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High resolution book cover general!
Anything goes, aesthetics over content.
As a side note, does anyone knows where to get old scify book covers in high resolution?
My source is primarily books.google. Good proportion of their covers can be viewed in larger resolutions by just adding couple of zeroes to the link while only viewing cover.
>>7678637
(this is a cover to a comic adaptation, in case you hadn't noticed)
Use-mention distinction.
Do you guys know how to properly use quotation marks?
>David Foster Wallace is named "David Foster Wallace".
>7678546
"Yes"
But of course, OP.
London is made of 6 letters.
Define Barrack Obama.
Sex is a word.
>>7678589
London is made of six letters drawn on a map; the city no longer exists outside of the abstract.
It's unfair to define Barack Obama by his race over his performance as president.
Sex is a word whispered in one's ear, a light kiss on the neck, and a feeling of incredible intimacy.
should I start with Infinite Jest or one of his essay collections? or his first novel?
watch and listen to interviews
then read a supposedly fun thing i'll never do again (the book)
then read infinite jest if you want
>>7678400
Sounds good, but should I read Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself as part of the interviews or save that for when and if I decide I'm that invested in the guy?
Dive into Infinite Jest. It's the only way to find out if you like David or not.
Is this accurate?
Overly simplistic, but yes, IMO
>>7678297
This, I don't see anything wrong with it
sort of...
man vs reality and man vs technology are pretty modernist
'man vs meaning' is probably the ultimate 'postmodern' conflict
>be me, pleb reader looking to expand taste
>be reading dubliners in preparation to attempt ulysses
>enjoy and follow the book up to the Two Gallants
>thorughly confused by the ending
>want to kill myself
>end up googling a summary of the short
>i am not smart enough to attempt ulysses
What books are there for this feel? Why couldn't joyce...
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Start with the Greeks.
>be me, pleb music listener looking to expand taste
>be listening to random schoenberg on blast in preparation to attempt reading Adorno
>enjoy and follow some pieces for a few seconds here and there
>thoroughly confused by everything else
>want to kill myself
>end up googling Schoenberg on Wikipedia
>i am not smart enough to attempt Adorno
a portrait of the artist as a young man
but if you really want to be patrish and get a reasonable amount of the references in ulysses you're going to have to study the western canon for many years at least. you can get by by constantly referring to annotations but you lose the flow imo.
really though the book can be enjoyed by just about anyone for its own merits, some of the best prose in the language
Hi /lit/
Are there are literary pieces that explore this theme? of:
"He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. "
desu I can't think of any good literary examples that capture the story of an individual, whose will and passion to save their people, slowly ends up with their sense of righteousness turning into a cold ambition, and ultimately damns the people they were originally trying to save.
The best examples I can think of are from pleb culture: Anakin Skywalker in star wars, and Arthas' character...
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>>7677610
My diary.
>>7677657
desu
>>7677610
/lit/ is a testament to the fact that those who oppose shitposting all eventually become shitposters smhtbhfam
What are some good novels where the main character happens to be gay or is struggling with his homosexuality?
The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal.
OPs Autobiography
Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
What does /lit/ think of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality?
It doesn't.
It's great. /lit/ talks about it a lot. Seems to be held in high regard here.
I've heard a guy talk about if and its kind of sci fi blended with HP?
Sounds utterly uninteresting.
ITT: Underrated writers
Pic obviously related
>>7677373
Well, he may be underrated on this board, but that doesn't mean too much...
I really like him. Though, I noticed that each time he is evoked, people are quite short of words to tell how he affects them (and I would have trouble telling how he affects me as well)
>>7677373
Never heard of him. What's he known for?
My man.
What went wrong?
>>7676769
orwell had tb when he wrote it
>>7676769
An imbalance of power
Post your favorite poems.
>>7676553
i don't get /lit/'s infatuation with this poem, it's not that good
>>7676543
I don't know my favourite. But I like these threads and like to add to them.
Catullus 101 translated by Anne Carson
Many the peoples many the oceans I crossed --
I arrive at these poor, brother, burials
so I could give you the last gift owed to death
and talk (why?) with mute ash.
Now that Fortune tore you from me, you
oh poor (wrongly) brother (wrongly) taken from me,
now still anyway this -- what a distant mood of parents
handed down as the sad gift for burials --...
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