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Poetry is meant to be read and performed!
Perform classics, contemporary works, or something of your own!
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0ARYDxgWFeE
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>>7554760
>That blend of modern white noise in the background with your performance.
>The frontal post-modern sexual themes.
>The ephemeral nature of your short words on an internet message board.
Truly a genius walks among us.
Sonnet 116, "classic spoken-word" intonation. Just thought it would be funny.
Name a better short story than The Dead.
>reading The Dead as a short story instead of a chapter in Dubliners
wew lad you done fucked up
>>7553780
I did the latter, but all the chapters in Dubliners can be appreciated on their own merits.
>>7553765
any from Ficciones
Is Allen Ginsberg the single worst "poet" of all time?
He was just a mentally underdeveloped pervert who wrote dirty shit that made hippies giggle.
>And then, like,
>We took out our cocks
>And he fucked me in the ass
>HOWL
>>7553412
Very gifted at self-promotion.
>>7553412
Howl isn't the good thing thing he wrote you know. Kaddish is an excellent long form poem. Apart from that though it's mostly shite
he sucks
Share your charts.
Did I fuck up buying Wordsworth?
Atleast you didn't get Crime and Punishment.
>>7552906
Please be joking.
>Year you were born
>First book you're reading in 2016
>Favourite author
1990
V
Nietzsche
1992
Extinction
Thomas Bernhard
>>7551934
1992
I am reading 4 books:
- The Complete Cosmicomics - Calvino
- Aeschylus
- JPS Tanakh
- How to Read the Bible - Kugel
Borges
Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheep coming up from washing, each one having a twin, and not one missing.
>>7550658
>There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Jesus Christ
Redpilled faggots BTFO
Jephath begat Joachim, who begat Joseph, who begat John, who begat Jedidiah, who begat Elijah, who begat Ruth Baader Ginsberg
"Mixed in with his actual writing skills, Pynchon discusses the thematic relevance of the times he lived in and their effect on his stories. He describes the fifties as "static," saying that one year was like any other giving the overall feeling, "there seemed no reason why should it all not just go on as it was." He felt that there grew from the era an atmosphere of self censorship, partly responsible for his immature dealings with sex. Also, he felt that it led to his "Racist, sexist, and proto-fascist talk," which he actually apologizes...
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>proto fascist
Huh Pynchon always seemed like a libertarian socialist to me but I guess I can see it
>>7549048
Can't wait for his full bio when he kicks the bucket
I never saw him being outright racist. Sexist, sure, but racist?
What is the most disturbing thing you have ever read?
Winston
Rowntree
Has influenced my life, with under a dozen words, more than any book. What the fuck is up with that guy?
probably some of the later torture scenes in american psycho
>inb4 /lit/ gets baited by that image being posted for the 100th time
V. In Love disgusted me to the point I threw the book down the aisle of a Greyhound. It was passed back to me with much less confusion than you'd expect.
American Psycho's violence was a joke, like an actual joke you were supposed to laugh at. It's Patrick lying, pretending to be a tough guy.
So now that "Hypersphere" is completed and has been published, when will we commence working on the next great novel?
How long did it take after "The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra" was completed for work on "Hypersphere" to commence? Is it too early to already start thinking about the next book?
What will the next book be about, and what will it be called?
I have a draft of about 18 pages of work saved that was previously created about 2 or so months ago by other anons on here that didn't take off, since "Hypersphere"...
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Nah... take a breathe... let things percolate... maybe do a minor work, a novella or something, people were talking about doing a poetry or short story collection... do something different with it, maybe an agreed-upon theme or heavy quality control... then, at least a year from now, maybe then think about the next "big one".
That's a nice cover, though
>>7546386
I didn't misspell breath, I misspelled breather
>>7546342
What happened to lits old book ideas from pre 2012?
The Penis Was and some book about a Human Panda
Pls respond
My mom keeps badgering me about my NEETdom.
What are some books that will help me find the will to work?
just kill yourself and spare your mom the misery and us your shitty threads
No need. When she dies you'll be forced to do something.
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Ready Player One
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>>7556456
This might be the worst thing
>>7556456
>“I wish someone had just told me the truth right up front, as soon as I was old enough to understand it. I wish someone had just said: “Here’s the deal, Wade. You’re something called a ‘human being.’ That’s a really smart kind of animal. Like every other animal on this planet, we’re descended from a single-celled organism that lived millions of years ago. This happened by a process called evolution, and you’ll learn more about it But trust me, that’s really how we all got...
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>tfw none of his criticisms of Christianity can be applied to Orthodox Christianity
>>7554419
*fips mehora*
>>7554426
*fasts behind you*
*unsheathes Jesus prayer*
*nods respectfully toward icon*
>>7554444
whoa shit watch where you point that thing
So, thanks to some of you I read the book in the pic and it is some of the best prose I have ever read. Any other books with such great prose? Don't say Pynchon. I already tried V. and, despite some really fun parts, it wasn't my cup of tea.
The Nigger of the Narcissus - Conrad
>>7553654
You're welcome, friend. I'm happy you like it.
>>7553654
try some gaddis, The Recognitions might be more your cuppa
Excluding Shakespeare, who is the greatest English-language poet of all time?
Beckett
Objectively Milton
>>7551242
dickens
