What the FUCK is his problem?
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Didn't know Harold wrote when he was younger.
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>>9462517
he had a stroke, that's his problem.
and he sits there barely able to move knowing that at any moment one of us could break in, push him off his chair and grab the box where he keeps all of the stories that were going to be in "The Last Dangerous Visions". the stories he's been promising to publish since 1973. where more than half of the original authors have died of old age, waiting.
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Harlan Ellison's Watching is so good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsbiB_4AEqI&index=6&list=PLn5mSh00tKGGwiZ0CsZvWAzA0M2xQn8jA
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Tell me /lit/, is he a better essayist than novelist?
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>>9462484
No not at all, he's really all over the place. He's that unaware lazy type of English intellectual who doesn't bother developing accountable structures of thoughts but rather says whatever he is impulsively drawn towards at any present moment despite how it may be in direct contradiction to something he said only recently. All the while with a phoney air of erudition.
He was a journalist and boy does it show
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It's not actually a contest, and you're not actually engaging with the texts.
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>>9462499
Are you a journalist? Your post embodies all you've written.
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So I just bought pic related.
I already know the very basics of Aristotelianism, but I really wanna dive into his thought.
Any advices?
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>>9462438
Just read Aquinas instead.
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Where's that lit's guide for philosophy?
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>>9462477
fuck offffffffffffffffff
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what are his best works
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my diarrhea?
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The Tranny Granny Years?
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Double Barrel Cone-Shaped STD Titty Garment?
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I started writing this poem (it's not finished yet). What do you think of what I have so far?
There’s a place
Where mouths sputter crazy into the inkwell night
Where hollow headed soldiers march endlessly to and from and to and from the corner store waiting to be lifted from the slough
Where, instead of sitting patiently, the young and savage plunge themselves into revelations of twilight and morning and walk through forests ‘round leaves scattered like puzzle pieces cut from some immaculate cloth
Where lungs and hearts and minds connect and weep and laugh
Where coffee spoons clack against cups and pipes shout smoke into the street’s high tide filled with broken glass
Where women whisper of trips to Belgium and France
Where battles on the windowpane of my eyes reflect still unbroken daylight climbing through the clouds like a hooded whisper
Where “don’t leave just yet” is echoed by horns and timpani through lips of lovers, stretching out an unclenched hand
Where, coming in blasts of recognition, screams of joy topple castles of sand into the midnight sea
Where Third Avenue meets the door of good night and so long and sleep well and send my regards to your sister I hope she’s doing better if she’s not doing better at least tell her that she’s on my mind I worry about her you know I worry
Where hotel lobbies, empty in the sunrise, stretch their arms and ready themselves for the skeleton racetrack
Where protruding eyes leap from windows, drawing arcs across the parking lot to orphans loitering in the gutter, rivers of beer running swiftly between their long sighing shadows
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Shit. No flow, no rhythm, gimmicky repetition, vague imagery, uninteresting content.
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You're a retard for not putting it in the crit thread.
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Have any of you read any good books on the principle of evil and good,angelic and demonic.
I am looking for a book exploring the duality of these two,so i kindly request some reccomandations.
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>>9462348
>What is nearly every book on religion and morality ever.
Gonna have to be a bit more specific, bro.
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>>9462348
Beyond Good and Evil by Neech
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>>9462358
i am trying to understand the concepts thoroughly,and i dont know what book explores that indepth./lit/ noob here,my speech isnt too good,expresing myself is harder than i thought
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I've got a final tomorrow in World Lit to 1660. Not sure if this is allowed here but can y'all help a guy out? Here are two essay questions that I picked to write: #1. The works we have recently studied are often described as "early modern" literature. What do you think this means? Which works seem particularly modern to you and why? #2. Answer the question- Why study literature (or why not)? Here are the works I was supposed to read: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer; Sonnet 3,189,333 by Francis Petrarch; Book of the City of Ladies by Christine De Pizan; The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus; Letter to Francesco Vettori and The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli; The book of the Courtier by Baldesar Castiglione; Heptameron by Marguerite of Navarre; Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais; Essays of Cannibals and on Inconsistency of Actions by Michel De Montaigne; Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes; Hamlet by William Shakespeare; and Paradise Lost by John Milton. If you can help me write these or give me ideas on how to write these I will be greatly appreciative. Thanks
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>>9462209
We study literature because it lets us understand how other people think and feel, especially the people of the past, and exposes us to ideas we otherwise would have no knowledge of. You should be able to spin something from that tailored to whichever authors you want to focus on.
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>>9462216
Alright alright, I dig that. Thanks. Keep the replies coming guys, really need to pass this final haha
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>>9462209
Gotchu senpai. Putting it in as a spoiler image so no teachers can reverse search it.
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how the fuck am I supposed to understand this obscurantist prick? I can't fucking parse anything he's saying together.
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Start with the Greeks
you've been memed
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I picked up one of his books and it doesn't even seem to be in English!
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It came highly recommended yet I found it to be loose and derivative!
Some asshole
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Could anybody recommend any books with a surreal dreamlike tone to it? Or any books about the authors dreams?
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>>9462187
Lovecraft. Specifically, Polaris, Nyarlathotep, The Doom That Came to Sarnath, and some others I can't recall at the moment.
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>>9462208
If I remember correctly those stories are part of his Dream Cycle series. I've been wanting to read those for a long time now.
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>>9462248
Yeah. I haven't read the entire cycle, but I recall particularly enjoying Polaris. They all have the idea that there's some other realm that can be accessed through dreams. And in Polaris at least, he ends up wondering which life is truly the dream.
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What are some good entry level philosophical books?
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>>9462182
Pick a philosopher you slightly know about you find interesting and read the most famous work by them. From there you will obviously notice that writer building upon many other philosophers from the past and just read the connected works.
But if you're an autist with all the time in the world. Start with the pre-greek philosophers and go in chronological order.
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>>9462182
Peter Singer books on ethics.
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>>9462188
>Start with the pre-greek philosophers
what could this mean?
OP, start with the greeks
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Should I get it?
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Do you want to read it?
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>>9462148
Yes
I just dont know if that edition is any good
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It takes like three days to learn French, don't read those.
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What sort of books should a guy who wants to value life for the first time since he was a child read?
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>>9462124
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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start with the greeks
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>>9462124
Songs of Innocence. In general Blake is one of the most life-affirming poets out there.
>I have no name
>I am but two days old.—
>What shall I call thee?
>I happy am
>Joy is my name,—
>Sweet joy befall thee!
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>Main character is author's self-insert.
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>>9462109
>Not inserting yourself into your books
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>tfw all characters are self inserts
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>>9462109
I'd like to self-insert myself into your boipussy
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Well, /lit/? What's your favorite book?
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Tinder is for perverts, don't you know /lit/ is a Catholic board? Trash this, start the thread over.
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Honestly the great Gatsby is one of my faves too
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meh I guess Gatsby is ok. I mean he's not as great as your tits ;)
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I am very interested in the works of Leo Tolstoy and how his life affected his fiction writings. I have searched for documents or other such things, but am having trouble finding any. Do any of you have anything that might be of use? Also, I would prefer scholarly texts. Thank you.
Oh, and Russian literature thread.
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How much Tolstoy have you read?
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I still need to read war and peace.
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>>9462023
I have read over half of War and Peace and some of his essays and other non fiction