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I really do feel like I'm going to kill myself, any books that might help me, I just keep sinking
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nope.
you need to talk to someone irl.
now fuck off
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Start with the Greeks.
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>>9824881
It's time to read Nietzsche my friend. You'll misread it, but at least it will show you, through beautiful poetry and true zestyness, a possibel life-affirming point of view on life.
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I want a girl with a mind like Jared Diamond
I want a girl who reads what’s best
I want a girl with editors that cut
And eyes that're water like Infinite Jest
I want a girl with the right allocations
Who reads Faust, and Burroughs, and B. Pasternak
She’s putting down her schoolery, she’s picking up Voltaire,
She starts with Aristophanes, and that Hellenian stack
I want a girl who owns Pynchon in a dust jacket
I want a girl who reads up early
(reads up early)
I want a girl who reads up late
(reads up late)
I want a girl with uninterrupted New Sincerity
(uninterrupted)
Who uses a machete to cut through pomo fakes
With fingernails that shine like justice
And a voice that is dark like William Gass
She reads Faust, and Burroughs, and B. Pasternak,
She starts with Aristophanes, and that Hellenian stack
I want a girl who owns Pynchon in a dust, dust jacket
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>>9824869
>I want a girl with a mind like Jared Diamond
Most girls are delusional, shouldn't be difficult.
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I saw a girl in the library today, a rather pretty girl, and she looked at me, and there was a flash when we made eye contact, and I looked away.
The end.
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>>9824913
she wanted that you talk to her. She is not going to do it unless you do it. Some girls are like that, next time you see her (because probably you will at the same library) just go and talk about whatever you both are reading.
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Is William Blake a good place to start with poetry? And what are some Blake essentials?
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>>9824811
Here's a pdf of Songs of Innocence and of Experience in facsimile:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/rbc/rbc0001/2003/2003rosen1801//2003rosen1801.pdf
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>>9824811
The Greeks are a good place to start with poetry.
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Definitely can't skip The Marriage of Heaven & Hell
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>7 page chapter explaining what Elders are
>finish it and have no idea what Elders are
Why does he do this?
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>>9824693
thats because youre reading P&V you absolute melon
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>>9824717
Sorry but I'm not learning Russian just to read one author.
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>>9824717
What translation do you rec? The consensus outside of /lit/ seems to be P&V.
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This was unironically a good book.
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How do we reclaim this book from the normies?
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>>9824688
Literally impossible to finish. I seriously doubt anyone really has finished it.
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>>9824699
I now for the first time know what it feels like to honestly have finished a book that somebody on lit says is "impossible to finish"doesn't feel as good as I thought it would desu
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>tfw every good philosopher says that music is the superior art form, I like music more than literature, and yet I am a literary genius of the highest caliber
what do?
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When philosophers talk about music they mean art music so I hope you don't listen to popular trash.
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I don't see the contradiction.
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>>9824638
A good philosopher would not say things like this today, it would be foolish.
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Does anyone have read this book? should I give it a try?
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>>9824584
Brainlets trying to justify their brainletism with psuedoscience. Don't waste your time OP. The very name "Emotional Intelligence" is a misnomer.
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>>9824625
>not having enough emotional intelligence to realize that OP want just that sort of reply and is entirely on your side
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>>9824584
does have read
sweetie...
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Which should I read first, Medea or Oedipus?
Pic semi-related.
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doesn't matter. read them and re-read them. If you care so much about it read Oedipus first because it was written and performed before Medea.
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>>9824521
>Pic semi-related.
ahahahahahahhahahahah
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>>9824521
why pic semi-related? I don't get it...
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Anybody have any recommendations for books that take place in the American Midwest?
I'm looking for maybe crime novels that take place during the 80's/90's. Stuff like truck stops at night, degradation of
Midwest infrastructure, flawed religious characters, cheap wooden panel smoke-filled cowboy bars...
Something like true detective s1, Fargo (movie), no country for old men, 2666.
Thanks.
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>>9824382
Not even memeing, Franzen's Twenty Seventh City is a literary crime-ish novel set in St Louis. It's an earlier work of his so a little more wonky but it fits the bill.
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>>9824398
Fuck Franzen
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>>9824398
Thank you for the rec.
I don't browse lit often. Why is he a touchy character on here?
What do you think of England's new 10 pound note?
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>>9824338
i like it, even though the picture of jane austen is somewhat romanticised (the only picture of her from when she was alive was a quick sketch by her sister)
also the new turner £20 is glorious
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>>9824338
>Jane Austen
Her work is so uninteresting and boring. Why is she considered so popular in British literature?
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>>9824338
>orange evening tone
>open fields
>bent over body
>sunset found her squatting in the grass
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Is it worth my time ?
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Probably not. Then again this only applies if we're assuming that your time is worth anything and that you aren't a complete waste of air, which isn't the case.
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>>9824348
sLaY
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>>9824324
Go to bed Jake
Any good books about Native Americans? I just realized the other day that despite being an American all my life I know almost nothing about them and want to educate myself. I realize they had no writing so a lot of their history is unknown but I'd still like to delve into what there is.
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>>9824283
You killed them all and forcibly taken their lands, that's all you need to know you imperialist yankee piece of shit.
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>>9824292
You're mistaken. I'm not a cumskin.
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>>9824295
Then you're not an American and you should stop referring to yourself as such
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Can someone explain the significance of the performing bear and its death in the final chapter?
What the shit.
I figured it was somewhat a metaphor for the Kid and his fate, only a disposable role in a larger story of fate... but the extra detail surrounding the bear scene doesn't support that.
Anyone else?
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>>9824261
The holes are for fence posts--the land is now being prepared for property and thus society. The hellscape of the novel is beginning to make way for civilized human existence....I think
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>>9824261
Spoiler alert faggot
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It means nothing. The book was trash.
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I'm a professional writer and all of the people in my office are against the Oxford. It is flat out infuriating. How do you folks feel about it?
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>>9824245
i'm also a professional writer
i tend not to use it unless i am doing something like making a list of things that already has an "and" in between. for example
famous bands of the 90s include blur, oasis and pulp (no oxford comma)
famous comedy double acts include laurel and hardy, morecombe and wise, and reeves and mortimer (oxford comma)
it's not a precise science
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>>9824245
who gives a fuck about an oxford comma
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>>9824332
but in your first sentence, it seems to group the last two items and isolate the first item. I just think it's confusing looking. or it sounds like you're talking to someone named "oasis and pulp."
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Been feeling melancholic lately, any book that's a relief to this feel?
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>>9824167
Blacked.com
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>>9824167
The Rings of Saturn
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Start with the Greeks.