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What kinds of novels would a vicious young aristocrat who sees the great lot of mankind as ignorant garbage deserving of death enjoy reading? Asking so I can have him quote them.
>>8175745
Against Nature
>>8175745
The Picture of Dorian Gray
>>8175745
Matthew 7:6
/Lit/ opinion on Polish literature? Also, any book recommendations? Previously I've only read Sienkiewicz and Mickiewicz.
//Learning Polish as a third language
>>8175672
Bump
>>8175672
Potocki's Saragossa manuscript. Based as fuck. Also spooky
witkacy, schulz, prus, norwid, piasecki, grzesiuk, miłosz, różewicz, mrożek, żeromski, słowacki, wyspiański, miciński, krasicki, twardowski, kochanowski, morsztyn, przerwa-tetmajer, herbert, lem, gombrowicz, reymont, staff, kasprowicz
Poetry thread.
Tomorrow waits for me,
Not begging nor pleading
Upon its arrival
Of my conscious mind
And yet it further
Calls, steadfast, resolute,
Omnipotent in this
New day that is my own;
But the tide of the past
Leaves old worries upon
What could have been, what is.
Damned be tradition, the corner-foundations
of the pagoda and mosque, the jurassic,
polished, well-varnished, in slow ambulations
round the bejewelled cathedral enclosure
understood; burn the commandments in classic
letters that cassocks in motley dipped foreign
fingers in ink to inscribe; let exposure
flake the decaying old virginal parchment
sheath and the papery helms of their horsemen
confident faces emblazoned upon whose
masks are the picture of vacuous assent;
let the remaining air bathe your lewd tattoos.
You’re weighed against a spurious ballast; knife
the ropes, free yourself—what can you lose but life?
>>8175622
>Tomorrow waits for me,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Mg6Gfh9Co
End yourselves, this cannot continue.
I wrote a short story about a girl who tries to identification but can't because she's an illegal immigrant
Turns out it was Ariel and her Prince died of cancer and she has nothing and nobody and no skills and wishes she stayed a mermaid
Did you enjoy my short story?
>>8175577
You should try self immolation, you'd be better at it.
>>8175634
>being this pretentious
kys
>>8175676
What is pretentious about thinking its a bad idea?
Apart from reading the main /lit/ canon for well-roundedness, what reading suggestions does /lit/ have for songwriters? I think I saw a similar question a while back but it contained certain details which elicited mostly japery and memery, so hopefully I didn't say anything to trigger too many kys's.
Also, favorite musical settings of poems to switch it up from "favorite lyricists." I would pick Dictherliebe, which /mu/ might consider a pleb choice (just guessing), but that's cheating because I don't speak German. So in English it would probably be Songs of Travel by Ralph Vaugh Williams (pic related).
*Dichterliebe. argh
and * Vaughan....jesus...i'm tired or retarded.
It doesn't matter who you read as a songwriter—first and foremost YOU just have to write so much that you develop your lyrical voice
Meanwhile just read ANYTHING and absorb ideas, possible allusions and lyrical ideas, etc
t. Lyricist of 7 years (only 3 of which involve making good lyrics)
>The Color Purple by Alice Walker
>Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
>Passage to Indian by E. M. Forster
>Slaughterhouse Five by Vonnegut
>Kite Runner by Khaled Hossenai
>Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
>Bless Me Ultima by Rudolph Anaya
>pick 2
>>8175258
Death of a salesman and invisible man
>>8175286
thats what i was thinking, wasn't sure about the other ones and already read slaughterhouse five
>>8175258
Death of a Salesman and Slaughterhouse Five
I could understand a different second pick but Death of a Salesman should be there 100%
Which one is the best and unabridged translation of Mein Kampf?
my diary desu
>>8174755
>Not reading it in the original German
It's like you WANT the Jews to win.
Let's talk about books that have the character go on an adventure.
>>8174681
>>8174685
lol i kek'd irl desu
also, lesbians aren't real and you're probably a 100-120 IQ turbo-pleb
On the Road, The Divine Comedy, Faust, V.
