/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12389723]

What’s the most pretentious book I can hold while sitting on the subway?

[Anonymous No.12389728]

>>12389723
the dictionary

[Anonymous No.12389734]

the bell curve

[Anonymous No.12389753]

Leibniz's Discourse on Metaphysics

[Anonymous No.12389780]

[Anonymous No.12389784]

Phenomenology of Spirit

[Anonymous No.12389816]

Society of the Spectacle (it's a good book though)

[Anonymous No.12389832]

>>12389723
Critique of Pure Reason. Simply the title will blow people away, they don't even need to know about the book.

>>12389784
Is a good second.

[Anonymous No.12389964]

12 Rules for Life

[Anonymous No.12389977]

>>12389723
mein kampf

[Anonymous No.12389984]

Infinite Jest.

[Anonymous No.12389989]

>>12389964
ding ding ding

[Anonymous No.12390040]

Being and Time in one hand, Truth and Method in other hand, Process and Reality in lap

[Anonymous No.12390048]

Two books at once or, if you can pull it off, maybe even three. And you must be taking notes and saying "Yes, yes, of course" all the time as well.

[Anonymous No.12390065]

>>12389723
Your diary desu

[Anonymous No.12390082]

>>12390048
What’s the most pretentious notebook I can have? I’m thinking a leather bound one like in Indiana Jones or the Uncharted series

[Anonymous No.12390086]

>>12390040
Make sure to add in tabs in all of them beforehand, alternating colors every 100 pages or so
You may also consider attaching Process and Reality onto a stand strapped to your leg, and applying a second stand strapped to the other leg with The Antichrist.
Keep two differently colored pens behind your ears, two more in your front pocket, wear a long coat with the entire Great Books of the Western World lined inside them, all of them connected by book straps. Ask attractive women if they strap?

[Anonymous No.12390110]

Ulysses

[Anonymous No.12390115]

>>12390082
Moleskin A5. Write with a charcoal stick or quill

[Anonymous No.12390127]

>>12390082
One of those labelled "Field notes"

[Anonymous No.12390149]

>>12389723
Unironically The Bible

[Anonymous No.12390166]

>>12390149
i honestly think this is based because it conveys a certain "the end is near" vibe.

[Anonymous No.12390179]

>>12389723
>1984
>Trump book
>Turner diary
>Anarchist cookbook

[Anonymous No.12390207]

>>12390166
This. All christfags in this boards should start doing that.

[Anonymous No.12390216]

Bernd classic

[Anonymous No.12390225]

>>12389723
The Oxford classical dictionary, or the OCD as it is known to us people in the know

[Anonymous No.12390248]

>>12390166
>be on subway in the morning to work
>not too full but I'm standing
>look down at the guy sat beside me
> reading the news on his phone
>he starts looking more worried, frantically scrolling through the article
>suddenly pulls out his Bible at light speed
>frantically flips to Revelation
>reading like a madman
>his breathing is is increasing
>visibly sweating now
>I'm wondering wtf is going on
>train pulls to next stop
>he grabs his stuff and BOLTS out the doors
>mfw

[Anonymous No.12390264]

>>12390248
Are you black?

[Anonymous No.12390272]

>>12390264
No, are you?

[Anonymous No.12390450]

>>12390248
This sounds like an Eric Andre skit

[Anonymous No.12390491]

does anyone have that pic of the story of the guy reading plato on the subway and some black guy saying something to him?

[Anonymous No.12390570]

>>12390491
>>12390491

[Anonymous No.12390646]

>>12389723
I don’t know anon. Th... th... the proximate nature of a being ready-to-hand to other beings constitutes its regional worldness in a way that goes beyond deficient Cartesian spatiality?

[Anonymous No.12390650]

>>12389723
Zettel’s Traum. It’s HUGE

[Anonymous No.12390654]

>>12390570
even based black man knows that the greeks are meme for pseuds and actual smart anons read other stuff.

[Anonymous No.12390658]

>>12390570
Lol

[Anonymous No.12390796]

>>12390570
Surely he meant it as "That's why you read Plato (to become an intellectual)"?
That said the other way is infinitely more correct.

[Anonymous No.12390896]

>>12390115
LEUCHTTURM1917 is better

[Anonymous No.12390926]

>>12390796
>infinitely more correct
Aristotleans get off my board

[Anonymous No.12390981]

>>12390272
Yes.

[Anonymous No.12391021]

Tractatus Logico- Philosophicus

[Anonymous No.12391143]

>>12390570
its been years and i still can't understand what this was supposed to mean

[Anonymous No.12391266]

>>12390981
Sorry to hear that.
>>12391143
Plato is a dumb dumb xD

[Anonymous No.12392255]

>>12391143
Either of these two:
>There is no intellectual value in reading Plato
>reading Plato is a cornerstone of becoming an intellectual.
If anon wasn't such an aspie he could have just asked instead of freezing and later crying under the shower about the scary nigga.

