>they have read neither Schiller nor Goethe in german
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Everyone reads Werther in high school though.
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I have, but that's because I'm German so I guess that's cheating.
I've read Lolita in French though.
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I read goosebumps in english
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Am I stupid for not being able to understand what he's saying if I have no background knowledge of anything he's talking about?
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Don't ask questions you know the answer to.
Of course you're fucking stupid, Anonymous.
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>>8778530
he wanted so bad to be a rationalist that he thought it was revolutionary to be stop being rationalist to become empiricist and worthy of writing a book.
captcha: albert hooker
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>>8778530
Lol starting philosophy with Wittgenstein. Anscombe, diamond, and Roger white have good commentaries on tractatus
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what are some good ideas for character dialogue ticks/idiosyncrasies
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ex. guy in recognitions always saying oh lawf
ex. guy in nightcrawler talking like hes reading from a self-help book
this sort of thing and everything in between welcome
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guy who can only talk in iambic pentameter
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>>8778489
guy who when he's stressed starts saying things like "plape", "tane", "cuck" in a quavering voice and he always starts laughing uncontrollably, mood lifting
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>>8778489
Gaddis is great at this
>God damned
>Oh gee
>Holy shit
And McCarthy both with the characters speaking spanish and the contrast between the biblical, ominous prose of some of his characters and the simple, dry way of speaking of some others.
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Does anyone else have trouble picturing Bloom as a Jew?
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I have a hard time picturing him as anything because his physical appearance is never described at all
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>>8778472
>his penis is
And he's also described as somewhat ugly or at least undeserving of his wife when you compare their looks.
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>>8778896
>his penis is
wait what? where? point me to the passage pls.
[s]i need a good fap[/s]
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MALIGNANTLY USELESS
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have you even read the book?
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>“As a survival-happy species, our successes are calculated in the number of years we have extended our lives, with the reduction of suffering being only incidental to this aim. To stay alive under almost any circumstances is a sickness with us. Nothing could be more unhealthy than to “watch one’s health” as a means of stalling death. The lengths we will go as procrastinators of that last gasp only demonstrate a morbid dread of that event. By contrast, our fear of suffering is deficient.”
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>>8778431
OP saw it on reddit today
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How do I learn more words?
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>>8778378
Read!
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Why would you want that? Only pseuds care about "smart words", you should learn to speak with a lesser amount dictionary
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>>8778430
*lesser dictionary
>fuck me
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Which author had the best prose?
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Alan Moore
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It depends on your view of "best". I find DeLillo's prose the most beautiful, but I guess either Tolstoi or Flaubert would be the "best" if you're talking about flawless, clear, precise prose.
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Rilke.
>Und was gab das den Frauen für eine wehmütige Schönheit, wenn sie schwanger waren und standen, und in ihrem großen Leib, auf welchem die schmalen Hände unwillkürlich liegen blieben, waren zwei Früchte: ein Kind und ein Tod. Kam das dichte, beinah nahrhafte Lächeln in ihrem ganz ausgeräumten Gesicht nicht davon her, daß sie manchmal meinten, es wüchsen beide?
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I'm a click away from buying a Kindle.
I read a lot of pdfs on my computer, more so than actual books. I have a big list of to-read books that when I think about would be too expensive.
Is having a Kindle worth it? And do you have any tips, like where to download or about book formats and so on?
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Sust download true e-books and you'll be good. Scans, even good ones, are awful to read on kindle, screen gets refreshed every time it's pretty annoying.
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Yup. I have an old one, but jail breaking is like the best thing.
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I love reading biographies. In this thread, share some of the most enriching and interesting biographies you have read.
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An amazing book. Can't be put down. The apex of the "rise to power" type of biographies. Very well written and very well-researched (did you know Hitler loved Schopenhauer?).
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Plutarch's lives.
Trump is Alcibiades.
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An absolutely brilliant man. Recommended.
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Poetry critique thread. Reply to others to get critiqued.
If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
You leave the same impression
Of something beautiful, but annihilating.
Both of you are great light borrowers.
Her O-mouth grieves at the world; yours is unaffected,
And your first gift is making stone out of everything.
