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there are multiple books titled imperium you dip

if it's kapuscinski it's worth reading

>>9613315
No, it's Yockey's.

not a meme but i'd read spengler first

i am writing right now

>>9613229
Why don't you start, bozo. This is a useless thread unless you give something to talk about. Why do you think he's so good at writing about love? Russian literature is a huge topic.

>>9613229
What of his is essential next to torrents of spring and fathers & sons?

>>9613262
Fine then. I just think that Turgenev's characters are very well written and loaded with shit. He writes female characters who have some damn attractive yet dangerous personalities and expresses the narrator's feelings in some fantastic prose. Then again, I am reading a translation so I'm sure the original is even better.
>>9613285
Have you read First Love yet? Highly recommend that one.

>>9613181
Read Wikipedia articles.

>>9613170
yes

>>9613170
read the book if you want to. But some helpful things would be the greeks, bible, restoration lit, russian giants, turn of the century brit lit, german romanticism, modern poetry especially eliot, and various mythological texts. Pretty much what you'd expect from any high modernist text: everything. But I recommend you just read whatever you like. Read some secondary literature on the recognitions so you can situate without slogging through the entire canon just to read this one book

you should also use the Gaddis annotations website for historical stuff/translations etc

>>9613136
Let me give you my font history:
First I used »Segue UI« for at least 3 years, the I switched to »Verdana« and kept that for 2 years. Less than a week ago I dropped »Verdana« for the in my opinion currently best font »Liberation Mono«. Monotype fonts are generally easy to read.

One of the tests is employ is the »rn-m« (left is r and n, right is m) difference. The font, which lets you distinguish between these two will have good readability in general. Use the word "learnmusic" in your tests.
While you can look at fonts seperately, there are other important elements which provide good readability for running text:
(1) line distance: 1.5 is perfect
(2) text width: I find ~10 cm to be perfect.

What happened to good old 12pt TNR? Don't be a hipster faggot, OP.

I'm a fan of Alef personally, but why on earth would you want a sans-serif font at all?

I think they're ignoring you because you can't write a coherent sentence.

they're mostly just thinking about lunch and their plans for the weekend. your writing is just another thing on a pile and they're forgetting it faster than they can read it.

Frank Delaney's re:Joyce is a sentence by sentence analysis of Ulysses. It could be dry and boring, but Frank is very fun and knowledgeable. And he's Irish. He died though, so it only goes up to the middle of Chapter 10. Still there's over 300 episodes and they're very in depth.

>>9613011
Know any other ones more broad?

>>9612993
Near Eastern Mythology by John Gray might be of interest to you

>>9613149

thanks a lot, I will look into it

>When the humans were the Martians

>>9612887
>and then he asphixiated on the preassureless atmosphere and choked on red dust with sun hidden behind the crimson miasma that hid the earth as well and destroyed their instruments and made growing crops impossible which was his last thoughts as his throat was lacerated and the fake heat of death consumed him, or so the Martian chronicled.

>>9612887
How did the aliens from "The Earth Men" adopt an humanoid form and created a comfy 20's village in "The Third Expedition"? They seem like different kinds to me.

Currently writing one.

'Salem's Lot is one of King's few books I wouldn't regard as absolute trash, though not to say it's interesting either.

The Strain is a decent trilogy. I simply wish Del Toro was the sole author.

honestly the early Anne Rice novels aren't terrible

>>9613997
I think the first three are incredibly solid. I haven't read the latest two, but I know everything after Queen of the Damned varies. Blood Canticle is fucking garbage though.

tism

>>9612771
Qur'an. /thread/