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>watching a film
>see a copy of infinite jest
>immediately turn off the television, get up, and start pacing around my room blowing raspberries while shaking my arms in the air until I eventually get tired enough that I fall to the ground with soiled undies so my mommy can drag me into the bath
Does anyone else do this?
>>7783502
What movie
keep /tv/ in /tv/
the young vampire is such a qt in that moviethe old one too actually
someone in a college fiction workshop gave me shit for using a justified alignment. is it that bad? should i not do it? my professor didn't mention it
>>7783422
>quibbling over inconsequential formatting
fuck em and feed em fish
>>7783422
wot since when has that ever been bad?
>>7783429
that was pretty much my reaction as well. i just like the way it looks, but i wasn't sure if it was repellant to most readers or not. i would imagine not, since books are formatted the same way...
If Borges wrote full-length novels he would have written something like BOTNS.
>>7783369
thank god he didn't and solidified his immortality then.
>>7783373
>>7783369
Gene Wolfe wrote short stories and they sure as hell are nowhere near Borges's.
Any Swedish persons here?
What is the etymology of the word "Orust", or at the very least its translation into English. I found nothing online.
>>7783160
Orust is an island in western Sweden.
It has no translation, it is a name.
>>7783165
Did I ask "What does the word 'Orust' name?"? No, I didn't.
Learn to read.
Looking for well-paced, easy, guilty-pleasure/enjoyable books. Trying to get my mind out of the fast-paced internet, and back into reading books. My guess is that this will allow me to flow back into reading again, any recommendations?
City of god. Paulo lins
infinite jest
Finnegan's Wake
Infinite Jest
2666
Ulysses
The Fault in Our Stars
Gravity's Rainbow
What does /lit/ think of Rimbaud?
shit and dead homo
verlaine is better
High tier two.
What the /lit/ equivalent of this chart?
>>7783052
Start with the Greeks.
Neechay
Bela Tarr, Jonas Mekas. Who are the rest?
How's the writing career coming, /lit/?
Slowly. How's yours?
Going to try and apply for a meme scholarship so I can get paid to study literature
>>7783031
>writing
>career
This better be another one of those cynically rhetorical threads, OP
What's /lit/s opinion on Ginsberg?
>>7782991
jew faggot.
>>7782991
He was great in 127 Hours.
>>7782996
/thread
Do you respect audiobook listeners /lit/?
Of course not.
Great for commute though.
I don't respect anyone unless they're threatening me or I need something from them.
Actual book readers>Audiobook listeners>>>>>>>>>>e-book "readers"
That's my respect scale.
What do I do after the Greeks?
Continue with the Romans.
Virgil.
>>7782955
ya followed the meme greek post, here take a look at the real one.
>>7782955
Greeks>Tacitus >Marcus Aurelius >Epictetus >Chaucer >Dante >Shakespeare >Cervantes
There you go.
Pic related
>>7782941
reading the exact same edition flimfam
It's the Eggers forward. No big deal.
>>7782941
at least it's better than pynchon
Why is this so great again?
Because you're so stupid as to ask.
>>7782737
It was an honest question, anon. I'm thinking about reading it since I finished Dublinees this weekend.
>>7782677
Because it assigns a human body part to each chapter.
Should I say, '1 in 12 workers was unemployed' or '1 in 12 workers were unemployed?'
The first one seems grammatically correct, but the second one sounds nicer.
>>7782672
"One" is singular; "one in twelve workers" is not.
Q: How many WERE unemployed?
A: One in twelve.
Q: How many WAS unemployed?
A: Don't speak to me, you filthy unlettered degenerate. Go back to your dirty European country, and speak the language of that country, not this one, you immigrant.
one worker in twelve was unemployed
>>7782672
First, you should say 'one' instead of '1' since you want to spell out such a small number (less than 10). This goes double if it's at the beginning of a sentence. (You can go with '1' if it's a headline.)
With that, the subject is 'one' (with 'in 12 workers' serving to modify it), so verb agreement requires 'was'.
>The first one seems grammatically correct, but the second one sounds nicer
I suppose...
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Has anyone on /lit/ actually read this book?
All memes aside, I thought it was an excellent, albeit lengthy, novel when it came to conveying the atmosphere of elitism and consumerist society that has fostered the widespread depressive, amoral, and nihilistic attitudes in this generation.
I don't see why people shit all over this book, even if a few chapters are just one-sentence rambling of drug addicts.
What do you think of this book?
>>7782449
It's for plebs who want to feel smart. Trash.
>>7782449
>the atmosphere of elitism and consumerist society that has fostered the widespread depressive, amoral, and nihilistic attitudes in this generation.
confirmed for not understanding the book
>>7782453
If you supposedly understand it so well why don't you refute my interpretation of it with a more sensible one? Unless, of course, you didn't read it
