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>tfw you're reading and you suddenly start to feel the fabric of reality tearing
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>tfw you pretend to have profound epiphanies reading neetchee because you want to feel like you belong even though everyone else is pretending too
abstract feels are common feels, being universal after all
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Can you direct me to the part that made you feel this?
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I don't understand why people make this book out to be so complicated or something. it's easy to follow along to and doesn't even really need prior knowledge in philosophy to understand what he is saying
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Nobody learns icelandic
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Um morguninn, kuldinn.
Ég eins og kalt veður.
En ég vil ekki búa í norrænu landi.
Ég eins og USA, þar sem flokkurinn endar aldrei.
(The morning, the cold/i like cold weather/but i don't want to live in a nordic country/i like USA, where party never ends)
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ÞÁ KEMR INN MÆRI MÖGR HLÓÐYNJAR, GENGR OÐINS
SONR VIÐ ORM VEGA, DREPR AF MÓÐI MIÐGARÐS VÉURR,
MUNU HALIR ALLIR HEIMSTÖÐ RYÐJA; GENGR FET NÍU
FJÖRGYNJAR BURR NEPPR FRÁ NAÐRI NÍÐS ÓKVÍÐNUM!
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SÓL TÉR SORTNA, SÍGR FOLD Í MAR,
HVERFA AF HIMNI HEIÐAR STJÖRNUR;
GEISAR EIMI OK ALDRNARI,
LEIKR HÁR HITI VIÐ HIMIN SJALFAN!
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I want to learn Icelandic.
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ITT: Best works in their mediums.
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post em
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Who's the smartest person to have ever lived? My vote goes to this guy.
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Yeah, Socrates was pretty smart, but I'd say Plato was smarter.
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Recently? Nietzsche
All-time? Aristotle
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elon musk desu
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Stack thread. Make assumptions about me based on this. I'm curious.
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you dont read and you're a faggot
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>>9758279
You crossboard with pol and lit and are under 23 years old
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Why Are Writers So Fucked Up? 2017-07-14 06:43:38 Post No.9756067
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Why Are Writers So Fucked Up?
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Suicides:
Ernest Hemingway, Lucretius, Gérard de Nerval, John Berryman, Jack London, Stefan Zweig, Virginia Woolf, Walter Benjamin, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Anne Sexton, Cesare Pavese, Primo Levi, Yukio Mishima, Sylvia Plath, David Foster Wallace, Hunter S. Thompson, Leonid Andreyev, Hart Crane
Generally Screwed Somehow:
Tolstoy: Thought about suicide all the time. Ran away from his wife aged 82.
Proust: Asthmatic, germophobic loner mama’s boy faggot.
Dickens: Bipolar insomniac who was afraid of bats. Said his characters introduced themselves to him in his sleep.
Dostoevsky: Epileptic, borderline personality disorder, gambling addiction, scared of being buried alive.
Gustave Flaubert: Pessimistic asshole, hated everyone and everything, FRANKED a young Turkroach boy
Joseph Conrad: Miserable pollack, tried to kill himself with a gun
Kafka: Nervous kike, cringey irl, totally fucked in the head.
Horace: Depressed
Chaucer: Aggressive cunt, charged with beating a friar in London, and with rape in 1380
Boccaccio: Failed at fucking - turned full-blown woman-hater
Li Bai: Drunken chink who drowned to death trying to grab the moon’s reflection in the water from his boat
François Villon: Murdered a priest, assaulted others, was a burglar who ended up banished like the faggot he was
Montaigne: Hid in a tower for 10 years
Torquato Tasso: Persecution mania, went insane, committed to asylum for 7 years
Jonathan Swift: Gloomy bastard, misanthrope, said he only laughed twice in his entire life, didn’t speak to anyone for a whole year, went mad in 1742.
Voltaire: Chronically constipated frog, drank 50 cups of tea a day, spent16 hours a day in bed writing.
Samuel Johnson: Monstrously cantankerous fucker, Tourette syndrome, rude manners
Jean Jacques Rousseau: Admitted to being an exhibitionist
S.T. Coleridge: Drug-addict
Byron: Sex-maniac, even fucked his half-sister
John Keats: Sad motherfucker, attempted suicide
Balzac: Crazy bastard, glutton, lived life in dressing gown
Hans C. Andersen: Wimpy crybaby hypochondriac
Edgar Allan Poe: Depressed, alcoholic drug addict who married a 13 yo
Gogol: Went insane
Nabokov: Paedophile narcissist
Euripides: Recluse, misanthrope, hated women
Virgil: Weakling manlet, once held a lavish funeral for a pet fly. Died after being in the sun a bit.
