Why does /lit/ like this guy again?>I chug a bottle green of sweet Heiney –>So bitter-sweet, like piss from a dog's scrote.>Now transporting the bottle from my lips,>I take a puff, and cough beer down my coat.>I squeeze, I squeeze, and wretched runny plops>Cascading from my ass run down the bowl;>That foulful stench, enough to knock you out,>Assaults my nostrils, ravages my soul.>The hooker in the next room gags and flees;>Just oily shits and the tough life for me.
>>21058763t. hasn't read the book in OP
>>21058344because he is the opposite of literally me and I hate myself.
>>21058344I really dislike bukowski the poet but I really like bukowski the writer desu
>>21058344Doesn't sound like Bukowski to me. Sounds like you. If it's CB it's him parodying other things.
>>21058344Bukowski is a hack
Is this worth a read as literature or is it just porn (or is it both)?
>>21059973>Your gf will also be a whore lol.>alsoso you're admitting your daughter will be a whore? lmao peak cuck *insert Merry meme *
>>21059073In olden times you'd find more diversity among prostitutes, as women of a great many types were forced into it by necessity. Now it's lazy cooked out bimbos---many were in the past, too, (if you substitute gin or opium or whatever for coke depending on the era) but they weren't so specifically of a type.
>>21059073they're just like everyone else. Some are boring, some are interesting.
>>21059780oh look her big and thick her teats are, she wins the contest. Healthy healthy.
I rise at eleven, I dine about two,I get drunk before seven; and the next thing I do:I send for my whore, when for fear of the clapI spend in her hand and I spew in her lap.Then we quarrel and scold, 'till I fall fast asleepwhen the bitch, growing bold, to my pocket does creep!Then slyly she leaves me, and, to revenge the affrontat once she bereaves me of money and cunt.If by chance then I wake, hot-headed and drunk,what a coil do I make for the loss of my punk:I storm and I roar, and I fall in a rageand missing my whore, I bugger my page.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
My BPD art hoe step sister recently went in to the psych ward for a very half hearted (pills) suicide attempt. Upon release, it became her entire personality. She wears drab colors, dresses in vintage styles, and carries around a beat up paperback of the Bell Jar prominently at all times. She is attempting to write confessional poetry now and it's very cringe. She is very impressionable. Is there a poet or writer (will have to female, she refuses to read men) that will bring back her zest for life?
>>21059824>>999/1000 there's fuck all wrong with your sister that has't been caused by malpractice on the part of the therapist, and reinforced at home.>BPDed. not to mention that warehouse of drugs she's taking sippies out of.
>>21051583>Antidote to PlathRochester,>and we have modern cloistered coxcombs who>retire to think - ’cause they have nought to do.Whilst the misguided follower climbs with painmountains of whimseys, heaped in his own brain;stumbling from thought to thought, (he) falls headlong downinto doubt’s boundless sea where, like to drown...Pride drew him in, as cheats their baubles catch,and made him venture to be made a wretch (i.e. to popularity).Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>21060378Well I don't know how helpful it is to mention this but their behavior ticks the boxes of autism as per the original criteria; rigid inflexibility in simplistic thinking, strained social interaction, etc.>similar vibes as my sister from her as wellmonkey see monkey doMy advise is to move out ASAP and shake off these influences in your life telling you that you're the one with some kind of mental problem. Probably you're just slightly higher IQ.
>>21059721>I am very very very glad you don't work in counseling any more.disagree. I cured you, the OP and another guy in a few sentences.BUT SEE this is what Reich figured out in 1920 and look what happened to his work.
>this made a whimsical philosopher>before the spacious world, his tub prefer,
Okay, I'm not far into this book and I feel like I'm missing something.The narrator just seems like a condescending arch-boomer who sermonizes about how his friends and son are stupid for not doing things his way because he's "objectively" right. He keeps droning on about the obstinacy of everyone else besides him, clearly not picking up on the irony.Does this get better or is it just 400 pages of him being sanctimonious and calling everyone an NPC?
