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What is the negro spiritual of literature?
>>7981880
The Souls of Black Folk by WEB DuBois
It reads like a religious sermon
>>7981880
Great book by the way, I wish I wrote it.
Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo
What are the best illustrated versions of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass?
TdChizrilifeeelindupahrwteh
Of course
>>7981862
came here to post this
Can someone explain to me why Slaughterhouse Five is a good book?
I just read it and it seems to really ramble on. The story doesn't feel to be all that good either. Couldn't he have made the same points he wanted to make but in a more straightforward and pleasant manner?
I liked Cat's Cradle though.
Also any recommendations for more accessible literary classics?
It's not, Reddit lied to you.
>>7981750
this
In the years since Slaughterhouse-Five was first published in 1969, it has become part of the world’s consciousness. The book explores fate, free will, and the illogical nature of human beings. Its sensibility is a direct descendant of that of Mark Twain, who, like Vonnegut, used humor to deal with the world’s horrors. Vonnegut was anti-war, anti-religion, anti-hypocrisy, anti-the-glamorizing-of-war, and was specifically opposed to the bombing of Dresden, a city which was not supposed to be bombed because of its art and architectural treasures. This was one of Vonnegut’s many paradoxes. Art was sufficient to protect a city from being bombed—but the loss of human life was not important enough. In fact, the destruction of people was the point and purpose of war.
Just marathoned the first paragraph of this. Is it any good?
Best post I've seen all week
Love loves to love love.
>A long-lost book-length guide to “manly health” by Walt Whitman, in which the great American poet tackles everything from virility to “care of the feet” and the attainment of a “nobler physique”, has been rediscovered by a scholar, more than 150 years after it was first published under a pen-name.
Whitman - the first merging of /fit/ and /lit/?
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/30/walt-whitman-revealed-as-author-of-manly-health-guide
Anyone else here read some of Whitman's pre-Walt stories?
bumping because this should be stickied tbqh
>>7982096
Sad thing is /lit/ hates Whitman.
Did human gain free will in the last century?
As far as modern science is concerned, the mechanisms governing the brain are large enough that they behave deterministically. Humans naturally lack free will on their own
However, since the discovery of quantum mechanics and the inherent randomness of the subatomic scale, we humans have been able to access what we believe to be truly random processes. If this is indeed the case, does that mean any decisions humans make which are influenced by such small-scale phenomenon are an expression of free will?
For example, if I decided I wanted a coffee it would not be free will, but if I had an electron in a superposition of spin states and decided whether or not I would have a coffee based on what spin state I detected, would that be an expression of free will?
Pic unrelated
>>7981421
>only according to modern science
>not using a cross-section of science and philosophy because they work well with each other
op fell for the STEM meme
>>7981427
I guess I'll wipe my tears off on my wad of hundred dollar bills. Don't worry, I get a thousand of those a year
>>7981459
>2916
>not being the main project coordinator and philosophical guidance of a group of scientists, getting paid 186k per year to essentially bullshit
The other thread is full of shitposts and isn't being taken seriously, so I thought I would make another, better one.
These are most of the books I've bought in the past few weeks. I might have forgotten some, but I'm not sure. How'd I do, /lit/?
>>7981383
What's the difference between Lawrence of Arabia and Seven Pillars of Wisdom?
>>7981702
Seven Pillars was an account written by Lawrence himself.
Lawrence of Arabia was a third party biography
Was pynchon trying to invoke a sense of irrational racial paranoia in his audience by subtly implying that every character in V. is Jewish?
Seriously, like, I just realized this. They're all Jewish. All of them.
>>7981366
It's especially weird when you notice how kind of out of place it is for most characters.
Brazilian guy? Jewish.
Irish national? Jewish.
British officer in the Victorian era? Jewish.
Catholic priest? Jewish.
V. and the Godolphins might be the only exceptions. It's so damn weird and I have no idea what impact it has on the narrative or interpretation.
>>7981366
I've never read V., but from what I know about Pynchon, I'd guess making all his characters Jewish is a joke making fun of conspiracy theorists who see DA JOOS being responsible for all the world's ills and see every passerby on the street as a potential dirty-Jew-rat-bastard.
pynchon, major jew-lover
Are there any books that do a better job of mixing surrealism with intense emotion?
the bible
vurt - jeff noon
>surrealism
r u stupid
IJ aint surreal
>anglo speakers will never be sure 100% on how to read and pronounce their native language even in adulthood
hilarious sempai.
romance language masterace (tacospeak).
>>7981270
>only speaking one language
>>7981270
Spanish speakers invariably disregard grammar in my experience though. It's also pretty sad to me that most languages are so static when compared to english (yes, and german too). They never seem to natively adapt for new phrases and ideas. Maybe I just wouldn't know if they did.
Anyway, other languages seem so oddly limited in so many ways to me.
Finnish is objectively the best language for literaturet.finn
I'm a repressed fucking faggot. I have pic related coming in the mail, what else would you recommend me?
Experience.
moby dick
the picture of dorian gray
Bible
What do you think about Alain de Benoist and the New Right?
He made me think of the "separate but equal" doctrine during the segregation.
He sounds incredibly interesting, - would anybody care to tell me where i can find some of his works?
>le smart racist man face
>>7981808
He isn't racist. Europeans from before the French Revolution did acknowledge the almost equal prestige the ME civilizations had with them. I think his project is going into a similar way, but with way more civic(pagan) religion elements.
Good bye, /lit/!
shit wrong pic
looks like steve-o
>>7981069
simply eric, mah dude
Does /lit/ know of any literature on this?
https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/Cho_Fiction_Poetry.pdf
>>7981041
This book is up for the Man Booker International this year, and it is all about shame and self hatred from Korea. So yeah.
http://themanbookerprize.com/books/vegetarian
wat read
>>7981027
Book
Croatian tales from long ago
