What does /lit/ think of Spinoza?
>/lit/
>think
sorry m8
Ethics is a wonderful read.
>>7565677
dubs of truth i guess
What are the best novels of the 21st century?
The Pale King
>>7565303
The "Novel" is dead
I'm not joking when I say Poetry is far more alive and flourishing, even if it has maybe 10 readers per 1000 populace, because even though a lot of it is crap, a lot is going on right now. There are at least three great English poets alive right now, and there are no great novelists other than maybe Delillo.
This is the future you wrote
>>7565253
Nobody from Reddit browses this board
>>7565351
Hello reddit
its not too late to make /lit/ great again
we just have to be unforgiving with the plebs
Happy 2016, all.
The following is a novelette I wrote last year.
Muse as you like on this thread; you are merely whetting your own scrawl on the pall of my own muses.
I submit thus to you haha
Blame /lit/'s draconian link filters for my links:
-For the main book, type "Serayite" onto Google and hit the Smashwords link.
-For a commentary that explains a lot of the word choices I made and themes I touch on in the work, search "commentary to serayite" into Google and hit the Smashwords link.
~Thanks for your viewership, Ghazy
Serayite,
or
the Curious Frottage ‘twixt the Langue and the Parole
Ghazy Loon
Published by Ghazy Loon at Smashwords ([email protected])
©2015
To my soon-expir’d Teenage,
With its perverted Hope and its seminal Destiny,
to Columbia Intrinsic with her divers representations,
and to Maria Mondragon
I still haven't read your stuff
Maybe someday
Table of Contents
א (Aleph)
Book I: Return Flight
Book II: Malinche’s Seray
Book III: Pardes & Passerines
Book IV: Prime & Patricia
ה (He)
Book VI: Masochist’s Meiosis
Book VII: Matriarch of Ur
Book VIII: Wandering the Peninsula
Book IX: Balustrades of Purgatory
י (Yodh)
Book XI: Performer’s Premiere
For me what makes Star Wars particularly a work of genius for film are the various influences from the Kurosawa movies to 2001 A Space Odyssey, Flash Gordon, the Mongolian costume mixed with Sanscrit, the religions and biblical influences and Norse mythology and the Heroes Journey and countless other things all rolled into one.
My question is, is there a book along these lines which takes a huge array of source material and nods at it while making its own excellent plot and narrative? Sure, LoTR does it in terms of mythology, but it doesn't borrow or show off its prose in the way that Lucas shows off his knowledge of film and copies scenes. Dante could be said to be a tiny bit, or Shakespeare. But is there anything which gives a cheeky nod and a wink here or there to Tolstoy, Shakespeare, Hugo, Cervantes and countless other authors through prose and plot while creating something epic of its own?
>>7564985
> i need to justify that i like a children movie
>>7565027
Welcome to contemporary art criticism, it's all about Star Wars and Harry Potter now.
why did he wear that stupid bandanna?
>>7564984
He had a head injury.
>>7564984
Infinite Jest is the Appetite for Destruction of literature.
>>7564984
If he took it off you would see maggots festering inside his skull, that's what pushed him to suicide. He couldn't the constant wriggling in his cranium so he hanged himself. It's why we meme for him.
Tell us about how you started getting into reading.
I read a book before a movie I was planning on watching and found out that literature is far superior to any other artistic medium.
>>7564930
Always liked books as I was young and the most patrician things I read in those days were Roald Dahl and part of Gulliver's Travels. The scene where he's tiny and he is with the giant princess changing being revolted really stuck in my head. I would read everything.
Then I had a phase where I didn't read because it wasn't cool. Then I read again, reading everything bad and good. Then I got into my one and only serious relationship and left reading mostly. At some point we broke up, and I became Muslim and read a lot more. I also had a really cool professor that got me into the Greeks and higher things. That and Bloom's Closing of the American mind made me have a more discriminating taste. Then I had some opportunities with some other languages and started reading in other languages.
>>7564930
My parents loved me enough to read high-tier YA (Kipling, Tolkein, Wilder and Lewis) to me when I was little in addition to the Bible and various ancient mythologies, and provide me with books that would challenge and entertain me. The only thing I could ask for and be given without a word was a new book.
There has never been a question of whether I like literature or not.
hi, i'm ta-nehisi coates
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>>7564904
Literally who?
hi
what happen to your lips, you pretending not to be white or is that a glass window between us
what is it with plebs and "character development"
stories aren't fucking arr pee gees
"character development"
are you fucking kidding me
unity of character
bitch
>>7564726
You're right, that's why stories like Eragon and Twilight are so good, the characters are uniform throughout and the authors have such descriptive prose for describing events!
>>7564803
person who has spouted "character development" in the past couple days spotted
eat shit and shit
This thread feels like you got criticized or rejected from something because of static characters.
Can you tell us why you think static characters are better? Can you provide some examples of decent static characters?
Did http://inspirobot.me/ give you any lines for your novel /lit/?
kek
triggered
How is this?
Booky.
>>7564627
I don't know, but I'm buying it anyway in hopes that one day I can be more like The Donald. So that I can learn to not only make America great again, but also make ME great again.
Post your best Trumps.
Can you recommend some absurdist books?
If I wanted absurd I'd simply take another look at the nude photos your mother sent me.
The Trial
>>7564565
not even clever
Maybe you like pic related and his notion of the absurd. :^)
hey guys, I just found a rare dfw screenshot and I'd thought I'd share it with you folk. please enjoy the memes
>>7564484
Thanks Anon
Thx 4 sharing :)
Please accept this rare Jim Norton in return
Is cynicism the only solution to surviving in an immoral society?
wrong leneration?
Is posting on /lit/ an effective way to get your homework done for you?
sigh
>define immoral
yes, it's a meme, but if you can't properly explain yourself when using such a loaded term then you deserve it.
I'm curious what /lit/ has to say about post-irony.
Is it real? do you give the term any credence? How would you succinctly define it if so? If you think it's bullshit then why?
Im asking because I came across a quote from a Guardian article on it:
"there are a number of misconceptions about irony that are peculiar to recent times....the eighth is that "post-ironic" is an acceptable term - it is very modish to use this, as if to suggest one of three things: i) that irony has ended; ii) that postmodernism and irony are interchangeable, and can be conflated into one handy word; or iii) that we are more ironic than we used to be, and therefore need to add a prefix suggesting even greater ironic distance than irony on its own can supply. None of these things is true."
Do you agree /lit/? Do you?
pic related it's from a comedy site I like to save images from :^)
I've only ever heard the term post-ironic used ironically. The circle remains a circle.
>>7564253
Think of it this way:
Shitposting is shit like Chris-Chan unironically posting his sonic oc.
Ironic shitposting is people satirically acting as if they have sonic ocs.
Enter anime chalkboard, "It's still shitposting," maymay.
Postironic shitposting is not caring and intentionally destroying something you care minutely about 4dalulz.
post-irony is where I do something I'm ashamed of at an ironic distance but I still genuinely enjoy it.
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