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>erotica
I'd fuck her right in her triangular mouth. Keep making those bedroom eyes, bae. Hoo!
>You will never accept a venom cock
>>8195816
erotica can be a fertile and rewarding artistic subject.
I'm not a native speaker and I'm not particularly capable of concentrating right now, either.
Would someone be willing to explain to me what this ( http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/detail/89329?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social_media&utm_campaign=general_marketing ) poem is about?
>>8195539
Bump
I know this is a long text, but it contains stuff about memes and lines like "[pics or it didn’t happen]".
>>8196329
A-and I would really appreciate it...
>>8195539
It's about being trapped in your given circumstances I suppose.
Lit, how do I just get over my own head and read? I keep holding myself to some sort of standard, I stare at a page and get frustrated sometimes because I feel like I'm not comprehending sentences fast enough. I find myself staring at a page and telling myself that I've been staring at it for too long. I feel like I should be a faster reader, and that if I'm not then it's because I simply don't have the brain capacity, which I feel is false because if I were to simply relax and not take things so seriously, I could get so much more reading done because it wouldn't matter how fast I read the book, as long as I just finish it instead of getting discouraged; reading speed doesn't matter, comprehension and retention matters which I think I am pretty good at.
I still can't get over it though. Staring at a page, I get so frustrated when there's a word that I don't know. I am always choosing literature which uses references to things which don't exist anymore in our modern society, or words that are obscure that I'd have to look up the definition of. It's things like these that also make me feel discouraged from reading. Maybe when you read higher level stuff (whatever standard that may be), you should be feeling that way to some degree? I wonder if I just have a very skewed perspective of what it means to be a "good reader". People keep telling me also that I probably just don't like reading, except I want to love reading and I want to enjoy the experience of reading a book, I can imagine all the incredible stories and information out there inside of books that could become mine, and the experience and emotions within the texts that I could feel. I want that stuff, except it's just been difficult for me lately. I just put down Knut Hamson's hunger after 3 pages.
Relax kid, to become a proficient reader develops over years. Keep reading. Maybe have a cup of tea or coffee before you read, or take a 30 minute jog to calm your mind and relax before reading.
I look up words I don't know, it rarely happens now because I've been doing it for almost a decade, eventually your knowledge base gets big, just take it in stride, one book at a time.
This ain't a competition, you're just racing against death's clock but you'll be dead either way, breathe kiddo.
One page at a time, brother. But read daily.
>>8195530
>Lit, how do I just get over my own head and read?
I know it may seem impossible doing a handstand and reading, so I suggest strengthening thay neck and doing a head stand.
What's your favourite Borgesian story/poem?
Other than these:
Library of Babel
The Circular Ruins
Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
Personal fave is Funes the Memorious. I don't know how to judge his poetry since Spanish is all Greek to me. But it seems okay, with a few metaphors and images standing out.
funes was great, one of my top ones too, OP
garden of forking paths was also pretty cool
>>8195192
Theologians.
>>8195192
The Immortal is one of my personal favorites. The moment when he finds outthe troglodyte was Homer all alongis the most /lit/erary plot twist I've ever read.
nick land
>>8194990
fag
>>8194990
>muh deleuze
>muh schematism
>muh eugenics
what a knob
Reading fanged noumenon atm, can literally feel the lib being crushed out of him as the years progress.
First essay encourages fostering of amazonian violence against patriarchy, couple more essays in we are at Schopenhauer and questioning in prols are even human.
Loving it so far
>Most successful author of our age
>Always imitated, never equalled
>Almost single-handedly saved the act of "reading" from going extinct among the Millenial generation
How about /lit/ finally shows some love and respect for Ms. Rowling, hmmm?
>>8194897
Mate, if you have to shitpost at least do it in an interesting way.
with all due respect, she lost her place when she succumbed to the obsolescent replication (cancer) of capitalism. the "cursed child" indeed...
