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I'm almost done with "Down and Out in Paris and London" and I really enjoy it. It's the first Orwell book that I read, and I'd like to read another when I'm finished with this one. I was thinking about The Road to Wigan Pier or Coming Up for Air.
Thoughts on these two ?
Have you read homage to Catalonia yet? Recommended
>It's the first Orwell book that I read
>>8082846
Forgive me, it's been a long day
Do read 1984
Hey /lit/, can you recommend books that deal with loneliness? Thanks
have you thought about starting with david foster wallace? dumb fucking bitch
>>8082795
Yeah, ya bish
Anita Brookner- Look at me
ITT: We describe normal, everyday actions in the most cryptic way possible
>>8082604
I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies.
La puerta aparece delante de mí. Un coloso orondo me espera sentado en con aire de dios displicente. Sólo distingo sus gafas y su bigote antes de bajar la mirada para ofrendar el acostumbrado sonido metálico, fría brevedad preñada de resonancias rituales. Tomo el papel que se me ofrece como testimonio de la ofrenda, lo doblo furiosamente y lo repudio sepultándolo en mi bolsillo seguido de una hilera de fieles. Comparto su callada humillación. PandapandapandapandaIgotbroadsinAtlantatwistindopeleanandtheFanta. El aire frío me vuelve a dar la bienvenida.
The primal creator is a feces-mailer.
What pieces of writing were forever seared into your memory the moment you read them?
For me it's the parts in V. where Pynchon talks about the Namibian death camps. It's so fucking vivid and such a contrast to his typically goofy self.
>>8082564
The Cana of Galilee chapter from The Brothers Karamazov
>>8082564
the sewers in this book tbqh
and the nose surgery
>And the answer, said the judge. If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creature could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet? The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day. He loves games? Let him play for stakes. This you see...
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I have a couple of ideas of what this poem is about, but I wanted to see how you guys interpreted it just to be sure i'm not interjecting my own views.
GO, my songs, to the lonely and the unsatisfied,
Go also to the nerve-wracked, go to the enslaved-by-convention,
Bear to them my contempt for their oppressors.
Go as a great wave of cool water,
Bear my contempt of oppressors.
Speak against unconscious oppression,
Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative,
Speak against bonds.
Go to the bourgeoise who is dying of her ennuis,
Go to the women in suburbs.
Go to the hideously wedded,
Go to them whose failure is concealed,
Go to the unluckily mated,
Go to the bought wife,
Go to the woman entailed.
Go to those who have delicate lust,
Go to those whose delicate desires are thwarted,
Go like a blight upon the dulness of the world;
Go with your edge against this,
Strengthen the subtle cords,
Bring confidence upon the algae and the tentacles of the soul.
Go in a friendly manner,
Go with an open speech.
Be eager to find new evils and new good,
Be against all forms of oppression. 25
Go to those who are thickened with middle age,
To those who have lost their interest.
Go to the adolescent who are smothered in family—
Oh how hideous it is
To see three generations of one house gathered together!
It is like an old tree with shoots,
And with some branches rotted and falling.
Go out and defy opinion,
Go against this vegetable bondage of the blood.
Speak for the free kinship of the mind and spirit.
Go, against all forms of oppression.
Nope.
"Do u ever get mad and frustrated about THINGS?"
*stops Linkin Park music*
"YEAH"
*adjusts ear gauges*
"WELL BOI MY POETRY IS FOR U"
>>8082429
i thought the poem was mocking marxists, interesting that you see it as linkin park-tier
Any books that closely follows a hitman?
I know the things you never see! You never see a really tall fat Chinese guy with red hair! You never see a guy walking down the street reading a book that closely follows a Hitman!
No Country for Old Men
Then again, seeing as how that book is literally just a reformatted screenplay, you might as well just watch the movie.
>>8082556
>Book published 2005
>Film released 2007
Do you ever consider all that has been written? Then, consequentially, discount the value of recording your own experience?
I know the answer is 'just write, even Kafka hated his own writing, etc' but this question seems to become more and more relevant. Is there too much communication? Maybe we need a period of silence.
>gillian anderson was 25 when she was a TV star
>I'm 42 and never accomplish anything
if everything has been done before, why not just kill yourself?
art is hedonistic, fuck other people
>>8082269
this basically, but OP
Unless you find pleasure in writing, don't write.
The chances are if you treat it as therapy, a hobby, whatever, you will produce something of value for yourself, whether its to see how far you can take your imagination with language or just to dump the existential weight you've been carrying around for years. If you have close friends that aren't bored to death of you talking to them about whether or not your experience has any value and that you're just human...
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Is Anthony Kenny's 'new history' the best overview of western philosophy at the moment?
>>8082089
Is it?
>>8082089
Yes, it is.
I've read some pertinent critique to its first volume. It's not in English though and I can't be bothered to translate it.
Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom.
>>8081955
Is that his actual quote? No way.
idk if it's a quote, but it's a way to equality between social classes
>>8081958
>>8081966
To George Sand:
Axiom: hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom. But I include in the word bourgeois, the bourgeois in blouses as well the bourgeois in coats. It is we and we alone, that is to say the literary men, who are the people, or to say it better: the tradition of humanity. (10 May 1867)
What are the best novels that take place in an alternate history?
>>8081662
...Shocker?
>>8081672
it was what canadians felt when the usa occupied them :^)
>>8081681
lol stupid canadians got rekt
I'm doing a little experiment. I've posted this already on /co/ and /lit/, and I want to see how 2 completely different boards with different preferences will tackle the question. You can take it as serious or as comical as you want, I just want to see what will become of the end product (if there is any) is all
Let's play a little game
You are the head writer for a brand new series. The series itself is about a Superman-like character.
He is fast, strong, invulnerable, able to fly, and can shoot energy from his eyes
The only...
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>>8081393
Super commie realizes that he is eating form the trash can, and the name of the trash can is ideology.
>>8081393
He is immortal. He has always been. All he seeks is a way to die. Eventually he befriends a ghost who fucks him up his own dick
>>8081393
He rules the world and concentrates all efforts and resources into finding a way for him to die.
Probably a long shot, but do any of you guys have high res scans of the dust jackets for these? I got them all cheap, but the dust jackets are terrible beat up. Or a place to get new ones.
I keep mistaking these for exotic packs of cigarettes
>>8080993
They do have that kind of paper tint.
>>8081098
your smell, how is it? emparadado? you piece of shit? IT'S FUCK TO YOU
anyone know where i can steal this book?
time for the daily "how do I buy W&M without selling my kidneys" thread
you can't except by pure chance
Drive a hundred miles.
>>8080783
Get an electronic version.
Man, I really don't want him to die.
Anyone wanna look up when his dad and granddad died so we can ballpark this? Maybe get a pool going? A basket of bananas for the winner?
>>8080453
Pynchon will probable pass his title to a certain talanted friend of his, so that we will never know of his death.
Ok his dad lived to 88, we have about another decade to go
Comments on this?
death is an unfortunate side effect of life and especially of living fully, for
when you live life fully, and by that i mean to its truest, courageous entirety,
that is when your death will become truly unfortunate.
there has never been a truly grand man who did not consider his own legacy beyond
death, for a man can not achieve greatness without preparing for his fame post-
passing. how can someone who is great spend so much time to consider and plan their
life, that they somehow forget to plan for the...
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>>8079839
Who wrote this garbage? Sounds like something an emo 13 year old girl would write after cutting herself.
p good, keep it up OP. made me think
>>8079839
Why did you post a picture of what I assume is yourself along with this garbage?
>useless punctuation
>shit structure
>content is meaningless
0/10
