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the old man and the sea

Moby Dick baited Ahab pretty hard

>>9352940
kek

C'MON BABY

>>9352775
LIGHT MUH FIRE

Eh, the Doors are hit and miss, I don't think Light My Fire is one of their better ones lyrically. Plus Robbie Krieger wrote most of it.

>>9352697
>translation

>>9352697
>Also, which do you think is the best latin american novel?

Vargas Llosa.

>>9352697
I only read works originally done in English. I'll get to it someday. Maybe never.

>>9352634
do you know anything about physics or calculus?

>>9352644
yeah, but this is formal logicky stuff I think
not interested in the actual kinetic theory of gases just philosophy behind it

>>9352634
s/branch everywhither/root everywhence/, really

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Yes, its get much better. It may seem like events happen a bit randomly, but there is a ton of payoff later in BotNS. It's a very intricate work that can't really be appreciated fully without reading to the end.

*it gets, oops

That guy looks like guts

Is there a page in there that's just #BLACKLIVESMATTER over and over?

>>9352455
please be serious in my thread. thanks.

Is this book really good past the layout gimmicks? I don't want to drop twenty on a copy if it's some incomprehensible "postmodern" shitwriting

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>>9352394
>writing notes in the margins

> skipping the notes another anon left in the margins

>Get used copy of book
>margin notes everywhere
>very neat handwriting, cursive, obviously a woman's
>misunderstood quite a number of stories
>didn't make notes on the best ones

If you're the one who donated this book to the Value Village at the Frontenac mall please be my gf, thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_L3dVpX-8w
Would you fuck your sister /lit/?

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>>9352273
>Assassins Creed
Fuck off. This is a literature board. Also, they literally make shit up as they go along despite claiming it's "based on real history", or whatever.

>Muh forced diversity
>Muh renaissance genius was evil
>Muh Arab assassins are good guys
>Muh black pirate captains

Don't post again.

>>9352287
ok but would you fuck her or no?

>>9352092
neruda gets this a lot. penguin meme. i think it's because of il postino

>>9352190
sorry, neruda's spanish, i didn't realise you were only looking for french.

you can get a lot of french poetry from Gallimard but it's not translated. you could pick up translations to match i guess.

finding dual editions of mallarme, baudelaire, and rimbaud shouldn't be too hard at all

Who is this?

>>9352075
thomas pynchon's son larry

>>9352075
Steve jobs, he wrote over 300 self help books, truly a master of the written word!

>>9351991
how is that funny to people who aren't still in middle school or /lit/ related?

Heads: And now our gallant bark speeds like a bird over the wine-dark waves of the North Sea.

Pa Ubu: Wild and inhospitable ocean which laps the shores of the land called Germany, so named because it's exactly half way to Jermyn Street as the blow flies

Ma Ubu: Now that's what I call erudition.

>>9351998
If you say it like Leslie Nielsen it's pretty funny.

>>9351966

blacks really love their mamas

>>9351977
That's why they're all closet gay. No father figures.

>>9352007
That's how it be being black without a dad
Either you're 2 men or you gay
No middle ground

>>9351953
There's a book called >be me in Amazon for free.
It's a collection of greentext stories. Start there then move forwards.

>>9351968
damn I'm genuinely disappointed that u would lie to me about something so awesome-sounding :*(

>>9351953
read the sequences anon
you'll be a god among pseuds

>>9351904
Homer

Atlas Shrugged

>>9351904
you guys should really lower your expectations for literature. there is no literature that will change your life in this ridiculously significant way that you describe. It's an artistic experience, that will affect your life, yes, but not one that will fucking give you salvation or whatever. You need to have a near death experience or to save a life or to fall in love, to fucking live, to actually change.

“Cultivo una rosa blanca,
En julio como en enero,
Para el amigo sincero
Que me da su mano franca.
Y para el cruel que me arranca
El corazon con que vivo,
Cardo ni oruga cultivo
Cultivo una rosa blanca."

It is sad that there are those who cannot enjoy this poem in its original language. The english translation is vastly inferior

>>9351794

Here's a literal, word-for-word translation:

*parentheses means implicitly part of another word in Spanish (where feminine/masculine and the subject are implied various words)

(I) cultivate a white rose,
In July as in January,
For the sincere friend,
Who gives me his frank hand,
And for the cruel (man) who rips from me,
The heart with which I live,
Thistles nor Caterpillars (I) cultivate,
(I) cultivate a white rose

/9351826/ I'm a brazilian and I fell the same feeling about translation , lost tons of quality.