Let's be real here. Protagoras pushed Socrates' shit in bigly.
Where?
>>9379621
In the Protagoras, just as a blind stab
>>9379604
>when he brings up the form of similarity
HOLY FUCKING SHIT
What makes the prose in Great Gatsby so enjoyable to read?
>I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye. I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove. Sometimes, in my mind, I followed them to their apartments on the corners of hidden streets, and they turned and smiled back at me before they faded through a door into warm darkness. At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others — poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner — young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.
Even the purely descriptive ones just feel so musical and enchanting
>It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North America. It was on that slender riotous island which extends itself due east of New York — and where there are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land. Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound. They are not perfect ovals — like the egg in the Columbus story, they are both crushed flat at the contact end — but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead. To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.
Partly euphony: assonance, consonance, and alliteration. When words seem to flow, it's usually because there's similar sounds, euphony.
>>9379603
keep posting quotes you like. this has the potential to be a comfy thread.
>>9379603
Were any of Fitzgerald's other books good?
*Bad penmanship
*Bad writing
*Bad thinking
Prove me wrong!
>mfw
burden of proof's on you mate
autistic savants
>>9379557
what country is that middle image from lol
This book is stupidly hard. Has anyone read it to completion? I'm at p. 283 and I'm still having trouble understanding the dynamics of scenes. Does anyone know an online resources to help with this book?
Haven't read it but he William gaddis.org site should have a guide.
This novel is so lame. Gaddis isn't funny, and once you take out all the failed attempts at humor, you have a sloppy mess of a novel built around some uneducated novelist's half-baked opinions about money.
>>9379532
but gaddis is funny
Can we get some separate CRITIQUE THREADS; this one is poetry, another can be a short story one. It'll make things easier for people to help with things they specialise in.
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Unsown golden seed of hunger while she
Does listen upon the verse and else
Upon the happy thirst of war
Does consume the broad and and praise the lord
While riding to face the breadth of the law
Yet amidst the smoke and fog that hounds
The times of youth that linger in spit
The trifling breed do bread with louts
Sharing tears shed but rarely a-fit
The consecrated sod does trifle the earth
And dense are the lads that foot the shadows
While war is poetry penned by rifle’s girth
The land of the living will hardly remiss
And insolence of times ahead keep the line
And law of the land will prosper
In consecrated tears the seed demands
Excavation for another lover fallen
Death be to one as life be to many
Yet the passing fade will lift atop
And humanity perhaps moves to infinite glory
In the minds of those shot
Now is the time for congregation to pause
And congress will rise and fall by our hand
And the sad satan that roams the dark halls
Will rise of the land to answer our call
And evil is subject to those unafraid
Yet objective words will keep us in line
The heaven will hear the call of man
If the scream does lift above the pain but
Else does the words of pain and joy
The spoils of war left to the spoilt
And the living will forget the lesson living
That what each generation finally figured out
Be free to be who you are
Be free my children of art
Be free for the life is tainted
That's my poem Sacha
>>9379441
I know! I Did you not get the email? I was just so moved that I had to write my own version because how moved I was haha! Yours is better desu, I just had a little raw emotion to give to the world :D
Is 6 inches enough?
>>9379339
not according to your mom
>>9379346
GOTTEM
But to answer your question seriously, my Kobo Aura has a 6 inch screen and I think it's pretty much ideal. It's definitely not too small and it's still very portable. I'd hesitate to buy an ereader with a bigger screen should this one break.
What literary websites do you visit lit?
Youporn
aeon.co
/lit/ and Goodreads
ITT: People who didn't deserve a Nobel Prize in literature.
I'll start: Albert Camus.
>>9379205
>>9379205
fuck the nobel prize
damn...
How do I tell if I'm having an existential crisis, or just run of the mill depressed?
Are you a man? Existential crisis.
Are you a woman? Depression.
You stop being a fucking retard
>>9379154
kek
>“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
What did he mean by this?
>>9379083
We cannot escape our past. We cannot escape who we are. We cannot escape fate--but I may be reading too much into it with this last one.
>>9379083
We're striving to recreate the past, but the effort is always futile, as our now is always continually passing into memory. The metaphor conveys the picture of blissful ignorance: Gatsby pursues a love that he doesn't know is lost, and for all his efforts, it's slipping further and further away. He's fighting a losing battle from the very start. The key is in the double meaning of current: here it means both current time and a current in a body of water. Our now is always slipping into the past, that is, becoming memories that we can never reexperience, and our past times can never be regained.
Rowing is difficult yo
>One of the finest books in Croatian literature that I've ever read.
>I highly recommend it
>Eugen Kumicic Zrinsko Frankopan Plot
>>9379074
And how is one supposed to read it?
If you have it in your local library you could read it in your native language
What's with all the Croatian threads here recently? Ever since someone made that ex-yu literature thread a few weeks ago they've been popping up pretty regularly.
Not that I'm complaining since I'm Croatian too.
Any of you guys ever publish anything, either self or through a legit publisher?
I put my first book on Amazon on the 4th, and already it's trending to bring in enough income to replace my day job, if I quit to write for a living, and I did it in the Swords and Sorcery genre. I'm curious if any of you have done the same, and what your experiences were with it.
>>9379070
>and already it's trending to bring in enough income to replace my day job
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, OP.
>>9379153
Number 20 on Amazon Hot New Releases, Swords and Sorcery genre.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/new-releases/books/16205
>>9379166
You look like Gimli cleaned up to hit the gay bars
What are some books that focus on showing how little or how much one's life is worth?
For example, in books about slaves, they often make a point about how disposable they are
>>9379015
my diary desu
What's her name anon?
>>9379029
rachel from suits
Hi /lit/ this is my nonfiction collection, what do you think of it? Do you know of any similars you might recommend?
stop buying trainstation top 40 best seller radio hits books
>>9378994
What's your favorite one?
>>9379007
Dirty Wars and Kill Chain are pretty topical
But Politics of Heroin is just mind blowing
Hi /lit/
Any good books about marijuana? Something like an introduction to cannabis?
Thanks.
Did you know marijuana can cure cancer?
>>9379024
And I fart lighting
John Williams - Stoner