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Are these chains /lit/ enough? Imma get me one when I win my first short story contest.
http://us.versace.com/men/fashion-jewelry/necklace-chain/243300,en_US,sc.html
Versace is a shit brand that will make you look like a tryhard douche. Get a Seiko mechanical watch instead and replace the band.
>>7994087
>VERSACE VERSACE VERSACE VERSACE VERSACE VERSACE
>MEDUSA HEAD ON ME LIKE I'M ILLUMMINATI
>>7994389
This is a gated community please get the FUCK off the property
DlCKENS IS SO BORING
>>7994005
Meh. Great Expectations is alright.
lmoa you said 'dick'
the first Dickens I read was Hard Times, which isn't boring at all. Maybe start there?
>His name ?.... Albert Einstein !
>>7993985
name three novellas, seven plays, two poems, one highschool reading and eleven airport novels where that happens
2070 Paradigm Shift
>tfw no qt3.14 girl will ever pass me a note saying she loves me
;_;
any books better than this?
yes all of them
>>7993885
Keep the apidistra flying is better
For whom the bell tolls by Hemingway is better and on the same level of difficulty and of the same notoriety
>>7993885
>any books better than this?
yes. a lot
![John_Flaxman_-_Portrait_of_William_Blake_-_Black_Chalk[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/o24m2w5.jpg "John Flaxman - Portrait of William Blake - Black Chalk[1]")
>He worries about 'missing out on references' while reading
I hate people who overestimate the importance of that. Context doesn't make art great, not at least primarily so. I read Iliad without a single footnote or much explanation beforehand beyond a short intro that I practically ran through and I can say I greatly enjoyed even if I missed some geographical reference or whatever.
>>7993879
Hate to play the "doubles' advocate", but references and context aren't about bragging rights (oh look how literary I am, making a reference to the Bible or whatever), but rather about completion. Some concepts, situations or characters might seem trivial without the bigger cultural picture. So it might seem like you "got the idea", but are in fact missing a subtle yet essential dimension. This of course isn't always solved by reference or reiteration so sometimes the point is missed just because the reader isn't familiar enough with an epoch or culture (stuff that history books don't always fix).
tl;dr references aren't everything, but don't be a sperg about it
why shouldn't i worry about this? I'm not fully understanding the text if I don't recognize a reference
Who is the best translator of Proust?
>>7993791
C.K. Scott Moncrieff
>>7993791
proust
Lydia Davis. Read her introduction to find out why.
Is "chaotic turmoil" an appropriate adjective clause? I am a foreigner writing a research paper that will shake the literary world from its very foundations, but i can't seem to decide on that clause.
>>7993753
Seems redundant
>>7993753
Does "orderly turmoil" make sense?
>>7993830
it actually might when i'm talking about a writer's style of plot
Is it a good idea to use the classic argument form (with exordium, narratio, etc.) for dissertations?
>>7993731
Nice pic anyway lol
Where should I start with Woolf? Mrs Dalloway seems like a good entry point.
>>7993707
night and day
just reeeaaaad ahhhhh
>>7993712
I don't want to get memed by dificult stream of consciousness :(
Here's an article you should check out. I know David Foster Wallace is popular on this board but he's actually pretty sexist, as seen in this article.
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/pageviews/misogyny-david-foster-wallace-blog-entry-1.1640569
Can't read his stuff now, at least we know though.
>>7993682
R u even tryin
Everyone and everything is sexist if written from the "right" perspective. It's a meaningless term.
What's up with this sudden influx of supposedly radical feminist ideas? Is /pol/ trying to "convert" this board? Please i don't want this here.
You have 15 seconds to justify how you deal with the male gaze when reading cis male authors. I personally, have started to reject some male authors and just men in general in favour of female/third sex.
Discuss female only books, no males please.
alt right shitmemers will still take the ebin bait
>>7993575
I've never seen so many buzzwords in such a short sentence. you're truly the cancer of the world.
What are some good books about slavery?
We're all slaves to something, my friend.
das Kapital
>>7993607
b& this ass
>>7993554
Epictetus - discourses.
One part of this book doesn't make any sense to me. Deckard travels to the Rosen Association in order to test the validity of the Voigt-Kampff test. He's greeted by Elder Rosen who tells him to test Rachael, his supposed niece. My understanding is that the intention was to lie to Deckard about Rachael not being an Android, with the idea being that if the Voigt-Kampff test failed to tell a human apart from an android, this meant that the police had not recourse for shutting down production of the Nexus-6 units. Everything so far makes sense. The part that doesn't make any sense is why the fuck after successfully convincing Deckard that Rachael is human do they then try to bribe him into lying to the police about the test working fine? I thought the intention was to convince the police that the test didn't work so that they wouldn't have a reason to shut down production of the Nexus 6. The Rosen Association's intentions make absolutely no sense.
>>7993502
It doesn't make sense to you because you're an idiot. Read it again after you go back to pre-school.
>>7993504
Not an argument.
>>7993502
>was to lie to Deckard about Rachael not being an Android, with the idea being that if the Voigt-Kampff test failed to tell a human apart from an android, this meant that the police had not recourse for shutting down production of the Nexus-6 units. Everything so far makes sense. The part that doesn't make any sense is why the fuck after successfully convincing Deckard that Rachael is human do they then try to bribe him into lying to the police about the test working fine?
That's pretty much all wrong. Read it again.
The wolf stood proudly on the crooked cliff that beared a harsh coldness. With red eyes of dominance dimly lit up by the chilling moon. The wolf's pearl coat painted with glistening snow. Then the wolf lifted his head up and let out a battlecry that declared he owns the land and everything in it.
wolves can't feel pride they're fucking animals you mong
>>7993486
lose the anime.
It's shit, you gayass weeb.
Do you vocalize when reading? Do you "hear" your own thoughts in your head?
I've always "seen pictures" while reading or thinking, but i discovered that most people don't.
I think this explains, why i don't like literary, flowery stuff or even poems. What is the point of beautiful language if you don't hear it?
>>7993479
>not hearing with your mind, with different tones and voices.
>not evocating the imagery of what you read.
Doing it wrong.
>>7993484
I hear dialogue, but not description.
>>7993484
this.
Not doing yourself any favours otherwise.
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