Herman Melville: Had a mental breakdown in 1855
Charles Baudelaire: Sexual deviant, depressed, drug addict
Emily Dickinson: Agoraphobic
Lewis Carroll: Pedo
Mark Twain: Bitter fucker, smoked up to 40 cigars a day
Maxim Gorky: Bitter fucker 2.0, attempted suicide
James Joyce: Awkward bastard, phobias of thunder, firearms (faggot) and dogs
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Tiny dick couldn’t satisfy Zelda, alcoholic, attempted suicide via morphine overdose
Samuel Beckett: Bitter fucker, recluse – didn’t even leave house to get Nobel Prize
Tennessee Williams: Drunkard
Dylan Thomas: Drunkard
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Dostoyevsky was borderline? So was my ex. What a nightmare that was.
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>>9756067
A lot of people are pretty fucked up, but you only notice it when it's someone important, like family or a celebrity. My guess is that the good writers are fucked up, and that is what gives them the push to be good writers, above the lofty faggots who have never seen struggle in their entire life. Like how we probably have more English majors right now than there were 'college' level people in 1600, but there's substantially less worthwhile literature being produced.
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>fucked up
pretty subjective. some of these people sound pretty fucking awesome to me.
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What are your favorite quotes from your favorite authors?
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This one's mine.
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"They use me like they use the potato in Europe - my flower and fruit (humour and jokes) are picked, my root-bulb (philosophy) is thrown away."
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>>9745993
I love how snarky and self reitious the liberal specimen sounds
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My dads a super. He has collected books over the years when tenants move out and leave whatever behind. I've recently gotten into reading and am following the "starting with the greeks" flowchart so I don't know much about what to read afterwards(halfway through the oddessey atm). I've taken these books from my dads office but I feel like im leaving out some other valueable books. Granted I can go there anytime but I'm just wondering what would be good to snag while I'm in there. I didn't find any greek related books which was disappointing.
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Im not sure if this is the right place to post this 2017-07-19 11:02:35 Post No.9778828
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Im not sure if this is the right place to post this
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I have begun writing a very well planned horror/drama novel recently. I have planned it to be very deep and decided to explore important social issues along the lines of mental illness and domestic abuse. I need some help from people who know literature better than myself.
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oh
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a couple new tooters for your meth
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I thought this board would have the most intellectual people on 4chan
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Why is he so good /lit/bros?
Finished Julius Caesar and then went to read a bit of As You Like It again. It can't be humanly possible to be this good.
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Go to sleep Bloom
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His range as an artist is insane. How can he go from this deep, tragic political drama to a wonderful, brilliant romantic comedy and be just as poetically outstanding at both? In the same year?
>There is a tide in the affairs of men,
>Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
>Omitted, all the voyage of their life
>Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
>On such a full sea are we now afloat,
>And we must take the current when it serves
>Or lose our ventures.
And
> He was to imagine me his love, his mistress; and I set him every day to woo me: at which time would I, being but a moonish youth, grieve, be effeminate, changeable, longing and liking, proud, fantastical, apish, shallow, inconstant, full of tears, full of smiles, for every passion something and for no passion truly anything, as boys and women are for the most part cattle of this colour; would now like him, now loathe him; then entertain him, then forswear him; now weep for him, then spit at him; that I drave my suitor from his mad humour of love to a living humour of madness; which was, to forswear the full stream of the world, and to live in a nook merely monastic.
How is this humanly possible?
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>>9778601
He played to the lowest common denominator audience of his time. It's only fitting that today's rabble come to find him and appreciate him.
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where do to bohemians flock to nowadays?
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now i'm not a gay man, but...
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Drugs. If you want to entrench yourself in any kind of experimental art just follow the trail of cocaine. Although the scenes are a lot less interesting than you thought they'd be in your youth.
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Weird Futuro-Esoteric Hidy-Holes in East Asia.
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What does /lit/ think of mark twain
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he looks like he sucked a mean dick
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He is from Missouri.
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Didn't he, like, write the n-word?
What is the Japanese equivalent of "The Greeks" or Homer/Iliad/Aurelius/Plato/Aristotle/etc?
Give me your best Japanese literature. No modern bullshit, no Murakami, no geisha fuckery. Classics.
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>What is the Japanese equivalent of "The Greeks" or Homer/Iliad/Aurelius/Plato/Aristotle/etc?
The Chinese
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i haven't read it but when people say "don quixote" was the first novel people respond that actually "the book of genji" was the first novel. so that one must be good i guess.
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>>9778148
The death poems.
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greatly rewarding literature 2017-07-19 08:22:42 Post No.9778102
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greatly rewarding literature
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what are some other authors/books similar to ulysses? that are long, complex, 'complicated', but still beautiful, genius and greatly rewarding books (preferably modernist/postmodernist)? I am a bit scared that I won't ever find a book that will have such a great effect on my as ulysses did.
*other than finnegans wake and pinecone, please
(am going to start IJ today)
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McElroy, Stein, Gaddis and Schmidt.
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>>9778102
>IJ
>rewarding
it's the least rewarding slog ever written
then again you're one to mention FW casually like you've read it
screencap your thread, come back in a month, and then we can talk