I'm looking for a cute shy happy sexy gay love story.
>>7646482
When Rabbit Howls
>>7646482
moby dick
What's the best pen?
Keyboard
>>7646069
>taking lecture notes with a keyboard
the one ur mum puts up her vagoo
What are some good non fic books on ravens?
That's a crow.
I
Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.
II
I was of three minds,
Like a tree
In which there are three blackbirds.
III
The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds.
It was a small part of the pantomime.
IV
A man and a woman
Are one.
A man and a woman and a blackbird
Are one.
V
I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.
VI
Icicles filled the long window
With barbaric glass.
The shadow of the blackbird
Crossed it, to and fro.
The mood
Traced in the shadow
An indecipherable cause.
VII
O thin men of Haddam,
Why do you imagine golden birds?
Do you not see how the blackbird
Walks around the feet
Of the women about you?
VIII
I know noble accents
And lucid, inescapable rhythms;
But I know, too,
That the blackbird is involved
In what I know.
IX
When the blackbird flew out of sight,
It marked the edge
Of one of many circles.
X
At the sight of blackbirds
Flying in a green light,
Even the bawds of euphony
Would cry out sharply.
XI
He rode over Connecticut
In a glass coach.
Once, a fear pierced him,
In that he mistook
The shadow of his equipage
For blackbirds.
XII
The river is moving.
The blackbird must be flying.
XIII
It was evening all afternoon.
It was snowing
And it was going to snow.
The blackbird sat
In the cedar-limbs.
>>7646060
Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow."
Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.
As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.
If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens.
So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too.
Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't.
It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
What does /lit/ think of bizarro fiction?
>>7645925
I like to read it on opposite day.
>>7645925
Post some examples.
It sounds like a lame term made up to subgenre authors. How does it differ from surrealism or transgressive?
>>7645932
It's basically pulp but more lolsorandom.
I don't want to sound like a pleb but this was really a pain in the ass to get through. Dante's character is one of the most unsympathetic I've ever had to follow. Couldn't relate with him at all.
I would probably had to read it through again to really appreciate the vision of the Hell that Dante presented but after first reading it didn't leave any marks on me at all.
Also I think that it aged horribly due to altered conception of Christianity. I don't know...I was pretty hyped for it though.
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I'm talking just about the Inferno, how are the other two standing?
>reposting this cause no one took your stupid b8 the first time around
fuck off
>>7645900
Did OP post this thread before? Can you link the earlier one?
Why don't Europeans care about American Post-Modern literature?
>american
>literature
pick one
>>7645738
>non-American
>humans
choose one
because America is a third-world country.
Is 'She Hangs Over The Western Wall' supposed to be a Stencil impersonations chapter? It's set only a little after the last one and begins with a section about Stencil but I find it weird that he would impersonate someone like Victoria, in 'In which Stencil, a quick-change artist does eight impersonations' he only impersonated people tangential to the main story.
I think at that point the line has been narratively blurred if there ever was one between what happens and what is being reconstructed &/or hallucinated by Stencil. Or at least the chapter veers off from impersonations to more distant stencilization
I never understood the part about the "impersonations". Isn't it just Stencil gathering information and reconstructing stories?
>>7645606
in "In which Stencil, a quick-change artist does eight impersonations" he is imagining himself as the primary character in each chapter. He calls himself Stencil in the third person because he wants his identity to be interchangeable with Maxwell Rowley-Bugge or Yusef. One way in which Stencil shines through in all his impersonations in that chapter is that nearly all of the people he impersonates have an infatuation with Victoria - seems more likely that Stencil is projecting his infatuation rather than literally everyone who meets Victoria falling in love with her.
You have 10 seconds to explain any sense in reading philosophy.
>protip: you can't
>>7644660
>protip: you can't
Okay then I won't try
>>7644660
Because I enjoy it, which means others can enjoy it too.
>>7644660
Well it is going to be impossible for two reasons. Firstly, because philosophy requires either a chain of logic or a general theory to justify itself (which could take several minutes/hours to properly explain). Secondly, philosophy isn't some kind of magical reviling of truth, which when reached will be total and complete enlightenment. It is a process and in its very nature cannot be experienced or 'reached' in 10 seconds.
Haven't seen a thread like this on /lit/ in a while. Post your favourite books you've ever read, and other people can recommend books for you. There isn't a limit to how many you can have on your list, and try to keep it judgement free (although if someone has a particularly want list, you can let them know).These aren't necessarily books you think are the best of all time, or most important, just books you in particular really enjoyed. My top are, in no particular order:
>The Fall - Albert Camus
>A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
>Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
>One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Hi everyone! This is my book club's first semester reading list. What do you guys think? (I picked a couple of these. Guess which ones! Haha ;) )
>>7643473
Hmm, seems to me you like quite light reading. Why don't you try something a little heavier? I know this might be bait, but I'd recommend something like Marquez's Chronicle of A Death Foretold
How do I become a better editor? Will editing help me with my writing?
Bamp
Editing is writing. You have to revise everything.
/lit/ pls
>"Wow! That was AMAZING. What do you call yourselves?
>"The Brothers Karamazov!"
>Jorge, che... Decime tú que lo sabés todo. ¿Cuál es la primera letra del alfabeto hebreo?
>Pues El Aleph.
I swear Nietzsche did this with every fucking book, he created this meme
>>7640712
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Describe for me a sunset, /lit/
>>7636354
The sun started to go down. It is now dark.
>>7636354
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
The blazing ball of fire retreated behind the sea, its energy expended. Thus the candle of the Earth was snuffed. Her people slept.
Will it come across as pretentious or "lol dude weed" if my stories have surrealistic scenes but the prose itself isn't doing anything particularly experimental?
I find that all of my ideas revolve around stories that don't really "make sense" as far as traditional plots go but I'm not interested in being like Joyce or anything.
In a Gar ia
>>7647837
read murakami
you'll be at that level if you do it properly
while /lit/ will call you pleb, it will be alright and you might even sell a few books
godspeed
>>7647846
Fucked up
Do you mean in a Garcia Marquez style? Regarding the fantastic as commonplace and so on
What are some modern books that do visceral violence really well? Most otherwise grotesque books seem to skimp over the details like a PG-13 movie.
Pic semi related
>>7647703
American Psycho (incoming contrarians)
2666
Naked Lunch, though it's more hallucinatory
McCarthy in general, specifically Blood Meridian
>>7647703
Underground by Murakami.
Seriously OP, do you really just want violence without caring about genre or quality?
The two best violent novels i have read recently are a brief history of seven killings and pic related. Blood Meridian is also excellent.
American Psycho is not, and you would be better of seeing the movie. Only /b/ types fall for it.
I've read all this and I'm still retarded, how come ?
You forgot this one.
fra
>>7647683
>French
sorry bud you never had a chance.
