>back of book says it's a tour de force
>it's only a tour de vitesse
>>7225128
>vitesse
?
http://www.priceminister.com/offer/buy/85156692/t-shirt-compteur-compte-tour-de-vitesse-pour-voiture-pret-a-porter.html
>back of book says it has a couple
>it's really just about torque
>And then.............. HE TURNS INTO A BUG! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Actually laughed this time for some reason, all about the pause at the 'then'
The metamorphosis is actually a metaphor.
>>7225032
What's the message? Don't bug me? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
http://fuckyeahlogical.tumblr.com/
Is this legit or is it shit?
>tumblr
Take a guess.
>>7224703
mate
Why's there no greeks? I looked for plato and aristotle couldn't find one book. Mate, you always have to start with the greeks
This is why you don't go on tumblr.
is pointless, right?
>>7224669
Yes and no, some poetries still deliver a message, others lose it completely after a translation.
Studying what is being said isn't pointless though.
No. Shouts out to Szymborska
The message in a poem is secondary to the aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of the rhyme scheme. If you cannot preserve the rhyme scheme in the target language you should not translate the poem. Because if the prosody and the rhyme scheme are no longer intact, you do not have a poem in your target language.
~~~~~~~~~~~~TAO LIN ON TOUR~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tao Lin has just announced an upcoming tour around the South and Midwest!
The tour is called the "Your Girl's Tour" and will run from October 20th until November 7th.
Other writers on the tour will be:
Mira Gonzalez (aka the voice of contemporary America)
Chelsea Martin
Chloe Caldwell
Uxodinma Okehl
Elizabeth Ellen
Will you be attending?
Which author are you excited to hear?
>>7224637
Cancer.
why the fuck did he name it that goddammit tao
>>7224757
It's PR to make up for his negative press history regarding women.
I'm surprised nobody mentions how much like Elliot Rodger he sounded like in Bed.
How do you guys cope with the knowledge that you don't even have an iota of the talent or dedication to make a great piece of art.
I never got this feeling with music or film, but something about literature gives me this great anxiety. Fuck you guys.
Go to bed, Franzen.
How the hell do you know you won't ever?
Just because you don't have dedication or 'talent' now, doesn't mean that won't change.
Damn /lit/ you nasty but the banter game rediculous
>he can't briefly outline 20th century developments in the french social sciences
>>7224352
could you briefly outline 20th century developments in the french social sciences for us anon?
or kill yourself, whichever requires less time and willpower
>social sciences
>french
Lmao
>>7224371
What is Foucault?
Sure he isn't the greatest thinker in history like some think, but he has contributed a huge amount to the field of social sciences.
Is there a legitimate grammar checker out there that actually works well /lit?/
Or is it a complete waste of time to even try.
my brain tbh
>>7224147
Subject verb object. Come on.
>>7224185
Dun be gay m8
I'm looking for books about terrible things happening to people. Specifically, after the terrible thing happens, the person or people are now stronger for it and the story ends on a positive note. Both nonfiction and fiction are welcome.
The best thing I could come up with for now was "Between a Rock and a Hard Place," but I need to find a lot of them for reasons. Can you guys please help me out?
Crime and Punishment
Jane Eyre
The biblical story of Joseph
>>7224080
Those are pretty good. I'll need at least 30 or so though. I was looking into some Chuck Palahniuk books as well. Those fall under "shit that you would never want to happen to you but are fun to read about anyway." Anything like those?
Jurassic Park
Harry Potter
R.L. stine's goosebumps series
Stephen king's It
Well?
jesus was a phoenician
>>7223723
It looks like there was supposed to be a third person in that painting, between Jesus and Pontius
From a Christian point of view, is Pilatus actually "evil"? He's doing his part to fulfill God's plan, as did Judas and Caiaphas, but at least Dante places Judas at the very lowest level of Hell, and I can't remember if that was because of his suicide or his treachery. I know the lowest circle was for traitors, but still.
Any insights, o sages of /lit/?
Are Shakespeare and Christianity the two clasps of the patrician's mantle?
Well that's a fedora way of putting it. Nice web image though.
>>7223649
she looks like a baboon begging for attention.
.
OP:no
Also mantles don't have clasps, come up with a better anogloy.
Essential /Loner/ core?
Working on stoner at the moment
Atomised, for one.
>>7223591
I think almost anything of McCarthy's. His main characters seem incapable of making real, lasting connectionswhen they're not psychopaths, which I suppose falls under in the same vein
>>7223628
I enjoyed The Road, going to pick up NCFOM also
I am interested in reading a good book about the history of coffee. I don't want some goofy ass hipster dribble about how amazing coffee is and how it's turned the world into a more trendy place, I want a proper book about the actual events that caused coffee to be such a massive phenomenon. Thanks in advance.
Terence McKenna's book food of the gods had a good chapter on this
ya i can't get down with none of that artisinal coffee fag shit, just give me a big ass cup of instant folgers in the morning so i can blast off a fatty turd and start my day
>>7223534
>instant coffee
Come on now, there is a good amount of middle ground between being a coffee snob and just being a slob.
Does anyone have a comprehensive timeline of all the stephen king and the events within the stories?
>>7223259
Lit - Literature
To discuss genre fiction go to /b/
>>7223259
an immensely inadequate writer on a sentence-by-sentence, paragraph-by-paragraph, book-by-book basis
i like king
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>tfw rereading Ulysses
>>7223133
i gotta do that soon
>>7223133
been thinking about it for months
weird how it was so dull and tough to get through the first time, but after a year or so it settles in and you remember it more fondly than you remember remembering it
same with Moby Dick. i actually hated it the first read. but the second read i blew through it in like 4 days in complete awe
>>7223358
yeah honestly the one time I read Ulysses it was for a class and it was excruciating, but now 8 years later phrases from it pop into my head all the time and I feel like it's a permanent part of my brain. it really does work its way into you
