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>and but so
>and but then
>and but then when
>but so but then so
>so and but that
>yes and but
>and so and but so
>but and so and but
>so then but so
>but so but then
>and so but since
>and but so why
what's the deal with these?
He said something about them being extended conjunctions as would be used in conversations, so that using them would give the work a sort of conversational/colloquial tone, but that doesn't quite make sense, does it, because no one, in normal conversation, uses stuff like that, when it's just back and forth trivialities, but if you notice, you can see them all being used by comedians in their standup.
>>7865628
I think they would be used when one is trying to formulate perfectly, or nuance his speech. In that regard they show a kind of insecurity (that dfw himself seemed to hold as well).
#RAREWALLACE
That's the most flattering picture I've seen of him
Is it just me, or is the Continental tradition (both the philosophies and the authors themselves) tied to some form of leftist politics or another now? Why do you think this is, and do you think it has to be this way?
>asking as someone who is trying to get more into the topic but doesn't yet know a lot right now
It's just you. Some feminists and homosexuals might quote Nietzsche occasionally, and plebs might run with concepts like perspectivism just to enable their own uneducated impudence, but that doesn't mean shit.
>>7866075
Yeah, but a lot of the feminist shit comes from people like Beauvoir, Marx influences a lot of the leftists for obvious reasons, and even some of the philosophers themselves (like Foucault, for example) are left wing.
Surely there is a tie to politics for the Continentals, and the tie is to the left?
>>7865596
Left/right crap is a subset of philosophy, not the other way around
Where are the modern Chesterons? Where are the polyglot writers who can move from theology to editorial, from prose to verse, from critic to philosopher and do it with a light heart and a cheerful disposition that lifts the soul to read?
>>7865585
>where are the fat, British Catholic sentimental blowhards
Council housing I imagine.
>>7865594
savage
>>7865594
Grauniad reader detected.
Offer me some suggestions of existential/absurd novelists/playwrights. I've gotten quite passionate about it lately. So far I'm familiar with Nietzche, Dostoevsky, Camus, Kafka, and Sartre as novelists, and only Beckett as absurd theater. I've heard other names such as Jaspers, Heidegger, etc. but haven't read/ don't want to read them if they don't compare to the others i mentioned. Thanks /lit/
>niezhee
>novelist
ur adorablr kiddo ;)
>>7865500
Thus Spoke Zarathustra was a novel.
>>7865535
Is a novel
Why became /lit/ so repetitive? Everyday I check there is mostly another bullshit dfw thread, or another Pynchon thread, or another Nietzsche thread, or another stoic thread, or another...... Where is the good content? where is the new and interesting shit /lit/? I loved /lit/ but without some exceptions it´s getting boring here....
>>7865461
Aight. Start reading Dwight Macdonald. Sergej Snegow.
Anything else you want ?
natural trough of the cycle of image board culture, as experienced by one who frequents it heavily
>>7865461
Also, why isn't /lit/ reading to each other some plays on some discoord or skype session ?
what's the most compelling, hard to put down book you've read?
>Ecclesiastics
>Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
>The Trial
>>7865387
Mein Kampf
Anything that has a lot of sex or violence
What are your plans for raising your children into being academic and literary scholars?
Surely you aren't planning on sending them off to public school and plan on teaching them yourselves, correct?
>>7865386
>What are your plans for raising your children into being academic and literary scholars?
None of your fucking business, anime faggot.
Im going to let them decide that for themselves
>>7865386
Teach them the basic shit & let him go alone in this world. Leave the kids alone or you would have the classic "None care of your stupid classics literature, dad. Yezz"
Greatest author of our generation?
Who buys these? Is it ironic like The National Enquirer?
>>7865200
hipsters or the mentally unstable
A few years ago I got a used copy of pic related in good condition off amazon for like $15. I just checked it again and used copies start from $90.
It apparently used to belong to a library, because it's covered in library labels, and there's a stamp on the first page that says "no longer property of so-and-so library."
