How do I get good at reading literature?
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By lifting.
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read literature, read critical analysis of the books you read
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Read a book multiple times
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What was Aragorn's tax policy?
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he raises a good point.
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What was his?
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Hurp who pumps up the tyres on the bat mobile?
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What are some good books on addiction
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for a non-addict. Fiction or non.
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>>9102268
Did you listen to today's pete holmes podcast?
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>>9102278
negative
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Naked Lunch by Burroughs
Under the Volcano by Lowry
maybe some Bukowski or Thompson, too.
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Jewish devil: tool of God
Christian devil: Fallen archangel
Islamic devil: Jealous djinn
From a purely literary standpoint, which is more interesting to you?
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>>9102225
In what way is the Jewish devil a tool of God?
I'm sorry, not familiar with it...
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>>9102254
In Judaism, Satan is used more as a tool to test mankind because they think the idea of an adversary to God. The Jewish reading of a book like Job is very different than the usual Christian reading.
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>>9102260
Thank you.
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Is there any scientific or rational reason to believe in reincarnation?
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>>9102146
If you're a physichalist/materialist: all consciousness is the arrangement of matter, so it is not unreasonable for your consciousness to manifest over and over again in a long enough time frame.
Idealist: There's no reason to believe the mind/body relation occurs solely once, outside of Abrahamic religions I suppose.
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>>9102146
You're a chink, a slight variation of chink, or you did too much weed.
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>>9102146
Of course not.
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Giles Goat-Boy General - GTFIH
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Has anyone here read this book?
What do you think of it?
How does it compare to Barth's other work?
I'm currently reading it (because of my love for his other works: The Sot-Weed Factor, The End of the Road, etc.) and am enjoying it. Am I supposed to be confused for the first couple reels?
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I got like 200ish pages before putting it on the shelf
I liked it for the most part, and the premise was funny and interesting, but it moved at an agonizingly slow pace.
I also felt it was really hammering in that "university is the universe" idea to a point of annoyance.
By page 150 I felt like I already got the point, and wasn't happy with the 600 pages left.
Luckily so few events happened in those 200 pages that I feel I can pick up at any time and start from that point again without a problem
https://www.goodreads.com/read_statuses/1156327848#comment_145737065 I also felt this was incredibly helpful in powering through those first few reels
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>>9102028
Thanks Anon, for some reason I've found it difficult to find resources online for this novel so I appreciate the link.
Out of curiosity did you like the rest of Barth's work, and this was a lone dud? Or did you dislike all you've read/this is the only one you've read?
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>>9102028
Wait so how did someone figure all this out?
Is it from context? (I haven't read it, but how would they get the jocasta?)
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Can I get into literature (for fun, as a hobby I don't search to be an intellectual) without reading doorstoppers? What are some good contemprary books/authors that are /lit/ approved?
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>>9101923
there are no contemporary ones because their primarily women or liberals i.e. john green and zadie smith.
We approve of Moldbug, Nick Land, Elliot Rodger, Milo and other such redpilled thinkers
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>>9101945
you can tell the quality of a board by the quality of its shitposts. 3/8
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>>9101945
Wait is this board fedora territory? I'm sorry, I must have made a mistake. Sorry for killing some thread on page 10 won't happen again.
I did a little chamber play of shakespeare at home with friends. Nothing serious, we didn't even learn it, we were just drinking,having fun and passing the text around, it was great and we'd like to do more.
I've never read any drama though. Could you recommend me some good/essential plays and playwrights? Prefferably some that are common enough to find in a larger local book store.
Another question, I have browsed the drama section in a small bookstore I visit and found Star Wars plays written in style of Shakespear, I've only read a little bit but it didn't seem half bad at a first glance. Is it just a meme or is it actually good?
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>>9101863
>I did a little chamber play of shakespeare at home with friends
You must be fucking fags
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>>9101876
I'm honestly jelly. I don't have any friends that would do that with me for fun.
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>>9101876
Ye we probably are, only fags are allowed to have fun after all.
>>9101889
It came about pretty naturally. I was reading some shakespeare I just bought in the kitchen while waiting for my pasta to cook (dorms so shared kitchen), a friend came in to cook and we talked about books, she wanted to read a bit so I gave her the book and she read it aloud with and overexaggerated posh voice and I just went with it and read the next part and we had fun and did like a couple pages worth of dialogue with shitty acting(neither of us took any acting classes or drama clubs) and funny/cringy voices. So we decided to invite some friends who we thought might be into it and do a fun home-play, we did midsummer nights dream since that has a pretty retarded plot by itself and it was nothing serious we were joking around, exaggerating everything,drinking etc. But we all enjoyed it and everyone was up for doing it again even if it was something more serious.
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>tfw know russian language but haven't read a single russian book or a novel in my entire life
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>>9101786
Thank you for that blog post
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>>9101790
russian is my native
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>>9101793
did you not go to school?
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Lads how am I supposed to read this one in public? :s
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>>9101768
you don't
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With a smug look on your face
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>>9101768
With an erection
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How this nigga smoke that pipe and not die of cancer before 98?
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He didn't smoke it's all for show he's doing it to look cool that's his M.O. take a look at his nonsense symbolic logic it's just flashy all for show
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WTF kind of maths are you on, F A M?
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My grandpa hasn't drank water in like three months and is still well and alive at 85
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rate my shit /lit/
>i still need to form the world. i still need to make the substance into figures of beauty and structure.
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>we still need the concrete fields bathed in sun - mirroring the sun. we still need to be kicking the ball on the concrete fields - bathed in youth - mirroring our volatile innocence.
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>concrete fields with cracks. it's like when investigating skin up close. like when the child would lay on the parent investigating the body. ancient concrete fields with grass penetrating like hair appearing from the creaks of the skin on its way to the surface. the surface of heat and rain.
>remembering those days seems blasphemous now. remembering is but an act of recreating what never was.
>"don't waste time on past memories" my brother said. "not now" he continued as he stood up and got back into the truck. his back was a solid foundation. "i still got a couple of pours before the next shift. text me later - got vodka redbull in the fridge" he finished before driving into the blackness. trails of bones and gravel followed him always.
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>i remember the social housing glistering in the sun with newly build playgrounds and fresh patches of grass. something about that felt eternal. that was before the shadow when the whitewashed buildings crumbled in darkness.
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>we're still pouring bone and gravel. we're still pouring pozzolan and lime. we're still building the same rectangles of variant height stretched across the concrete fields ever expanding.
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>water swirling. gravel poured into the swirling. formation of planets. evolution of nature. cities built. dreams swirling. swirling dreams hardening into memories.
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woah
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>>9101755
>trails of bones and gravel followed him always.
this is the only good line imo
>scifi
anyone else completely lose interest after hearing this word?
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Skiffy?
Yeah
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>didn't read We
>didn't read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
>didn't read Dhalgren
gee anon, you're a fucking loser
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scifi is the most interesting genre in literature
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Is this one the same level as The Decameron, Canterbury Tales, etc.?
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I think so. it's one of my all time favorite books.
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Easily. Structured differently but it is still a collection of stories. Though the Decameron is still the most /lit/ of the bunch
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more sexy than canterbury and less judgy than decameron. best translation too if they kept his notes about sex practices.
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Prove him wrong.
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He is ugly baby.
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>>9101363
He's sexy, he's my agalma.
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where do i start with lacan?