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What have you written today, /lit/?
If you didn't write anything at all, write me an excuse for why you didn't.
>>7661447
because of SJWs, feminists, jews, liberals, and non-whites
>>7661447
A couple of text messages
Like 5 shitposts and 5 regular posts on /lit/
A reply to a facebook status
I guess today was an off day, the only thing I did was watch Willy Wonka (it was great) and go to the doctor. Who knows maybe I'll feel like writing something later tonight.
As a fool and a plebiscite, I find myself doing the stupidest things. Wisdom is needed, and I hope to share in this journey with you all. Let's share books, excerpts, ideas, platitudes, etc, in order to collectively grow and do better for ourselves.
I'll start. I read through the book of Proverbs and wrote down some bits that help me not be a fucking moron.
>The soul of the sluggard craves in vain, but the soul of the diligent is amply satisfied
>Walk with wise men and you will become wise, but the...
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>>7661033
>Walk with wise men and you will become wise, but the companion of fools will fare badly
What happens when a fool and a wise man walk together?
>>7661041
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>>7661041
I'd imagine the fool would learn some, and the wise man, provided he's wise enough, would learn from the fool.
Though most likely they wouldn't be able to stand each other.
Why is my version of ficciones so thin? Is this the normal version? Bought it on a thrift store.
>>7660885
Its only 126 pages long :s
>>7660885
Post picture of index.
>>7660885
I haven't seen that addition before, OP. Couldn't tell ya.
But Borges never wrote anything particularly lengthy, so it may very well be that's the complete Ficciones.
If you're willing to drop more cash, the book Labyrinths is all of Ficciones plus a handful of solid essays. It's my go-to book for introducing friends to Borges
Thoughts on "Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow"?
>>7660033
you first
>>7660038
I haven't actually looked it through but it looks like shit. Also here's Zak Smith.
>>7660033
Sometimes interesting, sometimes lazy.
Prove to me this was not just Joyce having a laugh. I've read Portrait and Ulysses, I know full well what a cheeky fucker he can be.
>he didn't read dubliners
back to primary school with you lad
I'll just leave this here.
>>7659059
It was Joyce having a laugh. Except he spent nearly 20 years writing one joke which is what makes it so amazing. If you've read Dubliners, Portrait, and Ulysses you should understand what he was going for even if you don't understand all the words.
Any books similar to the vibe of this movie?
Also post a movie/album and get a book recommendation.
>>7658210
Im here for recs.
such a fantastic film I love it with all my heart and soul
He's going to do 26 volumes for this "multi volume novel". Up till now the volumes have been at ~800-900 pages. How can he justify this? It's all going to be filler.
he's a hack, he can justify everything
>>7661229
I guess. I feel like I want to read them just because of the sheer size of it. But then again life's too short to read bad books.
most of the pages are probably one word
>I don't read translations
Don't need to read translations when I know seven languages.
>>7660442
>>7660422
you can't translate poetry, nigger
Do you think that in the future, crimes against information will be punishable? Writing a book that is sub-par but contagious(and very popular), killing a franchise, forcing a meme so it dies. Things like that.
I just feel that it's possible to write a novel crafted in such way that youth are instinctively drawn towards it. For example, using Johngreenian "spiked prose" to lure teenagers, except pushed to the absolute limit, so it's irresistable.
>>7660380
What the fuck is spiked prose
>>7660390
When you manufacture prose so it's instinctually gripping to some demographic. The certain flow and language that you enjoy not on conscious, but unconscious level. Pop music managed to do it, so why it can't be done within literature world?
It will just transform into a new medium or genre since people still enjoy classical music
If you wrote a novel where characters talk like this would it inevitably be doomed to fail or can such literary inflection be explained by the need for realism?
>>7659954
talking and writing on facebook are not the same
clarify what you mean
would they speak this way out loud?
(do people now speak this way out loud?)
>>7659978
Talking and writing dialogue are not the same
>>7659978
>do people now speak this way out loud?
the internet has had a great impact on spoken language. i'm not talking about the people who autistically reference memes irl either, they are part of a wider transformation that it's hard to measure right now. but yeah writers gotta deal with it somehow, though it's hard to pull off.
I'm reading through Lord of the Flies right now and thoroughly enjoying it. The degeneration storyline is wonderfully done. I have a question, though:
Is Simon, the boy who gets killed by the mob after revealing the reality of the parachute-man, a.k.a. the beast, representative of Jesus Christ?
Do some spoiler tags. God damn!
His name is Simon, ain't that hard to figure out a Biblical reference.
yes of course
http://electricliterature.com/classic-novels-by-james-joyce-and-virginia-woolf-contain-mathematical-mulitfractal-structures/
"The paper based on the study, recently published in Information Sciences, showed that certain works were more complex than others, specifically the books written in stream-of-consciousness. These could be compared to multi-fractals, according the scientists, who explained that Finnegans Wake by James Joyce had the most complex structure of all. Professor Professor Stanisław Drożdż said: “The results of our analysis of [Finnegans Wake]...
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>>7660429
No, it means that they were books written by high modernists
I doubt anything like this will hold on books from any other era
It means nothing
Anyone with some ability for thought knows this
And you can fit noise into expressions and it means nothing
>>7660429
That's like saying that because you can measure lines in a painting, there is objectivity in fine art
Hi!!
someone I can spend the next books in pdf:
(If it may be the oldest edition possible)
book Eibon
Necronomicon
The Book of Thoth
The Vermys mistery
Thanks
Those aren't real books.
I just asked if you can not spend the link if they are real or not that I do not care
>>7659828
I'm not sure how you think anyone can link to them if they don't exist.
Just finished reading Sorrow of Young Werther. How does /lit/ feel about it, especially in comparison to Faust?
Personally, while I will say I enjoyed it, I don't think I connected with the work as much as I hoped I would. However, there were definitely some very moving and beautiful passages and I think Goethe touched on a number of contemporary philosophical concepts that I didn't expect.
it's a middling work with some moments of beauty.
faust is his magnum opus, werther doesn't really compare at all.
>>7659245
>werther doesn't really compare at all
Really? I know it's probably his most well known work so I assumed it was the most respected next to Faust.
>>7659264
it's well known in part because of the influence on contemporaries (copycat suicides, etc)
in terms of "respected" works, the top ones are Faust, Wilhelm Meister, and various verse/drama works, such as erlkonig and egmont from the early sturm and drang period and later stuff like west-eastern divan when he got more into other genres/styles
ITT: post some of the bullshit you have to read this semesterseminar about 'Music, Identity and Difference'
>>7656371
>it is frightening when x
>that's a fact
Lol'd
I haven't had to read anything stupid this semester, I picked my classes based on professor. I guess my contemporary ethics class has resulted in reading some stupid shit (Nozick's argument for philosophical anarchy, LaFollette's argument for licensing parents) but my professor thankfully doesn't advocate anything.
>>7656371
Why don't you just pick good classes, you moron?
I can do whatever I want and you have to support me.
Don't accept me. Don't acknowledge me. SUPPORT me. CHEER for me. Tell me I'm special.
I am special.
That's why I get to define the reality you experience. Buckle up and enjoy the ride.
