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>>9201647
>Genre Fiction of about vidya
>Animu
>Memes
>Euphoria
>Lovecraft
Only one of those books(Lovecraft) is any good and it is only an intro level of good
2/10

>>9201647
Only thing valid there is HP Lovecraft. Although I'll give the Murakamis a pass, too, just because you've chosen some of the better of his books.

diogenes intelligent nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor

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>>9201539
Keep it calm, OP.

introibo ad altare dei

>>9201349
I'm glad you recognize that.
It really feels as though Quentin's actions exude significance and his thoughts were recorded as thoughts genuinely flow. Everything about that chapter feels imbued with some profundity that went right over my head. It oscillated between some of the comfiest narrative ever written and inaccessibly challenging psychological babble, it was almost dizzying. I need to reread that book.
Benjy's chapter was also great.

>>9201380
Thanks for the commiseration.

You're right about the nature of the narrative style mimicking thought. Faulkner seems to have been genuinely trying to capture an internal monologue.

I also think it stands as an achievement of poetics, hence my comparing it to poems. Faulkner is intimately familiar with the way the English language works. He understands how words and syllables fit together in a way that achieves harmony--and, for that matter, he's aware of just what sonic harmony is in composed literature. Consider how the long sentences in Quentin's part, some of them so long that one sentence takes an entire page, are nonetheless perfectly readable and understandable, despite the total lack of commas and semicolons. Faulkner lets the words themselves, and the way he's arranged them, instruct us on where to pause, and into what clauses the sentence is divided. We instinctively know the 'shape' of the clauses in the sentence, because we know, sonically, when certain sounds demarcate the end of a thought, or at least when they traditionally have in the long history of English.

>>9201349
Corn cobby tale, means absolutely nothing to me. Hurr durr Uh cud see dem hittin'.

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>muh cossacks

Russian prose is irredeemable and Russian plots and characters can't disguise this fact. The only good Russian writer was Nabokov, who didn't write in Russian.

I'm interested in this too. Didn't he rip this off some other Slav though

>>9201111
(You)

>>9201047
God fuck off with your Kant shit

>>9201047
Norman Kemp Smith

>>9201012
Keats is for my money much better, less consumed by ego (probably because he knew he would die), that is to say, he came closet to realizing the Romantic project of a pure and spontaneous mode of expression. Very inventive with metaphors, up there with Shakespeare, who he adored. I can barely stomach Byron and Shelley is sometimes mawkish but Keats really is divine.

Keats could have been the greatest poet of all time, IMO.

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Rick Roderick is cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wetwETy4u0&list=PLA34681B9BE88F5AA

JDE, also cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPcvkE_KnRM

>>9200981

Crash Course
Wisecrack
School of Life

>>9200981
just saw this guy's stuff on no exit a week ago, I recommend him as well
>>9201011
I assume this is a shitpost but Wisecrack's thugnotes' concept is good, though the execution isn't

>>9200966
bump

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I have a copy of this one myself, and it is good. Covers the roaring 20's, and up into the thirties when the civil war kicked off. Author Shlomo (((Ben-Ami))) swears there weren't no stinkin' communist menace, it was just a figment of the Spanish fascists imagination or an excuse for them to solidify power, but you might want to take that with a grain of salt.

Anthony Beevor's book on the Spanish Civil War gives a straightforward account and a glimpse into the way Franco thought.

Not really, if I recall correctly pretty much all of Heinlein's really famous works, Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land, The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, they're all about seeing the world differently. Think about shit differently, don't accept the world as it is, and his books are a view into what if we thought about x differently
But it's not so much just accept the books at face value, this is what we should be like

I just read this and Starship Troopers so im pretty hyped on his works right now

>>9201014

I read Starship Troopers and found it so boring that I never wanted to read anything by him again. Are his other works not so dogshit?

I think there was a russian chick who fucked a horse once

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>>9200918
>There are Great men of history
PИИИ

the mother of every great man

there is no man without woman

>>9200867
I keep meaning to, and have a big list of ideas, but university work gets in the way... maybe next time.

>>9200867
What the hell is pseudopod? And how do I submit to it?

more people submit to literary journals than read them

if that's not the most PATHETIC state of affairs in the entirety of the """arts""" then I'm a monkey's uncle

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>mfw Jesus turns into Patton in Book VI

Who knew Jeez kicked ass so hard?

>Milton talks about his blindness again

I got it the first time, and there's no need to bring it up in another of your poems. Again.

>>9200855
rorke

>>9200750
it seems like he really loved her, which is beautiful

>>9200902
>it seems like he really loved her, which is beautiful
>All about sexual things and lust and farts and pricks and cumming and rumps
>what is love

>touched my prick
>prick

prick? prick? stopped reading right there.

I agree.

fuck you, he's great

>>9200740
>>9200743
You're not wrong, lads.

>>9200565

just marathoned the first chapter of this. is it good?

>>9200583
It's unironically good, plus now you can truly have the smug sense of superiority when nietzsche is incorrectly referenced as the poster child for succumbing to existential dread.

Bit self indulgent at parts, and ignore pretty much anything he has to say about women. Nietzsche was a sperglord the likes of which /lit/ has yet to see

>>9200565
Anyone for opinions on this?