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Posting some of his works

ADAM's APPLE

Her skin is smooth
as peach or appleblossom
-or a snakeskin.

The snake's fangs gleam,
the fruit glistens
as warmly in her palm

as ever it shone
on the holy tree.
He savours it

so slowly,
it sticks in
our throat forever.

PILGRIMS

A warm summer evening, near Multyfarnham.
Two young pilgrims, on their way home
from the all-night vigil of the Mission
Short-cut down the railway lines.
Near dawn, they drop their shriven heads down
On the rails. To die like Elizabethans,
Two torsos yielding two bright crowns.

PSYCHIC SURGERY

There are times when
one should be able
to pluck off one's head
like a dented or worn
helmet, straight from
the nape and collarbone
and place it firmly down

in the bed of a flowing stream
of clear, clean, cold water
coursing and spuming through
the sour and stale compartments
of the brain, dulled eardrums
bleared eyesockets, benumbed
nostrils, barely open,

and then set it back again
on the base of the shoulders:
well tamped down, of course,
the laved skin and mouth,
the marble of the eyes
rinsed and ready
for love, for prophecy.

It's Hitler you dip. Of course it does.

>>8823849
yes it's still a top seller in many parts of the world

>>8823898
>>8823861
neither of these answer the question at all

is it good? could Hitler write?

Baudolino

Bash her head in

>>8823903
didnt like that one

>>8823737
Who?

>>8823739
Yer mom, fag.

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>>8823744
>>8823739

wittgenstein's private language

hegel's phenomenology

gadamer's truth and method

>>8823617

Any fiction?

Orhan Pamuk - The White Castle

Bhagava.. Bhaga.. Bhaganna work here anymore anyway

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To get the most out of the Bhagavad-Gita it's better to just read the whole Mahabharata. Read the book in one of my Hindu lit classes in school, very beautiful story.

>>8823616
why troll the poor man

>>8823584

>Jules Verne
>Paris in the twentieth century

>>8823584
Now that I think about it French literature is utter garbage.
>Dumas
>The Count of Monte Christo

>>8823598
>>8823620
Terrible taste

>>8823540

>Read the bible

>Come to the conclusion it's propaganda created by cunning people riding off the success of a man who may or may not have existed .

>Find out I am somehow a filthy fedora just because it's uncool if you sound even remotely like you come from reddit because 4chan just wants to be on that extra layer of anti-establishment, therefore it's cool to not question religion again.

>>8823602
>it's propaganda created by cunning people riding off the success of a man who may or may not have existed .
t. Hasn't read the bible

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>>8823540
>be me
>reading through a dictionary of heretics throughout history
>find a sect that is literally my name with -ism on the end
>tfw you realise that you're a god

niggers can't read let alone write

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>>8823551
people talk shit bout me, deep down they knowing they aint right

mmmm when i walk in the room, they can't look in my eeeeyes

>>8823556
MMMMMM
MR RAGER
TELL US OF YOUR PROBLEMS
TALKING BOUT THE JOURNEY
MOHAOOAHOHAOHAHO

rhyme 'nigga' with 'nigga' about 30 more times and you're golden

t. poet

>>8823481
this sounds like a crimp from the mighty boosh

>>8823487
What does that mean?

>>8823430
pertrarch, dante

their italian is very different from modern italian, I think moreso than our english is different from shakespeare's

For literature I'm not sure...I live in Italy so it's wonderful to speak and read Calvino, Pirandello, and svevo. But Dante and Boccaccio are much closer to Latin than modern Italian so I'm not sure how much that Gould go for you.

On the flip side it's not a difficult language to grasp... much more difficult to master.

>>8823453
Italian is a nice language because as far I as know it's writing is transparent and close to the pronunciation, which would help a lot with learning it.

And what would you say about contemporary Italian lit?
And the last question, how much would knowing some latin help? Is the grammar similar?

Array of fear like gold
Finds the crown jewel
Of each mans work
In the shape of a river
To the crescent waterfall
Of eye

The sweet dissolves
And honeys hue
Is stirred and settles
Until the shade of
Milk in blue

>>8823414
OP is a tryhard faggot

r8

In regards to that most foreboding of reverberations; that dreaded and ominous noise; that most terrible, unsettling, catastrophic of cacophonies; that which fills the whole room with auspicious terror; that CRASH!, loud like a fullisade of cannonfire; it must be said; if only in a grim mouthed utterance in the upstairs of a three-story hostel in the seedy part of Hamburg; that seldom does an event of magnanimous good occur after such a dreadful din. In all of history; even those antediluvian parts of it that spoke of Sumer and the fish like creatures that did dwell in the Tigris and Euphrates; never has such a CRASH! been accompanied in the latter part of the chronology by a merry happening. Never CRASH! the matronly voluptuous woman whom every man does lust for in his innermost dreams pours her sticky, bubbly, creamy solid-liquids onto the great black expanse of the iron hard, hot, hot griddle, moaning slightly as the great golden flapjacks swell up on that great surface, the aroma fucking the nostrils with butter cocks as she alerts her son of the presence of the soft yellow bosoms she has crafted. Never CRASH! a mangy flea ridden beast, his eyes rheumy, milky, always unseeing, his legs weak and his fur falling in great tufts; nonetheless we have made the impractical decision to take this wolf-descendant into our home as one of the family; forming the martial component of the modern post-agricultural abode. Indeed, of the infamous CRASH! it may be stated that only ruin and rape befall those unfortunate Philomites who might take its tone.

>>8823360
the melville is very good

>>8823360
>What is the best, BEST edition of Moby Dick out there?

Fuck off, reddit. Unless you're reading a translation, what the fuck difference does it make? In all seriousness, you're the cancer that's killing this board. Seriously contemplate your own suicide, faggot.

>>8823360
the one that you buy and read before starting a dumbass thread about it

>>8823322
>welp /tg/ is sick of this dumb meme
>lets take it to /lit/!!!
fucking chaotics get out

>>8823322
you literally got all of those wrong

Melville is chaotic neutral
Joyce is true neutral

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>America is a multicultural country

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlyVzFjINBk

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>>8823290
your anger is a spook, property.

:^)

>>8823315
The notion that everything is a spook is also a spook tbqh