When this book is mentioned in a Geography class, it will provoke a lecture about how the author's argument is racist
But it's not racist, it's just geographic determinism.
>>6363954
This book was written specifically to argue against racism, your classmates are morons.
In what ways are Blood and Soil compatible with Guns, Germs and Steel?
I've fallen in love with a socialist girl at the writing club I attend. What do /lit/
Go back to /pol/
no keep him pls
What kind of socialist?
Post a thing that you've written.
It can be a short poem here or you can pastebin your entire novel, whatever.
Others critique.
>>6363892
"If you use a pan to make a pancake, does it make it a pancake pan?"- Anon, 2013
http://pastebin.com/2XwcDkVm
a short story that I wrote two year ago for a competition that I thought I would at least place in
I was quite discouraged when I didn't win, and have since given a few small attempts to redraft it substanially
although in last year's competition, I placed first :)
>>6363895
>2013
Every time I look at the calendar I remember it's already 2015 and have a mini heart attack.
In his lectures on Joyce, Nabokov said it was a waste of time to look for allusions and parallels to the Odyssey in Ulysses. Was he right? Isn't that one of the biggest appeals of the book?
both Nabakov and Joyce were abysmal shit-tier critics with awful taste in lit
how they both managed to write prose with such skill is a mystery
If you notice them you notice them, but you shouldn't LOOK FOR them.
They are barely allusions and parallels when they are that blatant. I think his point is that you lose sight of Joyce's book if all you do is see it as a rewrite of Homer's.
so whats the theory behind brutalism? I can't imagine why commies would want their cities filled this disgusting hunks of concrete
Utility. Something new/interesting to look at.
Nothing more than that is needed.
>>6381400
it's total recall
it's the crisis of functionalism
it's a reminder of your place in the scheme of things
i think it's appropriate for penitentiaries or judicial systems or communist states where you want to put people in their place
>>6381400
isn't there some /pol/ art thread you can fuck off to?
what's the plot of your magnum opus?
the one you haven't written yet because your skills aren't up to par?
But anon, my masterpiece is alreadyself-published :^)
>>6392374
I post pictures of overly made up women on English language Japanese manga imageboards alongside poorly lettered insults to elicit disproportionate responses from others.
I've written one today, it wasn't very successful.
one of my ideas centers on a sales agent who learns how to emotionally manipulate his customers before he breaks ties with the shady group of multimedia institutions he does work for
another involves an international syndicate of person-to-person radio operators with convoluted ties to terrestrial and satellite broadcasting networks mapping out an undernet of global communication on the sly. an academic conspiracy complicates the network's regular broadcast and leads to government and cultic interference
What is the most /lit/ film?
>pic obviously not related
the royal tenenbaums ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Probably some bullshit made by Resnais or Jean Luc Godard.
>>6396721
jk they're based as fuck.
/lit/ probably also has a boner for David Lynch since DFW did.
I am torn.
While I believe man should live in a utopia where work is minimal and all is organised by the benevolent state.
Yet I recognise the tyranny of authority and that man is exploited not just through wage relations. Similarly I do not agree with this consumption of man by the work ethic.
How do I come to terms with both Communist and Anarchist tendancies?
I made a similar thread once and was linked this
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/
>>6379765
But I understand Lenin.
I fundamentally believe the Vanguard party will become corrupted.
Have you read Kropotkin or Proudhon?
>I love reading, I want to study Literature at Univerity
>Yeah, sure, what kind of book do you like?
>Oh! The perks of being a wallflower, The fault in our stars, Looking for Alaska, Eleanor & Park, Divergent. ...., I can't stop reading!
>Oh, sure.... I gotta go
When did the world turn like this?
>Yeah, sure
>Oh, sure.... I gotta go
I'm sure being bitter, inarticulate, narrow minded, awkward around women, dismissive and shallow has had a long history.
>>6393291
if this really happened (it didn't) it was because she thought you were a plebeian who didn't know books.
>>6393291
Always been you pretentious shit
Everybody knows and loves/hates Russian lit. We have to remember that there's a shitload of minor literatures all around it, theoretically stemming from the same root - Slavic.
I'm talking about Ukrainians, Belarussians, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Slovenians, Croats, Serbs, Bosnians, Bulgarians and Macedonians.
They surely must've written at least something interesting, haven't they?
Ivo Andrić, Danilo Kiš, Milorad Pavić, Desanka Maksimović, Vladislav Dis, Milan Rakić
Those are the first I could think of.
Poles and Chechz are the most cultured out of the bunch and have the most authors. Best known must be Lem and Hasek.
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your favourite Pynchon novel?
Slow Learner faggots are banned from this thread, being this ironical is ridiculous
Bleeding edge, because pinecone is a truther.
TCoL49because it's the only one I read :^)
>>6394387
Mason & Dixon because it absolutely blows me away without all the showy flash of GR.
>be a journalist
>actually be there right in Germany and witness Hitler's rule first-hand
>write what is regarded as the best book on Nazi Germany ever written
>historians get so buttblasted about this that they refuse to recognize your book as a history book just because you don't have the academic credentials
So, do you regard this as a history book or not?
Yeah. It's a history book.
Yes
Interestingly same criticism is directed at The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire
Did Shirer ever get over his homophobia?
Pictures of authors
I just saw this photo of James Joyce on the NYRB website. I'd never seen it before. I don't know why I feel so uncomfortable about it. Maybe it's because I'm so used to seeing Joyce in the common authorial poses that anything that strays from that is peculiar.
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You shoukd have called it rare pictures of authors OP
Joyce's eyepatch or Wilde's swagger for best authorial aesthetics?
NEW CRITIQUE THREAD, LAST ONE HIT BUMP LIMIT
Prose, poetry, whatever else you shitters are writing. Anything welcome.
>Post one critique oneas if anyone actually does this
soft pale skin
torn bloody down the fingertips
scarred and dead
it forms a callous
>>6377488
http://pastebin.com/e98pRw1m
short story I whipped up months ago and forgot. Any input appreciated.
Escaping thoughts of you in mind,
beleaguers me to take the skies.
Enveloped by that world of blue,
these thoughts of mine take on a hue,
that no one man can stop or sunder,
these thoughts of you strike me like thunder.
In which with lies we tell ourselves.
This one, I beg, pray not you tell.
What should I do?
How is consciousness individuated and how is my consciousness not distinct from others?
This is my main hang up. I realize everything within my consciousness is one, and without a center, but unless Buddhism slips into solipsism (and I don't think it does) I have to believe that each other human organism is playing out an analogous stream of consciousness in their heads. I realize my personal distinctions between "me" and "other" within my consciousness are arbitrary, but I fail to see how the actual distinction between my consciousness and yours as a separate one is arbitrary.
There seems to be a distinct line between my consciousness and yours. In this respect how are we "one"? How is my consciousness and yours connected in any way?
>Buddhism General
Feel free to ignore my question and post your own.
>Feel free to ignore my question and post your own.
Is there a better snack than roasted & salted sunflower seeds?
>>6366169
Shelled or unshelled?
>>6366172
He meant three pounds of flax.
