Any euros here that know where to get The Recognitions, without paying huge shipping costs? I'm in Belgium if it helps. I tried bol.com, who had 8 weeks to ship, then prolonged that with 4 weeks, to cancel my order and give me my money back after 12 weeks.
>tfw orderd The Recognitions for 18 euros, waiting 12weeks, then having it canceled.
Amazon.de doesn't have it anymore and i saw a secondhand copy there go for 397euros.
Also: who remembers the memequads?
You can download it from the internet
>>8837126
But i want to read it as a book, not of my screen.
No discussion there.
>>8837125
Use Amazon.com and rev up those creditcards Anon
>it's an abstract dream sequence chapter
>stark contrast
>character has an epiphany through an out of body experience
>it doesn't make sense to anyone but the author
fuck off philip k dick
> haven't read freud
kys
Erotic poetry thread? Something really subtle, yours or of poets you like. Don't give me distasteful shit.
I'll start with an English translation of an Arabian poem:
Star Woman,
the memory of our embrace still lives
in this bed, adjacent to your dreams
and desires, and near these handkerchiefs
drenched in your scent.
You woke in the dawn
at three exactly, drowsing,
still dazed…
Beneath the sounds of your breathing
lurks a worry: where is your mirror?
And this droplet of light
reflecting a passion
that found a name for everything…
>>8837028
Not as familiar as I should be. Interested.
Got any more?
A classic
>>8837044
no sorry I don't even know how I found this
I have a long summer break coming up, and want some things to read. I've read most of the stuff usually posted on here, so more unusual things please
wise blood
Look up "Mysteries of the Grail" by Julius Evola.
Or get some old ass greek shit from Loeb, that's always nice.
Carl Jung as well
>>8836961
I'm not reading /pol/'s wet dream made print,
but I'll try Loeb or Carl Jung
Hey /lit/, what's your favorite meme poem like pic related?
I have to analyze a poem for college project but i have to be able to understand it
Just pick the Raven. Poe has already dissected it for you himself.
>>8836932
Was this actually published? The cadence is unironically remarkable.
>>8836932
Can someone Photoshop this her?
Her
Ah, there she is.
That cunt.
What a tool.
>riverrun
What's funny? Am I missing word play? Is it the lack of capitalization that tickles your pickle? Elaborate, dammit.
>>8836893
>the
>>8836901
How about you stop being a pleb?
Why is it so difficult to define deconstruction? It's almost as if not even Derrida knew exactly what it was supposed to mean
It's not hard to define: deconstruction is a theoretical approach which rejects the decidability of meaning as a response to the supposedly limiting and contradictory nature of structures (in the structuralist sense)
Deconstructionists would be against any kind of attempt at definition it's against their entire approach, but thankfully we're not deconstructionists, are we?
>>8836820
are you just now coming to the conclusion that deconstructivism is totally bullshit (and responsible for the downfall of academic humanities)?
>>8836832
I should add that this definition should be informed by an understanding that deconstructionists tend to hold the erroneous belief that a concept is something that is either a) properly and rigidly defined and essentially platonic or b) is fundamentally undecidable
The critique of structuralism contained within deconstruction is valuable, but it's not terribly nuanced in its understanding of "ideas."
What are some depressing (by normie standards) sociological / philosophical works?
Anything that is anti-progress, anti-life, anti-society, and so forth.
Pic related.
>>8836792
Linkola is by far the greatest thinker in my country. If you enjoy reading him, give Industrial Society and Its Future by Ted Kaczynski a try.
>>8836813
Thanks, I have read Industrial Society...along with Ted's letters and other books about his life (Secret Life of the Unabomber)
>>8836792
But Linkola is very pro-life and pro-society?
Not the kind of life or society we live in but still
Is this worth reading? The girl next to me on the train was telling me what a great writer he is.
>>8836688
It's comfy, and split up into short self contained stories. Why not download & read the first three chapters and see if it's for you?
>>8836697
That's asking to much of OP. No one on /lit/ actually reads.
>>8836688
It's trash for the adultolescent liberal who has money to blow.
Thoughts on this book or Dumas in general?
>>8836567
fucking amazing
>>8836567
Really good book honestly. Read it in french and it was delightful.
I really like Dumas, but I'm always amazed at the fact, that he wrote this and the Three Musketeer series as well.
Like, Count of Monte Cristo is this really important book about pain and revenge, and Three Musketeers is basically a story about D'Artagnan fucking bitches and getting into fights.
Any books that come on par with Studio Ghilbi films?
>>8836511
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones. Pretty good and comfy, different from the movie, though, specially at the end.
>>8836520
Just watched it last night. Sucks that I never watched these movies as a child, I would have loved them.
>>8836511
what's her name again? it's been so long i forgot
Why did the novel "The Catcher in the Rye" inspire Mark Chapman toshoot John Lennon?
It was Yoko's fault, honestly.
>>8836510
john was a phony
>>8836510
MK Ultra.
Do you dog ear or do you bookmark, /lit/?
>>8836465
Book mark master race reporting in
I use a green index card as my mine.
I remember the page number I was on because I'm not retarded
>>8836465
I unashamedly dog-ear. Mind you, I also piss to mark my territory. Read of that what you will.
Do you read when you eat? I'm trying to stop watching TV while I eat but reading while eating seems like a pain.
>>8836430
>watching TV while I eat
I eat mussels dipped in butter when I read.
>>8836466
What else are you supposed to do?
Is this the GOAT?
What's the point of that picture?
Part of me wants to read Lolita, but every time I read a chunk of it I can't get over how tryhard it all seems. It's like with each verse and sentence Nabokov consciously thought, "How can I make this astoundingly beautiful?" It's kind of grating in large doses.
>>8836526
To show you what fucking book OP is talking about. What is the point of your face?