Size and weight not an issue, I just want to be able to know what a "bunghole" is right away without having to look things like that up in the dictionary every 2 seconds.
>>9958890
hehehehehe you said bunghole.
Norton shakespeare, should be able to buy it used for less than 10 dollars.
What are some novels that feature hunting during the 1800's?
War and Peace
>>9958851
Anna Karenina
Are there any significant black philosophers? Why? Why not?
>>9958850
nice bait go back to /pol/
>>9958860
I'm just curious and you are paranoid.
>>9958850
Kwame Anthony Appiah is Ghanaian-American. He is a nobellaureat. Read Cosmopolitanism, it's exceptional.
Sometimes we might poop a bit if we are fresh. Which is just what I did, out on the cart that day: I pooped a bit while fresh, in my sick-box, out of rage, and what was the result? I have kept that poop with me all this time, and as a matter of fact-I hope you do not find this rude, young sir, or off-putting, I hope it does not impair of nascent friendship-that poop is still down there, at this moment, in my sick-box, albeit much dryer!
poopoo
Can you convince me to read the bible?
is it realy /lit/ ?
>>9958804
If you don't read it, strangers on the internet will think less of you
And that's really bad for your self-esteem and stuff
it's good to know the basic stories
they are alluded to a lot in literature
but you don't have to read it cover to cover
>>9958804
No, one of the most important (if not the most) book in the western culture isn't literature because a bunch of retards take it literally and another bunch of retards take it literally.
The Stranger sucked.
"Hurr durr I'm so intellectual I don't even care I killed ago, life is so absurd hurr durr what even is the point of it all? I'm autistic."
Give that man a nobel prize!
>>9958798
>ago
*a guy
You actually only started this thread to let us all see how you saw the emperor naked by not liking The Stranger, which caused you so much discomfort because of its reputed value that you need us to validate your lack of connection to/understanding of the material. You care not at all about similarly 'controversial' opinions of your fellow /lit/izens, except insofar as they assuage your own dissonance.
I wish you peace in your literary travels, my friend.
>>9958821
No, I actually just want to hear other people's opinions. I read The Stranger when I was like 11 so I don't actually have strong feelings about it, I just wanted to get the thread going.
Anyways, you talk like a big faggot, and frankly I think you're gay, sir.
What did he mean by this?
Matthew 10:37: "Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
>>9958794
Pretty obvious isn't it? Christianity overrules family ties.
>>9958794
Since the NT was written in Greek it's important to look at the original translation, in this case word "love" is "Philon". In Greek Philon referred to brotherly love, a love between friends, or love as in loyalty. So in this case Jesus is asking his followers to obey him (God) before the commands of family
>>9958794
Luke 14:26 is better
"If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple."
Suggest me some surrealist authors, I've only read Kobo Abe and Kafka so far
>>9958750
Samuel Beckett's Trilogy, or you can go straight to Waiting For Godot
Boris Vian. I've only read Heartsnatcher but it was fantastic.
>>9958750
small question about kafka/gregor samsa.
I always read like 10-15 pages, but the thing I was always confused about.
Does he become a human size bug? And when he tries to get up from the bed he doesn´t even think "mh, why the fuck am I a bug now?". will the latter at least be explained in the book?
Do this guy have some good arguments, is he just a meme or do the truth lie somewhere in between? I'm generelly leaning to the left but at the same time getting realt tired of all the tiresome political correctness being shoved in your face.
>>9958748
>Do this guy have some good arguments, is he just a meme
>implying these conflict
>>9958748
He has some good points, he is a meme, and he does not have a monopoly on truth.
He's good at being a contrarian, but I've yet to see him actually endorse a particular viewpoint or argument. He just poses with pictures of Stalin to be edgy and "analyzes" things
Is The Black Swan worth my time?
>>9958708
That depends on how much your time is worth I suppose
>>9958708
Stop shilling this sandnigger's rambling, fucker
>>9958770
so is that a no?
/lit/ I need books that deal with the loss of youth and misspent childhood.
Today I saw some kids, maybe 14-15yo, walking together down the street having fun just enjoying being alive, and suddenly I got this horrible feeling. I realized that I never had that, and even worse, that any chance of having that is long gone by now. I thought of all the other things I missed out on; young love, high school etc. It's all gone and it kills me, I've been thinking about it for at least a few years now and every time I do it makes me feel incredibly upset. Most of my friends had sex for the first time at 14, 15 or 16 years old. I thought they were stupid for it, and saved myself for after I became an adult. I'm 20 now, a kissless virgin, and even if I had sex now it wouldn't be the same, there wouldn't be that spark, it wouldn't begin with friendship and evolve naturally into something serious, my partner wouldn't be a virgin so even if it is exciting for me it will not be nearly as exciting for her.
And don't get the wrong impression, I'm not some r9k shitter, I have good looks and I have no doubt I could get a cute gf, and it's not that I want her to be a virgin, in the sense of 'untainted', it's just that I want it to be equally as exciting, equally as new for her as it is for me. And the hookup culture totally breaks this expectation for both parties, which leaves me feeling kinda jaded.
So yeah I need some kind of closure here or I feel like I can't continue.
>>9958668
nice blogpost, faggot
The catcher in the rye
Faggot
Hi /lit/,
I've been fascinated by psychedelic rock/folk lyrics lately, and quickly noticed that contrary to rap music, there is almost no secondary literature on the topic, except maybe when it comes to the Grateful Dead.
