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>write opening sentence
>its shit
>rewrite
>still shit
>rewrite again
>even worse
Speak for yourself heh
>tfw every sentence you write is a perfect encapsulation of your innermost thoughts
>tfw able to weave complex literary, mythological, and philosophical allusions into a rich multi layered narrative without sacrificing accessibility or brevity
>tfw your prose is usually lucid and unembellished, so once you lull the reader into a false sense of security you hit them in the dick with prose so visionary and poetic there hasn't been a single person whose read...
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>>7476890
Cool?
>>7476897
>in a shitposting thread
>decides to take a reply seriously
Stop breathing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange
How is this book? Read yes/no?
Im just "wtf" at the snippets of the movie clips ive checked out. What should I be prepare myself to read this book?
>>7476405
watch the movie first
dude uses slang and all sorts of words that if you're not prepared for or an expert context clue soul, it'll piss you off to no end
movie is better than the book anyway
prepare for
>hyperviolence
>rape
>rape
>violence
>ol ludwig B
>>7476405
>movie is better than the book anyway
kek
Cover art reminds me of this guy
Is eastern philosophy overrated?
>>7475964
it's a narrow field
but no
uh no, in fact it shits all over western rationalism that has been obsoleted by science.
>Eastern """"""""""""""""""""philosophy""""""""""""""""""""
Breathe, and carry me away- take my hand in yours, and pull me to the velvet sky above.
As comets whir past our interwoven ascension.
Let's mix our souls together, and know we're as old as the heavens themselves.
There is no end to us; for we are of the universe, and therefore- eternal.
Momentarily, we are wondrous, resplendent constellations.
We are each a marvel to be beheld: each and all a speck of light.
But you; your light, jetting through celestial clouds, found its way to me.
It passed through a splintered...
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>>7475654
i like it. i think in places it's a bit heavy handed but that's easily fixed.
pretty good
Just finished this novel.
Does Charly Gordon die like Algernon?
>>7475254
Wondering the same thing.
My impression was no.
this book was trash 2bhwy
>>7475254
No as far as I know.
He became retarded again.
It's a nice little book.
Lets go, lads.
Any of the Wordsworth Classics series.
So, I was reading the Meditation chapter of The Bhagavad Gita and it mentions sitting upright and concentrating on Krishna?
I thought meditation was just focusing on the breath, how are you supposed to do the meditation described in the Bhagavad Gita?
>>7475103
You might have better luck at some hindu forum.
There are many forms of meditation. Focusing on breath is just the most popular. Hopefully someone more learned than I can help you, but there are many types with different purposes and methods.
>>7475103
Any kind of fixed attention exercise can be called a meditation or yoga
What are the benefits of being well-read?
Culture and historical references, a more versatile vocabulary, and I'm tempted to say a quicker wit and thought process.
>>7481571
a smug sense of superiority pervading your every action
>>7481571
Understanding the more subtle shitposts on this board.
yo /lit/ whats the best book
>>7474326
Finnegans Wake, now fuck off and read the sticky.
One of these
>>7474340
>Plato
lol trash. The meme trilogy needs to be at least somewhat contemporary, pleb.
What's your opinion of Ezra Pound's Cantos. Setting aside his own judgment, that they were a complete failure and a waste of time, and even ignoring the high praise and scathing criticism he received for them from his contemporaries, do you think they're worth slogging through just for those few pearls that people have plumbed from their depths?
Also, just for context, my friend and I are trying to decide on a New Year's Resolution-type of reading goal. Last year we got through À la recherche by early March.
>>7474227
Also, sorry for that apostrophe. I swear I didn't mean to type that.
I've read most of his poetry, but not the Cantos. Based on the quality of his versification and his mind, I decided not to read the Cantos.
Take that for what it's worth, I guess. Many people who have read them say it was worth the time. But then, anybody who has read all of Finnegans Wake will probably tell you the same thing. Or the Bible. It's hard for people to judge how well-spent their time was. The people who feel their time is being wasted never go all the way through.
>>7474227
They are obscure, difficult and long. Apparently they are good if you can understand them. I couldn't.
There is enough great poetry out there that I don't mind missing out on the cantos.
