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What do you think of my poetry? Post vocaroos of you reading poetry.

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What is the point of horrifying literature? Kafka wanted all of his work burned at the end of his life. It's possible he realized that his work could be detrimental to people. If you think there is a point to horrifying literature, what do you think it is?

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>`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
> Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
>All mimsy were the borogoves,
> And the mome raths outgrabe.


>"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
> The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
>Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
> The frumious Bandersnatch!"

>He took his vorpal sword in hand:
> Long time the manxome foe he sought --
>So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
> And stood awhile in thought.

>And, as in uffish thought he stood,
> The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
>Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
> And burbled as it came!

>One, two! One, two! And through and through
> The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
>He left it dead, and with its head
> He went galumphing back.

>"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
> Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
>O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
> He chortled in his joy.


>`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
> Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
>All mimsy were the borogoves,
> And the mome raths outgrabe.

Is this a good poem?

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favorite work of horror?

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Is love a spook?

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Which book deals the best with mortality in your opinion, /lit/?

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Why is he so fucking sad, /lit/?

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So /lit/, are we the Harry Potter generation?

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Imagine being Foucault in that debate and having to be all like "damn, Chomsky, you fuckin' fine, all dialectical with your human nature and horrific language theory. I would totally write an article with you, both my literary persona and the real me." when all he really wants to do is write about relations of power in societal institutions. Like seriously imagine having to be Foucault and not only sit in that chair while Noam Chomsky flaunts his disgusting theory in front of you, the favorable lighting barely concealing his shitty haircut, and just sit there, word after word, hour after hour, while he perfected his argument. Not only having to tolerate his stupid fucking syntactic structure theories but his haughty attitude as everyone on the audience tells him he’s STILL GOT IT and DAMN, NOAM CHOMSKY DEBATES LIKE *THAT*?? because they're not the ones who have to sit there and hear this stupid fucking analytic contort his books into types of mental gymnastics you didn't even know existed before that day. You've been writing nothing but a healthy diet of critical theory and post-structuralist best-sellers for your ENTIRE CAREER coming straight out of the opium dens in France. You've never even heard anything this fucking disgusting before, and now you swear you can taste the sweat that's breaking out on his dirty thick-rimmed glasses as he smirks suggestively at you, smugly assured that you are enjoying the opportunity to get paid to sit there and revel in his "revolutionary (for that is what he calls it)" cognitive science, the cognitive science he worked so hard for with his anarchist buddies in the previous months. And then Fons Elders brings up another subject, and you know you could refute every single person in this room before the analytics could write a review of your book, but you sit there and endure, because you're fucking Foucault. You're not going to lose your academic prestige over this. Just bear it. Hide your face and bear it.

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Do you guys ever get overwhelmed by the sheer amount of good literature out there? I find myself wanting to read so many different things that I can never decide what I want to buy next.

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I'm about to read the entire Plato catalog. how will it affect my life?

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>Finland's top intellectual lives here

Is it red-pilled to live an ascetic life and live somewhere like pic related?

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In ruck and quibble of courtfolk
This giant hulked, I tell you, on her scene
With hands like derricks,
Looks fierce and black as rooks;
Why, all the windows broke when he stalked in.

Her dainty acres he ramped through
And used her gentle doves with manners rude;
I do not know
What fury urged him slay
Her antelope who meant him naught but good.

She spoke most chiding in his ear
Till he some pity took upon her crying;
Of rich attire
He made her shoulders bare
And solaced her, but quit her at cock's crowing.

A hundred heralds she sent out
To summon in her slight all doughty men
Whose force might fit
Shape of her sleep, her thought-
None of that greenhorn lot matched her bright crown.

So she is come to this rare pass
Whereby she treks in blood through sun and squall
And sings you thus :
'How sad, alas, it is
To see my people shrunk so small, so small.'

I'm new to poetry, is this about getting some really good dick?

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How do you use exclamation points without looking autistic?

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Anyone got recommendations on books on Slavic folklore/Russian mythology?