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Thoughts? I feel like, putting aside his irrational hate of T.S. Eliot, he is the most-correct modern critic.
Also, Harold Bloom general.
well he did discover that Shakespeare INVENTED the HUMAN for chrissake
love Bloom <4
Who will defend the Canon when he dies pals??
>>8204989
I will, don't worry Anon
Do you need to college to study literature to become a genius writer?
What the fuck do you study in a literature major?
Sound like basically doing history of literature courses.
>>8204699
You don't need to do anything but write to be a writer. You certainly don't need to go any specific school.
Literature majors study literature. They read lots and lots of books and texts, often important ones, and get some critical insight to them from lectures and assignments. This all seems fairly straightforward.
>>8204699
>Do you need to college to study literature to become a genius writer?
No, but it helps
>What the fuck do you study in a literature major?
literature, and the composition and history of it.
>>8204730
do they learn how to write or that is basically creative writing courses and workshops?
Is there any merit to this? I just read 100 pages of a drunk man doing drunk shit and going to work.
>>8204693
In a word: no.
What you see is what you get with Bukowski. He was just a vaguely disgruntled apathetic drunk prole who wrote about being that.
>>8204713
That's boring. Why is he so popular?
>>8204790
easy to read, easy to relate to if you're a drunk fuck up, seems literary to people who don't know much
he also kind of sneakily writes in his poetry and books in a way that creates a 'you, reader, and me we see the world as the shit hole it is! no one else gets us! let's drink to it' bubble that's especially appealing to teens and immature adults (men, he has a lot of women fans but I think most are under 25)
thoughts on WWTAWWTAL?
I thought it was meh. why does everyone speak so highly of carver?
short story general thread!
anyone read Somerset Maughams short stories?
did someone say short stories?
He had a bad editor. It's not his fault.
Dislike Raymond Carver. Love Robert Coover.
is it weird I imagine the Judge (left) and Glanton (right) like this? Except long hair for Glanton, and fatter and bald for Judge.
Is this a stealth homo thread?
I can't imagine Glanton standing side by side like that, seems like he's on horseback or partially illuminated by a bonfire most of the novel.
>>8204669
it was really just my way of showing how much JJ Watt looks like the Judge, fuck the little guy.
Have you prayed to-night, Desdemona?
otello in the cut thats a scary site
>>8204611
Why are you sacred?She is ripe for the picking
>>8204609
what's with the hyphen, buddy?
Have anyone here read Ovid's Metamorphosis?
How was it like? What are your favourite parts?
I liked the part where the guy turned into a deer then his hounds ate him
>>8204544
that bookshelf would be a cool furniture piece.
>>8204544
what are those things on the shelf
So, I'm dumb and I got myself a copy of Anna Karenina without translated french phrases. Is there some site where I can look them up?
>>8204522
>So, I'm dumb
we can tell
google translate you mongoloid
please delete this thread.
>>8204522
Google it nigger
I was watching Shirobako. a show about people who work in animation, and a inbetween artists mentions that you can either develop quality or speed, and that while quality is something you can learn with age unless you focus on learning speed you might even become slower with time. I think that also applies to writing, very few authors have great prose and speed to produce new works. Usually thos two oppose each other. I don't think shit authors write more because it's easier, I'm sure they'd be better if they could but they didn't take the time to learn...
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Did you get to the part where Midori talks about reading Dostoevsky?
Also, I re read after posting and I sort of fucked up some words and sentences. I'm sorry.
>>8204510
If it's just a mention yeah, it was just mentioning she liked him so it could had been any author.
I was sort of surprised with Psycho-Pass actually quoting authors and discussing arguments and counterarguments. You usually just see some cover of a book that somehow connects with the plot but without someone discussing it there is no real interpretation to make, it's just "look, this two things are...
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>>8204503
good lord, did someone photoshop her face a la "woll smoth" memes or is that her actual face
Where do I start?I've read the Greeks you fuck
Kant -> Schopenhauer -> Nietzsche -> Darwin -> Ludovici -> Stefan Molyneux
Have you read all the Greeks, little one?
>>8204501
The Romans.
I don't understand what is wrong with postmodern irony. Isnt the opposite what we have today? A culture that takes itself too seriously where the "big picture" is obscured by self importance? Like without david Letterman we get jimmy fucking fallon. Where did all the funny-mean people go?
>>8204469
Because it's used as a catch-all shield against criticism. When you're detached from what you're saying because everything is buried under 14 layers of irony, you and your actual opinions are safe from judgment
>>8204486
Maybe I dont really understand irony then because pynchon and delillo and letterman all seem to have clear statements about the world despite being ironic.
>"indescribable" used as a description
I heard Groucho and Eliot bung each other while Pound leaned back in a rocking chair taking notes on Eliot's form. Groucho made a joke that Eliot had found the wrong hole and called Tom a Faaaaaguh.
>>8204683
This sounds right but the way I heard it Groucho was meatspinng Eliot while he had him doggy and asked why he wasn't going up.
Anyone else getting more in touch with their Cioranite nihilism?
>not accepting absurdism in its fullest
>>8204464
>absurdism
Another form of leap to faith that likes to deny that it is a leap to faith desu. I used to be a huge absurdist until I realised this, and read Kierkegaard.
It's obvious Camus really didn't understand Kierkegaard.
A Short History of Decay is a good book.
Modern day Cicero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPbDONLZwXQ
>>8204445
Cicero didn't achieve his ultimate goals.
Farage did.
>>8204456
His goals go far beyond leaving the EU. The necessary purge of London is going to be much harder to achieve.
>>8204445
>vid related
why's he copying Bernie Sanders' stage movement tho?
I fell asleep twice in the prologue of The Stranger. I wouldn't say it's a boring book, I literally just can't stay awake reading it. I'm always really sleepy anyway and it's hot as hell. And reading about sleep and heat basically pushes me over the edge. My mind goes blank somewhere along the page and sometimes I have to start anew half a dozen times, because it makes me so god damn tired. I'm trapped in a delirium.
Anyway, there's an 3:30 hours audiobook on Youtube about it, that seems legit. Does listening to it would give me the same...
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Audiobooks are boring to me and usually slower than what I read at.
I record them, but I don't know how people can listen to them.
BTW, if you want free books written by shitty authors, a large number of them upload the entire book in the audition section of ACX for some reason.
>>8204400
I'm currently listening to the Dune series, pretty good tho.
