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im permabanned poster niggerstomper58. i first started reading pynchon when i was about 12. by 14 i got really obsessed with the concept of "irony" and tried to channel it constantly, until my thought process got really bizarre and i would repeat things like "nigger dingleberries" and "i love sucking nigger turd dicks" in my head for hours, and i would get really paranoid, start seeing things in the corners of my eyes etc, basically prodromal schizophrenia. im now on antipsychotics. i always wondered what the kind of "ironic" style of...
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>>7735079
Well memed
WHEN, LONG AGO, THE GODS CREATED EARTH
>>7735221
In Jove's fair image men was shaped at birth
What does /lit/ read for, if not >the plot?
The style, the meaning, and the characters
>>7735054
the plot, desu
and the prose
>ywn cut grass with based Levin
viper me senpai
>ywn discuss Pan-Slavism with qt Russian aristocrat girls
>You will never marry a girl 14 years your junior and take her to your estate where she will become a pregnant cow and show you through a difficult birth how there must be a God
So /lit/ I'm not sure if this board is the right one to ask, but do you guys think any of the Crash Course Series are any good?
I mean I enjoyed their History series, although I was told by a number of people that it didn't go very in depth (duh, 11min video), had a lot of bias, generally looked at things from the point of view of a grade 10 no doesn't care, and so on.
So what about their economics, or sciences series? They any good?
Sjw shit
>>7734935
Reddit videos
How is called when you start reading an author/book and suddenly everyone else is doing it?
Plebness by proxy
Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon
>>7734930
Attachment to the 4chan zeitgeist
You have to do a serious monologue for a theatre class, 2-5 minutes, memorized. You can choose from anything but plays are best. What do you choose?
The conjectural poem by Borgaroos
>>7734926
My last duchess by Robert Browning
When I was in highschool I did a monologue from An Inspector Calls (think that is what it was called) and it was e.z.
If I did one now I'd do Ahab's doubloon in the mask and foam at the mouth.
I can hear them in my walls when I sleep, the calls of the lost chefs. I believe their ruler lives in the pantry. I have seen him before, once when I was getting a nice bowl of spaghetti o's, it was around 1am when I saw him slowly rise from the dryer, those lifeless eyes, rosy plastic cheeks. I saw him that night. I saw chef boyardee
Gritty.
LOL
>>7734868
Post boipusi
>>7734997
That's a sexy af gravity's rainbow
>be in coffee shop with dad
>old hardback copy of Don Quixote he just bought under his arm
>young female shop assistant asks what it is
>he shows her
>”Ohhh I love old things”
>”I’m old”
>move myself to back of shop to sit down
>outside he tells me he got her number
>think its a joke...
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>>7734819
Did he name his car Rocinante?
>>7734819
My dad married a filipina 3 months younger than me. Hes 23 years older than I am.
Your dad seems a lot cooler.
Once my step dad brought home a girl for me but she started crying so I sent her home in a taxi.
Basically old men got game I'll never have.
>tfw 3 years till wizard status
I recognize this greentext, faggot.
Hi, i'm new to this board and looking to get more into books. I was just curious as to what the general consensus on audiobooks is.
They ruin good writing, no punctuation, set pronunciation and pacing, etc.
They also make complex books very difficult to understand.
What is it with the ridiculous amount of newfriend threads lately? Is this some soft trolling attempt of another board or is r/books down? Read the wiki and delete the thread.
I have a more lenient stance on audio books than most of lit. I think they are fine to listen to if you have already read the work.
It you are listening for first time you should just kill yourself.
>author is american
>don't read
Americans know the alphabet?
>Author is a nigger
>Don't read
>don't read book
>discussion about it comes up IRL
>call it shit and give it vague criticisms
>"Yeah, now that I think about it, you're kind of right, Anon."
Give me some Zen poetry and literature.
We had a nice thread going last time lets do this agian :)
My father gave this to me what should i expect?
![5+zen+flesh-bones[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/xS9i6zk.jpg "5+zen+flesh-bones[1].jpg")
One of my favourites.
Not twice this day
Inch time foot gem.
This day will not come again.
Each minute is worth a priceless gem.
Other than being a meme, what has this man done?
I've seen the ideology films, but I don't think that stuff is the core of his thinking
>I know better than Zizek what Zizek thinks
he's written books that 90% of his fans never read
>>7734657
>I don't think that stuff is the core of his thinking
It's not.
Is there a philosopher ice berg chart?
>>7734623
That's not an ice berg you dip
The most accessible ones are at the very bottom, have you ever heard the term "tip of the ice berg" as in the very accessible thing you see first?
>>7734630
>That's not an ice berg
yeah no shit. you know what i mean
>>7734637
a pyramid
![literature-books-584[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/NAt31lO.jpg "literature-books-584[1].jpg")
How many books have you read? How many books do you read on a yearly basis? How many pages a day do you read?
>>7734511
0
0
and 0
People on /lit/ do not read.
Now start with the western canon.
Day: 15 - 60
Year: 8 - 20
Interested to see how this measures up, think I'm probably on the lower end of average for a "reader"
since Jan I've read 4
