Tell us how it is.when you get these butterflies in your stomach, and he gives you that warm fuzzy feeling that makes you all tingly inside.
>>9091385
James Joyce was the only true Romantic. Just read his letters to Nora.
>>9093241
Before BRAAAAAAPPPP threads on /r9k/, there was James Joyce.
>>9091385
Okay, so I'm an over-emotional loser with a preference for miserable, unrequited and tragic love.
There's Dante's whining about Beatrice. There's the Sorrows of Young Werther. What else? I want something even more melodramatic.
The subjects were hooked up to vaginal photoplethysmographs, which measured physiological sexual arousal based on blood flow to the genitals.
A couple of important things happen during ovulation:
• The uterine lining thickens to prepare it for the egg cell, which will attach to the uterine walls.
• A ripe egg is released from the ovary and travels down the Fallopian tubes toward the uterus in hopes that some healthy little sperm cells will be there waiting for it.
Merriam-Webster defines estrus as “a regularly recurrent state of sexual excitability during which the female of most mammals will accept the male and is capable of conceiving.”
In layman’s terms, it is a period of being “in heat.”
Ovulation changes a lot about a woman’s behavior.
Women unconsciously speak in higher registers when they are most fertile.
They put more effort into looking attractive.
They wear more revealing clothing.
Their walks are also sexier.
They are attracted to more masculine men.
They're much more sensitive to the scent of musk and the male pheromones.
Women are more likely to cheat on their mates when they are most fertile.
And men can smell them too. They’re more attracted to fertile women — and can smell when they’re ovulating.
Nature wants you to get pregnant, and it knows how to get you in the mood.
Does this site actually recommend good books to read?
>>9091207
Generally, yes. Depends on what you're currently reading and what your library looks like.
>>9091207
The algorithm they have does. The users are almost entirely cancer though.
>>9091207
>Do people usually recommend good books?
That's the question you should ask, and the answer is no. People recommend popular and shit books, being great works in the first category sometimes.
>at start of the book, really enjoying it
>half way through book, get bored
>start another book to 'mix it up a bit'
>same happens
How do I get out of this cycle? The only time i finish a book is if I skip some or skim pages
this is me
currently reading maybe seven books
>>9090812
I know it's Peter Hitchens, but what exactly is that image from?
>>9090855
I don't know sorry, just got the picture from /pol/ to add to my Peter Hitchens folder
My first Pynchon.
When you guys said that Pynchon was a difficult author I diddn't understand it, I've never experienced a "hard" book. Now I have.
It wasn't painfully difficult or so confusing that I wanted to give up or anything but it was way more convulated and complicated than the regular literature I've been reading until now.
Also, now that I've finished it I feel that I've read in those 500 pages more than I've read in books of 800. It's like a long series of books crammed into one, I feel like having experienced a lot of different stories selffulfilling and completed on themselves.
I've awoken from my dogmatic literature slumber I guess, thank you for meming this into me, I fucking loved it and I'm gonna follow the infochart on Pynchon.
Anyways, there are some things that aren't still clear to me. Spoilers ahead I guess.
>What's the deal with Profane?
>What the fuck happened in Africa?
>Did Veishu exist? (I really wanted it to exist, I loved Goldophin)
>Is V. really the Ms.Potato woman? And is that woman the lover of the french ballarina that got metalboned?
PS: Stencil son isn't actually Stencil's father son right?
>>9090803
>yo-yo
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herero_and_Namaqua_genocide
>maybe
>all that and more
Stencil's father son
>wat
I've never read pynchon, recently finished ulysses, was thinking about reading lot49 and gravity's rainbow. Am I good or should I start with V?
(really wouldn't mind going "out of my way" to read it, would read it sooner or later).
>>9090878
I'd say start with either V. or go straight into gravity's rainbow, save lot 49 for after because despite it being considerably shorter than probably every other pinecone novel, its just as dense
V. is pretty easy to get through
or go for one of pinecone's later novels, like inherent vice which has something more easily identified as a plot
Hey, French anon here.
I always found it weird that the English title of this work was The Stranger. I have seen it translated as The Outsider, too, which is more accurate. More accurate still would be The Alien. The title has no English equivalent really, the literal translation would be "The Spooky Man," but The Stranger has always struck me as an odd translation.
What do you think?
>>9089855
The Stranger is more similar to the spooky man than the alien or the outsider is
Is this definition wrong?
