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Yukio Mishima

>tom platz
>not reading Plat's Republic

I'm ripped too. Wish literature was built for us but then the industrial revolution had to happen............ .. ................................ bvfri

You're missing the point, anon. None-meme authors don't become multimillionaires.

Writing is supposed to be a public service, not a lucrative rock star career.

>>8287094
I'm being very serious here, if you want to become a prolific and famous writer that makes money off of the profession, your books will not be good. It's as simple and as tragic as that.

>>8287094
>JK Rowling worth $19 million

>>8287076
No. Salinger could actually write.

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>>8287084
>I M P L Y I N G
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>>8287076
if you mean an overrated meme with terrible prose, then yes

there's this fruit vendor who keeps leaving napkins with his poetry around cafes he visits, it annoys the baristas, but the poetry is beautiful

he signs the napkins with

- Shelfson

>>8287051
fuck off, frog scum

>>8287051
gr8 b8 m8

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Merrill's
You can find the whole thing here
http://www.press.umich.edu/17212/odyssey/?s=look_inside

It's in dactylic hexameter and is the most faithful translation along with Lattimore's

>>8287036
That is beautiful

A lot of people like Pope but I can't find a physical copy anywhere. Not a fan of digital versions of ancient stuff due to lack of notes etc

I'm actively puzzled by what you're asking. Specify?

>>8287011
>women, blacks, homosexuals, liberals, leftists THE LIST

what numale pleb put that shit together???

>>8287011
It works for Marxists and Christians.

>>8286950
Validation, apparently

Food, shelter.

>>8286963

You are funny

>>8286844
Middlemarch

>>8286866
Middlemarch
Unless you don't want to see a host of characters fully realized and bouncing off of one another like the pinball machine of the human condition

>>8286844
Tennyson
Swinburne
Browning

Camus

Great question. A few picks:

>Reza Negarestani - Cyclonopedia
https://ciudadtecnicolor.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/cyclonopedia.pdf

>Giorgio Manganelli - Hilarotragoedia
https://www.uploady.com/#!/download/OABBZBrG2am/vU7ck2ZRH1kc4N2V

Relying on other anons to give you older titles.

>>8286806
I can find these both in english right?

>>8286663
nothing triggers me faster than when a book breaks into song.

>>8286667
Its god tier if done right, cheesy if the author clearly has no poetic talent

>>8286671
So what about LOTR in your opinion?

The prose has to be good.

when you read it and you're like "Woah!"

>>8286609
Nice pic.

This thread may be dead, but I would still like to ask this in case anybody sees it.

What is the best version of The Quest of The Golden Fleece? I've been checking out the Penguin Classics and the Oxford World's Classics ones.

If there is a Loeb translation I go for it. If there is not I go for any 19th century translation. Maybe it is just me but I prefer a more literal translation, and majority of the loeb translation is understandable.

People shit on loeb too much imho.

I don't like to read teubner etc with major critical aparatus as I don't read for research etc purposes. Nor I appreciate little footnotes explaining basic concepts when there are far better books which delve into the said authors work. The english as I said is not that different even for the earliest loeb, moreover many are updated with new translations.

I rather read for example, loeb of plato + a secondary source "Guide to Plato's Works". But thats just me, I just like the literal translation.

>>8288275
I've heard nothing but good things about Loeb here on /lit/ though. I will definitely try to gey one despite it being not exactly the cheapest thing. That comes with the original text in Greek too, right?

>>8288211
Oxford usually puts out better translations than Penguin.

>>8286572
>no clover
>no reason to be there

>>8286590
nOOOO!

>2:41 am

is it worth it? never been to one of these shitty tinychat things before but i'm pretty drunk so i might give it a shot.

or are there only retards?

wait ten more years before you can us that meme nostalgically

Isn't that what Pynchon tried to do in Mason Dixon

I don't see why it would. Otherwise 19th century British Novels would be best sellers right now.

Why would you want to write that? Who would read it?

I really like him but I'm worried that if I read his stuff again it'll seem too literary fictiony / bathetic

>>8286569
is the book in the op a good starting point for him?

Don't waste your time. The book is like the Oscar Bait of literature.