>>21059921>are ya winning son?>no dad i'm reading christopher lasch's seminal work the culture of narcissism to discover the true nature of boomercore
>>21059945Geez son why don't you ask out a girl instead? you know when I was your age I did cocain and banged countless men and women, lucky I didn't I get aids, the homosexuals were dying left and right back then I tell you what.
His son rode behind him on the motorcycle and was literally having a mental breakdown. Then he wrote this book giving people the benefit of his "wisdom". On a side note, the son was later killed in a shooting on the streets of Berkeley.
what are some other boomercore books? rich dad poor dad comes to mind
>>21059861my jaded sophmore year english teacher told me to read this book, found out next year he was working at olive garden on the side...couldn't take the rec seriously after that
bored at work. seller at a small independent bookshop in a small New England town. AMA?
>>21059109>I push Hegel hardpushing hegel onto random newcomers is like pushing a toddler into the deep part of the pool
>>21059301I'm just a grunt. My boss and our highest ranking staffer handle ordering (new and so called remaindered books), returns (of what doesn't sell), payroll, sales reports. So it's kind of mainly a two person operation with the rest of us handling customers and general upkeep of the shop. Everyone has a say in what we carry though, so there's more diversity (in topics, not authors; we have two separate Shakespeare sections and a decently sized philosophy section) than you'd expect for a store our size. >>21059308Yea, it's really fun.
>>21058956Do you consider Canadians brothers or humans?
>>21059747Canadians? Bros. French-Canadians? Subhuman.
>>21058956Can i come work with you? we could talk about books and seinfeld, or we could not talk at all.
POETRY THREAD: post your oc poetryprompt of the thread is: "The Vegetarian Bear"go!
>>21054971Incredible.>>21057992Deadass fr on god make a whole book of this
>>21057992Practice your handwriting
>>21056106Thank you. As I understan dit, tis about the striving to redeem a speck of innocence from a hungry mouth of the mixed. Like two friends meet after a long time of absence, to stroll through the area of teenage years. To reminisce the past, which now shows itself in a different light. And the night sky is there, as it was before. Now more pronounced and noticeable.>>21055274wtf 2spooky..>>21057621Sight – a risky friendWhen one is just bornFright is first to tendTo the rookies doorWhen one leaves the sightBasking in the absenceOf that precious lightLearning to remember:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I battled the bearProved my vitalityMy final reward is hereAn official authentic ass CD
Smell the feet the scent of defeatYou fell into deceit on your knees to meatCan't miss a beat same song on repeatYou had a promise to keep sunk long ago in the deep
Is pic related good for an entry level introduction to Orthodox Christianity?
>>21060066I thought the same thing kek
>>21060017It’s not an intro to Orthodoxy, it’s an Orthodox critique of the Reformers.
>>21060114Why would I be LARPing?
>>21060439“Internet orthodox” are a plague. They’re people who like feeling as if they are correct, but go to no effort to obtain the sacraments.
>>21060439Because you made this thread when priests are usually happy to to recommend books.
>recktal brown>erectal brownFor me, it's more of a joke about homosexual intercourse than about the character being a literal asshole
What are some must reads on climate change?
>>21058435I wouldn’t say it’s irrelevant, just not the most pressing issue. Climate change will be one final push of mass extinction but that’s being done without climate change at record speed anyway.
>>21058387What is a hoax is carbon taxation and electric cars. You know, things they'll profit from. The fossil fuels may just run out in time, maybe, to save us. But then there's the rough transition into a low energy society. >>21058421So NOT HOAXNature exists as is. The data can be interpreted by experts or fools like yourself. >>21058435>More 130/55c temps are normal>No. No droughts will happen just cuz it's a little warmer>Nobody dies of the warm weather >The earth goes through these warming periods, brew, trus me>>21058473I wish people wouldn't confuse Leninism with communism. It's like saying Nazi Germany compared to Eden
vollmann carbon ideologies/thread
>>21059310BASED
Who are some good modern exegetes of Hegel?
