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What topics do you have a special interest in, /lit/? Anything from alchemy to Zoroastrianism.

>> No.3553866

godding
slave-mastering
conquering
annexing
subsisting
eating
winning

>> No.3553872

Numerology. Symbology. General esoteric stuff. Along with drawing and writing.

>> No.3553876

Scientology
Sex work
Transhumanism
Living aboard a boat
Computer hacker culture
Ayn Rand
Conspiracy theories

>> No.3553878

literature
movies
stand-up & televized comedy
pornography
anonymous posting
50s/60s pop/R & B
tattoos, piercings
visual media
dreaming

>> No.3553898

almost everything these days.
Is increased curiosity a symptom of a mental illness? I have it excessively these days.

>> No.3553899
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3553899

robots
drugs
gays
old paperback lesbian porno
medieval romance/Arthurian shit especially
surreal changes of location
massage
slavery
persons traversing immense wildernesses
bureaucracy
fascism in hindsight

>> No.3553902

>>3553898

Yor damb

>> No.3553905
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3553905

>history, esp late modern
>painting, esp the Academics and Baroque painting
>film, currently introducing myself to "the literature of movies" ie Resnais, Art House etc
>stamp collecting
>also getting interested in classical history/antiquity

>> No.3553914

>>3553902
I'm fine with that

>> No.3553916

>>3553898

It's a symptom of internet. Fortunately the cure is also internet.

>> No.3553932
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>>3553916
>/thread

>> No.3554853

abhidharma & madhyamaka studies
philosophy of mind
futurology
ars memoriae/method of loci (history/practice)

>> No.3554896

Romans and the Celts

>> No.3554899

proust
humanism, particularly erasmus, ficino, and op's pic
homeric poetry, oral poetic theory and indo-european influence
the peloponnesian war
versaille, louis xiv, and saint-simon's memoirs
don quixote
development of tragedy as a genre (esp. greek and 17th c. french)
jungian analysis of literature

>> No.3554901

mycology
knitting
film
comics
video games

>> No.3554915

>>3554853
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8ys8-sF1NU

>> No.3554918

>>3554899

Why Jung?

>> No.3554932

Labyrinth construction and theory.
Malacology.
Botany.
Imagist poetry.
Overtones, esp. overtone singing.
Circus arts.
prestidigitation.
Irish/Scottish/Norse mythology.
Medieval Sicillian poetry (la scuola siciliana).
Bonsai.
Didactic theory, esp. Montessori.

>actually, I agree with a previous poster, pretty much anything now...

>> No.3554935

>Labyrinth theory

Is this a thing?

>> No.3554940

>>3554935
Indeed. Related to sacred geometry. I've been been reading about and drawing mazes for nearly fifteen years.

>> No.3554949

Ancient Near East
Ancient/extinct animals
Early writing systems
Mental illness
TE Lawrence
Mythologies.

>> No.3554957

>>3554940

>sacred geometry

hahaha

>> No.3554958

>Lacanian Psychoanalysis
>Film
>Philosophy (particularly Nietzsche, Heidegger)
>Economics

>> No.3554965

theosophy
esotericism
intersubjectivity
temporalities
zoroastrianism
carl jung
the bhagavad gita

i think i'm going to have to add more to this list with all the cool shit being posted in this thread.

>> No.3554974

Ok, my definitive list:

>Freud and Lacan
>Austrian Economics
>Nietzsche, Heidegger
>Michel Foucault
>Structuralism
>Film (mainly Hitchcock)
>French Revolution (favorite historical event)
>Ideology

>> No.3554982

>>3554974
>Film (mainly Hitchcock)
why Hitchcock?

>> No.3554986

>>3554982

because he's trying to be like zizek.

>> No.3554992

Criminal underworlds
Firearms
Ancient militaries
Video games
Daydreaming
Existentialism
Mythology

>> No.3555002

egoism
socks
neets
yolo

>> No.3555013

Phobias
Paraphilias
Cosmology
Diseases and anatomy/medical history
Zoology
WWI
Linguistics
Romantic & Modernist composers
Numismatics

Those are the really specific fields--not art, history, music, etc. Pretty much love learning about anything.

