This book is the Adaptation (the Charlie Kaufman film) of celebrity memoir.
It turns the memoir into a comic novel (in the pre-20th century sense). Norm and Adam's relationship dynamic is modelled after the classic one of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, which is also used in “Tom Jones” in the characters of Jones and Partridge, and in “Tristram Shandy” as well, in the characters of Uncle Toby and Corporal Trim
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>>9413574
What did he mean by this?
>>9413628
He meant that the OP, even if it points out something that does relate to the book, offers too little to actually spark a discussion.
There's nothing wrong with utilitarianism.
>he thinks the truth of moral good or bad can be built upon popular concensus
Tip top lel
So utilitarianism is right? What makes something right?
>>9414037
Le faith memedoer.
What does /lit/ write with?
>>9413449
A keyboard
with my brain i think
fountain pen
>voice of a generation
and a true artist unlike you angsto-narcistic faggots!
>>9413446
What were you hoping to accomplish in this thread?
>>9413452
the temporary subsiding of my unbearable loneliness through the means of (You)s and a slight chuckle to myself
>>9413460
>Dat dank post-irony
I was browsing a thrift store yesterday and I saw like twenty different Tarzan books. I didn't know the series ran for so long. Are they worth reading?
The first one has some historical merit
The rest are garbage
Philip Jose Farmer wrote some hilarious pastiches of it
Looks badass. Are they fun reads?
They're mostly shit after the first one. The plots become ridiculous, unbelievable garbage. However, they are fun to read as cheap entertainment.
t. someone who has read most of them.
Anyone french could translate this easter card we got? I would do it myself but i cant read some of words. What is "paquals"? "peu (?) vous beacoup de Boues (?) choses pour ses fetes paquals"???
>>9413289
Lol I went to french immersion in elementary school and right off the bat I can tell you that paquals means "of easter", so "easter holiday". And it's not boues lol its bisous (kisses). And it's not peu it's pour "for".
>>9413297
Oh oops the Boues was actually bonnes "good"
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/
Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.
>You were going to get one-click access to the full text of nearly every book that’s ever been published. Books still in print you’d have to pay for, but everything else—a collection slated to grow larger than the holdings at the Library of Congress, Harvard, the University of Michigan, at any of the great national libraries of Europe—would have been available for free at terminals that were going to be placed in every local library that wanted one.
>At the terminal you were going to be able to search tens of millions of books and read every page of any book you found. You’d be able to highlight passages and make annotations and share them; for the first time, you’d be able to pinpoint an idea somewhere inside the vastness of the printed record, and send somebody straight to it with a link. Books would become as instantly available, searchable, copy-pasteable—as alive in the digital world—as web pages.
>It was to be the realization of a long-held dream. “The universal library has been talked about for millennia,” Richard Ovenden, the head of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries, has said. “It was possible to think in the Renaissance that you might be able to amass the whole of published knowledge in a single room or a single institution.” In the spring of 2011, it seemed we’d amassed it in a terminal small enough to fit on a desk.
>“This is a watershed event and can serve as a catalyst for the reinvention of education, research, and intellectual life,” one eager observer wrote at the time.
>On March 22 of that year, however, the legal agreement that would have unlocked a century’s worth of books and peppered the country with access terminals to a universal library was rejected under Rule 23(e)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Really makes you think
>>9413284
>the elites are afraid of giving people unresticted access to books
Next you'll tell me that the sky is blue
>>9413284
Whatever, people already have access to more information than they can ever hope to consume in a lifetime these days, not to mention you can already get more books than you'll ever read online easily anyway. Releasing another 25 million books for free online would do nothing but increase the already paralysing amount of information available online that people won't read anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imsGbtuUrWY
God you cunts are annoying
>You will not post or request personal information ("dox") or calls to invasion ("raids"). Inciting or participating in cross-board (intra-4chan) raids is also not permitted.
>or calls to invasion ("raids").
kys op
Why is he so often ignored and underrated in the canon of literary modernism? He's much much better than Pound and Eliot.
he is? why do you say that? I find a lot of love for him, especially among the New York School.
>>9413173
> so much depends
> upon
> a hack
> pretending to sound
> sophisticated
> in the century of
> postmodernism
Is Methylphenidate the most /lit/ drug?
