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Hello, /lit/. I wish no harm upon you or yours.
I've recently read through a lot of André Gide's work, and I would wholeheartedly recommend you fine gents to do the same. I was, in particular, more than pleasantly surprised by his travel literature. 'Amyntas' was acceptably interesting. It did suffer from some orientalist-romanticist bias, but that made it all the more endearing. However, I was blown away by his 'Return from Chad'. There is not a page not filled with wonder, excitement and the bad, bad treatment of less-than-white people....
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hehehe, homo
>"I am never any one of my attitudes, any one of my actions."
what did he mean by this?
There's a difference between the self and the actions/reactions the self creates. Maybe.
>>7983293
He's trying to avoid responsibility for publicly supporting Mao, Stalin, and Castro's Cuba.
That this white nigga cant even see straight. lmao.
Does it ever explain what the movie is of? What is it? Tried google & its wiki to no avail
It's a mother figure apologizing to a cradle, from the cradles pov
>>7983276
oh, that's stupid
thanks tho
I figured it would've been like that image of that weird ass asexual doll thing that's being restrained while milk is poured on the girl or w/e
Just finished watching it. Thought it was great. It cover's DFW poignantly, with the whole "I don't think you want to be me," relationship he had with Lipsky. Segel's performance was amazing, at certain moments I thought I was actually watching DFW.
I've only read Infinite Jest and Brief Interviews, which I'll definitely reread, and now I'm thrilled for more.
I liked the film, but I've never read anything by or about DFW, so my judgement of his portrayal is worthless.
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>>7983247
>It cover's DFW poignantly
and that's the end of that chapter *throws end of scarf around neck*
How was the reader supposed to figure out that Anselmcastrated himself?
I have no idea if anyone gets that without the summary.
>>7983218
Thought as much. Gaddis wasn't kidding when he said that he requires a lot from his readers.
What did you guys think of the characters in general? I felt like they all were a bunch of assholes that hated each other. Stanley and Wyatt not included.
>>7983133
He's crushing orchids beneath his foot during the party. He pretends to be a dog at points in the novel. He's a kiddy diddler.
what's your favorite book that's light on dialogue. about to finish mason and Dixon and need a break from the chit-chat
Antoine de Saint Exuperys series of flight books has little dialogue
J R would be a nice change of pace
Why do you even read philosophy? It's not like you'll really change your opinion, and even if you do, it'll be on something so mundane that it will barely change how you live. I will not become a moral person from reading Kant, nor will I receive enlightenment from Plato.
I have only enjoyed reading philosophers that I already agreed with. And Zhuangzi destroyed philosophy over 2000 years go, so why are we still doing this shit?
>>7983064
>I will not become a moral person from reading Kant
Wow so profound too bad no philosophers ever realized that checkmate feelfags
Alright Spongebob
That's your problem, dude.
Anyone else here feel like they have the wrong political ideology to ever be taken seriously or accepted by the vast majority of intellectuals out there?
I can't get myself to be a leftist, but being anything else is a faux pas in that milieu of readers and thinkers.
this must be why people are libertarians
I am a liberal. I am an intellectual and well read.
>>7983038
you can be on the right, you just have to be good at it
it's true that you can get away with being an idiot on the left a lot easier because it's assumed at least your "heart is in the right place", but that doesn't mean you can't be on the right
read more, become more nuanced, less of a stodgy cunt; you'll be fine (if you're intelligent enough, anyway)
>finish the first part of Don Quixote
>have to wait 10 years before reading the second part
>>7983019
are you talking as someone from the time that the book was written
or are you commenting on the mental leap one needs to undergo before being worthy of the second chapter
please forgive me for I am dumb and uneducated.
>finish a chapter of Dickens
>have to wait 1 month before reading the next part
>>7983063
If you're not reading in the original language and replicating the exact historical settings (social, political, everything) in which the book was originally published then you're not gonna get it. Basically, to be a good reader you must be a method actor.
why don't we talk about any plays here?
playz r 4 gayz
Because we only talk about contemporary American literarue? It isn't DFW, Gass, McElroy or Pynchon? We will never discuss it.