>> No.3555023
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>>3553855

Ass-to-Mouth
Buttsex
Cleveland Steamer
Derriere
Ecstasy
Fellatio
G-spots
Hentai
Index finger discount
Jacking off
Kama Sutra
Lolitas
Masturbation
Nipples
Oral sex
Procrasturbation
Quickies
Redheads
Strawberry shortcakes
Two girls one cup
Uranus
Vulva
Weed
Xbox
Yoda
Zionism

>> No.3555031

I am profoundly inert.

I can be wielded in certain directions by whomever is close, but most of my time is spent casting out aimlessly in wait for a source of positive stimuli.

Which, unfortunately, seems to be everything.

>> No.3555037

Fucking love Montaigne; read him in the original French, too.

>> No.3555049
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>>3555023
>Zionism

>> No.3555054

Deep History
Linguistics
Music
Mongolia/Inner Asia
Geopolitics
Comics

>> No.3555068

Roguish poorfags. It's the great connection in almost all of my literary interests.

>> No.3555117

Phenomenology
Critical Theory
Norse/Celtic/Saxon/Finnish poetry and folklore
Continental Philosophy
Film and film criticism
Sub/counterculture
Psychedelics
Modernism
20th Century Irish literature
Pre-Raphaelite and Symbolist poetry and art
Surrealism
Taoism
Buddhism
Anarchism
Medieval Philosophy
Gnosticism

>> No.3555141

Everything to do with the crusades and the Ḥashshāshīn.

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3555186

you're mom

>> No.3555188

>>3553899
>surreal changes of location
what exactly do you mean by this?
If you're talking about an experience, I think I know what you're talking about

>> No.3555208
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3555208

Judaism
Christianity(Catholicism)
the human libido
the human condition
existentialism
fatalism
love
sex
music
mythopoeic literature
anatomy
certain figures in history
Freudian psychology
the afterlife
God(s)

>> No.3555214

Right now:

Norse Mythology
Transcendentalism
Wagner and Nietzsche
Tarot interpretations
Pre socratic philosophy
Star Trek
Googie architecture
psychedelics
graffitti
political propaganda

>> No.3555218

>>3555214
oh yeah, also Japanese aesthetics

>> No.3555222

>>3554986
Can you please explain + examples

>> No.3555229

>>3555208
also Norse and Greek mythology

>> No.3555242

>>3555218
oh and mycology

>> No.3555270
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3555270

Abrahamic religion (especially Christianity and Islam)
Stoicism
Sequential art (comics, film, animation)
World History
Communism
Socialism
Anarchism
Revolutionaries
Mythology
Folklore
Literature
Mysticism

>> No.3555276

>>3555270
Confucianism and Traditional Chinese religion

>> No.3555305

Greek Philosophy
German Idealism
Philosophy of Science/Falsifiability/Testability
Neurology
Hallucinations and religion
Game theory
Decision theory
Statistics
Irrationalism
Medieval Literature

>> No.3555308

>>3555242

>mycology

mah nigga

>> No.3555319

History of sexuality, especially masturbation, and how it's presented in literature

>> No.3555333
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3555333

Human facing death;
Nazism;
Good or Bad dichotomy;
Revisionism;
Genetics;
This man;
Time;
Memory.

>> No.3555352

History
Grand history
Philosophy of history
Teleology
Eschatology
Zeitgeist
Volksgemeinschaft
Emanationist monism
Esotericism
Philology
Being a pretentious douche

>> No.3555378

romanticism
modernism
the link between the two
renaissance as an answer to the modern angst

beckett
the problem of language in the 20th

>> No.3555426
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3555426

water
water security
conflict over water
water technology and engineering
studies of how different cultures interact with water
Iran
magical realism

>> No.3555443

>>3555333

As far as obscure Nazis go, Skorzeny is far superior.

>> No.3555450

>>3555443
Skorzeny's memoirs are fucking amazing, however "adjusted" they are. Guy is a personal hero.

>> No.3555475

>>3555308
I love walking in the forest and finding mushrooms around the place. Not even hallcinogens, just fleshy little delights.

>> No.3555491

>>3555475

same, but also with hallucinogens

>> No.3555506
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3555506

>>3555491
what I meant was not just hallucinogens

>> No.3555575

>>3555506
I still got about 4 - 6 months before mushroom season starts and I can go picking.

>> No.3555589

history
Western philosophy
Eastern philosophy
Eastern Religion
Politics
outdoors
non-fiction adventure
Novels
short story collections

>> No.3555774

>>3555443
>the blond beast
>obscure

Shiggydiggy.