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These are always interesting. Literary trivia thread.
Russian surrealist writer Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky and his wife lived in separate apartments on opposite sides of Moscow, as he felt living together would "kill the poetry" of their relationship.
While living in France, Samuel Beckett used to drive Andre the Giant to school after he became too big to fit on the bus
Nathanael West died in a car crash while on his way to F. Scott Fitzgerald's funeral.
>>8086221
oblig Cervantes and Shakespeare died on the same (calendar) day
>>8086221
Homer was actually a black woman.
John Keats beat up a butcher's boy who he found abusing a stray cat
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Wanna get into politics, can you guys recommend me some entry level books?
A friend , recommend me pic related,The Prince by Machiavelli and No Logo by Naomi Klein, are these good entry points?
Thank you
>>8086029
Wasn't erich Fromm a literal cultural Marxist from the Frankfurt School of White Genocide?
Escape from freedom is great but I wouldn't call it a political work nor entry level.
>>8086066
Well, what could you recommend me then? Entry level or not.
I just asked for entry level books, because i've never read a book aboult politics, but im not scared of difficult reads.
Who is the male protagonist you most admire?
I havent read much but I have never come across a guy in any book who is totally worth emulating. I'm tired with tragic over-philosophising romantics, who is it that bridges the gap between internal struggle and material contentment?
Musashi
This should be required reading for young men IMO
The main kid in In Praise Of Older Women
Doesn't over-think, doesn't stand in his own way, is outgoing, is knee-deep in the vagoo, has normal and adult relationships
Ahab
Dr Faustus
Macbeth
True men run themselves into the jaws of hell in a desperate chase for power or revenge.
Bookzz is shit what is a good tracker for ebooks
No private trackers pls fuck that drama
MyAnonamouse maybe?
>>8085040
myanonamouse is fine, but oyu have to fiddle around with VIP torrents that you can only get by acumulating points as you seed torrents
>>8085516
>Invites: 4
>Bonus: 99999
are you a pleb?
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/05/24/yale_students_want_to_remake_the_english_major_requirements_but_there_s.html
>the current year
>still forced to read dead straight white males
I mean C'MON, it's TWO THOUSAND AND SIXTEEN. I thought we were more progressive than this.
But a lot of the canon is overrated and not applicable to our student's lives. Nor do we try to make it that way. A skilled professional could, but mostly it boils down to empty talking about symbolism and making kids hate books
>>8084710
>>8084701
Oy veeey
What books have ***almost*** made you cry? I mean, surely you've never actually cried because of a book... unless you're a faggot.
>>8083980
>books
>emotion
Go watch a movie if you want emotion, faggot. Leave the sublime for the patricians.
>>8083980
The Art of Racing in the Rain
There's nothing like the relationship between a man and his dog.
>>8083982
Evidence that /lit/ doesn't read
Me at 16: I'm going to be the next James Joyce.
Me at 25: I hope I'm good enough to be published by somebody.
How have your expectations changed, /lit/?
>>8083371
In the similar fashion. I'm still determined I'll write something good, but I now understand the fatuity of comparing myself to or hoping one day to measure up to the likes of Joyce, Faulkner, etc.
Me at 18: Got this awesome idea for a book; if I practice writing short stories then when I get older I'll be good enough at writing to do my idea justice.
Me at 26: Fuck, it didn't work.
art isn't a competition
Making my way through the Dune saga, and just finished Dune Messiah. I read in the introduction by Brian Herbert that Messiah wasn't well received, that people thought it went against Paul's character.
Why did people think this? I thought Paul's actions were perfectly in line with the original novel. He couldn't prevent the Jihad from happening, so he chooses a path that will (somewhat) minimize its effects and his role in them. Paul never wanted to see his banner planted in the flames of other planets.
I thought the plot continued from the original...