[Anonymous No.12392860]

>>12392255
third option - a wise person would not revel in their current level of book-readin' and would play the part of the humble striver bettering oneself without boast

[Anonymous No.12392867]

>>12391021
He wants something to do while waiting, not a reason to kill himself.

[Anonymous No.12392881]

>>12391143
An intellectual is someone who is in the business of knowing shit. Socrates is someone who doesn't know what 'knowing shit' means. (Neither does the intellectual, but that's kind of the point.) The hedgehog doubts his own being an intellectual, which is one way of starting to ask what knowledge is: Plato. Ironically, the passer-by knew this better than the hedgehog, even though the hedgehog was the one reading Plato.

Moral of the story: don't be a fucking hedgehog. Be a smiling black instead.

[Anonymous No.12392993]

>>12392881
Based. In awe at this gnosis.

[Anonymous No.12394063]

>>12389723
infinite jest

[Anonymous No.12394231]

An Ontological Basis for Phenomenology: The Materialist Perspective

[Anonymous No.12394406]

>>12389723
>the most pretentious book
That would depend on the eye (and education and intellectual level) of the beholder.
Anything by "The Greeks" could be considered pretentious by one.
Last weeks copy of Mechanics Illustrated magazine could be pretentious by another.
No book at all may be the most kino on the pretentious scale. As in, "I've read all the best, don't waste my time with your sophomoric drivel".

[Anonymous No.12394429]

>>12390272
No

[Anonymous No.12394448]

>>12389723
Gödel, Escher, Bach

[Anonymous No.12394461]

[Anonymous No.12394474]

Privatization in the Ancient Near East and Classical World.

[Anonymous No.12394650]

>>12390082
Get a scroll. When you need to write a note just throw it on whatever flat surface you have access to. Bonus points for asking people to hold it or unfurling it onto people laps.

[Anonymous No.12394678]

>>12390216
Kek

[Anonymous No.12394685]

>>12389723
i guess they never mis HUH

[Anonymous No.12394910]

>>12391143
It is the second most intellectual post made on this board beholding only to "Bugs... easy on the carrots"

[Anonymous No.12395397]

>>12394650
Based

[Anonymous No.12395459]

write in a clay tablet with a stylus

[Anonymous No.12395508]

>>12390570
Obliterated.

[Anonymous No.12395531]

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

[Anonymous No.12395944]

>>12395531
How is it? never read anything by Kundera but sounds interesting

[Anonymous No.12395980]

does the op want something other people will have heard of though? like do they want someone to look and think 'damn this guy is pretentious' or 'damn i have no idea what that is'

>>12395944
i actually enjoyed it but i don't think i can be arsed to read any more of his

[Anonymous No.12396003]

>>12395980
Yes

[Anonymous No.12396010]

>>12395459
>that text
kekimus maximus

[Anonymous No.12396039]

[Anonymous No.12396048]

>>12396039
What's that bootleg pokemon book about?

[Anonymous No.12396074]

>>12396048
High class Moscow hooker A. Huli is foxy in more ways than one...And when a client goes inexplicably and fatally berserk at the sight of her in his luxury suite she has to employ all of her cunning to escape. But it's not till she places an ad on the internet that trouble really begins to kick off as the journey she takes catapults her into a world of perverts, former KGB agents, oil tycoons and amorous werewolves.

[Anonymous No.12396105]

>>12395531
i read it probably 15 years ago. it was good if i remember well

[Anonymous No.12396109]

>>12395944
fuck, this >>12396105 was for you

[Anonymous No.12396120]

>>12389723
Why do you insist on thinking like this?

[Anonymous No.12396748]

>>12389728
lmao

[Anonymous No.12397342]

>>12389723
Both volumes of the Complete Works of Aristotle, holding one in each hand

[Anonymous No.12397435]

>>12390082
Get a large wax tablet and chisel out the letters leaving little wax shavings all over the place. Then you can curse loudly at the "damn Israelites" who don't keep the air conditioning low enough so your tablet keeps melting all over the place. Make sure the side facing out says The Book of Mormon 2 on it and is covered in gold foil.

[Anonymous No.12397443]

>>12390149
That's not pretentious though. Autistic maybe. Most upper middle class normies would think you're some sort of poor white evangelical, and shun you so they don't get your lower caste white cooties.

[Anonymous No.12397448]

>>12390570
He meant only an authentic (not psued) intellectual would say that they are "not really" an intellectual while literally reading Plato. A psued would obviously say yes, and would never be actually reading Plato.

[Anonymous No.12397470]

>>12394910
how does such a simple verse convey so much

[Anonymous No.12397511]

Infinite jest in one hand, gravitys rainbow in the other, ulysses wedged between your elbows