Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 1. page
Images are sometimes not shown due to bandwidth/network limitations. Refreshing the page usually helps.
>hear about biblical figure called Metatron
>don't believe it's real
>it is, there's a wikipedia page
>"Although Metatron is mentioned in a few brief passages in the Talmud, he appears primarily in mystical Kabbalistic texts within the Rabbinic literature."
Anyway, this term "mystical Kabbalistic texts" is intriguing. What are some obscure ancient spooky texts? Like writings that didn't make it into the Bible.
>>8295475
It's part of orthodox Judaism. Get a clue.
>>8295508
What is?
>>8295475
Kabbalah is Jewish mysticism
Talmud is required reading
Books that were omitted from the Biblical canon include
The Gospel of Thomas
The Book of Enoch
The Gospel of Eve
some others, I forget, just look it up
Also check out the Dead Sea Scrolls
What are some books I can read to rid myself of the crippling paranoia that the world will become against me and my ideas will be negated by this newfound infamy?
>>8295309
Personally, I'm redpilled.
There are someone out to get us. Especially if you're a white man
Specifically, a fear of humiliation I mean.
>>8295313
>there are someone
yeah you sound like a redshill
>>>/adv/17370417
Is it true that /lit/ users have a hard time with relationships?
Have you noticed that literature has caused strains in your relations with others?
>>8295266
prose b4 hoes
>>8295266
It's bait, you dumb fucking idiot.
>I'm tired of my boyfriend calling me a "roastwhore"
>Then he started to cry and told me that Schopenhauer was right
You aren't funny.
>>8295287
poetry before hoetry
>reading a book on my Nook
>Have to use the "Look Up" feature every 10 seconds
>>8295128
go back to /r9k/
>>8295131
Why? I never browse there.
>>8295139
yes you do, dumb frog faggot
Ive been looking to read it but every book store and second hand bookstore around here is selling it for way too fucking much.
>>8295122
>being so poor that you can't shell out $10 for a book
unemployed and young. Thought Id try the pdf before I spent a ten
>>8295144
Get a job, faggot
Is he the dfw of philosophy?
https://www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler
best youtube channel IMHO
>>8295103
he's tremendously fat and ugly
go to bed greg
>>8295111
be nice
>finished writing the first draft of my novel
>no literary friends to read it and help me with revisions
What do?
>>8295090
Post excerpts and get shit on by /lit/'s finest
>>8295090
go to /r9k/ and create a *BRAAAAAAAAP* thread
Find someone qualified.
This week, on "Is It YA?"
>>8295062
The only thing 'young adult' here is you.
>>8295062
kys
>>8295062
This week, on "Is OP A Faggot"
Yes
Would you hang out with him?
>>8295003
>hang
>he hanged himself the day after 9/11
what did he know?
No way.
I'd tell him I would, though. Just to leave him hanging.
about to finish Jamaica Inn, and then start Atlas shrugges. My favorite book is The Idiot by Dostoyevsky.
Looking to connect w/ someone but haven't had much luck elsewhere.
>>8294929
>reading Atlas fugged
don't do that to yourself dude
>>8294939
I figure two hundred pages a day it'll be done in a week, I've heard nothing but good about it, been then again probably not from any one who actually read it.
It's been on my list for awhile..
>>8294956
>I've heard nothing but good about it
then why leave Reddit and come here
I know the ones by Norman Thomas de Giovanni are best because he actually worked with him, and the Hurley versions Penguin puts out are a bit shit, but is pic related (done by Anthony Kerrigan) good enough? Also translation thread I guess
Lee a Borges en español pajero hijo de pute
>>8294869
Any translation is good enough for Borges' above par genre fiction. Just don't get a complete works, to much Borges ruins reading him.
Just fucking learn Spanish; it will take 6 months to be able to read it if you understand English well. This also opens the gate to Don Quixote and Cien Anos de Soledad.
Thoughts? Are these any good?
>>8294839
Read them and find out, you fucking retard
I liked them, but they suffer from the general CS Lewis problem(the characters are just fronts for the 'right' and 'wrong' philosophies in his world). but he's a good writer imo, and Out of the Silent Planet was such a fun read for me(read it in like 10th grade, when we had no power for days due to a hurricane) I read Perelandra about a year ago. Thought it was kinda just more of the same. It gets a lot more theological. That Hideous Strength has been sitting on my shelf for a while. I hear it's much different from the others.
DUDE CHRISTIANITY LMAO
Was Isidore Isou the last great poet?
No, John Ashberry still lives.
nah. his stuff is cheap unless u are already converted into situ and can appreciate it. which is the same as saying its nothing.
Discuss (keep the boo radley shitposting to a minimum please)
>>8294726
The most hated book on /lit/
It wasn't captivating by any means, but I liked, the message didn't felt too forced and the characters were portrayed so well that they felt alive.
Can't comment about the prose since I read a translation but it didn't felt shit tier prose I tell you that.
>>8294739
>written by a female
>about racism
>commonly taught in American high schools
it triggers every aspect of /lit/'s autism
ITT: Books that are too far up their own ass to enjoy.
>>8294705
It's brilliant. You don't know what you're talking about.
>>8294705
Vonnegut.
smug ass motherfucker
Not really a /lit/erary book, but I had to put down Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb because he was so unbearably smug.
