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If you could take one book to prison with you, what would it be?
>>7861941
the hollow one with a file concealed inside it
>>7861941
Complete Works of Shakespere. It's got sex, drinking, debauchary, war, and sex.
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>take two required semesters of multiethnic literature
>it's all shit
well what did you expect? If the bookstaught in multi ethnic literature courses actually held any merit on their own, there'd be no need for multi ethnic literature courses in the first place
>>7861738
Couldn't have said it better myself.
idk man there's some good african american and native american writers. Louise Erdrich is decent, and Chester Himes, Frantz Fanon, and Langston Hughes. Yusef Komunyakaa was a graduate of my school, and wrote a killer book of vietnam war poetry called dien cai dau
HARD MODE: You can't use the "for sale: baby shoes, never worn" one.
Baby shoes for sale, I wore them twice.
For sale, baby shoes, worn thrice.
>>7858659
Foreskin: baby worn, for sale.
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Any Indian wagecucks here struggling to find the time to read?
It annoys me when these 9-5 eurofags (who gain much more for their work in purchasing power than we do) talk about how little time they have to read.
What annoys me most is the fact that most of the coworkers who cause this "working hour inflation" (I work 9 to 9) are total tools who only work so much because they have nothing else to do.
>>7856941
Slightly related question, is it possible to be a NEET in India at all?
>>7856941
>life has to deal me a fair hand
realise the pointlessness of it all panjeet
>>7856941
POO
Let's get it rolling, overdose and choke on our vomit.
I'll look over anything in pastebin.
LORD OF RHYTHM
LOGO WRITTEN
FOUR DOOR HISSING
IT CAN GO MISSING
THIS THREAD MEANS
AS MUCH AS EXISTENCE
SUCKING DICK FOR BREAD
IT'S GAY TO BE CHRISTIAN
>>7840767
The last one hasn't even reached bump limit yet.
Hey /lit/
I read everyday. However, I rarely read fiction. When I read fiction, I have this feeling that I am wasting my time. I know, that is probably not a good feeling, but I can not help myself.
Help me out. How do I get over this weird self-inflicted psychological problem? I tried having some introspection on the issue, but I can not locate where this impatience, and lack of desire for fiction comes from.
What I do read everyday:
Investment reports
Sociological and Economical theories.
Sociological data.
Historical manuscripts.
Science...
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Fiction gives you heuristics and mental models to draw from in ways that don't become obvious until they're strongly and broadly sedimented in your mind. It's not an issue of being able to vulgarly model a douchebag you meet as some villain you read about, it's more like adding subtlety to your mind, to its storehouse and networks of ideas, its fundamental categories, etc.
When I think about perfectly scientific astronomy stuff, or the metaphysics of science, or far future human scenarios, I'm unconsciously turning inward and tapping into an...
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fiction gives you dope aesthetic highs, no joking, that's about it
when you're reading something real good it falls over your life like a kind of haze and everything you see is through the lens of that book
and then when you finish it stays with you forever and you can recall and rejoice in the experience of reading something you read 10 years ago
when i'm feeling down i switch on ulysses mode and see the world thru a new light
>>7863696
This, well said.
Also, helping you cultivate your own personality/charisma/ability to connect with other people. Obviously, characters in fiction can mirror characters in your life and depending on how insightful the author is, studying the characters allows you to handle real people better, imo.
What are the best books i need to read if i want to understand theology?
>inb4 the bible
aside from that
>>7863285
the catechism
>>7863285
Theology for Beginners is good, reading that right now (assuming you're primarily interested in Catholic theology, which I am)
Augustine is a good option. Confessions and/or City of God.
>epub
>>7861825
wrong whats it with yo ?
>>7861834
this is /lit/, what did u expect
>>7861834
>group of bored looking starfish.jpg
Explain what this book means without using "God", "The Devil", "Christ", "Good & Evil or Good Vs Evil", "Lord of the Rings (or any names from that series)".
Only then will I know if you're an idiot or not.
No.
>>7861699
Poop
>Stephen, King of the plebs
What is post-irony?
