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17771891 No.17771891 [Reply] [Original]

Writing has changed the way I think, and not in a good way.

Now I can't have a single thought or even enjoy a conversation with someone without thinking "I need to write this down so I can somehow incorporate it into my novel".

Every little experience now revolves around how it can translated into words.

>> No.17771909

>>17771891
>having a lot of books means you are not intelligent because... ummm... it just does okay?

>> No.17772152

>>17771909
In my experience people with huge libraries often confuse being widely read with being well read.

>> No.17772153

>>17771909
I'm guessing it's because people with huge libraries rarely even read. It's all vanity.

>> No.17772168

>>17771909
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents

>> No.17772209

>>17771909
They are all self-centered faggots projecting their insecurities, owning a personal library is priceless. Buy as much as you want!

>> No.17772215
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>>17772209
CONSOOM

>> No.17772231

>>17772215
See? Exactly what I said. You're a self-centered, insecure little faggot trying to impose his lifestyle into strangers on a chinese forum. Get a life let others read and own what they want.

>> No.17772240

>>17772231
Where did I prevent others from reading anything, illiterate fuck?

>> No.17772283

>>17771891
what if my IQ is higher than the value at the peak of this graph?

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I'm moving my library in the bedroom to avoid pleb guests commenting on it.

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>>17771909
>>17772152
>>17772168

i own a library of some 30,000+ volumes, one of the largest in the US. here's a selection of some of the random volumes/titles I've read over the last 2 years--or, rather, not only have read, but annotated extensively, scanned in, talked over, and shared: pykewater.com/pykewater-seminar-master-list

that is of course just the tip of the iceberg. i do nothing but read, and read extensively and passionately.

it's this push to generalize, to make broad statements like "consoom" that set aside any real questions or dialogue, that is really the mark of an unread disposition.

>> No.17772296

>>17771909
Did you actually understand what the image is saying? Are you this illiterate?

>> No.17772300

>>17772283
It isn't or you would notice that there is no numeric value given to compare yourself to.

>> No.17772367

>>17771891
Any time you want to stop simply refocus your energy on music and the linguistic side of your brain practically shuts off instantly.

>> No.17772393

>not pictured: a line reaching to the top of the y axis; no library at all

>> No.17772408

>>17772292
Any recommendations for an anthology of poetry and/or short stories?

>> No.17772455

>>17772300
what if i did notice it and still decided to ask that question and my iq is still higher than the value at the peak of this graph

>> No.17772499

>>17772296
it's saying exactly what I wrote

>> No.17772514

>>17772292
oh not this dork again

>> No.17772545

>>17772292
What is the password to glowworm? Is that something about Luke's book?

>> No.17772607

>>17772455
Then you're a lying idiot. There is no numerical peak value given, so your comparison is invalid.

>> No.17772719

>>17772607
but what if i am not a lying and not an idiot and my iq is higher than the value at the peak of this graph

>> No.17773278

>>17771891
this graph makes no sense,the axis are all wrong

>> No.17773333

>>17771891
So uh, what's the high IQ thing to do re: personal collections? Throw out and giveaway books ruthlessly, or somehow have the prescience to only buy the most valuable books?

>> No.17773362

take a peak at shelf threads (filled with presumably, people proud of their collection) and it's mostly exactly the mainstays of the annual /lit/ top 100s and some /lit/ philosophy favorites (always that same volume of platos complete works and neechee)

literally just jealousy from underages and nooby readers with nascent collections

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>>17771891
I've got three rows worth of read books now, so where does that put me on the chart now?

>> No.17773509

>>17773455
Maximum IQ. That's enough to hold rare books that you cherish, and all books you are currently reading. Everything else has been given away to a second hand store.

Congratulations.

>>17773333
Correct.

>> No.17773565

>>17772292
>pykewater.com/pykewater-seminar-master-list
Someone who make that to his books can't be a smart person.
Someone who make entry lv anotations like "Nietzsche" or "Kant" next to the paragraph can't be a smart person.
Anyway, you are from the US and thats what you got: consumist pseud pig behaviour with no actual intellectual capacity.

>> No.17773606

>>17773565
Ressentiment: the post

>> No.17773779

>>17773509
You've never changed your opinion completely on a book after a re-read?