Because it's a dead medium
I just cant get through Catch 22, I get easily lost and cant quite grasp what is going on all the time. I really enjoyed The Kingkiller Chronicles though.
Is there any place I can view the book by the difficulty it is to follow?
>>7982937
if you dont understand then just keep going though the book,when your finished reading, read it again. if you still dont get it, read it again. Rinse and repeat until you get it, go as slow or as fast as you need and reread a chapter if you couldnt understand it
>I really enjoyed The Kingkiller Chronicles though
Relevance?
Write down the names of characters with the page they're introduced in if you can't keep track from memory. It's not necessary and you can go through it fine without even understanding much of who does what for the first half but if it makes you feel better...
>>7982978
Oh, just wanted to mention that I could follow that book, which is why I'm on lookout for something new. In the end it doesnt matter I guess.
I see, I'm at about 44% of the book. Its kind of hard to enjoy it when I get lost so easily..
Thanks for the tips though.
reposting from another thread because i'm honestly interested in answers.
>not to be flippant, but why do people here often ask what books they should read or read next? i always found it exhilarating to go to a bookstore of library and hunt down my next reading experience. anyone who has been half-educated should be aware of at least a handful of the greats - Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, etc - and reading them always leads to reading their contemporaries or researching them, which in turn leads to more discoveries of authors....
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>>7982931
>for me,
theres your answer. not everyone is like you.
>>7982931
some people just dont have time for that. why waste time going through slime when you have the fair people of /lit/ to feed you suggestions
idk about other people but I've always had a strong impulse that when I get interested in an art form, I need to get familiar with ALL the essential works/artists before I can start forging my own path. But that doesn't really work out, and I end up enjoying myself more if I just follow my interests where they lead.
Hey, I've been using WriteItNow to design the novel I'm currently working on and I'm just wondering if /lit/ knows if there's a better writing software out there.
Any advice would be great!
>pic related its WriteItNow
I like Ulysses. But this seems similar, though the aesthetic is tackier. Ulysses is $50 though. I also use ommwriter on occasion to bang out a stretch of text and MS Word for shorter work.
Celtx for screenplays, MS Word or Celtx for plays
>>7982849
There's a MacOS/Windows writing tool, it went on sale months ago. It looked good and had good reviews.
Can't remember what it was but it let you do characters, storyboards, and allows you to easily organize chapters.
>>7982849
Looks kind of cool.
I'm downloading the demo now.
Okay, so I've seen several Anons post how White Noise was a good book but how, strangely, they can't seem to remember too much of what actually took place in it. Well, I'll offer a suggestion. It's because the book deals with the concept of death as one of its main themes. Not just death, but the nuances surrounding how death is perceived in society. Don't you think that is something that we, as people, would prefer not to think about? Perhaps we're subconsciously veering away from a full recollection of the book because it forces us to face our...
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I think you got a good point, anon.
>>7982806
Thanks, I guess. What was your experience reading it? What stood out the most?
>>7982796
I need to reread this. Strange book. Ersatz elegiac epiphanies
I wrote this a long time ago, when I was in high school:
-Anodos-
The light now fades, a sad night falls,
Expanding shades grow thin and tall.
A young man knows what must be done
As all light leaves and dark has won.
He starts to walk through hill and dale
Over choked up creeks and dead foxtail.
The old oak leaves crunch with fallen stem
As his scarred black boot walks over them.
All pitch now, but in light of day,
Those crunched up leaves were gold in fey.
These colours by noon in crimson hue
Show by dark a deep...
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>>7982775
He stood and he walked to the ocean’s Great Gate
Where the Sea and the Sky meet in colors of slate.
And cursed the God he did not believe,
As he passed back and forth at the end of the eve.
But lo, in the West there came a strange thing
A crisp, sharp, clean breeze like the birth of Bright Spring.
That passed to and fro through the Oak and the Ash
And rolled that old log off the cliff with a splash
And the current took the wood, far out to sea
Where it roams with the Dutchman, endlessly.
And...
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it's not terrible but it's not good.
super cliche and derivative. work on your imagery and avoid using tired cliches, and vary up the prosody a bit so it doesn't sound like a sing song rhyme.
it's /imanedgyteenandthisisdeep/ tier, sorry.
>>7982775
No discernible talent
