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What's /lit/'s consensus on these? The greatest work of modern poetry or just the ramblings of a mad fascist hack?
Both. Really.
>>7353990
>boohooo, he was on 'the wrong side of history' therefore his poetry is shit
>>7354053
/thread
Why are these sentences correct?: Put down the gun/Put the gun down/Put it down
But not: Put down it.
Do you know?
>>7353982
Because the vast majority agree that that wording is confusing and inaccurate and language is based on consensus.
>>7354010
please, there must be a legitimate answer
>>7355480
language is mob rules, just like any human convention.
This fox did nothing morally wrong. Prove me wrong faggots
>>7353973
define "fox"
>>7353973
define "did"
define reddit
>build generation ship
>wipe inhabitants minds of knowledge of their home, and that they are on a generation ship
>why? I dunno because lol
>set course for hundreds of years
>arrive at chosen system
>nobody knows how to depart thanks to memory wipes
>nobody knows how to use the landing craft thanks to the memory wipes
>much of...
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>>7353884
that sounds awful
You again? The only good part in this series is the first half of the first book.
Post good philosophical books and why.
Epictetus - Discourses
Because "just worry about what you can control" is probably lesson #1 for life
Drew Barrymore's autobiography. It's about life.
>>7353734
What Is Called Thinking? by Heidegger. It's short and actually helps you to think. Plus it really makes you want to read Nietzsche (again).
Surely Christopher Marlowe is the most attractive writer ever to have lived?
ouch, checkmate
thanks for playing
>>7353588
you mean Shakespeare? sure why not
not even close friend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04o7urBheb8
really opened up the understanding that kanye is an independent thinker
>>7353537
Can't watch past the first 15 seconds.
made it a minute
good lord
Didn't they write an article some years ago about how they thought Kanye West genuinely could not read?
—Mr Dedalus!
Running after me. No more letters, I hope.
—Just one moment.
—Yes, sir, Stephen said, turning back at the gate.
Mr Deasy halted, breathing hard and swallowing his breath.
—I just wanted to say, he said. Ireland, they say, has the honour of being the only country which never persecuted the jews. Do you know that? No. And do you know why?
He frowned sternly on the bright air.
—Why, sir? Stephen asked, beginning to smile.
—Because she never let them in, Mr Deasy said solemnly.
A coughball of laughter leaped from his throat dragging...
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>you will never be as smooth and handsome as Joyce
big boss?
>you will never shag his daughter
Contemporary authors worth a damn.
What authors currently publishing (either in major presses or in small form/magazines) are any good? We spend so much time reading old works, we can't forget about what's going on today.
>>7353448
Pynchon, Wolfe, McCarthy
>>7353451
>All white cis males.
*yawn*
>>7353482
It's not their problem they're good, white and male. Step up your game, cretin.
>tfw trying to improve my English prose but I keep reading translations, such as Zola's The Masterpiece and Sappho's fragments
FUCK
WHY THE FUCK CAN'T I JUST READ ENGLISH SHIT
I am going to reveal something to you OP. It is a little fragment of wisdom grown over a long period of time. I have fed it well, it is healthy and stable. In dealing with such matters as improving one's English prose, or knowledge of English prose, this little fragment has proven its worth. Prepare yourself, you need to be in the correct frame of mind to receive it. Are you ready? Okay.
Read more English Prose. You can now delete the thread and leave your computer. Happy to help, there is no need to thank me.
>>7353414
What do you think the King James Bible is?
>>7353460
>Read more English Prose
FUCK
ITT: Books that are literally about you
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>>7353349
Intelligent, nihilistic, and with a wicked sense of humor
Is Sam Harris arguably the greatest thinker of our time? It seems his works just become more and more correct as time passes as last night showed.
>>7353342
Definitely. He clearly destroyed Chomsky. An absolute genius. Indeed, he is a miracle.
desu, looks like e-ink leakage, though i know that's dumb
Mold
looks like heat or stress discoloration, but i don't know. what did you do to it? Go ask /g/.
That's a pretty rad effect.
ITT I´ll storytime my favourite /lit/erotica. Obviously it´s adult, so don´t be surprised.
Here we go, Part 1/? of the prologue:
A classic Victorian erotic novel
FORBIDDEN FRUIT
LUSCIOUS AND EXCITING STORY
AND
MORE FORBIDDEN FRUIT
OR
MASTER PERCY'S PROGRESS
in and beyond
the Domestic Circle
LONDON
1905
PREFACE My readers of Forbidden Fruit may wish to know the origin of
the work. It was this way, whilst I was staying at an out of the way
village on the Sussex coast, I used to take long...
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>>7353222
Oh wow, Trips! The Gods of Get have truly blessed my endeavour!
Part 2/3:
I sat down on the bank to enjoy this unexpected voluptuous treat, when
suddenly I was startled by a breathless exclamation of: "That's my
book! Oh, give it me back, Sir; I must have dropped it as I passed
along here, a short time ago, and ran back to find it."
"Your book, Miss. I was just looking to see if there was any address in
it, when I saw what it was about. Excuse my looking, it was done quite
innocently,...
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Fucking Whiteknight!
Part 3/3:
As she came round a little she opened her eyes with the question: "Oh!
where am I?" And catching sight of me holding her hands so tightly, all
her shame returned to her in quite an overwhelming sense, and bursting
into tears, she cried so bitterly, it was a long time before I could
reassure her.
Promising to keep the secret of her book, I only asked one thing, and
that was that she would not avoid me, and allow me to see her again.
This of course led to a close friendship between us; I lent her a
variety...
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Main part, Part 1/?:
FORBIDDEN FRUIT
How well I remember my early days, almost to babyhood when it was
always the care of my beautiful mother to bath me herself every day;
there was also Mary my nursemaid, but when Mamma had to be away at any
time the supervision of my bath was delegated to her sister. Auntie
Gertie, a pretty girl of sixteen or seventeen.
Till six or seven years of age I slept in a cot in my parents' own
bed-room. Papa was a very dark fine handsome man, Mamma equally so, or
much more beautiful to me, had lovely golden...
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Recently read Picture of Dorian Gray - Is this work of fiction considered good? I have mixed feelings about it and would like to know what other anons think about this work and Oscar Wilde in general?
Any other recommendations? Is he worth reading at all?
>Is he worth reading at all?
No, he's a retarded anarchist.
But then again, "retarded anarchist" is a tautology.
>>7353207
It's a very appreciated work from young adults and teenagers that actually read but that's it, in general he is taught in schools so that's why most people get interested in him IF they get interested in him, mainly because they will be transitioning from kids to angsty faggots so seeing that special snowflake of a faggot of Wilde turns them on, other than that he is pretty forgettable.
>>7353231
this.
