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Is there right-wing surrealism worth reading? Is there fascist surreal literature?
I've been told fascists saw it as an aberration as a general rule. But I imagine there must be something interesting out there. I am not looking for anti-communist surrealism, like I found in Bulgakov because that seems to be very easy to find.
anything
why are you such an edgelord
>>7601204
>fucking replying to me when you have nothing to contribute to the thread
never do it again
What is /lit/'s opinion on prose?
There are different explanations (words not in verse, words in best order, etc).
Is there some specific order to arrange your words, so as to be widely accepted?
Do you have to use as many obscure old archaic words as possible?
Do you have to fit as many double entendres as possible in a sentence /paragraph?
What is purple prose? What is pink prose?
I guess a prose thread.
Give examples of your best prose, possibly a paragraph long, on any topic, others judge your ability.
With all the talks of shit prose, for this, and purple prose, for that, I thought you guys would be experts.
Seems like i was mistaken.
Read Moby-Dick, Lolita and Blood Meridian. They all have great prose but are very different. There isn't one formula for good prose. The answer to your questions are yes and no.
>>7601032
>i come ro lit to shitpost
Which stories in this are absolutely top tier/must reads? Perhaps a better question is, are there any that one should avoid/not bother with? Just got finished with the Aleph, my top five so far are probably "The Library of Babel", "The Lottery of Babylon", "The Garden of Forking Paths", "The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths", and "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius".
Also general Borges thread.
>>7598634
They're all god tier. I don't think you should avoid any. Not because it's good to read but because all of the stories are so good.
>>7598636
OP here. I would tend to agree with you so far (minus a few stories that just didn't catch to me personally, but objectively I can respect). I think I'm just starting to fatigue from reading the same themes being elaborated on (mirrors, labyrinths, infinities). Might try to find something to read alongside it.
Just read them yourself, you lazy cunt
Should I buy this book, family?
>>7607712
only if you want to read it, i guess.
>>7607712
doesn't look like literature
Just read Camus' - The Plauge.
Much better.
Share with us some of the obscure literary factoids you know
My dad roomed with Steinbeck Jr. in boarding school.
Rilke needed money pretty badly so Wittgenstein patronized him for a while.
Hemingway clocked Wallace Stevens in the jaw and made him cry like a bitch
Talk shit, post lit!
Last one at 3 hunna
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_NDHXc_oHFHsuwza4jtPOc_B0f-c2mPRzA3AN2HEpxE/edit?usp=sharing
Here is a short story I recently finished.
I walked to the street
Walking just walking
Until I fell
Then there was no more street to walk
>>7593982
not bad
What's the best translation of 'The Idiot'?
Do you think you're an intellectual?
>>7606482
>yeah
>not if you're reading translations lol
Nice try, nerd
probably Polish or Czech or whatever
Hello /lit/. I'm searching for any sites I can use to download my textbooks. Most of the pirating sites I use come up blank for what I'm looking for. Are there any sites /lit/ would recommend?
Another anon here, I'm also looking around for this. Fuck paying those exorbitant prices.
Imposing pile, reared up 'midst pleasant grounds,
The scene of many a battle, lost or won,
At cricket or at football; whose red walls
Full many a sun has kissed 'ere day is done.
>>7606286
responsibilities cool-/but there's more things in life
like getting your dick-/rode all fucking night
So I've been listening to some horror podcasts and they all have stories of HP Lovecraft and his Old Ones, Ctulhu, Yog-Sothoth, TharyysJarkUlghar the hundred headed goat and the likes. That shit isn't scary at all.
This is some shit that he wrote
...There is life eternal within the eater of souls. Nobody is ever forgotten or allowed to rest in peace. They populate the simulation spaces of its mind, exploring all the possible alternative endings to their life. There is a fate worse than death, you know...
How is having "a fate worse than death"...
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How peculiarly unimaginative you must be.
>>7606121
>How is having "a fate worse than death" supposed to be scary?
Look, when you actually arent in front of your screen writing this stuff and you actually face something that can kill you you will be scared. It is a normal reaction in every living creature basically.
A fate worse than death would be a state where you would rather not exist than experience that forever.
Stop trying to be so fucking edgy.
>too autistic to appreciate basic horror
>completely missing the point
Tips on reading this?
>>7605816
Open the 'cover' or outer layer of the book away from the pages from the opposite side of the hinge or 'spine', proceed to interpret the signs of the pages into words, turning each page over as you exhaust it.
Then if you really want to read some critical analysis of it on the internet or something, the book itself is fairly self explanatory.
>>7605816
Open it first.
>>7605816
Hesiod is pleb trash. Read Homer instead.
Okay /lit/ make connections using Cuckoo's Nest. Text to Text, World and Self. Go.
just write you spent a month or two in the funny farm
they cant prove you wrong
>>7605708
I'm not doing your fucking homework.
I 'm looking for marketing books that include guides to make plans, manuals, briefs or anything that can be delivered to the customer . What would you recommend?
Talmud
>>7605671
Might have better luck on /biz/.
https://www.warriorforum.com is what I used to use for above ground stuff, they were pretty happy to oblige, and blackhatforums is what i used for spamming advertisements.
Marketing literature is useless because it is mostly theoretical.
>>7605681
Already asked in /biz/ and had no luck, but thanks a lot!
>you will never master the Apolline and Dionysiac forces
>you will never create beautifully ordered drama upon the primordial Oneness of world-spirit
>you will never match the universal artistry of Greek paedophiles from two and a half thousand years ago
Why write?
>>7605338
What makes you think you can't?
>>7605368
Modern man is fractured and cannot achieve the great holism that came naturally to the Greeks.
>>7605338
>mfw reading TBOT for the first time after being used to late Nietzsche
>dramatis personae spoils the plot
>>7605178
fuckin spooky, desu famalam
>>7605191
i'm scared to click pls tell me what happens
>>7605490
nvm i clicked.
officially SPOOKED
;__;
