Who here is living the aesthetic lifestyle as lived by the author of The Diary of a Seducer?
*rises from grave through grace of God*
*teleports behind OP*
Better start with the fear and trembling kiddo
*unsheathes nordic longsword made of superior swedish iron folded over 9000 times and capable of cutting through a canon barrel*
Tskkk, you had your chance
*telologically suspends the ethical and decapitates you*
>>7578355
This post is literally more aesthetically perfect than Don Giovanni
Has anyone here read Tanizaki's The Key?
>>7578149
Go away weeb
nah none of the libraries near me had it
Yes what do you want to know about it?
In book viii of the republic Plato writes
>Now that which is of divine birth has a period which is contained in a perfect number
He then does a bunch of geometry before going back to the four types of state.
What does Plato's number mean?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato's_number
I did check out Wikipedia first, which does say that it's unexplainable. But I was hoping an e/lit/ist could explain it a bit better.
>>7579800
It's unexplainable
What are the best series dedicated to releasing introductory material? I'm talking about things like the Very Short Introductions, Cambridge Companions, even the "... for Dummies" type of stuff.
>>7578055
Cambridge Companions aren't really introductory material. They're more for getting into the secondary scholarship after you've familiarized yourself with the primary material.
I get aroused when I read Women in Love. The way he describes Gerald's mastery of the Horse and when Gerald and Rupert wrestle.
How do any of you feel about arousal and literary appreciation? Is it something to conquer? Does it distract from the art?
I suppose one could say that it falls in line with Lawrence's attempt to remind us of the importance of the body and it's experience, but maybe he did not have this in mind.
>>7577721
I found it very hard to read Lolita.
Anyway, it didnt distract me from appreciating the prose though, very comfy book.
Have you read Sons and Lovers? Do you recommend anything else by him?
>>7577931
>sideway lips look like a cunny
well done book designer, made me double take.
>>7577721
I sometimes get aroused when reading Whitman, but I think he would have wanted that.
Should I read him?
Where should I start?
>>7577610
>Should I read him?
Yes. He's one of the great English novelists. I've never read any other with quite the same style; among the modernists, I think he comes closest to developing a real language of feeling and experience, especially in The Rainbow.
>Where should I start?
Sons and Lovers, then move on to The Rainbow and Women in Love. If you want more, go for Lady Chatterley's Lover and his short stories before exploring his more inconsistent later novels. His poetry has some bright spots too.
Incidentally, there's already an inactive Lawrence thread at >>7577168
>>7577853
Thank you very much anon
>>7577610
His poem Butterfly is t'riffic, I recommend that.
Jesus Christ....im about to go pick this up. I read a brief summary, and other implications about the book and i am enthralled. Any of you /lit/heads read this? Suggestions, thoughts?
Loved it, found it in the iBooks free sections years ago and read it in one sitting on a plane. Have thought about the concepts therein many times since. Would and have recommended.
banal
>>7577598
I liked it. It was a very original work at the time he wrote it.
There is nothing to suggest here, this book is pretty straight forward in everything.
Does /lit/ enjoy the writing of the artist Miranda July?
Just finished reading "No one belongs here more than you", a collection of short stories and thought they were remarkably good.
What should I read next?
yes, her short stories are quite good but very self-conciously twee. still, very good.
you should read nick flynn's another bullshit night in suck city and lolito
>>7577552
Thanks for the recommendations. I rather enjoy the twee
>>7577539
she is cute :3
Everytime I try to talk to someone it's 'sorry this' and 'forgive me that' and 'O I'm not worthy...'
Sorry.
>>7577517
You mean you're black?
>>7577526
WHAT ARE YOU DOING NOW?!
What are some books on the early new world. Preferably with some reference to ships & war.
Think of the movie Master&commander, but then in bookform.
Master and commander
Master and Commander II: Remastered.
Commander and Master: the gladiator
How are the translations of the Strugatsky brothers' works? Anything worth reading?
>>7577471
They aren't bad. Read Roadside Picnic and Hard to be a God.
>>7577496
Yeah, just watched the trailer for Hard to be a God, it seems really interesting. Thanks Anon!
Roadside Picnic was the Stalker book right?
>>7577522
yup, Roadside Picnic is basically Stalker
How can I keep writing? I've done a first draft of a novella one month ago and now I'm rewriting everything, doing all from the zero. Some points of the plot I'll keep but others require that I change the structure so much that I don't know if I can cope with the new complexity that things are taking. I also know that it will take me a while rewriting and drafting so many times that I can't conceive if I'll really finish at the beginning of February. Why didn't you tell me that was so hard to be a writer?
>>7577283
It's like that for any art form.
>>7577283
The fact that you're actually doing major rewrites is good. A lot of people starting out writing only want to do grammar edits and minor line by line stuff after writing a long-ish first draft. Just remember to not overwrite your save files for the first, you may have some things you want to go back to after the second draft. Just save it as a second document. I learned the hard way.
>>7577330
But it's a novella; it wasn't made to take so much time. I started to write it in december of 2015 and planned to finish now, in beginning of 2016, writing everyday. The first draft is good, some friends read and said that have pieces good and pieces bad, but I feel that something is missing, something with the characters and the theme in the plot.It's about a guy that takes a candy and it changes the way that he perceives reality, realizing that he is a mere character of a fiction. Because of it he goes to a parallel world where he encounters his author, and ask him to rewrite his story to change the mistakes of his life. But the more he changes it the more strange reality and fiction becomes, and weird things start to appear in his world.
>>7577353
So I just have to accept that will cost me more time than I thought?
Should I start with A Sportsman's Sketches or Fathers and Sons?
Bump while /lit/ is still looking at the picture thinking "isn't that Robert E Lee"
What do you guys think of him? I just read ham on rye and it was awful, so fucking boring and simplistic
>>7577202
He's the realest of '82.
Maybe you would prefer it with some mustard and relish?
>>7577202
poor man's Burroughs.
>tfw you want Miriam to put you in her pocket
Let's have a D.H. Lawrence thread. Do you like Lawrence? What is your favourite of his novels? Are you one of those people who thinks he is just a misogynist?
>>7577168
No, he cant write for Sh*t.
I read The Fox last year. Was interesting, short read. Sort of like a fairy tale. Prose was fine but didn't blow me away. Only thing of his I've read.
>>7577176
Wow, a considered critique. I especially love the self-censorship.
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