What does /lit/ think about this book?
Better than Russell's history and the pages are colorful and glossy. You could do worse.
Why not just read primary sources man? The whole point of reading is that it's difficult enough so that you grow somehow by struggling to understand; it's not worth it otherwise.
>>9675074
there are some great anthologies of primary source philosophy. You'd do better to start with those.
Rank Joyce's works
in chronological order
>>9674104
Ulysses > Dubliners >>> the fart fetish letter
Those are the only ones I read desu.
fart fetish letter >>>>> finnegans wake > ulysses > portrait > dubliners > chamber music
>he's FAT. GET IT? HAHAHHAHHAHAHAAHHA
>>9674013
Seems like you didn't get it.
>>9674015
Sixty pages in. This is the impression I'm getting so far.
The character hits too close to home
How does one become well spoken?
I wanna be able to conversate like I'm writing an essay but not in a psuedo-intellectual way.
>>9673780
The answer to your question is painfully obvious.
Step one.) Read a lot
Step two.) Talk a lot (to actual people)
>>9673780
Learn to write and it'll come easy.
>>9673802
I know how to write, I just can't come up with what I want to say on the dime. I need time.
Has anyone ever reached out to an author, philosopher, intellectual personality, etc. through mail/e-mail and got a response?
Fan-mail, questions, etc., how did it work out? Autographs? Personal messages? Interested in your stories.
>>9672399
simon critchley's secretary told me to not contact him with personal queries.
his email address is, apparently, to organise talks, publications and so on
I sent Gene Wolfe fan mail circa 2000 and it developed into a lovely friendship. He helped me get my first short story published, sent me advance copies of his books at times. The greatest of all time in lots of ways.
>>9672399
i have never not gotten a response from a retired faculty member at any institution ive ever attended
p.s. they're goldmines and usually willing to give you any info you want + meet with you if they're around
Daily reminder
coool
>>9672152
nexus is a gay ass word bitch
>>9673981
have you a better word?
Best Hp Lovecraft story
The Horrid Tentacle That Impregnated My Butt
spooky mice in the spooky walls
or maybe the spooky boat and the spooky islets
>>9671806
what are you 5?
Write what's on your mind
My female friend told me she has a crush on me. I was annoyed, angry even, as I'm not attracted to her. I was supposed to look after her pets for a couple of weeks but instead started a bender and didn't even bother to let her know. Persuade me to apologize.
p.s. she told about the crush just before the pet thing so i felt a touch of manipulation, what d'ya think?
>>9671403
Beat the fuck out of her.
I think i'm gonna give up on writing. My poetry feels stagnant and has for a while now.
Do you guys annotate your books when reading them? My English teacher back in high school was an advocate of always annotating when you read, but it seems so tedious and time-consuming, and if I am going to soil my books, I want to do so with neat handwriting, so it forces me to read at a desk instead of in bed or on a comfy chair.
But I am starting to read literature again after a long time (pic related), and I fear that I am too pleb to get away with not annotating and by not doing so I'll miss a lot; I know when reading non-fiction academic journals, I absolutely need to annotate as I read.
So far I am writing definitions of all the words I don't know (which takes up a significant amount of real estate) and underlining phrases I think are really beautiful (also a lot, but takes up less space).
What/how do you guys annotate, including your set up (at a desk, in the grass, pen + highlighter, the underline function in an ebook reader, etc.)?
>>9669567
I do with non-fiction and poetry. The only novels I annotate are those I've read many, many times and want to formally study in order to improve my own writing.
>>9669567
Since English is not my first language I annotate most of the words I am not that familiar with, even the ones that are pretty evident. Then I write the meanings and the pronunciation. Feels good.
>>9669586
Btw, I don´t do this in the book itself but in some other papers I save specially for this.
Who is this guy? And what can you tell me about him?
>>9669351
oh nothing just an anime character
>>9669357
there has to be more to this man...
The caption in that image reminds me of myself.
look there's more.
State why and give an example if possible.
Plato.
Hemingway.
1. Verisimilitude.
2. Subtle word play.
3. No bullshit.
4. Uses line breaks/formatting to distort time.
Ex: Hills Like White Elephants.
>>9669090
Salinger, no doubt about it
Not gonna dig for examples, sorry
what do you think of Sashas book series the juliette society? who's the biggest pseud her, ontologicool or James Franco?
>>9666410
All three are cool with me.
>>9666410
This is a whore.
Never in the past would anybody have even listened to even less care what such a woman has to say.
You are pathetic if you take any interst at all in what such a woman thinks.
>>9666444
Wow. You don't seem stuck up at all.
Why don't you go back in the past, where everything was so fine and dandy?
What the fuck was his problem?
>>9663212
Numales
His greatness was in part a function of his being closeted but I wouldn't call that a "problem."
>>9663212
He was a gay manlet who compensated his inadequacy by becoming swole, he idolized and worshipped death, gore, and conflict even while lying to the recruiters that he had Pneumonia during ww2.
I'll start:
What am I suppsoed to take away from T.S. Eliot: The Wasteland.
Did I really read Lolita if I didn't understand any of the french
>>9663124
If you have to ask then the Waste Land isn't meant for you
>>9663154
How are oyu supposed to comprehend the poem unless you have something telling you explaining every aspect like this
http://genius.it/5735680/www.bartleby.com/201/1.html
the various languages should be hard enough but then it is so random and arbitrary at times it is near impossible to follow.
How then am I not the "right" person to understand "the Waste Land?
>>9663124
At certain points maybe it would have added a bit but no. The german in the novel also isn't too important.
Critque each other's poems
you can start with a fresh one by me (i will try to return the favor to whoever)
Persophone
Tyrian robes hang wet with dye
and reek with wealth. The soaked
color like the thin band of sunset
striping the ocean; the clouds
smooth by patrician hand
but first Phoenician wind.
Surely this dress will belong
to the pomegranate-heart.
Who else could wrap
herself in the fires of hell
and the deep waters
they oppose so vigorously?
The one point left without neglect of my own mistake will hold the contempt for awhile, now. Now while form tempting the old will makes me often neglected, outed, left pointed once again.
>>9657987
It's decent but some linebreaks are clunky, especially the last four which I think is structurally the worst part of the poem. What you're attempting there is nice, but the language is uninspired and circumlocutionary. Oppose and vigorously aren't strong enough words to end a poem.
jingle bells
batman smells