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so why the fuck did this pussy lie about the downsides of inherently beneficial herbs?
>>8067365
DUDE
clarification: i mean weed
he was infinite jesting
"Remember that life is made up of loyalty: loyalty to your friends; loyalty to things beautiful and good; loyalty to the country in which you live; loyalty to your King; and above all, for this holds all other loyalties together, loyalty to God."
Queen Mary (of Teck)
Can we have a monarchist book club? We'll vote on which books to read first, but before that we'll nominate, so name whatever monarchist literature (philosophical, poetic, fiction, whatever) you would like to be on the poll, and when I get another thread up in a month or something,...
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kys
>>8066999
*kiss*
kys
where to start with samuel beckett, namely his novels?
>>8066671
Start with Godard. Don't ignore his plays, you pleb.
>>8066680
Already read and watched it, that's why I asked about his novels
Because you know that's what I want to read now
But thanks
>>8066671
Read his trilogy in order, they start off "easy" and get progressively harder. You should have a strong familiarity with Joyce to begin with
t. Irish English graduate
What is the deal with the story in the Bible about Jesus cursing a fig tree so that it may no longer bear fruit? What is the meaning of that story? For what purpose does it serve? And why would Jesus curse the tree? The tree is not a sentient creature and is not responsible for its actions. why Jesus, why?
Get out of here, fig lover.
Jesus doesn't like Fig Newtons.
Apologists would probably read into it a metaphor about how one's "spiritual life" must always bear fruit, even when it's out of season (out of vogue or uncool according to the times and society) or be damned and die. Some really long reach like that.
You can make of texts whatever you like.
It was honestly probably just included to show more of Jesus's amazing Sigfried and Roy magic tricks that're proffered as proof of who he was.
How'd I do /lit/?
>>8065378
>stack of books
>The Doors
The CD booklet doesn't count, m8
17 year old, why can't you plebs have some originality, fuck. You might as well be buying YA cause you'll never go beyond what you have.
What defines a 'stack'?
What historical literary/philosophical scene would have been the coolest to have been a part of?
>>8064079
criminal libertinism
>>8064079
Does she have a brother? If so, he must be cute as fuck omffff <3<33
how to sex a girl like that?
Have you guys ever published anything before, whether professionally or for free?
>>8063018
There are a couple of memesters here who keep spamming their self-published books, if that counts.
>>8063018
i have 1000 word short story that was published in an anthology.
i got a free copy of the book and $20
>>8063018
>for free
Post the underrated books you know!
The Good Soldier Svjek by Jaroslav Hasek is criminally underrated.
Otherwise: Les Dieux Sont Soif by Anatole France, Nostromo by Joseph Conrad, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and anything by Flann O Brienn that isn't The Third Policeman.
Anything non-meme essentially.
>>8059131
I really want to read that one anon. But the libraries around here doesn't have it, and I'm piss poor atm.
Life is suffering.
I'll throw in Eduard Levé - selfportrait.
daily reminder that the analytics are the worst people around.
>>8056096
Yeah I totally get where that guy's coming from. Russell seems like he hates everything and just wants to come up with a "rational" reason to make people uncomfortable.
>>8056106
Analytics in essence. Corruption of the mind.
>>8056096
>assigning arbitrary values of "good" and "evil" to human actions
There's absolutely nothing wrong with hating other people.
Is anyone familiar enough with Henry James's late fiction to know whether it'd be better to start with The Ambassadors or The Wings of The Dove?
just read them in order. fuckin christ
Depends on what you mean by "better":
-Chronologically, Ambassadors was "written"/dictated before Wings but published after.
-Ambassadors is an easier read and shorter.
-In the New York Edition, James himself put Wings before Ambassadors.
>>8071442
Well, I believe he wrote The Ambassadors first, but published it after The Wings of the Dove. I assume you're arguing that I should read The Ambassadors first, then. Thank you for your input!
> In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
>you will never read a line as good as that ever again
>>8071392
Try my diary
>>8071392
>reading translations
>>8071392
>>you will never read a line as good as that ever again
you could just read that line again if you wanted
Can you pinpoint a book that has directly affected your life. In terms of your general attitude, or general outlier on the world?
>>8071316
useless thread, check the catalog
l'étranger - albert camus
>>8071316
catalog plz
>At Barnes and Noble
>The sci-fi section is next to the Romance section
>Decide to look into the Romance books
>Literally every book's cover is either a shirtless dude, a woman in a fancy dress, or a dude and woman kissing, and everyone without exception or variation is white
I didn't realize the cover game was so homogeneous.
>falling for the love meme
Women lack imagination and artistic discernment and, in the free market, their book covers will reflect that
>>8070864
mate i get bombarded by shitty romance novel ads on my kindle. all generic as fuck but the descriptions are worth a chuckle
Anyone here versed or interested in epics of Ancient India?
The Bhagavad Gita sounds pretty cool.
>>8070431
Interested but never really knew how to begin
>>8070431
what's that story with the guy who's lined up in a battle getting ready to fight his brother and he starts to question what he's doing and why all this is happening, how he got to the point of killing his brother, and then some deity manifests and explains that the true nature of reality is a grinding grinning bloodscream and that to fight and kill and win is what the whole damn thing is about.
what was that one again? I remember reading it years ago but I can't recall the name.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/20/11718266/blood-meridian-cormac-mccarthy-film-adaptation-unfilmable
Let's have a debate on literary adaptations. Would you rather a film be faithful to the book or would you rather the film be well-structured and maybe less faithful? How unfilmable is literature? What examples do you consider unfilmable, outside obvious choices like Finnegans Wake? Which adaptations are better than the source material?
Will Franco fuck up Blood Meridian like his other McCarthy adaptations?
> I ask /lit/ more about...
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>>8070424
>well-structured and maybe less faithful
This. Definitely. But it also depends on the adaptation, a lot of great movies have been made that stand completely independently from the books they are based on, while others try to gain reputation by standing in the shadow of the book. These films will almost always fail and disappoint.
>>8070424
>article
>intriguing
damn michael haneke was on standby to direct it? and franco got it? tf?
