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>tfw you work outside and bring your book, and get it dirty when you read it on break
>>8222169
>feels
you silly humans
>>8222169
>reading on break
That must be some pop lit bullshit
>>8222169
>work
>2016
Is this worth a read or is it just typical french garbage?
>typical french garbage
that phrase doesn't bode well for you
but yes its a perfect book
>>8222187
*tips*
>>8222167
Why are the French so pretentious?
Did Heraclitus actually exist?
>>8222078
yes but he was a p obscure dude
>>8222101
lel
>>8222078
yes he avoided all rivers
>rivers for captcha
MAKE WAY FOR THE GREATEST BOOK OF ALL TIME
>Katy and the Big Shit
REAL PATRICIAN TASTE COMING THROUGH
>>8222759
Good one.
>>8222072
>>8222759
>>8222778
I was not prepared for nostalgia of this magnitude
>finally after all these years, I've found the Power and The Glory by Graham Greene
fucking really?
>>8222043
great book
>>8222043
ahhh this is an author with a huge number of books we never talk about. what do you guys recommend? why don't we talk bout this nig
>>8222425
cuz they atheist n dun like christian stuffssss
>mfw reading Ulysses
This shit is esoteric as fuck. How do you patricians do it?
don't focus on understanding all the allusions
just enjoy the rhythmic rise and fall of words
i dont even see why people enjoy it so much
its just an exxperimental comedy devoid of themes
>>8221967
>devoid of themes
read the preface if you need some help
As a child, what was your favorite book?
Lord of the Rings + the Hobbit
I used to love those adventure type books
>>8221568
The Series of Unfortunate Events andmy diary t b h.
Used to love Ego and Its Own
When did you realize that most of our problems, political/philosophical and otherwise, are down to modern education systems no longer (or rarely) teaching (formal) logic?
In light of Brexit, we have people in the UK whining that kids/teenagers should be given mandatory politics classes in school: which is somewhat missing the point. If we actually *taught* logic again, then you'd be killing many birds with one stone - political and otherwise.
Throughout the 18th/19th centuries in Europe for example, and Germany in particular, practically every foray into higher learning institutions began with logic, and then metaphysics/etc, but it's the former I'm talking about.
We need to bring back Aristotle/etc, and stop people arguing on the basis of their feels.
>>8221564
>implying feelings and reason are a pair of opposites
Will this meme ever die?
>>8221564
Nah, fuck that.
We don't need people robotically spouting Latin phrases every time we say something.
>Muh ad hominem
>Muh reductio ad absurdum
>Muh post hoc ergo hoc
>Etc, etc
>>8221573
>Implying their not
Dionysians will once again be crushed beneath the foot of we Apollonians.
Going on a month-long backpacking voyage with my 70-year-old father. I could use some recommendations similar to J.A. Baker's The Peregrine, or John Muir's works. Read them both recently, and fell completely in love.
Basically, works attempting to capture the terrible majesty of nature.
>>8221527
Bump
Moby Dick, I guess
The Nigger of the Narcissus
Hey /lit/,
I'm trying to reach a decent level of knowledge of classic Italian literature (recent writers such as Pasolini, Eco, Gadda or Moravia are not to be discussed here). I have to do this in a very short time, therefore I cannot read long poems or novels unless they are really important. I have made a list of what I consider majour works of classic writers short enough to allow me to do so. Do you think this list could be improved in any way, adding (or, if you think some works are not necessary, removing) anything? All reccomendations are welcome. I also wish this list could be of use to anyone who wants to get a bit more into Italian literature and doesn't have a lot of time to read the longest poems (such as the Orlando furioso or the Jerusalem delivered)
>>8221475
Why don't you have enough time?
When I took Italian in high school we read from the decameron and il Canzionere for Bocaccio and Petrarca. (+ Inferno). I assume pieces of those two works will be covered in the selected poetry and short stories you wrote there. Don't know enough about other authors to give any input, but I appreciate the list because I am interested in improving my Italian reading skills.
>>8221495
Only two months before I have to give a test to proove I know most of this
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>>8221386
bump
>>8221386
Great, now make another one.
Misanthropic fiction?
>>8221352
>"But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death"
>>8221352
I'm reading recently Whatever by Houellebecq and it's quite fitting.
>>8221352
Most of American lit, including everything by Gaddis, Gass, and Coover.
How many pages do you read per day? I only read 10.
>>8221334
100
MILLION
Those are some serious rookie numbers
I read between 50 to 100.
So I'm submitting a short 300 word piece of writing this Friday to a literary magazine. Based on the prompt : “Hold this - it’s supposed to relieve stress?” and inspired by how much I've been on 4chan lately. At first I didn't want to take it seriously, now that I'm done, I kind of want it to be readable. Is there anyway I can make it better, less cringe?
>Unironic Trip Through Embryonic Lady-Land
>Momo-chan took my wrist in her hands and pressed my palm against her breast. “Hold this - it’s supposed to relieve stress?” I gulped away my embarrassment and gripped her breast, squeezing it gently. I was shocked, I couldn't believe Momo-Chan’s firm breast was in my hand. I palmed them and rubbed my thumbs against her nipples, she winced “I can’t believe you are touching my breasts. You really like my breasts, don’t you Onii-Chan?” I never realized how much Momo-chan cared about me up until this moment, she looked up at me blushing. I could see my reflection in her mirror black hair. And that’s when the acid kicked in.
>I saw the world in true color. The skin leaked away from my hands and devilish triadic faces with fiery tongues spat out at me, laughing against the rising flames. I leaned back and looked at Momo-chan, I could see she was trying to ignore me, ignore the guy who was experiencing the depths of hell. I looked around and thought of the people who were going to die, and realized that certain people die without living and certain people live without dying, that we were all one creative organism that had been dissected and quartered and chopped up and placed in rooms. That time didn’t exist, all that existed was matter flowing forward and I was the culmination of my experiences, that I was experiencing my whole timeline at once in my irreversible entropic design. Infinite continuously extended beyond itself, and I was there, experiencing the limits of my finite unto infinite.
>That’s when Momo-chan whispered in my ear: “Have you heard, Onii-chan, Radiohead just broke up.” I remembered we were listening to the basement tapes. Thom Yorke purred in my ear and I lay awake smelling my stink trying not to touch myself. The universe at work purred inside me and Thom Yorke purred inside me as well.
Thanks!
>momo-chan
stopped reading
>>8221313
>momo chan
We've hit the big one, folks.
Hey, /lit/, I want to get the most out of my books, but I'm not /professor/ enough to read old (and relatively new) literature without missing some important details and a lot of historical context. Are sites like Shmoop good for people trying to learn, or just for high-school students on the verge of failing? Are there sites out there better than it that'd you recommend? Any help appreciated, pic very related.
>>8221102
sparknotes can give you some idea with its analysis and motifs etc. of what are the main ideas the author is trying to convey, but if you wana go deeper you have to get a specific book guide
>>8221102
but i dont personally support the idea that you should get just read some guide and be done with it, you should try to think yourself what the book is trying to say/ describe and maybe you can also write your ideas down to organize them and so on
Read Shmoop after you finish the book.
Though I've found it highly effective for post-modern literature like Ulysses and Ezra Pound's poetry.
