What did /lit/ think?
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mediocre
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>>9391639
Why?
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Is captain john brannigan, in fact, our /rocket man/?
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>One must be absolutely modern.
What did he mean by this?
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I can't tell because you posted a weird short sentence out of context.
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>>9391550
Take it at face value.
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>>9391495
>old is bad
>new is good
Same shit every generation
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Hey all, so I'm working on a poem to ask my girlfriend out to prom. Since she loves sunflowers, I figured I would try to work that into the poem. I'm not too great at writing, so could someone make some comments so I know it's not complete shit?
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>>9391404
Here's the poem.
Painted in the field of endless green
Rooted in an aura of brilliant hue
Of glimmer and light, flourished with life
May you glimmer and shine through endless time
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>>9391407
It's shit, use this one instead
Ey girl won't you be my sunflower
Take yo' petals wrap around my cum tower
Shake dat azz, show me yo buns flower
At the prom with me, we can have fun flower
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then you break it down just shouting IT AIN'T NO HASSLE I'LL LICK YOUR ASSHOLE over and over
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Hey lit, i wanna start reading again
These are the books i got. Which ones do you recommend I read first?
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>>9391176
Catcher in the Rye, 1984, The Great Gatsby, Hitchhiker's Guide, The Road. The rest are, to my knowledge, varying degrees of utter garbage, to the point that part of me thinks that your post may be bait. Steven King is a VASTLY overrated writer, though I found the extended version of The Stand a fun read.
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>>9391176
it would be better to not read and lurk this board desu
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>>9391176
Don't listen to them, read whatever you want. Even if most of them are shit, at least start from somewhere.
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What are some moral values/purpose/life missions that are resistant to extreme adversity such as terminal illness or Hell?
>Will to power
Old age and disease leaves you powerless.
>Helping others
Disease can make you a burden on others
>Having a goood time and enjoying life
What if you get cluster headaches or are tortured by ISIS, or are having a shroom bad trip?
>Having friends
What if you get stranded on an island?
etc.
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The selfish purpose resists all but the irresistible (death).
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>>9391101
Living to help others. Your own suffering comes second, or is possibly a tool to better understand their suffering.
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>>9391136
How you become a cuck
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Is this really as good as some people make it out to be?
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>>9390868
no, read johnathan livingston seagull instead and save yourself some time.
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>>9390880
I have to read it for uni though, so i'm going to read it anyway.
I just need to know whether I should read it with an air of enjoyment or with that sad 4chan cynicalness that permeates everything I do.
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>>9390885
>I have to read it for uni though, so i'm going to read it anyway.
What do you study?
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Good books on mental illness? Can be fiction, non-fiction, whatever. Pic related
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>>9390864
Girl, Interruptedalso inb4 my diary desu
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>>9390864
zeno's conscience,
anatomy of melancholy,
iunno, stuff by freud?
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>>9390864
my wife hat
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Why are you not putting content warnings in your books? Fucking nazi.
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>>9390832
i live by the motto
>if you can't take heed, don't read
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trigger warning: me killing myself with joy
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why?
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Again the names — then they lurched together as if the taxi had swung them. Her breasts crushed flat against him, her mouth was all new and warm, owned in common. They stopped thinking with an almost painful relief, stopped seeing; they only breathed and sought each other. They were both in the gray gentle world of a mild hangover of fatigue when the nerves relax in bunches like piano strings, and crackle suddenly like wicker chairs. Nerves so raw and tender must surely join other nerves, lips to lips, breast to breast . . . .
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Great Gatsby was better :^)
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he's the fucking goat and anyone who disagrees is a terrorist
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>Muh Dick Diver
Top kek
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Things only Anglos believe 2017-04-17 04:41:43 Post No.9390785
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Things only Anglos believe
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Can we have a thread about things only Anglos believe?
Each poster must mention at least three things, all of which must have something to do with literature.
I start:
1. Sylvia Plath was a good poet;
2. Sylvia Plath was a poet;
3. Thomas Pynchon is one of the greatest novelists of all time;
4. Maya Angelou knew how to write;
5. Nabokov is not much worse than at least half the authors he despised.
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Sylvia Plath was a good poet though
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>>9390785
Why are the animals so willing to get close to him?
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>>9390797
That's Konrad Lorenz, master of many animals.
>>9390788
I conced that she had her moments. Her fame is certainly not justified, however. She's a little bit above average at best. There are much better poets who are virtually not talked about, such as the great Edward Taylor. Who even reads Edward Taylor?
>Time's the thief of memory
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>Booty is the poon of gayboys
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>>9390640
>Clitoris is the penis of woman
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>>9390640
>Negroes are the thieves of bicycles
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Recently finished this and... I guess /lit/ never talks about it because it's too long?
Ultimately I was disappointed by it. A lot of great ideas are set up early on - the Chums, anarchism, mechanization, WW1, etc - but the threads just keep on building and spewing outwards without ever really reaching some kind of satisfying conclusion.
Did Pynchon just need someone brave enough to tell him to reign it all in? Is that why Inherent Vice ended up so concise?
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To be fair, Pynchon isn't necessarily known for his adherence to traditional storytelling methods.
Also, apparently the plot spans a period of 30 years and takes place all around the world, so you could have easily missed some important information.
>PLOT GRID OF PYNCHON'S AGAINST THE DAY
https://ic.ucsc.edu/~ksgruesz/ltel190f/PynchonGrid.htm
The book has been out for over 10 years now, though, so I would assume someone has made a helpful guide for it.
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>>9390551
hm, when looked at from the perspective of not being a conventional story, was it at least entertaining?
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>>9390790
Of course it was entertaining.
Stephen King had the most influence on American culture than any other writer.
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>>9390140
His influence isn't really literary though. It's all movies and shows and shit.
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>>9390140
You know, I really didn't hate Stephen King that much until recently. It's obvious that he's a hack, but it never seemed like he thought of himself as more than a mediocre genre writer, so I didn't mind too much. But now that I've seen how much of a liberal cuck he is, and how he's further influencing young minds in a negative way, I genuinely do hate him.
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>>9390141
His work transcends its medium, faggot. Deal with it.
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This should be part of a meme trilogy, right? 2017-04-17 01:11:51 Post No.9390025
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This should be part of a meme trilogy, right?
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Not "I grew up in the suburbs and went to a liberal arts college" enough.
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>>9390025
check this out if you haven't already
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>>9390025
Fagot did literally nothing wrong.
This will seem unrelated to literature, but hear me out.
I'm not okay. At one moment I'm dancing around my kitchen, and another moment I'm having a breakdown on the floor. I try to be social, but everyone seems to put me off. I'm lonely, and my anxiety is painful.
The real problem is, it has been affecting my reading and writing habits lately. I feel too crushed to read as much as I used to. I have tried therapy and SSRIs, and they did not work. Will self medication have a net positive or net negative impact on my reading and writing habits? I can't handle not being able to read and doing nothing all day. So what I'm asking is, what is reading and writing like on drugs?
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>>9389664
opioids + book. comfy af.
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It's like this: first you get hooked, then you sell your body to people who like to do perverted things nobody else will do for them, so you can afford your drug addiction.
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>>9389680
Do you do this often? I'm going to have to try it.