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What are some good poems that aren't about romance or feelings?
I just finished Lepanto and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Iliad
>>7801130
Old Euclid drew a circle
On a sand-beach long ago.
He bounded and enclosed it
With angles thus and so.
His set of solemn greybeards
Nodded and argued much
Of arc and circumference,
Diameter and such.
A silent child stood by them
From morning until noon
Because they drew such charming
Round pictures of the moon.
-Vachel Lindsay
Cavafy's Ithaca.
Is it true, or just a meme?
It's a meme.
It goes against Holden's personality, and I haven't seen a reasonable explanation for it.
If anyone wants to convince me I'm all ears.
This a thread for all those stories where, you OWN a pleb, preferably about literature. I start.
Pleb: Shakespeare is the supreme and most glowingly original playwright.
ME, The Patrician: Yeah (smirk) He's the Edison of writing.
Pleb: What an apt comparison!
Me: Hahah, THAT was actually an insult, haven't you heard of Nikola Tesla? He plagiarized DFW you simpleton
Pleb: Ohhhh!
(The Pleb was an English Professor Hahahahaha!)
>at cafe reading Joyce
>pleb comes up to me and says, "Wow, Finnegan's Wake. Are you-"
>"Finnegans," I say, having to interrupt
>"Excuse me?"
>"There's no apostrophe. That distinction is very important."
>pleb becomes so ashamed of her error she just walks away
>See qtπ girl reading Infinite Jest at college
>Walk up to her
>"So you like DFW huh?"
>"Yes, he's brilliant!" she responds, clearly excited
>Decide to engage her in an intelligent literary discussion
>"Did you know that he killed himself because he hadn't any talent?"
>"E-excuse me?" (she is clearly impressed...
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I´d like to know where you can find free e-books
(especially the pic related one)
>websites
>torrents
>links
>>7801066
read the sticky
>>7801067
Thanks anon :)
Hey, also if you ever want to read classics semi-legally, check out Project Gutenburg. Plenty of well known books worth reading. Only older books (75 or so years)
That feel when 19,000 words in on your first novel and the idea just keeps getting stronger rather than your feelings of insecurity.
>>7800946
i don't know that feel
>>7800946
Kudos.
>going boating without a lifejacket
It's like she doesn't even want to be safe
Describe your ideal reading spot.
The great main room of a penthouse in a skyscraper, with floor-to-ceiling windows letting in streaming sunlight.
>>7800929
a corner of my rural public library
>>7800929
Even with all the money they spent on that library they couldn't make the shelves big enough
So did he ever end up finding a solution to resentment or what?
https://www.princeton.edu/~elman/documents/Nietzsche_and_Buddhism.pdf
scroll down to pg 11 nietzsche and buddhism
>>7801776
Thanks!!
>>7800928
>a solution to resentment
???????????????
resentment of others or ressentiment? the first needs no solution, and the solution to the latter is the overman
I just finished pic.
What did you guys think of it?
I liked how it really went into the struggles and confusion of most characters inner thoughts, without really moralizing or sentimentalizing.
It really struck me how little agency any of the characters really seemed to have, everyone felt so stuck, and it really came across in the prose and form to me.
Most of all, I thought it was a book about communication/miscommunication and the distances held/lost between everyone b.c of the ineffectiveness of communication/language. There seemed to be some hope...
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I liked the book. Steinbeck's prose is good, if not a bit purple. I found the characters to be very well done, especially Lee and Caleb and Abra.
>without really moralizing
Uh, what? I'm not saying it's necessarily a bad thing, just Steinbeck's style, but the entire book moralizes nonstop. What do you think "thou mayest" was about?
>I thought it was a book about communication/miscommunication
Does it happen in the book? Plenty. Is it a major enough theme to broadly say...
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>>7801057
thou mayest was irony, b/c probably the entire rest of the book was characters either trapped in their own personality, in their own culture, in their gender, in their economic situation and so on (all produced through language) that there was no place left for 'thou mayest this/that"
>>7801144
What about Cal? It's been a while since I've read but I remember him as an amazing character. I mean, the last words in the book are target towards him. I don't think I would say it's irony
Since it's 800+ pages long, before I venture into reading this, I would like to know: is it philosophical, or is it more science/fact oriented? Is it hard to follow? Does it have an uplifting tone to it? Why is it so long (does it repeat its point, touch a lot of topics, need to lay out a lot of history on religion/race issues/etc before it gets into its thesis, etc)?
And, what books of shorter length touch similar topics (a history of violence, the extremes of mankind, ultimate fate of humanity in relation to ethics, etc)?
>>7800690
it's pop-science
>Is it hard to follow?
lol no.
ass
>>7800701
Hmmm, I feared that. I was just going by the title, and some comments. Do you know if it's any good, then?
>that feeling when you read a book
>>7800613
>tfw you get to bend your oneitis over, spread her ass cheeks apart, and insert your tongue into her asshole after you've inhaled her scent deeply
>that feeling when you tell yourself "just another minute on /lit/ and then I will read" and then 4 hours later you are still here
>>7800641
Can aspiring writers use this as a motif for a writing exercise please
What are some fine books/essays/poems on the topic of hunger?
I'm not accepting Chicken Soup For The(teenage/elderly/abused/etc;) Soul.
>>7800536
Hunger as in literal hunger for food? Or do you mean a more broad desire for something?
>>7800543
The former, I think I have enough to read on the other one.
>>7800536
Hunger by hamsun
What is your favorite book that was released the same year as you were born?
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>>7800477
>>7800477
i guess
is this good erotica? does it turn you on?
more
Worthless.
>>7800465
can you explain why? this was my first try
Anyone read Solzhenitsyn.. thoughts?
>I have a dog, his name is Solzhenitsyn
>And mine's the house that Solzhenitsyn shits in
>Shit all round the room, me boys, shit all round the room...
He builds a fine good wall.
He's really good.
what does lit think of Jack Kerouac other than On The Road?
Visions of Cody is an incredibly original kind of masterpiece. Desolation Angels and Big Sur are also good.
>>7800396
we all read Kerouac in high school, so we hate him
also, we're against degeneracy
Journey to the End of the Night was great
