/lit/ - Literature

Academic and scholarly works

Go to university and take hard classes.

>>4245831
I am a senior in nuclear engineering and work in a physics lab.

I am tired of reading technical books and science journals

One hundred copies of the Bible

The Brothers Karamazov
The Trial

>>4245838
He is most likely reading the classics.

>>4245950
lets see

STEPHEN KING

and, uh

oh KORT VONNYGORT

oh and

CHUQ PAHLININUIUK

Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Dante, Montaigne, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Calderon, Goethe, Proust, Rilke, and a crowd of others too many to name.

But many of these you probably won't enjoy straight off. It helps sometimes to start with things that aren't as complex, or really just anything that strikes your fancy.

>>4245821
this pic doesn't make sense

check your presuppositions before you wreck yourself

>>4246014
because big existential conundrums in your ass are bad for your health

Everything pre 1750

>>4245968
all of HAARUKI MURRRRAACA-MI

The pic is basically saying that with enough reading, you'll have closed yourself off so much from reality that your head will be in the clouds. This is what allows for things like fascism to persist.

>>4246000
Cervantes can be a good starting point. Not that hard to read. Funny, complex without seeming overwhelming and he is known to be a life changer.

>>4245821

A hundred copies of stirner's the ego and its own

>went through a summer of reading stirner, gide, sade, and huysmans
>tfw not even sure if I can be sad anymore

Now I just masturbate and laugh at plebs all day long in my parents basement.

without reading (learning) the man is in a state of blissful ignorance. as he learns he learns more about human suffering and bad things that are happening or have happened. there comes a point, however, where he has learned so much that he has hope: the sun peaking through the clouds.

OP here

>>4246000
thanks, thats the kinda thing i'm looking for

>>4246102
good, i'll look into that

>>4247184
are those like really sad and depressing or something?

>>4247211
hope for what? change? LOL

nihilism is at the peak of intelligence/intellectualism

>>4245821
Probably the collected works, correspondence and nachlass of Nietzsche as well as the philosophers that lead up to him.

>>4245831
>he thinks university study is about learning or enlightenment

It's an education in jargon and status quo circlejerking. And I say this as an academic. If you want to achieve guy #3, you want an eclectic and eccentric syllabus. Not the surface skim regurgitatory horseshit they pound into your head when they pump out a Factory Standard Bourgeois-Certified University-Educated Intellectual.

Best bet would be understanding Western philosophy prior to 1900, studying history and religion, and reading literary greats with historical and intellectual context. You'll stumble into some kind of esoteric belief system that defines your creative life eventually.

They're not books; they're binders of LSD blotters

>>4247242
No, overcoming nihilism is.

the bible

>>4247257
that's not how you spell the qur'an

>>4247257
Perfect

ALL OF THEM.

>>4247242
I grew out of nihilism when I was 17. I'm sure you'll get there eventually.

>>4245821
captcha: truth undeniably

oooooh shit another /lit/ OC thread?!

>>4247242

Yes, and adolescence is the peak of adulthood.

>>4247242
>confirmed for troll

>>4247307
or ridiculous idiot

>>4247330

>>4245821
Fantasy novels and YA fiction

>>4246014
It absolutely makes sense. People who can't think can be content with ignorance (Nicholas Sparks tier). People who can think a little can be depressed by what they see (Hemingway tier). People who think the best can see a greater mode of existence (Walt Whitman tier). Don't believe that 'intelligence in happy people is something I rarely see' bullshit. Think! Read a book and think!

>>4247330

The Ubermensch would still be languishing in the smouldering ashes of the second picture, albeit in one of the homier ruins.

>>4247242
no, existentialism is

rookies mistake but i forgive you

>>4247249
le upboat

>>4247330

>>4247353

>>4247257
you are mentally retarded but in a cutesy way

>>4247375
>>4247374
>>4247353
>>4247330
>>4247296
>y'all niggas suddenly realize that those represent the same thing: existentialism

>>4247374

>>4247376
how am I retarded?

Stirner always wins

>>4247377

>>4247375

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch03d.htm

>>4247249
Someone failed their calculus for social sciences class

> What are the books the guy in the clouds is standing on?

This picture reminds me of Chateaubriand :

One is not, my dear sir, a superior man merely because one sees the world in an odious light. One only hates mankind and life itself through failing to look deeply enough.

>>4247395
The only one who fails calculus for social sciences class is the professor.

>>4247392
Yes, embarassing.

>>4245821
what a wonderful picture

>>4247242
lolololololololololol

>>4247330
You don't even need that, the setting sun is is from reading Thus Spake Zarathustra

>>4247375

>>4245821
that picture is dumb. i'd rather be the guy standing on the ground so i could walk around . the guy standing on all the books is in the worst shape; he's trapped up there.

