiction or non fiction I should pack? I just screamed for a bit so they could come anytime. I need to buy the books today

>> No.6836278

>>6836023
Zarathustra

>> No.6836283

>>6836190
i know that feel buddy

>> No.6836319

>>6836259
Bible
Divine Comedy
Silmarillion
Finnegans Wake

>> No.6836334

just write infinite witz.

btw i need eggplant to survive, can we go to whole foods later?

>> No.6836352

>>6836319
>finnegans wake

I won't understand any of the wordplay or references. I might as well be reading another language. I've heard about reading it out loud, does that really work?

>> No.6836377

>>6836352
in an irish accent it does

>> No.6836391

>>6836283
>>6836319
>>6836334
>>6836352
>>6836377
Interesting as fuck

>> No.6836399

>>6836190
why do you need a woman? don't you have enough problems already?

>> No.6836409

>>6836399
I don't need her, she needs me. They all do. But I will grant the gift of myself to only one, the most worthy

also I want a son, purely in an ironic way ofc

>> No.6836472

>>6836399
I don't need a woman, I need a family. Recently I came out and they disowned me, this is the only way to make one

>> No.6836521

Seriously bring infinite jest. It has a lot to do with institutions and mental health. I find it an intensely comforting and optimistic novel.

>> No.6836546

>>6836521
it's pretty much the only book I've ever read. was good.

>>6836399
I want a family

>> No.6836554

>>6836023
Phenomenology of Spirit by Heygul
Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun
Bhagavad Gita

Also: anything on 20th century phenomenology/psychoanalysis

You're going to rule the ward with your new-found knowledge.

>> No.6836560

Christopher Smart, a great poet, wrote a long poem called Jubilate Agno while confined to a mental institution. You can read a pretty well known section here, in which he writes about his only companion, his cat Jeoffry: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/jubilate-agno-fragment-b-i-will-consider-my-cat-jeoffry

>> No.6836569

a good translation of the Bible

>> No.6836570

>>6836546
>I want a family
you think that's a good idea while saying you're sick in the soul?

>> No.6836590

>>6836570
this could be the cure?

>> No.6836633

if you liked Infinite Jest you should try out some Thomas Pynchon (way better than DFW imho)-- Mason & Dixon or Crying of Lot 49 maybe

>> No.6836647

>>6836521
Also, tennis, which relates to your picture, OP.

>> No.6836727
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6836727

can anyone recommend me something from this?

>> No.6837098

The Iliad
The Odyssey
Metamorphoses
Beowulf
Divine comedy
The holy Bible
Etc.

>> No.6837199

>>6836259
Guns Germs and Steel is bullshit that's been debunked dozens of times by people both smart and dumb.

Toss that one.

>> No.6837215

>>6836727
A Scanner Darkly
UBIK (yes I know it's not on the list fuck you)
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
VALIS

>> No.6837254

>>6836727
From each section-

War of the Worlds
Foundation
Dune, Hyperion, Ubik, Time Ships (there are a lot of other good ones too)
Neuromancer, Snow Crash
Earth Abides, Shadow and Claw
A Scanner Darkly

>> No.6837275

>>6837215
Ubik is on the list retard

>> No.6837309

>>6836590
There is no cure you deluded idiot. You will be just as miserable and pathetic except now you will have to care for a loud expensive baby. Just kill yourself honestly it is probably for the best

>> No.6837349

>>6837275
Oh shit

I was looking for a different cover.

>> No.6838737

>>6836028
I'm more fond of One Flew Over the Cuckold's Shed meself.

>> No.6839772

>>6836590
Could be but could also make things more difficult. If others are involved, I'd say you should be more sure and not just guess

>> No.6839775

>>6836023
Everything by Kilgore Trout.