Little over halfway through Ulysses, the first 200 pages were fun but now this is getting just tedious.
I'm hoping it's not this dull until the end, when does it start getting really good?
>>9140542
>reading 'le masturbatory form lmao' man
>>9140542
>there is nothing there. Stripped down, Ulysses is a tweet
Paulo Coelho was right all along.
>>9140542
put your eyes on the words, then on the sentences, until you've read the whole paragraph and then the page, and then do this until there are no more pages.
/lit/ help me get into Roman history and literature. I have this Roman itch that it's been eating at me for years now. Where do I start? Anything Roman (even Byzantine) related is welcome.
Start with the history of Rome podcast
>>9137320
Read the Robert Graves translation of The Golden Ass
Start with the Greeks.
>>9138297
>podcasts
BEGONE FILTHY PLEB.
Join me in creating these stupid hierarchies, /lit/.
template
I feel like the gap between the first and second images in these is too large, there should be one that's just a regular brain
Fixed
What is the book equivalent of 8½ by Fellini ?
Probably anything from Neorealism
>>9142966
Some Stephen King shite
Letters by John Barth
wtf i hate other people now
>>9142298
you should. it reminded me of college, surrounded by brainwashed lemmings.
guess that's what they have to make us feel used to. to be among unthinking sheep
Did you actually read it or did you misunderstand the out of context quote like everyone else?
>>9142316
are you calling me a coward? am i a coward?
Yeah, why haven't you guys read this yet? It's basically /lit/'s fantasy come true. This guy Eckermann, who is a wannabe poet and literary scholar meets his hero Goethe when the latter is 70 years old and still livin the high Lit-life as one of humanity's artistic giants. Eckermann befriend's Goethe, becomes his editor and close friend, and ends up writing this book about his visits and conversations with Goethe that becomes one of the greatest literary documents we have. Eckermann, through his humble nature, knack for observations, and sheer love of Goethe, ends up producing one of the most extraordinary written portraits of a great artists, giving the world access to Goethe's intimate thoughts and ideas about a slew of subjects ranging from art to religion to manners, and many more.
The conversations between Eckermann and Goethe are beautiful and fascinating, and Eckermann, an introvert /lit/ geek, through his acquaintance with Goethe, ends up mingling with the high society of Goethe's day, going to parties, and the theatre, and to country retreats, etc. Eckermann's book was recognized as a great achievement by people who knew him and had read the book, but he did not gain wide-spread fame during his lifetime. History vindicated him though, and Nietzsche considered Eckermann's book "the best German book there is", ranking it higher in value even than Goethe's own works because of the invaluable access that Eckermann's book gives us to the mind of the great master, and the beautiful manner in which Eckermann records the scenes and impressions of his friendship with Goethe.
I am currently halfway through the book. It is really one of the best books ever written. It contains so many small moments of nobility and so much wisdom. Read it now. You will be jelly of Eckermann and your mind and spirit will be much improved.
>>9142252
redpill
>>9142261
Your shilling is getting lazy. Sad!
>>9142275
what the fuck are you talking about?
If you could try this right now, you would need no more books for the rest of your days, because you would understand the meaning of life.
So what is the meaning of life?
>>9142199
you don't get any lower than that, friend.
enjoy your meal.
>>9142203
Edonism.
soon to be neet here
I recently realised that I stopped learning after finishing school.
I want to start learning again and was wondering if you guys could point me in the direction of usefull & free resources.
I want to spend the next 6 months learning about 2 subjects, starting with Logic & Grammar/writing and then see where that takes me.
Could you help me out?
I could only find websites with either lacking content or paywalls.
(yeah, you got to pay for value, i know but I cant afford to spend much money rn)
>>9142033
As someone who's been NEET I'll give you some advice. Rather than take a class online visit your local library and look into their books. In a lot of cases they'll have reference books that surpass anything you could find online. Go down there every day and spend some time studying. It'll get you out of the house and give you something to do.
>>9142033
back to /r9k/
>>9142033
https://www.edx.org/
http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses
oyc.yale.edu/
also pirating the teaching company catalog
>reading pic related
>Realize I need to read the Bible, the Bhagavad Gita, Confucius, all Greek mythology, Aristotle, Homer, Socrates, the Pali canon, jainist scripts, the Apocrypha, the New York times from years 1820-1840, Algonquin sun calendars, and have a complete understanding of the history and culture of Rome, ancient Greece, modern Greece, china, central Asia, Europe, Britain, pre Columbian America and post Columbian America, as well as intimate knowledge of topography, geology, weather patterns of new england, climatology, watershed ecology, biology and extensive knowledge of flauna and flora of Western New England, and the complete works of Charles Dickens, and ancient Hindu vedic texts that have been lost in time, in order to simply glimpse the ideas presented in this work
This is severely demoralizing. How am I ever going to be well read enough to understand what any author is saying?
>>9141971
Just tap into the world spirit and channel the text through it dialectically such that you retroactively engage in the creative process of all of those works as a new a priori mode of thinking. And lurk moar so I don't have to tell you basic shit like this again.
Try reading all the things you listed.
you have autism
>>9141937
yep. a true genius of geniuses. never to be matched or surpassed.
No he wrote the greatest book in bastardized latin.
>>9141937
Whoever grabbed some parchment or imported papyrus and jotted down Homer did.
fpbp as they say.
Stop living apart from nature.
i'll kill myself then i'll become nature
*lives in a shack mile away from home*
>>9141877
nice spook
If you were writing a shitty, deplorable human being for a character that also read books, what would be their favorite book?
Pic related.
>>9141783
lol
my diary desu
How do I write catchy lyrics ? Can you point me to a book. Is it an easy way to earn monies writing catchy lyrics and posting them on you-tube with a shit-ton auto-tune make my ugly voice angelic ? Pls halp I want to do something productive with my mediocre poetry skills and also impress some ladies.
>>9141726
these are the cleverest lyrics written to a song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gjIkD9fu3w
becoming a rapper would probably be the easiest though, since you don't really sing, just speak the lyrics
>>9141862
Holy shit that was a work of genius. That kind of work in such an obscure format; wtf is this timeline we are living in ?
>>9141862
>becoming a rapper would probably be the easiest though, since you don't really sing, just speak the lyrics
Also you have a lot more room for lines with varying numbers of syllables and more complicated rhyme schemes. If you do write rap, though, for heaven's sake don't do generic "I'm so rich I got a big dick" tripe.
Is this the greatest fantasy series ever written?
No.
>stephen king
>anything other than a hack
Kill yourself my man.
Gunslinger to Wizard and Glass is pure King kino but the rest are really shitty.
Malazan book of the fallen is the only /lit/ fantasy series
Is this the best feminist play of all time?
Is there really a lot of tough competition for that title?
>>9141451
kek this, women are simply dumb idiots and havent produced any great works of art even remotely close to those of a man.
feminism is a tool to take down the West. Do not fall for it
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