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Is HP Lovecraft a meme or does he actually write decent stuff?
I've only read The Shadow Over Innsmouth and it's pretty good. There's some goofy shit because it was written nearly 100 years ago, however. For example, the main character notices that everyone in the town of Innsmouth looks kind of funny, so he assumes that racial degeneration had taken the town by storm.
Still, it's good, and I would imagine that he wrote some other good stories. The Shadow Over Innsmouth actually succeeded at creeping me out at the end.
>>8018226
Best horror writer ever.
There's definitely going to be people claiming he's just a meme though.
If you like lots of adjectives and a bizzare fevered dreamlike story that ends with the character dying or going insane, you will like lovecraft.
>Arrange by author
or
>Arrange by title
Which do you subscribe to, /lit/?
Author
by color of the spine
year of publication you pathetic spastic
This shit is just American psycho without the violence
Has Delillo written anything of substance or is he just a meme?
This thread is shit.
Has OP ever made a thread of substance or does he just meme?
>>8018143
Delillo is the fucking shaman of literature. American psycho is pop satire. White noise is a meditation on fear and death in the technology boom era.
>>8018143
i feel u
Are memes the next evolution of the English Language, like are we transferring to a substantial step like from Old to Middle English? Will people someday communicate entirely in memes and it be unintelligible to people who were not alive when the meme was created?
Imagine court cases argued in memes, for example the Scopes Monkey Trial:
>implying God exists
>*tips fedora*
>>OBJECTION! Cancer
>he's using le hat maymay as an argument *shows...
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No, language becomes more complex through history.
>>8018148
How so? I'd say it changes, but not necessarily becomes more complex.
>>8018148
is more abstract not more complex? Imagine if you had to explain the *tips fedora* meme to someone, those two words represent a lot of knowledge and emotions.
I don't get it. Is it supposed to show how inhuman butlers are?
>>8018118
The moral of the story is to be yourself. He wasn't himself. He thought he was, but he was lying.
>I don't get it
>the most entry level of books after YA
quit reading now and forever t b h, OP
it seems that millions of years of humans creating art there doesn't seem to be any "new" or "original" styles, just the translation onto new medians. Is this just me? Seems to be like the only advances as the human race we have been making is in technology.
not sure if this was a /lit/ or /his/ question
kys
>>8018107
I would say it's just you. Form changing art doesnt come around too often.
infinite summer 2k16 when?
Summer, probably
>>8018120
/thread
>>8018120
college is out it's may u tween
Had no idea Žižek got to fuck this!! HOLEEEE SHIT
not even the hottest girl he's wifed. probably the smartest though.
He must have a big ideology.
>>8018070
The man is probably a freak in bed. Have you not seen the fistfucking quote?
Post the first page of your favourite novel as translated from the gizoogle textilizer.
STATELY, PLUMP BUCK MULLIGAN CAME FROM THE STAIRHEAD, bearin a funky-ass bowl of lather on which a mirror n' a razor lay crossed. Y'all KNOW dat shit, muthafucka! A yellow dressin gown, ungirdled, was sustained gently-behind his ass by tha mild mornin air yo. Dude held tha bowl aloft n' intoned:
-- Introibo ad altare Dei.
Halted, he peered down tha dark windin stairs n' called up coarsely:
-- Come up, Kinch. Come up, you fearful jesuit.
Solemnly...
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There was me, dat is Alex, n' mah three droogs, dat is Pete, Georgie, n' Dim, Dim bein straight-up dim, n' we sat up in tha Korova Milkbar makin up our rassoodocks what tha fuck ta do wit tha evening, a gangbangin' flip dark chill winta bastard though dry. Da Korova Milkbar was a milk-plus mesto, n' you may, O mah brother, have forgotten what tha fuck these mestos was like thangs changin so skorry these minutes n' dem hoes straight-up quick ta forget, newspaper not bein read much neither n' shit. Well, what tha fuck they sold there was gin...
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>>8017904
I owe tha discovery of Uqbar ta tha conjunction of a mirror n' a encyclopedia. Da mirror shitd tha depthz of a cold-ass lil corridor up in a cold-ass lil ghetto doggy den on Gaona Street up in Ramos Mejia,; tha encyclopedia is fallaciously called Da Anglo-Gangsta Cyclopedia (New York, 1917) n' be a literal but delinquent reprint of tha Encyclopedia Britannica of 1902. Da event took place some five muthafuckin years ago. Bioy Casares had had dinner wit me dat evenin n' we became lengthily engaged...
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Wardine say her momma aint treat her right. Reginald his schmoooove ass come round ta mah blacktop at mah buildin where me n' Delores Epps jump double dutch n' da perved-out muthafucka say, Clenette, Wardine be down at mah crib cry say her momma aint treat her right, n' I go on wit Reginald ta his buildin where he live at, n' Wardine be sit deep far back up in a cold-ass lil closet up in Reginald crib, n' da hoe be cry like a muthafucka. Reginald gone lift Wardine up tha closet n' mah crazy ass wit his ass bustin up like a biatch n' I be rub...
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Daily reminder to learn a new language
Tutti i giorni finché ti piace
I live in a foreign country and can't speak a lick of their stupid monkey talk. I hate it.
I want to learn german in my spare time but then I get distracted and don't touch it for a month or two
Molto bravo, OP.
What was his fucking problem?
>>8017816
you would let your dad and yourself get cucked by his brother, your lard ass uncle?
>>8017816
his uncle murdered his dad and banged his mom.
later his uncle tried to have his friends escort him to his death and the consequences of these actions drove his girlfriend insane and she jumped out a window.
but worst of all it made him emo and we had to suffer his soliloquies in highschool.
>>8017816
he was molested by yorick in his childhood
>if someone wants to kill your son you should tell them where he is because lying is bad XD
reddit: the philosopher
>two wrongs make a right
woman: the philosophess
How is this Reddit logic?
>>8017803
Just imagine if Kant were born in this day and age. I imagine he'd be a /r9k/ regular
>She awole this day as she did every other day: with a painful, throbbing erection which threatened to tear her foreskin down the middle.
> Her young cunt bled from it's newest gash. Her father smiled as he removed his deflating penis from her. Today she was a young woman.
>>8017762
>two errors in the first two words.
not gud m8
>>8017871
Two?
Who else here has near panic attacks thinking about death?
No, I just worry my life wont ever really begin and ill be stuck as a lonely autist forever
>>8017698
Same desu
any frenchies read this? it seems like the kind of novel i would love. i wish america published more adult 'fun' type novels. tired of everything having to need some sinister undertone or melodrama
http://www.wsj.com/articles/waiting-for-bojangles-great-expectations-for-olivier-bourdeauts-debut-novel-1462810241?mod=e2tw
>French critics have commended the novel as the perfect escape from the moroseness of a weak economy and an unpopular government.
I have a feeling this should be the future of literature now.
Imagine novels upon novels of fun, people acting carefree and unconstrained. I'd like this alot.
I can't wait to read this one. Do you have a french copy, OP? (yes in french)
>>8017739
nope :(
but i do agree with your sentiment. though it is probably embarrassing to say i loved breakfast at tiffany's, but unfortunately current literature has moved in the complete opposite direction. that book was layered enough with just the right amount of nuance so as to leave you smiling at the character's plights, not worrying.
take something like zadie smith's NW, which is supposed to be a portrayal of modern northwest london. now i've never been to nw london, but from zadie...
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I get what you mean. Writing about woe is me, I'm such a sad lonely man is a lot easier than capturing the joy of life. Part of the reason why I enjoy the beats.
