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My sister's current bedstand book
Thoughts?
>animals & women
>"&2 as in "and"
>implying that women are any different from animals
>>8090984
McElroy memery has finally gone too far.
What would you prefere in your in your sister's bedstand: The Fault In Our Stars or this?
So I was reading through Martin Esslin's list of plays that embody absurdism.
I thoroughly enjoyed pic related Waiting For Godot. However, I can't for the live of me figure out why he picked it as an example of relativizing absurdism.
What am I missing here, /lit/?
A girlfriend
>>8090978
Relativizing in what sense?
I suppose I would understand it in that the play changes from moment to moment between a perception of whether the events going on have profound meaning or are simply absurd.
Compared to the early surrealists and Dada movement in which the aim is present a breakdown of all meaning Beckett seems to rather have a sort of impressionist approach. I would struggle to call Waiting for Godot an absurdist play at all, it could be interpreted to forward a Camus type absurdist philosophy...
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cool
Was Saint Paul more instrumental than Saint Peter in laying a foundation for a universal Christianity? From what I gather, Saint Peter at first rejected the idea of baptising non-Jews.
>>8090915
Theologically yes, but in terms of establishing a hierarchy Peter is more important.
And the two did disagree on Jews and gemtiles thing where Paul obviously won.
>>8090915
He brought autism into Christ's message. Which is necessary to succeed.
>>8090915
Peter receives a vision from God essentially telling him it is okay to spread the word to the Gentiles. Then, he baptizes Cornelius the centurion. So he was pretty much on board
>semicolons
>>8090866
>image.jpg
>italics
inb4 some edgelord uses a semicolon
Fathers day is a few weeks away, June 19th, and this year I'd like to gift him a book.
He doesn't read much of anything, and his interests include golfing, watching UFC, and collecting alligator themed knick-knacks.
So far, I've been thinking something from Raymond Chandler, an early Tom Clancy, or looking for a quality bibliography of a golf man or popular MMA fighter.
What are some good Dad books in your opinion or from your experiences?
>>8090814
The Sexual Revolution by Judith Riseman
Orthodoxy by Chesterton
Political writings of Thomas Aquinas
Stoner by John Williams
Divine Comedy by Dante
>>8090814
my dad would probably appreciate a book on peter paul and mary, or simon and garfunkel, or some other musician he liked during his time.
He would probably want a national geographic subscription too, maybe. He liked to read books like self-help ones. Like how to impress your boss, management stuff.
He wasn't really a big reader though
I mean there are billions of fathers in the world, you probably have to pick based on his own bookshelf
Maybe get him some power tools? I'm kindof...
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>>8090814
>He doesn't read much of anything
Then don't buy him a book, dumbass. Buy him something he will enjoy.
Jesus Christ, the autism on this board is off the charts.
When I get high, I write better and read better.
Should I just get high all the time when I write and read? I feel like I'm cheating if I do.
>>8090781
Do whatever works nigga, of course its your own, no writing ever simply comes from a man in a vacuum anyway, its always a product of the nexus of our associations, relationships and drives that are developed from external influences
>>8090781
You should kill yourself
Is Hopscotch Ulysses-tier when it comes to difficulty? Is there anything I need to read before?
Nothing, it's actually a very easy and comfy read.
It in no way resembles Ulysses
>>8090747
Es muy bueno y tiene muy bonitas frases. Bastante romantico y artistico.
I have no idea how they could translate that chapter full of made-up words.
Why is Shakespeare so famous?
Have you read Shakespeare?
That's why.
Why are people like you on /lit/
He wrote great poetry and created a lot of memorable characters.
Lets give this a go, we could really do with more close reading on /lit/. Write a paragraph discussing in any fashion you like about the last chapter/sit down with book you're reading, fiction or non-fiction and your take of it.
Hopefully we can get a more active thread going instead of a bunch of short lived threads of similar close readings.
I've just read Part Two Chapter IV of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, I'm starting to believe the character of Raskolnikov killed the old woman as a way really of making sense in the world of his own experience...
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>>8090707
Does anyone find it weird that both Raskolnikov's and Nietzsche's fathers died at an early age, and Nietzsche famously went mad while seeing a man beat a horse the same as Raskolnikov's dream of the beaten horse? that they both have very much the same temperaments, ideas, and the proneness to sickliness and madness? that Dostoyevsky's works seem to have been preemptive, premonitive admonitions against Nietzsche's way of thought, against some way of thought he saw shaping up in the modern world ...
>>8090745
>at an early age
(as in, when their sons themselves were young)
Good observation OP
Cart leading the horse, in a way. Trying to rationalize one's feelings of alienation and coming up dry; committing a forbidden act in order to reconcile the feelings w/ reality.
Is this the worst book ever written?
no, this is
Bru i have owned a copy of this book for five years, and i vave never got past the first chapter. Currently. I decided to read it, but even though i have carried it with me every where i have gone for a week, i have not read a page.
Is it worth the time?
I'm 80 pages in.
>3 different sets of characters have been described as looking like they're "running from something- probably the law"
>narrator can't think of a way of explaining why he likes someone without saying that the person is "mad"
>needless namedropping
>symbolism in the security guard passage was totally transparent
Kerouac is a really lazy writer, at least so far. Why do people like this book?
>>8090617
Dude beats lmao.
The only one of them worth reading is Burroughs, but even then you have to like reading about rectal mucus and such for him to not get old right away.
stinky poo poo butt
>>8090733
So does the acclaim of the beats basically just boil down to them being proto-r9gay?
Completely ignoring any sort of religious shitflinging, the Bible is pretty well-written.
>>8090602
Well obviously, your religion doesn't sweep through and convert the entire Roman Empire without force without it being a damn good story
>reading translations
>>8090602
Yes, not a religious man myself, but it is a great work.
>Among those 602 people, the average correct score was slightly lower at 5.76.
>A total of 76 people at top universities, including Oxbridge and the Ivy League, took part and fared little better.
LMAO, I knew it, Dickens is utter shit and everybody knows it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2297869/
>>8090597
>602 people
That's not a sufficient sample size and really only enough to write a clickbait article about, nothing more.
Dickens is shit though
>>8090597
Dickens is famous for being a shit prose stylist. Retarded test.
>>8090597
>plebs fail to recognize the difference between a pleb work and a great author
Colour me surprised
And yes "prestigious" Uni students are still plebs
What is /lit/'s stance on audio books?
>>8090509
"Depends"
>>8090513
On what?
>>8090509
Sign of the Apocalypse
I dont get it.
So glad I know that now.
"Achieves notable heights of cosmic fear" - what kind of description is that? Imagine "succeds at making me adequately horny" written on the front of erotic novel.
>>8090501
Ja, heil
