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>robert frost

>>9412012
Whom are you quoting?

>>9412022
Whomst've'd'll're

She has dementia.

>>9411896
These types of books appeal to women because there is some magical "chosen" one who is picked to save the world or be the object of some man's desire for whatever reason, women are stupid and easily insert themselves into that role in their heads. It's simple really anon.

The more I go out in the world, the more I find myself agreeing with Schopenhauer and Nietzsche about women

it was written by a woman, for other women. what do you expect?

>>9411816
Blood sucking killing machines

>>9411815
I enjoyed it though

>>9411798
>plus it usually comes along with comprehension loss.

90% of any book is just useless filler, so this isn't a problem.

The point of speed reading is to get at the most important information. Either I can speed read 5 books and learn 5 new ideas, or I can spend the same time reading one book spending most of it wading through useless garbage.

>>9411807
>doesn't like books
>posts on /lit/
Seems about right

>>9411807
If that is the case I might aswell read a summary for a book.

>>9411772
Wasn't the counter-culture reactionary? Wasn't Obamaism? Why the clear bias against conservatives? Who defined this rubbish?!

>>9411897
Reactionarys want a return. As politics tends to evolve in a more liberal direction, reactionaries tend to be conservative.

n.
A person inclined or favourable to reaction, esp. one who is against radical political or social reform, and in favour of a reversion to a former state of affairs.

adj.
1. Inclined or favourable to reaction; opposing political or social progress or reform; (hence, loosely) extremely conservative.

Literature can't change nothing, it's useless. But so is life

>>9411750
Yes, when life and people immitate it. Borges talks about this often in his short stories. We can shape reality, but unreality can shape us.

>>9411750
I threw a copy of Infinite Jest quite hard at my father, but it missed and hit the TV instead. It certainly changed my world that day.

>>9411732
What about them?

>>9411732
>H-he's fast!

>>9411732

the era of the white male is over :)

get used to it, racists

Bump
If /lit/ can't figure it out they're a bunch of pseudo intellectuals

>>9411696
That is an extremely simple quote, he is saying that the struggle against subjectivism was the attempt to avoid the charge of what was then called "idealism" or "nihilism", i.e., that we know nothing more than our own representations.

>>9412402
kek

>>9411696
He is saying that idealism and nihilism are sort of the same thing, which is already unconventional (even though someone like Nietzsche might agree). Representation in philosophy means perception (sensation passed through understanding, we cannot access pure sensations because the intellect always binds them to other things such as language for example).

/lit/ is just American, that's it.

>>9411642
Thats not true. What you see as eveeyday lit is nothing more than this boards culture. Within it people are shaped into, dare I say it, the best way of discussing books. If you come daily youll find people discussing rare or unusual books all the time. We talk about Pinecones Law of Gravity and Crime and War because its a good pleb filter.

quick: name your favorite book you've never seen discussed on /lit/ before

hard mode: check the /lit/ archive before posting to make sure it was never discussed here

start this thread
end yourself

>>9411619
t. sophist

>>9411615
>t. Whitehead

C U T E

Make Joan R34 please

God tier: Hopkins, Eliot, Keats, Stevens, Tennyson
Great tier: Shelley, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Pound
Okay tier: Browning, Milton, Yeats, Poe

>>9411621
>Yeats lower than Pound
>Browning and Tennyson even on the list
>>>>>>>Shakespeare lower than Eliot

>>9411597
I'm not a literal retard so I didn't need this advice but your video is nice

>>9411604

That means a lot.

>>9411597
This video is pretty comfy. Good job, my guy.

Only the good ones

>>9411547
is there not a single writer, who is good and mentally well?

>>9411553
I don't think that Joyce was depressed or mentally unstable. He was just a perv.

>>9411522
Notes From Underground and the Idiot

>>9411522
>>9411523
Notes From underground is overrated, except maybe its style. Hamsun's Hunger is much better as a psychological novel.

I'm preparing to read Demons soon. I've heard it recommended for years as his greatest comedy, though it'll probably be mostly a bunch of you-had-to-be-there-then-to-get-it humour. Which means you're suppose to research just for fucking jokes. And I like that. But I also hate that.

>>9411981

The first half is boring. The second half is some of his best writing IMO. If he had found a way to condense the first half to about 70 pages or less, it would be able to contend with TBK.

>>9411493
La Biblia Latinoamericana desu sempai.

>>9411493
Definitely KJV. It's what most good literature for the past few centuries assumes you have read.

>>9411493
KJV is the english language standard