>>8174739
>that image
my sides are in orbit
Did I goof buying used books? Not really looking for opinions on the author/books because I already know you all think Dick is pleb shit.
>>8174582
You probably could have got them cheaper on ThriftBooks.
But no, it's no goof imo. I almost always buy used.
>>8174582
dick aint pleb shit b
you didn't goof. In my experience PKD books are always overpriced in bookstores, but less online. Some of his books are public domain now.
What's some good literature about nostalgia? Philosophical or fictional. I've been on a decline for a while and this year has been real JUST for me. I find myself constantly pining for the halcyon days. I need literature for enlightenment and inspiration.
>>8174408
The Odyssey by Homer. Odysseus longs for home and family. You can then decide if it is all it is cracked up to be.
>>8174408
do like i do and go to /pol/ and make a thread about the 1950s which was Utopia realized.
I long for those days
oblomov
king lear
blake
all that is/a sport and a pasttime (salter)
I see her and she is the target.
I have never seen someone so normal, a sort of androgynous stock face with not a semblance of uniqueness, in fact, she is so unremarkable, I sense that it would take a while for anyone to even notice her absence.
My name is Adam Coltrare, and no I am not Italian, nor am I a film maker. I already sense there are a lot of “I” in here. It is in my blood to quieten, my father shot my ma in a fit of drug fuelled hysteria. I believe in this reticence, they are the true people, rest are robots, that is why ma got killed, am I a robot? My father always said I was illegitimate, I am so glad, I cry at the thought of not being so. A half cyborg or so. I believe in this reticence, they are not NPCs you see.
I think that I have killed 72 of them in the past year, pa said that it is never-ending. However a childhood incident has made me believe otherwise, oh how I believe otherwise. He has there and then he will bring me to the other planet, where I shall hunt deer and make the waves a sea of foam, for eternity till I do come back to the robotica.
I plan meticulously, I have the time, I am thirty-two, I have not wrinkled since age twenty-three. My father is dead now, but he has died because I have turned twenty-three. Baby faced boy.
I need to quieten her, I knew from the second I saw the brown speckle in her left eye, inferior to the pupilage, you only see it when it is bright and it has shrunken. I wonder how he imagined I would not realise, from the second I saw her stock face.
She is quite thick and unwomanly, with breasts that hang like cow udders, large confectionary nipples, there is a lot in the woman to be found in their breasts. I think it is like eyes for men, except they take it upon themselves to unbalance the force of nature by enlarging and decorating their eyes. In fact, none of my quietened targets were women.
I work in a sales office, I am an actuary. You see the stereotype of my career is that we are do-gooders and it is very true. If not why would I be so fervent to quieten so many individuals? This girl was suddenly an employee of the company I worked at, I think she was in her 30s now, (looked much younger obviously) and had that brown spunk in her left eye inferior to the pupil. I checked her over. I was at the water cooler, drinking cold tea and talking to a robot about, I don’t know, rugby or some shit. Anyway, she came and sat down at her desk and I looked at her, my colleague stopped talking, looked in that direction, spotted her, and turned back unaware of the importance. He gave the same look of a robot looking at an indoor plant.
10:32pm - I am still at the office, I do not sit near her.
Work on your grammar pls OP.
>>8174241
stop trying to sound so edgy and blunt mang
The name's Julius Caesar, bub. AND DON'T YOU LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT!
I'm walking down the subway when a man with a beard tries to give me money. Do you think I was born yesterday? I run away as he is flattened by an oncoming train.
Sometimes I wonder what would happen if someone rearranged all the keys on my keyboard; Tpnfujnft J xpoefs xibu xpvme ibqqfo jg tpnfpof sfbssbohfe bmm uif lfzt po nz lfzcpbse.
I am listening to my professor giving a lecture on something quintessential when I wonder if Trump becomes president if he will build a wall to keep out all the normies and make anime real. I believe Albert Einstein said something similar, perhaps?