Anyway, wat do? There's a rare/used book store that just opened nearby, maybe I'll see what they'll pay for it. Or I could try to sell it on amazon. Does anyone have experience selling books?
It might be wise to take pictures of the whole book and upload it as a pdf so it doesn't get lost to time. Can anyone find a digital copy, so I don't waste my time? Is there an existing archive of digital copies of books?
Tenant, The - Roland Topor.epub
u.pomf.is/yiayed.epub
You'll probably get more money selling it online, but check that bookstore anyway.
I'd like to add a question to that. Does anyone have experience selling high value books in English online from outside of US and UK?
That particular edition commands good prices because of the Thomas Ligotti introduction (cult author, his own books can sell for hundreds). Ask in the library, see what you can get there. But if you want at least 90 bucks for it, you might want to sell it to someone who collects Ligotti books.
>>7865516
I live by selling books in english... in mexico.
did i fell for a meme?
Why is it in a wrapper? It s a book
>>7865100
It's a mint condition collectible book
>>7865085
>did i fell
back to /r9k/, kid
Thoughts? I've only read the first chapter so far but I really enjoyed it.
>>7865068
Are you reading it for uni?
It's useful but not very exciting.
Eagleton forces his Marxist views in an annoying manner.
The first chapter is the best thing about it. Theory is bad, an intellectual fad of the late 20th c thats unfortunately still stinking up universities with profs whove been teaching it for so long and dont want to let go. eagleton himself abandoned it. See: after theory.
>>7865089
for me marxists are brainwashed and delusional. marxism has failed
>dfw pontificate
Dfw. Handsome for a man.
>>7865022
There's a nice word.Seriously though, i fucking hate you.
>dfw and but so this thread gave me the howling fantods
Or something close to it? Having finished Worm, I found myself choking up a few times today. It's been a while since I've read anything really moving.
Stoner
The Brothers Karamazov
Even some of Infinite Jest t b h
Most novels i read move me to emotion at one point or another.
I also cried during Grown Ups 2
Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal. It did something peculiar to me that I can't quite explain, because I don't even know which part of the text had the effect. It evokes a sense of lucidity and purpose that somehow bleeds into your own life, or rather you identify it with those events or feelings in your life that have been particularly meaningful. Again I don't know how this happens because the story itself is across between political intrigue and romance, with bits of war/action thrown in. The prose is beautiful, but it's not like there are any remarkable passages of metaphor or anything exactly.
There's a little inscription on the back of my book from Balzac that says 'M. Beyle a fait un livre ou le sublime éclate de chapitre en chapitre', and that's about the best description of it I have found.
>Alien language which consists of 's
>Alien language which is even remotely similar to human language and can even be spoken by humans
>Alien language that isn't the fluting of amorphous luminescent gasses contained within transparent bladders, meaning conveyed through altering the wavelength of said gas at spectra outside human sight
>Alien language
>Alien language that isn't reminiscent of cricket song
>Alien language that doesn't consist entirely of the olfactory sense
>Alien language that doesn't revolve around the radioactive decay of common isotopes
>Alien language that doesn't consist of at least 7 primary colors
>aliens language is math
any sci-fi reccomendations where the author wrote good aliens ???
Do you ever go to the library in your city centre and then see a random girl there who's around your age and then you realise that if she looks at you she'll laugh in her head at her delusional fantasies of finding "omg a good looking guy who reads" (as you imagine her Instagram / Twitter feed to say) because you're ugly and a definite sub-Chad, no matter how much you go to the gym or read or whatever?
what's with you people and thinking the library is an appropriate place for picking up
>>7864758
I don't. I fully accept that the only acceptable non-rapey places to meet women are through dating apps where you post pictures of yourself and where a picture of a man in a wig gets more matches with men than a picture of a 5/10 male who wants women
>>7864767
met my current gf through tinder and I'm nothing special
