So I have to read this for my literature class. What am I in for?
I loved Good Morning, Midnight, but I imagine it's quite different to that one. At her best she's brilliant though.
>>7230946
What the fuck, are we in the same class?
Reading it right now and it's not bad so far. Digging the prose.
try reading the book
Hey everyone,
recently my infant daughter was born and now I'm designing cards to send to me family. I'm in desperate need of a quote/wisdom/saying/etc. for the inlet of the crad.
Since I use a pearl as an eyecatcher on the other side of the inlet the quote should at least relate to pearls and everything I found in the interwebs just didnt seem to fit me.
do you have any suggestions fellaz?
help an anon out and thx in advance
>>7230691
The Pearl by John Steinbeck.
I'm really doubting you did any Googling, to be honest.
>>7230702
A novel is not a quote
>>7230702
spent at least 3 hours m8
maybe because i searched for german ones and mostly nothing more but 4 lines.... thx m8 ill check it
Authors similar to Ryu Murakami?
>>7230644
Haruki Murakami
>>7230650
The easiest, most predictable joke that could have been made, yet I still laughed. I award you this upvote tentatively.
Chuck Palahniuk
Apparitions
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” - Heraclitus
I am drifting through farce and its alternative, as well as mythology and its alternative. People live through farce and mythology: Farce reveals itself at its most farcical when it claims to be free of itself. Mythology reveals itself at its most mythological when it claims to be free of itself. There is an ignorance that is imposed during contemplation: Ignorance only reveals itself in the face of a task which can not be completed. I am seeking something: An apparition. There are times when we take something to be negative and wish to remove its attributes but can not understand the procedures necessary for its removal. We may suddenly get strange mythological ideas that may or may not align with the truth. We may begin journeys with intentions which change halfway through. We may pretend myths are completely without substance. We may associate our myths with an objective attribute. We may trigger a change in colour or sense-data and assume we have an objective for the journey. We name separate ideas of objects and persons based on preference, observation, and ignorance. We separate ideas of objects and persons based on preference, observation, and ignorance. We presuppose attributes and laws based on memories of the migration of colour and "sense-data". Every moment we are seized by phenomenological apparitions revealing themselves as "sense-data".
"Only if Science exists on the basis of metaphysics can it advance further in its essential task, which is not to amass and classify bits of knowledge but to disclose in ever-renewed fashion the entire region of truth in nature and history." - [Martin Heidegger/ What is Metaphysics/Basic Writings pg. 56/57]
>>7230638
>perception is subjective
Yes, we know. Moderns love parroting that shit. You're not sharing anything insightful.
>>7230915
You misquoted me.
There are 18 sentences in the paragraph I posted and you responded to none of them.
Did Bloom analyse Literature in Hegelian method (as a history of ideas; language to ideas is like vacuum to matter), and thus influences became an important factor to discuss as a causation for the movement of literature?
Also is he gonna be relevent in 100 years or will he be forgotten like Henri Bergson or Herbert Spencer?
Well, my university seems to have spent hundreds of dollars buying all of his Critical Editions and all of his other books. So, if universities care so much, he'll be relevant for a while.
He seems to have been rendered obsolete a long time ago, actually. I doubt he will endure anywhere near as well as Bergson or Spencer, who, after all, you have still heard of.
>>7230655
Yes but I hear them in the same way one knows a famous person for being famous rather than have important ideas. Even when they are mentioned, it isn't indepth at all; often studying influences of more important contributors and their relations with their contemporaries.
Is this a correct definition of nihilism, /lit/?
That's not a definition of OP, you stupid, pea-brained little fuck. They're stating a consequence of their nihilist stance.
>>7230470
*of nihilism
>>7230470
I stand corrected
How would I go about becoming more educated on American history? I tried reading Zinn's A People's History of the United States but it came off to me as overly sensational and skimmed over the fine details. Should I just read a college textbook?
>Should I just read a college textbook?
if you want to fill your head with ruling class propaganda, sure
>>7230305
Left-winger post: those righties on /pol/.
Right winger post: those leftiea on /pol/.
Cognitive dissonance is amazing. But anyways, op, do you live in the US? The best way to learn US history is to go the historical sites. Gettysburg is pretty legit.
The greatest spanish poet.
That is not Neruda
>>7230199
Mexicans can't into literature all they write about is muh evil white peepuhl check ur privilege. I'm an Aztec warrior!!1!
>>7230226
Neruda is a spanish meme
Should I even attempt to read this?
>>7230152
Why not?
you can just read birth of tragedy instead
Because it isn't /pol/ the book as you might be led to believe.
Anybody interested?
In a readalong, you mean?
No.
>>7230132
I think he wants to sell it.
>>7230149
I remember a few years back I sold a copy of Sleep - Dopesmoker on cassette to some guy off /mu/. Ahhh, good times.
>He's never read Paradise Lost
Reminder Satan was a edgy faggot, with a narcissistic complex.
I haven't read it. Do I need to read the bible first?
Why is Gustave Doré so great?
>I said "Kiss me, you're beautiful, these are truly the last days." You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream, or a fever.
why did you pair these things together?
>>7229679
>The preacher man says it's the end of time
He says that America's rivers are going dry
The interest is up, the stock market's down
You guys have to be careful walking around here this late at night
>>7229679
he really makes you think
How have you despooked your ego today, /lit/?
>>7229615
Come on Stirnerfags, I know you're here
i havent decided if agreeing with stirners 'its only yours insomuch as you can protect it', antimorality etc, is an intelligent considered position to hold or if its just idealistic immature naive. etc. like someone liking the fountainhead.. etc
>>7229615
Instead of going to class I smoked weed and read Lovecraft in the park as the autumn leaves rustle all around me
Damn my ego knows how to have a comfy/spookytime
Should it be pronounced kwik-zot-ic, or key-hot-ic?
Kwik-zot-ic
Its an Anglicization
Donkey Hoetee
>>7229590
Either way
Why is it so much more horrifying when children die as opposed to adults?
Children are potential personified - adults are mostly wasted potential
Children are innocent.
Because adults are invariably pieces of shit. Children haven't reached that stage yet, they are still like animals in that they haven't the self-awareness to be really held accountable for the shitty things they do.
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