My friend ironically converted to Islam and now she is being stoned to death for reading the Koran on the wrong day of the week. I am about to save her but she gives me that look that tells me it would be funnier if she died. So I sent a tweet with her bleeding corpse and "Let's not blame this on muslims #notallmuslims #stonecontrol"
If that wasn't enough, Brutus shows up and stabs me. "Et tu, Brutus?" I say dramatically, tragically falling to the ground in an elegant pool of blood. "Brute", he says, "it is declined with an -e, the vocative of second declension masculine nouns." "This isn't the time for grammar lessons Brutus, you damn brute. Kiss me, Bruto, I'm dying." He sighs at my grammar and kisses me in the dignified Roman way. "Vale, Brutorum", dico (I say).
10:33pm - I am still in bed, my name isn't Julius at all, it's Jack.
/lit/ how do I break into the Amazon Erotica game? How do i enter chuck tingle mode? Also talk about your experiences and if you have any tips.
>>8174150
Sometimes I write my ayn rand sexual fantasies on /lit/. I've tried writing actual marketable erotica and it went badly. Write something you like. I bet Chuck Tingle (or whatever his name is) cries himself to sleep every day despite being rich because he has to write the actual books.
What you have to do I think is just write whatever amuses you or turns you on. If it does both, all the better. With erotica no holds are barred and you can say whatever you want. Your prose style doesn't have to be very good. What matters is that you can paint a picture, a hot picture, in someone's mind. That's all.
Just keep writing and writing, doing your specific thing that no one else has quite done right, and you will be like Chuck Tingle in the end probably.
OP here, found some stellar advice
As a fan of erotica if something goes beyond 6k words or even more chances are I won't read it. Why? Because I don't care about story, character development, plot, descriptions, anything.
I care about fucking, lewdness leading up to it and the result after coitus. Thats all I want out of a story.
I don't buy erotica but Ive seen so many long winding memoirs where all they do is flirt, it bores me to death.
Vonnegut said you should start a story off as close to the end as possible. Its very true with eroticism. The guy who is about the fuck the girl should be standing right outside the door.
Erotica is an impulse buy/ fetish buy when you do buy it. Its quick and dirty short like McDonald but it gets the job done.
If you want to write something longer you aren't out to make profit. Writing is really about hitting a groove so you are more quantity than quality, if you want to make money.
Some of the more longer eroticism I have read, is absolutely great. But it has to be dripping with prevision, lewdness, teasing from the get go. I think one long series the main characters never even fucked, but it was hot as hell watching them dance around the taboo issue.
But most of the time, and it might be my personal preference, nobody can really write that good for that long in erotica without it having to become a dirty romance novel instead.
>and so they called my name to the deck for punishment because of some bullshit about a place I was supposed to be, so I told them the lieutenant never told me that and he fuckin lied and said he did, and the dillhole captain believed him. So they said I was gonna get flogged and to take off my shirt and I was totally about to just grab the captain and jump over the side and do like a samurai honor killing instead of letting that jerkwad whip me and dishonor me when my best friend stepped up and was like "Herman is the coolest guy ever and also his jacket is cool and you shouldn't flog him" and then the sergeant of the friggin marines came out and was like "Melville is the tightest shit and we'll like mutiny and stuff if you whip him" and I gave the evil eye to the captain and he let me go. Which is good because I didn't really feel like murder-suiciding us anyways.
Sure, Melville, whatever you say.
>>8172293
I chuckled. Thank you for this.
>>8172293
he looks like arin hanson
I don't get it.
Itt: Post words you have only read but have never heard aloud.
>scelestic
>fustigate
JPEG (jay peg?)
URL (earl?)
GIF (gif or jif?)
Jay-peg, You-Are-Ell, gif.
>>8199986
It's
>jaypeg
>you-are-el
>gif (already this is how everyone I know pronounces it, but I believe the creators intended it to be pronounce jif)
What should I read next /lit/?
>We Kill Because We Can
>The Assassination Complex
>Blowback
Why do you hate America anon?
>>8199315
how about something good
>>8199315
Zodiac is pretty good mass market true crime
