>sitting in a train station in city of London, drinking coffee at 11 pm
>seeing all the attractive people enjoying their lives
>can't even be bothered walking around outside to get the cathartic feeling of seeing Chads and Staceys at bars on a hot Friday night, definitively crushing my daytime delusions that arise due to seeing so many qts who are dressed as Chad bait at night and all have one night stands and 5000 tinder matches
>tfw aged 26, no social life for almost ten years, no female attention ever, only ever done stuff with escorts
>demoralised as fuck, blackpilled as fuck, nihilistic as fuck, see snake oil salesmen, stupid people, and charlatans as far as the eye can see, in all fields
>have no hobbies that have not morphed in to their own sort of work and drudgery (reading books - "Read these classic books", lift weights - am mentally held hostage and have to be tortured by seeing half naked Staceys exercising for Chad, learn programming- "Learn this way or you're dumb!")
>at this point I even procrastinate my hobbies - sitting and drinking coffee and riding the tube while reading on my phone is more enjoyable
What horrific drudgery. What a huge irony that I am the most relaxed at my government job, even though I became the ugly loner beta autist within two days.
And this is me standing at the edge of the Darwinian social game. If I ever talked to anyone or tried to join in, I would be humiliated due to my non chad looks and lack of social capital.
At this point, fuck society, it sees me as a disposable beta male to suck the life out of. I guess seeing people whine about student loans in the news is a great pleasure.
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>>9727285
>sitting on a log in the woods
>trees are tall as fuck, nature as fuck mang
>quiet and woodsy, super comfy next to a brook
>bugs don't bother me because I smother myself in bugspray
>the essence of chill, brought a cooler with some water and food
>got a fishing rod with me, could trek a bit and find some fish to catch
>having a fucking awesome time
>literally no chad or stacey in sight at all
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>>9727285
This is merely the exposition, you still have 4 more acts to go till you have a tragedy.
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Get a pet.
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Other great /lit/ lectures on youtube?
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE33BCD966FF96F23
Yale also has the 2 bible courses.
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>>9726829
>Woman
>Great /lit/ lectures
Pick one.
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>>9726829
if i remember correctly, she wrote some retarded shit online about how she doesnt read DFW because his popularity is offensive to women, or something retarded like that. Good course though, watched every video and read her DeLillo essay on Mass. Good stuff
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>>9726832
OMG SO FUNNY
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Was Odysseus a "Mary Sue"?
Are stories with them inherently worse?
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>>9726741
>Was Odysseus a "Mary Sue"?
No because he has clear flaws which are convincingly atoned for by the end.
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>>9726751
Such as? As far as I see it these "flaws" never hinder him down, they mostly affect the people around him but not him
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>>9726764
psychological anguish (for a few seconds)
he was punished!
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Leave this board and never return if any of these apply to you:
>you read any form of genre fiction
>you barely know your classics
>you tend to believe that if you like a given work, it is justified on an artistic level
>you think everyone's opinion should be accepted and respected
>you speak a single language
>you read contemporary versions of Shakespeare or Milton
>you read for the plot
>you read for entertainment
>you rarely read nonfiction
>you don't have a solid grounding in philosophy
>you don't have at least have some understanding of the Three Tragedians and Homer
>you have little to no understanding of literature outside of your cultural horizon
>you have little to no understanding of literature within your own cultural horizon
>you mostly read contemporary literature
>you believe 'the author is dead'
>you make your literary analysis proceed from ideology
>you think intricate prose is 'pretentious' and that the author 'should just get to the point'
>your rarely read poetry
>you think Rhythm and Rhyme is just useless rules and laws restricting creativity
>you have a hard time explaining why you like a given work
>you have a hard time forming structured and relevant literary criticism
>you tend to refuse to judge works for yourself, rather relying on the opinions of literary authorities
>you rarely read for more than one or two hours straight
What patrician book are you reading anon?
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todd mays shit on deleuze - seems like the rest of the board is reading this deleuze nigga too - i was doing it before it was cool though
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Kuhn, Thomas S.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"patrician" posturing is completely tasteless. you have no actual aesthetic sensibility.
