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I've only read waiting for godot and endgame but I found his works enjoyable, I've never tried deeply analysing anything but he can make you laugh at things that are properly depressing

I read this last month as my first Beckett. I thought it was more Flann O'Brien than Joyce. It's a funny book. Had to reread a paragraph every now and then to catch the meaning but nothing too dificult.

>>9172125
plays and radio plays better than his novels. i like words and music best. version with morton feldman.

Start with the Greeks

>>9172110
what

>>9172107
[your] shoes are the subject, the verb corresponds to the subject

shoes are plural, the usage therefore is "are"

idk how to describe it in exact technical terms but that's pretty much it

>>9172064
Think of Elliot Rodger. He was a borderline retarded autist who would ree out because people he considered more low status than him got laid and he couldn't. He knew nothing about human interaction or much else for that matter, all the little shit knew about was tfw no gf. But that's what he wrote about and he wrote probably the first important literary work of the 21st century as a result. So look to the Supreme Gentleman for inspiration

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Don't write about your hometown then.

>>9172064
Write what you know.

>>9172009
this said with not a 10th of their talent

>>9172038
No surprise that he ended up killing himself

there's like 5 dfw threads up, stop.

>>9171971
Try lovecraft and/or Poe

>>9171971
I don't know if Poe or Lovecraft really capture the same mad horror of Ito. Ito will twist something that can be seen as good, i.e. Curiosity in 'The Enigma of Amigara Fault' or the spiral in 'Uzumaki'. Lovecraft has two themes in his work, forbidden knowledge, and human insignificance. Poe I can't really comment on because I'm still currently reading, but he seems to be tamer in his plots than both Lovecraft and Ito.

I recommend 'Cold Air', 'Dagon', 'The Terrible Old Man' and 'Whisperer in Darkness' as they're some of my favourites of Lovecraft.

Sandkings by GRRM was pretty damn good.

>>9171949
>(* It's more likely than not that Ibn was stretching the truth so "historical" is used loosely. Still an awesome story though.)
>Ibn was stretching the truth
Do you mean Crichton?

>>9171969
I meant Ibn's account of what happened may have been exaggerated from his end.

Crichton based it off of Ahmad ibn Fadein's journal which I've never read, I have no idea if Crichton spiced it up a little in the translation/interpretation as well.

>>9171994
is that the one that ended up with the vikings raiding that seaside fortress that had monsters living in it?

i felt it was paced like a handjob from a meth addict. nothing much happens for hundreds of pages and then suddenly your dick gets torn off.

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philanthropy

>>9171877
Fuck

Try reading Borges

>>9171805
A research career.

>>9171943
this seems antithetical to what I want lol

>>9171672
If you were really convinced, then you wouldn't have felt the need to make this thread

>>9171684
Wrong

Thanks for the (you)

Do you even know who fucking Descartes is you 8-year old dumb fuck

No, you won't. They can only teach you to translate Greek and Latin or, at most, to read originals by yourself but very slowly

>>9171674
so only a masters in classics would obtain that?

Also, if that is your belief, is that what majoring in any language is?

Depends on the student. My Classics department was pretty prestigious and I'd say most people at the postgrad level had "pretty good" Latin and OK to nonexistent Greek, unless they were Greek specialists. Most of the Classics major undergrads kinda blew at both because they had only really taken 2-3 years of it, gotten B averages and generally been "OK." Mostly Latin, again.

There were always outlier students. I had Latin from before undergrad, and some other people did too who had gone to school in other countries or gone to good private schools. And some kids just really took to it, but that was rarer.

Language acquisition is bumpy and undergrad doesn't exactly force you to do it beyond the level necessary to pass exams and hand in assignments. Probably MOST Classics majors will only become truly fluent or expert in their language of choice in year 1-3 of grad school. Then they take much more hardcore courses and comprehensive exams, which cements everything they've learned and forces them to professionalize it. Until then, most get by with adequate or decent ability, and plenty get by with downright mediocre or bad ability.

If you're asking whether YOU can learn Latin and Greek via a BA in Classics, yeah, easily. Just start learning it now, the 101 classes in first year, take whatever 2nd-level translation seminars you can the following year (and over the summer if you like), keep working on it on your own. There's no reason why you can't be fluent in 2-3 years if you really make it into a daily pursuit and life goal. But most people don't do this in undergrad. With anything.

>>9171543
Isn't he the guy who wrote Infinite Jest?

>>9171551
no rust is a fictional character from true detective season 1.

i was wondering if anybody has ever seen some sort of list of reading materials related to him

>>9171587
king in yellow by Robert William Chambers

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti

>>9171525

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Western_Canon:_The_Books_and_School_of_the_Ages

Do you hate Harold Bloom now, too? Jane Austen wasn't in the list at the end that he later disavowed, but one of the authors he spent a significant time praising.

>>9171549
>>9171525
No way, what worth does she have at all?

>>9171525
George Eliot is a better writer than your favorite novelist.

>>9171385
>say something original about Hamlet
lol

hes horny and wants to fuck his mom

the end the story is done

>>9171385
>Hamlet's procrastination
he's actually aware that he is in a play and is purposefully trying to create dramatic tension

>>9171293
Post it or parts of it, m8

>>9171293
I will do it for a dollar less than the last person who offers to do it will do it for, let me know when that happens, I will be preparing in my study, Heinrich will ready the Chardony

I'll do it for free.

>>9171517
Sucker.

Yes; no.

Why did he steal a title from Bataille

>>9171257
I haven't read anything by Ben Lerner, but a lot of my friends think he's the greatest. I met him once actually at a party, seems like a cool guy. He and Cyrus Console have a bit of a following here in Kansas City/Lawrence.