/lit/ - Literature

>>7786351
Learning Chinese is difficult because their culture is practically built into the language.

The symbols act as memetic references to a number of different things that will instantly be obvious to you if you were raised in that culture, but will prove to be a lot of work without that foreknowledge.

If there's any advice I could give I would recommend drowning yourself in Chinese culture while learning the language, it will help you immeasurably.

>Franz Pokler
>Kurt Mondaugen
>Chris Fogle
>Gene Fackleman
>Lenny Bruce
>all these 'maximalist novels' where the best parts are all small isolated and compartmentalized novellas within the larger texts

KEK

>Class
Lower. Currently a min-wage fuccboi sacrificing my weekends to read and write

>religion/metaphysics
Deistic Agnostic. God, Providence, etc. is out there, sure, but it's pretty evident that He has either left us or has only set the world in motion and stepped back to watch

>single:(married, divorced, gf/bf etc..)
Single, thank God. Women are a waste of time, resources, and emotion. Thankfully I learned this in college after banging enough sloots to understand what makes them tick. I'm sure I'll find the girl for me someday, but I refuse to date until I am actually successful or can find somebody who's as interested in improving themselves as I am.

>country of residence:
Burgerland. It ain't bad.

>Your views about the current state of affairs(whatever part of them interests you) in your country and the reasons for it:
The US of A is on its decline, as it's been since the Cold War. Anyone who believes otherwise has no idea what's happening to the Middle Class (hint: it's vanishing due to student debt and a surplus of cheap labor everywhere else). I'm fleeing the country ASAP.

>your preferred type of literature:(short stories, poetry etc..)
Short stories and fiction novels. I love me some historical nonfiction though.

>Your favorite literary work:
Letters from an Unknown Woman, by Stefan Zweig.

>Why is the above your preferred literary work:
Tore my heart in two and made me believe in beauty again. Zweig was apparently extremely popular back in the day, and I see why. His works primarily deal in emotion and love, which might sound mushy and feminine but I find it to be a really great reprieve from the non-emotional or subtle stuff I've read for a while.

>The way you wish your life to turn out:(try to be realistic and base it on your knowledge of yourself and your general state)
I want to get published. I want to own a few properties. I want to live off of rental income and travel. I'm saving as much money as possible and learning as much as I can about business, and ideally I'll figure out the whole real estate game and get me some passive income so I can stop coming in to the bookstore on the weekends and just do it every fucking day.

How much did Eastern philosophy interact with Western philosophy during the Enlightenment period? I seem to recall vaguely that perhaps Hume was influenced by Eastern thought, but it could be completely wrong based entirely of that portrait where it kind of looks like he's wearing a turban. What's the truth?

>>6722647
>tfw we will see spooky ghost agin

cant wait

oh we warned ya!
oh we warned ya
never to post an image
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>>6566141

A HISTORY OF THE JAPANESE PEOPLE, off gutenberg. it is between 1000-1300 pages long. outdated info, but still interesting. i read 5 hours every day for 7 days.

>tfw you finish Romance of the Three Kingdoms

God damn that took a long time, I finished seven other books while I read it, and I'm not gonna go near something similarly large again for a long, long time. But man was that great.

My favorite part was Zhuge Liang's conquest of the Mangs, how about you guys? And what are your opinions on the whole story?

Where do i start with the Chinese?

>ASIA is one. The Himalayas divide, only to accentuate, two mighty civilisations, the Chinese with its communism of Confucius, and the Indian with its individualism of the Vedas. But not even the snowy barriers can interrupt for one moment that broad expanse of love for the Ultimate and Universal, which is the common thought-inheritance of every Asiatic race, enabling them to produce all the great religions of the world, and distinguishing them from those maritime peoples of the Mediterranean and the Baltic, who love to dwell on the Particular, and to search out the means, not the end, of life.

Double major of Asian studies and Religious studies