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What do you consider essential for a personal library?
I'm renovating a room with my brother and we're installing wall-to-wall shelving, the plan is aside from old textbooks/work material, we'll be accumulating a collection over a period of years. Now while the /lit/ wiki is great for general recommendations, I'd like to ask what you all consider essential from your point of view to be kept in a personal library. I personally contributed my hardcover of Webster's Dictionary, my paperbacks of Zelazny and Pratchett, and the Norton anthologies of english lit I had. Suggestions?
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>>9181679
the Quijote by Pierre Menard
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>>9181687
That's interesting, I'd never heard of this one compared to Cervantes
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On Writing- How to learn not to rip off of others?
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I have started writing porn after reading a lot of shit on mcstories.com. However, I have a big problem, I don't know if it's due to the fact that I'm writing porn, but it feels like a lot of my writing is a poor attempt at trying to imitate the style of the stories I admire. Maybe it's due to the fact that a lot of my fetishes are from those stories, but idk, do you guys ever feel the same way when you write? How do you fix this?
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lol my writing is SO derivative of Joyce and Pynch it's embarrassing
like I'm basically doing what they did but worse, haha fuck the gay earth amirte
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>>9181645
no fix for it man, your afflatus rests with an inferior muse
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>>9181645
Write stochastic literature. An example
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Benis. Benisisn.
Penis.
innnnnnnnnnnnnnn
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA shrrooooooooooooooooooo *tucks under* (huh? ([{fuck}]))
Not sure if this is the right board, but I'm trying to remember the name of a stage play. It's a really fast paced comedy about people meeting each other on blind dates. There are two characters, each with a bell. Every time someone says something that the other person doesn't like, they ring the bell and the person changes what they said.
Anyone know what I'm talking about?
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The play is Sure Thing by David Ives. It's commonly performed along other short one-act plays in a show called All in the Timing.
t. theatrefag
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>>9182130
You are literally the greatest human being to have ever lived. Thanks anon.
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enjoy sniffling? how about being an object? this is the thread for you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1PJo_-n2vI
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>>9181412
That wobbly guy attempting do dress up looks even more like a smelly tramp.
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There's already a Zizek thread up friend >>9175053
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fat unkempt slobs are not worthy my time
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Real-life actual /literary/ memes
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>Writing in a Moleskine notebook
>Name-dropping philosophers on Twitter to impress girls
>Consciously attempt a persona and image of being a disheveled intellectual
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Thanks for the guide, just made my order on amazon (I have Prime, so I'll likely be an existentialist by the end of the week)
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>>9181190
>farting whenever you finish a paragraph to help others keep track of your progress
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>>9181190
Camels are good and the boots are comfortable. Fuck you.
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What translation of Plato do you guys prefer? Also, what previous reading should I read for The Republic? I assume The Essential Dialogues.
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>>9181144
Hackett all the way
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Nigga no one here actually reads Plato you dumb fuck. It's a local MEME.
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>>9181236
So what philosophy books should I read
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Vintage ought to be ashamed of themselves. All the other Nabakov book's I've gotten from them have been well-formatted, normal books. Then in this one they hire some knucklehead to do footnotes for this one and he clearly has no idea what he's talking about. Seriously, did they pull some random dude off the street to give his "commentary" on this poem? Clearly they did it for length but holy shit there had to be better ways.
shameful
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pity post
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>>9181140
I tried.
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>>9181131
good concept, OP, but approach needs revising.
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Let's settle this once and for all.
Bleak House. What did we think of it?
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It was pretty bleak
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>>9181038
pah heuh hohoho hahiho
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>>9181012
lil Dorito was better.
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If a poet does poems about shit, is he a shitty poet?
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He's a poet of the shit. Or a shit-poet. Writing shit-poests. Like yours.
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>>9181011
Kill yourself
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Will I regret it? I enjoyed Gormenghast...
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if you're 17 years old and you'd rather be playing COD, you might regret it. but if you're 17 years old and you'd rather be playing COD, what the hell are you doing in here?
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If you enjoyed Gormenghast, you'll probably enjoy it
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Ok /lit/.
Fuck your Infinite jests and gravity rainbows.
This was amazing.
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nofuckyoupal
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>>9180942
I tried to read this backwards and got nothing in exchange.
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One of my favourite books, I suggest you let it rest for a while then re-read trying to get everything Perec is quoting
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If you're white and enjoy Diaz's writing, you have a masochistic disorder and severe mental health problems. It's abnormal and unhealthy to hate yourself that much, not mention it's disturbing and pathetic to watch. Imagine the bullied kid at lunch publicly humiliating himself in an attempt to join in with his bullies, who naturally are repulsed by their victim's behavior and continue to reject him regardless of his attempts to pander to their hatred. It's physically disgusting on a very visceral gut-level. When the Chinese take over they're going to look back at white progressives not as heroes but as an important historical lesson in how smug sanctimony can quickly become demented self-mutilation and psychological failure.
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wow im an redpill now
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well sure i guess, but why would anyone read his garbage at all?
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I only read Oscar Wao but I didn't like it that much. I was just sad that a fat spic would ruin his life just to suck a whore's pussy that tasted like Heineken - I dunno if Diaz was trying to portray it as sad but that's what I thought.
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reading twilight of the idols again... is it me or is the 20/21th century a completely decadent hellscape
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Interracial porn is hot. BLACKED.com hires some impressive cinematographers; you can appreciate the DP almost as much as the girls.
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decadence is a dumb meme for 'thing i don't like'. just say the latter,
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agreed im just talking about the people that think its okay for negroid super cocks to be inserted into our golden maidens
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Why is it that I just can't read sometimes?
Like, I'll start......Then drop off. Wait, what? Let me start over.....What?....Lemme just backtrack a little....Duhh....What?
I just can't seem to stick on the page and my reading is very fragmented.
Other times I can get in the zone and my reading is extremely fluent.
This can happen with the same book. Sometimes I'll be in the zone and just consume words quickly and effortlessly, and then other times I'm functionally illiterate.
What the fuck?
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take a small nap
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>>9180700
youre not a robot? oh. You may be on the ADD spectrum? oh. You may be reading boring books? oh.
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What was his deal with tigers, /lit/?
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>>9180694
Search for furries on Google.
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Tigers are noble
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According to at least one biography of his, it was just always a strong fascination. When he was a kid he would have his mother take him to the zoo so he could look at the Bengal tiger there like, every single week.
His dad also told him stories about the tiger hunters who used to be employed on plantations in old Argentina, who would work with nothing but a dagger and a dog to kill the animals. Guys would just stare down a tiger, wait for it to pounce, and then in one quick motions slide under it and gut it mid-air.
And Borges always had a fascination with everything of this kind -- these are all tied together, in one way or another, -- daggers, tigers, feats of bravery or will. He's an artist who maintains a very consistent system of symbols, and this is part of an entire branch of them.