Just been diagnosed with cancer and will probably die within a year. Any books to read on my way out? As a frequenter to this site, thanks for everything /lit
Just been diagnosed with cancer and will probably die within a year. Any books to read on my way out...
the new testament
The Path to Nibbana by David Johnson
the Iliad especially the catalogue of ships
Godspeed, user. Fuck cancer and what it does to people. Some basic recs from me are:
>Dubliners
>Ivan Ilyich
>Chekhov's short stories (The Lady With the Dog especially)
>The Kingdom of God Is Within You
>The Brothers Karamazov
There's a good chance you've read a few of these already, but they're all very moving sometimes comforting.
jesus man. read the recognitions and moby dick and that's good enough, everything else sucks
try Luke 23:39-43 and also Boethius
emily dickinson
This is like a list of books someone reads after spending a month on the chan..
the recognitions is an amateurish resentful ugly meme book that you don't even understand but are convinced of its worth by virtue of its supposed "erudition"
Speak, Memory. You can skip the parts about his ancestry if you want. Its just some of the most beautiful writing ive read. Also listen to great works of music
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The 120 Days of Sodom.
>great works of music
>links to fucking Prokofiev
Yeah, one of the better 20th century composers.
yo i'm reading this now it's really comfy
'no'
OP, if you really want good 20th century classical, go for Schnittke instead
following this thread for classical recs
I'm sorry user. what kind of cancer?
Miss Lonelyhearts
Mars
The only thing you really need to read is a person telling you they love you.
Can you become a suicide bomber instead and give a Globalist a big hug on the way out? Why die like a little bitch in a hospital and be forgotten immediately when you could go down in history as the cancer kid who kicked off WWIII. You have an opportunity to become legend. Sorry about your cancer user. I love you.
Anything Zen and stoicism related. They will help.
Both are great you pretentious pseud
literally this
Plato's Phaedo, Phaedrus and Symposium. I don't know if it counts but I send my prayers.
Catch 22 and slaughterhouse five. So it goes.
Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer. I think it could be very useful for you user.
fpbp
Based.
im really sorry user, if it makes you feel better, we all are going to die soon, and no one can predict his lifespan, so please dont speak like this.You can and probably will outlive many of us. Read something that will uplift your mood something funny, to take your mind off things, stay away from sobre things. rd.com
Sorry mate. If I was in your shoes I'd probably just re-read all my favourites. Lord of the Rings would be one of them.
If you’re afraid of death take some psychedelics, LSD or shrooms. Completely removed the death anxiety that has plagued me for years.
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Don Quixote(read as a comedy), Moby Dick, Nabokov of course, Kafka if your humor is as black as mine, etc.
Jung, I have certain predilictions of Freud but i believe his progeny was more right in these regards, said to the patients of his who were on life's autumn to live on like usual, in one of the interviews he did.
this
Don Quixote
"How to Starve Cancer"
read the sticky and fuck off you cancer
Read nothing, just meditate and let your life pass by.
That's not the time to read, that is the time to write.
they were the books I found most impactful in my late teens. i definitely felt much stronger/more vivid emotions, so they stand out in my memory as transcendent
also, basic != shallow
I love you, user.
Spend time with your friends and family, laugh, take walks, do something big, do everything.
I can't recommend you books, but with the risk of sounding like a degenerate, I'd suggest you try DMT and get prepared for the transition.
>fuck cancer
shout out to Boosie