In a 1996 radio interview D.F.W said that the plot of Infinite Jest is structured like a sierpinski gasket. Does anyone on this board have any experience with fractals / the desire to comment on this at all? In what way do you find the narrative structure to be similar to pic related?
>>9011451
It's the kind of abstract notion that, if you think it, you can find whatever content in the book to prove it.
As usual, DFW meming like a motherfucker.
Lets talk about fractals instead
they are proof of god's influence
>>9011490
How so? I've never studied them
Starting this tonight. Is it true that I'm supposed to read it at a talking pace?
>>9011345
wow that's a really stupid question. you probably shouldn't read that book.
>>9011393
My apologies for asking those who have read the book if they agree with what the author himself said, fuckhead
>>9011345
I seem to remember Gaddis saying that it should be read at a reasonable pace where the dialogue kinda just washes over you. I reread it for the third time last year and, while I enjoyed taking the time to mark recurring themes and motifs and outline plots and character arcs, sometimes I'd just read straight through a whole section because of how /enjoyable/ and /funny/ it all is. Like, sometimes you just need to relax and enjoy the time you spend on a book. I dunno, maybe it's just me? I enjoy reading books where ordinary people try to grapple with their humanity using classical references.
What are some of the best dystopian books you've read?
>>9011244
The Road
Inb4 redditpleb
>>9011244
i didnt "get" or necessarily like brave new world when i read it as a kid, but Brave New World desu
have yet to read 1984
my diary desu~
Do you think taking notes is important to the process of reading, or at least understanding, literature, /lit/?
If so, do you always take notes when you're reading, or only sometimes? How do you decide when to, and when not to take notes? Do you take your notes in margins, or in a separate notebook?
I recently started taking notes while reading and it seems to me like it helps a lot, but I'm curious as to how everyone else does it.
IF YOU ARE YOU READING aristotle AND WONDERING IF YOU SHOULD BE TAKING NOTES
THE ANSWER IS YES
the only fiction i really annotate is joyce desu
i like notes in the margin for philosophy though
>>9011242
I'm too smart to take notes
/lit/ what other goals should i include in this chart/rate? Authors that match the goals would be nice too.
this is my favorite book
If we burned all the layers down everyone would be equal.
Have a degree in agronomy
How do you think Kafka's demeanor was like in real life?
>>9011077
i thought that pic actually said 'anime tendies' for a second
dont ask me about real life i clearly have no answers for you
insisted on being referred to as an otaku, not a weeaboo
>>9011077
Autistic jew
(That's going more off pictures than his writing)
Rich People Are Kinda Mean, by Jane Austen:
Catherine and her sister Kathy went to their friend Cathy's house, and Cathy was a very agreeable girl, albeit bland, where they talked about nothing much in particular and did upper middle class things.
They didn't actually like one another very much, but 18th century English society said they should be nice to each other, and did I mention marriage yet? They all wanted to get married and they were all attractive.
Jane Austen is the greatest pleb filter in the English language. You know instantly if someone's a pleb if they don't like her.
>>9011025
Ah yes, famous pleb Charlotte Bronte. How could I forget.
>>9011009
Rich People are Golddigging Whores Except the Main Character and Her Husbando, by Jane Austen
Catherine is a quirky, independent woman who infuriates her family by turning down all the beta suitors. Meanwhile, her twelve sisters are golddiggging whores who get wet at the first man with 10,000 pounds on his hands and all end up getting forced into unhappy marriages because they were too dumb to do anal.
Meanwhile Catherine finally finds her dream man, except his autistic parents won't accept him to get a bride that is only slightly less rich than them, so they do everything in their power to tear them apart, but through the power of note sending they figure out what's going on and get married anyway.
What does /lit/ think of the new Pelican Shakespeare editions? I for one really like them, just got Julius Caesar and Merchant of Venice and they look fantastic.
>>9011007
this is the Julius Caesar cover
>>9011011
and this is Merchant of Venice
>>9011007
You are like a little babby watch this
http://www.foliosociety.com/pages/crafting-letterpress-shakespeare
(I own 3)
Do you ever pretend you are a well-known writer and public intellectual, and imagine yourself on late night talk shows and Sunday-morning round table discussions? I do, sometimes.
>>9010999
>tfw making a video of yourself talking and editing in questions and reactions from Charlie Rose
>>9010999
ya :>
>>9011193
Yeah exactly this. Charlie Rose is pretty much the only show that would have my ideal version of myself on. Too patrician for late night talk shows and Sunday morning bullshit
Does anyone here have a BN membership? Are there any special coupons that come monthly or whatever besides the ongoing 10% off?
I ask because on the "honey" chrome extension for online coupons, I often see "40% off one item" coupons posted which appear to have only had one use, and I'd love to get my hands on a few.
>>9010929
Yeah, they send out 4 sets of coupons per year, plus the 15% you get for being a member stacks with that.
>>9011301
Do these 4/year coupons include any for 40% off? And is the regular 15% applicable online?
Thanks!
>>9010929
I don't know if there's a schedule to it, but I get a 20% off one item coupon at least once a month. That stacks with the regular 10% off too. That all applies to the website.
But the big thing that they don't advertise enough is free shipping on orders from BN.com.
What are some good books on or about fencing?
>>9010901
Tom Sawyer
>>9010904
i don't get it.
Which match up do you most want to see?
How can we make it happen?
What would happen if all four were sitting at the same table together?
>>9010814
Sam > Hitchens > Zizek > weepy peterson
get rid of zizek
I know who Zack Snyder is, who are the other guys?
>He was naturally a great lover of all kinds of learning and reading; and Onesicritus informs us that he constantly laid Homer's Iliad, according to the copy corrected by Aristotle, called the casket copy, with his dagger under his pillow, declaring that he esteemed it a perfect portable treasure of all military virtue and knowledge.
So Alexander had a copy of the Iliad annotated/corrected by Aristotle.
What do you think those corrections were?
>"Ignore this one boring book that's just the list of ships lol"
gay subplot and persons of color
Rembrandt gets me hard af 2bh
I used to read the New Yorker, partially for the short stories. I dont want to deal with their politics anymore, particularly after that vile piece by David Remnick. I've also given up on the Atlantic for the same reason. Any suggestions where to go to read short stories and poems, without gratuitous political commentary?
Have you tried "Best American Short stories?"
Its a 100 year old series that does a collection every year. Junot Diaz edited this years edition.
They also publish a "Best American" series for essays, comic books, etc.
I asked Remnick about the political stuff and he says he intends to ramp it up big time for the next four years at least. I think it's a shame. Of course they've always done politics there but it's becoming less of a general culture magazine and more political. I'm just tired of hearing about Trump, good or bad.
>>9010617
Which David Remnick piece are you referring to?
What are some of the best, most literary speeches in all of history?
>>9010575
Mostly Obama's speeches.
>>9010577
>this damage control
>>9010575
lol @ that cherry picked angle