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an essay about the Greeks
is planes trains and plantains the best essay of all time?
It's not the best essay of all time, but it is rather good. I particularly liked the pictures.
>>8110648
can you post a funnier one plz
>>8110656
I can, but I won't.
>Read, enjoy book.
>Listen to Miles Davis.
>Drinking coffee.
>TFW your house has become a one-man Barnes & Noble.
say one insightful thing about miles davis
>>8110552
I'll try. I haven't listened to him enough to decide how I feel.
When I listen to jazz I don't hear notes, I hear the whole thing, but with Davis I hear notes AND the gestalt. I listened to Bitches Brew the other day and felt like it was a journey, but I don't know if that was intentional. Jazz tends to sound like dudes playing for 5-20 minutes and then it stops without any beginning middle or end.
How's that?
Could you guys proof read this essay i wrote for an english exam. I'm a senior in highschool so just let me know of grammatical errors and that i'm garbage cringy writer. Its an informal personal narrative.
good thread!
This is a confession. This is an admittance of my sins and transgressions towards a very vulnerable girl. However I also hope this is also a story of some redemption and how I’ve learned from my cruelties. This story started a very long time ago, at least in the span of an eighteen year old’s life, at a beach in Florida.
I always wanted to go to the beach when I was little that and flying in an airplane, the latter I still have yet to do. I remember telling my mother that I wanted to plant my feet into the beach and feel the tide bury my feet in sand. I remember telling my mother a lot of things. I love my mother so much. I also remember my mother talking to me a lot of things when I was little. She taught me manners, altruism, how to try different foods, and how much she loved my father. I also remember my mother telling me that love for your partner is reflected in how you treat your parents. For example if you treat your mother kindly you will also treat your wife kindly and lovingly.
Well I dipped my feet in the sand at the ripe age of eleven. And as I was standing there basking in the sands after an arduously long road trip my mother called to me, “Addison! Come meet Emma!” And I turned around to peer at this tall, lanky, olive skin tanned girl, with beautiful brown eyes. Emma was a year younger than me but you could hardly tell the age difference with kids at that age but it came more apparent as we got older.
We started to have a real liking to each other on that trip. However there was a catch. Emma was my cousin, twice removed. Emma was the step daughter of my father’s cousin. To this day I still don’t understand why but my aunts’ kept putting me and Emma into romantic situations. For instance, later that night after we met, all the kids loaded up into a van to go to this strip mall in the city that we were staying. Well there were not enough seats for all of us. So they made Emma sit on my lap. I had never had a girl sit on my lap before and that made it weird at first but I started to warm to it after awhile. I really started to life Emma over the course of the week long trip and I remember asking the adults if it was okay for me to like Emma and they completely endorsed it. They didn’t see any harm in it so why should Emma and I? I don’t think they were planning on our relationship going much past this little childish little summer love. That week went by quickly, far too quickly. When I came to from that glorious summer vacation Emma was gone. Her family left early in the morning and I didn’t have a chance to say goodbye. The last time we saw each other was on the balcony and we were talking about what we find attractive qualities in boys and girls or “what we liked in boys and girls.” I don’t remember what she said about boys. But I remember what I said I liked in girls at that time. “I like girls with long dark brown hair and tan skin.” Poor girl took that as if I was a prophet reciting the will of God. Boy, that girl liked me. Hell she loved me and I had no clue what to do with that, but I liked it. That’s all I understood from it, that I liked it. So I just went with it.
After that vacation we didn’t talk that much because I didn’t have a cell phone. Though we did communicate when I felt like it; the whims of this prophet didn’t often favor Emma over video games and heavy metal music. When I did deem it necessary I treated her like a queen like my mother taught me writing lengthy messages and poems about my affections. All of it was simply sweet nothings. As if I could comprehend the words I spoke to Emma at that age but she ate them up nonetheless. During this time I was going through middle school bullying and puberty. I got into fights constantly. I would come back home with welts and black eyes and broken teeth all the time. I was called names and nobody would dare talk to me. If people did talk to me they were just doing it because they pitied me.
