Can anyone explain The Parable of the Plums in Ulysses? I'm stuck.
http://www.ralphmag.org/IE/vestal-virgins.html
if you aren't Irish, this book will mean absolutely nothing to you
>>8811500
I am Irish.
c'mon /litards I thought you were all balls deep in the trilogy!
Did nietzsche ever discuss what to do after you become an ubermensch? I've been an ubermensch for a few days now and am feeling stuck
>>8811381
>become an ubermensch
Overman doesn't belong to becoming, you mong. Becoming breeds either masters or slaves, which are none of overman's business.
>>8811381
>overman
>doing anything after "becoming"
please leave
You go to the top of a mountain and stare contently at the horizon
I just finished Ask the Dusk: where should I go from here with Fante?
I checked him out because of Bukowski's praise (pls no bully) and was very much impressed. Although not as depraved as I would have expected, it was a refreshing tale of a young writer (Bandini is 20, I believe) that wasn't completely whiny or "woe-is-me."
Dust*
I'll never recover from this.
Wait Until Spring, Bandini is 10/10 majestic, desu.
>ASK THE DUSK
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Do you think if someone wrote a book about scientific, historical and cultural reasons why females are inferior to males, what would happen?
Same thing that happens every day. Most rational people are perfectly aware that women are inferior to men. They just pretend otherwise to be polite.
>>8811271
you'd read it
>>8811271
Feminists would get pissy and make a big deal out of it while the average person would silently agree with the book.
>tfw want to read Proust now but cant speak french
Should i kill myself? When will this suffering end?
>>8811195
>frog faggot
>should I kill myself?
Yes
You don't want to read Proust. We had to read it during high-school, and even if he has a good writing style, he's boring as fuck and you wouldn't go through more than a dozen of pages.
>>8811197
>We had to read it during high-school
lel
>Friedrich Nietzsche
>was a NEET
>Immanuel Kant
>told people what they can and KANT do
makes you think
>>8811188
>makes you think
no really
faggot
>Leo Lolstoy
>could take 10 people in a fight, could also do 30 pull-ups at the age of 70
>>8811196
He's abigguy.For RU.
FUCKING HELL I LOVE READING BOOKS
IF READING BOOKS WERE A FULL-TIME JOB I WOULD TOTALLY BE DOWN WITH THAT AND WOULD EARN MONEY DOING THE THING I LOVE
GODDAMN BOOKS ARE GREAT
>>8811167
Let's be honest with ourselves here, books are for numale cucks
please do not shout in the library
>>8811171
>books
>new
A question for people who speak Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.
Why do we use verses whose metrics are so limited? Even our larger verse, the decassyllabic one, that one used by Dante and Camões, is still very concise and allows little insertion of content.
Let's look at other poetic traditions:
Greek and Latin have the hexametres, verses that are considerably long.
The Frenchman used the decassyllabic verse, but eventually opted for the longer, more spacious, twelve-syllable Alexandrin verse.
English uses the ten-syllable iambic pentameter, but with the central question that a good part of the words in English is monosyllabic, and generally filling an English verse with ten syllables already allows the inclusion of enough content.
I wonder then: why do we who write in Portuguese, Spanish and Italian do not begin to use more verses of twelve syllables? Why does our tradition insist on verses of ten or even seven syllables?
>>8811139
We dont have much of a content.
>>8811139
I think it's because it increases the chances for having to stop the verse before a word ending in "os" or "as" becomes inevitable. Even though you don't rhyme, that shit must get old?
I'm not particularly knowledgeable when it comes to prosody, so I have to ask - does the number of syllables even matter when talking about the content? I mean, one verse isn't automatically one sentence, you could split a fairly long and complex sentence across several shorter verses, you'd just have to add rhyming syllables and pauses more often than in a longer verse.
What are some /lit/ answers to finding happiness?
>>8811087
Take the redpill of woman hate
Schopenhauer's On Women
Changed my life
>>8811087
>happiness
Spooky.
>>8811087
Don't.
>time spent reading a 300 page classic : 1 week
>time spent watching the movie : 2 hours
>material lost in adaptation : 10% MAX
Give me 1(ONE) good reason to read a book
It's a totally different experience with a totally different quality of profit.
>>8811043
False premise.
>material lost in adaptation : 10% MAX
Suggest some books that I can start reading. For reference, I enjoy Nietzsche, Kafka and Tolstoy.
>>8810989
Fuck reading books. Go hit the gym.
>>8810989
Leonid Andreyev, Isaac Babel, Gogol
>>8810989
Fantasy
>Selected:
>https://i.imgur.com/r688cPe.jpg
>General:
>https://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg
>Flowchart:
>https://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg
>Beginner's Guide to Fantasy:
>https://i.imgur.com/fOGNfWK.jpg
Science Fiction
>Selected:
>https://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/IBs9KE8.jpg
>General:
>https://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg
>NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
>https://i.imgur.com/IJxTQBL.jpg
How do you identify the rhythm you're meant to read a poem with?
I try and read poetry in my head and it sounds like my inner voice has severe brain injuries and what works for one sentence won't work for another.
>>8810985
Listen to someone reciting it??
>>8810985
Maybe start by reading Shakespeare's early work. Most of it has a straightforward iambic "ba-DUM" rhythm.
Thought on this book?
>>8810971
lusty ladies and feminism
>>8810971
I didn't like it. I just don't enjoy journal/letter format novels.
It's in public domain, therefore it's good.
I prefer something realistic than sci-fi.
>>8810963
riddley walker
book of dave
>>8810963
Earth Abides
>>8810963
the crisalids
>>8810894
/pol/ and /r9k/. Fuck leftist cucks, the truth is in the redpill
>>8810918
this
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