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German Russian so I'm pretty much covered on all fronts.

>poetry fag stabs you
prose faggot should have seen it coming to be honest

>your country
>Ireland
We do okay.

>>9194562
>USA
We just won another Nobel for it so we're definitley the best.

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>>9194549
nope

>>9195230
There is a play by Tom Stoppard though. It's possible that Bloom likes this one too.

>>9194533
I've never heard him mentioned on here, but I'd have no problem with Basho being /our/ guy.

天秤や京江戸かけて千代の春

>>9194533
Do you feel better about yourself for pretentiously posting the poem in weeb language, knowing that the common tongue on 4chan is english and that most people don't speak jap?

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>>9194533
>In Kyoto,
>hearing the cuckoo,
>I long for Kyoto.

/satori/ for life.

Ikkyu is also /our guy/ desu

>This monk has passed through the narrowest mountain paths to reach the northernmost seas,
>and also has the experience of crawling through the lowest valleys.
>If you want to find a safe place to pass your life,
>Sit on the top shelf like a puppet!

You have to pander to your audience. Scifi crowd doesn't give a shit about prose really.

>>9194477
Except, that is, insofar as it gives them the opportunity to hold up a book that's marginally better written than most and scream "SEE! SCI-FI IS REEEAAAL LITERATUREEEE"

see: fantasy readers with patrick rothfuss

If you want to write entertaining SF, read lots of SF authors. There are lots of ways in which prose can be "good". You don't want to read things that do subtle, interesting or beautiful things with the prose, because SF audiences won't appreciate that.
Watching the films will acquaint you with the tropes and settings and ideas and all that, but you need to learn how to write clear prose that communicates them. Different authors have different levels of clarity of writing. Read them so you can learn how to do that as best you can.

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>>9194486
Discovery of Heaven is easily one of the worst books I've ever read. Based on that alone, that chart should be discarded, along with the entirety of the dutch people.

>a teenager discovers eternal anglo and shitposts on lit
What else is new, anon?

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>>9194402
Boretrand Russel

>>9194402
>Russell on Nietzsche
kek

I like N. because he is a brilliant thinker. "You only claim Higher Men exist because you believe yourself to be one" is not a substantive critique, anon---well, not of N. at least.

86% sure this is a ruse

Something something cultural Marxism.

>>9194349
Seems straightfoward to me. Substantively misguided, though.

What is the deal with that hat?
It has some sort of flap going sideways.
Is it supposed to be worn that way?
Also, are there nudes?

>>9194348
Dostoevsky
CS Lewis
Tolkein
Toni Morrison

>>9194348
>butthurt prole gets fucked by soviets
>overdresses like a bourgeois socialité
This pic is outstanding and truly a metaphor for her whole work.

>>9194195
Examples, OP?

sentenced to Life by Clive James


Sentenced to life, I sleep face-up as though
Ice-bound, lest I should cough the night away,
And when I walk the mile to town, I show
The right technique for wading through deep clay.
A sad man, sorrier than he can say.

But surely not so guilty he should die
Each day from knowing that his race is run:
My sin was to be faithless. I would lie
As if I could be true to everyone
At once, and all the damage that was done

Was in the name of love, or so I thought.
I might have met my death believing this,
But no, there was a lesson to be taught.
Now, not just old, but ill, with much amiss,
I see things with a whole new emphasis.

My daughter’s garden has a goldfish pool
With six fish, each a little finger long.
I stand and watch them following their rule
Of never touching, never going wrong:
Trajectories as perfect as plain song.

Once, I would not have noticed; nor have known
The name for Japanese anemones,
So pale, so frail. But now I catch the tone
Of leaves. No birds can touch down in the trees
Without my seeing them. I count the bees.

Even my memories are clearly seen:
Whence comes the answer if I’m told I must
Be aching for my homeland. Had I been
Dulled in the brain to match my lungs of dust
There’d be no recollection I could trust.

Yet I, despite my guilt, despite my grief,
Watch the Pacific sunset, heaven sent,
In glowing colours and in sharp relief,
Painting the white clouds when the day is spent,
As if it were my will and testament –

As if my first impressions were my last,
And time had only made them more defined,
Now I am weak. The sky is overcast
Here in the English autumn, but my mind
Basks in the light I never left behind.

>>9194251
Well I think Don Patterson's alright. Kirill Medvedev is pretty good if you don't mind things getting a bit #political sometimes

>>9194108
Well yeah. Since all I write is academic stuff.

>>9194118
I meant prose, but sure

well no since it is the mark of a true 21st century intellectual to argue theory with no basis in reality. in fact I often make up facts that I know to be the opposite of the truth to enable my sophistry to reach heights never before dreamed of.

>>9194096
etruscan

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>>9194099
But Doodling in Etruscan is the only real way to doodle

>>9194037
stop being being

>>9194037
This meme is stupid

>>9194037
no

sup

English? Folio Society, Easton Press, Franklin Books. A thousand of small ones.

Yeah, you're a pleb if you read it.

The documentary of that name is better than the film it's the "making of" of, Apocalypse now.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102015/?ref_=nv_sr_1

https://youtu.be/tl0PSn-w3MQ

>>9194021
What do you mean by pleb filter, OP? Pleb to read it or pleb depending on your understanding it?

Everything about this OP is a recipe for a great thread

>I want to start learning
>I can't find basic info in the sticky
There's no hope for you.

>>9193948
Find a chronologic list of philosophers
Forget about the ones that are very difficult to read
Minimize the ones that massively refer to other philosophers
Among the ones remaining, pick the most ancient one
That's it, read some Plato, along with contemporary appealing essays if you feel like it.