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Hello lads its William Tanner Vollmann here. For the 10th anniversary of my book poor people I will be writing an article for National Geographic asking the exact same question to a different audience. So here it is. Why are you poor /lit? Thanks for your time. Be as vague or as in depth as you like.
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I'm not tbqh, I'm rich in the Lord's grace.
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>>9465608
Is your article going to be 250,000 words long Mr Vollmann?
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>>9465612
Good to hear anon. If you dont mind me asking how old are you and what do you do? What brings you to /lit and 4chan in general?
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I need to write a sonnet, a villanelle, and a haiku for a project. They need to share a topic. Any ideas?
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Soft blankets in the summer.
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forbidden love with a refugee
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>>9465541
hacky sack
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Why are the Sun, the Moon and the Earth often called Sol, Luna and Terra in English-language sci-fi? I know these are their Latin names, but why use them instead of English ones? Also, some English speakers for some reason think these are their 'official names'. Official where? There's no Solar System Inc.
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>>9465524
english i a mongoloid boring language
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>>9465528
/thread
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Sol and Luna sound better than the Moon or the Sun, especially in sci-fi settings where people live around different suns or moons
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so was o'brien really a member of the brotherhood who is also part of the thought police or was he rusing winston and julia the entire time
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>>9465400
>1984
>too cerebral for a frog faggot
shocking
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>>9465400
it's a metaphor for rootless cosmopolitians loyal only to themselves instead of what they pretend. thake the redpill. women and blacks made me gay and dumb. take it!
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>>9465406
>didn't read the filename
>thinks asking a simple question that not understanding it isn't central to understanding the novel and by extension doesn't signify that the poster didn't "get" the novel means they're retarded
>using meme arrows
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d like to make a big-ass-memes chart. Please list some memes you would like to see in addition to the list I have already made. Books over 400-500 pages, obscure books, rare books, difficult books, books of weight and girth.
Patrician memes
- making americans by gertrude stein
- miss macintosh my darling by marguerite young
- black lamb and grey falcon by rebecca west
- witz
- the instructions by adam levin
- quiet flows the don by mikhail sholokhov
- letters by john barth
- women and men by mcelroy
top memes
- J R or recognitios by gaddis
- mason and dixon or against the day by pynch
- europe central by vollmann
- the second sex by beauvoir
- sot weed factor by barth
- the tunnel by gass
- life and fate by grossman
-the rest of vollmanns memes like ice shirt and royal family
Grand memes and other such memes of length and stature
- middlemarch by eliot
- no name by collins
- underworld by delilo
- the pale king dfw
- the magus by fowles
- the man without qulaities by musil
- parades end by ford
- 2666 by bolano
- public burning by coover
-life a users guide by perec
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>>9465381
Time to take the redpill. Way too many women on there. Its time you learned the truth about them
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>>9465395
Suck a dick you fucking faggot
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Lads can you take a minute out of your day and stop responding to the pol bait threads and help a brother out.
Memes you will never read
- sironia texas
- zettels traum (not translated)
- the full set of rising up and rising down by william tanner vollmann
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Rupi Kaur has a double page spread in the evening standard.
What's your excuse?
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>>9465300
Your resentment is showing.
sage and report
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>>9465300
>What's your excuse?
I am a lowly white male with a LWC and an IQ of 100, while she is a mighty Indian Queen and a Literary Genius
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Who will remember her 100 years from now?
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Am I the only one that thinks that science destroyed all the magic and imagination the old days had? I mean people would literally dedicate their entire lives for something and believed in it without regardless of the consequences
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>>9465295
>Am I the only one that thinks that science destroyed all the magic and imagination the old days had?
Yeah, no one has ever written about this before, man. You're the first one to have thought of disenchantment
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In some ways. But non-fiction is stranger as fiction.
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>>9465309
WOW REALLY MAKES YOU SHIT OUT OF YOUR ASSHOLE
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just finished Invisible Cities. First Calvino I have read, one of the prettiest books I've read. It's hard for me to describe what I learned from it beyond how pretty it is, but I just keep thinking about it. What did you think of it? What other books are like it?
