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How is he perceived in academia? Is he only a meme? Are his books worthy of reading?
>>7975025
MEME MAN
>>7975025
Well, since academia is a meme too, I think he might be appreciated.
We are living in the age of MEME.
>Yeah I'm a Platonist
>I think God has particular languages and one of them is music and one of them is math
47:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v45Uu8SlcsA
...w-what did he mean by this?
he's talking out of his arse
>>7974956
>...w-what did he mean by this?
>>7974995
the fuck is that?
Who read? Who like? Who got something to say about it?
I don't have anything too bad to say about it but I've yet to find what's supposed to make it great
Was Booker right?
Wardine be cry mon.
What's the appeal of The Sun Also Rises, /lit/? Having read it, I'm having a really hard time understanding the acclaim surrounding it.
>>7974631
first
it captured the zeitgeist of the lost generation, and the bull fighting is nice and the basque countryside is comfy
It's proto-Red Pill literature.
Go!!
>implying i've read 16 books
>>7974126
honestly this. at least not 16 good books
At what point does a man become truly morally irredeemable.
>>7974094
When he fully surrenders to that specific spook
>>7974105
deus ex pepe? nice
>>7974109
>deus ex nillius pepe
FTFY
give me an immensely obscure poet who is at the level of the masters
Paul Muldoon
>>7973522
not obscure enough, childe, for I am already aware of the great Muldoon
steve roggenbuck
>le secret identity man xD
What is he, fucking Lemony Snickett?
yeah he fucked me
t. lemoney snicket
What do i look like?? Tee hee, nobody knows
you'll never get my picture!!
I can't wrap my head around the fact that such a well known and loved author can be so elusive. Understandable 10-20 years ago, but it's 2016 -- doesn't he have groceries to buy?
Isn't it nice to know that the entirety of Western literary tradition can be summed up in nine (9) panels?
Thank you structuralists :^)general cringe thread
That picture doesn't make me cringe, OP. In fact, I find it kind of amusing.
>>7972397
is it that wrong though?
oversimplifications are useful things for people that are only starting to get into a matter
>>7972457
Some panels might be mixed up, but the themes are correct as far as I can tell.
>last but not least
>might is well
>>7972260
not the same thing, pal
>>7972222
>if but, and as well
>want to seriously get into literature
>think about the massive amounts of novels, stories, poems, and plays that have been written
>get overwhelmed by the amount of books you have to read
>tfw give up and read the same pleb books over and over again
Upvoted and subscribed.
>want to seriously get into literature
meaning
>i don't really like reading but i want to read anyways to look cool to my internet (or real - wait do i have real friends?) friends
>>7972176
This.
If you seriously want to get into literature you need to read. Start with the western canon. You know you're not supposed to read ALL the books, right? You know literature is not a competition, right?
>get overwhelmed by the amount of books you have to read
>tfw give up and read the same pleb books over and over again
That's like (but not really) being thirsty but instead of drinking water you only drink your urine because, you...
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Does anyone else here practice idioms so they can appear cooler to their friends?
yeah. cool, man. idioms are cool.
>>7971561
I'll cross that bridge when I come to it
>>7971561
Nah but I intentionally through in obscure terms I learned in my "Intro to Philosophy" class I took this semester.
Love explaining to these plebes what secular eschatology is.
is he a pseud?
have you seen his Faulkner movie adaptations?
Yes.
His As I Lay Dying adaptation was fucking awful.
Child of God was okay.
His test video for Blood Meridian was shit.
The trailer for The Sound and the Fury looks like full retard.
His poetry and prose is fucking shit. I've read it. It's trash.
He's a man who has adapted to lit very late and has very little actual experience in writing outside of an expensive education, and it really fucking shows.
>>7971533
Basically yeah, but many great authors started out like him. Trying to prove that one can often motivates one to do so, and he's got all the resources that a human being ever could.
Palo Alto was shit, As I Lay Dying adaptation was okay, his new movies look on par to be okay. But he's putting in a great deal of work and going to improve. He could yet be great
>>7971533
He's a pretty face and nothing more.
> character-driven, not plot-driven
> complex, interesting prose, not boring and simple
> time skips
> lots of zeitgeistal content
> medium length, a few hundred pages
> modern setting, the late 20th century and early 21st century
>>7971435
Rich imagery of americana between '10-'80, dont know why; the bits and pieces of this I found in Libra I really enjoyed.
Simple and clean orchestration of characters and prose in the vein of ancient myth and epics
>Narcissus was proud, in that he disdained those who loved him. Nemesis noticed this behavior and attracted Narcissus to a pool, where he saw his own reflection in the water and fell in love with it, not realizing it was merely an image. Unable to leave the beauty of his reflection, Narcissus lost his will to live. He stared at his reflection until he died.
When the author seems to reach out through my skull and touch my pineal gland.
any books like pic related
>>7971425
A lot of Hawkes stuff is pretty dreamy (not sure if that's the right adjective in this context, his books feel like a dream), particularly the Beetle Leg and the Lime Twig
>Is there any pizza like an apple?
>Is there any fruit like hamburger?
That is how dumb you sound
Just watched that last night, good fuckin movie
The diner scene spooked me hard