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>it's the P/V translation
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>he's jumping on the P&V hate bandwagon
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>>9726551
This
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>>9726503
>they still propagate this meme
For the colouring group at the back of class I ask again say it with me, I will not read or complain about what I don't like
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Dump your /lit/ memes
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>>9726255
I like this book.
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Non meme answers
Is this book worth my time?
Will I gain anything worthwile from it?
Will I remeber it fondly or as a waste of time?
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>>9726262
yes its gigacomfy
yes you will know too much about tennis, quebec, separatism, and drug rehabilitation programs
you will remember it fondly and reread it once every couple of years
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Since Dick(tease) didn't care to elaborate any further than "its a German thing lolol" can anyone explain what the significance of this is?
>Hamlet wasn't written by Shakespeare, it was merely written by a man whose name was Shakespeare.
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This is the first time i'm hearing about this Dick fellow but he sounds utterly retarded
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>>9726192
That the Artist is not, ontologically, a being on its own. Its merely the value, found through reduction from the Art, that you assign to the individual responsible for creating the Art.
The obsession with truly becoming the persona assigned to them by their audience really has an effect on many artists, especially the performance arts. See Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams and Michael Jackson (and, arguably, Ernest Hemingway)
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I think he's suggesting Marlowe was Shakespeare
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Do you guys think the ending of the Castle, I.E. that mid-sentence cutoff, adds to the book or is a detriment? I feel that the ending is perfect in the way it suggests the neverendingness of K.'s struggle. Thoughts?
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It was unfinished and retards like you look for deeper meaning.
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>>9726155
Nigga were just saying that its a perfectly good book even in its unfinished state. Its a testament to Kafka's extreme talent that an unfinished book of his can still have meaning.
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>>9726166
retard
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>>9726111
Howdy, Cliff.
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>>9726111
Just tell me the basic points and let me judge those before I give you a click.
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>>9726115
This shite not that I'm going to listen to anything this pseud prat has to say about anything
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When you come to the realisation that your inability to write great literature is not for lack of talent, it is because language is simply unable to fully convey the complex profound thoughts and ideas you have within your mind and that it will never be advanced enough to allow people to access your ideas in the written form.
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>>9725969
>to fully convey the complex profound thoughts and ideas you have within your mind and that it will never be advanced enough to allow people to access your ideas in the written form.
Some people manage to reveal more through their craft and lexicon, that's what talent is. Don't rationalize your mediocrity.
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>>9725969
Lmfao literally your entire existence is just a language. Every single one of those complex thoughts has the full capability of being transcribed by you, you just lack the intelligence to be able to do so adequately.
Probably because you blame the inability of your entire existence based on a 'flaw' you found within it. In coding, that's a called a bug. And the script sure as fuck didn't write itself.
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So just make up the words you need you fucking pleb, where do you think they come from?
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It took him SIXTY years to write it. What have you done instead, lit?
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Try to drag it out in to a third book so my son could posthumously publish a disappointing conclusion cobbled together from my illegible handwritten notes.
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I got laid lol
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I'm still alive, so I do have something on ol Goethe
>they still haven't learned Serbian to read of the world's greatest poets
smdh (shake my damn head)
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Yeah I got nothing, at least with the Czech you can reply with dubs memes
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>>9725908
ovo ti nije trebalo
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Hi /lit/
Do you recommend this piece of literature? Hype me up.
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No idea what that is. Any info OP?
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>>9725812
>Do you recommend this piece of literature?
Ask /sffg/.
They highly recommend it.
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no
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I wrote a long prose poem in German. People told me they enjoyed what I wrote so I'll just leave it here. Criticism would be appreciated.
https://pastebin.com/yXda5ube
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>Criticism would be appreciated.
Ok. You're either an idiot or a narcissist, post it in the critique thread because you don't deserve one of your own.
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>>9725660
It's in German, nobody ever gets feedback in /crit/ because nobody can read that shit nigga.
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>>9725664
Well it is in German.
I can not read German.
But, I like the feel of the word Rosenblättern.
Makes me want to buy hair pomade.
Hope I could have helped.