Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 475. page
- Home
- Board: /lit/ - Literature
- Reading: Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 475. page
When will you fucks finally accept Gass as the savior of American fiction? When will you fucks finally realize that Gass's prose is on the level of Joyce, surpassing it in certain respects? When will you fucks learn to bow down to the greatest living American writer, perhaps the greatest living writer period? When will you fucks learn that The Tunnel is the greatest novel of at least the last 50 years?
>“Wild eyes were another sign. It is something I have seldom seen — the expression of an ecstatic state — though much is foolishly written of them, as if they grew like Jerusalem artichokes along the road. The eyes are black, right enough, whatever their normal color is; they are black because their perception is condensed to a coal, because the touch and taste and perfume of the lover, the outcry of a dirty word, a welcome river, have been reduced in the heat of passion to a black ash, and this unburnt residue of oxidation, this calyx, replaces the pupil so it no longer receives but sends, and every hair is on end, though perhaps only outspread on a pillow, and the nostrils are flared, mouth agape, cheeks sucked so the whole face seems as squeezed as a juiced fruit; I know, for once Lou went into that wildness while we were absorbing one another, trying to kiss, not merely forcefully, not the skull of our skeleton, but the skull and all the bones on which the essential self is hung, kiss so the shape of the soul is stirred too, that's what is called the ultimate French, the furtherest fuck, when a cock makes a concept cry out and climax; I know, for more than once, though not often, I shuddered into that other region, when a mouth drew me through its generosity into the realm of unravel, and every sensation lay extended as a lake, every tie was loosed, and the glue of things dissolved. I knew I wore the wild look then. The greatest gift you can give another human being is to let them warm you till, in passing beyond pleasure, your defenses fall, your ego surrenders, its structure melts, its towers topple, lies, fancies, vanities, blow away in no wind, and you return, not to the clay you came from — the unfired vessel — but to the original moment of inspiration, when you were the unabbreviated breath of God.”
Welcome to Gass land, my friends. Settle down, have a nice cup of perfect prose, and let's get to Gassin.
I'm a huge Gass supporter but i'd have to say Pynchon at his height is better than Gass in his prime. I still rank Gass firmly above Delillo and Mccarthy.
the gass that comes out of my ass is more significant than the one in the OP
>>8048504
Are there multiple Gassposters now?
do you guys really think your own interpretation is more important than authorial intent?
>>8048379
For my own uses it is
>>8048379
Authors don't have intents.
>>8048389
i do
Help me out lit, I have to make a short film based on a 20th century poem for class, the video has to be at least 7 minutes long and thats about the length of "the LoveSong of J Alfred Pufrock". Any suggestion is appreciated. Thanks
>>8048370
take the anti-jew part from pound's cantos
read it aloud with the holocaust footage at the background
even better if you can find a record of pound reading that part himself
>>8048383
what part is that? it'd be good if it wasnt disjointed
>>8048370
Paul Valery's The Graveyard by the Sea is neato. I don't know about seven minutes worth of neato, but it might be
What's your opinion of Patreon?
Less specifically, what's your opinion on arts patronage in the 21st Century?
>>8048190
I give my money to hentai artists and ero cosplayers.
>>8048198
>cosplayers
Even though it's not my thing, I kind of understand supporting the hentai artists, but a cosplayer...why? What do you get out of it? Masturbation material?
>>8048190
I want to start a patreon for my shitty youtube channel just to be ironic.
was he a good author?
Better than me
>>8048177
No, he was a shubbniggurathian author
He was unspeakably good. So good that my words here are but a pale imitation and mockery. So good that I developed a debilitating opium addiction and have never read another author since.
Is post structuralism dying? Will anyone remember Lacan and co. in 50 years?
>>8048168
I think it suffers from its most virulent adherents currently being online activists, clickbait journalists, and actresses who are only on TV for their looks.
The reaction on the other hand is massive and entrenched, and it only occurs within western culture.
>>8048181
Buzzfeed gif compiler drones are all certified lacanian analysts
>>8048194
They are exactly on par with Lacan, Derrida, Foucault and other luminaries. Not their fault the state isn't funding their tantrums.
What would happen if Stirner met the Buddha?
He'd cry like a baby.
>>8048121
Who, the Buddha or Max?
>>8048113
Kill him
What are your thoughts on horror novels?
What's that movie
they are horryfying
>>8048052
Lovecraft or bust. Full sized novels make it impossible to cultivate suspense. Suspense it of the utmost importance in horror, but it must be cultivated and unbroken.
I always end up writing anything in the worst possible way. It's not so much about using big, obscure or technical terms as it is about never coming to the point. After several edits, I can 'skim' 80% of it and bring down to two lines what I first didn't quite say in a few paragraphs.
I want brevity and clarity as a way of writing. How do I nurture this?
>Inb4 'Write/read more' is not enough. Also, not being clear makes me feel it affects how others see me.
