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RIP :/
>>7718187
Oh, no, Gene Wolfe died, too?
>>7718187
RIP George R.R. Tolkein.
rip sweet princeWas it the illuminati?
>>7718167
That's NOT Harper Lee!
Couplet thread
Write them about anything you want
Two youthful heads, a pillow meant for one,
Other than the other they dreamt of none.
>>7717958
This useless thread
Will soon be dead
I'm trying to remember a word, it is a word I have seen only once and given that I've been trying to remember for years, it might well have been the first and the last. It's a term for entering one's mind in a metacognitive sense, as though its workings, elements, and (abstracted) machinery can be represented as a physical pace to walk around and interact with. The word was biased towards using this... framework as a way of unearthing things, resolving problems, or reworking how the mind functions to afford rapid learning or whatever. The proxy one uses to insert themselves into this world varies.
I was surprised there existed an English word for this, and it wrapped up all of the above perfectly. Does anyone know?
memory palace? method of loci?
>>7717487
i think the word you're looking for is "Christopher Nolan's Inception"
>>7717487
lmao sherlock mind palace innit lad?
I'm about to start reading Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, what does everyone think of it?
i only made it up to the moocow bit but it was alright
Am I alone in thinking they're the best books in the world?
ok
nup
are you 10 years old?
I am dying of cancer and have roughly half a year to live.
What book MUST I read before I pass?
Great Expectations mate
the death of ivan ilych
i wouldn't waste your time reading though. go do things.
El Túnel
ayo where dat Ulysses reading group at?
>>7717529
Page 7.
>>7717580
??????
>>7717529
right above you
>talking to someone today and he talks about how infinite jest is his favorite book and how it literally changed his life and views of the world
Did I just get meme'd IRL or is Infinite Jest really that good?
>>7717105
Normies love it. How do you think it became a bestseller?
why don't you read the fucking book and find out instead of shitposting
>>7717105
hes prob some smug pseudo who's never actually read it and you should have stabbed him on the spot
let's check how mature /lit/ truly is.
age poll: http://strawpoll.me/6859456
>>7715574
>age
>maturity
>implications
well now i know why you're all retarded
>>7715574
omg we french now
Was it autism?
>>7715139
Lin is a meme author. literally genre tier fiction. no discernible talent.
>>7715139
"No. It was just shit," I thought as I worked on some things on my Macbook while waiting for the pills to start working. After a while I gave up on waiting, masturbated, and smeared the results on a piece of organically produced paper. I was amazed at my own genius because I had just created a better work of fiction than Taipei.
>>7715924
Tao?
Pick a board on 4chan. Pretend that board is a person and their birthday is coming up, and you'd like to buy them a book as a gift.
What would you get them?
/x/
/r/ing /qa/
must be a book of literature.
>>7713258
Probably Sculpting in Time or something for /tv/ they like Tarkovsky.
>What you reading, Anon?
>What's it about?
Is there any way to answer this question without either saying essentially nothing, or the book sound retarded as fuck? I don't think I've ever managed it.
>finally decide to read gravitys rainbow
>takes me close to three months of focused, diligent reading
>end up lugging that doorstopper around everywhere with me
>often get asked what its about
>frank miller edition, doesnt even have a summary on the back i can defer to
>make an idiot of myself, talking in circles about rockets, sex with strangers, pavlov, bananas
>"oh haha okay"
>eventually just say give up and say ww2, to the same effect
>at least it saves more time for me to devote to reading this fucking book
See, most people only understand a plot which is easily summarized or defined by its genre.
"its about teenage vampires in love at an academy for wizards who are forced to fight to the death for their districts"
"really that sounds awesome"
"yeah it is"
Thoughts?
A non-entity
>>7717492
>Thoughts?
I used to have those, but it was quite a while ago.
>>7717492
>asking on 4chan about female author
well done!
just got a position working the front of a library, it gets kinda boring most days. Recc me some
/lit/ approved books to keep me from falling asleep on the job.
>not reading the sticky
>>7717513
who reads on /lit/?
