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you are given $3000 to spend solely on literature. how do you spend it?

>> No.13794371

>>13794358
I would make a personal library of the western canon in chronological order. I already have started doing this on my own.

>> No.13794378

Nietzsche

>> No.13794385

>>13794358
Charles Maurras and Soren kierkegaard ouvres en tout hardcover

>> No.13794389

>>13794358
Define literature, just fiction books?

>> No.13794402

>>13794358
I would buy 250 copies of infinite jest

>> No.13794409

>nazis are making vaporwave images nearly a decade after it was popular

>> No.13794415

Cocaine and strippers
You have to be a complete faggot to spend money on books

>> No.13794428

>>13794415
theyre called strippers because they strip your soul

>> No.13794429
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Why, I purchase the latest Boyue Likebook, pirate all my books from [redacted], invest the rest in crypto, shill all day on /biz/, and read all night

>> No.13794431

>>13794428
Deep...

>> No.13794438

Buy the complete works of Plato, Aristotle, the Tragedians, Shakespeare, and Goethe in the writers’ respective tongues.
I’d also buy books on learning German and Greek. Lastly, I’d buy a kindle for everything else.

>> No.13794900

>>13794371
fpbp

>> No.13796752
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>>13794358
The complete Robert Heinlein library.

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I buy a $3000 ebook reader and then download all of libgen onto it.
t. stable genius

>> No.13796789

>>13794371
Same but also including recent science books and access to papers.

>> No.13796791

>>13794358
Political theory and more political theory.

>> No.13796814

Are hookers /lit/?

>> No.13796830

>>13794358
oed set. the 18lb merriam webster. unabridged stones of venice and modern painters.

>> No.13796836

>>13794358
Give it to an author I like,

>> No.13796893
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LOEB
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>> No.13797170

>>13796893
sexy. somebody draw loeb-chan.

>> No.13797356

Set of academically translated and annotated Rig Veda, if I remember right it was really damn expensive

>> No.13797360

solely on literature

>> No.13797364

Head to the discount book store and pick up anything/everything that catches my eye. Maybe Barnes and Noble too if I’m willing to waste those $3000 on overpriced books

>> No.13797474

buy books

realistically,
find arbitrage opportunity and capitalize

>> No.13797532

Use the 3000 as pay for writing

>> No.13797547

Solely on LSD

>> No.13797868

>>13794358
I make my life into a work of art by banging hoes

>> No.13798136

>>13794358
Collected works of Sigmund Freud

>> No.13798306

>>13798136
Those only cost less than 300$ in german.

>> No.13798313

spend it all on cocaine and hookers

fuck you that's /lit/

>> No.13798345

>>13798306
The dollar sign goes before the number, and german isn't a currency.

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>>13798345

>> No.13798493

>>13798345
Thanks for the info

>> No.13799336

>>13797170
please

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13799346

Slowly.
Can I spend some on shelving?

>> No.13799349

>>13794358
Fund a lifestyle to be able to write a book

>> No.13799776

>>13794358
1000 copies of aristotles ethics, distributed amongst the local secondary schools. that will do more good than anything i could ever buy for myself for that money.

>> No.13799983

All Mishima works in Chronological order, then probably all of Urusei Yatsura (Manga)

>> No.13800054

>>13794358
I go on holiday for three months in either Italy, southern Germany, France or Portugal and write

>> No.13800071

>>13799776
Nobody would read it lmao you naive nerd

>> No.13800081

>>13794358
>"traditinal" blip nazi fgt VHS art
FYS!

>> No.13800494

>>13800071
shit, lemme rethink that then. 30 copies of the book and 90 USD for every person who can pass a test on it. somes better than none.

>> No.13800632

I would get various year-long subscriptions to small presses I enjoy.

>> No.13800642

>>13794429
is darconville's actually hard though? i'm tempted to start it

>> No.13800689

>>13794358
I'd set aside like $500 for a couple of decent bookshelves and enough cardboard boxes to be ready to move them around if I needed to move somewhere. Enough (right now it appears to be $600-$700 range) for an e-ink device that has a 10 inch screen, for ebooks. Then I guess I'd spend the rest on artist monographs, and to build a good library of philosophy, and some good language textbooks.

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>>13794415
That's a great choice too, Anon. As for me? Well I'd solicit depraved sex from women I meet and write about it in graphic detail.

>> No.13801097

>>13794358
Berserk manga

>> No.13801101

>>13794358
I would live off it while producing my own literature.

>> No.13801578

20 4TB Hitachi drives

multiple lots of used kindles kobos nooks ipads

a generator with solar panels, diesel, and a little wood stove steam engine

maybe spend the rest on renting fileserver for /lit/ezins until it runs out

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>>13801578
actually instead of the fileserver an auto scanner and some rare hardbacks that aren't indexed by amazon yet

>> No.13801604

>>13799776
Based and non narcissistic pilled, and concerned pilled

>> No.13801648

>>13796893
This. Unironically.

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>>13800081
Someone is triggered!

>> No.13802549

>>13794358
i would commission a box set of iliad in 24 vellum manuscript scrolls in greek

>> No.13802927

>>13794402
underrated

>> No.13802935

>>13794358
Spend it on food, coffee and a good chair. Its wasteful to buy books.

>> No.13804333

>>13794358
I will spend 2999.9 on new books and use the rest of money to buy your mother.

>> No.13804365

>>13794371
Are Russians part of Western Canon?

>> No.13804370

>>13794415
Based and cumbrainpilled

>> No.13804386

>>13799776
>expecting anybody to read his writing

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>>13794358
150 copies of Gravity's Rainbow, please.

>> No.13804647

I would hire a hooker with a soft spoken voice to stroke my hair and read to me.

>> No.13804655

>>13794428
Actually I think it's because they strip their clothing.

>> No.13804673

Buy as many Everyman’s Library editions of novels as I can

>> No.13804721

>>13794358
Buy a rare, signed, first edition wait for a while and sell it twice the price to an eager collector and spend the money on dumb bullshit commodities instead.

>> No.13804849

>>13804365
No. Russians are not white, and therefore not western

>> No.13804924

>>13804849
Bro do you not know where the Caucasus is?

>> No.13805184

>>13794358
>literature
I'd spend it all on useful non-fiction books about skills or information