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'A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where...
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That's a bit more than a "line" you shiteating fucksnapper.
>>8193050
What's wrong, bud?
>>8193063
I don't have enough whisky.
>I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies.
When I first read this I immediately knew DFW was a genius. He could have very easily just written 'I am seated in an office, surrounded by people,' but that would have been too easy for someone with DFW's sardonic postmodern wit. Instead, he challenges us readers with a bizarre yet accurate phrasing of such a seemingly mundane scene. DFW recognized the absurdity of language conventions and accordingly held no reverence for them. I know Camus would have broken a grin...
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>>8192936
>>8192936
do the same with the first phararaph of lolita pls
>>8192952
>Doritos, light of my life, cheese on my fingers. My hunger, my munchies. Do-ree-toes: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Do. Ree. Tos. It was chips, plain chips, during lunch, weighing one-point-eight ounces in one hand. It was Nacho Cheese for snacks. It was Cool Ranch at school. It was Salsa Verde in the shopping line. But in my mouth it was always Doritos
How are these books still so good? And they're still fairly popular as well too even with the current batch of kids (although this series does have a following of adults as well!) What makes warriors so appealing and able to stand the test of time?
It's talking cats there ain't shit to explain nigga.
I love Warrior Cats. It's such a magical series of books, and easily one of the only worthwhile products of all twoleg culture.
>>8193212
This
I absolutely adored the books as a kid. I only read four or five of them, but they were great. Among the books I'd give to future young'uns. Harry Potter and Watership Down too.
Watership Down is kinda similar to Warrior Cats if you guys haven't read it, but with rabbits instead of cats. The writing is a bit more mature I think, but definitely readable for an elementary kid.
Hi /lit/,
I consider myself redpilled since browsing /pol/, but as I still enjoy reading I'm asking for some recommendations.
I'd ask on /pol/ but they're mostly too illiterate to read anything but infographics.
I'm looking for nazi literature, if such a thing exists.
I've already read mein kampf, enjoy listening to hitler's speeches, and have watched a lot of propaganda videos.
But is there anything in terms of a nazi plot and characters, that glorifies a nazi world, or which laments the degeneracy of Bolshevik influence...
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>>8192707
Awful bait. Next time try to frame it as less outwardly confrontational and belligerent, and it'll be less obvious.
good meme thread, you really triggered this guy >>8192714
>>8192714
>t. Roastwhore getting triggered by Pepe pic
You have to go back
Can someone circle the darkest and most mind fuckiest books on this list?
>>8192586
I'm not going to circle them for you, but I'd say Dogra Magra, The Blind Owl and Dark Spring are top for being of both those criteria.
>>8192647
thank you!
Can someone tell me what the most abstract books on this list are?
was he right, when he said that all writing is pigshit?
>>8192557
i dont know who he is but i like that guy
>>8192557
Edgy translation tee bee haich.
He was right though it's all trash.
Honestly, yeah.
Theatre is prostitution though and all actors and miscellaneous theatrefags need to be put back-bound, put inside a pile of tires and set on fire desu
what is the absolute best plot in any work of fiction
Your picture
>>8192549
Finnegans Wake
Coleridge said Fielding’s Tom Jones, Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex and Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist
Lit Im horney and I need to pump.
I', into light fixtures and welding. Please provide excerpts I can pull it to, whether yours or stolen.
Takk
How many levels of irony are you on right now?
Heres an example of what made me go last time for inspirotion, written by my friend Michel
>Flors is at the stall. He looked at a light fixture. His cock was toilet paper white and pale light. He pressed against the warm red bulb and it heated the gonads. In an instant, a seed shot blew from his cock over the entire light fixture. To his concern, he found his sperm chain had joined the metal, forever.
>>8192566
9
My name is Gjurd BTW
I also like clavicles
>"Tao Lin simply does not know how old he is already and how young he is still going to be.” - Harold Bloom
So the world's foremost literary critic can see talent in Lin, but he's not good enough for the carnival of pseuds formally known as /lit? Hilarious.
>Harold Bloom
>So the world's foremost literary critic can see talent in Lin
That's not how I read that at all kek
>>8192533
that quote to me seems as if he's calling Lin immature
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Through algebra, you can prove that Hamlet himself is the ghost of his father, and that his grandson is Shakespeare's grandfather.
Care to share this equation?
>>8192528
http://www.columbia.edu/~fms5/ulw09.htm
ffs /sci/ this is why we never take you anywhere
Been into Bukowski lately. Are there any other writer who has the same style as him that I should check out, especially poets.
>>8192435
Beatniks.
You might also like Kurt Vonnegut though
>>8192435
If I had such plebeian tastes, I'd unironically kill myself.
>>8192462
If I was you I'd kill myself too
What's the /lit/ equivalent of this?
Like reading a Tom Clancy thriller in Bulgarian where you have to stop every word and look it up in a Bulgarian<->English dictionary.
Some bad translation of a good book.
Shakespeare's four great tragedies (or maybe some Racine's works?)
>>8192538
Fuck you
I need books that I am going to put on my e-reader while travelling through China for 2 months.
Basically I'm looking from short stories to medium-sized novellas that are rather easily digestable (so I'm avoiding Dostoyevsky or Stirner and the like).
I would love to read stuff in the trend of Fear and Loathing and A Clockwork Orange, but as I said, anything goes really as long it has a good vibe for reading while travelling in the summer.
Any suggestions?
>inb4 John Green
>>8192347
Rum Diaries obviously. But you really won't do much reading, trust me on that. Travelling and reading don't go along all that well.
>>8192354
Well I'm learning Chinese simultaneously, but I'd love to read as well on those 20+ hours bullet train trips.
>>8192347
You can just admit you're a pleb if you'd like and i can give you YA recommendations.
What is the /lit/ equivalent of this?
Lurking.
I'm interested in any equivalent this may have too.
>>8192323
I assume OP means something that would teach you how to write or read critically
when did infinite jest become casual reading for the uninitiated?
When it became popular
Apparently it isn't considered genius if it popular.
It's your fault for spamming it here
I'd be willing to bet the majority of people who aren't literature readers don't finish it.
