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what's up with the afro

I really don't fucking care.

>>9691570
I'm laughing unreasonably hard at this

pony

hand

>>9691079
dude

Elon is a genre fiction fan. He doesn't read faggy books about boring sad rich people and use big words to seem smart. He sees through the pseudo intellectualism surrounding literature

>>9691089
8elons dick=D Oyourmouth

I don't even know what genre fiction is, or maybe I don't understand the parameters. Is that like when someone writes, say, spiderman stories to glean shekels off the hardcore spiderman audience that will consume anything spiderman related?

>fan-fic is not allowed.

>>9690997
It isn't fanfic. It's Tolkiens own unfinished works.

>>9690977
They succeeded. He said so himself.

It really is great. I'm reading it in the original Greek now. It's even better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOvVWiDsPWQ&

>>9690875
Out of the two most famous ancient superhero stories, I prefer this one.

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>>9690875
Recently read the Iliad (english, shortened version of I. A. Richards, bretty gud) after being an avid fan of the Odyssey for a long time (read it first in icelandic, superb translation by Sveinbjörn Egilsson), and although the Iliad is good, the Odyssey is just so much better. I agree with you, the interactions of the gods in the Iliad with the amazing descriptions of battles between the heroes just fades in comparison to the journey in the Odyssey.

>playing a male gigolo for some witch
>hustin' for supplies from a young princess in some city state
>outwitting and blinding the cyclops
>random trip to hell (Hades)
>listening to the sirens, the absolute madman!
>overwhelmingly defeating some (elite) kids in sports
>that epic home-coming scene where he kills everyone with his son

Truly a masterpiece of literature.

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Makes you think.

>>9690832
>He wrote this thinking he'd come across as intelligent
Jesus fucking christ

>>9691289
this is what happens when we force brainlets to read Nietzsche in philosophy courses.

The Tenant by Roland Topor
anything by Robert Aickman
anything by Thomas Ligotti
some things by Simon Strantzas, Laird Barron and Brendan Connell
My Diary by Desu

>>9690817
Junji Ito is distressing on a visceral, primal level. Although, his work is portrayed with images, a method conducive to this end.

Got a few real great recommendations for you.

The Melancholy of Resistance (and other early Krasznahorkai works I figure)
Deeply unnerving, senseless violance, bleakest ending.

Anything by Georg Klein, especially the early works: Anrufung des blinden Fisches, Barbar Rosa...
(apparently none of his books have seen English translations, sadly)

Kubin: The Other Side
Relatively tame book, but the atmosphere is great. Like an intense nightmare of the kind where you're not so much scared of something as just experiencing dreadful things.

2666
This book is well known for its consistently unnerving atmosphere, and The Part about the Crimes is relatively disgusting as well I suppose, as it is nothing but a succession of crimes in which women have been raped, tortured and murdered.

Naked Lunch
Well it's junk aesthetics. I believe it has lots of insects and body fluids.


"Taipei" by Tao Lin is also pretty disgusting desu. :^

>>9690815
fuck off

>>9690815
>Kino

wot

>>9690836
This your first day on 4chan kid?

I could go for some subway right now

>>9690785
it's not 100% clear there are different theological/literary interpretations

some say Lucifer was his name before he fell
some say he is just a fallen angel but in the end god is allmighty and supreme
some say he almost as powerful as god and that they are in a constant sturggle so to say (dualistic notion)
some say his only power is in hell where he tortures the sinners

but I like your idea of associating the name "Lucifer" with intellectual discovery, if you go with a miltonic interpretation (that the snake was indeed Satan) it's certainly an interesting thought (it's the tree of knowledge after all)

but, yea, the bible doesn't really give closure here so there is no 100% "right" or "wrong" answer

>>9691207
does the Bible have a pantheon of angels? of Demons?

is the Bible unambiguous about Hell?

>>9690677

this would've been a better bait post if you didn't ham it up too much.

>>9690677
I agreed with you until you reached your conclusion, which is unrelated to your other claims. The cream of the intellectual crop necessarily spend their time on books.

>>9690677

I only dislike the ones so pretentious that they read without crystalizing it and treat it as a status requirement, looking at you /pol/.

The ones that recommend classics are the same as the people that recommend their favourite movies, i dont have a problem with that.

Huxley's Doors of Perception, and Jung's Red and Black books my man

Apart from the Doors of Perception or Baudelaire's Artificial Paradises, I don't see how a psychedelic experience could be transcribed well enough to not be boring on paper. The ending of Steppenwolf (Hesse) is pretty schizophrenic, Cortazar wrote some "surrealistic" short stories, and Camus's The Fall has some first-person realizations about "how the self works in relation to the world" which, I guess, are sometimes part of psychedelic experiences. I don't know senpai, drugs are boring in literature, only the thought processes are interesting.

>>9690662
Thanks my man. Should I read some Jung before starting the Red or Black books? I started his Archetypes but never finished it.

>>9690384

Read the Wheel of Time

Write fan fiction and post it here.

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>>9690384
Read DFW

name three books this happens in

>>9690324
Flow My Tears The Policeman Said
Now Wait for Last Year
Counterclock World

>plot

why did you insist on creating this thread?

>>9690188
Because i felt like doing so

What's the difference between deliberating the existence of God and deliberating the existence of true necessity? Why do people enjoy discussing theology but not metaphysics?

>>9690143
>What do you like about /lit/
no social pressure to agree or tolerate
>What do you dislike about it (and how could it potentially be fixed)
sexism (both Ironic and sincere are the same)
-fix this by engaging with everyone sincerely regardless of their position. read female authors
fear of contemporary works
-engage with contemporary authors more often
>Why are you on /lit/?
I enjoy asking for works with certain genetics and seeing what the autistic google can provide (same thing as /mu/)

>>9690143
>>What do you like about /lit/
teaching kids about poetry
>>What do you dislike about it (and how could it potentially be fixed)
kids are stupid and think they know everything. there is no fixing it, only time will allow them to grow out of it
>>Why are you on /lit/?
i'm bored and waiting for my caramel popcorn to finish baking

>What do you like about /lit/
It's a place where I can talk to people about books without the veneer of celebrity or mainline opinions. I am exposed to literature that's outside my usual interests and it promotes more philosophy than I experience in class.
>What do you dislike about it
Shitting on translations when none of you fags can really tell the difference, recommend the first translation you read, or parroting what's been meme'd on this board. Other than that I'd say disregarding or devaluating books you were assigned in high school because they're commonly read. They're still good books and have value. Both these and other problems essentially come down to hivemind culture and people unironically taking memes seriously.
>Why are you on /lit/
I'm a NEET who reads books.