A man carrying a small machine approaches you on the street one day. He tells you that he will offer you money equal to one hour's worth of your current salary in exchange for using his machine on you. The machine, he explains, shortens your lifespan by one hour. If you are unemployed he offers you minimum wage. In either case he is open to haggling.
Do you accept his offer?
No, because time is an illusion.
Yes, because time doesn't exist.
Maybe, because time is a slippery subject.
which one should i read first, and why?
>>8110227
yes
nietzsche is trash, ramblings of a schizophrenic
>>8110227
I'm just finishing Beyond Good and Evil.
It's terrible. Nietzsche's writing style is quirky as fuck; you can just imagine him fidgeting, blurting out, pre-emptively bouncing off the walls of the Basel Mental Asylum where he would later stay until his death. That said, it might be the translator's fault.
He had a couple of good ideas, nothing mind-blowing though. The actual ideas he's championed for (Übermensch, morality that is 'beyond Good and Evil', etc) are terrible.
I could imagine a good debate about just 'who' his prophesied 'New Philosophers' are (hopefully not those Post-Modernist/Structuralist hacks), or if they've even appeared yet, but that's about it.
Schopenhauer was better. Hoping to de-spook myself with Max.
Is this kid in my grade postmodern or post-postmodern?
You're both just twats.
>>8110146
I would have called that kid a faggot in the halls if he went to my old school
I would have called that kid a friend in the halls if he went to my old school
The multiple serial rapist muslim psychopath Daryush Roosh Valizadeh is launching this month a new travel guide... the 24th one.
This he advertises as the "First guide without advices and descriptions on how he forcibly rapes unwilling polish or iceladish or ukrainian girls"
So this is his first not a sex travel guide with advices on how to rape women, as before, but this time is just a travel guide to Canada.
I wonder how many sheep and muslim retards
will buy his new travel guide.
His rhetoric and his self praising is powerful, he plays very well on logical biases of naive men
there are several new videos about him, exposing him
as a sicko and a multiple serial rapist
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAFR5U3OYGU[/youtube]
The excerpts that he gave so far look like he's just in an endless self-praising masturbation of how awesome he is...
and how "neomasculine"
Of course Roosh forgot to mention all the reports that women filed against him, after rapes, death threats and everything he did
>[youtube][/youtube]
Who uses BBS forums in 2016 I mean really.
as my first time on 4chan, 4 chan is very confusing. I have no clue if anyone reads this message
>tfw OP can't english
>tfw OP can't even 4chan
>tfw OP's one talent is making Roosh sound interesting while talking about Canada of all fucking places
Roosh, we know it's you and none of us are grills, queer, or weigh under 220. Ball's in your court.
what is /lit/'s opinion on Shel Silverstein
looks like an islamic militant
>>8110021
>Silverstein
>>8110021
Successful enough for Playboy is too plebian for me.
“Madness is contagious,” the most memorable line from this sprawling, desultory, Frankenstein of a novel. And madness is a tedious, dull slog in Bolano’s world. I can ride through a couple hundred pages of experimental obnoxiousness in an ambitious novel like this, as long as the rewards are there. But, ultimately, 2666’s rewards are minor.
I started out liking this book, found it fascinating and darkly funny in the Kafka sense. From there the humor was either lost, or, later, shifted registers into that nasty Celine territory, which I can get interested in if something worthwhile is at stake, something important is being said or grappled with. But, as you read, it becomes evident that the stories and motifs are going nowhere, really, or perversely feeding back into themselves, as though written by a madman applying his very personal and idiosyncratic logic to stories and ideas, whose only end is to regenerate further applications of this logic, never getting anywhere--deliberately going nowhere--the sole purpose to keep his madness alive and thriving.
If you’re looking for any remotely sympathetic characters, you won’t find them here. They’re not even characters--more like zombies, really. If you think zombies are cool, you may hate them after reading this book. “Death to zombies!” may be your new motto. Then there’s the sense that the novel is so full of literary inside jokes or elaborate cross-textual references so as to render it incomprehensible to a reader like me. I really couldn't stand nearly all of the final book. Was that supposed to be funny? interesting? fascinating? insightful?
