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Let's talk about this chart.
Independent of the controversy, does it have merit?
Infinite Jest on it at all makes me say no.
Infinite Jest lower than ever makes me want to say yes however.
Please don't shill your chat rooms on /lit/ I just want to talk about books.
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>>9560262
I think it's better than the past 3, to be honest.
Also, you've never read IJ
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Orwell and Huxley both fell off?
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>>9560262
Better than the previous ones for sure.
I want to read about body cultism. Rec me something on the history or philosophy behind the contemporary addiction to the body.
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its a response to loss of autonomy in the average worker drone life, this one thing they can control in their lives
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>>9559785
Sun and Steel by Mishima
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>>9559794
I already love Mishima. But I was thinking of something more academic perhaps.
Is that fat mother fucker GRRM ever going to finish ASOIAF series
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I recommend you to use more acronyms. They really make your prose better.
For instance I would have enjoyed your thread better if you had written:
ITFMFGRRMEGTFASOIAFS
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>>9559553
Who gives a shit? Go back to your containment thread.
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no
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Hello!
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look it was funny once, but dont be so starved for attention you keep reposting this. go outside or something. do better things with your life than sit there shitposting for hours on end.
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Literally the my diary desu meme come to life.
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I know "Stuffed in the Fridge" is more of a comics thing, but the fact that it's a story-telling trope makes me want to know what /lit/ thinks about it.
What do you think about female characters assaulted, injured or killed to further the story of another character? Is it a problem?
Is there a way to kill off a female character without "stuffing them in a fridge"?
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>>9559106
>Is there a way to kill off a female character without "stuffing them in a fridge"?
no because Women in Refrigerators is barely even a trope and was almost entirely hyperbolized into one as a feminist talking point, and as such they'll happily further that narrative forever and ever.
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>>9559127
>no
So every female character assaulted, injured, or killed is terrible, misogynistic writing?
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>>9559184
in the minds of the people who have championed the narrative and formalized Women in Refrigerators as a trope, yes. Those people do not care for an endpoint to their accusations.
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If you had the chance to meet one author in all of history, who would it be?
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>>9559098
Plutarch.
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John Green
J.K. Rowling
Dav Pilkey
Roopi Koowar
John Joseph Jingleheimer Schmidt
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God
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>alas
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>a lad
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>thusly
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>thither, hither
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Just got this
What am I in for?
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seamus heaneys translation of beowulf
proto-conan story
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>>9557916
HWÆT!
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>>9557916
An inferior translation. You should have gotten this instead.
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Only in my 22nd year did I realise Odysseus and Oedipus weren't the same person.
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>>9557557
I hate Dostoevsky because I can't keep track of the names
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i'm actually way smarter than all of you and i only come here to torture you by pretending to be a genuine moron :(
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I have been blind for so long, now I truly understand. This was amazing. Where do I go from here? Jung?
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>>9556618
>Where do I go from here?
suicide
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>>9556618
Hey! I read this recently. Thought about making a post for discussion, but figured /lit/ wouldn't.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading it and felt like I learned something. Opened a lot more questions too though.
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I enjoyed it too.
It also helped me see that I could eat much less. Lost 30 pounds.
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Steve's meme magic edition
Vintage Treasures: The Durdane Trilogy by Jack Vance
>https://www.blackgate.com/2015/09/12/vintage-treasures-the-durdane-trilogy-by-jack-vance/
Speculiction...: Review of The Durdane Chronicles by Jack Vance
>https://speculiction.blogspot.com/2014/05/review-of-durdane-chronicles-by-jack.html
Pointless Philosophical Asides: A Long Post About Jack Vance's Durdane
>https://philosophicalasides.blogspot.com/2009/11/long-post-about-jack-vances-durdane.html
Fantasy
Selected:
>https://i.imgur.com/r688cPe.jpg
General:
>https://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg
Flowchart:
>https://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg
Science Fiction
Selected:
>https://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/IBs9KE8.jpg
General:
>https://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg
NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
>https://i.imgur.com/IJxTQBL.jpg
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Are we allowed ask for advice about our own works in these generals and share them with others? Assuming that they're fantasy/sci-fi, that is.
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>>9556572
Daily reminder that the only fantasy worth reading is the one from Wolfe
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>>9556608
Sanderson*
At least he is consistent
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Recent purchases thread
Got these for $10 at a flea market in Indiana recently.
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>>9556233
I hate it when book covers are based off the movie adaptation of it.
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Yeah it's pretty tacky
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Left is Fukazawa Shichirō's The Ballad of Narayama, I think. (Google isn't much help)
The right is Yasunari Kawabata's "The lake". Got this one as a gift
r8?
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How or will mira gonzalez respond to rupi Kaur totally BTFO of her in the poetry game? She is no longer the voice of our generation. MIRA what do you have cooking up for us?
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who?
what?
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Why are all of his characters so autistic? 2017-05-26 07:35:37 Post No.9554970
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Why are all of his characters so autistic?
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>>9554970
They're all ideologues.
It's basically slapstick.
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>>9554970
because they were human. we're all cardboard cutouts but don't realize it until we're mimicked in print. it becomes all too clear.
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>>9554988
This was put better than I would have put it.
Nick Land wrote an article for a magazine, boys. High test shit
>In this germinal accelerationist matrix, there is no distinction to be made between the destruction of capitalism and its intensification. The auto-destruction of capitalism is what capitalism is. “Creative destruction” is the whole of it, beside only its retardations, partial compensations, or inhibitions. Capital revolutionizes itself more thoroughly than any extrinsic ‘revolution’ possibly could. If subsequent history has not vindicated this point beyond all question, it has at least simulated such a vindication, to a maddening degree.
http://jacobitemag.com/2017/05/25/a-quick-and-dirty-introduction-to-accelerationism/
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civilisation orgasm world petit mort
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>>9554733
>High test shit
this forced "high test shit here boys" talk for nick land articles is so nu-male and lame. i get it you post behind a lot of irony proxies its still fuckin lame.
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>>9554733
>muh golden idols
Boring.