*Btw, it's taken me 16 minutes to complete this post, 13 of which I've just been re-writing.
Bumping for interest.
I feel the same way as OP, and I'm not sure I appreciate the English language enough to write with actual elegance yet.
You're spending too much time editing what you had written probably because you care about the aesthetics of your prose.
>>8047721
Why did Orwell hate the Irish so much?
>W.B. Yeats once said that a dog does not praise its fleas, but this is somewhat contradicted by the special status enjoyed in this country by Irish nationalist writers
>ORWELL was a socialist tho!!!
Orwell went to Spain to fight for his most deeply held belief, yes. Unfortunately, that belief wasn’t socialism but the nastiest, most puerile of the tribal hatreds English babies learn in the cradle: anti-Catholicism.
The revolution in Catalonia was unlike any other socialist rebellion before or since. Its fury was reserved for priests, nuns, churches and monasteries, and the anarchists Orwell loved were famous for inventing new ways to kill clerics. That’s what drew Orwell to Catalonia: the chance to help the men who were disemboweling priests in Barcelona and winding their guts around the altars. At last, a chance to smite the bloody Papists, the whore of Rome, Eric Blair’s oldest and dearest hate. Not since Cromwell had an English Papist-baiter had such an opportunity to torment the filthy priests. Naturally, Orwell was on the first ship he could catch. It wasn’t about socialism, it was about the chance to kill “a stinking RC” (Orwell’s description of Wyndham Lewis).
The Celtophobia starts in the very first line of 1984, the famous opening: “It was a cold, bright day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.” Oh the horror of the continental (Papist) 24-hour clock.
O'Brien is the villain, Oppressing innocent Englishmen.
ORWELL= ORANGEMAN
Monsieurs and Patricians of /lit/ what methods do you use to improve your vocabulary?
Apart from looking up a specific word while reading - something that annoys as it breaks flow - I use the website Vocabulary . com.
It's very useful and I usually play around five rounds a day, sometimes more if I'm bored.
It's definitely worked for me as I'm seeing more words I never understood and wouldn't have before I started using the website.
There's an app as well which I got for free but I think it's like a dollar or something but it's not needed as the site is free.
Do you think you have a good vocabulary? Are you an autist who uses said vocabulary in every day life or just for writing and reading?
Anki all day.
>>8047714
I always read with a composition book that occasionally doubles as a journal. While reading I transcribe any interesting passages, turns of phrase, or words I don't know, and at the end of the week I look those words up and record their definitions.
>>8047815
What if you were to read a book with lots of quaint words? How could you read something like Blood Meridian?
>when you realize the complete contingency of existence
how many layers of irony is that meme on
>>8047704
0
He just like it listen to music
>>8047704
if only you knew what I know. the meme has transcended layers and is no longer an onion. you can turn back now, Anon. you can leave it all behind you. please
>"Music is a higher revelation than all the wisdom and philosophy"- Ludwig Wittgenstein
What did he mean by this?
>Schopenhauer be write
Your heroes are vacuous gewgaws taking up space on the window sill.
>>8047546
what are you on about
>>8047535
He means: le hedonism lol XD
WRITING SUBMISSIONS
anyone submitted anything lately?
is duotrope worth buying?
don't be one of those idiots who just carpet-bomb a hundred different magazines with a single submission.
the first step should be to actually READ the magazines that publish the kind of writing you're interested in so you know what the market expects.
Submitted to Atticus almost a month ago. They're usually really good with fast turnarounds so I wish they'd send me a rejection already. I just want to start building my callouses.
If you write genre fiction check out ralan.com for listings.
So I have 7 books left to finish that I need half to one page book reports for by this Friday and need help. If you've read or done a book report on any of these and have a backup I can use, Any help much appreciated, Thanks.
Here's the remaining books.
*The biology of Belief by Bruce lipton
*Life reframing in hypnosis by milton erickson
*The evolution of consciousness by Robert Ornstein
*Other lives, Other Selves Rooger J. Woolger
Special assignments instead of book reports:
*Mysticism and hypnotism in india by Ormond McGill: 20 things you learned from book
*Reality Therapy by william glasser
*Healing with Mind power by Shames & Sterin:
Open Book Test
Actually the reality therapy is also a book report. but im reading that one right now so preferably another one, Thanks.
>>8047017
nigger ate you retarded ?
>>8047017
Don't be a slacker. The assignment can be done by Friday if you put in the effort. Sage.
How does transcendentalist account for Natural Disasters, if a bug were to sting and kill Emmerson during his Lectures how would this cohere?
>kill
He's climbin in your windows
He's snatchin your people up
Tryna rape em so y'all need to
Hide your kids, hide your wife
Hide your kids, hide your wife
Hide your kids, hide your wife
And hide your husband
Cuz they're rapin errbody out here
You don't have to come and confess
We're lookin for you
We gon find you
We gon find you
So you can run and tell that,
Run and tell that
Run and tell that, homeboy
Home, home, homeboy
Please
