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The chap quizzaciously (for he had recently triumphed in his endeavors) perambulated towards a moo-juice stock. The proprietor emerged from the hind territory of his occupation employment work station. “Salutations dear fellow individual mortal human, the natural elements are without reservation impeccable” verbalized the entrepreneur. “Thou art gracious in thee formalities, I honour such cordial decorum. Indeed, such climate ‘tis a positive feature in this helter-skelter universal sky orb”, reciprocated the gentleman. “Shall thee be purchasing any of thou’s milk-affiliated commodities? Or art thy simply perusing?”. The first being proceeded to inspect the wares of the emporium, “I would be obliged to obtain such vendible’s. But alas, I simply require no more than the incomplex edible comestible- a hyperborean homogenized nourishment porringer”. “By all means thee art welcome to acquisition such a whatchamacallit”. At that instant the customer purchased his material ware and withdrew himself from the establishment. The dear retailer then retreated into the backroom, and once again arrived into the common area to observe a contemporary patron.
“How do you do?” the heritor catechized. “Quite marvelous. Would you happen to possess any top-notch pasteurized buttermilk?” replied the consumer. “Truly a persnickety one we have here, eh?” the owner exclaimed. “Ha, candidly I am especially fastidious”.
And that dear lector is the narrative of the grocer.
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am I supposed to read this?
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Yes, yes you are.
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>>9206551
I smirked
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How would an advanced species based off intuition rather than intellect work/look?
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>>9206385
>thinly veiled women hate thread
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>>9206395
Shoo shitstirrer, shoo
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>>9206395
>women
>advanced species
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What are the best debut novels of this century?
(So far)
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>>9206378
My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
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>>9206478
None of those are Debuts. Knausgaard had previously two novels, Mccarthy had the bulk of his oeuvre previously written behind The Road, and Diaz had Drown (1997) published before he began working on BWLOW.
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The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen.
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hi
I was wondering if someone would know any works in critical theory / literary theory that deal with the topic of mood / tone in poetry?
thank you
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>>9206173
What do you mean, exactly? As in, what mood/tone is the correct one to write about?
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>>9206195
you hurt me, OP
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>>9206173
The objective correlative seems to be what you're looking for
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ITT: unpopular opinions
The Tunnel is a waste of a novel. It would have worked better as a fragmented poem, though just as long.
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Why would it have been better as a fragmented poem?
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>>9206120
The spirit of the narrative and its themes aren't very well executed in prose form. Even though the novel is structured as an introduction to another work and presumably all things that are happening/have happened in the narrator's life exists OUTSIDE the narrative, which is admittedly interesting and fun, a poem would have worked better with the execution of what the author was trying to do.
Everything is so fragmented already, but the prose blocks several of the elements and ideas the novel wanted to achieve, and it tends to fall into irrelevance instead coming together by the end.
But that's just my observation, I could be wrong.
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Shameful self-bump.
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Who was this man, what was his end game, and why is he worth understanding?
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>>9206103
>Who was this man
Nobody knows or can know; we observed only the Kant-phonomenon
>what was his end game
Entrenchment of 18th century German Protestantism for the indefinite future by giving it unshakeable metaphysical credentials
>why is he worth understanding
He's the source of half the opinions people have and think they came up with 'on their own'
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>>9206122
>Entrenchment of 18th century German Protestantism for the indefinite future by giving it unshakeable metaphysical credentials
sounds like he lost p hard
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>>9206142
No, he won; atheism is just the next level of Enlightenment Protestantism. Or rather Protestantism is a proto-atheism
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Put these Williams in order of best to least better.
William gaddis
William t vollmann
William h gass
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>'sup
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No.
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>>9206087
William Shakespear
William Carlos Williams
Vollman
Gaddis
Gass
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Which authors only ripened with age, like a fine wine or delicious chutney?
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>>9206049
steinbeck
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>>9206049
>tfw gass was 19 when Finnegans Wake was published
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He looks like when Smeagol is transitioning into Gollum.
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The phrase "intuitive intelligence" has never been posted on /lit/
Intuitive Intelligence
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intuition is the word you are looking for
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>>9206012
Bait, derrr...
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Does one write to entertain or to inspire? And, whom?
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>>9205999
Yes. Yes. Yourself, dingus.
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>>9206115
piggu
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both. depends on the author.
anybody that can relate to it
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autism
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Kant is autistic in the good kind of way.
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>>9205968
Don't read the first half of the metaphysics of morals. He just makes a bunch of useless distinctions. It's unadulterated autism
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>>9205953
>be five foot FUCKING ZERO tall
>make lifes mission to create logic system detached from the real life and without threat of confrontation
Gee I wonder why
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Just bought atranslatedRomance of the Three Kingdoms. Let's talk about it and other great literary works from China that we've all read.
What are some Chinese books you have read? Did you read a translation or in the original? What were your general thoughts on it?
More specific question and related to another one of the four great works of Chinese Literature, what are your thoughts on Dream of the Red Chamber and how there's supposedly an entire academic field dedicated to just studying that single work (redology)?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_of_the_Red_Chamber
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>>9205900
I've read Fortress Besieged and The True Story of Ah Q in translation.
Fortress Besieged was interesting. It starts out as a romantic comedy, then it suddenly takes a dark turn as the Fang Hung-chien travels across mainland China with some other teachers during the Second Sino-Japanese War to go to his teaching job. His group runs out of money and is close to starving, but Fang Hung-chien literally can't stop himself from making jokes and philosophizing on their situation. Then it goes back to being a romantic comedy after he gets married.
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>>9205272
>Chinese Literature
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Reading this right now. Somewhere between the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Plutarch. Salright.
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How do we stop these people from destroying every national literature scene?
They've already assimilated the anglophones and minor language countries like Germany. Can we keep them out of the romance languages too? I fear it's only a matter of time.
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>>9205854
You stop them from destroying the national literature scene by adopting civic nationalism. Unfortunately the Euro-cucks think nationalism is necessarily a bad thing, so welcome to the brave new world where every language except for American English is dead.
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>>9205956
>civic nationalism
hang yourself
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>>9205956
>Civic nationalism
Utterly impossible. A nation is a people, not a set of laws and arbitrary borders. You can't have nationalism without the nation.
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Do I need a lot of background information to read this?
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>>9205844
stab yourself in the eyes
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>>9205853
Thanks, that helped.
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>>9205844
As long as you know the most basic points of transcendentalism, you're fine
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/lit/, what can you tell me about Roman philosophy? Where do I start and who do I start with?
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>>9205799
The Romans borrowed heavily from the Greeks.
Start with the Greeks.
Roman Stoic Philosophy is pretty cool though. Meditations would be a good place to start after the Greeks.
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Cicero
Plotinus
Marcus Aurelius
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The masterpiece of Roman philosophy is at the same time the masterpiece of Roman poetry (yeah, both in one):
Lucretius - De Rerum Natura
Nothing more to say than: READ IT.