>>21059655Antonio WolfFuck anyone else.
Co(o)may
James Lindsay, possibly.
>>21060407Robert Brandom, certainly.
>>21059655Me faggot your preconceptions and morals are bullshit everything is just as it is with no psychological inference on it
Anon, hop on my motorcycle now, we have to chase those normative statuses. Those inferential semantic practices aren't going to become explicit by themselves!
Nerd
I started reading Neuromancer a while back, and I'm not sure I really "get" it.I liked some of Gibson's short stories, especially Burning Chrome and Johnny Mnemonic, so I thought Neuromancer would just be more of the same in a longer form, but it's actually been kinda boring and I've put it down and picked it back up a couple of times.I feel like for most forms of niche media, there's always one or two exalted pieces that are guaranteed to be excellent - Blade Runner is this to cyberpunk movies, Akira and Bubblegum Crisis are this to cyberpunk anime, and so on - but I'm not sure if Neuromancer is this for cyberpunk literature, or if there even is such a thing for cyberpunk literature outside of a handful of short stories.I could be wrong, I'm only roughly a third of the way through the book, so it could get really good all of the sudden and I might change my tune, but is this a normal first impression to have about Neuromancer?
bump for interest i recently finished neuromancer and thought it was good, now i picked up burning chrome and also thought it was goodi know burroughs isnt cyberpunk but im thinking i should read him next, everyone interesting keeps saying burroughs inspired them
>>21054499>it's not as compelling when you're just reading about a giant sprawling dystopian city cause you can sometimes fail to see how the world being described is different from just the present and near futureThis was not a problem in 1984.
>>21059892Clearly, that was my point in mentioning it.I'm glad opinion has been roughly divided 50/50, I thought I was just a retard for not instantly getting it but it seems like everyone agrees it's not a light read but still excellent. I'll have to keep reading
>>21058321What?
>>21057434Excellent post anon, touched on everything I like about it better than I ever could.
thinking of really trying to read more fiction and less non-fiction next year. was thinking of these three books to really dive into (I own two of them already)Isaac Asimov - FoundationsPhilip K Dick - ValisMarcel Proust - In Search Of Lost Timeany issues with the ones I posted?
>>21058050>Why do you have to base your identity and aesthetic around offending others?>he said on 4chan
>>21058921This is 4channel though
>>21058028up the horns and hailzZzZ fellow metalheadimm a metaller myselfgreetings from brazil mate haha and cheers
Here's Noriega justifying Creed's existencewww.youtube.com/watch?v=CsXFF2xO2gcYou could have chosen any image for your OP but your genre brain smoothing made you do this to yourself, you total faggot.
>>21058921>he bases his identity around 4chan
The wording is very strange, and it's hard to follow for long periods of time. How do you read books like this? Do you just keep rereading sections or do you just go very slowly? I'm usually able to read books quite quickly but those are all stories, which are nothing like this.
>>21060313bruh stop this shit I already deleted my first post because I thought I double posted by accident this is literally pointless. Stop reposting my posts, it doesn’t accomplish anything.This is by far the dumbest trend I’ve seen since I started using this website
>>21060170You start Aristotle with Organon.Organon is one of the hardest philosophy books.Figure it out.
>>21060324Oh god, I thought Metaphysics was bad. I was hoping for a bit of leeway with the next one
>>21060358Metaphysics is harder but nicomachean ethics is just boring.
>>21060266Thanks! I'll take a look at those.>>21060324I lol at that but I also welcome the advice. Thanks :^)>>21060348Hmm, I guess Aristotle is off the reading list for now haha.
... when there's so much space between his eyes and mouth?
>>21058636lol, nah
>>21055954post the real one
bump
>>21055498>Why do you trust his philosophyI don't. I don't even know who he is.
>>21055498This is actually a good point. He has a classic horse face. Anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of physiognomy should know that Guenon cannot be trusted.
