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Am I stupid for not being totally enamored by V?
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No, because you have Gravity's Rainbow.
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Voss by Patrick White is better.
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Yes. Being enamored by V has replaced IQ tests a long time ago.

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Any writers as /fa/ as Kafka?
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>>7747407
Damn Kafka!!!!1111 xDDDd
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>>7747407
Ezra Pound
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Thoughts?
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objectively his masterpiece.
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>>7747380
>2016
>having "thoughts"
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best novel/whatever it is of the 20th century tbqh

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Got all these for 30$

What should I read first. Almost done the once and future king.
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>myshkin with a brown mustache
DROPPED
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>>7747395
>No photoshopped muscles
Garbage.
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>>7747396
this can't be real

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Has anyone here read any good Australian literature? As someone from Australia, all the aus-lit I seemed to read in high school was about aborigines and was boring af
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>>7747317

Yeah I don't understand why but Australian lit is completely limited to Aboriginal shit or WW1 books.

My goal is to write a novel about life in Townsville that portrays the place in its truest light. Racism will play a large part but it will be presented objectively to show how little it really matters one way or the other.
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What do you mean it's about Abos? You mean like how in America cowboys/settlers vs Indians was often wrote about, or just the life and times of Abos?
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Voss by Patrick White I believe is Australian.

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In certain academic works I see references to other works listed as (Last name, Year). How do I use that to find that particular work/study? Sometimes using the name, year, a little info about the subject, and google works. Other times it doesn't.
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>>7747284
Most works that have that citation system will include a bibliography.

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Is it an elaborate meme? Complete trash? A masterpiece? Plz explain.
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>>7747254
It is like Gaddis, only Gaddis knew how to drew a line in the sand, and Gass forgot the border between the literary and pure rambling.

On the other hand, it is quite authentic ... true to its narrator.
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i wonder, if i repeatedly posted enthusiastically and authoritatively enough about my favourite book (the unconsoled) would it also become a /lit/ meme?
would i want that?
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>>7747279
That's how memes are born, anon. Just look at [s4s], that's pretty much all that goes on there.

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/lit/ writes a short story collection
continuing from last thread

RULES:
-attach a name to your story, unless you want to remain anonymous
-no memes
-no shitposts
-have fun :-)

post stories, get feedback, etc

deadline as of now is feb 29th, but if there aren't enough entries i'm not opposed to extending it
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>>7747129
can we write in other languages that eng?
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>>7747129
I'm down for a no-memes-allowed serious collaboration with other anons.
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>>7747137
yeah, i don't see why not

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What does /lit/ think of William Butler Yeats's poetry?
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Quite good. Poetic powers waxed with age while still being formidable and distinct at all/most stages of his career. A little bit too much "muh Ireland" for my tastes but that's hardly unique to him.

Interesting plays BTW, very brief and poetic. Check out Purgatory.
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>>7747000
A budding buddhist and amateur atheist.
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best english poet. supreme is his use of beautiful language, use of a style that is at times difficult but never inscrutable and is a joy rather than a chore to try and interpret, vivid in his dealing with lose and tragedy, able to comment on contemporary world events and trends without being pretentious or any of it feeling shoe-horned and in a way that maintains its relevance for all time.

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>read book
>form an intimate connection with the characters and/or the author
>finish it
>feel alone
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>>7746927
Years ago a mate said something of the sort that he enjoys reading a few pages from a book a day so that he spends more time with it and its world. Back then I thought it was just an excuse for being really lazy but yeah now im feeling it
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If the entirety of a book is expended to you on first reading, then its probably not a good book. Those books are like dead whores. Good books are eternal friends.

I could reread those books from my personal canon any time of day and feel either the same or an even vaster connection than when I first read them.

Who are some authors that have good takedowns of meme religions such as Protestantism?
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What the fuck is 'The Blockchain'?
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>>7746907
It's 'Maybe you should learn about current events and technology'.
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belloc

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Yes or no?
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>>7746866
what are you, a cuck? of course!
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A great book for a chuckle! Order away
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>>7746866
No. Dont give that fag money, Maddox is basically a reverted Reddit

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>Maybe people will think I'm smart if I use obscure language!

Seriously /lit/, I dare you to name me a more dissapointing writer!
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>>7746780
>I dare you to name me a more dissapointing writer!
You
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>I'm so dumb I can't understand what he says!

hahahah
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>do phd research on lacan, foucault, derrida, levinas, kristeva
>spend half my adult life reading them
>come to /lit/ and post universally well-known fact that they were obscurantists (and occasionally hacks)
>undergrads who have never read any of their work post "Seems like you just can't understand them m80 :^)"
>briefly consider posting CV on /lit/

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How do i better remember what i read? Is it just a case of repetition (repeated readings)?
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Learn mnemonics.
Read Yates and Carruthers for basics, then learn with Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium and Medieval methods.

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Hey !

I need your help !

I have a big psyhology doctoral exam next week and I need this book -- Handbook of Mentalizing in Mental Health Practice but I can't find it nowhere and it is too expensive for me.

Can you help me !

Thanks !
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I dont know, sorry !
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>>7746754
Are you retarded !

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