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Wow, this is somber, funny, disturbing and even harrowing all in turn.
I'm 300 pages through, reading about the siege of Valletta.
This is much less light hearted than The Crying of Lot 49 which itself is almost just a perpetual comedy.
I think I'm going to have to take a break after finishing it though before I jump into Gravity's Rainbow. Maybe read something classic, linear and easy.
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>>8916239
you dont think GR is light-hearted?
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>>8916243
I don't know, I haven't started it yet, but I hear plot threads are even more spread out than V and I know Kurt Moundagen is in it which provided possibly the yet most disturbing account of V so far.
V is funny intermittently, usually with the whole sick crew but it seems almost like it is a collection of short stories that helped Pynchon flesh out his feelings about the war and man's own cruelty to man.
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Most pinecones are wacky with a progressively intensifying undertone of paranoia and malaise.
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is twitter the future of poetry?
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That's quite a nice little thought.
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>>8916256
Brit Marling is a writer.
How else can your poetry reach a wide audience?
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>>8916261
What went through your mind when you saw that tweet and decided to post this on /lit/? What were you genuinely hoping to accomplish?
Art is subjective. Literature is subjective. Music is subjective. Everything is subjective.
Opinions vary. Just because it's popular does it mean it's good? Or does it mean it's bad?
Just because you like it, doesn't mean it's good. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's bad.
However, if we define "good". We realise whether we like something or not is irrelevant.
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>>8916206
discuss books, homo
sage and report
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>>8916206
enjoyment of art is subjective
there are however objective criterias to judge a piece of art
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>>8916222
Trips confirm.
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how do i stop wanting to kill myself after reading La Nausée?
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>>8916205
By reading Infinite Jest
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By reading a good book to counteract the experience you just had
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By reading Thus Spake Zarathustra which rejects Sartre's philosophy
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I want to get in to aesthetic philosophy. Any recommendations?
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It's a waste. Just learn art history.
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>>8916169
Cheers for the redpill
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>>8916169
You can do both desu. But art history is definetly more fulfilling and interesting
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>show don't tell
>brave Achilles
>resourceful Odysseus
>Greatest works of literature
Why is this allowed?
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>>8916121
>he started with the greeks
you should've started with freud
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>>8916121
You can tell if you also show.
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Achilles does brave things
Odysseus does resourceful things
You can tell if you also show, you can't just tell
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Any writer/creator here? Are you able to share your work with others? Are you already the laughing stock of your friends/colleagues?
Since my work is not too serious and in the past I was too confident to share it with others now nobody will ever take me serious and I won't be able to lay my hands in any girl. I basically killed myself in college.
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I am creator.
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Most people here at least write short stories
If you're hella into an art form you tend to have a desire to try your hand at it, and most people can read and write, so most people here have tried their hand at writing and most have aspirations of being a writer.
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>>8916114
I'm working on a philosophical work regarding the arguments for the existence of God (cosmological, teleoglogical and ontological). My idea is a holistic approach to all the 3 kinds of arguments in order to prove the rationality of creed.
I am indeed ashamed to share it, but I'm planning on asking one of the professors at uni if he is willing to read it. I don't have high hopes. Actually, I have no hopes at all. Ugh
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I want you to read this quote every time youfeel entitled to open your mouth
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Gay quote my man
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>>8916042
Shit thread. It will not get more than 5-6 replies.
Go find a quote by a female or minority writer from twitter or facebook (preferably in relation to identity politics) and post the screenshot here asking 'is she right?'. Guaranteed 300 replies
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>>8916048
>Go find a quote by a female or minority writer from twitter or facebook (preferably in relation to identity politics) and post the screenshot here asking 'is she right?'. Guaranteed 300 replies
>mfw it's true
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Are there any Irish authors you can recommend? I think I am familiar enough with the popular names, e.g. Joyce, Colm TóibÃn, Flann O'Brien, Seamus Heaney, Shaw. Some authors I have already read or have on my to-read list:
Elizabeth Bowen
Joyce Cary
Ernest Gébler
Molly Keane
Maura Laverty
Mary Lavin
Edna O'Brien
Kate O'Brien
Seán O'Casey
Frank O'Connor
Sommerville & Ross
Katherine Cecil Thurston
William Trevor
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Fuck off potatoboo
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>>8916033
I'm assuming you consider Yeats a popular name. But if you haven't read him, do so.
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Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan was a fun read.
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post pics like this
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>>8916024
All of those movies were made to sell toys. Are you fucking stupid?
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I think this measures AQ.
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>>8915899
ftfy
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>>8915908
Ahh, much better.
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>"if you label me you negate me"
Was he the worlds first transgender activist?
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>>8915882
He's not wrong, regardless of your hatred
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>deeply religious man, in fact, the only thing that could save him from horrible existential depression was his belief in God
>was a tranny/tranny apologist
"No"
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>>8915882
No. Transgenders cling to labels and try to fit within preexisting roles and stereotypes.
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What's a good book on Napoleon? I know very little about him, and I want to watch pic related soon. I'd prefer already knowing some of his history beforehand. Any recs for good books on him?
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>>8915681
My diary desu
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>Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles
>Napoleon A Life
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>>8915713
Thanks anon, these look good!
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How do I become stoic /lit/
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wear this
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>>8915678
Pls tell me
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>>8915678
I do not like fedongras but I want to learn how to be stoic.
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Seeing that one of the most popular threads in this board is about Rupi-Fucking-Kaur, let's discuss some actually decent poetry. I have been wating to get into it for a while now. Could you recomend some good entry points? I was thinking T.S Eliot's "The Waste Land and Other Poems". Also any good short books on poetry, in order to better appreciate it?
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>>8915555
>entry point
>the waste land
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I'm taking an intro to poetry course starting this Wednesday! Excited. I read The Odyssey translated by Fitzgerald over break for fun.
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>>8915558
Well I got it for Christmas, so that's why I was planning on starting there. What would you recommend instead?