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Your top 3 poets?
>having to choose 3
nty
Shelley, Yeats, Pound
Honourary mention to Larkin
Cummings, Yeats, Shakespear
ITT: Christian /lit/
>/lit/ still pretends everyone has to subvocalize just because they do
>>7844885
I was surprised when I first learned about subvocalization, because I never really did it. It's like I just read, I don't consciously sound out the words in my head.
>>7844891
Exactly how I felt. I thought it was amazing that the average person had such a low bandwidth brain.
>I used to sub vocalize as a kid (like 6-12 years old)
>now I need to make up different voices for the different characters in my head
What's happening to me
Would even someone as subversive as Nietzsche have to concede that he is an ubermensch?
>>7854329
He wasn't one nor did he consider himself to be one.
I also cannot fucking stand that piece of shit Harris.
>>7854483
I didn't say he considered himself one
ubermensch does not need the title
so he would not concede not because he can but because it unconcedes him
Recently started reading In Search of Lost Time, found a copy of a book by W.Somerset Maugham, and bought Where Angels Fear to Tread. Got home and looked up the authors, all gay, all gay, gay.
Really interested in gay lit, now.
You'd think a simple Google search would help, but Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman came up who I know were not totally gay or gay at all! Which gay writers do you guys like??
Why do you want “gay” authors?
>>7856092
Yukio mishima, the man was an absolute fairy.
>>7856114
I'll admit it. I... am gay. I want to explore my new-found, gay identity.
This book is amazing, i feel smarter for having read it and pay more attention to how other people read into the subtext of what im saying can anyone recommend me more books similar to it?
It reminds me a bit of the Brothers Karamazov.
Also is the 1700 page bumper edition worth it? I only read the 1100 page version and now im wondering about those extra chapters.
>tfw you forgot /lit/ doesnt actually read
The other pages are mostly posthumously found stuff, there's less structure and refinement.
There is no book like it. Have you read Radetzky March? The setting is similar.
What did you like about it specifically OP?
Game of thrones is gay dumb bad
Ya
Nice fin
>>7851883
You like sharkgirls' fins? :3
How is Stanford's English program? I just got in and I can't decide between Yale and Stanford.
Oh, forgot to mention, does anyone know the best places to buy jumbo condoms at Yale or Stanford? Great big jumbo condoms?
Oh and also does anyone know a good place to take my 10/10 girl for some fine dining before i use those jumbo condoms? Money is not an object.
>>7851517
I didn't go to Stanford or Yale, but the one piece of relevant info I can offer you is that the number of students majoring in the humanities fields has shrunk rapidly as tech became the trendy field for yuppies, and that may be less than 10% of tee student body now. Not just English: all humanities. People have taken to calling it the Stanford Institute of Technology.
That said, I'd rather live in Palo Alto than New Haven, but the whole New England/Ivy thing is fun too.
ITT: Books you hate
MY DIARY
Anything by Hack Green
Anything by Cormhack McFraudthy
Anything by Kurt Frauddagut
Anything by George Fraudwell
Anything by Neil Hackman
Anything by Terry Hackshit
That about covers it
anything by pynchon
What words are cringeworthy and make the writer look like a tryhard with a shit vocabulary? Most often seen in modern news articles i.e. blogs. I'll start:
>myriad
>>7843603
I hate the word "pampered"
>>7843603
fuck off back to /r9k/, frog homo
egregious
Is it one of Dostoevsky's weaker novels? Or, is it his best?
I haven't read it
>>7854482
why did you post this
I read it
it's been 300 years and no one has proven this man wrong
greatest philosopher to ever live?
IMMANUEL KANT THE ABSOLUTE MADMAN
I would say that Nietzsche is the greatest philosophy, if only he had lived long enough to build something to replace all that he tore down
>>7853145
>it's been 300 years
You can't contract "It has" to "it's" you fuck.
Summarize your reading history
Here is mine
>read orally stories as a kid in school, learn about the Greeks this way
>read Harry Potter, Tolkien, Le Guin, Series of Unfortunate Events as an pre-teen young teen
>Standard North American high school literature mixed in with lame local Canadian stories
>mostly just read non-fiction and internet philosophy after high school
>decide to check out /lit/ and pick out what I thought were the popular books...
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>primary school
>think books are for nerds
>middleschool
>think books are for fags
>highschool
>think books are cool
>post-highschool
>study english
