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Musashi.
Yojimbo.
Bigukoku Sukito.
Reading this aloud feels like freestyle rapping.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HgCjtd2iPU
deletethis
>>8090278
Man, he goes all out on thunderwords.
So why the fuck was he executed in the end?
>>8090251
i can't tell you if you won't co-operate. it's out of my hands.
>>8090251
My perspective is that it was an ultimate libidinal payment.
Kafka was being torn about by his own feelings of guilt for his experience of estrangement and the burden of labour expected by him throughout his life as a young male. Its not so much the execution itself that mattered but the experience of an impending execution that overshadowed him.
LIKE A DOG!
>heh, nuthin personnel kid
that last line is genius.
What does /lit/ think of Lady Chatterley's Lover?
I thought the writing was occasionally shit, too much telling and not enough showing, lazy summing up of adjectives etc, as if the text wasn't rewritten enough.
For example:
>"[...]she said, with startling abruptness, looking into his eyes with her big blue eyes. His big blue eyes took on a the frightened look of a man whose social conscience is not quite clear.
(four paragraphs later)
>[...]looking into her father's eyes. They were...
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>>8090201
I would always hear praise for Laurence and after finally trying out Lady Chatterley I could not go through with it. It feels like college level writing, but maybe his themes and overall structure of the book is good. can anyone confirm?
>>8090201
"Sons and Lovers" was his only readable book - and just barely.
>>8090350
Themes are interesting but mostly all on the surface, not a lot of structural problems. But yes it's college level writing?
What is nothing?
>>8090092
what girls feel 4 u
>>8090092
I am the Creative Nothing.
Who are some good East Asian philosophers these days?
>east asian philosophers
>"chingu chong risten to elders, fight for emperor-san, randomry decide what to do today based on I Ching divinationu"
don't waste your time
>>8089998
racist and erroneous
>>8090007
Nah its pretty accurate
Hi /lit//, i need some help.
I've started to read more frequently a few months ago, but i don't know many good books.
Can you guys list to me a "starter pack", or just a good book, please?
Thank you, and sorry, english is not my first language (but i can read a book).
>>8089959
You need to read the best book.
I prefer this
>>8089959
Read the sticky(the first thread on the board) there are a few links for starting out
The cover of Walden which features Henry's sister's illustration.
or these:
ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51qXBG5ZW1L.jpg
covers.booktopia.com.au/big/9780099140016/demons.jpg
>>8089923
Never knew hitch was so edgy.
>>8089993
i'm failing to see why it is edgy
I'm at pic related. Trips decides what I buy.
Bolaño's 2666
Actually fuck it, dubs decides
a nook so you can stop going there
Ate there any worthwhile books that take place in this city?
>>8089873
Revelations.
>>8089904
I don't get it
>>8089904
It's not plural you bum
I can't read this book because English is not my first language.
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ever since the beats, poetry has either been black people (poorly) imitating Langston hughes and maya angelou, women writing about feminism in a "quirky" and "ironic" way, or white people pumping their work full of lazy references to other writers.
pretty sure I sound snobbish here, but I haven't found anything good except for the remaining beats and new York school poets, and their days are numbered (Lawrence ferlinghetti is fucking 98). are there any young poets (millennials, 30s, 40s) who are as good as, say, John Ashbury?
>>8089475
Дaшeвcкий.
>>8089475
Neil Hilborn is pretty decent, but I'm not sure if it's what you're looking for.
>>8089475
I really like Mexican modern poets. But you really need to choose who you read. Most of these people don't write for a living so they do it because they really feel it.
What´s a good book to get started with Meditation/Yoga/Buddhism? Went so a book store some days ago and it´s hard to tell what´s actually good.
The Dahmapada (I don't really know how to spell it)
>>8089441
what the buddha taught by walpola rahula
>>8089441
yoga sutra of pantanjali, and "passage meditation" from eknath easwaran
You enter in your room and see these gentlemen.
What do you do?
*fart*
>>8089305
call the police
Slowly back away then turn 360 degrees and sprint as fuck as I can then turn around and around the block, take a left, when I see the dentist then I know to take that road then I enter my house and order a pizza, go down stairs and come on 4chan.leg and write about my near death experience and how I saw these gay men.
If you wanna change the world, why do you study English literature or the humanities/liberal arts and not economics?
Since your great thinkers agree it's all about the way that is organized. Well... Why not study that?
>>8089081
>If you wanna change the world
who said that
>>8089081
Eh, I study economics, and, with the exception of finance, it's the same as humanities: useful fables with zero predicting power.
>If you wanna change the world
If there is one thing I've learned it is that is a fool's errand.
