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>tfw mom grounds your will to power
powder*
>>7621311
what
>>7621311
>tfw mommy laughs and makes fun of you when she sees that you are posting on/lit/ again
Can someone tell me what is up with "Infinite jest"? I mean it's number 1 on list of /lit/'s favourite books. Is it a meme or is it that good???
sincere baiting nice. a new meta.
>>7620503
Pls this is not bait
>>7620496
The Venn Diagram that displays whether infinite jest is a good book/a meme book is a circle.
Sup /lit/ looking for experimental narratives and structure. It can be ancient text or graphic novel or anything in between. Bonus points for mind fuckery.
Read some surrealism if you want to go in hard. Like Aragon or Breton. Paris Peasant is one I've got lined up, I've taken a peek and it looks like banter madness.
Conrad's The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' blends first and third person narrative.
DOG'S
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>>7620050
Didn't aragon do the poetry about a girls cunt (literally?) I like surrealism but I wanted something more meta, I remember this short story a few years ago where the character had multiple personalities and the reader became one of them
Have any /lit/izens been academically unexceptional at English, whether at school, sixth form, or degree level? Like, even though they read widely and assiduously, only getting average or just-above-average marks?
Is academia a good judge of reading ability?
Academia teaches skills, not processes. You don't truly learn how to read in the intuitive sense, just what the education board thinks will work for you. Most teachers are also shitty at what they do and don't know how to evaluate students placements correctly. The only decent education is saved for elites to place their kids in private schools.
>>7619893
In short, the only way to really be good at reading and language arts is to have your parents teach you from a really early age good vocabulary and reading you sufficient books, not dollar store shit. I believe this was the only way I ever was educated. I started kindergarten early and was always proficient in Lit classes.
>>7619873
if you suck at degree level than you probably just suck at literature.
high school/sixth form/etc. evaluations don't mean much.
Recommend me a book on hiccups.
>>7619761
Who is this cum guzzler?
>>7619772
Patricia Highsmith
cutey eh
>>7619772
i can imagine her lips around my cock
glorius sss
All right I've seen so much talk here about how riveting this book is that I have to read it now.
What translation do you recommend?
Penguin, Buss translation. Cheap and great and unabridged/uncensored.
>>7619539
seriously just read up to the time skip and then make up your own last 700 pages. this novel is serialization bloat to the max.
>>7619740
What is going on in that picture?
>mfw plebs try to name any country with a greater literary tradition than Ireland
England
>>7619133
/thread
>The OECD Adult Skills Survey shows that 17.9% or about 1 in 6, Irish adults are at or below level 1 on a five level literacy scale. Ireland ranks 15th out of 24 participating countries. At this level a person may be unable to understand basic written information.
https://www.nala.ie/literacy/literacy-in-ireland
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/zen/mumonkan.htm
>>7618842
>http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/zen/mumonkan.htm
Who's reading this?
>>7620752
I tried
>>7618842
>'entangling your eyebrows with theirs'
Mu!
Am I doing it right?
