/lit/ - Literature

>>10407376
If depression comes before love, the love is really just compensating for the cause of the depression. Also, Plato repackaged Eastern Thought and Augustine repackaged Plato’s thought, and while it is possible that the source was improved over time, it isn’t the case here. The source, Taoism/Hinduism, offers the most effective system of thought. Augustine said Plato was smarter, Plato said the eastern masters were smarter (why Alexander was sent east)

>>10407371
I have posted about him

>>10406383
Unrequited Love->depression->functioning alcoholism/constant pot habit->Vyvanse->Plato->lsd->Jung->Taoism->alchemy=true intellectual

>>10405342
Thanks a lot. I was excited about it, but the letters stick to a common theme and are a bit more repetitive than other letter collections, but given his circumstances, I don’t hold it against him

>>10402679
I agree, Plato. And Jung. These two helped me because they weren’t writing from inside the church. Churchy people don’t realize how presumptuous and stuffy they sound to people on the outside. I still can’t read most Christians, but I am a Christian and a strong theist

>>10402969
I was kidding about just getting into reading. I’ve been reading 7 hours a day for 3 years because of my work, since I finished my graduate degree in literature. I don’t feel much of a need to defend the quality of that collection of books, but I’d be interested to know which books/sections you think are trash.

>>10402636
(I felt the same way when I first started looking at age threads, but I think older people just don’t post on age threads)

>>10401578
Lyke 2

>>10400975
Ya, I am paranoid, but that is a ridiculous picture of a three year old boy in a Victorian smock. Your interest in it validates my paranoia. Unless you are talking about some other picture I don’t see.

>>10400916
How absolute the knave is

>>10400856
Haha, that was short-sighted. Am I gonna get doxed because I let those pictures get in the picture?

>>10400883
Oh ya. I’m letters-fag. The one that buys people’s letters to feel special

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>>10400842
Fucking social masochist

>>10400831
Or I’m so desperate for attention that I’ll say something even though I know it will bring negative attention to myself

>>10400821
I guess I sometimes think trying to be funny and failing is better than not saying anything at all. But that is clearly fucking wrong

>>10400814
I’m an unfunny cunt.

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>>10400790
And try to come sometime between 9-5. My parents don’t know I took their credit card number to buy them. The credit card company marked it off as identity fraud or whatever, so I don’t want my parents to see the books when I’m putting them in your car

I just started reading, and I thought I liked it, but I got bored by week Two after I bought all of the memes. Does anyone want free books? You just have to drive to my house. I don’t get my license till February, or I would transport them for you.

>>10383934
Thanks for the information. I’ve been trying to research it as much as I can. There are maps that detail all of the streets that are completely legal to ‘camp’ on in your car. It is a pretty complicated system they have. I might sell some of them if I’m desperate (or need to make room for new purchases) but I’ve worked pretty hard to put together a collection I’ll want to keep. I’ll definitely be lending/giving them out wherever I see fit though. I’ll post pictures when I get the shelves built.

>>10383794
I’m building custom bookshelves in the back of a big Ford Expedition with the seats replaced by foam mattress, bean bag and/or hammock. Ideally the bookshelves will line all of the walls of the car surrounding the seating area. 3/4 rows. Surround sound and an espresso machine. I already own the books. Leaving in less than a month. Living away from tv and computers, in an urban jungle, in a thin, very comfortable (somewhat) safe space. It’s gonna be an adventure. Maybe a lifestyle, maybe a death sentence.

I’m moving to LA to live in my suv on a comfy cushion surrounded by a wall of 600 books that I hope re-read or read for the first time. My car is definitely going to be broken into. Won’t be paying rent, so only working sometimes, reading most-times. I can’t decide if living in my car (even if it is big, and fitted to my lifestyle) is brilliant or delusional. Fuck paying rent.