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Manuscript for The Cancer of Superstition, requested shortly before escapologist’s death, is discovered in memorabilia collection
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/16/hp-lovecraft-harry-houdini-manuscript-cancer-superstition-memorabilia?CMP=twt_gu
OMG
He's still wowing us after all these years
>>7818679
How exciting, I hope this deals with the greatest horror of all in the Lovecraft mythos, non-whites.
Pretty fucking neat. I knew he did stuff with Houdini but didn't know about that, or that Lovecraft was a sceptic?
Is it possible for an autistic person to ever truly appreciate literature? Asking for a friend.
>>7818593
Depends on the autistic person. It's a complex disorder that manifests in a myriad of ways, but one of the hallmarks of it is an incapability of enjoying fiction. That doesn't necessarily mean that there will never be an autist who can appreciate it, but it'll probably be unusual.
>>7818593
My wife's friends sister is literally autistic in the non meme sense, and she crushes asian literature. I think she may be running out of shit that is in translation.
>>7818599
>one of the hallmarks of it is an incapability of enjoying fiction.
Why is that? Just the lack of empathy for the characters?
What's your favorite piece of literature with the theme of disenfranchised, alienated and angry young men?
Going through a pretty edgy and angsty phase in life and dunno how to cope aside from reading and coding. Sorry if this is cringeworthy.
Pic related, already read this a few years back but started reading it again and boy does it feel a lot more relatable now.
Just read Walden you fucking retard.
You've probably read Fight Club, so here's the patrician version
>>7818555
Steppenwolf - Hesse
Pay special attention to Hesse's introduction where he explains how Steppenwolf is his most misunderstood work.
Nice trips btw
If the bible had no plotholes and would be perfectly reasonable in its own context, so basically if the bible had good writing, how would the world look today?
Maybe even throw in a good story and remove the cryptic writing to make it more accessible. The lore is pretty solid from what I have seen.
It would look the same because no one actually reads it
>>7818442
Are you implying that the bible doesn't have good writing?
>>7818446
No, I outright said that it has bad writing.
Good kid /lit/ plz
r8 recent purchases for my 6 year oldgirl. We read a picture book + a chapter a night.
>>7818418
Not pictured: Dinotopia
Goosebumps
Animorphs
Literature about fear in general, crippling fear of failure, other humans or a fear of everything really.
Perhaps I can shed this plight once and for all through the gods in the page.
fear and trembling
either/or
Become a Knight of Faith
>>7818306
>tfw I can only overhead press the bar
if his dick or balls popped out of the loincloth, would be be able to do anything about it?
i often hear people say that the evidence for evolution is overwhelming, and that no educated thinker now denies it, even religious folk. i believe that it's true as well, but i haven't actually read proper evidence of it because i'm an uneducated fuck
what book should i read if i want to read up on evolution?
He might be a meme now but in the 70s Dawkins wrote a book called the Selfish Gene which is potentially the single best explanation of evolution for the general public that I have encountered. It's also literally the book that created the word 'meme' which ties it all nicely together.
The Selfish Gene by Reductionism Dawkins
>>7818231
thank you
Is this test accurate?
http://katfeete.net/writing/suestart.php
>>7818173
It's not as laughable as I expected it to be. A mary sue basically is an author's wish fulfilling self-insert and this checklist reflects that.
I used a character who's essentially me and only got a score of 18 with 12 of the points coming from the physical resemblance alone.
>>7818173
I suppose it helps when your character's motives, desires, age, physical features and basically everything about them but their gender is literally not talked about.
Everyone's always telling her how ugly she is. That's gotta be the #1 'not a Mary Sue' criterion.
I'm going crazy. what is the short story I am thinking of? I read it like five years ago and cannot remember the author's name. It was a scanned PDF and I don't recall the source.
A man leaves his hotel at night and walks around a town or something by himself. he eventually gets accosted by a knife-wielding? thief? Cant really remember. I feel like it was originally written in Spanish, and I remember the author described the air at night as "feminine."
Any guesses to what I'm thinking of?
kind of??? Did it have a female narrator? and did the man get his arm cut off or something? I might be thinking of another story
>>7817680
I've never read anything by him, but the knife-wielding gaucho bit makes me think it's something by Borges.
>>7817685
my instinct is that the narrator was male. I also think that the climax was basically that the thief didnt do anything, as in let the narrator go? It's been so long I couldnt be sure
Hey did anyone else read this? I read it last year and found it underwhelming, but listening to Cohen's interview with Silverblatt on Bookworm is making me want to give it another go. If you did read it, what did you think?
I've not seen a single good thing about this. Anywhere. I haven't any motivation to read it when I have such a backlog
Wow I've never seen this. Less than 500 reviews on goodreads, and a score of 2.88.
I've heard a lot of bad stuff about it.
Would like to read it out of sheer interest but like >>7817592, when there are so many sure things still to read why take a real risk?
Has anyone read this piece of shit?
I have to write about it for class, and while I'm more than capable of doing so, is there anything that any individual on /lit/ would mention that strays from the rudimentary themes and ideas presented?
It is a particularly loathsome work, but work must be done.
>>7817568
lol, i bought it blind at a bookstore once.
i never could get myself to get too far into it.
never got my attention.
Had to get it for class and never read it
>>7817568
Piss off, faggot.
anything like this minus the humor? i like it for what it is, but i sort of feel like reading an unironic version of this, all secret organizations and lite scifi and maybe occult stuff. almost like a novel of the orignal deus ex game
>>7817541
Foucault's Pendulum?
>>7817541
principia discordia.
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/downloads/Principia%20Discordia.pdf
>>7817543
I've actually read that. not quite but a fucking great book in its own right
Pic related. Can't find any info on it so I have no idea how much it's worth or how rare it is.
>>7817434
Pic of cover
I've got a copy of Moby Dick from 1962
>>7817434
Mein bibel.
What's a good way to start reading history? Something that would give me a basic overview and a good starting point, not something that delves too much into details of specific periods.
I too am curious to find a good historical starter text
You're going to have to be more specific
western history? european history? history of mankind in general? etc
Hey /lit/, I'm reading One Hundred Years of Solitude with a group of people now. I know a tiny bit of Colombian history, mostly from Open Veins of Latin America, and I was struck by how well the chapters on the war seem to correspond to the events of La Violencia. I checked on wiki, and it turns out that Gárcia Márquez was born in 1927, which means that he was still a young man when it began. I'm starting to think that the book is a thinly veiled allegory of Colombia's recent history, or the author's conception of it, anyway. The other people in my group...
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yes, if you're not trolling, Macondo is a metaphor/synedoche for Colombia
>>7817315
Is that Hayek?
>>7817341
Why would I be trolling? How would this even work as a trolling attempt?
Hmm, interesting. That reminds me of something that's been bugging me about this book for a while.
So, in its earliest days, Macondo was basically a paradise. People were equal, well-fed, and free. Nobody lacked for anything, and there were no real political divisions in the town. The only authority that existed was informal, and the townspeople were quite happy with that. They were also pleased with the person in whom authority...
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