Genuinely good slam poetry?
Genuinely black whiteness?
>good
>slam poetry
>That angle
yeaaaah, "poetry"
Hey /lit.
I want to read something in Czech.
Can you help me?
P.S.Kafka - plz NO. War with the newts - done.
More like this please. This was great.
Check out Child of God
Maybe try some J. G. Ballard.
>I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.
>“What is that?” I point to a tapestry across the room from her bed. It looks like a purplish Persian rug. It’s hung up by thumb tacks.
“A tapestry.”
“Oh, I guess I knew that,” a content quiet sets over. I trace the outline of her side with my fingertips. “One time, when I was sick as a kid, real dehydrated, I was sitting on our couch in the living room, and we had this huge tapestry, probably bigger than that entire wall, with some kind of Victorian-looking mural on it, hung from a gold bar across the top behind the couch. And I was so feverish that I was disoriented, and I needed to go pee, and I sat up on the couch and grabbed the corner of the tapestry, looking behind it, and I stood up and put my head behind the tapestry, sort of walking across the couch as I scanned the wall behind the tapestry. My mom asked me what I was doing, and I replied ‘I need to go to the bathroom,’ and then I realized that I couldn’t pee behind the tapestry, so I wondered off to the bathroom, and my dad followed me because he was concerned. I got to the bathroom, started peeing, and passed out, falling backwards. He caught me, which is good, because I would’ve hit my head on the window sill behind me.”
She’s laughing a lot. I’m laying with my chest on her stomach, perked up so that we’re looking at each other. “Bet you didn’t expect that.”
“No,” she giggles, “I didn’t.”
>>7690624
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>>7690624
I dig your writing, got any more examples?
Where do I go from here?
>>7690591
Thanks, any recs if I want to read more about Middle English?
>>7690601
Nope, don't know much about that.
Prove me wrong
Pro tip: you can`t
He was completely unpractical He would rather fall and lose everything than do some simple lip service. The level of obstinacy is the equal of King Lear (though Lear does it out of Ignorance where Coriolanus is out of disdain and arrogance). He is so deficient in political life that no one could say that he did right.
>>7690573
Coriolanus did nothing his mother didn't want him to do.
Prove me wrong.
Coriolanus "did" nothing.
-THE DEAK
He couldn't handle the banter.
What are the first books you ordered off of Amazon?
Pic related, I bought these in September of 2007.
The Stranger, Dorian Grey and Divine Comedy in 2010 when I first got into literature
3 weeks ago
read the first 200 pages in the local library, but moved away now
I can't remember ever ordering any books off Amazon. Shipping to Canada kills any deal.
Full-time student here working 20 hours a week. It's not necessarilly that I don't have the free time to read, but rather that I'm so exhausted by the time I get home that I prefer, at that point, to lie down and watch TV or browse the Internet. Is anyone else in a similar situation? Should I take nootropics? Modafinil?
>>7690445
Increase stamina, eat more, get into fitness etc. I used to feel like this before /fit/. Also, if you have good healthcare consider thyroid problems.
NOT LITERATURE FUCK OFF
>>7690445
I'm in the same situation and continued reading despite it. If I fall asleep after two pages then so be it. If I'm satisfied after a few chapters then shitpost anyway then I'm already more relaxed than I would be if I went straight for the remote or to /r/hotwife
All these threads, and none on the bible...
Perhaps it is the secret of this second approach, why this country will fall...
I fucking love schizophrenic threads.
>>7690328
That is because everyone ends up flinging shit at each other, proselyting, greentexting on orthodoxy, and discussing jews, circumcision, and abortion, not discussing the bible as a literary piece (which is a rare way to discuss it anyways, as most discuss it from a faith based perspective or a a historical-critical perspective).
/his/ is more appropriate, pic related there are 4 threads on the first 4 pages on the bible right now.
>>7690516
All of them are shit.
>meme book
>what did he mean by this
Hey /lit/
What are some publishers or editions that should be avoided at all times.
wordsworth editions
popular penguin editions (something like that)
Wordsworth is pretty great. Super cheap.
>>7690332
>popular penguin editions
Can you elaborate or give some examples
Was Tengo living the ultimate /lit/ lifestyle?
>lives alone in a simple apartment
>Has an easy intellectual job to support himself and his writing
>no family to worry about
>married gf that he bangs at will
>lives in Japan
We should all aspire to reach Tengo's heights.
Tengo was a beta faggot with a malignant case of oneitis
the only character worth admiration was the dowager
is he the one who reads proust?
Why is Zadie Smith so popular if she's never written anything good?
Is it because she fucked DFW?
I'm pretty sure that she's more well known than he is.
No discernible talent in either.
>>7690187
I doubt that. Why do you think so?
What is your approach to plotting? Do you make shit up as you go along, or do you carefully outline each event in your story before you start writing?
Are there any books on this subject that you would recommend?
This is so dumb, I can't even start to consider it
what is "plot"
>>7690013
What is dumb about my question?
Let's talk about essays. What are your favourites? Why? Post download links for extra points.
Also, what are some good introductory (or, understandable by a novice) essays on literature? C'mon.
>>7689909
I love Zbigniew Herbert's essays. They are pure gold. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if they have english translation.
Woolf is pretty great in essays too. Beautifuly written.
>>7690365
i love his poetry, but i had no idea he had essays floating around
what subjects did he write about
Obligatory DFW post (and some other stuff I like):
E unibus pluram (or something like that)
Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky
That one about American Usage whose title I don't remember
Big Red Son
First three are pretty entry level and about literature or linguistics. Last one I found hilarious. I think all of them are free online.
Also, check out Barthes' Death of the Author and Cleanth Brooks' Irony as a principle of structure (most New Criticism is pretty straightforward). I don't know about translations, but Borges' essays are GOAT, at least in Spanish (particularly that one on why he knows Joyce's Ulysses despite not having read it completely, the one about Coleridge's dream and the New Refutation of Time).
I found this beauty in my bookstore
nice find buddy. wanna sell it to me?
>>7689829
>falling for the bookstore meme
way to go pleb
>>7689867
I didn't buy it dunderhead that's why Meme is the subject
