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>>9494332
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Hey this thread isn't lit related at all!

(The) Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
TLAOOTSG

MD,D

I haven't read those. Moorcock's prose is stolid and while he had lots of interesting ideas about monomyths and eternal heroes borrowed from Campbell and Frazer, those ideas have been used and re-used so many times it's unlikely you'll find anything that feels fresh in his work.

>>9494329
Don't lie OP, it's just your subconscious crying out for more cock.

>>9494560
Yeah that is an unfortunate name

see if sparknotes has an entry on the book, then look at the study guide questions. often times those questions are good to think about and prepare answers to in your head when looking forward to some sort of test on the book.

>>9494328
Close reading. How do you study a building? You still use the same initial tools (sight, presumably), you just do it deeper and with higher consideration.

But if you're asking in a literal way, then by asking a lot of 'why' and 'how' questions about the text. Why did the author use this word or sentence structure? How did the author accomplish this? etc.

>>9494333
I struggle with finding themes after I am done reading the text. I read up on the context, on the times and social background of the author but still questions often escape my understanding.

For example, having read King Lear recently, if someone had asked me what it was about, the best response I would be able to come up with would be something like:"It is about filial affection and betrayal"

What is this faggot talking about

nigga i just read books about people killing each other

>>9494327
Fuck you.

Been learning german almost a year now. Best advice: memorize all the grammar, minimal vocab. After you get that do some graded readers to build vocab. Then start reading Grimm/select Kafka and work up.

>>9494304
I tried to do some Rilke when I was learning German. Not very easy going. Goethe moreso. Seriously, find some children's books when you begin. German has changed since Rilke and, until you are aware of the differences, it'll confuse you more than help.

That said, you'll have fun with the Book of Hours or some of the Sonnets to Orpheus. I also tried to work through some Trakl and Celan.

>>9494311
>>9494314
Thanks for the tips. I'm taking a beginner's course at university over the next couple months, hopefully it will equip me to move on to some of these authors.

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Overwritten, pretentious, uninteresting, deeply overrated.

>>9494271
Well-written, complex, very interesting, somewhat underrated owing to its subject matter

>>9494278
>>9494325
>/lit/

>>9494219
You fuck off.

fart and poop XD

>>9494219
pay debt

>Jorden

>>9494374
haha that was intentional bait to get people to reply and bump the thread :^)

*tugs braids*
*smooths skirts*

>>9494189
A great read about (some of) the themes of Gravity's Rainbow
http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=eng_honproj

>>9494189
I remember reading somewhere that the S-Gerat was just a seat for Gottfried on the rocket
Blicero wasn't really a good or a bad guy, just a tool of the rocket, like Enzian
No clue clue on the harmonicas though, never understood the toilet diving sequence

>>9494189
SPOILERS
>Whose face do we see a close-up of in the end, a face that we all recognize?
Lucifer. Go back to the passage and reread the part about the falling star. The falling star is the morning star in the Bible that has fallen from heaven like Lucifer. This is also obviously paralleled to the rocket.

>Just finished it, it was great but it all went absolutely bananas in The Counterforce, I have clue what happened half the time.
I actually don't appreciate this either even though I've read it twice.
>Happytown sequence and robots

I think Pynchon was trying to do something pretty experimental but infuriating; namely, in the first three sections, he builds up a massive although still orderly plot out of a lot of cohesive elements that seems like it'll tie together in the end ... similar to the way a lot of engineering and science and thought and orderly planning and buildup goes into creating a rocket. However (corny, I know) the chaos of The Counterforce represents this orderly rocket exploding, and thus exploding the narrative as well. Corny, overly metafictional, kinda infuriating, but it makes sense. This also explains

>Slothrop just faded away in the Zone?

Because Slothrop in a sense is the rocket. He's called Rocketman, his erections predict the rocket, he was experimented on as a child with regards to the plastic used in the 00000, he follows the history of the rocket around trying to find what the S-Gerat is and how it's related to him, etc.

Schwarz-Gerat translates to Black Device.
Tyrone is a stereotypically black name
Tyrone finds papers referring to himself as "Schwarzknabe" (German for "black boy") and his father as "Schwarzvater" ("black father")

OK, now remember the association in the book of white with death. Dominus Blicero, bleaching, etc. Slothrop is black because he represents life. He is described as having the most sex out of any character in the book, he has a shitton of fun and is just trying to chill, seems like a chill guy. But he gradually becomes corrupted by his quest, is shown to be a pedophile when he fucks Bianca, and then, in the end, he explodes, disintegrates into pieces like a rocket.

Slothrop, as Life, has gotten used for purposes of Death and corrupted. The union of opposites as Pynchon talks about.

But I also think the Schwarzgerat may also be just a special assembly/seat/container for Gottfried as >>9494891 says

That's my thoughts, I'm really tempted to read it again.

I find it uncomfortable tbqh.

>in the metro
>reading my kindle
>some qts look at me
What is this?

>>9494190
Love at first sight?

>>9494130
I cured mine with Sun Ra's music.

This song still fills me with immense joy. I listen to it every week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuwtqjwgdgY

>>9494130
Walt? or someone else?

>>9494130

>I'm so great I masturbate to my own poetry
>My jizz flings all over the trees and the lakes
>and all the people, women and children, black and white
>but it is not really me who jizzes
>but my soul.

Wow I can feel my depression disappearing already.

Das Kapital

>>9494126
the Bible

just scroll your twitter feed for a few hours until you feel ready to take on the degenerates

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>>9494122
>he tries to inflate his own ego by bragging on an anonymous forum about how many languages he can speak

>>9494122
Native: Spanish.
Fluent in: Galician, French, Dutch and the indigenous language of my country. Also English, duh.

Not so bad for a third worlder, huh.

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>speaking
>2017

>>9494077
I have ordered Fanged Noumena after screen shot one anon posted last week. Have i been shilled?
Also, what the fuck is numenogram about? Cyberdemons?

just get into a car press the gas to go as fast as you can and then run into a brick wall, the adrenaline you feel before you explode is basically accelerationism

I'm sure /lit/ hates Po Mo philosophy but Malign Accerlation was easy to grasp and a fun read. The first 20 pages or so are eh but after that it picks up

What is this paper called and why isn't it the standard?

>>9494074
that's some solid paper

>>9495233
They're called deckled edges.

This is how books actually look after they're bound, the smooth edges are obtained by cutting down the length of each signature to remove the unevenness. Ironic, since deckled edges are usually found on more expensive books, it's cheaper to produce than straight edges.

This might be wrong, I only have experience with hand-binding books, not doing it industrially.