TELL ME ABOUT JAMES! WHY DOES HE WEAR THE PATCH?!
flatulence inhalation poisoning
>>6430861
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=JAMES+JOYCE+EYE+PROBLEMS+KILL+YOURSELF+OP
>>6430861
comedy meme bain poasts
It's Dienstag, so: time for a german thread.
What are you reading?
What are you writing? Feel free to offer or ask for criticism you can't give or get in english threads.
What do you want to know about german literature, language and culture? Need help with something?
(As usual, keep the conversation in english mostly so that other people can participate.)
Alright, I post some stuff of mine to hopefully get the ball rolling:
Feier
Ich war schon recht angeheitert, als ich mich auf der Feier eines Freundes wiederfand. Der Hausherr hatte mir die Tür geöffnet, und mich in einen großen Raum geführt, der schon rege bevölkert schien mit Betrunkenen und Berauschten und sonstwie im Geiste Verklärten; ich befand mich für in guter Gesellschaft. Der Hausherr sagte mir: „Trinke, so viel du willst! Iss, soviel du willst! Nimm von all den Weinen und Bieren und Schnäpsen, und allen Rausch- und Verklärungsmitteln im Raume! Nur von der großen, klaren Flasche in der Mitte des Raumes, von der trinke nicht!“
Ich mischte mich unter die Menschen, und war bald von Sinnen, und der Raum verdrehte sich mehr und mehr. Ich trank von allen Flaschen und aß von allen Speisen, dass ich rund und zufrieden wurde, nahm von allen Pillen und rauchte von allen Kräutern, dass sich alles um mich bunt färbte. Ich hatte mich im Kreis vorgearbeitet; nur die Große Klare flasche in der Mitte hatte ich nicht angerührt. Im Raum wurde wild und laut gefeiert. Ich genoss mich. Die Zeit indes ging schneller und schneller und blieb schließlich stehen.
Da aber trat ein Verführendes an mich heran, und gab mir zu trinken von der Großen Klaren flasche in der Mitte. Mein Rausch schob meine Neugier an, da alles andere verbraucht war, und so trank ich von ihr. Das Getränk schmeckte langweilig und nach nichts. Mein Kopf jedoch war wieder frei geworden und meine Sinne klar.
Der Raum war nicht mehr verdreht, oder vielmehr drehte er sich wie gewöhnlich. Die Zeit ging wie auch immer. Doch um mich stank, fast verwest, was eben noch duftete. Der schale Qualm ließ mich husten. Die Feiernden waren Fratzen geworden, und wie Kranke, nicht mehr wie Freunde, taumelten sie um mich. Gut zu sehen war einer, der von dem Tisch gefallen war, auf dem er eben noch getanz hatte. Ich fühlte mich wie vertrieben aus dieser Wildnis, denn das Tier in mir war zum Menschen vernüchtert. Nur fand ich keine Tür! Und als ich ans Fenster stürzte, sah ich draußen Nichts.
Als der Hausherr mich bemerkte, wollte er mir zu trinken geben, doch trank ich seitdem nicht mehr.
>>6402844
verpiss dich, goethe!
Bought Im Stahlgewittern yesterday, but had to go to a meeting, so I only got to read five pages or so, but that prose was pure beauty. How can someone write with so much power and feeling? Ernst Jünger have to be one of the greatest authors of all time.
>writers are withdrawing their nominations from the Hugos because they dont want to be seen to have won due to politics instead of merit
>writers are withdrawing from presenting awards due to the underhanded bloc voting
Good job neckbeards.
You ruined it.
Now anon can write a gripping scifi about vote rigging and submit it uncontested.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/13/1376743/-Freeping-the-Hugo-Awards
this isn't just autism...
it's... advanced autism
>write in campaign for Mein Kampf for all categories
In this thread I am going to post photos I have taken while visiting literary historical sites. Feel free to join in if you have any of your own.
This first photograph is of Rudyard Kipling's house in Vermont.
This is the House of Seven Gables in Salem, Massachusetts. It served as the inspiration for Nathaniel Hawthorne's book of the same name.
Self-explanatory.
Street which Darwin lived on while attending college.
What is the best book you have ever read?
