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What do you guys think of this new portrait of Shakespeare (pic related)?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/william-shakespeare/12166254/New-portrait-of-William-Shakespeare-as-flesh-and-blood-man-you-might-see-down-the-pub.html
I liked a lot. It’s touching to see a very human likeness of the (possibly) greatest writer of all time (and in his work table, a very nice decision). He looks alive in this painting.
The passage that he is writing is this one:
Hamlet. O that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Fie on't! ah, fie! 'Tis an unweeded garden
That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely. That it should come to this!
But two months dead! Nay, not so much, not two.
So excellent a king, that was to this
Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth!
Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on; and yet, within a month-
Let me not think on't! Frailty, thy name is woman!
A little month, or ere those shoes were old
With which she followed my poor father's body
Like Niobe, all tears- why she, even she
(O God! a beast that wants discourse of reason
Would have mourn'd longer) married with my uncle;
My father's brother, but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules. Within a month,
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,
She married. O, most wicked speed, to post
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
It is not, nor it cannot come to good.
But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue!
>when the clothes are better done than the face
what a shitty portrait
I really like it.
>>7734500
It's good
Tell me about your book club, /lit/.
Mine gives me aids, but interesting discussion is scarce.
i stood in the corner for a while and then thought "why bother" and left
>>7734430
How do you omegas even function? Book clubs are designed for you.
>>7734436
i am inherently invisible and unlikable
i think people can just detect "woah there are clearly things wrong with that guy", i just radiate mental illness and unlikability
Name a more literary profession than carpentry.
Writer
>>7734326
literarian.
check mate carpenters.
>>7734330
Carpenters can nail down words better than writers.
Carpenter 1
Writer 0
Have you ever read a book ironically?
No, but I've read plenty of ironical books.
>>7734293
Da.
>>7734293
No. What kind of a fucking retard would waste their time like that?
I like it so far, I've read every story except the dead. I'm not sure how I'm going to do with Ulysses since I feel stuff is going over my head. In Two Gallants I didn't pick up that they were stealing from that maid's master until I looked online. In Grace everything went over my head since I don't know a whole lot about anything they were talking about. Also in Clay, I had to look online to see what had happened since the significance of the clay was lost on me. Do I have no chance with Ulysses or am I doing OK?
read portrait first. you're probably not gonna have a good time with ulysses if you're missing a lot of stuff in dubliners, though ulysses can be enjoyed without knowing symbols/significance/context since a lot of it is just the style and prose and wordplay.
>>7734302
Would you say that it's "too much" if I'm missing just pretty much just the stuff in the OP?
Tell me everything you know about Chuck Tingle.
>>7734254
I've read one with red christmas starbucks cups. other than some editing errors, the story was pretty good.
How's handsome sentient food?
>>7734296
Handsomely.
muh waifu
Why haven't you read Menexenus yet anon?
It's Plato's most underrated dialogue with actual contemporary relevance.
>>7734116
What's it about?
What was the last novel/series that made you forget you were reading a book? When the story/characters are so good that it feels you're watching a movie.
For me, it was the GOT series. Say what you will about Georgie, but his story grabbed me by the balls. It's a shame the TV show will finish before him.
idk knausgaard?
>>7733964
>plebian maximus
>>7733995
We all have our guilty pleasures.
Give me a list of essential political books one must read
the art of war
ender's game
1984
brave new world
i am america and you can too! by colbert
Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley
>>7733962
Social contract
Capitalism socialism democracy
State and revolution
Reflections on the revolution in France
The Republic
>l'enfer, c'est les autres
what did he mean by this?
>What is hell? Hell is oneself.
>Hell is alone, the other figures in it
>Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from
>And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
what did he mean by this?
>Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib’d
>In one self place; for where we are is hell,
>And where hell is there must we ever be:
>And, to conclude, when all the world dissolves,
>And every creature shall be purified,
>All places shall be hell that is not Heaven.
what did he mean by this??
>The mind is its own place, and in it self
>Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven
>Which way I fly is Hell; my self am Hell
what did he mean by this?
http://www.bookdepository.com/search/advanced?searchSeries=73906
All of these books are listed as hardcovers while they are in fact paperbacks.
You get a refund if you contact them about it after receiving the books.
This does not stop the books from looking like dirt.
>>7733870
Way to be an asshole, OP.
commit suicide op
thanks OP
What are some good philosophical books exploring the issue of globalization and its effects on cultures across the world?
>>7733858
Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?
it's pretty short and also free, and goes over a lot of topics on how human lives have been affected by globalist capitalism, with examples.
Do you give your characters meaningful names?
I just name them all aureliano or Jose Arcadio
>>7733836
what if you have more than 2 characters?
>>7733839
just make up some gibberish
roll some dice and pick the respective letters in the alphabet
characters from outer space get names without vowels and the love interest(s) is/are named after the hot girls from high school
Post your favorite musical setting of a piece of literature.
/mu/tants not welcome, classical (western art) music only.
Gonna inb4 these two:
https://youtu.be/o5bU7ibqGkohttps://youtu.be/dJNEuvfeshg
Now listen to this:
https://youtu.be/4L7yHVMuWDQ
>>7733799
>these two
Eh, meant to also post Don Quixote by Strauss
Underread prose poetry - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKgcHjq1xKQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3L-gL4XmjM
How does c/lit/ think of the economist?
>>7733786
for the erudite redditer
With my brain
it's the one what i get my news of