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>>8081295
>muh hero
>>8081295
>reading an star wars ripoff
>>8081295
Messiah is the best written of all the Dune books IMHO, it has an elegiac quality and sadness to it which none of the other books achieved (or intended to achieve). It's also a great deconstruction of the hero myth, but you have to admit it's pretty unusual and probably not the sequel most people wanted.
Here we talk about stuff written in Portuguese. What are you writing/reading lately?
Also, post what you've been writing.
>>8079357
Postando para avaliação e bump.
Pensamentos descreveram senoides, uma onda de rádio em alguma frequência desconhecida. Uma coisa disforme olhando para o abismo e que em seguida cai para sempre. O vento frio descortinou o palco onde residem as profundas reflexões e, por assim as serem, ficam escondidas em camadas de coisas triviais sempre ditas, anuências e respostas autômatas que se amontoam antes que a voz soe. Uma força invisÃvel pareceu empurrar Estêvão para sabe-se lá onde. No céu Plêiades...
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>>8079357
bump
Amigos brasileiros, algo que venho pensando ultimamente e gostaria de compartilhar a discussão. Acham que as reviravoltas polÃticas que afligem nosso paÃs nesse momento podem vir a desencadear um movimento artÃstico que influencia nossa literatura?
Surprisingly enough, I didn't see one around so here it is. A thread for discussing and rating poetry you've written. Just post your poem down below and feel free to give a slight explanation of it.
You shant obtrude the fragile,
you, a deleterious pariah
with impact menial and agile,
skilled lasciviously in maya,
birthed to grapple with babel,
sprouting to internal vandal.
You, a grotesque psyche -
distorter of subconsciousness,
embracing yet spiky,
an excruciating phlebotomus,
awry begotten.
I wrote this to a friend...
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oh my god
omg lol
i cant decide what would be funnier - someone actually wrote this to a friend, or someone went through the trouble to come up with this to make a b8 thread
a hearty kek/10 in either case
I can see you're really impressed with multisyllabic words.
I want to make my sister move on after the death of her husband. He died 5 years ago, but she keeps denying herself the opportunity to love again, and that despite she is a beautiful woman and is only 33 years old. I liked her husband and I know that they respected each other when he was alive, but I really feel she would benefit from start going out again, maybe seeing other people.
Although I know that literature alone is not the answer here, still I would like to talk to her and present her some passages of poetry or prose like the following:
Love Sonnet LXXXIX
When...
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>>8090499
You can be honest here, are you trying to fuck your sister OP?
>>8090499
>beautiful woman
>33 years old
>>8090503
Doesn't seem like it. OP seems 28-ish and this would be an unusual dynamic.
Does /lit/ like British comedy?
I just guessing here but I predict most of you here don't like them all that much, and consider their work to be literally /r/eddit.
I just finished both of Douglas Adams' and Terry Pratchetts' bibliographies, can you recommend me stuff that are similar in style?
What's the best Discworld book?
What's the worst Discworld book?
What's your favourite Douglas Adams novel?
What's your least favourite Douglas Adams novel?
Monty Python unadapted scripts
hey guys it's rpatz again
i notice a lot of you guys like to make threads where you laugh at others for their taste or opinion or whatever, but it's pretty annoying and takes away from my browsing experience. figured i'd make a general for all you guys to come and self-posture yourselves against all those spooky plebs out there
thanks, enjoy
What's Eric Packer doing dressed so funnily?
>>8090286
What's the difference between "self-posturing" and posturing? Isn't any form of a person's posturing also "self-posturing"?
>>8090286
what book are you holding in that pic
I didn't agree 100%
Do I have to stop sucking his dick now
You aren't a writer tho
>>8090109
he's talking about himself
>>8090132
he wrote that post
It makes me so irritated when plebs call grrm a "master." I mean his prose is decent at best and cliche and purple at worst.
That's because you are a retard with too much free time who is bothered by stupid shit.
>>8090079
And you're an anus, so...there ya go
>>8090056
As much as this board shits on Grrm he did something the shitposters never can do.
He got published.
