Should i read this? If not why?
Do you understand Kant?
>>7484034
DUDE ABSOLUTE SPIRIT LMAO
also what should i read before this to understand it?
So, it's time for Santa to get my wishlist. What should I pick from below?
>Infinite Jest
>Gravity's Rainbow
>The Crying of Lot 49
>2666
>The Savage Detectives
>Against Nature
>Aristotle's Politics
>The Brothers Karamazov
>Ficciones
Nigga, it's too late - Santa's already loading up his sled. Should have got your list in weeks ago.
>>7484290
This.
Also, don't Infinite the Jest, please.
2666 Sav Det n Ficciones nigga
What happens in your head while you think? How do you feel it? With me its all keywords.
I have imaginary conversations through which i can articulate and refine my thoughts
This isn't so much asking a fish what water is as asking a fish what it's like to be a fish.
>>7483911
I imagine a person asking me a question about exactly what I wanted to think about and then I answer that question out loud.
What are your favorite french books ?
I'll assume you're talking about novels.
Well, while I think Balzac is the most accomplished in terms of description, Jules Verne's books always bring me comfort and childlike wonder. If anyone could recommend lesser known authors, it would be great.
>>7483624
madame bovary
>>7483629
I'm french, what kind of novels are you looking for ?
>you will never get to see DFWs writing progression as he got older
>Faulkner didn't write a sea epic
>Milton wasted his talent on Christian fanfiction
>Nabokov didn't write a SOL about schoolgirls
>Mishima didn't write books into the 90s getting to see Japan reach its height
>Foucault didn't life long enough to make a conservative turn around
>Kafka didn't live to see the Holocaust to write the ultimate horror story about
What could have beens would you have most liked to have seen?
>>7483320
Stephen Crane didn't live to see the World Wars
A post-WW2 Joyce novel, ascending higher up the literary chain than Finnegans Wake
Only 2:
>Ulrike Meinhof didn't get to continue writing the best journalism Germany's ever seen
>Kathy Acker didn't get to write books in the 21st century (especially interested in what she would write about Web 2.0; she thought e-mail was amazing)
how does one expand one's vocabulary, /lit? Hoping to become an eloquent motherfucker
read dictionary
I'd say its through just a general osmosis. I occasionally finding myself using words I don't know the actual meaning of, only to be surprised that I used them in the right context. I think people subconsciously infer new word definitions correctly most of the time given enough buffer. just read more, f@m.
>>7483012
stop trying to hard
new bookshelf thread
post your shelves and discuss other shelves
post em if you got em
>>7482919
More of the OP shelf? I like those multiple Ovids.
>man without qualities
luv u senpai
its pretty pleb but im gonna pick up Stoner soon, super hyped for that
Is it a violation of Asceticism if I get drunk?
duh, ya fuck
>>7482909
>Asceticism
Fuckin' dumbest thing I've ever heard. Buncha fuckin' twats. Dumb motherfuckers.
Fuck it, lets have a favorite quotes thread.
"Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity." -- Ecclesiastes 1:2
"The stone that the builders refused has become the cornerstone." -- Psalm 118:22
"Someone, I tell you, will remember us,
even in another time." -- Sappho
"Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always." -- Rilke
"I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own." -- Arthur Rimbaud
“The wolf howled under the leaves.
And spit out the prettiest feathers.
Of his meal of fowl:
Like him I consume myself.”
― Arthur Rimbaud
"I saw my brothers slain. Few understand the pain, few can hear my cry."
~Adolf Hitler
A goodly Tree farr distant to behold
Loaden with fruit of fairest colours mixt,
Ruddie and Gold
Was there ever a book that dealt with programming / computer science in a meaningful way?
>>7481826
Is SEL the Ulysses of anime?
>>7481842
*criNGE*
funny picture i found
it is my favorite author
i found it on my favorite message board 4chan
>y o u w i l l h a n g y o u r s e l f
Hahaha! That's a funny image.
Can I save it? :)
Have you read any books from Occult.bz ?
Are the books there worth it?
Who is *that* semen demon?
>>7481345
why are her clothes so small? aren't they too tight?
>>7481358
She doesn't do porn, so zap the fly.
>The Measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and Virgil in Latin; Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried away by Custom, but much to thir own vexation, hindrance, and constraint to express many things otherwise, and for the most part worse then else they would have exprest them. Not without cause therefore some both Italian, and Spanish Poets of prime note have rejected Rhime both in longer and shorter Works, as have also long since our best English Tragedies, as a thing of itself, to all judicious ears, triveal, and of no true musical delight; which consists onely in apt Numbers, fit quantity of Syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one Verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoyded by the learned Ancients both in Poetry and all good Oratory. This neglect then of Rhime so little is to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar Readers, that it rather is to be esteem'd an example set, the first in English, of ancient liberty recover'd to heroic Poem from the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing.
It feels so weird to call John Motherfucking Milton pretentious, but I honestly can't think of any other explanation for this. You don't want to write your 11-book-long epic poem in rhyme. Fine. No problem. Also no need to be an arrogant prick about it, especially when the poem you're writing is a story about being an arrogant prick.
That's kinda funny.
>>7481322
Call him pretentious all you want; Meter >>>>>>>>> Rhyme. Anyone who disagrees is a plen.
>>7481322
>It feels so weird to call John Motherfucking Milton pretentious
Uh, no, not really, he pretty much was. This is a guy who in his early 20's was writing poems about how he was destined to write the Great English Epic.
>i fell for the greek meme
fuck you /lit/ this shit is cringy.
You're meant to start with the meme trilogy:
Cratylus
Pimp
Life of Artaxerxes
10/10 lmao
had a good kek with this
thanks op
>be on bus reading pic related
>girl taps me on the shoulder and points to the book
>she says, "kill yourself"
wtf
>>7479891
>be on bus reading over OP's Shoulder
>some girl taps him on the shoulder and points to the book
>she's a deaf/mute with a heart of gold trying to express her love for that book, and by proxy, OP
>I'm a ventriloquist
>>7479891
lol.
Aziz Ansari referenced that in Master Of None.
is that why you bought it?
>be on bus reading pic related
>girl taps me on the shoulder and points to the book
>she starts sucking my dick
STEM masterrace
