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/lit/ please just recommended me a god damn book something dark but humorous with themes of isolation and told through the eyes of a young person with morals
>>7817386
what do you mean by morals?
>>7817386
My Twisted World
>>7817386
This isn't a deep cut or anything, but Catch-22 is pretty close to what you're looking for.
ITT obscurests.
>>7815729
Should I kill myself or have a differance?
>>7815763
deconstruct that shit!
Why was he so sad?
He was German
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ztOV2wrrkY
Because he was born.
>>7817143
/gsg/ pleasantly surprise me sometimes
>Primary school(elementary)
>Teacher tells us to write a poem
>Teacher says poems have to rhyme.
>I say no they don't(Looked it up on the internet as I wrote poetry)
>She says yes they do
>I was only 6-8 years old so I couldn't argue
How can society let these teachers get away with being wrong.
>>7815712
>he had the internet when he was 6
Get out of here, junior
>>7815717
correction not the internet, a magazine.
>>7815712
There is a reason why they teach rhyming poetry in elementary school. You had to learn about structures, syllables, homophones and so on. Your understanding of poetry, although correct, was completely irrelevant for the task you had.
I will grant that the teacher could have said something more along the lines of "you're right little anon, but you will learn non-rhyming poems when you are older", but considering you were being such a contrarian little bitch, she probably made the right call. The last...
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>I actually pronounced his name as 'Pinecone' in class
>professor laughs at me
>>7817135
that's what you get for reading none of his books and trying to bullshit a statement about him
>>7817135
Memes don't work irl?? This is why I'm content with just posting on 4chan
>whenever i say dfw's name, i shout it like in that video
>"this paper explores themes of alienation and despair in infinite jest, a novel by DAVID FOSTER WALLAAAACE!!!"
>quieter mind you so i dont get thrown out of the class
>fill reports and shit with as many instances of his full name as i can
>do stuff on dfw just so i can yell his name
>no one gets it
>no...
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Can someone give me a summary of this book from their perspective?
I read it second time already this week (the original version) and still don't understand shit, it's nothing like the movie.
>>7815631
It's just a bunch of Greeks and Trojans fighting for 500 pages. You can't give a summary because there's not much of a story.
Its main theme is honor. Think about why the poem ends on Hektor's death and funeral and what makes that so important.
The very first word of the Iliad is “RAGE.” The “RAGE” of Achilles when his honor is violated and his rightful prize and love is taken from him by his very own commander.
Right here we see Man versus State, as Achilles is the superior warrior, and as he takes all the risks, he ought get the reward. That is the Natural Law of Zeus, for after Achilles Natural Rights are violated and Achilles quits, Zeus sees to it that the Greeks begin to lose, as Zeus’s will was done.
Long before Atlas Shrugged in Rand’s cheap novel, Achilles quit the Greek army.
Homer...
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High-brow - 2666, Bolano
Mid-brow - This is How You Lose Her - Diaz
Low-brow - Dance Dance Dance - Murakami
>>7815615
High Brow - Everyone pops
Mid brow - 50 shdes of grey
Low brow - Finnegan's Wake
High-brow - Ulysses
Mid-brow - Gravity's Rainbow
Low-brow - Inifnite Jest
High-Brow - The Fault in Our Stars
Mid-Brow - Hypersphere
Low-Brow - some meme shit I dont care this is a shit thread
Reading pic related.
In book 3 Nestor speaks with Telemachus about how it would take a long time to tell him what happened at Troy
>but so many other things we suffered, past that count--
>what mortal in this wide world could tell it all
>not of you sat and probed his memory, 5, 6 years,
>delving for all the pains our brave Achaeans bore there.
>your patience would fray, you'd soon head for home...
Am...
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Don't forget that the Iliad covers only a little fragment of the Trojan War.
The illiad covers about 2 months?
Out of 10 years.
>>7815440
>>7815432
Jesus Christ it doesn't count as starting with the Greeks if you're this dumb.
Go spend like 5 minutes figuring out what it is you're fucking reading. Google Homeric question and quit being so dense
We just finished reading Anthem in class, and it was awful. Now I have to do a project where I have to write an anthem for equality and liberty, and make a flag too.
It has to have the sacred word in it. Ideas?
I'm thinking of quoting Catullus 16 because it has the word "ego" in it, and my teacher probably won't know what it is, also because I'm edgy and don't like the book.
Also for the flag I want some subtle phallic imagery.
Help?
>high school student
Run your fingers down your chest and stomach and tell me how soft your skin is, OP
I bet you don't moisturize at all and everything still glows like a newborn baby. Where do you live?
>>7815301
Not very
>>7815287
Yea it's gateway lit for Rush fans, and irredeemable shit otherwise.
Fountainhead is bretty good.
Corn thread
hmm i may have to check out this wasp question shit
>>7816807
Great book to be honest
>>7816808
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWKBYbX3yv4
seems p rad
What's the stinkiest book you've read /lit/?
porno mags always has that weird smell to it
don't know why, that is if anyone is old enough to remember them
I kinda like the smell of old books.
Anthem
Any notable books about girls losing their virginity?
Catcher in the rye
My twisted world
Why does feminism rarely discuss economics in their argument against oppression?
Why does feminism long to obtain the same positions as old wealthy white men, but at the same time lament a dislike for old wealthy white men?
I mean, they'll argue against appropriation of culture, but not against using an iPhone, or wearing slave labor h&m or forever 21 clothing which exploits these other races.
>>7816459
That's just liberal feminism, there are many other feminist ideologies
Feminism is bullshit
>>7816463
Thanks, Josh.
Should I read Carpenter's Gothic before diving into Recognitions? Anyone here read it? Thoughts?
always read chronologically.
>>7815031
No, this isn't /mu/
>>7815030
Read Gaddis chronologically, as his ideas and views mature with each book.
What would Dave think of Donald Trump?
he would say that he's a good meme like him
he'd say he's banal
HED CUM
