/lit/ - Literature

just got done with 40 minutes of houllebecq and am rewarding myself with some screen time of course

>>14815680
Essentially, before the aforementioned law, the state recruited quotas of soldiers from estates within the Empire. The elite advocated to change the 'in-kind' tax to one commuted to gold currency which Valens eventually conceded (in a small portion of the Empire). This grew and so the reason that Rome started to recruit outside the Empire was that the state now had huge amounts of gold but no actual recruits. In fact, based on wage rates of laborers on estates the landholders where willing to pay 10-12 times their annual salary to maintain them as tenant farmers rather than sending them as recruits in the form of taxation. Coincidentally, just after this law is passed the Goths arrive and are granted settlement in the Empire. They found the perfect manpower source which could be exploited. But as history showed, the Goths were not big fans of this arrangement. But essentially, the take away isn't that barbarians destroyed the Empire (they had a part in it of course), but rather that economic elites decisions then brought these situations to ahead.

i fancy myself too innocent and pure for that kind of lifestyle

>>13799895
It is two people. If you dont have a large collection of apu or anime images youbare a normalfag.

What are some books about being a NEET aside from your dairy desu

Are NEETs the aristocrats of the modern world? It seems like the best life style to live today I would kill myself if I had to be a wageslave..
Also are there any NEETs here? What is your life like and what are your favorite books?

I dont know what to read next so I am going to make a book rec thread. List a couple of writers you like and anons rec you shit.

Proust, Faulkner, Vidal, Bernhard, Musil, Celine, H James, Beckett, Chekhov, Gass