I wake to a mausoleum; you are here,
Ticking your fingers on the marble table, looking for cigarettes,
Spiteful as a woman, but not so nervous,
And dying to say something unanswerable.
The moon, too, abuses her subjects,
But in the daytime she is ridiculous.
Your dissatisfactions, on the other hand,
Arrive through the mailslot with loving regularity,
White and blank, expansive as carbon monoxide.
No day is safe from news of you,
Walking about in Africa maybe, but thinking of me.
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I cringe for thee, for pity's sake I contort my face in anguish at thee.
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Street lamps are playing silent
While they feed me with delightfull light
Again, the street cats being violent
I can feel, it's almost midnight
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you can't make a living
under a rock
unless you're an insect
or some sort of worm
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A source of spurious profundity is DeLillo's constant allusions to momentous feelings and portents—allusions that are either left hanging in the air or are conveniently cut short by a narrative pretext. Jack ponders the clutter in his house: "Why do these possessions carry such sorrowful weight? There is a darkness attached to them, a foreboding. They make me wary not of personal failure and defeat but of something more general, something large in scope and content." What is this something large in scope and content ? We are never told. Later Jack registers "floating nuances of being" between him and his stepdaughter. Similar phrases turn up throughout DeLillo's novels; they are perhaps the most consistent element of his style. In Underworld (1997) a man's mouth fills with "the foretaste of massive inner shiftings"; another character senses "some essential streak of self"; the air has "the feel of some auspicious design"; and so on. This is the safe, catchall vagueness of astrologists and palm readers. DeLillo also adds rhetorical questions or other disclaimers to throw his meaning out of focus. Here, to return to White Noise, is another of Jack's musings.
>"We edge nearer death every time we plot. It is like a contract that all must sign, the plotters as well as those who are the targets of the plot."
>Is this true? Why did I say it? What does it mean?
The first and third of those questions are easily answered; after all, we edge nearer death every time we do anything. So why, indeed, does Jack say this? Because DeLillo knew it would seem profoundly original to most of his readers. Then he added those questions to keep the critical minority from charging him with banality.
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I didn't get White Noise so this thread reinforces my opinions without my having to do any of the work.
H A C K
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>>8778148
>we are never told
>please tell me what you r tryin 2 say u mean old man!
>abloo bloo bloo
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Wrong. Gladney is a parody of the cultural critic/academic. He's a stand-in for DeLillo only as much as he's a pastiche of him. Moments like the greentext quote evince a near-collapse of the diegetic/"real"-authorial personae-- Gladney on the brink of a "religious instant," like Oedipa in Pynchon's Lot 49, nearly realizing the vacancy of his ontic status as a fictional character, a diminished, parodic representation of the author figure.
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>only buy hard cover books because I think they last longer and I like reading them better then paperbacks for whatever reason.
am I the only one /lit/?
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I hate hard cover books, they are uncomfortable as fuck to read in every place except for your house.
But I'll agree that they look more "solemn" than the soft covers. I still wouldn't bother buying one of them
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>>8778112
if I like a book I'll try and buy a collectors edition sort of deal where it's maybe leather bound with some decoration, so I don't have to worry about the paperback getting worn down and it looks nice on my bookshelf
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I like hardcovers but I can't afford them
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FUCK Ayn Rand.
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O B S S E S E D
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>>8778048
Fuck her, but also like, FUCK her.
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If you could choose one female author to inherit her fame or notoriety, who would you choose?
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What is the grammatical equivalent of greentexting? I know
> This quotes previous text.
And so quote marks would suffice, but when people greentext hypotheticals or implications, then quote marks prove useless.
I was thinking perhaps bullet points might be the only alternative a person could use in fiction, but it would look just as ridiculous as trying to force in greentexting.
Your thoughts /lit/?
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Anyone?
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Depends on the context - is it you as author interrupting? I think a new paragraph on its own, possibly with italics may work.
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Just use greentext 14/m88.
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"Man, your head is haunted; you have wheels in your head!"
What did he mean by this?
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Yer spooked, lad
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Spooky Get
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