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>>9378902
the real "feel" or your idealized bullshit?

ask the dust? was that in the 50s?

>>9378905
I didn't mention any of my views on that time period.
Wouldn't fiction made in that time hold a certain level of the common idealised bullshit that pretty much comes from propaganda?

I just want to know what life for the every day person was like in the post war period.

I had to finish that tweet and then read it again before I could decipher that first half

Is this how Harry Potter teaches kids to write?

Your diary desu

Is this some sort of joke about the Mirror of Erised?

Because he talks fast and destroys da ESS jay debuus

For the same reason normies are impressed by your typical left-wing professor. It's mostly about eloquence.

>>9378822

But Ben Shapiro is a short jew with a nasal girly voice

I am SO sick and tired of people assuming I'm a homosexual.
Sorry if you're frail white male ego is too weak to ever consider performing some arbitrary action in a voluntary exchange. I have a right to my body just as mych as Ihave a right to the products of it, and I can give a man head without being gay. It's not just a matter of legality, although prostitution of all kinds should be legal, and it's not a matter of age of consent, since I was clearly able to give consent. But what pisses me off most is that people assume that you have to be gay to suck a man's dick.
Like, hello? It's not like I derived pleasure from it, just he did. The only thing I got from it was three hundred bucks, thats it. I didn't enjoy it or want to repeat it (althuogh I did a few times in college when things got rough) but thats' my point, that I should be able to preforn sexual favors for money without it impinging on my reputation as a straight guy. So DONE with these guys who are so tied up in their sexuality they're unable to comprehend a straight man sucking another straight man's dick for money.
Nobody would even know if it weren't for the fact that my girlfriend was sleeping with him (and yes she was still my girlfriend at the time and so cheating on me) and she got upset when she found out I gave better head than she did. Not that I'm proud of that, but it's a useful skill to have.

>>9378784
story of my life in an alternative universe where cell phone cameras where never invented

What would be the worst cliches to make today, do you think?

We need books where the protagonist's moral growth is evident. No more of these fucking drifting losers who end the book no different than they were at the beginning--or even wind up worse. Let's have books where protagonists change for the better again, with a touch of the old chivalric romances.

>>9378720
Agreed on this

>>9378682
Which theme ?

>>9378682
You leave this place, never to return

>>9378688
I don't even know
Western fantasy, maybe??

'I waz rinin mo nigga?'
'ay'
'fo a ni''
yep, and benjy?'
'don't call him Benjy, you know I hate that.'

>>9378636
Go away, Reddit.

>>9378636

My mother was a fish desu

Infinite Kek.

Soren Ayaayayayayay K.

>>9378607
I'm not so much interested in Christian Existentialism, but if I am to start with Kierkegaard what text would you reccomend?

>>9378526
Blood song ?

>>9378537
is that what you're reading right now or your favorite book

>>9378563
What i'm reading, my favorite book would be any book on middle ages

Forgetting Elena by Edmund White
As I Remember It/ The Devil's Own Dear Son by James Cabell
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
poetry of Richard Wilbur and James Merrill

the Easter Parade by Richard Yates.

Kafka has a pretty basic vocabulary but his syntax is sometimes complex and may seem off to a learner. Depends on your progress so far.
Anything "old" like Schiller or Goethe is probably not a good idea as German has changed quite a bit.
Dürrenmatt is easy, fun and still has a bit of substance. Try Der Besuch der alten Dame and Die Physiker. Both are technically plays but are very smooth reads.
Hesse is not too complex in his vocab or syntax, give him a go if you want. Siddartha is a bit more complex if I remember correctly as he was imitating an older style. Go for Steppenwolf instead. Maybe Unterm Rad.
If you want a really fun read go for Thomas Brussigs Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee.

>>9378470
try
Verteidigung der Missionarsstellung by Wolf Haas

>>9378470
Try reading some folk-tale collections. They are repetitive, short, and simple stories. The repetition of the same pattern ("how big x you have") are useful for teaching sentence structures.

East of Eden is amazing

Roadside picnic

East of Eden is amazing. I don't think /lit/ would be crazy about it since it's just a pretty straightforward novel, but I definitely think it's the best of it's kind.

If you want something more abstract, Blood Meridian is v good too. Don't let the difficult meme get to you; I am not smart and struggle with a lot of books but there's a very clear narrative happening in Blood Meridian with a lot of action

>>9378448
what's on the plate?

>>9378459
its chicken boiled and marinaded in whiskey and nyquil. I'm /ck/ crossposting

>>9378448
When my friend read "fear and loathing in Las Vegas," his nose started bleeding. HST is a powerful drug.

>>9378443
You should use that shotty to off yourself

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English 345: Apocalypse and Revelation in Contemporary American Literature

This will be a survey course exploring the themes of apocalypse and revelation in post-WWII American literature and how they reflect the specific social and cultural anxieties of their time.

Reading List
~The Nine Billion Names of God [short story] - Arthur C. Clarke (1953)
~A Canticle for Liebowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr. (1959)
~Silent Spring - Rachel Carson (1962)
~Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut (1963)
~Slouching Towards Bethlehem [essay] - Joan Didion (1967)
~The Stand - Stephen King (1978)
~The Road - Cormac McCarthy (2006)
~Lesser Apocalypses - Bayard Godsave (2012)
~Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel (2014)

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Nobody?

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>>9378717
dude to do this i would have to think and try hard like i'ma do that i'm here for the shit posting man