Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 214. page

>>9956519
The idea of being able to convey a language in a school. You will never hit native level or get an actual feeling for those two languages. Please only translate into your native language.

Still want to learn a language? Ok turn back time and grow up in the respective countries. If you can't time-travel, at least make it a habit of speaking to natives several hours a day. Reading won't cut it.

>>9956575
The idea isnt to be able to know 100% about a certain language, I enjoy learning/speaking other languages, wordplays etc... and want to do it for work.
Also how do you explain I learned english just from reading? Being able to speak language comes naturally when you are able to read/write it, if you arent a language brainlet (Which I assume you are).
Feel free to post an autistic two page essay on why I shouldnt pursue my dream but it wont change anything. I have decided what I want to do in life, what about you?

>>9956519
hesse's fairytales (Märchen). they're not exactly fairytales, but kind of fantastical stories.

(((publishers)))

I use my kindle all the time dude

>>9956293
No one was shitting their pants about it, it's just that like any new medium, people say "it's shit" for a while until everyone has one.

If you think Rush lyrics are good you should get yourself a copy of Paradise Lost

>>9955869
You don't know me.

i love rush

He's way up there desu.

>>9955717
he was a filthy jew, read culture of critique

>>9955878
avant-ironic-neo-sincerity? or meta-ironic bait post? you decide, /lit/.

read the book you faggot
why are these kind of threads not bannable? what kind of answer are you even looking for? fucking hang yourself

>>9955587
took the b8

>>9955587
nice

yeah its one of the few long ass shits that lives up to the hype

>>9955270
have you finished it yet?

>>9955293

nah, haha :P, but I read the madeline part of swans way.. the prose was soo good

>>9955239
A Schoolboy's Diary by Robert Walser

File: download.jpg (15KB, 314x160px) Image search: [Google]

15KB, 314x160px

welcome to the monkey house

Some of the best I've read this year:
Finding a Girl in America
Collected Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield
The Moons of Jupiter
Nine Stories
The Celestial Railroad and other Stories
Where I'm Calling From
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Tales and Conjurations
Some all time favorites:
Any of the Bantam 50 Greats (50 Great Short Stories; 50 Great American Shorts, etc.) edited by Milton Crane
Great American Short Stories edited by Burton Raffel

One more I picked up on accident but ended up enjoying more than I expected: Unicorn Variations. The sci-fi was pretty good as far as that went, but he introduced how he wrote them all, which was often more interesting than the stories themselves.

Also, what's the best Munro Compliation? Alice Munro's Best? Vintage Munro seems pretty skimpy.

>>9955102
Read it straight through including index.

>>9955106
fpbp

>>9955106
This.

Fuck you, I'm not doing your creative writing homework for you.
Was about to write some moving ass text before I realized the dubious end game of your hidden hand.

anywhere can be paradise as long as you have the will to live. after all, you are alive, so you will always have the chance to be happy. as long as the sun, the moon, and the earth exist, everything will be all right.

Whenever I see the moon, I remind myself of my dead mother. She was shot by some nigger and the useless nigger policeman could not identify the murderer. I hate niggers.

File: h3SwRZp.jpg (38KB, 454x600px) Image search: [Google]

38KB, 454x600px

>>9954510

>zizek: we need revolution through action, not just superficially virtuous protest
>peterson: WELL YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEANS BUCKO
>zizek: is that starbucks in your hand? you are complicit in capitalist slavery of the most malevolent stripe
>zizek starts furiously rubbing his nose
>peterson starts mumbling about gulags and postmodernists

They can't be in the same room because they're the same person

>>9954510
>JP tries to psychoanalize Zizek through a jungian lens
>Zizek tries to psychoanalize JP through a lacanian lens
>Chaos ensures

File: christians-praying-icon.jpg (37KB, 294x400px) Image search: [Google]

37KB, 294x400px

>>9954483
Rome initially rejected the Filioque. Pope Leo III was the first Pope was faced with its addition (prior to him, some churches in the West used it, but it had not reached Rome). Carolingian envoys were sent to him to ask he add it to the Creed (as transcript of this exchanged can be found in “Photius and the Carolingians: The Trinitarian Controversy”). Pope Leo at first told them no, he would not officially add it in writing, but if they wished they might say it in the service, but no writing would be changed. They continued to pressure and pester him, and he finally told them not only would he not add it, but that now he was forbidding them from singing it, and said he had no authority to unilaterally alter the Nicene Creed, stating, “I will not say I prefer myself to the Fathers. And far be it from me to count myself their equal." To emphasize the finality of his decision, he had the Creed without the Filioque engraved on two silver tablets. A few decades later, his decision would be upheld in the Council of 879, which anathematized the Filioque and Pope Nicholas I for espousing Papal supremacy; this council was affirmed by Pope John VIII, which ended the Photian Schism. However, in 1014, after pressure from Henry II of Germany, Pope Benedict VIII added the Filioque. Benedict owed Henry big time because the later restored him to his see after the antipope took it. And that is how it got in the Latin Creed today.
There is a popular quote used by Catholics ascribed to Kallistos Ware: "The filioque controversy which has separated us for so many centuries is more than a mere technicality, but it is not insoluble. Qualifying the firm position taken when I wrote [my book] The Orthodox Church twenty years ago, I now believe, after further study, that the problem is more in the area of semantics and different emphases than in any basic doctrinal differences." This quote is fabricated, and the work by Ware it is ascribed to, does not exist.

>dogmatical metaphysics

read Kant
pleb

>>9954488
>Kant rejects mysticism and revelation so you're a pleb if you don't too

Nope

>>9954099
Pic related is exactly why I think postmodernism is a load of bull.

the "post-modernism is killing western civilisation" meme needs to stop. about 99% of americans probably never heard of Derrida or Foucault save being even close to understanding their work. most people who complain about post-modernism have never opened a single actual post-modernist work

>>9954191
OP here
When did I ever say postmodernism was in any way bad? My question is if it was a natural and/or necessary step in literature.
Regardless, about 99% of Americans probably never heard of postmodernism. People who spew the meme you're arguing against are a minority, most of them are probably /pol/ crossboarders.

Because you only read pleb books. Ive never seen a quote from him as far as I know.

i don't even recognize the bastard.

sounds like a personnel problem.

File: gaimanwolfe[1].jpg (50KB, 493x330px) Image search: [Google]

50KB, 493x330px

>>9954032
he's all over gene wolfe books like a rash, so you're wrong, because wolfe is the certified Patrician's Choice

>>9953652
Neither

>>9953652
neither
I can't think of a worse series

Both

>>9953622
no.

>>9953622
nope.

He's the best french writer, that's for sure