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Is there any better passage in literature than the opening to Lolita?
Legitimate question, /lit/. I'm currently reading Lolita and that opening sent shivers down my spine with how beautifully written it is.
What seriously competes with this? I want to know.
> Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.
ITT: Your favourite passages in literature / passages that are better than...
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>>7524897
Ahab's speech to the crew revealing that they will go after Moby-Dick
Molly Bloom's soliloquy
The comparison between shit and a negro's dick in Gravity's Rainbow during the BDSM coprophilia scene. Not even kidding for the sake of edge, Pynchon really has a talent for the grotesque and abstract metaphors and Gravity's Rainbow is host to many grotesque moments that are injected with surprising humour and beauty.
The whole speech in the Trial that goes over how the court system works, or something.
>Produce the greatest epic since Homer
>Get ignored by /lit/
This is an Orlando Furioso thread. Reply only if after having exhausted your horse, you supported it on your shoulders and dragged its dead corpse pursuing your promised virgin who got fucked by a moor.
Yes, it's better than the divine comedy.
Not many people speak morrocan
>>7524441
Wha- it's written in medieval italian
Agreed op, definitely an indicator of good taste, that one flies under everyone's radar.
Are "gravity's rainbow" and "infinite jest" actually worth reading or are they just a board meme?
board meme, like what neutral milk hotel is to mu.
No, they're both great, worthwhile books that you should pick up as soon as possible. Not memes.
Are tgese questions worth answering or are they just a board meme?
ITT we recommend books we have never seen posted on /lit/ before
It's so hard to find Gombrowicz, library or e-book. I've only read Pornography, but it was pretty amazing.
What are /lit/'s favorite films?
8 1/2
The Lady from Shanghai
Cinema? Here's the Top 10
1. Leon: The Professional
2. L'Avventura
3. The Boondock Saints
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey
5. Pulp Fiction
6. The Seventh Seal
7. Ikiru
8. Boogie Nights
9. The 400 Blows
10. Citizen Kane
Why aren't you reading a book right now?
>>7521763
I am listening to music. Fuck off, David. You're dead.
>>7521763
Calvino is too damn inspiring to read all at once. I really wanted to finish that damn book before the new year too, but I have to put it down after every fucking chapter.
>>7521784
If on a winters night a traveler?
POST A LIST OF ALL THE BOOKS YOU READ IN 2015.
As every year since I was born: The Bible.
Any other book is for contrarians and degenerates.
Here's my reading list for 2015. Still reading the Bible, probably won't be done with that for a while.
I read much less than I wanted to this year.
>Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy,Joshua Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles
>The absolutely true diary of a part-time indian
>nine stories
>The Only Grammar Book You'll Ever Need
>200+ poems and 100+- short stories for school
The first edition of Hypersphere is done:
https://www.scribd.com/doc/293930007/Hypersphere
Read it now to be able to tell your grandchildren (imaginary or otherwise) how you were one of the first to read the fourth entry in the meme quadrilogy.
Physical copies available!
http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/hypersphere/18158845
As of now, my life is complete.
Also - I hereby announce this to be the death of literature and literary sense. No literature is literally needed after this bad boy. It has everything and nothing at the same time. It is the perfect static and a cultural mashup of everything. It is the dankest sphere known to man. The Hypersphere!
First of all:
Thank you for this wonderful experience. We're published now! I've been writing on this project since the first thread and I've had so much fun. I love you /lit/.
If you catch anything that is wrong in the PDF or BOOK I'll do my best to fix it. I'll link to the google doc I used for generating the PDF in a bit.
Feel free to start your own lulu accounts and sell it yourselves, I claim no sole ownership and neither should you.
>>7497314
Congratulations, /lit/. Our Ulysses come.
Thank you, tripeditor, Sam, Bottleman, Egotist and much more for contributing.
>Get in here before it's taken down, mass upload of 86gb worth of ebooks
>http://hypnos.feralhosting.com/slowrotation/links/rtorrent_data/?C=M;O=D
Anyone knows how to mass download only the .epubs? I'm not interested in the pdfs
>Also, request thread
If anyone's got Jung's Red Book Readers Edition on kindle version to share, I'd be really grateful.
>>7473067
Nevermind it's not a torrent, URL fooled me
>>7473062
Fuck, thanks anon.
>>7473062
>If anyone's got Jung's Red Book
http://www94.zippyshare.com/v/NroYdSmp/file.html
FLASH FICTION THREAD
This is a game that used to be played here that I haven't seen in awhile. Roll it up and write a flash fiction in the style of the corresponding number. Take no more than 10-20 minutes before posting your work.
0 - Hardboiled/noir
1 - Fantasy, mostly dialogue
2 - Poetry
3 - The High Seas
4 - Philosophy
5 - Comedy
6 - Unrequited love
7 - A letter to someone
8 - Adventure
9 - Moved to a new neighborhood
Dubs: Main character is not a human
Trips: Must be XXX
>>7524241
The campfire glowed the faces of the band, their cold red faces made redder by the light. Behind them, each wrapped in their own thick fur, lay nothing but darkness and snow and the wilds of the night. Only the newcomer did not wear a fur and no one offered. He was of slight build, more slender than any other man gathered, wearing only Spring-leathers. He sat cross-legged, smoking a short pipe. Only a few hours before, before the sun had sank beneath the hills, he had approached them as they made their camp. Turning...
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>>7524236
I'm incompetent. Precisely because I'm incompetent I will try this.
>>7524236
rolling
Is it possible for an adult to be truly innocent?
Jesus.
Lenny.
>>7525630
Jesus was a rapist. The evidence for this is on equal ground as that of his existence. Raping =/= innocence.
I got the 1st ASoIaF book for christmas and I'm wondering if I should bother with it. I worry because each book is like 1000 pages and there will apparently be 7 books total. I know lit likes to shit on them because they are popular/ not highbrow, but my question is weather or not they will dissapoint me I'd I'm just looking for a fun fantasy series.
They won't disappoint, they're very entertaining.
Just watch the series instead
>>7525244
It's long, but it's easy to read so you should be able to finish it quickly. You won't waste a lot of time in just seeing for yourself weatehr you like it or not.
Writers of /lit/, which authors have influenced your work the most?
My writing teacher complained a lot that I was just copying Pynchon and DFW, so probably them.
>>7525042
Homo faglord
PKD because of style and focus on metaphysical themes.
ITT: Post a song and anons recommend you literature based on it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJEkEL6Obzk&ab_channel=AlbertoReguera
>>7525003
i could imagine this being played at the ball scenes in Northanger Abbey
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=olWG6jiMV0g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln3BmBHAJ-c
The year is almost over. What were your favorite reads in 2015?
Mine, in no particular order:
>Fiction:
Calvino, Cosmicomics
Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday
DeLillo, The Names
Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Gide, The Immoralist
Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence
Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama
>Non-fiction:
Cioran, A Short History of Decay
Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype
Metzinger, The Ego Tunnel
Herodotus, Histories
Orwell, Inside the Whale and Other Essays
Marx and Foucault changed the way I view the world a little bit. Paradise Lost was the most beautiful thing I've ever read. I enjoyed Demons even more than TBK and C&P.
i'm 2/3 done with Moby-Dick, so i'll count it
Carpenter's Gothic blew my mind
Ed the Happy Clown was perfect surrealist comix
Jacques Maritain's philosophy of education was A+ shit and Education at the Crossroads is a brilliant piece of philosophy
W.E.B. Du Bois' Souls of Black Folks was immense. The writing had such a religious power that i couldn't stop reading.