>>4247439
>implying he can't walk on sunshine

That's, like, the second stage of nirvana, you fucking pleb

>>4247439
>>4247448
>using the phrase "walk on sunshine" near a picture of a dog in an existentialism thread

MY GOD WHAT HAVE YOU DONE MAN

How do I increases my critical thinking ability ?

pic semi related

>>4247847
lel at the merchants in the corner

>>4246084
Where does fascism come into play? Honestly, fascism is generally about efficiency, locomotion, and the power of machines; books are slow, and therefore not very fascist (if one is not to investigate the content of the books themselves).

>>4247375
you know you've been here too long when you scroll down the thread wondering when the Stirner meme is going to get added to the pic

>>4247934
can some1 please explain the hate on stirner?

I recently started reading his work, im like 120 pages in, and i agree with most of the things he is saying.

>>4248019
Nobody who has read Stirner hates him, only those with a simplified view stemming from a wikipedia skim.

Well, except maybe Marx. Marx really, really hated him.

>>4247376
>not acknowledging the literary importance of the Bible

>>4245821
someone should add a fourth pile of books where the guy at the top is suffocating in space and all the books are floating around him

not to make a point it would just be priddy funny, if this gay picture's going to get circulated anyway

>>4247385
In a cutesy way.

>>4248019
Most of the reason people hate Stirner is because his fans are a bunch of shitheads (this explanation is true of like 80% of the things that people hate here, or anywhere, really). I mean, I don't agree with him, but I don't hate him - he's an interesting thinker. But his fans are really annoying.

>>4248210
r u a grill?

I'll be the Knight of faith to your heathen

>>4248225
How is it that they are annoying to you?

>>4248241
>not disregarding females

>>4248273
I just spit tea all over my keyboard, his face....my god

The problem is once you get on so many books it' impossible to keep your balance

>>4247388
how come?

>>4248365
Because he uses scorched earth tactics and doesn't give a fuck.

>>4248392
What do you mean?
Am unfamiliar with him, why is he considered cool in this thread?

>>4247374

>>4248399
Because he is a great philosopher who disabled a lot of other philosophers by deconstructing their silly games.

>mfw this thread
sides, many sides

>>4248417
How did he do that?

>>4248423
I'm off to bed boyfriend, you're on your own now. I suggest google/wiki/stanford/gutenberg

>this thread
My sides left the existential plane

>>4245821

The necronomicon, Merlin's spellbook, Ulysses, etc.

Books you'll never have a hope of finishing.

>>4245831
Mostly classics of the Western canon. He can probably read Greek and Latin, too.

>>4247233

please they written by ubermenschen

>>4249327

link to the spellbook?

oy vey

>>4245831
> Thinks any sort of liberal art is 'hard classes'.
Thanks, Obama, now I can fix my busted sides.

>>4247184
>Now I just masturbate and laugh at plebs all day long in my parents basement.
Is it a picrelated basement?

>>4249327
>he didn't finish the necronomicon
lol

>>4249557
my sides

>>4249760
I can imagine Derrida drinking champagne in a fabulous ruin.

>>4247874
he isn't saying the books are fascist, he's saying that people with their head in the clouds tend to ignore reality which allows all kinds of things to persist unnoticed, including fascist regimes.

>>4247211

God I hope you aren't trying to be an author.

>>4249760
Tolkien? wtf. Otherwise, I'd agree.

>>4249816
>Tolkien? wtf. Otherwise, I'd agree.
Tolkien did more to promote Catholic theology and Catholicism in general than anybody else in the last 500 years.

>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24833198

Did you go through the angst canon phase (see above link)?

What books were you most attracted to during those turbulent, emotionally driven teenage years?

>>4249826
How?

>>4247211
>peaking

*bestial wail*

>>4250328
haha nice

>>4245821

>>4249826
sounds legit

>>4245821
them's the classics m8

>>4250311
By making make believe fashionable again.

Plato's analogy of the cave.

>>4250408
>>4250311

not this nigga but this statement isn't that dubious in all honesty, firstly do to the fact that there haven't been many prominent catholic thinkers in quite a while, secondly because he was pretty damn prominent, and pretty damn catholic

I'l give you a hint. They are all written in Greek or German.

>>4250591
>firstly do to the fact that there haven't been many prominent catholic thinkers in quite a while

IT'S DUE. JESUS CHRIST LEARN TO SPELL.

>>4250618
relax dode

>>4249826
He was also one of the few men of his age to understand the beauty and connectivity of history and the human story.

>>4250618
>JESUS CHRIST LEARN TO SPELL.

Why should our Lord and Savior learn how to spell?
Are you implying that Christ was a Wizard?