Particularly, of his work pic related? A friend suggested him for our book club.
>>24994904The Divided Self is interesting, well-written and it's not too long, definitely worth reading. It was recommended to me by an older gentleman in a library when he saw I was reading either Julian Jaynes or Jung for a project. I very much regret being a bit apprehensive towards him at the time because it was a great recommendation. I'd also recommend Madness and Modernism by Louis Sass for more work on schizophrenia and philosophy/art.
>>24995122Thanks anon. We are trying to choose a book by Laing. Have you read other works of his, and if so, how would you compare The Divided Self to his other works?
>>24994904>>24995134Never read The Divided Self but I think his Knots is amazingly original as far as psychology books are concerned. It's a psychiatric examination of relationships in verse.
>>24994904I own, plan to read it this year.
>>24995134Like Politics Of The Family?
You all are Catchers in the Rye.
>>24994233The answer to the pic is autistic men. I have watched these guys receive insane levels of disgust over what essentially amounts to nothing.I was worried people thought I was autistic, but then people would come and talk to me to bitch about another individuals autism.
>>24994233Can you find one agency or publisher who in their call for submissions says "we need more white men!"?
>>24994233The individual
>>24995016you're right but the zeitgeist is cruel and wont allow it
>>24995091>It just doesn't care about the native youth who are only like 10% of Europe anyway.There are people so hyped up on demoralization porn that they will allege Europe is 90% immigrant under 45.
How do I convince non-fictions reader to see the beauty in fictions? They seem to only care about the "substance" as if it can't be found in fictions.I think literatures often teach people to have empathy. I just don't know how to express these messages and actually convince non-fictions reader to read fictions for once. how?
>>24992575>How do I convince non-fictions reader to see the beauty in fictions? The “truth” of things, including historical events, and other facts, is routinely hidden in “fiction” literature. This is one of the reasons “the classics” of fiction are taught. The problem, is “the truth” is coded, and has yo be deciphered, sometimes requiring the reading of multiple texts, and sometimes with comparison to “non-fiction” books.
If you're talking about how literature teaches people to have empathy you're just as much of a subhuman as non-fiction only autists
>>24992575>I just don't know how to express these messagesSo I guess reading fiction hasnt helped you much, huh?
>>24994876why don't you fucking kill yourself you fucking faggot
>>24993473Sure, if you really think that. Of course you're the one spewing vomit on a Indonesian fly fishing forum, not me.
Comedy is my favorite genre of film and TV, but I've never read a comedic book. What are some funny/witty/satirical books that are worth reading?
I don't get the appeal
>>24994559My back hurts 1000x worse at 34 than it did at 24.
Holy fuck. This board is comprised of the most unfunny losers. If the movie theater chapters didn't make you laugh, you might be a lost cause. A lot of you just aren't funny irl and you should consider this when it comes to enjoying humor as well. People that take themselves seriously just can't appreciate humor. Take my fat faggot coworker for example. His actions are funny, observing him is funny, yet he is not funny and his taste is horrible. Imagine Ignatius as my fat faggot coworker. You are having a laugh at his expense.
>>24984268>implying Ignatius is badseethe
>>24994989Wow that sounds really funny and totally not pathetic in any way
>>24994559>>24994571Am I the outlier in being able to trace the specific night when I made a bad decision on where and how to sleep from which my back has never recovered?
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>>24993939Every time I hear of any such thing, I count myself fortunate for living so far from any war zone, and for so long, that my audio and video tape archives run from 1971 to 2012. As far as people doing interesting things, I find music from about 1750 to the present day endlessly fascinating, not so much art in the visual mode.
>>24995101>Me watching Miss Marple for Joanna Lumley's inaccurate TennysonI do this more often than I should admit
>>24992929I hate losing freedom of choice but as I grow older, said freedom becomes limited. The most difficult decision in my life will be whether I should procreate since a child would cause the little freedom I possess to completely vanish. At the same time I fear that I will regret not having children, especially since I already found an amazing girl. It's frustrating how nature doesn't leave us much choice in this matter. Give up your best years to raise a child or enjoy your freedom but never experience what's like to be a parent. I know I will regret either choice, the question is which choice will I regret less
too many trans girls on the bus in Portland that I can't be sure if I can be attracted to them or not, especially when they wear a mask
I'm a huge sucker for stories where an inhuman entity meets a hunan and ends up falling in love. It can be total garbage written by a retard and I'll still read it.