>tfw the sorting hat put me in Hufflepuff
Why even live
Recently picked up Cumming's collection, some of his poems are very understandable and quite beautiful, but sometimes I'm left scratching my head. Thoughts? And if any, favorite poem by him?
a lot of his stuff was hit or miss for me, but overall I like him. this is one of my all time favorite poems:
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near
your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose
or if your wish be to close me,i and
my life will shut very beautifully,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing
(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands
>>8194753
Good for what he did, bad for those who did what he did after he did it. His early poetry, the stuff he wrote while still at Harvard, is interesting. That's cummings: "interesting". Maybe not great, sometimes good. Interesting nonetheless
Buffalo Bill ’s
defunct
who used to
ride a watersmooth-silver
stallion
and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat
Jesus
he was a handsome man
and what i want to know is
how do you like your blue-eyed boy
Mister Death
Hey guys, so I just finished pic related, really liked it, but now I'm kind of unsure of what I want to read next. I like dark stuff like that, violent, scary, whatever, that kind of thing.
But anyways I also like all different kinds of literature, some of my favorites are American Psycho, Catcher in the Rye Tale of Two Cities, Dracula, Confederacy of Dunces, 20,000 leagues under the sea.
I'm not really well read but I've gotten into some of the classics, and some of the more popular contemporary stuff. Anyways I'd love to hear if anyone had any recommendations for me for what might be a good follow up to something like Blood Meridian in terms of tone and theme, or based on some of the other stuff I mentioned. Thanks!
bump
pls help
who is yer favorite poet and why?
>>8193955
I'm my own favorite poet, t b h.
pushkin
because eugene onegin is a masterpiece
>>8193955
Yeats.
His words make my head buzz.
Hey lit what's the best site for ordering books dirt cheap.
>inb4 local bookstore
>inb4 library
Thriftbooks.com
>>8192971
Seconded.
www.amazon.com
What is the best site for illegally downloading books (I am a libertarian and do not believe in the concept of intellectual property) for my electronic fedora (kindle)?
oh are there not any sites to download books from? shame.
libgen you narc
Hello clone of me. I use books and libgen. Sometimes it's hard to find books in non PDF format, but no matter what I would recommend calibr for easy conversions. It even has an add to device option to it's one or two clicks to auto convert and add a book from comp to Kindle.
So I hate actually reading books. But I want to know the stories of Barsoom, Tarzan, and the 2 Alice in wonder land books.
What is the best place to get a high quality audiobook for free or other 100% unabridged adaptation that I don't have to read?
>>8192865
Piratebay or audible.
>>8192865
Librivox, you bourgeoise swine.
>>8192908
>bourgeoise swine
If I was bourgeoise, why would I be stealing every xmen comic since 1975 to read on my tablet?
how do I design a sick epic fantasy universe around dragontails?
>>8192760
Dragontails are an aphrodisiac, thus dragon populations have been on a steep decline due to poaching.
>>8193106
were you here 2 years ago
I suppose it's a silly question but I just wanted to hear your guys thoughts on it.
>>8192546
From a /lit/ and /biz/ perspective?
You want something that will be related to your book of course! Something either deep or literal maybe.
You ALSO want something that will help it stick out and sell. Since Publishers won't pick up authors that don't sell.
That's pretty much it.
Here's an irrelevant /lit/ cap.
It is important, but definitely not as important as album covers. Basically every modern music release has a square image tied to it, an album cover that tries to depict its content in the most favorable way in order to appeal to consumers.
It's interesting that this attachment to the cover image is so much less important in literature, proven by the fact many books have multiple covers depending on the edition, publisher, translation etc.
Maybe it's harder to convey words into an image? Or maybe the literary scene is not as susceptible to marketing strategies? Or maybe it's because book stores and libraries present their books with their spine, while record stores invite people to flick trough everything?
They are important enough to exist, the title more so.
How many books at a time do you read? Do you stick to one or multiple? How fast do you read? Everyday or somedays? How long does it take you to finish the book(s)?
jesuschristgetalifewhofuckingcares
I read twenty pages of a novel a day, and an issue of a comic. I find if I read too much in one day I get burned out and then stop, since I stick to this schedule consistently I inevitably read more.
>>8192419
okayiwilljustkiddingiwont