Masterpiece? I don't think so.
While there is much to be admired in Bolano’s skills (his narrative command is excellent, which makes what he’s using it for frustrating), and he has some fine sentences, figurative and philosophical, the final experience of this novel is just plain boredom. Finishing the last page, I was left completely cold and disinterested in unraveling any the stories’ various enigmas.
2666 comes across as a grand exercise in narrative obfuscation. If that’s what he was going for, mission accomplished.
Hey, Good For You
Hey, Good For You
Hey, Good For You
>Hey, Good For You
>Hey, Good For You
>Hey, Good For YouHey, Good For YouHey, Good For YouHey, Good For You>Hey, Good For You>Hey, Good For You>Hey, Good For You
>translation
kys
>Post is about 2666
>Picture is Infinite Jest
0/10
> Oh, you read poetry? Drop a freestyle.
>Jim Morrison is my favorite poet
>>8109960
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my flows so dope you could roll em up and smoke em
your boy don't toke so you know I'm only jokin
dope prose flows like Jimbo Joyce
first edition more rare than a holographic Blastoise
>>8110027
Dank.
Can you guys explain the last line of this story? What does it mean?
>A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life
>When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed very hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces.
>The man who’d introduced them didn’t much like either of them, though he acted as if he did, anxious as he was to preserve good relations at all times. One never knew, after all, now did one now did one now did one.
that dfw was an homo and the embodiment of everything he despises.
>>8109861
It's repeated to emphasize how anxiety-riddled they all were.
>>8109895
What is the subject of the "knowing" ?
>Wirf dein Schweres in die Tiefe!
>Mensch, vergiss! Mensch vergiss!
>Göttlich ist des Vergessens Kunst!
>Willst du fliegen,
>willst du in Höhen heimisch sein:
>wirf dein Schwerstes in das Meer!
>Hier ist das Meer, wirf dich in das Meer!
>Göttlich ist des Vergessens Kunst!
(shitty translation by me since I couldn't find another one:)
>Throw your heavy in the deep!
>Man, forget! Man forget!
>Godly is the art of forgetting!
>If you wish to fly,
>if you wish to be at home in the heights:
>throw your heaviest in the sea!
>Here is the sea, throw yourself in the sea!
>Godly is the art of forgetting!
(Note: "Schweres" literally means "heavy thing(s)", but it sounds incredibly stupid when translated into English.)
What Nietzsche mean by this?
>>8109587
He's reacting against SJW egalitarians who try to elevate everyone (black, women, gays etc.) to the same moral status as the white heterosexual male. What he is saying is that instead of swallowing that bluepill (forgetting the redpilled capital T-truth) you might as well kill yourself (throw you're'selve in the sea) because liberals will never cease in their unquenching thirst for 'muh equality xD'
Nietzsche is based, basically
>>8109587
With Schweres he obviously means your memories, all your mental baggage, your education, the things you believed to be true.
>>8109625
Damn, I thought I was posting on /lit/.
>>8109642
Right, I got that as well. The part that stands out for me is
>throw yourself in the sea!
First he tells me how to fly, then to throw myself in the sea (which is like the opposite of flying)?
And so I figured there's more going on here than I can see.
I'm about to go to the local bookstore. What book should I get?
>>8109435
A book
Ask for directions to a nearby library, proceed to get a library card, and start loaning books instead of acting as a consumerist prick that endulges in the commodification of literature as a hobby.
>>8109566
>marxist cuck detected
back to tumblr, sweetheart
what are /lits thoughts on dianetics? where do I start with scientology related books? I had a free stress test done by them and they recommend I read their works.
>>8109335
>where do I start
You don't
>>8109344
but how did they know I was stressed?
>>8109335
I really hope you're just memeing. If you were on this site back in 2008 you'd know why.
music is great, literature is engaging, the visual arts can be mindblowing, but of all the artforms the pinnacle is
f - - -
well, what is it, /lit/?
fuck
Fucking
>>8109263
This board is for literature.
Please discuss works of literature, or people will report you for posting off-topic threads.