What would you recommend reading, and what are your favourite psych lyrics ?
- Donovan - "Ferris Wheel"
Walking in the seashore twilight,
It's then you spy carnival lights,
You slowly near the magic sight,
Tangerine sky minus one kite.
Take time an' tie your pretty hair
The gypsy driver doesn't care
If you catch your hair in the ferris wheel on top,
In the ferris wheel on top.
A silver bicycle you shall ride,
To bathe your mind in the quiet tide.
Far off as it seems your hair will mend
With a Samson's strength to begin again.
Take time an' dry your pretty eyes,
Watch the seagull fly far-off skies
To build its nest in the ferris wheel on top,
In the ferris wheel on top.
If ever I reach her.
And the moral here, if any, my friend:
Follow through your dream to the end.
Dig the seagull fly across the sky
To build its nest in the ferris wheel,
In the ferris wheel
--
-The Brian Jonestown Massacre - "Ballad of Jim Jones"
I walked from New York and back from L.A.
I lived on a mountain and once by the bay
I bought an apartment and slept in the hay
But there's no place that's softer than (your arms)
Living today is just getting so bad
There's a look on your face
And it says "you've been had!"
You can take all my money
But don't make me mad
Cause there's nobody meaner than (me)
I prayed to Buddha, to Allah, and Jim
I turned to Jesus and stayed there with him
I fell in deep but I learned how to swim
Now there's no one who's cleaner than me or than him
--
Love - "Old Man"
I once knew a man
Been everywhere in the world
Gave me a tiny ivory ball
Said it would bring me good
Never believed it would until
I have been loving you
Dear old man
He'd seen most everything
Gave me a piece of good advice
Said it would do me well
I couldn't really tell until
I have been loving you
Now it seems
Things are not so strange
I can see more clearly
Suddenly I've found my way
I know the old man would laugh
He spoke of love's sweeter days
And in his eloquent way
I think he was speaking of you
You are so lovely
You didn't have to say a thing
But I remember that old man
Telling me he'd seen the light
Gave me a small brown leather book
Insisted that he was right
I only heard him slightly
'Til I heard you whisper
Took you up all in my arms
Dear old man
Wise old man
Fine old man, now
>>9958612
Read Thomas Pynchon
>>9958612
Thru the rhythm of darkened times
Painted black by knowledge crimes
And repetitions pointless mime
Instilling values the sick define
That keeps the fabric that keeps you blind
And ties your hands and cloaks your mind
But on my stilts, I'm above the slime
Come on up if you can make the climb, but who am I?
Who am I? Who am I?
I've smelled the stench from the fumes that rise
From the books that rehash the same old lies
I felt the panic that they disguise
In the forms of laws of every size
I've heard the teachers whine and make me drop out like flies
But you know they teach you nonsense, cause they can't blind your eyes
I've seen the fools gold that they pawn off as their prize
To the average standard the norm supplies, but where am I?
Where am I? Where am I?
You've gobbled all the blessings they caused you to digest
They may be hard to swallow, but they keep your tongue depressed
Your scattered whims were born depressed
So when something slams your chest
You flutter about, you're sleek distressed
And when you stop to ease your breast
A scattered rim leaves you obsessed
While solid thoughts are soon suppressed, but where are you?
Oh, where are you? Hey! Where are you?
Where are you?
Where are you?
13th Floor Elevators - Thru the rhytm
they borrow heavily from nietzsche
This is the end, beautiful friend
This is the end, my only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes, again
Can you picture what will be, so limitless and free
Desperately in need, of some, stranger's hand
In a, desperate land
Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane, all the children are insane
Waiting for the summer rain, yeah
There's danger on the edge of town
Ride the King's highway, baby
Weird scenes inside the gold mine
Ride the highway west, baby
Ride the snake, ride the snake
To the lake, the ancient lake, baby
The snake is long, seven miles
Ride the snake, he's old, and his skin is cold
The west is the best, the west is the best
Get here, and we'll do the rest
The blue bus is callin' us, the blue bus is callin' us
Driver, where you taken us
The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall
He went into the room where his sister lived, and, then he
Paid a visit to his brother, and then he
He walked on down the hall, and
And he came to a door, and he looked inside
Father, yes son, I want to kill you
Mother, I want to, fuck you
C'mon baby, take a chance with us
C'mon baby, take a chance with us
C'mon baby, take a chance with us
And meet me at the back of the blue bus
Doin' a blue rock, on a blue bus
Doin' a blue rock, c'mon, yeah
Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill
This is the end, beautiful friend
This is the end, my only friend, the end
It hurts to set you free
But you'll never follow me
The end of laughter and soft lies
The end of nights we tried to die
This is the end
What is your favorite translation of a written work? Not which is the most critically acclaimed or which is the most accurate etc., but which is your favorite? Doesn't necessarily even have to be a English translation
Pounds translation of the seafarer
Have you ever written a fetish-filled work of erotica, and posted it on a fetish-centric website or message board?
Come on, now, fess up. We're all anonymous here.
"braaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap"
thats it
What do you do when you want to read multiple books?
Do you read it one by one or do you read many at the same time?
2-3 at the same time usually,
one fiction/play, one history, one memoirs works white well
I do three at a time usually. One prose, one poetry, and one nonfiction. Depends on the mood I'm in what I'll go for.
>>9958571
>Game of Plebs
Fuck off reddit