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just finished the Xmas eve party chapter. how, without the guide, we're we to know exactly what Anselm did with that razor blade.
>>8142557
You know, it's also possible he shaved his hair bald to become a monk.
Anyway, the serious answer is the subtle references and building up of it throughout the story. The reference to Origen, that worthy father of the church, who castrated himself to be free from impure influences. The metaphors of the phallic flowers (orchids = derived from Greek word for testicles) being snipped as if it were castration, a cutting down of youth in its full bloom, in the part where Otto's in South America. The general assholery and cynicism of Anselm which, tragically and comically, is the result of his obviously very troubled personality. Just my take on it.
>>8142557
>Xmas
Very very good goy!! You don't need religion! It is for weak minded idiots! Vote for big guv 2016 we will take care of you! To
State your case
>>8142552
Faulkner is sexier and also less gay; therefore, he is better.
Sup, femingay motherfaulkners. Any of you interested in licking on my ballzack and sucking my dickens? You can play around with it in your mouth as if it were a tolsToy.
Hemingway? more like .... femingay.
Help i did too much pot
>>8142552
Hemingway is a good writer because he is an honest writer.
Faulkner succeeds at the art of the written word because he bursts forth with what you might call honesty, not because he is talented simply and not because he has been well studied and not for the sake of artifice not even in such a way as Southern writers have pretended to burst forth with honesty for so many generations prior but for the sake of his human heart.
![1956-MOBY-DICK-012[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/UfrRh41.jpg "1956-MOBY-DICK-012[1].jpg")
![Hemingwaysun1[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/G73BCWY.jpg "Hemingwaysun1[1].jpg")
When does this shit get good?
The whole novel revolves around the atmosphere of the settings and the character interactions, both of which are prevalent fairly early on.
Might not be the book for you my man.
>>8142359
when it's over
>>8142359
Fishing scene
Say what you will about the N-God, call him a fedora tipper, call him a meme self help man, but can anyone deny his influence on the greatest artistic minds of the latter half of the 20th century?
Why is it that so many 20th century artists, politicians and other major cultural figures were influenced by the writings of Nietzsche (and Schopenhauer as well) and so few by the likes of Hegel and Kant? Shit the only one I can think of who was big into Kant was the Unabomber.
>>8142351
really makes me think
>>8142351
Kant is extremely difficult to read and his primary body of work is autistic epistemology.
Hegel is an obscurantist hack.
Schopenhauer and Nietzsche write in easily digestible styles (nothing to inspire some cunts like a bunch of aphorisms) and speak to topics more relevant to everyday life.
I remember how excited I was to read about Sherlock doing battle with James Moriarty, only to find out he was half-assedly shoehorned into all of four stories.
>completely regular mystery
>it was a Moriarty all right!
Whenever a book builds up to the protagonist achieving his sexual desires only to dismiss the action with "we had sex" or "afterwards we..."
Just... Leaves me empty. I don't know what I even expect.
>>8142280
Yes. Still, i can't hate Arthur; The Mark of the Four and the Baskervilles's Hound are two great stories
pynchon
>Kékkek Kékkek Kékkek!
Yet, though venissoon after, had dust a buttended, ails what tongue coddeau he this?
thx 4 rare joyce
Got any more?
>>8142290
this
It's a laugh like "hahaha" but with frogs.
>>8142290
Rare? It's from the most famous book by Joyce.
Anyone read this? What did you think?
I didn't read it.
I think it's a good book.
>>8142105
I'm reading his best of right now and I hope his novels are as good as his shorts.
Bests:
Death of Dr. Island
Forlesen
The Recording
Fifth Head of Cerberus
>>8142105
I have. It is his best self-contained novel.
>https://reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/4mqaio/i_attached_about_4000_books_to_my_living_room/
This is the most redarted thing I have ever seen
has he read them, and why, he can't reread shit now.
>4 gaylords of books
>>8141967
looks like most of em are shit books anyway. no loss.
How can a non English major learn to analyze texts at the depth that English majors do? Do I have to read literary theory and to apply it to my reading? Where do I start? I've always enjoyed reading and have read quite a bit of lit in my days, but wanted to see if I could take my reading even farther.
yes. learn theory.
you're going to get a bunch of community college dropouts who will try to tell you there's nothing you learn in uni that you can't learn as an "autodidact." they are almost certainly retarded. ignore them.
>>8141920
Don't "learn theory" but read some critical texts. Read some essays.
But the biggest thing is to take one text and to reread it a bunch of times. Even just one in-depth reading of something will make you read more attentively in all other things.
consumes enough /lit/, do they eventually becomes not a pseud? Seemed like the case for even the late great william gaddis.
fake it til u make it
>>8141730
>If people read a lot, do they become educated?
>>8141730
Define pseud. (unironically asking, in order for the discussion to make any sense)
>"Ah, gosh, Anon, you're reading a history of the Peloponnesian War? Where did you learn your Latin, old chum?! Oh..."
>>8141589
I studied Latin at a prep school and then at a private New England university. Don't look at me like that you limey fruit.
In a 4th year mixed graduate/undergraduate seminar on the Crusades one time, this PhD student in one of the most rigorous Latin-teaching Medieval Studies programs in the entire world was pontificating about how the Iliad was written in Latin
I had to sit in a windowless fart chamber for at least three dozen hours with him and a bunch of people identical to him
I hate university
>>8141596
Presumably an Aeniad/Illiad mix up?
I do think that A Maze of Death shows what life may be like at the reconstruction or the continue of the progress after the declaration of Christianity certainly the negative or undesirable interpretation.
I like cheese.
we need more connections with eachother ( as christians)
>>8141544
>when a cow licks your head
Why isn't everyone attaching a link to the book he/she is talking about?
Is it some kind of a board rule / is there an understanding about not to share books at this place / or are people just lazy?
Dumping an .epub file at some file hoster isn't a really complex thing to do.
I'm just wondering...
Just search for the PDF on Library Genesis, are you really that lazy
Not everyone is a digital cuck like you.
>>8141457
Sure... that site exists. But woudn't it be more comfy to just link the specific book?
>tfw no Lovecraftian gf
>>8141395
do you love providence, ri because you love him?
>Tfw no average looking gf
>>8141395
>tfw you will never have a lovecraftian bf
>you will never have your boyhole and soul molested deeply and tenderly by his beastly tentacles
