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[[[James Murphy]]]

The Irish are not /lit/

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>>9968684
yer fuckin trippin if Joyce, Beckett, Sterne, and O'Brien aren't /lit/, son.

in the doc about their "last" show as a band at madison square garden, he talks a lot about gravity's rainbow. then they show his bookshelf and lots of dog eared copies of pynchon novels and a "pynchon reader"

>>9968669
bump

>>9968669
Probably my favorite book. I laughed at the boxed goods and the Hoppin' with flavor. Not sure why though. Is there anything behind why he chose those things? The chips in particular. And yes, I know JR got the boxes shipped to the apartment. I'm just wondering if there's anything more highbrow that I'm missing.

Also, Alsaka and Retreads. Fucking killed me.

...what's funny about the boxes? I find the humor in JR has been massively oversold.

>>9968605
No. When the critic sets the goalposts, the argument is doomed. "Comprehensible" depends on the reader. "Unartifical" doesn't mean a fucking thing objectively. "Natural to the character" is an opinion by someone arguing with both the fucking author and the tradition of the time. "Produce an artistic impression" should make Tolstoy ashamed to even say out loud. This is subjective bullshit, more easily summed up as "My background, era, tastes, language and priorities are so wildly different from Shakespeare's that I can neither appreciate nor enjoy him."

People don't speak in ten lines.
Or even three.

I can post sublime lines that Tolstoy could never dream of matching, and it would be like arguing logic with someone religious: "No, this is artificial shit; the Duke wouldn't talk like that even though he does throughout the play," etc.

Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile,
Hath not old custom made this life more sweet
Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods
More free from peril than the envious court?
Here feel we not the penalty of Adam,
The seasons' difference; as the icy fang
And churlish chiding of the winter's wind,
Which when it bites and blows upon my body,
Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say
'This is no flattery; these are counsellors
That feelingly persuade me what I am.'
Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
I would not change it.

As You Like It (Act II, Scene 1)

>>9968597
Literally better than lotr in every way

>>9968589
gen.lib.rus.ec, with a mirror at libgen.io

It's just a pirate site though, not sure what you mean by "above-board"

start with the greeks

I think you'd like the famous ‘how to win friends and influence people’.

How to win friends and influence people, but be a true nobleman and also read some Dostoyevsky translated by Garnett you will behave like a true gentleman .

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If you don't 'use' it, you 'lose' it as it were.

Write your thoughts down, take notes, discuss it with someone, or pair it with something else associative to keep in in memory (but you still have to use the knowledge).

Jennifer Egan says writing and reading is an exercise that should provoke the mind, not narrow it.

>>9968463
Jennifer Egan is a dumb little bitch who writes for NPR listeners, not intelligent people

How does sticking with your morals and being continent conflict?

>>9968434
Sounds rough pissing yourself whenever you stay true to your beliefs.

>>9968434
Have a moral code you believe in:
>I love God and Jesus
>Jews are evil
>Never trust anyone
>Nothing on this realm of existence matters
After that, always follow them as long as they don't conflict with your endgoal, if it does reevaluate your endgoal

>>9968433
you for reading it.

>>9968712
>he didn't start with the Greeks

>>9968214
Wrong.

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>>9968220
Fuck, forgot the image.

>don quixote as an old man chad

How is it possible to be so wrong?

Beyond the Judgement of God. Meltdown: planetary china-syndrome, dissolution of the biosphere into the technosphere, terminal speculative bubble crisis, ultravirus, and revolution stripped of all christian-socialist eschatology (down to its burn-core of crashed security). It is poised to eat your TV, infect your bank account, and hack xenodata from your mitochondria.

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Heat. This is what cities mean to me. You get off the train and walk out of the station and you are hit with the full blast. The heat of air, traffic and people. The heat of food and sex. The heat of tall buildings. The heat that flows out of the subways and tunnels. It's always fifteen degrees hotter in the cities. Heat rises from the sidewalks and falls from the poisoned sky. The buses breathe heat. Heat emanates from crowds of shoppers and office workers, the entire infrastructure is based on heat, desperately uses up heat, breeds more heat. The eventual heat death of the universe that scientists love to talk about is already well underway and you can feel it happening all around you in any large or medium-sized city. Heat and wetness. [Do1; 10].

>>9968184
bretty gud

Your post is vague.

What do you want? Protofeminism? Postfeminism? Just feminism? You can't just ask that and expect a serious reply. That's like asking what's the best book on Enlightenment during the Renassaince, there's a shitload of categories.

How high do you have to be

>>9968141

You seem to be missing the step where you establish that being the greatest conceivable girl is an innate element of a gf existing.

>missing the second step
Sorry OP, you're a faggot.

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>>9968111
I'm on whatever page comes after the last page.
It was pretty good, I want an Eloi waifu.

>>9968111
Pretty good. Certainly not Wells' best.

>>9968111
Good, but The Invisible Man was much better.

Drink coffee and read this http://www.ccru.net/swarm1/1_melt.htm

At least it'll be interesting.

>>9968088
does that mean women are more generous towards less attractive males?

>>9968276
Its more women are full of shit and don't actually follow their own bloated """standards"""