Gib me books with a nice master-pupil dynamic.
The Magic Mountain
The Karate Kid
Journey to the West
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Bone
What does /lit/ think of this book?
Personally, as a socially awkward high schooler, I really enjoyed the book. Now I'm in college and looking back on it, I still enjoy it, but something feels different now that I've mellowed out socially.
What works in the book and what doesn't, essentially.
As for Things of Process- or for Bronte's Aesthetics whose Act is not eternally invariable- "A fiend of a book – an incredible monster" "The action is laid in hell, – only it seems places and people have English names there." we must hold that these are due to the timely metre of the work; Causelessness is quite inadmissible as an explanation for such themes; we can make no place here for unwarranted "slantings, phrase etc" for sudden movement of tone apart from any initiating power within her work, for precipitate spurts in a soul with nothing to drive it into the new course of action as evidence by the actions of Heathcliff. Such causelessness would bind the Soul under an even sterner compulsion, no longer master of itself, but at the mercy of movements apart from will and cause. Something willed- within itself or without- something desired, must lead it to action; without motive it can have no motion -- all superbly visible in the characterisation of Linton.
One of my favourite novels. I wept multiple times.
>>9083856
Faggot
For reference this is how the poem goes:
Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape
Of deities or mortals, or of both,
In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?
What men or gods are these? What maidens
loth?
What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone:
Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave
Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;
Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss
Though winning near the goal—yet, do not
grieve;
She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,
For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed
Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu;
And, happy melodist, unwearied,
For ever piping songs for ever new;
More happy love! more happy, happy love!
For ever warm and still to be enjoy'd,
For ever panting, and forever young;
All breathing human passion far above,
That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd,
A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.
Who are these coming to the sacrifice?
To what green altar, O mysterious priest,
Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies,
And all her silken flanks with garlands dressed?
What little town by river or sea shore,
Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel,
Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn?
And, little town, thy streets for evermore
Will silent be; and not a soul to tell
Why thou art desolate, can e'er return.
O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede
Of marble men and maidens overwrought
With forest branches and the trodden weed;
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought
As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
When old age shall this generation waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Keats must've had no fucking hobbies if he wrote this waste of paper to describe brown and black porcelain
He says it all in the last few lines
The Urn and its images shall remain when civilisations, including his, are gone
It is good to contrast this poem to Shelleys Ozymandias
I tried to memorize it one time because it's beautiful to recite, and found the second stanza impossible to remember.
>Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave
>Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;
>Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss
Three wonderful lines, yet I could never stick em to my brainlet
Is Holden crazy? I mean, at first he imagines he's got a bullet in his guts and he's bleeding after the pimp guy punches him, and then before going to the museum he imagines that he'll fall if he doesn't cross the street and begs Allie to save him. Seriously? What's his problem?
>every fucking day
Discuss it with your classmates and stop shitting up this board with your high school reading.
>>9083704
Some say that he raped Phoebe, others say that he was molested by his father.
Read here for more infos: https://warosu.org/lit/thread/4803026#p4803729
You never had random detailed daydreams when you were a teen? Dull fuck.
>mfw an athiest thinks there's actually any argument against God when Aquinas literally fucking proved God in the Summa
He didn't prove God. He only showed that there has to be some point where logic starts.
There's a huge leap from that to deism, and there's an even bigger leap from that to theism, let alone Christianity.
>>9083685
>this is what athiests think a refutation is
Don't talk about the Summa unless you've actually fucking read it
>>9083692
How about you try to correct the anon then? Do you know how conversation works?
Stop being sober.
Rimbaud looks like a young Milo Yiannopoulos.
>>9083530
Rimbo is qtier and edgier
Working on it, monica.
What are your thoughts on The Fall by Albert Camus?
Here are some resources on it I would like to share with you:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQCsSuj3LgA (rare BBC documentary)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYuEwEhOzRs (a lecture about The Plague and The Fall. He starts talking about The Fall about halfway through.)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7UiShv7a8A (continuation of the previous lecture, entirely dedicated to The Fall.)
>>9083519
anyone has more of these vids with simple french and english subtitles? love this shit.
>>9083519
It's been taken down due to third party blah blah, can someone tell me what this lecture is called? Or, better yet, find me a link that works?
>>9083669
Oh man iunno, this text is from long ago. I did scrape the video, but I've no access to that HDD right now.
What do you think of Post Modernism ?
You first OP.
shitpost modernism
It's over
who is your favorite writer?
which culture do you appreciate the most? (are you more of an angophile, francophile, germanophile, russophile? etc.)
>implying favorites aren't for children
>>9083406
no philistines allowed in this thread, thanks
Hello, could someone help me find a book?
This is a Horoscope book my friend lent it about 10 or more years ago, but he lost it now, so i would like to find either pictures from whats inside or to order the actual book.
The Book: it was very small about 5x5 cm and it was about 5cm thick and it had all the Horoscopes with other useful stuff like whats your planet and element.
I will post some pictures that i could save up from that time.
Thanks in advance and i hope that someone will know this book and help me find it !!! ;)
Is being a slow reader a bad thing. Usually I spend 2-3 minutes on a page, depending on how heavy it is. I don't read out loud, but I do repeat the words inside my head, so that I stay focused. Is this the cause?
>>9083291
Better than glossing over too fast and not retaining what you're reading. I read fast and if I'm tired sometimes I read several pages and realize I forgot everything.
No, reading too fast because you want to boast about numbers is a bad thing.
Sub-vocalization is essential to comprehension and retention, and impossible to fully eliminate, in any case.
>>9083335
>Sub-vocalization is essential to comprehension and retention, and impossible to fully eliminate, in any case.
You might have brain problems
How do you spend your days? What is your daily routine /lit/? What is pushing you through your life?
>wake up at five
>drink glass of water and make tea
>learn Latin until 6:30
>make/eat/clean up after breakfast
>shower/get ready for work
>walk to work
>work 7:30 - 4:45
>go to gym
>get home around 6:15
>make/eat/clean up after supper
>read for an hour
>if my friends want to hang out or play video games I will until 10
>read one of montaignes essays
>brush teath and go to bed
>>9083074
If no friends want to do anything I'll read for that time. Possibly watch sportsnet if I'm tired.
>wake up
>read for 15 hours
>go to sleep
Is this worth reading?
I like Notes From Underground and love Crime and Punishment
No one ever talks about this book
yes
/thread
>>9083033
you might enjoy The Idiot more, but Demons is fantastic too
>>9083033
It's more political than the two you've read (and all his other books), but is just a good. Make sure you get an edition with the originally censored chapter "at Tikhon's". It makes one of the storylines make much more sense.
Is reading for escapism wrong?
>>9082932
In moderation, it will probably keep you sane.
>>9082932
All reading is escapism tbg senpai.
are there any other reasons for reading?
Hi /lit
I'm new here and wanted to know on average how much a day you all read?
Just picked up Homer's Iliad and I just pulled myself away after 2 hours straight.
About an hour every couple of days. I check my phone for texts (which are never there) every 10-15 minutes.
>>9082657
literally me
2-3hours average on a workday, on days off I can go all day.