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/lit/ humor pleaseeeee
MUST ALWAYS BE FUNNY
POST IT
Why did the chicken cross the road?
I don't know, ask Sam Harris.
What are some English books that don't translate well into any other language?
>>7896150
Shakespeare
>>7896162
That's a nice book.
>>7896171
It's alright
François Rabelais, I want to read some of his work which features the "Grotesque". Anyone got any recs / want to prove they don't just read meme auth...memes?
>Rabelais
>recs
You don't need recs, just read his work. Pantagruel, Gargantua, the five books if you want. Or are you talking translations?
If someone writes something really good but it doesn't fit into the trends of the time, it's destined to be lost innit? It'll never be canonical.
I don't mean ones that are deliberately reactionary against trends either.
no
plenty of classics get canonized after the author's lifetime
>>7896114
Nah, Moby-dick wasn't liked at the time it was wrote and only gained fame later on after Melville had died when some guy read it and realized how great it was.
You do have to be published though, so it can't be that out of the times.
>>7896114
There's always an element of contingency to it. Nevertheless there are countless examples of gems that are only really unearthed or at least rediscovered and given their due decades or even centuries after their author's death. As far as these works are concerned you could say the times have finally adapted to the author instead of the author adapting to his times.
What makes fiction worth the time? Non fiction is filled with facts, historical antidotes and clearly layed out arguements. Fiction is one really long fake story
Can provide a sense of escapism or use the fact that it's false to create a sequence of events that have a greater meaning than the parts individually
>>7895880
Good fiction portrays reality
any poetry or philosophy that defends abstinence from masturbation? I'm having a rough time of it today
see a therapist
>>7895832
just block yourself
the extra effort to get at pornography will make you think twice
like not having cigs in the house
but seriously fuck off
>>7895843
why
Is he the most arrogant philosopher?
>>7895799
No.
And the most humble
Which is best /lit/?
are those by the author of infinite jest???
>>7895795
It makes me cringe too
dfw has the worst covers
I'd like to know what's /lit/'s take on literary journals/magazines. Do you read any?
Monocle
>>7895787
I read/lit/ - Literature
>Kafkaesque
not
>Kafkesque
why
isn't she the woman from deus ex machina?
>>7895724
Probably because it's Franz Kafka, not Franz Kafk
>>7895729
its just "Ex Machina". No "Deus" on the title, friend.
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Just finished this. Dont know what to think yet, form my opinion /lit/
I like the first part, it's very imaginative, creates a great atmosphere, but the second is truly amazing, it's simple yet so relatable.
>>7895735
.do you cou convince prostitutes to love you and then feel ashamed when they find out that you are a loser?
>>7895768
Unfortunately, yes in a way.
What are some books that don't translate to English well?
>>7895683
Houellebecq, Celine, Cioran. English is too dry for the French.
The language I actually speak.
All other languages are obviously easily and without much loss translated to English or my native language.
>>7895687
Celine as in Journey to the end of the night?
Tell me /lit/, How can a discussion board that claims to be enamored by David Foster wallace indulge in so much irony and shitposting? Would he not look at this with contempt and against what he stood for?
It is such a contradiction. Help me understand.
there's something very honest about our memes
He was only pretending to be unironically ironic. He used irony earnestly and look wha happen'd.
>>7895645
Because I don't agree with him that much. He's a better meme than a writer
Why do Wordsworth have so many books with goofy lookin covers?
>>7895594
1. renewing medieval tradition of "drolleries"
2. because they can
3. because the publisher's specific sense of humor
kek
>>7895788
Who the fuck designs these things?
Has anyone here read his works? The Book of Law or The Book of Lies?
He comes across as interesting character and was wondering if he's worthy of being studied as people acclaim him to be
I've got the book of lies ... Thumbed through it but the poetry is weak and the ideas a hamfisted attempt at Kabbalah and the golden dawn.
Interesting for historical context only.
>>7895574
I've read Liber AL. It's solid if you're into mythological riddles and microwave meal-tier recipes for living.
i have a copy of "The Magickal Record of the Beast 666" around here, somewhere.
funniest part was when he was taking cocaine. he'd make a journal entry, claim "this stuff isn't addictive and doesn't affect me at all". then he'd do some more, make another journal entry ten minutes later that would run for eight pages of densely packed verbiage, do some more cocaine, another journal entry and so on for about forty pages.
the content was your usual snow-head's gibberish, albeit a little better informed in terms of classical...
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