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Can I trust The Anarchist Library? Isn't it a US government trap?
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/
>>7795506
Socialism is part of the government, so yes its a trap but in a different way than you might think. There is no ancap stuff there, so its not anarchist.
>>7795506
What is this?
>>7796974
>ancap
>anarchist
Check it out on: www.nessir.com
What do you think about the idea, and do you like the launch video?
>>7795466
First of all, you need a better logo my man
The video is awkwardly crammed on the bottom of the page, try fixing that.
Also, you need a better video my man. Don't try to save reading or something, just tell people about how your site is about collaborative writing.
It's Perfect, I Wouldn't Change A Thing!
Could you guys point me to authors with extremely poetic prose style of writing, filled with metaphors and imagery? A well-known example of what I desire is Nabokov; the ideal of what I desire is the prose parts of William Shakespeare.
I'm not looking for prose poems, as are the final works of Rimbaud. What I want are writers who work on short-stories and novels, in works that have a plot and characters, but whose verbal texture is notoriously poetic.
Other examples (not as extreme as Nabokov) would be Gogol (who some times produces a wonderful succession...
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Joyce
>>7795323
Could you post more examples of things like:
>“The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit."
Or the last paragraph of "The Dead"?
wallace stevens
herman melville
virginia woolf
Is *he* the savior we were all waiting for? Is he the hero *we* deserve?
>>7795252
> Hailed by Jose Saramago as the best writer of his generation
OK, where to start?
>>7795252
>savior
>hero
>not white
[redpill]tears buddy[/redpill]
>>7795370
I want Gawker to leave.
Just finished reading this.
Should I like it?
you read it, you tell us.
Well I did but who the fuck am I. I could be Frank Herbert shilling for all you know.
>>7795045
>I could be Frank Herbert shilling for all you know.
:o
Why isn't Clark Ashton Smith as famous as Lovecraft and Howard?
He's not as fun.
>>7795013
His work is harder to find.
>>7796371
This, also less adaptations.
yes, its this time of the month again
chinese litearture thread. this time with 200% more dream of the red chamber!
also , why are there only shitty translations of even the most important classics? try to find the compiled works of Zhu Xi your shit out of luck :( only thing you can find is early marxist literature.
>>7794747
Because reading Eastern works in translation is beyond retarded. The language/culture are too different to do even a half decent rendering.
>>7794751
所以我学习中文, but im still far away from being able to read these books.
you read any Lu Xun? quite depressing for someone who wanted to be a revolutionary.
Anyone know any examples of it?
Moby-Dick
>>7794669
Is this for a regular English Class or an Advanced English Class? Also more importantly OP don't get us to do your homework for you
>>7794691
I just want to know after having seen pic related.
I just read this. Was it good?
>>7794594
Can't make your own opinions?
What did you think?
>>7794594
it was good but you didn't understand hardly any of it
>>7794594
Aren't you the same trash who posted a picture of himself with a zizek book a couple months ago?
Ive got bad news everyone.
David Foster Wallace the author of Infinite Jest
is dead
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/books/15wallace.html?_r=0
Rip
>>7794558
new here, should I read his work? What to start with? What is it like?
I've got some really unfortunate, dolorous information to deliver to you all.
Vladimir Nabokov, famed pedophile and lepidopterist, author of Lolita, and some other books, I guess, is dead.
https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/02/lifetimes/nab-v-obit.html
Books that have made you tear up or cry
Where the Red Fern Grows
Shiloh
circa 2nd grade
Infinite hest
S A D B O Y S
Anyone read this? Just started it tonight and it's great so far.
>new york times top 100
>has anyone read this
The first five pages are the best. Drop it afterward.
>>7794472
No need to memetext. I am aware that people on this board have read it- I simply wanted to get a thread going.
>The first five pages are the best. Drop it afterward.
Too late
>>7794469
Haven't read it yet, but I prefer Pynchon's breezy Lot 49/Vineland/IV stuff over his more lauded labyrinthine pomo works, so I'm thinking it might be up my alley.
Is this novel good?
the movie was bretty good.
>>7794439
Novel. I'm talking about the novel. Is it good?
>>7794440
It's pretty good - haven't read the Original language though, only a translation
>pic related
Wow. Nothing has ever moved me as much. This defines literature.
>>7794394
Care to elaborate?
>>7794394
Dislike it intensely.
Dislike him. A cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. A prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian.
>>7794394
For you.
>A blind man, authentically blund for once, held out his hand: in his posture, his rigidity, there was something that caught you, that made you hold your breath. He was handing you his blindness.
What did he mean by this?
>>7794285
Not from Joyce but Cioran. Also >blund.
5/10 bait
>>7794298
Maybe I should have said pic not related
I thought about this passage for a little bit, wondering what I would trade a blind man for his sight, but then, coming back to it, I made myself think I was interpreting it wrong, and I wanted to know what somebody else thought, on reading this section.
So, what did you think of the section, reading up to that point?
>>7794285
Pretty sure it's about being "blind" to the superficial differences we see in people (black, white, poor, rich, etc.). When we see past these differences, we can hold hands or join as one.
Cultural differences are socially constructed BS, as a nihilist like Cioran would have said.
Sometimes, a blind man is portrayed as someone who is wiser than those who can see.
