Which alcohol agrees best with the literary lifestyle?
Absinthe.
>>7512722
Alcohol gives me chest pain
>>7512722
I prefer vodka but tbqh its because I'm also a /fit/izen and try my best to keep my calories in check even when I want to get shitfaced.
write whats on your mind
I should go to sleep. Why am I wasting my time here?
Traveling during my winter break and getting away from everyone hasn't solved my problems.
How many of you quit Uni?
What were you studying? How far did you get?
Do you regret it?
Why did you do it?
>>7507129
>went in to comp sci because stem meme
>was shit at math
>given up and going into English
>hope to be a teacher and probably a virgin for the rest of my life
>I regret everything
>>7507129
>Uni
That slang is still detestable, even in current year.
>live in a country where university is completely free
>everyone slowly study whatever they want in the rhythm they can (both considering their smarts and if they have to keep a job or a family or whatever)
>80% don't finish it anyway.
it's strange, maybe people don't really feel like having higher education if they can live without it.
Thoughts on Steven Pinker?
I like Pinker. He is a legit contributor to his fields while also being very good at writing readable books for a general audience. There seems to be a fair amount of overlap between his books. I liked Words and Rules a lot, and I think it is a great starting point for anyone interested in linguistics. I disagree with him about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
hes' very problematic
ass
Change a single letter in a Novel to make it funnier/more interesting. Pic unlikely related
Kafka on the Whore
Schindler's Gist
It's the cliff-notes version.
Finnegan's Wake
:^)
Pale hire
/lit/, can we get a bookstore thread going?
> today in the local book shop
> pick up Frankenstein, Of mice and Men, The Great Gatsby, Grapes of Wrath
> think I only have £25 in my wallet
> take the books to the counter, greeted by sweet elderly lady from behind the counter
> price comes up to £30
> say that I'm short by £5, so she scans a coupon to give me money off instead of putting back one of the books I wanted to buy
> pass her the money, not realising I actually had £35
> feel awkward when we both realise what's happened and apologise
> she tells me it's A-OK and that it's "just one of those days, really" and we both laugh about it
/lit/, could you have any more of a based bookshop worker? Share your comfy, awkward or interesting bookshop experiences here, please.
>lonely older woman is impressed by my taste and tries to strike up a conversation
>i ignore her
> not stealing books that are in the public domain
>>7514671
> not adapting famous books in the public domain for television or film, making millions by not having to pay for the rights
Anyone else remember the "forgotten" meme trilogy? Before Joyce, dfw, and Pynchon?
curiosity bump
>meme
You don't even know what the fuck that means.
>>7513482
It truly is the forgotten trilogy.
I am bored and drunk. Let us have a comfy Goodreads thread.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2408134-sebastian
Currently reading some books I got for Christmas by Arno Schmidt.
Here have a music video of my favourite German band:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9iwT3HG-T8
I can't read when I am drunk, I only listen to music in this state of mind.
Merry Christmas /lit/
Ho Ho Ho
We had a goodreads thread like a week ago
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/20574145-will
>>7506644
It's like 12 at noon in Germany Sebastian. Drunk already?
I want to become a better reader. I just read 16 pages of Plato but it took me like 50 minutes.
What can i do the become the best/fastest reader I can possibly be?
Read more.
>>7516565
>best/fastest reader
two conflicting goals
don't know if you read physical or not, but i usually highlight things in the .pdfs i read and write notes in the margins. it slows me down a shit ton but i feel like i grasp more and when i come back later having forgotten a bunch, i have a bunch of notes to look back on to refresh myself. i know that that's too much work for a lot of people, but i enjoy it
>>7516565
just B.E yourself
What aesthetic do you guys try to achieve? One you'd like to cultivate?
>>7516503
What do you mean by 'aesthetic', anon? Can you give an example and why are you interested?
>>7516503
i try to be myself.
cultivating an aesthetic is how you end up sounding try-hard or otherwise hackish
>>7516503
v a p o u r
tfw you realise the Pynch is going to die in your lifetime, probably sooner than later, since he's old as fuck. And then you realise that when he's gone there will never be anyone quite on his level writing novels in... probably ever. In a sense, when TRP dies, the whole art form will go out with him.
>there will never be anyone quite on his level writing novels
I know he died recently, but David Foster Wallace was arguably better than Pynchon, since he combined Pynchon's icy braininess with warmth and a beating heart.
lmao
delillo is better
not that it's saying much
>>7516490
>icy braininess
cofnirmed for not having read pynchon
RUGGLES was a Lovin' Spoonful of a writer (is)
David Federast Wallops is a sterile computer with contrived emotion that resorts to the biological actions of the emotion centers to explain wow does it get any more detatched and icy than that?
you wont hear abstracted descriptions of organs in work in T.R.P. (unless the organs are SEXUAL(
I'm page 133 of Taipei and am considering putting the book down. Of course I'm not going to ask you to tell me what to do lit, but for those of you who have read it, is there any reason to continue? The prose that was celebrated for being "disengaged" and representative of contemporary times is boring, superficial, and under developed. I think I see what Lin is trying to do but I don't think its revolutionary or thought out that well. Also nothing about Paul is redeeming and his true self never seems to be explored past a certain point. There are parts of the book that are pretty good, especially the first sixty pages or so. But the burgeoning romance with Erin is boring me. Either Lin's trick is to write a really shallow book that is a metaphor for modern times which is nauseating just to type or he is just kind of bad at writing. I know this is kind of rambly and maybe incoherent but what are your thoughts on Taipei?
there's no payoff if that's what you're asking. it's more of the same, though he has a small epiphany at the end I guess.
>>7516356
>he fell for a meme
>>7516356
I think it's safe to assume he's "kind of bad at writing". I've read most of what he's written, and never in any of those works did he display a talent for writing. There's really no reason for you to continue reading.
Was he a closet case?
A closet case of what.
>>7516264
He was a hack.
If there was a choice to be made between having Burroughs never live or have Hitler never live, I'd choose Burroughs. Because at least Hitler was competent in his craft and advanced it forward by about 40 years while the rest of the world was standing in bread lines.
Burroughs however, thanks to edgy teenagers, regressed the act of literature by about...oh, I don't know, a good 6500 years.
I only wish AIDS was killing faggots thirty years earlier.
>>7516290
>Hitler was competent
No he wasn't.
Is the Iliad worth reading? Does it still hold up today in terms of complexity or depth of thought/ideas, or is it so well-regarded mostly because of its influence on other works? Not trying to bait.
>>7516037
>Is the Iliad worth reading?
Yes.
>Does it still hold up today in terms of complexity or depth of thought/ideas
Yes.
You know the answer already. but lets use this thread to talk about its importance anyway.
>>7516037
No, it's just a bunch of boring descriptions of people fighting. Before they had action movies, that's what people back then got for excitement.
Why haven't you resumed with the Romans yet, /lit/?
>>7515851
because i literally just started with the greeks a few days ago
>>7516136
Same. Just got the iliad. I'm starting the greeks at the VERY beginning
Commencing with the Chinese
