Schopenhauer is right about women, among other things.
Anyone here disagree? If so, why? Would be interesting to hear some /lit/ femanons input too.
fucking schoppy
>women are essentially children! they're incapable of maturity
3 or 4 essays later
>genius is a childlike understanding of the world!
nice one
wow what a creative bait thread we've never had one line this befo--zzzz
what kind of books does your sister read?
Jean Green probably
Dickens, George Eliot, and Henry James
Gene Green probably
Hello.
I'm bad at phrasing questions, so I'll put it this way. I came upon one Ludwig Hohl through the convenience of a thread that originated here, and am now become enthralled by relatively obscure authors, but am at a loss as to where to begin searching for them, really. I want things that break from the mainstream, outspokenly individual and divorced from a modern want of subscribed genres, things that don't basically speak to the individual as a product of his contemporaneous society but as, and this will sound a bit esoteric, the individual as concrete as time itself. The work does not necessarily need to be philosophical, but I would love, personally, had the work been in allegory, hinting to the meaning but never claiming to achieve it. Can /lit/ help name some authors or books? Anything on par is permissible.
Also, feel free to discuss civilly.
>>7477661
bump
>>7477982
bumping again
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Best stream of consciousness /lit/? I'll start with the obvious.
>>7485547
>ulysses
>stream of consciousness
pick one
>>7485572
b8? the whole book is written in this fashoin go back to 11th grade noob.
But Sound and the Fury is my answer
Wasp Factory?
Hey /lit/ (my first time posting here by the way)
I'm looking to get into reading out of these books which one is a good starting point? I like introspective shit, so if i could get a recommendation for one of that criteria it would be cool.
>>7485189
The Recognitions, Women and Men, and The Lime Twig are good choices. :^)
>>7485189
>HHGG ranked above The Iliad.
Why do I even go to this shitty website.
>>7485189
I started with GR when I first started browsing here. It's amazing tbqh.
Why russian literature is so young but so rich and genius?
>>7485012
Cuz of Dukhovnost.
>>7485012
vodka destroys the part of the cerebral cortex that inhibits creativity
>>7485012
Doctor Zhivago. Detest it. Melodramatic and vilely written. To consider it a masterpiece is an absurd delusion. Pro-Bolshevist, historically false. A sorry thing, clumsy, trivial, melodramatic, with stock situations and trite coincidences.
Aren't we all philosophers?
>>7484853
Jaden pls, go.
>>7484853
No.
>>7484868
why not
Anything related. Personal thoughts, info about him or his life, etc.
Author of story of the eye, death and sensuality, etc.
>>7484629
I pretend have read him while chatting up girls. If they call me out on not knowing my shit or aren't interested I know that they aren't uneducated and easily impressed by pseuds, in which case they're clearly not my type.
>>7484653
>why don't you try actually reading it?
Because that would defeat the purpose. Did you even read the second sentence?
What is the Space equivalent of The Odyssey of Homer? I'm just talking about an odyssey that takes place in space, and don't say 2001 because that shit sucks dick.
>>7484350
fuck off pleb
>>7484353
you fuck off, i bet you like stanley kubrick movies you fucking plebeian
>>7484366
what's wrong with them?
they look nice
most vivid and radical poetics in english written prose?
except obvious joyce
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>>7484253
Infinite Jest.
>>7484275
>Typography makes the substance vivid and radical
ye no
Comfy passages in books. I'll start with this one from Moby Dick
"We felt very nice and snug, the more so since it was so chilly out of doors; indeed out of bed-clothes too, seeing that there was no fire in the room. The more so, I say, because truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more. But if the tip of your nose or the crown of your head be slightly chilled, why then, indeed, in the general consciousness you feel delightfully and unmistakably warm. For this reason a sleeping apartment should never be furnished with a fire, which is one of the luxurious discomforts of the rich. For the height of this sort of deliciousness is to have nothing but the blanket between you and your snugness and the cold of the outer air. Then there you lie like the one warm spark in the heart of an arctic crystall
I want to read Moby DICK!
>>7484211
i'm 100 pages in and this book has been pure comfy and humor
i'm in love
>>7484249
you're in for a rude awakening
What's /lit/'s thoughts on this book?
>>7484094
HI DICK MAN
IM IN THE SICK DICK CASTLE K
BOOK SUCKS
I HATE READING
Kind of slow, unexciting. Didn't fulfill the potential of the premise.
The show they've made of it annoys me a bit, too. Years after the war and civilian technology seems to have reached the point it did in our universe, yet all the German soldiers use exactly the same weapons, uniforms and vehicles as during the war, despite all the talk about how they're so much more technologically advanced than the nips. It's true to the novel in that a lot of things seem not fully explored.
>E-reader-owners of Lit, how do you justify buying books to yourself?
I've made arguments against people that buying physical copies is a waste of money compared to an e-reader. That buying books and displaying them in your domicile only serves to make you feel good about yourself and to show the length of your literary dick to others.
While with having an e-reader the books you download and read exist just for you and the reasons behind reading them will remain pure and untainted.
(I should note that the arguments are held in jest and for no other reason than to have a laugh with bookcase-fetishists. And it is also, of course, a bit of an argument against myself)
I still buy books myself and I must admit that I enjoy owning a book and smelling it and putting it somewhere in sight. But I've limited myself to three rules.
>the books are second hand (i.e. : cheap)
>it's a book I will read a second time somewhere in the future
>the edition doesn't look like utter shit
So /lit/, how do you justify buying a book to yourself?I probably came off as a bit of a puff, but that's all right
>>7484007
>serves to make you feel good about yourself
This is good enough reason for me. It makes me happy, and doesn't detract from my happiness elsewhere (like it would if I didn't have the money or space for them).
I can sit surrounded by my shelves and feel content and comfortable.
Only dumb insecure american faggots would even give this any thought.
>for the smell
I will never understand you weirdos.
I buy physical books when I know I will be marking in it extensively—non-fiction especially, and also novels I intend to read really deeply, etc.—and if it is something I will be reading over and over again too. there are other considerations, like if the book includes footnotes, pictures, or whatever, I'll want the real deal. my local used bookstore is massive and has a great selection, too, so I like walking around there and running into books I'd never think to search on Amazon.
What is the Evangelion of literature?
Ulysses
There's nothing, no writers of literature hate their own medium and readers that much.
>>7484183
What do you mean?
What is the primary difference, psychologically, between poets and philosophers?
Poets aren't content with stating their ideas until they are made as pleasing to read as possible.
what are the similarities?
They overlap.
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