You've already read the book...why is it higher IQ to give it away rather than keep it?

>> No.17773797

>>17773779
What proportion of your books do you re-read?

Either way, if you're planning to re-read a book, then keep it. But don't lie to yourself, you're not going to re-read your entire library. Life is too short for that.

(Also I keep a digital copy on my e-reader of all my existing books.)

>> No.17773862

>>17773797
So keeping a digital copy is fine, but not the physical books? Do you really live in so much fear that somebody might judge your you and your collection? This is nothing more anti-consumerist posing.

>> No.17774255

>>17773862
An ebook takes up zero physical space, can be easily searched for reference, and is free.

A physical book could be given to someone who hasn't read it yet.

>> No.17774293

>>17772719
That requires you to be able to specify the value at the peak. Well, what is it? Idiot.

>> No.17774355

>>17771891
This image is correct. When there is more reading than reflecting by a large disproportionate gap then there is no IQ to be gained. Purposeful reading > entertainment reading. Even I with a handful of books can feel the mind crumbling into insanity.

>> No.17774377

>>17771909
You see all the interviews from home on msm with talking heads in front a rows and rows of books?

Vanity my friend. All my knowledge is on a harddrive, I own one book in physical and thats the bible.

>> No.17774383

>>17771891
>High IQ is having as many books as I have
>If I acquire more books I'll shift the curve

>> No.17774885

>>17771909
No, most of the time huge libraries are really worth less than a collection of a few good books. I know it from my parents' household.

>> No.17775670

bump

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17775753

Not a single comment in response to OP.

>> No.17775799
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Physical cucks will never know what it's like the have the whole of western academic literature at your finger tips. Just to even maintain my 33tb of literature in a physical form would require 10-20+ hired staff and a warehouse sized library. This is literally the library of Alexandria.

>> No.17775945

>>17773565
You are an idiot, learn how to argue better

>> No.17776145

The point isn't to read books, the point is to understand their content.

>> No.17776155

>>17775799
you can't actually be that dumb

>> No.17776240

>>17776155
Says the fag who has read so few text, they fit into a single room of his home.

>> No.17776298

>>17776240
check again the graph, big brain

>> No.17776325

Just start recording everything.

>> No.17776422

>>17773333
They do whatever midwits don't

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>>17776145
I, too, skim wikipedia and 4ch

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>>17771891
Your problem is that you are overapplying the intellectual/technicistic aspect of yourself to mundanity —like a stenographer—, rather than finding middle ground for it between mundanity, and the spiritual/mysticistic aspect of yourself, —which never loses any of the insights that you receive during mundane, quotidian life anyway—, which would allow you better control in order to oversee the plan of your work, and to extend your reach farther,

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>>17771891
Your problem is that you are overapplying the intellectual/technicistic aspect of yourself to mundanity —like a stenographer—, rather than finding middle ground for it between mundanity, and the spiritual/mysticistic aspect of yourself —which never loses any of the insights that you receive during mundane, quotidian life anyway—, which would allow you better control in order to oversee the plan of your work, and to extend your reach farther.

>> No.17777170

>>17771891
I carry a little blue book with me

>> No.17778241

>>17776145
It isn’t enough to understand. You have to revise what is worth remembering.

>> No.17778328

>>17773509
>>17773797
>MUH FICTION
This is why you have this opinion, you read nothing substantial. Of course I would give away cheap candy(fiction), I do it on Halloween. I keep actual value to myself

>> No.17778335

>>17774355
This is just a midwit iq projection. Sorry bud

>> No.17778336

>>17777118
>mysticistic
Now this is a fun word to say

>> No.17778340

>>17775799
>33tb of literature
This is why you don't waste your life reading fiction boys, it does this to your brain, incapability of reading an extremely basic chart

>> No.17778350

>>17778241

Aye. Without synthesis, you are playing a memory game you will eventually lose.

>> No.17778361

>>17771891
Shit thread

>> No.17778364

>>17771891

If this image is making you Reee, don't share it. You're only showing your ass and proving your Tsundoku.

>> No.17778369

>>17775799>>17776155

fuggin filtered lmao

>> No.17778400

>>17775799
Kek the hubris of the ereader on display

>> No.17778404

>>17772153
I guess that's why /lit/ is so allergic to owning many books: not reading reminds it too much of itself.