>>9089855
I think the translation of "The Stranger" doesn't preclude the interpretation of "an outsider" but also alludes to the story that the main character reads while in his prison cell--where women kill "a stranger" for money without recognizing that they already knew him. It's a tragedy within a tragedy about how life's absurdity puts people in weird situations.
Translating it as "The Stranger" captures a broader array of meanings, in my opinion.
Holy shit, I wasn't expecting this to be such a hard read. It is a rather popular book, so I expected to be a rather normal read. I'm about 150 pages in and this is exhausting, albeit rewarding enough.
The way this guy writes - particularly the (lack of certain) punctuation - makes it so odd I need to read it very slow at times, otherwise the content may even appear nearly nonsensical. I'm... not sure I'm seeing why this is, supposedly, a great style.
yeah i don't get it either anon, guess I'm just a fucking pleb but I'm pretty sure the words would be the same if this fucking nigger invested in some goddamn quotation marks every once in a fucking while
it's just thesaurus fanfiction, don't worry about it
>>9089399
I never had a problem witth McCarthy's style; it's easy to get used to. Myabe you're just plebem.
How does /lit/ reconcile free will with cause and effect? If we agree that everything needs to have a cause, then that would mean everything we do is predetermined and free will is an illusion.
I am human being thus my perception is limited so i don't even care
>>9089284
>Inb4 quantum mechanics random quantum random quantum quarks quarks quantum
Free will is the belief that the agent field is produced by the human body. It has nothing to do with determinism.
>Impossible to properly understand-tier
Bergson
Hegel
>Hard to properly understand-tier
Plato
Kant
Leibniz
Scotus and rest of Medievals
>Needs effort to properly understand tier
Aristotle
Few 20th century thinkers
Empiricists
Cartesianists
Marx
>Easy to understand tier
Pre Socratics
Few 20th century thinkers
Young Hegelians
>Meme tier
Nietzsche
Benthamites
bergson isn't that difficult and you're being unfair to nietzsche
marx is meme tier
>>9088518
>easy
>pre-socratic
>hard
>medievals
fucking lol
>>9088518
>Plato
Hard to understand that you classified him as "hard to properly understand". He's one of the easiest tho.
Also the post above me. Medievals, wtf?
What are some political works of fiction?
I've already read 1984 and Brave new world
>>9088294
Hard to be a God by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
>>9088308
the film of that is so fucking inaccessible
>>9088294
Burr by Gore Vidal is fantastic
The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov
Catch 22 by Heller
The Great Wall of China by Kafka
They Eat Puppies Don't They? by Buckley [it's OK.... I guess....]
Here rests the Don Quixote reading group.
RIP
01/02/2017 - 10/02/2017
>it took 9 months to read Don Quixote
>>9087891
really makes you think
>>9087891
First to the tenth of February, 2017.
Let's talk manifestos, /lit/. I'm currently reading Ted Kaczynski's and he's got some interesting ideas. What are some good manifestos to read?
>>9087379
Not Kacyznski. What a piece of overrated trash that was. Not an original thought in the entire manifesto. A regurgitation of better thinkers through his autistic lens.
The best thing he wrote was the 1971 essay, the one his brother read and recognized. Ellul is better. Zerzan is better. Just about anyone is better than Kaczynski.
He's interesting as a cultural phenomenon though, but ultimately a second-rate thinker.
>>9087400
I appreciate your criticism, especially since you didn't use the term 'pseudo-intellectual'.
>>9087409
Read his first essay, if you can find it. The manifesto and his later writings are pretty delusional and watered-down ideas of better minds who didn't make the same intellectual errors Kaczynski did.
In the short story I'm currently writing, there's a scene where an orphan has a wistful, one-sided conversation about mortality with a dying tree. Anybody want to read an excerpt?
That shit is mad gay
>>9084937
Depends, what is the name of the tree?
>>9084947
Samson
any of you read this? is it good? chomsky is based so i assume so
>Chomsky is based
>>9078957
nice dfw meme, nerd
>>9078948
"X" is terrible.... now let me tell you how America is to blame!, every fucking thing I've ever read by Chumpsky.
Greentext the plot of your new novel, not like it's going anywhere.
>>9066591
>tfw you'll never get to sniff her ass
Alessandra Torresani
Half the thread averted before it was even posted
>>9066591
> civilization of worms
> dungeon gets isolated from the rest of the dungeons
> oj simpson trial to figure out why and who dun it
Where does one turn when everything starts to look like brainless pap for the masses?
The Greeks
/r9k/
>>9093951
This man gets it