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I just finished Kafka's The Trial. It was excellent.
What are your interpretations of it? Does anyone have any recommendations to any quality articles of its analysis? thanks and go fuck yourselves
Not sure what htat picture is supposed to be of, but I guess that's because I'm a virgin.
>>7561912
Pink Floyd, The Wall
What are some good books to read when you're feeling lovesick?
I think avoiding plots with romance (or even women) really helps. It's good to remind ourselves that the greatest experiences in life don't need to revolve around women.
Re-reading True Grit was awesome after a breakup.
>>7561829
I'm not so much looking for books that alleviate the feeling. More books that deal with or contexualize it, especially feelings of uncertain or unrequited love.
>>7561834
Then I'm going to suggest A Sentimental Education. Frederic the protagonist falls for a the wife of another man, and spends most of his life yearning for her. A marvelously subtle theme in the movie is his failure to build his own identity. It suddenly reminds me of something I just read about internet addiction, that the addiction is less about the internet itself, and more about lacking an interesting life besides it.
Also it's fucking beautiful. I can never read too much of it in one sitting, because...
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ITT: Post underrated works that's never discussed on /lit/.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_Montanus
> and goes on to "prove" a number of absurdities, such as relying on argument from ignorance to prove that his mother is a rock.
I'm sold fåm.
PEER. Jeppe's right there, certainly. That was a little foolish. It is just as if I were to talk Greek to the bailiff, to show him that I understood the language.
JEPPE. Do you know Greek, Peer?
PEER. Why, twenty years ago I could repeat the whole Litany in
Greek, standing on one foot. I still remember that the last word was
"Amen."
JEPPE. Oh, Peer, it will be splendid, when my son comes back, to get you two together!
Pretty good so far.
This is almost like /lit/
JACOB. Oh, he looks mighty learned. Rasmus Nielsen, who drove him, swears that he did nothing all the way but dispute with himself in Greek and Elamite; and sometimes with so much zeal that he struck Rasmus Nielsen in the back of the neck three or four times, with his clenched fist, shouting all the while, "Probe the Major! Probe the Major!" I suppose he must have had a dispute with a major before he started out. Part of the way he sat still and stared at the moon and the stars with such a rapt expression that he fell off the wagon...
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It's partially a rip off of American Psycho and features an autistic Patrick Bateman
"T-thanks for the chocolates Cindy," I stammer, grinning in a forced, sheepish, slightly moronic manner. "Oh my pleasure," she replies, placing her delicate hand on my knee, her crimson red nail polish causing me to lose eye contact with her emerald green eyes and stare down at her hands. "Perhaps we can do lunch sometime?" she asks. "S-s-saturday at 4?" I manage to blurt out. "That sounds great, I'll see you then" she replies,...
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As I enter the elevator in my apartment building, I suddenly recognize the other man in it. It is the actor, Leonardo DiCaprio. "Aren't you that actor?" I automatically ask without hesitation. With a significant, exaggerated, loud sigh, he looks up and simply nods, his blue eyes meeting my gaze. He doesn't open his mouth, but his face is saying a thousand words. His mind is racing. Who the fuck does this guy think he is? Can't he just leave me alone? Doesn't he know that I recently bought the penthouse and don't want to be pestered by every...
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Is this your diary
>>7561697
A little but I swear I lost my virginity at 16 to a consenting female.
anyone go from thinking this guy was full of shit to reading his stuff closely and thinking there might be something to it only to go back to thinking he is full of shit
Rorschach test unfalsifiable edgy garbage.
profoundly incoherent
>>7561104
That wasn't the point. The point was he was inverting traditional philosophy and examining what the result of it might be.
Blast from the past 2016 slam poetry thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6CCePrJlaU
>>7561029
>pretentious presentation
>wahh us women are persecuted and objectified and men are evil and have high standards
>dude adultery lmao
>all in a SLAM POEM
YOUR NEW EMPIRE?
>>7561029
She really does have good blowjob eyes...that haircut though holy fuck
>tfw you frame and incite conflict among your family members to see how they react to get ideas for your writing
I'm telling Mom.
>tfw summer is all year on /lit/
>>7560700
Actually summer I probably the best here because you don't get dumb students making "just finished _____ what did you guys think about it" threads
Where can/should I submit poetry to be published?
I write in basically all forms, but mostly write prose fiction. I've have had a few short stories published, but by some stroke of luck, my poetry has been atypically good in the last few weeks.
I have a couple of poems that I think are good enough for publication, but since I'm effectively new to poetry, I don't know where I should send them off to. What are some magazines or journals that are currently accepting unsolicited poetry submissions?
>>7560562
there's so much shitty poetry out there that even the best magazines print it. There's probably maybe less than half a dozen good living poets right now, so really, there's no competition. If you want to publish you can.
Publishing isn't the concern of a poet. Writing poetry is. You can either look to be a published poet or first look to be a poet. Up to you.
Post a poem.
>>7560739
>Post a poem.
I'll add this: if you post it, I'll tell you in detail why your poem isn't up to par and you have years to go before you're a good poet, if ever. I'll give you a few paragraphs.
>>7560739
Way to not answer his question
Are his writings worth reading, or "dude weed" incoherent hippie trash?
the latter
Alan Watts is similar and more respectable
>reading about hallucinogens and not experiencing it for yourself
Also t.mac is a wank...honestly there is no /lit/ from that era (excluding perhaps "One Flew Over...")
>>7560521
What are you looking for?
hallucinogens?
try Doors of Perception, Electric kool aid acid test, or anything by PKD
hippy things?
try Drop City
>when a patrician sees you reading plebshit
>e-reader
>patrician
>>7560262
>patrician
>those shoes
he had one job
>e-reader
>patrician
I'm going to a bookstore later tonight, any recommendations?
I have very few physical books right now so anything is welcome.
>>7559901
Summa Theologiae
Gold Fame Cirtus by Claire Vaye Watkins
Not on Fire But Burning by Greg Hrbek
Seveneves by Neil Stephenson
The Water Knife by Paolo Bachigalupi
Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
>>7559901
Grab a bunch of Penguin classics.
Fourteen Byzantine Rulers
Is it correct to say that in order for the Nietzschean Ubermensch to obtain moral autonomy 'beyond good and evil' he should live his life as if his existence was a work of art?
>...and that's when I realized I was finally beyond good and evil.
FRIEDRICH YOU FUCKING HACK
>>7559600
stfu noob, übermeansch is a spook
Nietzschean Ubermenschen are invariably sociopaths. If you have any sense of morality or empathy, you can't be "beyond" good and evil. I know I'm not, and I'm not ashamed to say so.
/lit/, how does one get into an ivy league college school of law? What can I read to make me stand out?
Pic related: my current read.
If you're serious: toss all the fiction, read LSAT prep books.
if you want to boost your iq, read less borges
Be black
I just read this and I have to say it was pretty good for what it was.
>>7559166
>reading for pout
>>7559183
what/
>>7559183
>not reading for pout
fuck off, newfag
What r sum GOOD books for people w/ baby brains?
infinite jest
The Stranger
Siddhartha
Tolstoy
Blood Meridian
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Dubliners
>forget the glass slippers, this princess wears running shoes
The layers within this single image...