>>9413149
opium
Too restless
>>9413149
it is if you have add/adhd
although, i dont like taking my meds if i plan on reading- i get too many ideas from the text, usually
Anyone else here /literarygenius/?
This is not ironic, or a shitpost. I once made my attractive female English professor break down into tears with my genius. It was like the scene in Good Will Hunting where the math professor breaks down after Will easily solves the math problems he was given, saying "there are some days where I wish you didn't exist." She thought it was probably the best thing that she had ever read from the last 20 or so years. Yes, we did have sex eventually. I write the greatest work out there today. You pathetic posers will probably try to project onto me and deny it, but it's true, and I don't need to prove it to a bunch of sad anime-watching, hentai-jerking retards on the internet, so no, I will not post my work. No, I'm not scared or doubtful of my work, I just don't want my name to be ever associated with this sad little website. I have read most of the Western Canon, am fluent in 6 languages (Russian, Mandarin, Latin, Greek, Spanish, and of course, English), and my poetry and prose are both at the level of Joyce. A different professor of mine once said that if I do not go down in literary history, then literary history has failed us. I once met with Bloom in person, where we had a deep and detailed conversation about Faulkner, and he told me that I was "incredibly competent and wise young man." My philosophy professor praised my work in philosophy, but as my true strength remains in art, also told me that a poem of mine "has the emotional depth of Coleridge and the precise linguistic mastery of Yeats." Upon graduating college, I will publish my masterpiece which will undoubtedly shock the literary world. It is profoundly imaginative, reaches a level of linguistic perfection on the level of Flaubert, and effortlessly dismantles the superficiality and degeneration of modern culture with a violent and powerful personal confession, reaching beyond the modern age to something much greater. I am tall (6'2") and strikingly good looking, so I have many female admirers, but I have often ignored them for the sake of literary greatness. I have even received a love letter from a lovely petite brunette in my sophomore year. After being accepted into a highly selective program at my university (highly prestigious, of course, but I will not name it for the previously articulated reason), I have had the opportunity to work with the greatest poets alive today, all of whom have been blown away by my work. After publishing my work, I plan to study at Oxford or to travel around Russia, my homeland.
I hope there are some of my kind on this website, with whom I can talk about literature and philosophy at a level that I find appealing and worthy of me. It is difficult to find people like this at university, of course, which is so full of pretention, insecurity and stupidity. My life is not lonely, aside from the fundamental loneliness that affects us all, but the life at the top of the peak is often frustrating, as most of you imagine.
you have to wait a bit longer between posting the same copy pasta
>>9413069
>thinks in power levels
nice try
>>9413069
well, that's neat. good for you. i'll look forward to buying your book, possibly reading the first few pages, and leaving it on the shelf everafter.
youtu.be/ROe28Ma_tYM?t=2m15s
Is this really how people view philosophy in the XXI century?
>>9413041
Positivism is 170 years old my friend.
Also Bill Nye has recently discarded these shit ideas and started reading philosophy.
Jesus Christ
>>9413041
>"I think therefore I existt", what if you stop thinking? If you don't think about existence you probably still exist
I'm 21 and I'm already deeper than Bill Nye
Feels good
How do you folks find motivation to read?
>>9413012
I place a pile of books on my desk chair. When I go to use my laptop, I move them to my bed. When I'm going to sleep, I need to move them back to my chair. More ofthen than not, I'll pick up a book at one of those stages and start reading it.
Between that and reading on my way to and from work, I can get through books fairly quickly.
if reading is a 'chore', then reading isn't for you. You might be able to force yourself to read a few chapters, but you'll eventually give up.
I don't need to find it, I have it anyway.
>he prefers Penguin over Oxford Classics
>>9412948
Das rite.
>>9412948
Is there anyone who doesn't?
>>9413031
Better cover design, great print, and the pages have a peculiar penguin smell and feel. The introduction and commentary are probably just a bit more academic in oxford classics, but so what?
>he doesn't think Ovid is the best Latin poet
>wasting your precious time learning a dead language to read some dead old white dude
>>9412865
>implying there's anything wrong with being and old white male
Ovid's mighty entertaining, but Virgil's the best Roman poet. Easily.