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An angel one day spoke to me and said, "all representation is misrepresentation"
Implications for realism in art?
>>7799403
>anon discovers mimesis
The implication here is that you should finish high school English before claiming divine revelation
>>7799403
Kupka bro, patrician-tier
old hat news my sibling
Not sure if this is the appropriate place to discuss a topic regarding technology, but since most of /lit/ seem- to prefer physical books to eReaders I wonder if there are other forms of technology you reject, or refuse to make use of. I think the literary lifestyle is essentially unplugged, though technology can make things like writing, and using a dictionary or translator much easier. Is there any benefit to keeping yourself unplugged?
>implying the printing press isn't technology
pls leave
>>7799398
>being a luddite on the internet
good job
I like to keep myself plugged
What intellectual father figures do you look up to? for me it'sZizek
>>7799373
Diogenes of Sinope
Papa Dubsy.
This grumpy cunt.
>And but so...
>w/r/t/ h/t/t
>re
>>7799380
>tfw never read DFW but use w/r/t after browsing /lit/
Any other writers as wide-ranging as this man? Marx, religion, ADD in art appreciation, weed, children's books. Easily the best thing associated with the Frankfurt school.
his leskov essay is perfect
>>7799277
Art in the age of mechanical reproduction is superb
>>7799277
>Easily the best thing associated with the Frankfurt school
>not Kracauer
>try to write something
>it always ends up being genre fiction
>>7799264
>try to write genre fiction
>get sidetracked by /lit/ memes and dead philosophers and veer into inchoate obscurantist pretension
>>7799286
It's better than genre fic.
Im the same ope. No matter what I write, even a sentence, if it's fiction it turns into genre trash. watch.
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan, vampire prince, hovered up from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of human eyeballs on which ornate cutlery lay crossed.
See that shit? It keeps happening, even when I just try to copy passages from memory. It's like I'm cursed. Someone tell me I'm not alone.
Anyone knows which book this is? Only have this pic and can't seem to find it anywhere
Thanks!
>>7799130
Reminds me of Romeo and Juliet
>>7799130
http://www.amazon.de/Die-Sache-mit-Callie-Kayden/dp/3453417704
>Image search >>
>1st result
>die sache mit callie und kayden: callie und kayden 1
is what Google tells me when I search your image (you're a retard btw). You can do the rest of the research yourself. Afterwards you should learn how to use Google properly.
What are some good books about drugs/antidepressants and their effects in the human mind? I'm writing a novel that deal with this in some parts and I'm worried my own experience won't be enough to fill the gaps.
Any kind of article or scientific study would be great too.
zog mind control pills
>>7799046
DFW's bio by DT Max
Spoiler alert: he kills himself
>>7799046
Well, you can look at the actual research papers themselves; most of which attest to two things.
1) That the whole industry is built upon the unproven Serotonin theory
2) That most anti-depressants are at best akin to placebos, whilst the worst have a whole host of side-effects. Exceptions are to be found in lithium/etc for serious shit; but most of the normal 'pills' a doctor will throw at people are the modern-day equivalent of a lobotomy.
Will reading make you smarter or this yet another meme?
More critical about other forms of entertainment, and for a reason.
Depends what you read, what you're like and the kinds of things you have now stopped doing in order to read
Depends. It could just make you a snob who thinks he's smarter.
I find myself observing parallels between works. I am currently digging into Saul Bellow's Herzog and can't help but relate it to White Noise by Don DeLillo. The failed marriages, the protagonist's struggle among social happenings, family, profession, and mental health. The protagonists in both pieces are described to be genius professors that study obscure subjects (i.e. Herzog studies Romantics and Jack Gladney studies Adolf Hitler). The writing styles might even be compared. I enjoy the books as individual works, however I can't help but find an interest...
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I am convinced that Douglas Adams fell in love with PG Wodehouse and tried to rip off him. Mainly in the way of prose ("abstract" sentences) and dialogue, but then again maybe it's just common brit humor and wit. Never read Bellow or Delilo so i cant relate, got any others?
Kawabata - The House of the Sleeping Beauties / GarcÃa Márquez - Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Kafka - The Process / Camus - The Plague
Gogol - The Nose / Dostoyevsky - The Double
Balzac - Colonel Chabert / Javier MarÃas - The Infatuations
>>7799032
>kafka - the process
tipstrilby.jpg
What languages are best to learn for literature? Mostly for poetry, thinking about French or Russian. I'm not really interested in learning ancient Greek or Latin right now.
French and German are the best
>>7798915
Sorry, but the correct answer is greek
>>7798918
Do Spanish, Greek, and Swedish suck that bad?
Hey /lit/,
Is there an English (or German) translation of the Iliad without the retarded Anglo-Nigger spelling?
I am looking for a version with Zews, Akhilleus, Akhaians, not "Zeus", "Achilles", "Acheans". It's bad enough that I can't read it in Greek, don't need the names to be in Snownigger-slang.
Thank you!
>>7798878
I liked the rape, gay and incest in Iliad series
What the fuck is a snownigger?
>>7798885
t*rkroaches posting
I have an assignment where i have to compare a friend, family member, pet, or significant other to something
It has to be in iambic pentameter with 5 iambs and 2 syllables each
Problem is im lazy and im hoping someone who is good at this wouldnt mind writing me one
>>7798851
fuck off
>>7798851
>It has to be in iambic pentameter with 5 iambs and 2 syllables each
lolled irl
>>7798851
Thanks for defining iambic pentameter for us.
>tfw neet money has been cut
well, life on the streets here i go.
i know it will soon become irrelevant, but what book shoild i take with me?
pour unfortunate soul.
>not being that home homeless guy with the entire volumes of In Search of Lost Time that have been weathered through months of reading and carrying around.
How do you write without self-consciousness?
Self-censoring is suffering.
>>7798836
be a woman
t. frog poster
>>7798836
Ego death
Use a pseudonym
