>If it were not for these stories—jokes—jests I should die; they give vent—are the vents of my moods and gloom
What did he mean by this?
Has something to do with how your mom sticks 18 inch black dongs up her bung.
>>7425748
It means he killed himself because his friends didn't think one of his jokes was funny
What are the best books about nordic mythology?
poetic edda
nice intro essay: elementary spirits (elementargeister) by heinrich heine
ah man i saw a movie once about a monk who was traveling from greece up the volga, and he gets kidnapped by a team of vikings and they end up travelling to norway and doing battle with these cave dwelling creatures who're half-wolf, half-man
ah man it was sick af
Is this a good book?
Nah, might as well read a book on how to make model trains.
>>7425682
Fountainhead gets the theory across and is way shorter.
I enjoyed it. Her philosophy isn't so bad, people just can't seem to handle individualism for whatever reason
Hey /lit/, One of the things on my bucket list is to write at least one book.
Do you have any tips or guides? I excel in English but being the worrier I am, I want my only book not to be trash worthy.
I would greatly appreciate it as it may help me write better in general. Please turn my grammer into grammar.
>I want my only book not to be trash worth
that's gonna take a lot of writing. you have to write through a bunch of shit before you get anything good, no shortcuts.
read a lot of good novels too.
>>7425654
I'm willing to put the work in. I just don't want to go in the wrong direction.
Also what novels would you recommend
>>7425649
Writing a book isn't something you check off a fucking bucket list. Everyone doesn't have a book inside them. Very few do. You got memed mate
Where were you when a new age of /lit/ began?
>>7425393
Must feel pretty good to be that one guy who spammed Pimp until it became a thing. Legit good book though.
>born too late to battle and conquer
>born just in time for the golden age of /lit/
>>7425393
Reading the superior trilogy, friend:
The Recognitions, Women and Men, and 2666.
Who the motherfuck was that Greek mofo condemned to some plane of the underworld where he would eternally attempt to push a large stone up a slope, but without fail near what he perceived as the top, the stone would become too heavy and roll back to the bottom. This would continue without end.
Who?
>>7425298
Sisyphus
Metaphorically speaking jesus.
Why can't you just Google it, you fat sissy. Fuss about this elsewhere.
What's the most complex and difficult book ever written?
petersburg, zettel's traum or finnegans wake.
or if you want to go off literary, probably some deconstructionist stuff. they're pretty logorrheic. maybe some lacan even?
>>7425258
Chinese Oracle Bones
Green Eggs and Ham
What the fuck did I gist read?
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
Flann O'Brien by At Swim-Two-Birds.
At Flann-Two-Brien by Swim O'Birds
Here they are folks. The old meme trilogy in their glory.
It's only a matter of time before the new meme trilogy is accepted.
>>7425054
2666, Recognitions, and Women and Men
what's the new one?
Ok.
/lit/ what are some introductions to logic that will help me D O M I N A T E my class next year?
The Logic Manual - Halbach
>>7425017
Logic is fucking easy
>>7425026
This unless you are studying non classical logic
that other shit thread made me want to memorize poetry
what are your favorite short-ish poems to recite? any tips on memorizing poetry other than just repeating it over and over? maybe the piece you want to memorize is a cool monologue from a play, maybe it's not even verse?
or post a short poem you like general
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love—
I and my Annabel Lee—
With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsmen came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,
Went envying her and me—
Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we—
Of many far wiser than we—
And neither the angels in Heaven above
Nor the demons down under the sea
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,
In her sepulchre there by the sea—
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
pic related it's
>yfw you realize lolita is fanfiction of this poem
I like reciting that one poem by E.E. Cummings to bitches. I'm handsome af so I get away with being a derivative, cringe-inducing faggot.
>>7425096
pics family
Does he have literary merit, or is he a plebeian genre fiction hack?
He walks the line. I won't call him a hack at all though. He's more literary than Bukowski.
He manages to be really interesting despite an utter inability to write characters or sentences.
How hard would it be for someone with little previous philosophical reading experience to read this? Is it easy to understand? Is there anything in it that can be applied to self improvement?
>>7424896
You could definitely pick up on the more obvious points, but you would definitely miss out. If you can read it German, you should.
read it and find out
>>7424896
You'll find the prose a bit troubling initially. I recommend the audiobook if you're into that. I suggest you read BGE first. It makes for easier reading and is more aphoristic, therefore memorable.
WHAT I LEARNED ON /LIT/ IS -
NOTHING! I LEARNED NOTHING!
I see that those who are lonely have no morality. At first perhaps this causes them to suffer but soon they find techniques and methods of coping with that loss. They turn everything into a farce and play on this philosophy that "life is a sick joke to be laughed at."
I suppose what I've learnt is that Williams encapsulated the lonely soul in his character, Charles Walker.
Could you have seriously been this patrician while surrounded by plebs, being filmed by cameras, and under pressure to recite from memory?
Admit it, no matter what you think of P Hitch, he did us proud in this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHoAQW_DBI4
>>7424391
the wrong one died.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggIDnBl0zIU
>if it doesn't get me a job it's pointless
good goyim
>>7424391
Christopher was able to site much longer poems by rote
