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According to Schelling the three post-ancient authors you must read before you die are SHAKESPEARE, DANTE and CERVANTES. He later replaced Cervantes with GOETHE.
Imagine, after finding out you spent a significant part of your youth lurking /lit/, they've made you the national minister for education. What three authors do you put into the obligatory curriculum of non-ancient literature classes?
>>8274480
Ovid, Shakespeare Dante
shakespeare dante and goethe
schelling was right
>>8274492
>Ovid
oh ja, he isn't quite as ancient as Quintus Ennius or Plautus!
List your most brilliant, creative names.
>>8274309
Why? You would steal them.
>>8274309
John Smith
Borsjtjevitj
What does /lit/ think of House of Leaves?
>>8274240
Encapsulating in the aspects of literature that stand out the most.
I liked it, /lit/ doesn't.
>>8274240
>chilling with gf in her room, both of us reading
>get a text from girl in my hall
>asks if i want to borrow House of Leaves, she recommends it
>i say sure, pick up a copy
>start reading first ten pages
>can't stop thinking about hottie who lent me the book
>jerk off, jizz lands in the pages
>can't split the pages back open
>give book back to her
>never lends me a book again
did i goof /lit/? I'm so embarrassed
yes. he's certainly the most attractive too.
>>8273627
>attractive
He looks like a rat.
>>8273646
>not wanting to fuck rats
Fuck off Winston
now I be cry
Why do you cry? Was it a good book? Did pinecone make you feel?
>>8272412
yes he did. I thought it was good but not great, until the last transit. then he hit it out of the park. now I can't stop thinking about those lovable idiots.
>>8272407
Pynchons my fav writer for sure because my fav thing in books is goofs, gags, jokes and rambunctious behavior, and his books are full to the brim of it. Every novel is like one of those novelty snake cans, you open the book & POP you get a face fulla snakes and you fall back cackling. The mad mind, the crack genius, to do it! and then you think hmmm whats he gonna do next, this trickster, and you pick the book back up and BZZZZZZZZZZ you get a shock and Hahahahahah you've been pranked again by the old pynchmeister, that card. "Did that Pynch?" he says, laughing yukyukyukyuk. Watch him as he shoves a pair of plastic buck teeth right up into his mouth and displays em for you- left, right, center- "you like dese? Do i look handsome???" Pulls out a mirror. "Ah!" Hand to naughty mouth. And you're on your ass again laughing as he snaps his suspenders, exits stage right, and appears again hauling a huge golden gong.
I can't seem to find any copy of his books. Anyone care to help?
No luck so far, is his body of work the Holy Grail of our times?
Yes.
You can probably blame Dean Learner for this. Remember how he treated Randolph Caer?
>>8270373
The only man whose written more books than he's read.
I've just finished this and I can say that it's one of the most beautiful books I've read so far.
Thoughts on the book and recommendations?
[SPOILER]Rhoda is Virginia, right?[/SPOILER]
Woolf had been writing here and there about and around the coming of this sort of literature years before, then fulfilled her own prophecy
>>8269251
It was also her favourite novel she wrote, no?
>>8269215
Please, tell me how you did it. I found it, though interesting, extremely boring.
Is this worth reading? It's about how classical civilization came from African, and that Greece was originally black but they were later forced out, and that the idea white Greeks invented it is a racist myth.
>inb4 WE WUZ
It's not a pop work, it's a three-volume academic work that is highly respected and meticulously researched
>and that Greece was originally black
What? That's not what Black Athena is about it isn't some Afrocentrist garbage. The thesis is just that the Egyptian and western Asian influences on classical Greece were much greater than was previously thought.
>>8267874
It says that Africans were the original colonists of Greece, and the idea that Indo-Europeans were is a dated 19th Century thesis.
WE
Why do you hate him so much, /lit?
>>8261902
because he's not 'literary'.
>>8261920
elaborate
>>8261902
Because he's a hypocritical, arrogant, repetitive douchebag. Anyone that puts out as many shitty books as him, all with his name as the largest text on the cover, is someone worth hating.
That, and he coincidentally looks just like the head of department that kicked me out of university for not attending his lectures.
Last thread is autosaging and is near the bottom of the catalog, near death. Before posting your critique, please take a moment to silently remember the past thread and shepherd its soul into the future.
Also, here's my story.
Should I even try
hey guys i need to make up some original qoutes about journey love breakup. i need ideas. or feel free to give your own original qoutes. remember its journey and love or breakup. thanks
Kill yourself.
>>8278699
blood on the tracks
Why are literary editors such cancer?
>Muh b-plot not uplifting
>First page has no hook
>Every pg has to move plot forward
>Not enough cliffhangers
>Mid-point needs a second conflict to raise the stakes
>Protagonist not heroic enough
>Antagonist is evil enough
>Does not follow three acts properly
>Cut out every scene that makes it different
>Those are the rules bro, why you so mad?
Is this experience with actual editors or some Wattpad wankers?
>>8278702
that is what you should expect dealing with editors in publishing
>>8278739
I beleive that entitely depends on the editor. You wont deliver a solid peoce pf speculative fiction to whoever the fuck published The Hunger Games. Know our scene.
Currently 300 pages into this. It's stunning really; I had been feeling more idealistic lately but this book has reawakened my misanthropy. I think Hubbard's mythology ensnares people in a ingenious way, by giving the appearance of a secular spirituality and omitting an overt god figure, and preying on each individual's weaknesses.
Anyone else read it?
Thoughts on Scientology?
>inb4 it's retarded and unsettling.(obviously)
I prefer Zizek if you want to talk about "fake" beliefs desu
Its a great record of Scientology. Last third of the book was just piling so many terrible things upon terrible things that I couldn't finish.
I think what's interesting is how few Scientologists there probably actually are, which makes me less concerned.
>>8278435
I have no clue but Gold Base is a fucking horror story, the way they go after anyone who says a word against their religion is...... spooky
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What are some great authors that write in less languages (say, 15 million speakers or less) and are thus overlooked?
>>8278361
*less relevant
>>8278361
Catalan has some. Josep Pla and Mercè Rodoreda are two I've enjoyed.
>>8278361
Väinö Linna. Täällä pohjantähden alla (Under the North Star) trilogy and Tuntematon sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) are the best Finnish novels I've read.
It's happening.
> Tomás Pichote vuelve a hacerlo.
>>8278358
if you say so, pal
>Default-windows-7-grade font
>Cover image looks like a stock photo altered by a 9th grader in photoshop
>Trademarked corporate logos in the picture
>Embarassingly similar to the Bleeding Edge cover, only shittier
please.
![23-thomas-pynchon-2.w245.h368[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/FvcF010.jpg "23-thomas-pynchon-2.w245.h368[1]")