>>6398614
Infinite Jest
>>6398614
My Struggle, call me a pleb if you must, but a book that is so relatable and beautifully written has yet to be challenged.
>>6398614
Moby dick
I'll admit I didn't understand what reading 300 pages about very specific whale parts had to do with the story, or what it symbolized.
Which writer has your favourite prose and why?
>>6397852
Wolfe. He is immersive and crafts something very real, mental images I got from here stick with me like no other.
>>6397856
Do you mean Gene Wolfe?
Nabokov.
Hey guys come listen to or join our autistic ( i mean awesome) intellectual discussion!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HyyruZ2MIE [Embed]
Join by clicking the link in the video description.
>Ghost stories
Are you from /x/?
>>6409601
Were very intellurgent!!!
>hurrrrrr ad hominum ad hominum asidoafoahfa
you guys are fucking idiots, why would I ever watch this
Thoughts?
>>6401830
The ending of "The bell jar" is sort of disappoiting.
I didn't even had time to feel good for her, it just felt rushed and "deus ex".
Everything that happens before that is brilliant, specially the middle part of the book.If you were asking if I would plund her pussy then yes, absolutely I would.
Love her poetry.
>>6401830
She lived (and died) a fascinating life, but her poetry doesn't appeal to me.
It's more a problem with confessional poetry in general though.
Incoming, rate and humiliate me
1/?
>che
0/10was gonna give you a 6/10 just because of the record player and speakers but che sealed the deal
2/?
>>6387537
what's a walk among the tombstones about op?
>Read Conspiracy against the human race
>Nihilism
>Sounds like me in high school before zoloft
>Put the book down and realize that if I enjoy my life and maintain a social circle that appreciates my presence and contributions
Why doesn't Thomas take medication?
>>6400452
>taking medication to hide from reality
>>6400452
He does take his medication, it's just worn its effects because he's old and a drug addict.
>>6400456
But the reality of my life at least is pretty damn swell. Good job. Good friends. Good family.
Was there something that happened to Thomas to make him hate life? Someone he know die?
I mean there's so much a person can do to be useful and give their life meaning. I read to kids at the library. I work at a soup kitchen. Sure these things won't last and I'll die and everyone will die and the universe will die. But why do things have to be permanent to have value?
I love the impermanent things of my life. I'd never give them up.
What is your favorite book from your own country?
There has never been a book written in Canada.
>>6369165
God I know, that's why I never posted an example. I haven't even read a Canadian book I don't think.
![sensacional-de-traileros-editorial-ejea-comic_MLM-F-76863441_141[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/D9Wv666.jpg "sensacional-de-traileros-editorial-ejea-comic MLM-F-76863441 141[1]")
>>6369160
Sensacional de traileros.
Will monarchy ever make a comeback?what about aristocracy?
>>6368296
no too many people. too many damn people
malthus means control at a billion
7 billion means power to the people
btw im reading segur's book on napoleon's russian campaign
motherfucker gained a lot of weight
>>6368317
but we all know that ever more people means democracy cannot possibly work. so most alternatives are going to be authoritarian to some extent
posting random monarchs
Any Swedish people on /lit/? Even enough to have a swedish critique thread?
Listened to a CD with this genius right here reading some poems interlaced with some of his favourite piano pieces, played by himself.
Wrote some poems. Would be cool to share with someone.
>>6370006
There was not a single post when he died :(
>>6370009
People are barbarians.
Reporting in.
Currently plowing through Söderbergs works, planning on picking up something from Tranströmmer now that he's passed on.
I'd love to read some Swedish poems on here, although I'm terrible at giving any meaningful critique.
Why are genuinely funny books so few and far between?
shameless self bamp
Novels that pivot on humor are probably a greater financial risk to publishing houses than serious ones.
>>6370879
Why moreso than in film or television?
ITT
Your 5 favorite writers, whether they write prose, poetry, philosophy, or anything else
Others rate & recommend
Balzac, Maupassant, Zola, Tolstoy, Hugo, Stendhal, Flaubert
>>6365309
Very based
Don Delillo
Lynda Barry
James Ellroy
Cormac McCarthy
Francesca Lia Block
All are prose, I can't read that other stuff.
