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ITT: People who have never read Ulysses tell us what happens in the book based of what they learned from /lit/
>>8046132
Wait, there's literally people here who haven't read Ulysses?
literally no idea because no one talks about books, they just argue about whos taste is better in pure ad hominem
Stephen Daedalus spends a day bootin' around Dublin and making kooky references to the Western Canon. That's all I got
How can I organize theater plays into highly complex plots, as twisted and contorted and intricately satisfactory as a Rubik’s Cube?
I have good ideas for comedies, for example, but I don’t know how to orchestrate the whole thing. Is there a way of putting things on paper and slowly organize the web of plot tentacles and character relations into a resolved and pleasurable puzzle?
Yeah. Why don't you try that last thing you typed.
>>8046067
Okay listen, here's how you do it, you write cues referring to each act of each play you've got under your arm on little bits of paper that you then apply using tape on the little faces of your here cube, with transparent tape so you can read them (you don't need to tape them very well the faces all stay on the surface so the bits of paper will be perfectly safe); then you dip it in whiskey and cum. Add some jokes for the comedy part.
>>8046075
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Be honest, you're anonymous, do you consider self-publishing to be REAL publishing?
my local indie bookstore has a self published shelf, it has been in the exact same untouched state since at least 2011 when i first went there, so yeah if you yelled the words of your book out the car window youd reach like 20 more people than self publishing ever would
No.
>>8045950
Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" changed the world.
Is the reddit/4chan dichotomy just another expression of Nietzsche's understanding of the Apollonian and Dionysian?
Is 4chan the ultimate expression of a Dionysian community, all too human humanity, stripped away of the Apollonian veneer that society seeks to place over it?
Yes.
>>8045774
that's exaggerated but you've got the gist of the thing.
>implying we're not all just décadents
![butlerdidit[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Gv3Kmya.jpg "butlerdidit[1].jpg")
So, where did the whole "the butler did it" thing originate from?
It's the biggest dead unicorn trope (meaning, it's a trope that never existed in the first place) there is, but if it never actually happened in any mystery novel, then where did it come from?
>>8045696Brothers Karamazov
>>8045696
Brother's Karamazov used it, such a contrived hack move.
I thought the meme was that the gardener did it and I always suspected the origin to be some sort of Miss Marple detective fiction
Is it normal to continue reading young adult books if you're no longer a young adult?
>>8045596
Its literally normal for adults to buy fucking colouring books these days, normal is nothing respectable
>>8045596
It's normal, and that's what should distress you.
"Normal" is a spook.
I got a gift card for my birthday for amazon for 25 bucks from one of my relatives. I was thinking about getting these books. My one concern, is that while I want a deep and meaningful experience, some of these books will be unreadable. Is there anything you would substitute these with if you are looking for something extremely meaningful, but still readable from cover to cover?
If Zarathustra is your first Nietzsche, switch it out for The Gay Science.
Yeah get:
Frege
Russell
Quine
Kripke
Putnam
Searle
I reckon that's a good starter selection.
Don't waste your neetbux on writing that has no meaning
>>8045418
okay, thank you.
Are there any other books besides House of Leaves where you have to read the physical version to get the full experience?
I'd say Hypersphere requires both a physical reading as well as an ebook reading before you can get it all.
Every book.
What is it that makes languages like Latin and Ancient Greek superior?
>>8045243
Incredible sentence order flexibility, tenses and cases, basically.
Gendered nouns and adjectives, rich verb inflection and most importantly a fully formed case system make them much superior to English. See also why Russian is one of the best big living languages for literature.
>>8045248
Care to explain in detail? Why do noun cases make language better? Does it mean that Lithuanian is superior to English then?
>While listening to the Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever" one day, Phil heard the lyrics change into a prophetic warning: "Your son has an undiagnosed right inguinal hernia. The hydrocele has burst, and it has descended into the scrotal sac. He requires immediate attention, or will soon die." Phil rushed him to the hospital and found every word to be true. The doctor scheduled the operation for the same day. Once again, the healing power of Phil's vision comes to the fore. In a sense the boy was "reborn", which...
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This guy had to some serious shit going on which should have been explored in further depth. Anyone have a good book on the life of old mate dick and all his wacky adventures which is worth a read?
>dude drug addicts are prophets spiritual hogwash is real lmao
Nothing against Dick though. He was a very talented fellow.
>>8045221
The Exegesis of Philip K Dick
is a whole bunch of collected entries from his diaries collecting these wacky episodes
How do I into New Sincerity?
wait 10 more years
>>8045123
Post anonymously on the internet and express your feelings with drawings of men with cancer and frogs in funny situations
>>8045132
I unironically enjoy memes to be honest.
Who is Harold Bloom and why does his opinion matter?
Harold Bloom (born July 11, 1930) is an American literary critic and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University.[1] Since the publication of his first book in 1959, Bloom has written more than 20 books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and a novel. He has edited hundreds of anthologies concerning numerous literary and philosophical figures for the Chelsea House publishing firm.[2][3] Bloom's books have been translated into more than 40 languages.
Bloom came to public attention in the United States as a commentator during the Canon...
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>>8045103
Dunno but he makes funny meme pictures
He's a big guy
pic related
What the fuck, /lit/? Is this book just jibberish or am I a poor reader? Why did you recommend me this? Even /jp/ has better taste.
You're a poor reader.
>>8044849
;_;
It's pretty clear what all of the words in the book mean, IMO.
>DON'T JUDGE
>meanwhile proceeds to judge others
wew lad
If you're a bishop you're supposed to pastor the people in your care and reprove them.
>>8044683
and to fuck little boys from the church chorus
>>8044685
That's only if you're the heretical Latins.
