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Which city of the world do you consider as the bohemian/creative capital similar to Paris between 1870-1960? (pic unrelated)
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>>7479452
Portland
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>>7479452
it's the internet age, that doesn't exist anymore
by the way, it was without a doubt new york after 1945, not paris
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>>7479452
You should try Phnom Penh

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>could care less
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saying could care less is perfectly fine tbqh
most of the time you probably could care less
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>>7479343
You listen here you dumb shit

That phrase is used to explain that you don't care about something. If you "could" care less, it means your value on the care-o-meter is greater than 0, which implies you DO care.

How the fuck has the vast majority of people completely forgotten about 1st grade grammar?
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>>7479349
you obviously care enough to feel compelled to assert how much you care.

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where do I start with this beautiful faggot?
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Confessions of a Mask
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>>7477858
whenever I see this pic I think what a totally self absorbed deranged lunatic he was.
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Sailor who fell from grace with the sea
Temple of the golden pavillion
Sea of fertility

Hi /lit/. I work in the lobby at a hotel. I take care of little nuisances experienced by the clientele. There is this female who has been living here for 3 months. She has just flown in from Spain. I saw her reading a book in her native tongue. I have not met her yet butI hope to catch her attention. I want to leave a note in the chair that she tends to sit in. I will transcribe "Cuerpo de Mujer" by Pablo Neruda on to it and then sign my name. I hope to catch her attention with this. What I am asking is whether the Spanish or English version is better. (Which one would you prefer?) And also, If you have a better poetic option do let me know. I also, would like your comments on whether I should present it to her myself or leave it for her.
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Spanish, you dunce.
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>>7477463
Yes, but is this poem good? I don't know her and I think this would be a romantic way to become acquainted.
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>>7477506
If you don't understand the poem don't give it to her. What if she does know it and tries to discuss it with you? You'll look like an idiot. Just talk to her like a normal person.

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Why don't philosophers just tell us what the meaning of life is? What's the best thing to pursue? Instead they spent all their time battling stupid dualisms or semantic games...

Kunt, Neetshit, Hidenigger, Plado, Keekygard didn't help us at all. They wrote tons of shit and didn't even solve the problem

What's the final solution??
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Death
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>>7476968
no meaning to life. there is nothing worth pursuing. do not reproduce. die young.
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>>7476974

>I Dindu Nuffin the philosophy

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Give me your 5 favourite authors, /lit/
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Flaubert
Tolstoi
Shakespeare
Huysmans
Manuel Bandeira
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>>7476165
As of right now

Mo Yan
Marlon James
McCarthy
Mario Llosa
Lovecraft
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Joyce
McCarthy
Faulkner
Pynchon
DeLillo

I liked them even before I found /lit/, okay?

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What does /lit/ think of Bret Easton Ellis?
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He's a fucking faggot and a kike lover
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don't know why people like him tbhwy
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Inferior to DeLillo and Wallace in every manner conceivable. Also, homosexual.

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Hey /lit/! My friend has started getting very interested in Steven Molyneux, and he is constantly linking me videos, and talking about how much he agrees with everything he says.

I think he is going a little bit over the top in his obsession. Every time we go anywhere, he tells everyone about Steven Molyneux and how everything his says is right and very interested etc.

I read a few nights ago that FDR is kind of like a cult, and Molyneux is a weirdo who no one should listen to? If it's true that Molyneux is a weirdo, how can I convince my friend to no agree with him?
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bunp
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Redirect him to testimonies from people he "defooed"
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>I read a few nights ago that FDR is kind of like a cult, and Molyneux is a weirdo who no one should listen to?

An understatement. The guy is hysterical, frantic, generally turbo-batshit.

>If it's true that Molyneux is a weirdo, how can I convince my friend to no agree with him?

I'm too autistic to help. I don't feel like he would even entertain a principled critique. Go dig up Molyneux's mad ramblings about how much he hates his mother. He uploaded the video, then took it down, but I believe other users had archived it in time. That would probably suffice

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I am reading this and I am starting to side with the "Fascists"

>They aren't actual fascists, more like reactionaries
>They fight with less food and equipment than the anarchist militias
>The Communists are split into various factions which bicker with each other and are authoritarian
>Orwell expressly states that in any war between a worker and his natural enemy the policeman he will side with the worker

Are there any books from the other side of the Spanish war? I've read FWtBT by Hemingway and it presented a similar picture.
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>>7474409
>>>/pol/
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>>7474735
>someone reads a book and sides with someone other then the Reds
>must be /pol/
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>>7474409
>>They aren't actual fascists, more like reactionaries
The soldiers? My impression is that most soldiers do not hold the same believes as the generals they take orders from. Not the case with the anarchists though.

>>They fight with less food and equipment than the anarchist militias
I understand how this makes you feel sympathetic towards them. Surely it doesn't validate the ideology they are fighting for.

>>The Communists are split into various factions which bicker with each other and are authoritarian
There are more parties in the book than the communists. The book does not try to make you side with the commies. Rather the anarchists.

>>Orwell expressly states that in any war between a worker and his natural enemy the policeman he will side with the worker

I don't see why this should make you side with the fascists.

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/lit/, I am going through a nihilist phase I am actually wishing to overcome it. What are recommended readings?
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KJV
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>>7472516
this
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just be a fucking person and stop being a drama queen. Of course life has no meaning and neither does anything else that we do to fill it up. It doesn't mean that things can't be valuable, have meaning, or be beautiful though. See: The Bible

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Anybody else here read this? I'm in love with it right now, there's something about it that speaks to me more than Homer.

Also what's with Germanic poets becoming anonymous (thinking about this guy and whoever told Beowulf)
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thought it was a dumb manchild story tbqh
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>>7472134

It's a great book. Hagen was a real asshole.
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>>7472185
>obviously hasn't read it

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>The main character who has no name and interactions between any other character than the love interest is found out to be the love interest's hallucinations of being lonely and the reason why everyone but her is dead
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>he was actually just in a coma :(
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>he teleported behind her with a katana
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>The main character/protagonist/narrator was black all along.

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bookshelf thread. post em.

will anon from pic related post, cause i want to ask what you think about some of your books.
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>>7462166
Are you that dense?
The anon who posted these obviously got them off of reddit.
Holy fuck

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Recommended literature:
http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading
Ask for recommendations only once you have browsed the wiki.

Looking for books?
http://encyclopediadramatica.se/Bookz
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/lit/ is for the discussion of literature.

If you want to talk about politics, go to /pol/.
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Philosophical LITERATURE is allowed on /lit/.
Religious LITERATURE is allowed on /lit/.

NOT LITERATURE, NOT /lit/.

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