>tfw mom grounds your will to power
powder*
>>7621311
what
>>7621311
>tfw mommy laughs and makes fun of you when she sees that you are posting on/lit/ again
Can someone tell me what is up with "Infinite jest"? I mean it's number 1 on list of /lit/'s favourite books. Is it a meme or is it that good???
sincere baiting nice. a new meta.
>>7620503
Pls this is not bait
>>7620496
The Venn Diagram that displays whether infinite jest is a good book/a meme book is a circle.
Sup /lit/ looking for experimental narratives and structure. It can be ancient text or graphic novel or anything in between. Bonus points for mind fuckery.
Read some surrealism if you want to go in hard. Like Aragon or Breton. Paris Peasant is one I've got lined up, I've taken a peek and it looks like banter madness.
Conrad's The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' blends first and third person narrative.
DOG'S
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>>7620050
Didn't aragon do the poetry about a girls cunt (literally?) I like surrealism but I wanted something more meta, I remember this short story a few years ago where the character had multiple personalities and the reader became one of them
Have any /lit/izens been academically unexceptional at English, whether at school, sixth form, or degree level? Like, even though they read widely and assiduously, only getting average or just-above-average marks?
Is academia a good judge of reading ability?
Academia teaches skills, not processes. You don't truly learn how to read in the intuitive sense, just what the education board thinks will work for you. Most teachers are also shitty at what they do and don't know how to evaluate students placements correctly. The only decent education is saved for elites to place their kids in private schools.
>>7619893
In short, the only way to really be good at reading and language arts is to have your parents teach you from a really early age good vocabulary and reading you sufficient books, not dollar store shit. I believe this was the only way I ever was educated. I started kindergarten early and was always proficient in Lit classes.
>>7619873
if you suck at degree level than you probably just suck at literature.
high school/sixth form/etc. evaluations don't mean much.
Recommend me a book on hiccups.
>>7619761
Who is this cum guzzler?
>>7619772
Patricia Highsmith
cutey eh
>>7619772
i can imagine her lips around my cock
glorius sss
All right I've seen so much talk here about how riveting this book is that I have to read it now.
What translation do you recommend?
Penguin, Buss translation. Cheap and great and unabridged/uncensored.
>>7619539
seriously just read up to the time skip and then make up your own last 700 pages. this novel is serialization bloat to the max.
>>7619740
What is going on in that picture?
>mfw plebs try to name any country with a greater literary tradition than Ireland
England
>>7619133
/thread
>The OECD Adult Skills Survey shows that 17.9% or about 1 in 6, Irish adults are at or below level 1 on a five level literacy scale. Ireland ranks 15th out of 24 participating countries. At this level a person may be unable to understand basic written information.
https://www.nala.ie/literacy/literacy-in-ireland
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/zen/mumonkan.htm
>>7618842
>http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/zen/mumonkan.htm
Who's reading this?
>>7620752
I tried
>>7618842
>'entangling your eyebrows with theirs'
Mu!
Am I doing it right?
>mfw the communist roommate in Crime and Punishment talks about how he will bring home lovers for his wife to have sex with in order to prove to her how radical he is
>mfw the Luzhin says he doesn't want to wear the horns of a cuckhold
>mfw the communist roommate says he should wear them with pride as a badge of progress
>mfw reading about Betrand Russel
>mfw he literally promotes cucking in "Marriage and Morals"
>mfw I find out his dad literally prepped bulls to shag his wife because he wanted to be progressive
You're just now starting to figure out that the enterprise called Western Literature is a bunch of cucks competing to write the prettiest letters? How new are you?
>>7618281
stop shitting up the board with stale pastas
Is anyone else here an undergraduate studying English with an impending fear that their life will peter out into mediocrity due to insufficient writing talent, connections, and drive? I write a reasonable amount but my stuff has hit a glass-ceiling in terms of quality, and my self-belief has slowly whittled away. Before I contented myself that I could turn into a sort of willing Bukowski or Henry Miller or Jack Kerouac, roaming from job to job and place to place with only artistic ambition to guide me, but now my luster has rusted.
The option of doing a Masters glimmers in the distance, but I don't think it'll increase my job prospects or achieve anything more meaningful that an additional bit of debt and another year marooned in my rather limited country.
Has anyone else felt this before, been in this kind of position? What did you do? What happened in the end? Am I destined for a life of quiet desperation?
>getting an english major with aspirations of being a creative writer
wew lad you're dumb
this is why english majors are a joke now - everyone wants to be DFW instead of wanting to be a bloom (or replace bloom with your critic of choice if you dislike him, the point stands). English is meant to teach analysis and criticism not some wishy washy creative writing bullshit.
And since you're too stupid to realize this I doubt you're gonna succeed at being a writer.
>>7612530
>I write a reasonable amount but my stuff has hit a glass-ceiling in terms of quality
It isn't, there's a reason every author wants their earliest and oldest works destroyed on their death.
>>7612530
nah im not going to college and im perfectly fine with my life petering out into mediocrity as long as i can occasionally get the succ
Opinions on the Min Kamp (My Struggle) series by Karl Knausgård?
1-3 are good so far.
>>7621394
I read 100 pages into 1 and I was bored to tears.
The first two were outstanding, in the middle of the third right now and it's also really good. Very evocative of childhood.
What does /lit/ think of it?
I have an option to buy it really cheap and wonder if it's worth reading. It would be my first book by Barth, I've planned reading Lost In The Funhouse and The Sot Weed Factor for quite some time now and now I found this.
Anyone have read it? I thought Barth is quite popular around here, not only in terms of memetic post-modernists worship.
He's not that popular around here. Check back in a year.
Write a love letter to the love of your life in your most refined prose.
Cholula,
I fucking love you.
Kisses,
Anon
>>7621323
I love that two timing bitch
hi Ursula, i/d lOvEE to(2) puTT de_q1OO%q in UsOmEdAy
"radiant Dawn with her resplendent gaze"
willow best girl
dawn a shit
>rosy fingered dawn over the wine-dark sea
"Their armor shone like fire in the sunlight,
and Argo plunged onward, its long white wake
most like a pathway through a grassy plain."
Can we have a Mencius Moldbug appreciation thread?
I'm surprised he's so seldom mentioned on /lit/. His prose style is idiosyncratic, modern (it chimes with the sensibilities of the Internet Age more than, say, Christopher Hitchen's did), and presented exclusively in blog format. He's at the cuting edge, a pioneer; the days of the essayist à la Johnson or Orwell are over and the big tombs of yesteryear will rot in the confines of academia as the frontiers of literature and political thought push forward into the digital era.
>In the 21st century, any writer whose work appears anywhere but his own blog is a shill. Or at least, he should be assumed to be compromised unless proven otherwise. The Internet has all the tools you need to write and be read without being beholden to anyone. If anyone rejects this independence, you have to wonder why.
Is he right /lit/?
The Baffler had a great piece on him and other Silicon Valley pseudo-libertarian royalists. Let me see of I can dig it up.
>>7621201
this is the master b8
Hey, that was easy: http://thebaffler.com/blog/mouthbreathing-machiavellis
