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What is it that I like so much about Faulkner that I don't like about Pynchon?
Faulkner is good.
They are two different writers with different styles
faulkner has talent
What is your favorite "classic" literature? The older the better
>>7852767
>The older the better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl1zlHJnpKc
Booktube is really stepping its game up.
The illiad.
>>7852767
the martian
>tfw you pronounce non-english author's names correctly but feel pretentious doing so
>>7852713
>tfw you deliberately mispronounce words to hide your /lit/ power level from the plebs around you
Anyone else know this feel?
>>7852755
no I just pick my words carefully
>Pinch-on... hahaha, anon, you mean Pinchin?
"Only about 20 or 30 stories have ever been written. Everything else is a variation of them."
Do you agree?
Are you at all concerned with innovation?
Why or why not?
What are the 20-30 stories
Reminds me of the paradox in Levi-Strauss' Structural Study of Myth where he writes that mythic worlds are those where its said anything, no matter how outlandish could happen, but myths across cultures and time periods are based on very similar rehashes of the same stories and accomplish similar things
>>7852705
I'd like to know myself. I'm quoting someone who read it somewhere, so I'll leave it up to you guy to decide whether you care to indulge in the idea.
The anon above makes a good point with regard to myth.
Hey /lit/,
I'm a bit of an autist sometimes, but I have also partaken in social life, celebrations and had plenty of reasons to celebrate myself. However, I have never felt "celebratory" in my life: When I went out clubbing, then either to dance to loud music or to get laid.
I don't understand what I means to celebrate, I don't understand what there is to celebrate about. An accomplishment? Some arbitrary date? Why should I celebrate either? If I incured discomfort to achieve something then that discomfort has passed and celebrating won't...
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It like sounds like by "celebrate" you mean celebrating in groups, in which case it's not dread we're dealing with; it's loneliness.
Celebrating by yourself...? Well, I don't know. It might also be a reaction to being alone. Beckett thought so when he described our inner voice, and Nancy calls it "jouissance," a state of constantly being born in which Being rejoices in the fact that it is.
I might have digressed a little...
>>7852681
dancing is a celebration you autist
>>7852716
Dance can have different (and identical) significance across cultures.
Friendly reminder that nrx/dark enlightenment is reddit fedora shit
Ulysses, Gravity's Rainbow and Infinite Jest are some of the highest rated books on /r/books
>>7852352
>on /r/books
how would you know anon
>>7852337
Begone philistine! the most learned gentlemen scholars have always gravitated to the perennial ideals of Monarchy, Faith and Tradition.
Where do I start with Russian literature?
>>7852299
Start with the Greeks.
greeks
I started with Crime and Punishment. Dost is my boy
Is Project Gutenberg a good place to download ANARCHIST EBOOKS?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gutenberg
Is this a meme?
Read some anarchist philosophers and learn about world history and the history of capitalism instead of reading shit from that website. It's probably some sort of honeypot to begin with, and the books there just aren't well written.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/index.htm#anarchism
How necessary is Aristotle? He's drier than Kant desu
No philosophers are really "necessary." If you're reading philosophers for "necessary" I got some bad news for ya.
Aristotle's writings are just a bunch of lecture notes slapped together by his successors.
>>7852140
They're necessary to understand the foundations of Western civilization beyond "Jebus did it and made us hapy XD"
Can I get an analysis of this video? I want an explanation of exactly what is wrong with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS4jk5kavy4
Sounds like Odysseus has read some Nietzsche/Stirner/Machiavelli
Also all the stupid patriarchy/women shit is just annoying
He is too opinionated. I am all for treating women well but what does this have to do with interpreting a work from 3000 years ago
>tfw you read books so good that every other one is a step back
>>7852093
>tfw op's post is so shitty every subsequent post is a step forward
>>7852093
>Not understanding being a moment to moment nihilist.
>Not understand the temporal decay and ornatement of art.
that's how I feel about my own book I'm writing. honestly I'd rather just re-read over and over again what I've written so far rather than read anything else.
ITT: Books women will never understand
>>7851904
this tb h
WOMEN OF /LIT/ BTFO
WHEN WILL THE CARNAGE STOP!!!
>>7851904
fucking this
Damn, son.
laugh riot one minute
rip your heart out and stomp on it the next
utter pleb shit
kys OP and kys that guy above
I was looking into the other books in the series - I ended up reading what happens between LD and The Streets of Laredo and now I want to hang myself.
When does Lovecraft get good? I'm reading through his entire collection of stories right now, about halfway through. His stories so far have fallen into three categories
>The crazy adventures of some guy in a dream. Look at all of this crazy shit in this dream, so fucking crazy woooooo
>Look at this creepy thing, it's kinda creepy but there's a normal explanation. But what really happened in the end was it was waaaaay spooky woooooo
>Look at these crazy monsters and...
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>>7851764
1/10 made me (you)
>>7851836
I'm not baiting though. When does Lovecraft get good? Because it's been shit so far. The Music of Erich Zann was good. Call of Cthulhu and Re-Animator were okay. The rest were mediocre to shit.
>>7851862
Do you just not enjoy horror, dread, or impending doom? What did you think his stories were about? They are all about dreams and monsters and aliens and other worlds.
Specifically which stories did you read? Maybe take a crack at the shorter pieces. But if you don't enjoy ones like Cool Air, Pickman's Model, or The Temple then maybe Lovecraft isn't for you.
Does anyone else here force themselves to read books they find tedious because they 'should' or because the books 'must be' good and if you don't like them you're just not trying hard enough?
Did this hit too close to home?
yes doing that with blood meridian right now
>>7851810
>another yecarthy propaganda victim
RIP friend you got memed. corncobs-man is literally stephen king tier.