Anna's Archive got nuked for going too far with their mandate. Instead of sticking to ebooks they scraped the entirety of Spotify and the fed shuttem down. What's the .onion link for Anna's so I never have to rely on Jewgle or Yidex to access the site?
>>24990428>normgroidsThey ruin everything, truly.
Some of them work.
>>24993439>adsAds? This nigger using the internet in 2026 without an adblocker. You deserve what you get.
>>24991788that's why Trump started going after Venezuela. Argentina cooperated with the bust of the z lib founders but Venezuela gave us the middle finger and was basically the main backer of intellectual property theft
>>24990343Wtf why even delve into music when soulseek exists? This was already a solved problem we didn't need the fucking book site to jump in on the action.
"The seething din of millennials faded into the warming night, their cries of "the Beatles fucking suck" and "Boomers are to blame for all my failings" were dampened to silence by the mist, and drown by the morning dew.But they'd be awake by early afternoon, only to start the plaintive ritual again; the melancholy wailing bouncing off the backlit screens and cereal boxes surrounding them, while members of other generations, working, raising families, contributors all, heard nothing of it. The local flora turned as deaf an ear as the fauna, and the cloudless sky, too; and so continued the spiteful blameful opera voiced by the directionless adherents of America's voluntary class of malding malaisial millennials."-- Magnus Olympus, from The Saddest Clowns in the World
>>24993366This is your generational avatar. Soi Invictus.
>>24993366>millennials were the peak of humanityand the last generation before the machines took over
“Our lives are pain”- Sophocles
>>24993366Checked. I am a zoomer, and fine to be one, but I do look with some envy at the full-hearted attempts at socialization and community-building the millennials put forth. Drinking craft beer while you play oversized Connect 4 at a trendy brewery with exposed lights is more appealing to the soul than cycling through steam games in a discord channel. Both pale in comparison to the boomer grill-out block-party, but eh, that's the degradation of time for ya
>>24993285>Magnus Olympus, from The Saddest Clowns in the WorldThis doesn't exist.
How do you approach reading literature critically which is outside of the Western tradition?Not catching foreign cultural references is one concern, but I'm especially interested in understanding the differences in narrative technique between Western and non-Western literature
>>24995144That's what attracted me to this edition, but I'm wondering if there is more procedural advice for interpretation when confronted with foreign literature. For example, what are some general aspects of a work to consider when you don't have the guidance of a commentator
>>24995140Can anyone comment on the abridged version of this? I'm interested in it but not interested enough to sit through like 4000 pages or however the fuck long it is.
Are you asking for homework help or are you a media writer asking for free assistance in doing your job.Why the fuck would anyone do a critical analysis for no reason?Go ask your teacher or supervisor.
>>24995170You're asking me why I would want a deeper understanding of a written work? You're asking me this on an imageboard dedicated to literature?
>>24995140Read it with two minds in mind: one from your perspective and one from theirs.
How the h*ck did Vladimir Nabokov get published in the Partisan Review?
>How could a pedo be published by our wholesome CIA?
Why not?
Is he right?
Objectively correct in this particular case. All being one is just a common delusion often felt by people in significantly altered states.
>>24993507>the night does not endIt end when the sun comes up you fucking idiot
I just hate ugly nigger, goons and jews in my country don’t wanna look at em or hear their gobbledygook language simple as
glad everyone is catching up to how much of a lobotomized atheist IFLS boomer corncob mccarthy was.
>>24994440>When you die, your ego dies and you go back to experience this eternal goo until you condense in a new individual being. How could anyone think otherwise?This sounds fucking horrifying. Reincarnation really is the worst possible outcome. I'm not an annihilationist or anything, but I'd rather not suffer the monotony of this world any longer than needed.
>girls endlessly praise pride and prejudice>muh darcy, muh social norms>tell them austen died single and a virgin, they lose their minds
what's the meaning of this?
Metaphor for the 20th century being a sick old man
Benice :DD
>>24993675even movie tie in covers used to look better
>>24994021>>24994060Media literacy: 0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9MEAKnApmg
Which book from Cocteau should I read ?Was he a better writer or movie maker ?
>>24994453I always thought that photo was Giacometti.
>>24994460Yeah they are kind of look alike
>>24994453I have only read Les Enfants Terribles. It was alright. It was a Greek tragedy updated for modern times
>>24994453stop posting AI
>>24994453Opium
>Le existence is le nauseatingWhy is this boring and cliché slop-on-a-page so popular and acclaimed? Oh my god, le fucking existence! Le fucking banality! These are like the epiphanies of a teenager.