Explain me it to me
The dichotomy between irony and sincerity has been weakened to the point that it doesn't exist.
Irony was all the rage in the 60s 70s and 80s with pynchon et al (barth, etc.) until david foster wallace called it out for being cold and alienating ad hollow and led the charge to put humanity and warmth back in literature. He wrote a short story that destroyed barth and then he wrote infinite jest and destroyed pynchon by showing he coukd write a gravitys rainbow type novel but have it be actually emotionally engaging not just silly and smart. Since then, writers have eschewed irony and gone more for sincerity, and thats where we're at right now. Any writer trying to...
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A return to sincerity with knowledge of irony. That's about it. It's just a collapse of the two
>tfw haven't read anything in eight months
>tfw scared to start up again
>tfw feel guilty for even typing this out
K I L L M E
What are you scared about?
>>7863980
I don't know, it's just overwhelming and completely irrational dread.
If you can read this sentence, you can read a book.
>letting what is supposed to be an enjoyable pasttime make you feel fear and/or shame
Iago: These Moors are changeable in their wills: fill thy purse with money:—the food
that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida.
Locusts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratonia_siliqua
coloquintida: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrullus_colocynthis
How did Shakespeare knew such plant names and proprieties back in those times, when information was not as easily gotten as today? Where did he found so many of his rare words?
Another example:
Holofernes: This is a gift that I have, simple,...
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>>7861199
it was the collective spirit of all creative geniuses across history working through a common vessel. just like with all the great authors.
he read a lot and since he didn't go to school he read even more to try to get on par with his peers
he had a complex about these things
>>7861199
bump because its interesting and for the double dubs
witnessed
also, look here:
http://www1.cmc.edu/pages/faculty/welliott/Shakespeare%20Vocabulary%20Chapter%20911.pdf
Have you ever read a book or a piece of text that made you cry or very sad?
Any suggestions for books that will make me sad? I have read one book when some guys friend commits suicide. But it was a long time ago, and I only partially remember it.
The Sound and The Fury
The Bell Jar
The Book of Disquiet
Notes from the Underground
>Arguably one of the greatest generals ever
>Champion of your queen, named prince in the HRE, family that you adore
>Cast down by your queen due to a petty female squabble
>Disgraced by your country
>condemned in your old age for perfidy and treason despite your service
>have series of strokes
>laying in bed of your castle, with all your glories crumbled and...
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>>7860538
>getting emotional over Sylvia Plath: the progenitor of Tumblr poetry
Are there any good books for /lit/ types who fucking suck at /sci/ stuff?
I'm looking to learn math (especially geometry) and science, of course, but also for literature or nonfiction that will make me appreciate their beauty more.
So far I am thinking of reading
>Logan - The Poetry of Physics and the Physics of Poetry
>Newsom - Mathematical Discourses: The Heart of Mathematical Science
for the latter goal.
For the actual learning part, I was thinking of reading college-level introduction...
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I'm assuming you are talking about elementary levels since you don't specify what "math" or "science" you want to learn, and since that's the case just fucking learn it online. Or if you want to get a book then just get a normal textbook.
"Literature that makes me appreciate their beauty more" is for lazy potheads who just want to be told what math might be like and not actually learn it.
>>7858551
This sounds pretty fascinating from what my babby brain can make of it. I'm actually interested in learning STEM majorly so I can into stuff like this. Thanks man.
>>7858552
Yeah, elementary because I'm retard tier. I never went to school so my math knowledge is a patchwork. I taught myself algebra and vaguely up to precalc with aforementioned glossy textbooks, once upon a time, but have mostly forgotten everything, and I'm innately bad at math.
I...
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In A Supposedly Fun Thing, he misuses 'vomitorium'.
In Infinite Jest, he misuses 'defenestration'.
Also, I'm 90% sure he's only pretending to have been deeply influenced by Wittgenstein w/r/t Broom.
What gives.
His dad was (is?) a Wittgenstein scholar so I'm sure he has a pretty good understanding of his work and themes.
>>7856681
Fuck me, *had.
>>7856681
Or how to seem like he did...
