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Is there a book that compares short-term memory loss to immortality.
pis-related does it and I want to see another angle
Well, if you're only looking to see short-term memory loss equating infinity, you're actually looking for the same angle.
This is a novel that deals with an amnesiac who suffers short term memory loss and is part of a behavioral study group The dramatic angle of the story is how one of the professionals uses their position and the patient's condition to their personal advantage in interesting and unethical ways.
>>8284738
Only film that made me cry
>>8284738
Memento
Why is the theatre so expensive?
My local theatre is state subsidised luckily (still kinda expensive but not that much), but they're doing Faust nearby and I was looking into tickets, turns out it's $200+ per person for the absolutely cheapest seats.
>have esoteric interest
>surprised when it's expensive
>>8284691
I wouldn't be able to afford going to the opera if it weren't subsidized, but I still think that an art should be able to survive commercially on its own merits. If there aren't any rich as fuck patrons, or if regular people don't enjoy the art enough, then the art should probably be left to die.
So, we need either the aristocracy or the people, and if we have neither, there is no art, only memes now.
>>8284745
>but I still think that an art should be able to survive commercially on its own merits
Philistines can't appreciate or even recognize the sublime.
Is it possible to go into this book without knowing anything about it and "get it" without reading analysis of it first or afterwards?
>>8284653
What do you mean by "getting it"?
You'd better be acquainted with this:
Easy mode: Dubliners, Portrait, the Odyssey and Hamlet.
Nightmare mode: Easy mode plus the Iliad and the Aeneid, the complete works of Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Shakespeare, Defoe and Ibsen, the catechism of the Catholic Church, The Divine Comedy, The Canterbury Tales, Faust parts I and II, the English Romantic poets, Yeats, Beowulf, Morte d'Arthur, Charles Dickens, Henry James, a working knowledge of Latin, Italian and Irish, in-depth knowledge of Irish mythology, history and popular culture around the turn of the century and way more.
>>8284653
Read this first.
The novel establishes a series of parallels between the poem and the novel.
How come the ones always about to read Ulysses are the severely under-read?So did I. You'll be fine as long as the prose does it for you.
Some good books on logics as a tool of philosophical analysis?
B u m p
Pls respond
>>8284603
Start with the Greeks*.
*I give this advice unironically, read Aristotle at least
Nor is there anything wrong with science fiction.
pleb
Its kinda funny how many "genre writers" are actually very well read.
How do I stop being a pseudo-intellectual faggot? How do I read books and get interesting and original ideas from them? Is that even possible?
Just read them and relax, dont be in a race to feel like you "get them" better than the other guy. Besides, everyone has their own unique impressions when they read a thing.
>>8284514
Just remember that you don't actually know anything.
>>8284514
Read the bible.
Lit, I am looking for simply the deepest, most mind fuck of an experience of any book that I can get my hands on. I'm looking for a reading list of sorts, but if you just have one suggestion that's fine. I want to know what the deepest fucking book you've ever read is.
the bible
>>8284412
Fight club
Why do I never see people discussing the fact that Tolkien was an obvious Luddite? I'm currently halfway through Return of the King, and I'm noticing a lot that I didn't as a kid when I originally read it.
These novels are obvious allegory to the evils of industrialization. For example, Orcs are always depicted burning and destroying nature (burning the fields of Rohan/Gondor, chopping down trees in Fangorn, etc.), whereas the good races are attuned to nature, living in harmony with trees and beasts. The armor and weapons of the Light races are described in great detail as beautiful and well-crafted, but those of the Orcs were described as hideous, poorly crafted, and only serving for one purpose (to kill).
Various other allusions exist such as the constant smog from Isengard/Mordor and the use of higher technology such as gunpowder being used only by the enemy.
What are your thoughts on this series?
>>8284401
>never see
Where have you been all these fucking years?
And the reason for that is he fucking hates what industrialization has done to the English countryside. And if you read some of Dickens' novel, you will know just how terrible factories were those days.
And the shitty weaponry the Orcs got is referring to mass produced stuff being inferior to carefully crafted works by humans. Industrialization destroyed Middle Ages' guilds. Now, instead of being proud of their work, people are told to stand in a factory line all day doing one work over and over and over again like a drone.
Obviously, if you've read Marx, you'd think that sounds really communistic. Don't think Tolkien is one though. He just writes of the mythical medieval ages. He says LoTR is a fairy tale for adults after all. He knows it's nothing like real life medieval ages.
>>8284401
I dunno, being a luddite seems the way to go wrt current events. Find a comfy farm somewhere and live while the rest of the world tears itself apart for glorified memes.
>>8284401
Why do i never see people discussing the fact that Tolkien was an obvious anarchist?
The ring is an obvious allegory to the power to control others. Sauron was a commie. Tom Bombadil was immune to it because "he is his own master".
What are your thoughts on this series?
>we're not so different, you and I
>>8284378
>all of a sudden,
>>8284378
>rumbled into life
The book that pic related was taken from just won a £10,000 prize in my country
>protagonist hears a scream
>only later does he realize the scream was his own
usually these treads suck, but this time I agree
>protagonist memes so supreme he lets out a scream
>>8284363
Yeah, it's very fanfic-ish
Do I proceed to checkout?
I'm fairly new to reading literature and I have no defined taste so i'm buying various meme classics. I also have Infinite Jest, Atlas Shrugged (which I regret buying) and Catch-22 due to arrive in the coming days.
Are these books a decent starter pack?
Read Stoner.
>>8284337
Dude weed lmao.
Where's the science fiction?
ITT: writers that remind you of yourself.
For me it's Shelley - he's intelligent, idealistic and with a wicked sense of romanticism
Definitely Byron - my best friend died in an accident and I couldn't save him lol
Stephen King reminds me of myself- a mediocre, out of touch underachiever.
>>8284187
Oh this thread again.
Would love to be a Marlowe or an Ovid, but I don't like boys.
Sadly I am a Kafka.
Was Joyce a perverted Irishman? Is Pynchon an eccentric recluse? Is OP a faggot?
>>8284152
Yes yes and yes.
Why was he depressed?
Finally finished my book, need a cover to publish it. What do?
>>8284080
Contact the publishers. If it's really something you have to sort out yourself (self publishing?) or want to, get a lawyer that specialises in IP, get him to draw up a contract (work out what ongoing relationship you want for a start and how involved you're prepared to be in the process, and also try to get a solid idea of what you want) and commission an artist. Or buy some of their existing work. They can forfeit their rights to you in a number of ways.
Or you get something which is old enough to not be in copyright, although this can be a legal quagmire too. If it's self publishing don't worry too much about it tho.
Or you do your own from scratch. This is by far the most straightforward esp if you like that sort of thing, most people do not even realise. Just make up some name different to the author name to credit for the cover.
If you're self publishing just google for royalty free covers or images to use. Or ask on /ic/ or some sort of art board for someone who'd like to be involved.
If you're trying to get it actually published, the publisher will sort it out for you; it's not up to you.
>>8284080
Use a public domain image.
do you think he was telling the truth?
>>8284076
>In 2015, Alex Malarkey publicly disavowed the book The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven, stating that his near-death experience described in that book was fictional[15] and condemned Christian publishers and bookstores for selling popular "heaven tourism" books, which he said "profit from lies."[16][17] Following Malarkey's statement, Colton Burpo expressed that "People have their doubts about my story," but said he stood by the book.[18]
it's bad theology in addition to being obviously fake
>>8284723
>bad theology
Just like all theology
