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Hi /lit/, could you recommend a good biography of Nikola Tesla? It's going to be a gift for my uncle. Thanks in advance.
>>7575471
Bump 1/2
>>7575471
Final bump 2/2
>>7575471
He did write an autobiography and a book about his inventions
Recommend some visions of damnation? Already read The Inferno, I'm looking for something vivid to really put the fear of god in me.
>wants le edgy hell and suffering and damnation
>doesn't read purgatorio and paradiso
>doesn't realize the way to god is by love and not through fear
P L E B
>>>/REDDIT/
Baudelaire's poetry (specifically The Flowers of Evil (even more specifically Les fleurs du mal)).
>>7575461
why are you being such a bully
>>7575458
fuck off plebbitor
What does /lit/ think about solipsism?
>>7575404
another rationalism, therefore another nihilism, destroyed by pure empiricism. the trick is to notice that you do not control what you do not control, but equally what you think you control...
>>7575404
/lit/ - literature
It's dumb.
Are there any modern (as in beginning of the 19th century to now) Chinese or Indian authors or works worth looking into? Conversely, what are some good pre-modern Japanese works?
No.
/lit/ only reads white men, mainly dead.
>>7575367
No. Really.
>that traffic section in ch24 of The Pale King
THIS IS MADDENING
MADDENING
AAAAAAAAAGH
Stop being so obtuse friend :^)
I started reading the Pale King today. I listened to an interview with the editor who compiled the book from Wallace's notes and they said some parts of it simply hadn't been edited enough, while one of the novel's main themes is boredom some parts are so boring that even the editor thought Wallace just didn't get around to cutting certain parts out. So if a part seems excruciatingly boring you could *probably* just skip it
>>7575339
>Reading the book DFW killed himself to and expecting it not to drive you to suicide
Well memed, friend.
so is literature just shitty philosophy with a bunch of pretty language around it to make it seem more profound?
Only according to plotfags
>>7575284
Nah senpai, literature is pretty language with some philosophy around it.
>>7575284
i think about this all the time
like all the great novels are really just dozens, or even potentially millions of encoded messages meant to be translated into the readers internal language
like virginia woolf intentionally wrote her novels in order to convey a message about the way the mind wanders, and the manner in which we place emphasis on certain things and how a single moment can sometimes capture a persons entire life in microcosm.
and so its like, she knew all that shit, and then wrote...
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Does anyone have a link to that story he wrote about superman fucking Lois Lane so hard it kills her? I think it was published in The New Yorker.
>>7575215
1) It was a poem, not a story.
2) No extant copy is known to exist.
>>7575222
>No extant copy is known to exist.
>No existing copy is known to exist
>obnoxious numbering to no purpose
Imagine if instead of The Princess Bride, Columbo had decided to read his grandson something like The Story of O? The Sleeping Beauty trilogy? Fifty Shades of Grey?
"Is this a kissing book?"
>>7575052
Yes, what if?
What if Neitzche had been Polish?
What if David Foster Wallace had worn melons on his face instead of glasses?
These are all examples of questions that do not need to be asked. Not only do they propose investigation into an idea that simply does not matter, but they also are not insightful or humorous in any way. These, friend, constitute what we here on 4chin like to call "shitposts".
>>7575146
that is imagination.
has anyone even somewhat notable ever been confirmed to have browsed lit? Do we have proof of tao lin, mira, or even pinecone?
Ben Brooks comes here to shill Lolito every weekend.
It is I *sniff* Slavoj Zizek, and so on. *pulls shirt*
>>7575034
i fucking asked tao a question on his website about a response he made on the kcrw bookworm podcast and he never responded and then turned off questions on his website a day later. that makes me feel like he's a punk ass bitch
For some reason, I love books with giant otherdimensional insectoid monsters slaughtering people.
Right now, The Mist is arguably in my opinion the best insect monster book out there. Do any of you know anything that can one-up it?
idk much about warhammer but i think they have something like that
The Mist suck like u ass.
Read the Lovectaft essay "The Supernatural Horror in Lit.." a guide
>>7575005
The Mist is heavily influenced by the works of Lovecraft so you should definitely look into his bibliography. I would start with At The Mountains Of Madness.
>muh boipucci
you sound stupid when you talk like that
>muh hamed
>>7574909
Hahaha nice one :)
Hey /lit/,
I'm looking to expand my literary background, and I've decided that the Bible is a pretty important text to read. The problem is that I'm not quite sure which version to get.
I don't really mind whether or not it's annotated, but I think that I'd be better off with one that is. I'm not looking for one that has either a Judeo/Christian viewpoint or an atheistic viewpoint, just one with that tries to point out literary/historical/archeological/cultural significance. Also, I know that a lot of euphoric persons tend to...
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>>7574889
Shameless self-bump
Greek interlinear?
>>7574916
Thanks, I didn't initially consider getting an interlinear. That might be a good idea, but I'm looking for a copy with the Old Testament as well, not just the New Testament. Idk if there are any interlinears containing both the Old Testament (Hebrew/Aramaic) and the New Testament (Greek).
I guess I should clarify further, however. I'm looking for one with more notes and references, considering that my historical background it a bit lacking.
What do you think of the monomyth?
Have you ever incorporated it into personal writings?
Considering the term's relation to Finnegans Wake, you'd think people would give a fuck on this board.
>One never knew after all, now did one?
Why did he cut the extra two "now did one's" in the official audiobook (read by himself).
Is it possible this was originally a misprint? Did he change his mind post-publication because it sounded pretentious?
Or was the audiobook recorded first, and extra added later (like in the pale King)
Also; what did he mean by this?
Link: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kOOasQ6rbk0
idk mayne but dfw has the best audiobook voice ;)
>>7574929
I don't think I'm alone in having listened to every sentence he had ever muttered on YouTube. Hours and hours worth of beautiful vocals
I just learned from my mother that when I was only a year old, I was taken on a hike to Mt. Olympus. Impervious to the esthetic and a general philistine, my parents failed to recognize that I was smiled upon by the residents of that holy summit and now that I have learned of my true heritage and understand my destiny all the better, I come to you for recommendations.
I would like to read works from those superior beings that involve mortals being blessed into greater paths then they could tread without the intervention of the gods. Something along the lines of Ganymede.
>>7574830
>GanymedeHomo
if this is an elaborate hook up thread saying "i'm not just a faggot, i'm a bottom', kudos, OP
otherwise, read the fucking sticky
>>7574830
are you coming out to us, op?
