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>Physical strength is the most important thing in life.

>>10018968
See the screaming come across the sky, in your voice, American, the one that killed me today, or maybe yesterday; I don't remember - anyway, I think I’ll take a bouquet of roses to my grave, a grave of a nicencs little boy, happy like all nicens boys are happy, to finish the cage wherein the lion resides, signyfying nothing.

>>10019056
Nice

He's a pedo
He's optimist
He's mary sue

>>10018942
I said great as in good.

He's an immortal manatee hunter from outer space

>>10018900
No

De Man is a clown. Avoid him. In fact, I'd put a lot of the blame on him for turning deconstruction into an American liberal circlejerk

>>10018911
I understand in the broad sense deconstruction is concerned with more general issues, but I mean strictly in relation to interpretation of literature.

Also I've heard the idea that the American interpretations of it are shitty, why do you hold that opinion?

>>10018911
Also if you've read that text by de Man, is that not what he's saying to some degree? That a non-rhetorical reading of the Yeats poem can contradict the assumed meaning of the poem if you suspend the natural assumption that it's rhetorical?

>>10018729

Maps of Meaning : The Architecture of Belief

pynchon
dfw
mcelroy
gaddis
gass

t. /lit/

>>10018729
The internet is the only book that can be read now. All else is disconnection and nostalgia. It will be difficult to understand how to read it, but once you understand how the internet is a book, what happpens to your ability to critique a work that can never be completed is both devastating and blissful. Containment, even inter-textual readings, become impossible. No juxtapositions, only [(1:1)(x)] - (i) = total

No books exist that aren't additions to the text of the internet.

You're welcome.

i don't like murder mysteries

The problem with murder mysteries is that the killer is always the last person you would think it would be. Therefore, paradoxically, the killer is obvious within the first few chapters.

I like being able to figure out who the killer/thief/culprit is without having to be told flat out on the last page that it was this guy
I like a little less when the cuplrit is mentioned early in the story, or the motive is glanced over, and always very briefly, or hints at dealings that are larger than either the victim or the detective themselves.

>>10018364
Literally who outside of glorious mustache meme man?

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>>10018364
>marx

>>10018364
Any of the greeks would singlehandly literally rip their asses
Marx was a fat pig rich boi
Nietzsche, as much as I love him, was a proto-numale mess
Freud was just weak in every way

>Plateau
>writes about caves

>Plato
>Socrates

>>10018332
>Dani California
>Born in Mississipi

Now you can read TV Tropes - The Novel and get nothing out of it!

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comeone decipher pls
maybe it was yours lel
it's used book desu

To Mork,

Happy Durthaag. Oa! 96.

Jove

Oiiii a Tree

>>10018208
>ever reading poetry in translation
It's like listening to an acoustic cover of a Kraftwerk tune

Spanish is superior
>>10018306
Lmao

>>10018208
Thanks for reminding me to read Rilek's collected poems. Very nice.

Poetry

It's scary how brainwashed Americans are. People who have no interests in politics or economics are so convinced that they understand everything about socialism, communism and capitalism and that commies are around every corner.
No other country does this, everyone else thinks about the cons and pros of these things and will try to get the best result or simply doesn't talk about it if he doesn't care about it but for Americans it's a religion that they fiercely defend no matter what, the word alone is holy.

Please tell me how I can improve in my rants about Americans. I really dislike them and I want them to feel bad when they read what I write.

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>>10018062
>pic
I'm pretty damn right-wing, but I can't stand this dull, unthinking conservative boomer-posting

it's great, super enjoyable and addictive. dive in.

I've read it when I was like 14, but as I remember, it was a book with some great concepts but with some really stupid choices and in dire need of an editor.

But if you like Stephen King, I think you gonna enjoy this. Just learn to skim read the parts you feel were written under a cocaine binge though.

It's ok. It's decent fiction that you can read for fun, don't look for too much else though.

The Stand is better, if you really want to read something by King.

>>10018033
GRRM is the typical example of a brainlet who tries to make himself sound smart by judging what he doesn't understand.
>Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles?
That's literally what Aragorn did. I bet he hasn't even read LOTR.

>>10018064
Based Aragorn. That's the only way to deal with an enemy population without it backfiring.

>>10018068
Yeah it might seem cruel out of context, but orcs are Morgoth's creatures. They are a twisted imitation of life that can't be compared with men. But of course GRRM doesn't actually know this.

>>10017988
Those feet bothered me subconsciously since this meme started, but just now have I realized how wrong and inappropriate they are on a frog.

Hobbe's Leviathan

>klemperer

good choice anon

I love this symphony. Maybe Four Quartets. If Eliot had written a real epic it would be that.

>>10017936
four quartets are related to beethoven's late string quartets (but obviously not limited to them)

>>10017748
They're brilliant, he basically single handedly killed the novel

they capture a certain revulsion with corporeality that i appreciate

>>10017748
You can start by reading Molloy and then take a break. It's not as heavy as the other two get, and you don't have to read them in a row.