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What was Moby Dick a symbol for?
>>7314322
>What was Moby Dick a symbol for?
What did he mean by this?
The concept of Whiteness. Melville was saying we need to hunt down and destroy the "white whale," enormous, omnipresent, operating "beneath the surface."
sperm
Literally character analysis: What do you think Sherlock Holmes IQ is?
over 9000
>>7314242
Probably like 150+, but I'm not helping you on your homework.
>>7314242
104
What is the LITERATURE equivalent of Welcome to the N.H.K?
Yes, I know it's a light novel. I want LITERATURE.
Notes from the Underground. Misaki is even in it, but role reversed.
>>7314241
Notes from the Underground
Oblomov
Also obligatory My diary desu
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Hey /lit/ I have a serious oneinitis and she knows that I love her but she doesn't love me back but doesn't treat me very rudely either so I was thinking to share with her this piece of writing which details our first date but I was wondering if you guys thought it was up to standard or not and if you had any improvements to make?
http://pastebin.com/XGKjhz2n
>Get Out
>>7314235
You will get everything good and all you desire as long as you stay true to yourself
>>7314235
>>>/his/
/lit/ is for the discussion of fictional works only. In a century you will be a historical entity. Your form will take shape in the statistical data of am epoch long past. Ergo this thread belongs where all threads that are not about fictional writing belong and that is on the ever-versatile /his/
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Any books which emphasise the feeling of being alone? It doesn't need to be a direct theme of the book. Maybe the main character who wanders quietly or calmly around and have musings that feel distinctly his, but all that feels somehow as if he is alone. Stuff like that. Preferably the book isn't edgy or about misery of a guy.
>>7314234
Invisible Man
Alastor, or
>the Spirit of Solitude
pretty dank op
>>7314255
Terrible meme
Now that all posters who haven't read the original meme trilogy are being permanently banned from /lit/ and redirected to /his/ (thanks Hiro), I think it's time to discuss which books should be in the second meme trilogy, so we can whittle down our userbase further. Thoughts?
Not bad choices. 2666 should be a lock.
>>7314233
Women and Men by Joseph McElroy definitely needs to be on there. It fits the criteria perfectly.
The Stranger is missing
1: Your country
2: Rank the top 5 most important and respected writers in your country's canon (n.b. this doesn't mean 'rank your favourite authors')
>Britain
>1: Shakespeare
>2: Chaucer
>3: Milton
>4: Dickens
>5: toss up between Austen, Wordsworth and T. S. Eliot
>>7314159
>important and respected writers
according to whom?
>>7314190
people
Im canadian but read exclusively American (and was born in USA)
1. Melville (obv)
2. Whitman (obv)
3. dickinson (obv)
4. Faulkner (obv)
5. Ashbery, DeLillo (ashbery IS pomo poetry, but DeLillo is probably the biggest influence on writers past the 90's)
Honorable Mentions: Pynch, OConnor, Pound, Eliot, Fitzgerald,
Describe /lit/ in 5 words or less
Bunch of fucking faggot teenagers
The growing pains really hurt.
Ullyses, gravity's rainbow, infinite jest.
Who was the better existentialist, Mersault or Rieux?
Mersault always seemed like a whiny bitch to me, especially when he yells at the chaplain at the end. He's like a little kid.
Whereas Dr. Rieux embodied the Sissphyian ideal of struggling against a meaningless situation.
>esitentialism
>>>/his/
thanks
>>7313981
Fuck off. You're as bad as the Stirner shitposters. In fact, you're worse because at least it could be funny if you're sleep-deprived or inebriated.
>>7313981
Are you saying we can't talk about novels now?
The Plague >>> The Stranger btw
David Foster Wallace substitutes?
every time i watch a dfw video on youtube i feel fucking dumb knowing that there are people at least an order of magnitude smarter than i am
>>7313826
That's how DFW felt when he watched Two and a half men.
>>7313826
Meaning all those other people who aren't watching that video?
Name some books as good as or better than this one.
war & war
>>7313784
Why do you think The Brothers Karamazov is good OP?
If you care to explain i will care to recommend you something.
>>7313784
The Bible
How does Hegel's "Lectures on History of Philosophy" differ from Russell's "Hisory of Western Philosophy" in terms of biases and understandings? I just started reading the first in the three set volume published by Bison Books.
>>7313764
/his/ is thataway friendo
this is not the philosophy board anymore
>>7313864
I'm asking what the differences are between two books. /his/ is shit.
>>>/his/ is for philosophy discussion
/lit/ is for literature
Who else is participating in No Write November?
(We purposefully avoid writing any kind of poem, story, literature, book.)
also we need some stupid NoWriNo logo
>>7313707
This is even more dumb than nanowrimo.
I'm taking a break after Ought to Write October
Hey /lit/, I want to get into poetry but don't know where to start. Any suggestions? Thanks!
>>7313652
start with the greeks
i don't understand the question
why do you think people get into poetry?
>>7313652
http://pastebin.com/cBZknniE
Are any of these essays worth reading?
the one about lobster is funny
I wrote a paper about Consider the Lobster in college
>>7313641
Thanks for sharing that interesting story with us.
