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What are some great works of Medieval /lit/?
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Which years? This is important.
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>>7651189
The medieval years
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>>7651177
Disciplina Clericalis by Petrus Alfonsi

Anybody ever give this fella a shot? Any recommendations?
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White: X
Male: √
Dead :X
Sorry pal. I can stretch to 2/3 but 1/3 is unbearable
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>>7650653
this. if he aint white, i ain't reading it
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>>7650645
I listened to some of his lectures, thoroughly enjoyed them

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Did you like War & Peace /lit/?
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was there a show
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>>7650197

>tfw no book with Platon as the main character
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>>7650197
Yeah, it's a classic desu.

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What tare the best history books that you have read?
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>>7649604
>Rüdiger Safranski's Schopenhauer and the wild years of philosophy.
>Peter Burke's the great cat massacre.
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>>7649604
>reading any book about Napoleon in 1812 other than War and Peace
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>>7649604
Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris

Do you read or write in a café?

If so, how?

They never really struck me as /lit/ friendly places. You have awkwardly high or awkwardly low tables, and patrician coffee in tiny cups that takes thirty seconds to drink, leaving you not much reason to hang around.
Do you go between meals or for a meal, followed by a round of /lit/ activity?
How did literary café culture exist in places like Vienna or Paris?
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>drinking coffee
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Literally the only reasona people do that are if they're bothered by the loneliness of writing but still want to write, they can't stop masturbating to porn if they try to write alone or they just want to be seen writing (tho that's more an adolescent thing)
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>>7646194
I like them. There aren't any other distractions and I don't drink coffee anyway, so I just buy one to pay for my seat. Plus, there are cute baristas.

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Didn't see one so I'll start it I SUPPOSE.

Share, critique, give ideas, etc.

Here's mine-
Scarves wrapped ‘round our throats
to keep quiet our whispers, scarlett
scarves with ends billowing in the wind.

The glass that blows across the starving hearts of January
will scratch our noses. Leaves of mint hang in the doorway
for scent upon my step into your eyes, angel, your lines.
How the wood creaks with each footstep.

Smile wide, daughter of the pines,
show me your teeth and tongue.
Your waist is a fire glowing,
with embers flying upward into darkness.

I hang my shivering hands above you,
but dare not touch.

I'm still working on the second half, its not quite there yet. I'm looking for some stronger images. Any ideas will be appreciated!
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Have you read any poetry at all?
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>>7634754
I read a ton of poetry, its what I mainly write. This is a bit outside my usual style
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Is this a good one /lit/?
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>>>/reddit/
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>>7654497
so it's reddit tier? Use words faggot
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There are some good ideas and an interesting story buried under a lot of lazy presentation masked as "quirk".

Read the first 2 chapters and decide whether or not to continue from there

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Why does nobody ever talk about this here?
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>>7654361
because it's shit. pleb tier genre fiction, incredibly juvenile, and completely lacks any discernible talent.
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>>7654361
Because /lit/ is for the discussion of literature
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Because everyone here is a Harold Bloom enthusiast.

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Hey do you guys want to buy a book in a brick and mortar book store?
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what the flipping fuck
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If I go to a bookstore it won't be Amazon. That's for ordering online.
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I don't get it, what's so special about an actual bookstore?

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You know, I really completely understand what Mersault felt when he shot the Arab on the beach in the sun

Not that I plan on shooting anyone, but that complete sense of apathy
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>>7653270
> what Mersault felt when he shot the Arab on the beach in the sun

What did he feel? Tell us so we can tell you how you completey misinterpreted the novel.
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>>7653277
Nothing, complete apathy to the absurd human nature
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>>7653277
Hot

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>it's a "greatest dog perspective in all of western literature" chapter
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I'm gonna name my next dog laska desu
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>>7652969
>hasn't read diary of a madman
pleb
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>>7652969
>It's a 'Greatest ambulance perspecitve in western literature' chapter.

Does anyone else here like watching Bookworm? What are the best interviews?
Here's one with Gass:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RLlYVszUMpM
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>>7652911
No, they have interviewed women and ethnic minorities before. I don't support liberal brainwashing like that
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>>7652919
Anon...
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>>7652930
Wow, thought I was on /pol/. I apologize.

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How often do you guys buy a book by an unknown author that's been newly publish?
I find it funny how a bunch of us are aspiring writers, yet a lot of us only seem to buy/read the classics.
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I don't find that funny at all. We're just starting by the beginning, perfectly normal.
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why would I gamble on a new author when there hundreds of sure-things i've yet to get around to?

>aspiring authors
aspiring in a dim far away sense
i'm sure those here who are actually published or do actually have a novel in the works probably do read new authors
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>>7650921
None, im not a faggot.
No seriously the only newly published things that i find are utter trash like soccer mom books.

Any recs? No alt lit shit either.

ITT: Guilty pleasures
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Masturbating to hentai.
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>>7650206
That's not /lit/ related.
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Horns
John Dies at the End
Penpal
Currently really enjoying The Fountainhead

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What are /lit/'s thoughts on this? I'm digging it so far.
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>>7654111
cool cover, the movies sucked
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everyone else read it when they were 8
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>>7654272
The Great Illustrated Classics version doesn't count you pseudo-pat.

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