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There's something fundamentally horrifying about Act Without Words I. Probably my favorite Beckett piece.

>>9921641
Krap's last tapeworm.

Or this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok7Vc3jczNg

I don't like books.

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>>9921663
how so?
Expound, please.

>>9921572
I'm reading this now, I like it.

I just read the trail of your blood in the snow too and the ending broke my heart desu

A soup of H2O molecules loosely bound together by van der waals and dipole-dipole forces.

>>9921513
when someone drives suv but babby ded

If I get a this is water tattoo will u guys call me a fag. Low key I really found some meaning in the your needs aren't the center of the world part. Is it a meme or do you all really think its pseudo deep

Reading Inferno has put me off for a long time from reading the rest of his work, and your example there is exactly why. He seems so petty to put his contemporary political adversaries in Hell and it detracts from the art a great deal for me.

>>9927696
It was as much political as it was religious, as much propaganda as it was art.
Why would that put you off? Do you dislike how he shits on the pope too?

>>9927704
It's the pettiness of it that puts me off. I don't necessarily dislike shitting on the Pope, but putting his political enemies in Hell and spending so much time berating them didn't feel meaningful to the art of the work at all. They felt like digressions.

>>9921476
Nah you're totally right dude, you should totally kill yourself. I say this as a friend, its for the best for everyone especially yourself

>I experience as much neurochemical pleasure by writing a witty, original, profound sentence as I do by capturing a new settlement in Rome: Total War.
You have no way of knowing this.

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>>9921476
This is not ironic, or a shitpost. I once made my attractive female English professor break down into tears with my genius. It was like the scene in Good Will Hunting where the math professor breaks down after Will easily solves the math problems he was given, saying "there are some days where I wish you didn't exist." She thought it was probably the best thing that she had ever read from the last 20 or so years. Yes, we did have sex eventually. I write the greatest work out there today. You pathetic posers will probably try to project onto me and deny it, but it's true, and I don't need to prove it to a bunch of sad anime-watching, hentai-jerking retards on the internet, so no, I will not post my work. No, I'm not scared or doubtful of my work, I just don't want my name to be ever associated with this sad little website. I have read most of the Western Canon, am fluent in 6 languages (Russian, Mandarin, Latin, Greek, Spanish, and of course, English), and my poetry and prose are both at the level of Joyce's. A different professor of mine once said that if I do not go down in literary history, then literary history has failed us. I once met with Bloom in person, where we had a deep and detailed conversation about Faulkner, and he told me that I was "incredibly competent and wise young man." My philosophy professor praised my work in philosophy, but as my true strength remains in art, also told me that a poem of mine "has the emotional depth of Coleridge and the precise linguistic mastery of Yeats." Upon graduating college, I will publish my masterpiece which will undoubtedly shock the literary world. It is profoundly imaginative, reaches a level of linguistic perfection on the level of Flaubert, and effortlessly dismantles the superficiality and degeneration of modern culture with a violent and powerful personal confession, reaching beyond the modern age to something much greater. I am 6'2" and very good looking, so I have many female admirers, but I have often ignored them for the sake of literary greatness. I have even received a love letter from a lovely petite brunette in my sophomore year. After being accepted into a highly selective program at my university (highly prestigious, of course, but I will not name it for the previously articulated reason), I have had the opportunity to work with the greatest poets alive today, all of whom have been blown away by my work. After publishing my work, I plan to study at Oxford or to travel around Russia.

I hope there are some of my kind on this website, with whom I can talk about literature and philosophy at a level that I find appealing and worthy of me. It is difficult to find people like this at university, of course, which is so full of pretention, insecurity and stupidity. My life is not lonely, aside from the fundamental loneliness that affects us all, but the life at the top of the peak is often frustrating, as most of you imagine.

why do publishers even release movie covers?
they should know people are too vain to want others to actually know they only heard about the book through a film adaption

>>9921416
because it sells well

>>9921416
actually you're completely wrong. it's a way to have something in common with other people. "omg you saw the movie? it's so good! how is the book?"

Go Kafka, he's pretty easy.

>>9921406
I liked reading Cormac Mcarthy in German translation, or maybe try Thomas Bernhard if you have a high tolerance for rambling and long sentences. For Russian I'd recommend Isaac Babel's short stories and Yerofeyv's Moscow-Petushki - fantastic literature and easy reading

>>9921406
Platonov for russian.

De bello civili should be on as well, it's short but great

>>9921373
Read Polybius later; his subject matter is only the Punic wars, and he will assume that you're familiar with early Roman traditions and republican institutions, which is what Livy will tell you about.

Also as a heads up to everyone (advice that I shill every time the roman chart pops up): The Roman chart is not, will not ever be, and can not ever be complete in the sense that the Greek chart is (largely) complete. The amount of writing from the Roman era (writing in both Latin and Greek) is hilariously immense compared to classical Greece. So keep in mind that the Roman chart is sort of a highlight reel/crash course/general intro to major genres and the writers who dominated them. It assumes that you will be capable of branching out on your own based on your genre/language/topic preferences. That's why only one of penguin's four Livy volumes is listed; only one of Caesar's two histories, only one of Tacitus' four histories, only the most well-known works of Statius, Ovid, Cicero, etc.

Just for comparison, Cicero alone was more prolific than (what survives of) either Plato or Aristotle. If you've read the Greeks you'll know that's a mountain of writing.

Basically the training wheels are coming off. Go out on your own and discover Polybius, Appian, Sallust, Dionysius, Pliny, etc. If you want to, that is.

>>9924436
Thanks, I already looked around a few days ago and ordered the complete histories by Livy. Doing the same for other Roman authors since abridged versions are just shit.

What are some other Roman authors not listed you'd recommend?

sorry

Christian response:

All suffering (natural and human-caused) is a consequence of human freedom (that is to say, the fall).

God is Almighty, not omnipotent.

>>9921333
Goethe, Ruskin. The latter even wrote a How-to still published by Dover.

Not prose but someone posted this in another thread and it made me smile

I asked him
"did you know?
it helps to cut onions
while chewing gum"
he didn't know
I cried

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classic

>>9921334
Sorry, my /lit/ powers are lacking- who's this?

>>9921328
multicolored plush pig costume. anyone asks who you are, scream PLECHAZUNGAAAAA and smash them with a hammer.

>>9921301

>I bet 'The Anatomy of Melancholy' looks far better on my shelf than your copy does on your shelf

Then cap it off with a Stone Cold Stunner just to drive the pain of defeat home.

rip

>>9921316
press x to revive

Ligotti's short fiction is wonderful. His novellas and nonfiction are not very good.

Some writers excel at one form and fail at the others. My Work Is Not Yet Done meanders and fizzles out. He probably deserved to lose his publishing job because of it.

>>9921440
Dunno, it starts slow but the middle and end are great

>>9921450
Penguin recently released Songs and Grimscribe in one volume. I suggest trying that next.