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What do you think about him ?
I have bought "the essential Frithjof Schuon" but a lot of it i don't really understand tbqh
I am fairly aquainted with traditionalist thought but i think Schuon's language is very dense.
>>7599564
he has a very "monkey" face
The flames sawed in the wind and the embers paled and deepened and paled and deepened like the bloodbeat of some living thing eviscerate upon the ground before them and they watched the fire which does contain within it something of men themselves inasmuch as they are less without it and are divided from their origins and are exiles. For each fire is all fires, and the first fire and the last ever to be
>>7599087
>One need only look at a woman’s shape to discover that she is not intended for either too much mental or too much physical work. She pays the debt of life not by what she does but by what she suffers—by the pains of child-bearing, care for the child, and by subjection to man, to whom she should be a patient and cheerful companion. The greatest sorrows and joys or great exhibition of strength are not assigned to her; her life should flow more quietly, more gently, and less obtrusively than...
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We are absurdly accustomed to the miracle of a few written signs being able to contain immortal imagery, involutions of thought, new worlds with live people, speaking, weeping, laughing. We take it for granted so simply that in a sense, by the very act of brutish routine acceptance, we undo the work of the ages, the history of gradual elaboration of poetical description and construction, from the treeman to Browning, from the caveman to Keats. What if we awake one day, all of us and find ourselves utterly unable to read? I wish you to gasp not only at what you read but at the...
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>>7599087
/lit/ was a mistake
- the late moot
Hi lit
Would any of you happen to know where I might aquire a pdf copy of The British Pharmaceutical codex 1955 for free?
>>7598711
Local library?
OR
State you are doing some research and ask the place you know has it
????
Profit
>>7598729
Also dat pic
>cannabis
>sulphur
>ferrite
>chloroform
What the fuck
>>7598729
Thank you for the suggestion, but it is unlikely that they would carry this text. I was considering perhaps, the British library; but what I'm really looking for is a personal copy.
Yeah, that's some pretty nice cough syrup - wouldn't you say?
What book is in this package /lit/?
oändligt med skoj
Oedipus King
>>7598674
graviditetens regngrej
Legitimate classic or complete nonsense?
How is it nonsense?
>>7599745
How it is is nonsense
>>7598227
I haven't read this one yet. But so far I can tell you that Beckett is truly a master.
By the way, what did you think of the ending of Molloy?("It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows It was not midnight. It was not raining.")
Do you think it's about the narrator's role (which would switch from Moran to Beckett)? Or is it more about the time, hence the switch of tense...
I'm really interested.
I'm sorry I forgot this man's name.
Could anyone help?
>>7596909
René Ofthemaps
I van Given da Dickus
Rene Descartes
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/06/borges-auden-nabokov-neruda-nobel-prize-literature-1965
>Nabokov, Neruda and Borges revealed as losers of 1965 Nobel prize
>Nobel archives have been opened to reveal who was nominated for the 1965 prize for literature, a controversial year won by divisive victor Mikhail Sholokhov
who the fuck is sholokhov
>tfw you will never win the Nobel prize for literature, beating Nabokov, Neruda, and Borges
He deserved it. People like to bitch about the nobels but the winners are always great in some way.
Also Nabokov is in no way Nobel Material. Borges possibly, but not Nabokov.
>>7592049
incorrigible stupidity
>>7592049
>the best prose ever written in the language after joyce
>not worthy of nobel
Names of books (narrative, poetry or theatre) with existencial topics, that have been published after 1960, and that could be placed among the classic books of that genre, being those the ones by Dostoievski, Kafka, Camus, Sartre...
>>7599529
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aesthetics-existentialist/#Bib
It's there a name for this idea?
You have some text your read in some electronic form, let's say a tablet/smartphone.
At some points a simple decision check is done where you choose between the actions the character will do or stuff he'll say.
This can have small or big impacts on the story.
Does this has a name?
I remember reading somewhere the term interactive literature.
>inb4 it's just a VN
>>7599449
Choose your adventure story? They used to be pretty common in print form some decades ago. Of course digitalization offers lot more possibilities.
Maybe you could call it non-visual visual novel :^)
>>7599470
I guess they're the print version of my idea.
I was planing more like some kind of interactive magazine or something like that.
http://www.clickhole.com/features/clickventure/
What are your favorite quotes /lit/?
I'll start:
''With bare feet I trod upon thorns and flints''
-- Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi
''Now is thy mouth prevented, for death has closed it''
-- Anonymous
''He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.''
-- Luke 22:36
"Man may bleed to death through the truth that he recognizes"
-- Nietzsche
"If you have not contributed to a catastrophe, you will vanish without a trace."
-- E. M. Cioran
Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
"To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his Gods."
-Macaulay, Lays of Ancient Rome
Once there were lions in China
-W.S. Merwin
Post yours, past or future.
I do not know what that r thinks it is doing. Please not to meme this thread with wok. Thank you.
kafka everything
me on the right
What did you guys think of pic related? I genuinely enjoyed this. How does this compare to Chuck Palahniuk's other work?
Just leave.
>>7598549
I enjoyed it, prefered Pygmy, lullaby, haunted and choke, but its not /lit/erary, so sage
One of the worst. So if you liked it, you'll like the rest. Rant & Haunted are the best. Fight Club & Lullaby are also worth checking out. And obviously his nonfiction is the only /lit/ acceptable part of his works, though they've never been acknowledged here until RIGHT NOW.
Just finished this. Was as thoroughly impressed as I was confused. Can anyone clear up some questions i have such as:
>the nature of the powers, where they come from and where they reside. (I know they are civs. that have advanced, but what path do they take to get there [metaphorically] )
>the location and path to the transcend and what is there
>the origin of the zones
>any more info on the Countermeasure and the Blight
also...
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self bump
>>7597883
doesn't look like literature
>>7598125
Shit, sorry professor. I thought i was on 4chan not in Ivy League literature class.
Worth a read? Don't bother? I read TGG in highschool, though it was 6.5/10.
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Can you repeat the question?
You're not the boss of me now
This was great. That last story, damn, it was depressing. Good but depressing.
i got this for my mom for christmas
>>7597385
It's worth a read. Most of the stories are really short and have a punch to them.
Sorry, unlike his name suggests, Stephen King is no literary royalty, he's just a pleb with dirty buttocks like the rest of us. PEACE OUT NIGGA.
