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>some nobel laureate jew who wrote about Auschwitz dies and /lit/ doesn't speak a word about him
Sure is comfy in here.
>>8236661
He was 87. It was bound to happen some day.
Who are you quoting?
>>8236661
You mean the compulsive liar?
How do I into screenwriting?
>>8236636
Be related to someone with actual talent, then take expensive Hollywood courses that teach you how to be a hack. Source: producer.
>>8236636
Make shit scripts and know people
Meet people first...
Which should I read first?
The Hermenutics of Sailing — Paul Butfield
You should read Catch 22 first. Then you should read Moby Dick. Then you should punch yourself for even considering reading Brave New World.
Moby Dick is the best
Recite the best poem in the world
Or i'll eat your souls
I hate reading out loud. My thinking voice is much better than my speaking voice.
Of Mans first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste...
>>8236477
I got broads in Atlanta
Twistin' dope, lean, and the Fanta
Credit cards and the scammers
Hittin' off licks in the bando
Black X6, Phantom
White X6 looks like a panda
Goin' out like I'm Montana
Hundred killers, hundred hammers
Black X6, Phantom
White X6, panda
Pockets swole, Danny
Sellin' bar, candy
Man I'm the macho like Randy
The choppa go Oscar for Grammy
Bitch nigga pull up ya panty
Hope you killas understand me
So i saw this guide i got interested in the "being like water" part.
I got a copy of Being and Time and im like 1 page in and i dont understand shit.
What do?
pls no bully
>>8236476
read the canon first
Any philosophical text is a dialogue with those preceding it - get at least a rough outline of Western philosophy (and in this particular case, Eastern too maybe) and then try again.
Not memeing by the way, this is how you do it if you don't want to be the whole thing to be useless.
>>8236476
Buy a companion to Being and Time, perhaps?
Try to get as much as you can out of the book, using dictionaries and encyclopedias if you have to. Maybe skim over http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heidegger/ .
I'm sure you can find plenty of Youtube videos about Being and Time, too.
Don't be hysterical.
Remember when they were recieving applications for more moderators? Yeah, so like, what happened?
>>8236455
go away illuminate
>>8236475
Did you miss the joke?
>[s4s] has a Beat Poetry General
>>>/s4s/4565261
Bömp
>Stench of unspoken longing, sticky fingers, mind's eye penetrating blouse, scouting about in her, eh, what did you say? Oh yea, that sounds really banal. Sitting two minds next to each other distanced by walls of impenetrable flesh, eternally removed, two minds that have long forgotten telepathoid mind language of yore, the horrors creep in: You can smell and hear and see your darling slowly accept the language of the body as her own, crude movements of tongue and vocal chords forming "vowels", bowing to "phonology", expressing...
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>yfw [s4s] godtier poet
>mfw i have no face
>only shame
this manson poster needs an editor so we can steal his work and be next cummings
>How beautiful your girl must be one the coat of paint on her face cracks. Simulated lighting, plastic skin atop organic matter, skintight on-smeared burka in different flesh tones, all pores must be clogged says the state minister of bodily cavities and the internal, no skin may be shown, all hairs must be plucked, all...
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Is doing a literature degree worthwhile if the courses I want to take will be in translation? (Jobs aside -- not a concern for me.)
I'm talking Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Blake, Goethe, Coleridge, Kierkegaard, J. H. Newman, Flaubert, G. Eliot, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, M. Weber, Durkheim, etc.
Or should I just do English? My impression is that English programs are focused mostly on Anglo-American tradition which doesn't seem as interesting to me.
>>8236401
Bump
https://youtu.be/NTfMZ6EAwIc
>Wants to be a translator
>Not posting Shino
But yeah, if you are interested in translation, probably better to get your degree in the language you want to translate from, as you'll have to read some of their literature in the higher level courses anyway. If you're learning the language, better to read it in the original anyway.
It's not like you can't take a literature course outside your major. Or just read books outside your coursework and take weird classes you'd never be...
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I'm in need of some advice.
My grandfather passed away a couple weeks ago at 91 and his funeral is this week. I've been asked to say a short poem at the funeral but want to choose a more appropriate one myself. Was going to go with Yeats but thought best not.
Any ideas of a good appropriate poem for a 91 year old man's funeral?
What poem were you asked to read and why? Maybe the choice is meaningful in some way and should be respected.
Anyway, Thanatopsis is an appropriate one but it is long. Maybe read an excerpt.
A. E. Housman
>>8236365
one of Tennyson's later poems
How do you feel about William S. Burroughs?
>memeoplasm
What has he done for me lately?
junky was ok. his automatic writing meme didn't make for very interesting writing.
I keep seeing him come up, always highly regarded. Where do I start with him?
>>8236356
>Where do I start with him?
you already know
>>8236363
If you said that to me in person I would elbow you in the fucking throat
genealogical method is good, conclusions are shit
Rank the arts according to your taste.
Mine:
Literature > Music > Painting > Film > Sculpture > Theatre > Architecture
literature > film > theatre > music > sculpture > painting > architecture
where do video games rank?
>>8236239
Am I the only one that thinks this was his best novel?
>>8236220
I haven't yet read it but every time it's mentioned here it's either his best novel and loved, or his worst novel and hated with no in-between
I enjoyed it, but haven't read many of his other works. It was a simple book.
>>8236220
Ive read about 3 or 4 of books of his fiction and i can honestly say its the only one I enjoyed.
Favorite Lovecraft story?
Favorite Lovecraftian story?
What do you think of Lovecraft in general?
>>8236200
>Favorite Lovecraft story?
rats in the walls or the color from outer space.
>Favorite Lovecraftian story?
perutz' the master of the day of judgment but it predates him.
>What do you think of Lovecraft in general?
trash writer.
>the horror that lay before my eyes chilled me to the core, so hideous that I can barely bring myself to think of it, oh indescribable horror!
That's every story he wrote. Ever. Just saved you like 1000 pages.
>>8237631
His technique is not about delivering clever one-liners, but slowly enticing you towards what seems to be resolution only you figure out it's not. It's what makes his works inherently scarier than most works in my opinion. Because the horror is implied.
Are there any good works that originated in this language? I tried reading La Vida Es Sueño and a work by Carlos Fuentes (both recommended to me by my Spanish major friend), but could not get into them. I've been studying Spanish for over a year now and consider myself a fluent reader, but have only read English works translated into Spanish (Harry Potter and The Hunger Games so far). I'm worried I'm learning "English-Spanish", but everything I've read that was first written in Spanish has been garbage.
Any Spanish readers here?
+ bolano, borges, marquez, cortazar
if you're too pleb to get into lorca i would stop reading altogether
>>8236163
"Cien años de soledad" by Gabriel García Márquez
beautiful book
>>8236163
What kind of literature are you interested in, anon?
Most Spanish best stuff it's quite old, but there are some nice Latin American authors you could easily get into.
BTW, La vida es sueño it's not garbage, senpai.
