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Favorite living poets?
pic related: mine
I don't get poets.
They are just writers of short texts representing insights into being human, aren't they?
I feel you have to read a lot of peoples to find one to take home with you. To find one worth remembering. Thus it seems perceived quality of poets just directly correlates to how much you agree with the poets personal opinions about things.
Or are there actually insights to be gained from such short texts?
Don't get me wrong, I love witty lines, but it's just that it doesn't feel like more than that. Not really worth a genre.
>>8003640
Poetry is about intense, condensed aesthetic experience. It's about being able to use language to illicit emotions in the most compact way possible. Why read a whole novel when every page of poetry contains just as much?
Nicanor Parra, Homero Aridjis.
If I could only read one Hemingway novel, which should it be?
>>8003311
The Sun Also RisesThe real answer is to read all of his short fiction.
For Whom the Bell Tolls.
If there's one thing I took away from it, it's that I can clean my bowl with a piece of bread.
>>8003318
You'll get that gem from a lot of the Nick Adams stories, too.
Posthumanism edition. What's your favorite work of post- or transhuman SF?
Previously: >>7996125
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/3v2oXAY.jpg (embed)
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg (embed)
Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg (embed)
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg (embed)
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg (embed)
>>8003215
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>>8003222
Shit. That'll teach me to just ctrl+v from the last thread.
>>8003222
>weeb
>tfw you're cicero
i wish i knew that feel fampai..
>>8003214
>3 posters
Im writing a story about two college boys being locked in a library during a snow storm on Valentine s Day. they get to know each other better as the storm progresses. One boy's kind of nerdy, in there for pleasure reading. Another one is almost the complete opposite, in there to work on a last minute project. Any good ideas for an opening sentence?
>Any good ideas for an opening sentence?
There you go.
Why are you so gay, OP?
is this gay erotica
Recommend me some great essayists.
I really like Patanjali, Seneca, Schopenhauer, and, for newer writers, Theodore Dalrymple.
They each write brilliantly.
I've also recently enjoyed some Emerson and On the Gradual Construction of Thoughts during Speech by Heinrich von Kleist
My philosophical worldview is immensly practical; my political worldview is (thoroughly) conservative.
Emerson exudes raw vigour and vitality.
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read the sticky
>>8002802
>patanjali
>essayist
what the
![genealogy-morals[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/MW4znC8.jpg "genealogy-morals[1].jpg")
What the FUCK is this bvookkkkkkkk
the only good one he wrote
I do not understand.
>>8002641
This. I also like Birth of Tragedy, thoughts on that one?
Sappho vs. Catullus who is the better roman poet?
Sappho is Greek
Catullus
Mainly for reasons already stated.
Put your poems here and plz don't mess with my prose thread you hipster degenerates
>>8002578
>>8002580
http://pastebin.com/Phw496bh
1 its shit
2 funny
3 a let down on the third line/
>4 saying one word 3 times in a haiku
5 fuck off
6 enjoyable
7 fuck off
8 that makes me pity you
9 cute i like this one
10 fuck off
11 stupid
12 replace the first much with something else
13 creep
14 you need to write a story about a man who is sexually...
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Each stanza should be 4 lines and the last one, 8, but pastebin moved the words a bit.
http://pastebin.com/raw/QXmErW2G
>>8002599
thanks
What should I read next?
fuck off
>>8002364
glass bead game
>>8002364
handmaid's tale. they are making a tv series about it so you need to read it before that appears otherwise people will think you are only reading it because of the series. and of course it will mean you can knowledgeably point out the discrepancies between the book and the series.
Here's my list:
1. Franz Kafka - short stories collection
2. Milan Kundera - The unbearable lightness of being
3. Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha
4. Eugene Ionesco - Rhinoceros
5. J. D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye
6. Angela Carter - The Passion of New Eve
7. Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon
8. Carson Mccullers - The Member of the Wedding
9. Hermann Hesse - Klingsor's Last Summer
10. Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf
11. Patrick Ness - The Rest of us just Live Here
12. Virginia Woolfe - To the Lighthouse
13. Fyodor Dosteovsky...
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Currently reading Dostoevsky's Crime & Punishment (loving it so far).
What I've read already:
> Spiegelman's Maus
> Houellebecq's Submission
> Kafka's The Trial
> McCarthy's The Road
> McCarthy's Child Of God
> Weir's The Martian (it's shit but I felt inclined to read it since somebody gave it to me)
>...
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I hated Hour of the Star, compared to her other books.
>Death of a salesman-Arthur Miller
>Cathedral-Raymond Carver
>Collected Stories-William Faulkner
>Hunger-Knut Hamsun
>Oblomov-Ivan Goncharov
>Dubliners-James Joyce
>Some stories by Conrad
>Fathers and sons-Turgenev
>El juguete rabioso-Roberto Arlt
>El beso de la...
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Hey, this guy is pretty cool!
he's a sage
We don't like racists here
>>8002055
I guess you could describe him as 'cool' and he has 'cool' ideas but he's a terrible writer
Can you guys recommend me some resources to learn to write my native language (tacospeak)?
read corncob tortilla's "blood on the sand". There's some chip n dip in that one i think
>>8002483
give me the taco name bro.
google doesn't give me anything.
CHI
Lets see your shelves.
the only books that matter
>>8001542
404 literature not found
>>8001542
Only about two or three of those books are literature. They are all comics, manga books, and children's books. I think you're on the wrong board. There's a /co/ board for comics and cartoons. I know this sounds a bit mean but its true.
what's the comfiest book you've ever read?
>>8001317
blood meridian
Either Mason & Dixon or My Ántonia
I know it gets incredibly fucked at parts, but I just pictured the world so well
