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is that sam hyde?

>>9974377
What part of start with the Greeks do you not understand?

>>9974170
His Novelas Ejemplares are good, but I haven't read his other big books

No.
That's why people study it.

My brain is fucking weird, in that I read something, I remember none of it, I'm tested on it, I still remember none of it, and yet 9 years later somebody will ask me a question and I'll just spontaneously refer to some shit. Its made me excellent at Trivia and relatively shit at Testing.

Anyways, if you want to memorise things better OP, the techniques are well known, largely as a result of techniques developed for language learning. If I really have to memorise something I'll make flashcards and review them with spaced repetition. Maybe I'll just jot down some notes in the margin instead. It's just fucking dull and 95% of books I don't care enough to do it and figure I get more value out of reading more books than reading the same ones repeatedly.
For the other 5% I don't note take to the extent I would if I was actually studying for grades.

>>9974354
That's literally how brains work. "Name all the books you've read." is difficult for a brain to process. "Have you read this book?" isn't.

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I've heard that postmodernism is a dragon who ate my dad, and that if I kill it I can save my dad and also get gold and save the princess.

Something something dominance hierarchy

>>9974121
easiest answer: split it around 1945-1950.

less easy answer: a lot of what post modernism does is done by modernist authors but to a greater extent and with more freedom.

so instead of having one unreliable narrator, a novel might have several unreliable narrators or have the novel apparently exonerate the unreliable narrator as merely an incredible narrator.

instead of systems using bureaucracy in Kafkaesque ways, individualists use bureaucracy against systems in Kafkaesque ways (Catch 22 is a good example of this and use of irony being used more broadly than by fate)

while modernism in literature attacks the problems of modern progress more than modernism in other disciplines in some ways, it means that postmodernism in literature often attacks what it sought to shelter back into. joyce and faulkner's use of the mythic and stream of consciousness to replace the modern progress meme in postmodernism becomes flann o'brien's finn mac cool who is senile enough to repeat long stretches of half remembered half confabulated traditional irish storytelling.

another good way of telling is how many times they mention atoms. (don't be fooled by joyce's use of quark, it was named in 1963 after the physicist who discovered them read finnegans wake)

>>9974043
York Notes are total shit.
They're designed for High school students who don't have proper teachers or any desire for further understanding of the text that the desire to pass an exam.

If you want to get a proper understanding go on JSTOR and read critical theory.
Save yourself $5 and buy some tendies instead


>>9974043

>>9974079
Thanks anon. Will do.

Study guides are for high schoolers that need to fake their readings. Go online and read some Marlowe essays by academics, preferably ones specializing in Marlowe or the era with university positions and other publications. Find a favorite and see if they have any books/monographs on the topic in addition to their essays.

>>9974022
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

>>9974111
this desu

Is ghosts real?

>>9973507
>makes you think

whaaat noooooo at least for me it makes me chubby since I have this thing of eating while I'm reading

>>9973516
thin*

Duh.

>>9973245
Isn't it possible to be a walking dictionary and yet unable to write for shit?

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this acid is fuckin legit

>>9973152
>As I sit here in the midst of God's creation, typing on my laptop what you are reading at this very moment, I ponder to myself: will I be able to take a shit and finish up in time without anyone seeing me? What happens if I'm in the middle of shitting and someone else comes up here, or someone over on that hill over there has binoculars and is watching me? And is it environmentally and socially responsible to take a shit up here without digging a hole first? I never thought to bring a shovel. Life can be so hard sometimes. But yeah I really gotta take a shit.

>>9973161
kek

>>9973166
Are you high? not even close, De Witt is shitt.

>>9973134
I enjoyed so much I wrote my own version, its basically the same shit but on my style with a few alterations

I hate doing that but this was one of the stories so good it just had to be done for me

>>9973092

I'm bored and a little drunk and up for a challenge. Here's what I could make of it:

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Mr. Mac Parland:

There is a very interesting story in connection with the taking of this picture. Albert B Street our representiative in [?] will note is an expert amateur photographer was on an excusion boat out of [?] London on Sunday June 22nd. He saw an unusual looking craft approaching following the Bermuda [?] and thinking that it would make a good Marine photograph [???]. He told me that the captain of this boat shouldn't have laid a better course for him if he had [hired?] the ship. He brought the picture down to me on Wednesday thinking that I might like it for the office. I told him that I suspected that it was [??] for while I had never seen the ship it had been [deser- (cut off)] to me by Mr. G (?) Ratsey the famous sail maker who made [cut off] square for [??] I phoned Mr. Ratsey (who is one of our best customers) and he confirmed my suspicion so here's your pie- [piece? cut off]

John (?) [cut off]

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Maybe this can help?

Thanks in advance.

>>9973160

Slight revision.
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Mr. Mac Parland:

There is a very interesting story in connection with the taking of this picture. Albert B Street our representative in [?] will note is an expert amateur photographer was on an excursion boat out of [?] London on Sunday June 22nd. He saw an unusual looking craft approaching following the Bermuda racers and thinking that it would make a good Marine photograph all set. He told me that the captain of this boat shouldn't have laid a better course for him if he had [hired?] the ship. He brought the picture down to me on Wednesday thinking that I might like it for the office. I told him that I suspected that it was [Presido??] for while I had never seen the ship it had been described to me by Mr. George Ratsey the famous sail maker who made the square for top [?]. I phoned Mr. Ratsey (who is one of our best customers) and he confirmed my suspicion so here's your picture.

John A. Keans

sounds gay

Any of Neil Gaiman's shorter stories.

>>9973073
The Great Meaulnes
The Little Prince
Little, Big
The Wind in the Willows
Winter's Tale

The Hobbit