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Is "sexual capital" a valid concept?
And if it is, do you think prevailing gender theories take it into account?
Define "sexual capital"
I assume you mean quantifying a value of how attractive someone is relative to a set of other people, and using that to one's advantage, but could you elaborate?because my sexual capital feels pretty low right now, family
>>7633055
1. yes
2. prevailing in which milieu? (your question is ambiguous)
Is Grantua and Pantagruel worth reading?
>>7632971
sure, if you like Pynchon and Wallace.
>>7632976
wut u meen
>>7632983
if you're immature, and like shit jokes.
I'm pretty new to /lit/, and I'm going to the library in about a week. What should I check out when I'm there? I have Life of Pi and Dune out atm
Start with the Greeks.
Read the Sticky
>>7632939
I've done that and I've browsed around a little, and I've come up with a list of sorts, just stuff that looked interested that I jotted down
The Basics (Ulysses, Infinity Jest, On The Road, etc.)
Borroughs - Naked Lunch, Junk & Queer
Carrol - Basketball Diaries
Eugenides - Virgin Suicides & Middlesex
Gaarder - Sohpie's World
Banks - The Crow Road
Proust - In Search Of Lost Time
Gaarder - Sohpie's World
Am I looking good? I also snagged Malcom X's...
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What poems changed your life, /lit/?
I read Owen in HS and it's really stuck with me, even years later
http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/owen1.html
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174659
Because it's a lomg poem, here's an excerpt from the closing lines:
>Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
>We are not now that strength which in old days
>Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
>One equal temper of heroic hearts,
>Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
>To strive, to seek,...
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I met a man
Only once
For the man disappeared
My blood approved
My soul in anguish
I waged a war
I simply could not win
The war was over
Before the first bullet flew
Why is this trash considered mandatory reading?
>>7632672
Because of our Judaic-feminist overlords
Beowulf is dope???
I don't want to call it trash, but, after reading it I was very confused by the praise and it's supposed influence.
No wonder why the author didn't want his name on it.
What are the local opinions here on Allen Ginsberg?
talentless hack who only achieved notoriety due to the racial nepotism of his kinsmen
slayed boipussy like a champ
![adolf-hitler[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/v0Po9bE.jpg "adolf-hitler[1].jpg")
>>7632465
he was a fag, hence degenerate and hence a menace to white society
not redpill approved
¿Qué piensan de esto?
What do yall think about this? Y-you could practice your spanish.
http://pastebin.com/HAKY0Fk2
Muchas oraciones subordinadas, le falta agilidad.
>>7631743
eso es por usar demasiadas comas, no? tengo el mismo problema
algún consejo?
>>7631756
OP here. Es usar oraciones como "El sujeto, que ya había hecho aquello con anterioridad durante los días pasados en Villadiego, cuando esto y lo otro alimentaban su fogosidad juvenil, la cual, estando en compañía de Fulano de Tal, no podía de menos que poner en práctica, se enfrentó a aquella situación que le traía reminiscencias de su alocado pasado con una mezcla de esta emoción y esta otra". Hay muchas comas, pero no consiste solo en eso.
Yo, personalmente, suelo meter oraciones subordinadas...
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So I just finished pic related, what does /lit/ think of it? Honestly, I'd say I liked it over all. The colloquial writing style was a bit of a pain but I'm glad I stuck it out. It became really rewarding to read through and realise that the protagonist was having amental breakdown. I think I enjoyed it so much because I've been in a similar scenario. I would have liked to see the relationship between Holden and Mr. Antollini explored further though, I feel like that was the beginning of some interesting thoughts on sexual abuse and betrayal of trust that...
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What's with this whiny entitled kid? His life isn't THAT bad, he's rich and privileged and just wanders around complaining. He's not deep at all.
I keep finding myself saying "Jesus Christ, dude, shut up.". Holden is such an annoying whiny brat
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160121110913.htm
Very interesting article.
A lot of the books /lit/ approves of or makes a meme out of are in that list.
What are you thoughts on the possibility that the greatest piece of literary work could now be created using an algorithm if enough time and thought was put into it?
Does this help the case of considering mathematics as objective?
I guess it's not as interesting as I thought.
>le monkeys on typewriters
Hello there, Reddit!
pseudoscientific bullshit
I mean it's from "The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences" what do you expect lol.
also pseudoliterary. you get crap like
>At the same time a lot of works usually regarded as stream of consciousness turned out to show little correlation to multifractality, as it was hardly noticeable in books such as Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand and A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust.
>ayn rand
>stream...
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Quotes that made you cry?
>The return to civilization was for her the return to soma, was the possibility of lying in bed and taking holiday after holiday, without ever having to come back to a headache or fit of vomiting.
>>7629179
I've worked hard to appreciate these little things in life. And now some jerk writer wants to belittle them. Come on.
>>7629179
Why did this make you cry?
"Tearing his eyes from the empty place in the sky where the sun had set, he stopped stumbling back by years and ran, vaulted through centuries.
I read a Chretien de Troyes anthology when I was younger and enjoyed it. By far it had the most realistic depiction of medieval fighting, aka people beating the shit out of each other, but swords can't cut through plate. They've got a spontaneity and authenticity you just don't see in the usual literature. This guy could teach the Romantics a thing or two, and probably did.
Have I simply lucked onto the best of the bunch, or are there more stellar volumes out there waiting to be read?
I'm reading "Parzival" by Wolfram von Eschenbach, and really enjoying it so far.
He's perhaps the most well-known, but other or older works in the cycle are great for different reasons. Gawain and the Green Knight, and this >>7629079
Then you also get the Carolingian cycle... the song of Roland as I remember it is pretty much one detailed battle.
Malory's Morte d'Arthur
Your face when you realize /lit/'s sudden hatred for Thomas Pynchon was started by Pynchon himself
>>7628976
Pynchon is a shit meme liberal cuckold
even dfw is better
>>7628976
Wallace, Pynchon stocks plunging! John Williams and Willy Gaddis's stocks surging! Unemployment still high! Wages still low!
>not applying what you read irl
>being affected by external things
>>7628325
>Implying I can just find faith and solve all my Hamletian philosophical dilemmas in the span of 10 pages like Constantine Levin
It's not that easy.
>>7628325
>tfw read Marcus Aurelius and can now see beauty in the crust of bread
How much of a difference does the original spelling make when it comes to getting the rhythm and pronunciation in Shakespeare?
Answers from elitists only please
(also, any recommended editions with said spelling? free online versions of the older editions have them, but without any notes for the odd word that can't be deduced from context)
>>7620367
>Answers from elitists only please
Shut up retard, the Bard in the first place is a pretty plebeian author.
You should read as many alternate spellings as you can get your hands on.
Is that girl experiencing hair loss?
What's the most 'Kafkaesque' situation you've ever encountered first hand?
When i went to my grandma's and she made me eat so much i didn't know why
I woke up with a doorknob on the back of my head
