That is no country for old men. The young
In one another’s arms, birds in the trees
—Those dying generations—at their song,
The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long
Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.
Caught in that sensual music all neglect
Monuments of unageing intellect.
An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence;
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.
O sages standing in God’s holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing-masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.
Once out of nature I shall never take
My bodily form from any natural thing,
But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
Of hammered gold and gold enamelling
To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;
Or set upon a golden bough to sing
To lords and ladies of Byzantium
Of what is past, or passing, or to come.
>>7640219
Looks like a bird nested on his head.
>>7640313
Maybe
Are readers better at scrabble?
Readers may bring a large vocab, but Scrabble is ultimately a game and those who know the rules, who've played it more, and are clever, will win.
>>7638827
No, especially WWF. The game where people can get lucky and play "xu" and "xi" at the same time over a triple word score because they're testing out where to put their X.
Also, not /lit/.
I fucking suck at scrabble and I do nothing but read.
Bad brain I guess.
What was your favourite avant-garde movement /lit/?
Not just in art but in literature.
>>7633856
Im redpilled, so I am vehemently against all forms of avant-garde expression. It's degenerate
>>7633865
This! Hitler was right about that
>avant-garde
>Pop art
end your life kid
>in class
>every student has to take turns reading
Is there anything worse than this?
>>7633629
Are you in high school?
>>7633629
How is 8th grade OP
>That meathead who was stuttering and pausing between every word and couldn't pronounce "privacy"
how old were you when you read LOTR?
i was 10 and i skipped entire pages that bored the living shit out of me
>>7628679
middle school.
I moved on when I realized that fantasy is just a substitute for people too dumb to get into history.
>>7628685
I see
Surely you have to admit that, whilst not literary masterpieces, they're infinitely better than most if not all young adult trash
>>7639364
Shoo
>>7639373
But they're at the very least competent, anon!
>>7639364
they're pretty much average examples that somehow hit the mainstream jackpot.
What is the literary equivalent of Earthbound? Quirky surreal and able to make someone as embittered as me feel childlike with wonder?
>>7636683
Good examples off the top of my head:
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,
Dirk Gently,
2001: A Space Odyssey
Big Trouble
Murakami's weird shit might be what you're looking for, even if he gets shit on around here
>Japanese Twee
Murakami.
Have any of you read Mira Gonzalez'z work? What do you think of it?
>>7632495
Go home, Mira.
Go home Mira.
You're high again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzOiievj9Wk
Are you fellas gonna participate?
This guy's a fag
Are Edgar Allan Poes stories worth reading?
Quantify the worth of reading.
>>7640677
better for children but they're still entertaining. much better than his shit poetry
Some are pretty dull, but at least the well-known ones are worth your time, sure.
I can never remember what happens in the books I read, the main plot turns or even the characters names sometimes. Yet when I read the book again for the 2nd time, it is never the same and I get bored really quickly.
How do I hold information better?
>>7640538
Just write it down somewhere. Jot down character descriptions and major plot points somewhere.
>>7640548
Why would you want to do that? There's Wikipedia for that.
OP, you read to live the experience of reading a work of literature, not to remember "what happens" in it. Think about it this way: does knowing the details equal reading a book? No? Then having read it does not imply remembering such details.
In the Miso Soup - Ryo Murakami
The 120 Days Of Sodom - Marquis de Sade
1984 - George Orwell
The Age of Spiritual Machines - Ray Kurzweil
The Andromeda Strain - Ray Kurzweil
Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nieztsche
Brave New World - Alduos Huxley
The Consumer - Michael Gira
Cows - Mathew Stokoe
Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Journey To The End of Night - Louis-Ferdindand Celine
Juiliette - Marquies de Sade
Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings - Marquise de Sade
Lolita - Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
The Metamorphasis - Franz Kafka
Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
No Longer Human - Osamu Kosinski
Notes From Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski
Stoner - John Williams
Story Of The Eye - Georgies Battaile
This Spoke Zarathustra
Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
The Wasp Factory - Iain M. Banks
The Woman In The Dunes - Kobo Abe
The World As Will And Representation - Shopenhauer
I am just trying to get into reading. Anyone know what book I should start with?
Animal Farm is an easy read.
Start with the Greeks
Proceed with the Persians
Trying to track down a book I read in high school. It was set in the 70's and followed the story of a teenage employee of a country club who's in love with one of the members' daughters. It also turns out her grandfather was a Nazi (something not even she knew).
Anyone heard of this one? I've tried searching and no variation of "70's country club teen romance nazi grandfather" brings anything up.
im also looking for a book, glad i didnt have to make my own thread. its about a girl, possibly adopted, in her teens. basically she takes care of her abusive grandmother, who at the end turns out to be a ancient egyptian or something (babalonian) something along those lines, and she has been possessing bodies of people forever basically and at the end possess the grandaughter.
its very much like the skeleton key movie. any help would be appriciated
>>7639309
The book that you are thinking of is the movie Caddyshack.
I'm sort of having a meme but sorta not. Watch Caddyshack and that will go a long way toward scratching your itch.
Hey /lit/, moron learning English here.
Which sentence is correct? Google Translate says they're equivalent, but I don't think so.
>We both know what need to be done.
>We both know what needs to be done.
Second one
Second one
The first one if you don't want to be a square.
has anyone else read this book?
I'm about 4/5ths of the way through and I'm not really enjoying it at all . . . every hundred or pages or so it gets exciting but in general i just want to be done with it. I'm almost finished so i might as well go the rest of the way.
has anyone else read it? and if so, what are your thougths?
>>7639040
It's a lot of fun, very nice in german.
>>7639040
I loved it. Obviously can't assess the original but the translation was beautifully written. Without wanting to meme, it almost sounds like you're reading for plot or something.
>>7639040
I found it rather enjoyable, much more than Cat & Mouse at least.
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