thoughts on this? what publishers should be where, should we make it more detailed?
>>7575515
Everyman in hit or miss. I generally stick to Oxford when I can get them.
Why do I give a fuck about publishers again?
Should be more like:
Academia tier:
Norton
Oxford
Loeb
Hackett
Obscure/patrician/hister tier:
NYRB
Hesperius
A few more I can't remember atm
In-between tier:
Everyman
Modern
Mass market tier:
Penguin
Viking
Hi lit. I'm drunk and writing down my thoughts. I'd like critique or debagte on this small snippet that I wrote because I know that despite your madness and contrarianist attitude, most of you on this board are fairly brilliant, and for the most part I respect your advice. Here:
Were I to exact some truths about myself in the most patient way possible I would come up short of the expectations of many. A man at the age of 22 is to have experienced many things. I admit (however reluctantly), that I have, compared to many, seen a great many of things. I have also heard a great many of things, or read them, or understood meaning that admittedly, may have been a creation of my own.
But I have yet to experience many things, and because of this I believe myself and my peers to be liars—whether to themselves or to all. They (as I do) believe they have experienced the foundational moments that create the essence of what is. That is what all is… that which makes a human being. On this we are incorrect, as none can experience such things; as such things do not exist. The creation of art, I believe, is proof that these people are in fact liars. And they will always be liars, by the very nature of their existence, for the human being cannot exist without being a hypocrite.
>>7575495
there is more to the art component, I'm still thinking about how to approach that without sounding like an ass.
>>7575495
read more philosophy; don't bother reinventing the wheel. and at least write something meaningful ffs
>>7575511
Fair enough. I'm working on reading more philosophy. Only really read The Republic and Thus Spoke, reading notes from underground now.
Never see erotica discussed here.
What does /lit/ think are the most erotic of novels?
InB4 Henry Miller b/c that shit didn't give me even a semi and he's a pretentious fucker to boot
just go on f-list
>>7575485
Did you read Tropic of Capricorn? I had to stop it because the erections became far too many and furious
Do any of you /lit/eral shits have writing jobs?
I'm an assistant writer of story letters for realtors, ideal for a university semester of 5 science classes, but VERY spread out (usually one assignment/month).
Oh man, OP, please tell me is this you or some meme picture? I am totally laughing my ass off at the irony here. That gaudy attempt to look sophisticated, combined with those tacky books...Goosebumps? Really? And seriously, that bread...Why is it in his (your?) shirt?
>>7575416
please be trolling
i refuse to believe someone could be this new
>>7575416
Welcome new-friend. I'm as excited for you to be here as you are, but I'm afraid you came in the wrong entrance.
This is the door you were looking for: reddit.com
What are /lit/'s thoughts on Moby Dick Everyman's Library edition? Is it better compared to other editions? If no, please suggest a superior edition.
>>7575190
< This
What do you want out of your edition?
Who are some writers who embody the phrase "style over substance"?
>>7575003
Not Nabokov, faggot.
>>7575003
Style is substance
>>7575003
Edgar Allan Poe
I haven't read this book because I had always heard it was unfinished. I was reading about his suicide today, and it said that this book was left bundled and tidied and neatly placed on his desk next to his suicide note? Sounds pretty finished to me.
>>7574922
unfinished or not its pretty good and I would recommend reading it
>>7574956
Did that dude in your photo kill himself?
>>7574922
It's very much unfinished. There are notes in the back for what else would have been included. There was going to be a picnic where everyone gets dosed w/lsd & a terrorist attack by a native american woman. It probably would have been pretty good.
what do you think about this book?
Phenomenal.
>>7574910
currently reading it, and enjoying it.
Magical realism is the pizza monkey cheese XDD of literary fiction
Should I sign up on goodreads?
I kind of don't get it. Is it like a big book club? A big group of book clubs? Like yelp for books?
If it's just like yelp or facebook for books, I'm not interested. Is there something more to it?
What's it about and is there something better?
It's a cool place to keep track of books you've read and the number of pages. You can also set goals for yourself, see what your friends are reading, read reviews and more. I use it to keep track of everything I've read.
Don't overthink it. It's a nifty little website.
It's alright for keeping a list of what have you read and have some statistics at the end of the year.
Anyone who uses the attention whoring functions is a fucking faggot.
>Oedipa settled back, to await the crying of lot 49
fucking really? I dropped it there
You aren't funny
Movie?
>>7574829
Pic is Madmen
ITT: Favorite living contemporary writers
For me it’s Houellebecq – intelligent, nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor.
houellebecq is a frustrated virgin. My favorite is pennac
>tfw Hollenbecq is my favorite living writer and I'm not even memeing
Joseph McElroy is breddy gewd.
I'll start with James Sallis's "Drive"
The entire story of this movie was just one chapter in the book, but it expanded a perfunctory and mean episode clumsily dismissed by a bullet ex machina into a compelling drama, successfully extracting the pearl of value within the maundering angsty dross surrounding it.
>>7574622
the shining by stephen king legit owns kubrick
>>7574622
Fist Gang, obv.
>>7574663
Don't you mean Kubrick made something great out of King's Dung?
>professor pronounces it 'albearh camoo'
I really don't like when things are pronounced correctly.
>professor mentions a charlatan like Camus period
>>7574653
I get the minimalism, it's nice. But... Come on... We get it, we got it already, why is this a big deal?
Who /dreamjournal/ here?
>>7574613
Yeah dude. After keeping one for a little while I get more vivid dreams, more frequently.
>>7574613
I have one. It's pretty fun, but I can't manage to change my daily routine to the point where I can dream before I wake up and still remember them because I get up very early and start doing stuff right away. Thus my dream journal is limited to weekends only.
Also, I'm a bit uncomfortable writing about lewd things in dreams in specifics because I do them to people I know.
>>7574613
I used to do it a lot but its been a year or two. I have been thinking about getting back into it. I have managed to fly high in the sky which was pretty dope. Asking people stuff can be frustrating, I have asked dream people what do they represent and they only smile back or ask me what I represent.
I would like to get more into dream yoga though. I tried practicing pure light meditation one time by calming my mind and attempting to meditate and just focus on the experience and then I was surrounded by and bathed in clear light and it was bliss, when I woke up I felt like a million bucks. Being able to do that for an extended period every night would probably do wonders for mood, motivation and focus during the day. I read a bit into pic related but never finished it although I plan on it especially if I start dream journaling again.
What is also really interesting are cases where people in different locations meet up in dreams and then have shared lucid dreams and then wake up and write it down and their versions are almost the same even though they don't communicate while awake. Dream telepathy. I once mentioned this to a friend also into lucid dreaming and he mentioned that in some indigenous tribe in Peru or some other country attaining mastery of lucid dreaming was the first step required when one receives the training to become a shaman and he speculated that this was because this would then allow one to receive further training from ones teacher while in the dream world. Sorry if this post was all over the place but its late where I am and I'm going to bed.
I recently picked up pic related because I want to into philosophy and I've been told these are the basically the classics. What are some other must read books for those who are interested in philosophy? I'm almost done with Meditations by Aurelius and am enjoying it, any recommendations for other stoic philosophers would be appreciated as well.
where's Philosophical Investigations
>>7574480
>Dover Thrift
OP, why do you do this
also anything from Diogenes
>>7574503
I'm a poorfag in college and the Dover Thrift editions were really cheap and highly rated on Amazon. How bad did I fuck up?