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>>9465252
Start thinking about it instead of making retarded threads. Or share your thoughts beyond 'it's pretty'. Do you need us to tell you what to think?
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>>9465252
More or less the same impression than you had! I would suggest you also read the trilogy I Nostri Antenati (Il Barone Rampante, il Visconte Dimezzato, Il Cavaliere Inesistente) - those are also very nice. If you liked the imagery, these are possibly less 'meta' than some of his other books.
If you are interestend in Calvino 'meta-literary' stuff, go for Il Castello dei Destini Incrociati or Se una Notte d'Inverno un Viaggiatore.
Also, le Cosmicomiche if you are interested in his short stories!
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>>9465262
He asked what other people think about it and asked for suggestions. Why would the point of the thread be his own opinion? This is /lit/ and you can't read three lines of 'retarted' threads without misinterpreting you inbred mongoloid
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Would the world be better if millions of young men didn't waste their times on virtual worlds and instead read, worked out, and learned to play music?
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>>9465194
Be better for whom or what? The world? The world doesn't care.
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>>9465202
>the world doesnt care if people are enlightened
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>>9465208
You're right. The world is utterly indifferent. How could it be otherwise?
What did he do excluding Sherlock Holmes? It seems like the author has been buried by the character.
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A good thing too because the author was a bit of a fruitloop who made a fool of himself chasing after fairies and such.
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The White Company is quite good, haven't read anything else by him though
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The Professor Challenger novels are fun. Shows his kookier side.
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Stop making threads and go read a book.
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>>9464871
y.o.t.t.
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"Much like you're posting," she said. How did you do that? I said. "Do what?" SHe said. "Say you're instead of your even though we're talking." I don't know, I just do that sometimes.
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Do you count plays as literature or something else entirely? In terms of authorship is it fair to pit Shakespeare up against Joyce or Dostoevsky?
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Fairness has nothing to do with it but yes it is retarded to pit any writer against another, literature is not a competition.
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>>9464844
Of course plays are literature you dense newbie
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Plays- yes
Poetry- no
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I plan on going into literature and philosophy for a degree, and I have not read, nor do I plan on reading the bible before hand. If a book can't make it's point without referring to the "waaah please let there be something else after I die" "waaaah I'm a moral person even though I'm just being good because I'm afraid of punishment" then it's probably not a very good book to begin with, unless it's God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitches.
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>>9464832
low quality bait
>inb4 retarded people will respond angrily to OP.
Don't shit up this board OP. Fuck off to /r9k/ or /pol/ or whatever shithole you come from
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>>9464838
Fpbp
Sage
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>>9464832
Whether this is bait or you are sincere about pursuing a philosophy degree: don't bother, you don't have the wit.
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Sola Scriptura is the ideological basis for modern relativism, as well as the rejection of an absolute truth.
Sola Scriptura is also responsible for the dissolution of unity in western europe and has permanently crippled worldwide Christian unity. It is responsible, ideologically, for both democracy and individuality -- both of which bring endless plagues to modern society and is creating generations of degenerates.
I claim, unironically, that the Protestant Reformation is the worst thing to happen in all of Human History due to the untold number of generations it will bring harm to through the philosophies (Both religious and atheistic) that find their roots in it.
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/lit/ - /r/showerthoughts
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>>9464764
>virgin detected
Go jerk off to the thought of getting to see the torture of non believers from your place in heaven, oh virtuous one.
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>>9464764
>I am morally superior because my bread turns into Jesus and my religion is a corporation
What are the best non-fiction books on Ancient Greece and Rome? Is pic related actually good or is it just a meme?
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>>9464676
Mary Beard is a legit respected Rome historian, it's good.
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mary beard sounds like an insult like if a woman is really masculine then you tell her you're such a mary beard hahaha
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>>9464711
Kek.