Who else having a Tao Lin-tier Christmas?
>who else is an autistic chinaman
Gave zero, received zero. Merry Christmas.
Gave 0, Received 0, same as every other year except that I usually celebrate with /a/ but I lost interest in animu so I'm just aimlessly browsing 4chan and feeling like shit.
Why do you bother reading translations?
You aren't reading the original author at that point.
You aren't reading it in the original language which 'made the book'
You lose every meaningful thing in the translation as the prose is translated to a language that works completely different.
It's ridiculous to read translations and to even think you can talk about the book or even worse, think you have 'read the book' when you read some translation.
You basically read extremely shitty copy of the original book.
Why?
yeah joyce shouldnt have bothered reading homer coz he couldn't read him in the original greek lmao who cares that he created ulysses
>>7503656
So he read a shitty copy of it, lost all context and meaning outside the most superficial ones, and got inspired, so what.
He still didn't read Homer, he read some hack-job translator terrible interpretation of him
>>7503664
maybe it was superficial and shitty in the original greek and the translation was inspirational good shit
Hi /lit/ I've seen the request and share thread and ive downloaded some juicy books.
The problem is that i had never read books in english so I dont have a rich vocabulary. I just read online articles and watch films and series in english.
Anyway I tried to read sone of the books but its kinda hard.
So could you recommend me some books that are enjoyable but also easy for my simple mind.
With love,me
>>7503520
>anything translated and published by Anagrama
>>7503520
Anagrama's translation of Lolita is particularly bad.
I think that's the old version, translated by Tejedor. Tejedor was a high school teacher in Argentina, and was afraid of the reprecrusions translating something like Lolita would have, so he toned it waaay down, there are a lot of parts missing too.
If it's the new version translated by Roca it's a little bit better, but not much.
>>7503520
Empieza con el Beowulf.
What is Loveless of literature?
>>7503479
Your diary tbqh
>>7503479
Depends if by
>the respective 4chan board's approach to it
or
>the themes & style
or
>the fanbase & social reception
Loveless IS literature.
What's your writing schedule like?
I wrote 2 new poems and 5 pages today
write something if I feel like it throughout the day.
Wake up at 7:30, write untill 10:30, take a nap and eat, write again from 11:30 untill 2. It's pretty great.
>>7503273
I've worked on three short stories in the past two weeks, editing and writing a bit. been working like 40 hours minimum past few weeks though so hopefully I'll get more work done once work cuts back
If we're so smart, why can't we figure out how to be happy?
read the Greeks or Nietzsche
>>7502978
Happiness is temporary, to understand why such glee is finite we would have to first look at why malice is infinite. Once we peer into the the void that is the inner human we no longer have a chance of happiness because the feeling of finite is ever so fleeting in a more common phrase. Those that are happy pay no attention to things that don't concern them. Ignorance is bliss.
Butterfly is going to come back to wish us merry Christmas r-r-right?
Also what do you guys think about Apuleius's Metamorphoses, the only known Latin novel?
>>7502911
the donkey is supposed to be Butterfly and the parade is us by the way. The guy with the sick hat is the OP and the roses are this thread.
>tfw you just realize that Kafka's Metamorphosis is about a guy turning into a bug while Apuleis's is about a guy turning into a donkey
>>7502922
You do know what metamorphosis means right?
Is Rachel the voice of our generation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAjVXpidAGY
sorry, that position is already taken
>>7502925
Never.
>>7502902
Hey I messaged her on Facebook because I thought she was my cousin and now we're friends
Hey /lit/, I want to learn how to really understand a book, I mean like the ideas behind it and what the author is trying to communicate. Can anyone help me out with this? Any book recommendations or tips would be appreciated.
>>7502773
start with the greeks
>>7502773
How to Read Literature Like A Professor by Thomas C. Foster is supposed to be excellent for this sort of thiing.
anyone else find the metamorphosis just absurdly funny on second read?
I'm trying to create a character to troll the average Englishman or WASP American.
Basically he needs to be absolutely everything they hate, down to their bones.
