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Why isn't Millhouse a meme?
>>8252871
Milhouse is not a meme!
>>8252871
Because you cannot force a meme.
The most enduring memes are entirely organic.
>>8252871
read some Magritte.
How hard is it to win one of these? Has anyone had any experience with them?
I win these all the time on /sp/
My knowledge of the NBA is vast
I ask because some of these are really short.
At times I've seen $2000 for a 1000 word short story.
Are people on here submitting to these places?
You will lose to Shanequialeen Ebaubergowitzstein an Ethopian Jewish immigrant FtM tranny because DIVERSITY STRONK.
Check your privilege.
Excuse me, /lit/. I'm currently translating something from Japanese and I ran into a quote from a Alexander Pushkin poem/poetry. However, it never gave mention to the specific poem or such so I have come to you.
In short, it speaks of an oak tree, a man looking up at it, and the old days of ancestors. I've tried searching, but I can't seem to find what it is from. Would any of you be able to help me out?
Sounds like the beginning of Ruslan and Ludmila, the Lukomorye part
>>8252748
Thanks, but I actually found it there. The Japanese version is nothing like what I found on this site. That's the main reason I had trouble finding it.
http://www.pushkins-poems.com/
However, what's the name of this poem?
>If I walk the noisy streets,
>Or enter a many thronged church,
>Or sit among the wild young generation,
>I give way to my thoughts
>>8252764
Apparently it's untitled, one of those poems that start with ***
Hey /lit/.
I've recently gotten into reading after years of being too depressed to be able to focus on a book at all, so I'm very much a beginner and I haven't read many of the classics. So far I've read stuff like The Bell Jar and The Catcher in The Rye and have really enjoyed those two books in particular.
I would like some recommendations of decent beginner stuff which is fairly easy to read and preferably coming from the perspective of a female character. I tend to like more modern stuff based in the 50's and onwards too.
>>8252682
Here are some things I like that could also be taken into consideration:
Music - Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, Billie Holiday, The Smiths, Alice Coltrane, Kate Bush
TV - My favourite show is Twin Peaks, quite liked Mad Men for the vibe and I guess I enjoyed Breaking Bad. Used to be really into anime stuff like NGE and Masaaki Yuasa's stuff (Tatami Galaxy for example).
Film: I don't watch movies very often but tend to enjoy Studio Ghibli films. Not so much of a weeb anymore though. I like some art...
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>>8252682
miss macintosh my darling
>>8252703
>easy to read
Is this chart accurate? Tell me how a hundred years of solitude isn't a masterpiece and ASOIF is shit.
>>8252664
You fell for a poorly executed meme chart and took exception to the strangest examples.
>>8252664
Yes, it's completely accurate.how are you even capable of typing, you massive fucking idiot?
What are some modern authors that describe contemporary life in the same way this OP wrote his post?
>>8252545
John Green.
>>8252551
Heh
>>8252545
Tao Lin
Tbh Dosto is kinda close albeit from a while ago
are you ready for zenith part 2?
why don't we get together and write a YA satire. but make it so goddamn good that the YA kids think it's serious and fucking love it. then we become NYT best sellers + get money + get chick's = more time to focus on actual writing since we don't need real jobs.
>>8252517
we got a pretenderrrrr
>>8252526
lol
>>8252517
>Stop taking the internet so seriously
/fourleafclover
Hey, y'all.
I have a lot of difficulty enjoying experiences due to over analysis in the moment. For example when a friend tells a good joke that makes me laugh and about a second into laughter I'm asking myself with sincerity "why am I really laughing? if this is a means of bonding, shouldn't we be more thoughtful? or maybe genuine relationships should be totally organic." etc. and then I'm no longer laughing and the moment has passed. I'm not trying to jerk myself because I'm so thoughtful. I rarely come to any helpful conclusions...
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maybe you're just thinking about that kind of thing a lot at the moment and it rises naturally
maybe you have ocd and intrusive thoughts
maybe you haveautism
if its a good joke and you actually got pleasure from the joke itself i think it should be pretty straightforward, whereas if you're laughing out of social obligation you can usually feel it. the difference always seems pretty clear to me.
pure autism
>maybe you have ocd and intrusive thoughts
That would actually make a lot of sense given my history. I'm gonna look into that. Thx, m8.
Were any of the books good enough to be worth reading today just for aesthetics?
>>8252436
I am a literature professor and no.
"Aesthetics" implies enjoyment, and we could hardly allow ourselves to enjoy anything conscientiously while people are starving to death in Africa.
At the very least we should choose to only read books written by those people.
>>8252444
You're not a professor, you're 19 yo.
>>8252457
Well, I guess your IQ is no less than 70 after all
why is one of the most popular halloween costumes called "frankenstein" when it's the creature? how has this been allowed to go on for so long?
who cares nerd
>>8252399
how do so many people have it wrong and why is it so common to refer to the creature as frankenstein?
>>8252416
>Frankenstein THE monster
instead of
>Frankenstein's monster
Ficciones or Labyrinths ?
>>8252305
both
>>8252309
Which one first?
>>8252305
Labyrinths.
Why is Anna such a fucking thot
>>8252295
Is this good? I finished War and Peace, is it a huge world like that?
>>8252471
Read it you idiot.
>>8252628
You guys are mean
I'm trying to read more, and I was wondering what you guys think of audiobooks. Are they good? If so, where do I find them for free or cheap? Also, any audiobook recommendations?
>>8252263
>I want to read more
>give me something to listen to
>>8252263
I've got a recommendation: how to be a pleb by pleb narrated by pleb
>>8252263
Audio books are good as long as you are not reading highly technical literature. Librivox provides them for free.
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Dubs decides which book I read first
Don't read either one.
>>8252077
so? what did you pick?
>People often cry up the universal progress made [...] throughout the ages, and probably mean by that more particularly the progress in knowledge. Certainly knowlege is progressing, its advance is irresistable, it actually progresses at an accelerating speed, always faster, but what is there to praise in that? It is as if one were to praise someone because with the years he grows older, and in consequence comes nearer and nearer to death with increasing speed.
What did he mean by this?
>europe & modernity general
Do weird pics like that have a name? I dig the aesthetic tbqh
>>8252037
It looks a lot like those weird Watchtower pictures. Jehovah - core?
>>8252025
what a fucking retarded statement.
who said this? is this the pseudo intellectual dribble that modern philosophers come up with?
you want to know what there is to praise in that? how about the fact that increase in knowledge in most fields of science directly corresponds with longer, healthier and more fulfilled lifes for everyone you IQ 100 wannabe intellectual?