>> No.17778407

>>17772240
Through your childish attempt at enforcing the board's meme norms through shaming.

>> No.17778412

>>17772285
Why would you even have guests over?

>> No.17778416

>>17778328
>muh serious texts
All philosophy, religious, and other non-fiction larpers should be banned.

>> No.17778423

>>17774355
>Purposeful reading
Who determines purpose? If we go by the broader culture, no reading is purposeful reading because reading is categorically unimportant, merely a larp for women and edgy teens.

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>>17771891

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>>17775799
kek nice one

>> No.17778503

>>17771891
Umberto Eco in a single image

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17778517

Having a big ass library isn't an issue. Showing off your big ass library to strangers on /lit/ on the other hand...

>> No.17779577

>>17778517
But everyone who has a big library ends up boasting about it, proving the OP's point

>> No.17779717

>>17775799
Keyed

>> No.17779729

>>17771891
>big library stupid >:(
>medium library smart :D

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Everyone has it wrong. You have to also factor in how much you actually read, to determine if the library size is relatively proportional to the reading rate.

>>17773509
>Everything else has been given away to a second hand store.
LOL, no normie second hand store would even consider taking half my books as a donation

>> No.17781516

>>17772215
There are clear benefits to owning many books, notably it's easier to read books when you don't have to put them on order from some shitty library or re-purchase when you want to read it again years down the line. You are an absolute faggot for not recognizing this and pretending like your salty sour grapes tears are some anti-consumption crusade.

Kill yourself.

>> No.17781530

>>17781038
Ah yes my IQ is 2 x 10^24

>> No.17781614

>>17772292
i do not respect bald people

>> No.17781639

ITT: 78 replies, and not a single one of them mentioned the antilibrary

ngmi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF9tG5Q6NTA

>> No.17781660

>>17772292

I too take notes on books, but what you do is a bit too much imho

>> No.17781685

>>17773455

How is the 20 days of Turin?

>> No.17781874

I don't get it, assuming I read all of the books I buy what am I supposed to do with them, throw them out? I've read two rows of books and that will easily expand to the low IQ pick within 5-10 years

>> No.17781996

>>17781685
Really liked it. Read it about a year ago so I don't remember all the specifics, but the story is really good and it's only about a hundred pages so you can read it in a swift afternoon.

>> No.17782082

>>17781639
This argument is the one that convinced me that Taleb is midwit core.

He is literally unable to imagine that there may be books outside of the ones available on his shelves.

>> No.17782090

>>17772292
>William Pennington
>Guy with PhD from Cornell shitposts on 4chan

>> No.17783108

>>17771891
You're graph doesn't even have numbers. You are a retarded baboon.

>> No.17783129

>>17783108
>i dont understand. so what youre saying is dumb
you don't need an x, because the x is obvious.
the graph refers to iq gains from your original starting iq

>> No.17783150

>>17771891
Help me out lads >>17782831

>> No.17783269

>>17778407
You did not answer his question, anon. You seem to be projecting this whole insecurity thing.

>> No.17783289

>>17783108
>You're graph doesn't even have numbers.
You sound like you're regurgitating what your teachers told you without understanding it.

>> No.17783326

>>17772292
Whether this is really you does not matter. Just know that I have saved this website and will be posing as you from now on, using the website as a way to appeal to my own authority whenever I spew my abjectly terrible opinions.

>> No.17783378

>>17773333
If I've scribbled all over it or I really liked it I keep it. Going by the "high iq consensus," isn't very high iq, this is a personal matter that comes down to what works for you. This is, of course, presupposing that you are capable enough to figure your own way independent of vauge authorities.

>> No.17784699

>>17774377
>he doesnt have the bible on an usb flash drive to carry it around with him everywhere

>> No.17784701

>>17771909
>>17774377
>https://www.booksbythefoot.com/
There's an actual business dedicated to buying a bunch of unused books for rich douchebags and self-styled "intellectuals" to put in their home/office to make themselves feel smart.

>> No.17786305

bump

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>>17772285
I actually have two different bookcases; one in my study room with my edgy books that i dont want guests to see and one with more normal books in my living room