I'm thinking of naming him Guy or Xavier.
He'll have a French surname, of course, but isn't necessarily from France. Could just be traitorous native like all those Harry Potter villains with French names (Lestrange, Malfoy, Voldemort.)
He turns his nose up at beer and drinks a small amount of wine daily. He never gets drunk and would be confused if you asked him why not.
Horses and dogs disgust him.
He is a gourmand, but thin. He believes that gyms are for fat people and that muscles are for road workers. He believes this in the same way that he believes the sky is blue.
He is an old fashioned Catholic, and also an old fashioned hypocrite who sins with a completely sunny, clear conscience. He won't eat meat on Friday, but might stop off at a whorehouse.
He was a trust fund kid and is now an idle rich.
He does not understate his abilities and when others do, he takes them at their word.
At the same time, he is completely matter of fact about his abilities, not "confident" in any wholesome, fist-pumping, All-American way. He is bored by his skills and sees them as little details.
He is a baronet with Norman blood, and speaks fluent French.
Any suggestions for more Anglo triggers, /lit/?
as a Frenchman, I can assure you that you literally just described your average bourgeois French male
therefore, if this is a serious post, read up on french noblesse and you should be good, although to be completely honest with you I'm having trouble discerning whether or not this is bait
>>7502393
>as a Frenchman, I can assure you that you literally just described your average bourgeois French male
Then OP's post makes me never want to know any of those people.
>>7502423
>Then OP's post makes me never want to know any of those people.
ok. never go to europe?
I've always been interested in the idea/etc of Ki (all started when I watched DB/DBZ as a kid). I just find it a very interesting concept, and I do believe in the willpower of the human mind/body and in the energy of all things.
I don't really "practice" ki or anything, but I do muse on it sometimes. I also try and think or "use" it when I'm exercising. Like when I feel tired when I'm running I sometimes think about "using" my ki and it always gives me that burning desire in my heart to help me go that extra distance.
I know this probably all seems really lame to most people, but I like it alot, so I think it would be lots of fun to read up on it.
Try looking into Taoism.
>>7502273
What exactly is that?
>>7502251
Read "Awakening the Healing Energy of the Tao" by Mantak Chia.
Hey guys. I'm looking through year-end lists of the best books from 2015. What is worth reading from this year?
purity by franzen
breezeway by ashbery
the life of saul bellow: to fame and fortune 1915-1964 by zachary leader
thats pretty much it
You too can have a body like mine by alexandra kleeman, my waifu
Soumission is the biggest one of the year.
I've never had that much of a problem with reading but I have a harder time with texts such as the Meditations or the Art of War. Are there any tips on how to read philosophical and strategical texts?
>>7502043
Hope you reincarnate as a human with an IQ over 150. It's literally the only way. Anyone with an IQ lower than the is practically brain dead comepared to these authors and will be, without a doubt, unable to comprehend these texts.
If you have an IQ under 150, don't even try. You will simply misunderstand.
>>7502043
it's okay to read them many, many, times until you get it, it's only the fiction that is designed to be consumed quickly and become stale after one round.
>>7502043
>Meditations
which one,are you talking about Marcus Aurelius or Descartes? Because if it's Marcus Aurelius' you might be retarded senpai.
What books did you buy your girlfriend for Christmas /lit/?
What books do you think she's getting you?
>>7501958
>girlfriend
>>>/reddit/
cruel
my mother gave me a book named "how to clean your house". and a empty smartphone box. I'm not kidding.
Merry Christmas lit
I tried to go to a Chinese restaurant today and they were closed. Aside from there is no-one to serve on this day. Sure enough, there are Muslims, there are Orthodox Christians and there are Atheists from Eastern Germany, but they immigrants and poor. They don't waste moneys on restaurants. For Germany that's the patrimony of Hitler.
>>7501930
i want to go out and buy a pizza from a corporate establishment but i can hear the awful hobo who lives in the slum across the street laughing like a maniac clearly drunk as fuck
>>7501939
get it delivered pham
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