I enjoy T.S. Eliot, which is similar in style to pound (from what I hear).
What are /lit/'s thoughts on the following contemporary French authors?:
Jean Echenoz
Paule Constant
Jean-Noël Pancrazi
Lydie Salvayre
Jérôme Ferrari
Gilles Leroy
Jonathan Littell
François Weyergans
Pascal Quignard
Patrick Rambaud
Andreï Makine
Pierre Combescot
Dominique Fernandez
Pascal Lainé
Georges Conchon
Béatrix Beck
Sorj Chalandon
Pierre Michon
Vassilis Alexakis
Alphonse Boudard
Frédéric Vitoux
François-Olivier Rousseau
Pierre-Jean Rémy
Patrick Besson
Camille Bourniquel
Robert...
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Il suffit d'un seul auteur du siècle dernier pour tous les enterrer, ce qui est assez triste.
C'est fou ce que la littérature est mauvaise de nos jours en France.
>>7474088
>contemporary
>French
>>7474162
Yes. That's what I'm asking about.
Post your to-do pile
/lit/ decides what you read next
read IJ and keep two bookmarks, one for the footnote page and one for the regular pages :3
its v comfy
>>7480966
read dunces, my man.
Finished Dubliners this week and finishing up Crying of the Lot 49 right now.
Post local equivalent of famous writer
>polish Tolstoy
finnish joyce
>tfw he will never be translated
>the English Proust
>brazilian joyce
>tfw I give a girl a book to read
>she doesn't read it
Do I need to give them shorter books or something, or do they need to have a female protagonist?
if it isn't a romance book or a cookbook they won't be interested. Just ask her to come over for netflix and chill
>>7479792
>netflix and
Sorry, but I'm not a mouth-drooling consumer that needs to watch television with a girl in order to get laid, pussy
>he interacts with people irl
>be a sophomore in college in the mid-2000s
>intern at a literary website
>assigned to survey all other literary websites and compile them into a spreadsheet for future linking/best practices reference
>find out about HTMLGIANT, Big Other, and 3 AM Magazine
>3 AM Magazine has cool weekly roundups linking to good old writers and punk bands, but HTMLGIANT and a few writers on Big Other really grab me
>regularly keep up with both websites and in the process, get hooked on alt lit
>watch Tao Lin blow up as a literary phenomenon
>watch Marie Calloway temporarily blow up in a similar way
>other people related to Tao Lin like Megan Boyle and later, Mira Gonzalez, have their 5 seconds of fame
>alt lit scene exciting as hell, the literary movement of the 21st century, making literature relevant for post-post-modernists
>all of a sudden, SJWs attack
>VIDA study enrages women writers when they see concrete proof that men dominate the field
>HTMLGIANT ripped from within and outside by women writers
>HTMLGIANT closes under pressure in fall of 2014
>Tao Lin accused of statutory gay rape around the same time
>alt lit veteran Elizabeth Ellen, of Hobart, writes essay defending Tao Lin and others and wondering why human beings aren't allowed to be complicated and problematic in the internet age
>EE is viciously attacked for her essay and takes a break from social media
???
>summer of 2015, EE returns to Tumblr of all places, with her don't give a fuck about SJWs attitude
>find out that she hosted a reading at her house for Tao Lin and Mira Gonzalez after an individual at the bookstore where the they were supposed to read complained that they felt uncomfortable with them reading there
So is alt lit dead or not? Is it even more of a circlejerk scene now that I have no chance of finding out more about unless I stalk them like with EE? Did any website rise up to replace HTMLGIANT? Or is my only hope for reading more posts from Blake Butler just regularly checking VICE for his column?
rip HTMLgiant you sweet prince :(
afaik nothing else has risen in the place of htmlgiant, but there's a few things that seeb=n they have potential
>>7479651
>>alt lit veteran Elizabeth Ellen, of Hobart, writes essay defending Tao Lin and others and wondering why human beings aren't allowed to be complicated and problematic in the internet age
sounds pretty cool, is her work any good?
>>7479688
If you like trashy stories about breakups/sex/drugs/rock&roll, you should check out her short stories. She does a lot of flash fiction too.
