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shimmering water
under the evening sunset
the heart overflows
Screen lit eyes again
Purposeless word games of mine
Ravel's Bolero
pretentious vomit
fools sentimentality
I feel quite nauseous
sunrise is coming
wanted to know if there's filter
my diary desu
What are some of your favorite methods, programs, and/or books for learning new languages /lit/?
>>7319953
I have memorized most of the New Testament so I just read that in whatever language I am trying to learn
>>7319957
What about languages that, grammatically, are completely different? Or with different alphabets?
Obviously when you turn 12 your ability to learn foreign language starts totally exhausting and you wont learn a language to native-like level? And if you are more than 16 you wont learn it at all. Sorry mate, but the truth is that you're too late! Ciao!
What is /lit/'s view on Arthur Rimbaud, his work, his libertine lifestyle and his libertine friends?
Can you recommend some good books/poems from him? I've only read A Season in Hell, and I loved it. I'm also interested in other authors of the time, like Verlaine, Baudelaire, Flaubert and Wilde. Any good suggestions?
>>7319919
How the hell does he keep getting cuter and cuter?
>>7319919
>Wilde
shit, the others alright
>>7319921
this to be honest family
Is Finnegans Wake meant to be cubist? One of the primary objectives of cubism in painting was to provide multiple perspectives of an object, person or scene at once. Is the prose in FW intentionally ambiguous to generate multiple meanings at once? As I understand it Gertrude Stein, who was close with Picasso and several other artists often attempted to incorporate this effect into her poetry- although I don't read poetry so I cannot attest to this myself. Anyway, Is Finnegans Wake just an elephant being felt up by blind men?
No, it's just gibberish and you fell for James' ruse.
>>7319842
I have to think that he would spend 600 pages on an elaborate joke only if he had aggressive autism
>>7319854
And 17 years.
But apparently the idea floats around that he was schizophrenic, possiblhy
Whats should I read before reading David Hume. Dont say start with the greeks. I already read the greeks.
>>7319765
>I already read the greeks.
read them again
that well can never be depleted.
>>7319770
This, you didn't read them good enough if you still believe other things are worth reading.
Descartes, Spinoza, Bacon, Hobbes, and Locke
What do you think about Vonnegut ?
How about ''Breakfast for champions'' ?
r/books tier
>>7319733
This. Gtfo.
I loved Cat's Cradle and Mother Night. Slaughterhouse Five was fun but I read it at 16 so the whole time I was like "haha how weird."
Absurdist, Surreal, Downright strange stuff here. Anyone read pic related? Good shit.
>>7319678
Also, how is Kafka beyond The Trial and Metamorphosis? Never got past those in high school.
How accurate is this?
>>7319678
Murakami by Micah Lidberg, 1/?
Have you given up on meeting other readers in real life? Every time I meet a "reader" they are nothing more than a memer;
>"yeah I love to read! twilight is my favorite series!"
>"yep I love harry potter :)"
I resist the urge to kill myself every day. I swear to christ, less than 1% of humanity reads actual books.
>>7319661
shut up and go to college or hang out at a bookstore you loser
>>7319663
I go to college at an ivy league. I've never met a single non-memer.
>>7319688
>an Ivy League
Cornell confirmed
What are some good literature forums out there?
r/books
/lit/ is the only good one
>>7319666
>>7319659
>>7319599
> not /hers/
baka desu senpai
>Have struggled with a learning disability all my life, particularly bad at maths.
>It takes me an hour to read 30 pages, and I have to reread things frequently so they "click".
>This makes reading extremely annoying, as it takes a long time to get through a single book, and I have alot of books I want to read.
Fucking sucks.
Had to deal with this shit in grade school and now I get to deal with it when doing things that are supposed to be done to escape shitty life.
Being a dumb-dumb isn't a disability.
>>7319559
Well there's that too.
You smart people don't know how truly shitty it is to be stupid.
Are you actually stupid though? Or do you just suffer from a debilitating form of paranoia and imposter syndrome that makes working hard essentially impossible?
Hey /lit/ this is my first piece of writing, and I'm really invested in it. I'm only eight pages in and I've scarcely revised it. Check it out.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1esrpB70RUyMVN7jB_TGTrvnE6Aj_QqPusI_z7w4vbBo/edit?usp=sharing
Adjectives/10
>>7319509
the road to hell is paved with adjectives
adjectives wow i literally couldn't make it past the first ten sentences i felt drained and physically ill
you really, really, really need to work on your delivery before we even discuss any other part of your work. you are hollowly over-describing to the point of tedium and disgust for the reader.
Are there any good supplemental books to read about Aristotle to better understand his philosophy?
Aristotle is quite straight forward due to his dry, but to-the-point prose. If you've a knowledge of basic philosophical concepts, you'll be fine. Just read slowly, take notes, and drink some good tea.
>>7319406
Hegel.
>supplement to babby's brainfarts
Hi /lit/,
Im in a bit of an identity crisis at the moment, I'm not really sure who i am.
Do you have any literature or philosophy to recommend me that is relevant?
>>7319137
>>7319137
ur not anybody bro lol, the ego is a spook, read some eastern shit idk
the trial
Is this worth reading?
>>7319112
I don't know, is it?
if by reading you mean putting directly in le trash then absolutely
>>7319112
you might have to take one for the team, read it and tell us. i've read a lot of campbell's own work but nothing of his where he might have to choose excerpts beyond his own studies on jung's one world as a myth concept.
how to into Mishima?
buy all his works
place in le trash
improve mankind
>>7318989
But senpai, that's what you do with Marx.
>>7318984
start lifting, sucking cocks and watching anime
