Literary Confession Thread
I'm a sood
>>8709465
Keep your chin up, champ.
I like ayn rand
What books of christian literature do you guys recommend?
>>8708933
Dante's Divine Comedy I guess.
>>8708992
wat
So in the end was it ever explained how Slothrop's erections could summon rockets?
it was explained in the first part of the novel. he was experimented on as a child with the goal of making his little cock erect whenever he smells imipolex (because that fucking doctor who experimented on him also held a patent on imipolex) or something to that extent, and then they tried to erase that reflex from him, but instead they achieved moving it "beyond the zero," which is in pynchon's understanding to reverse cause and effect, which is why he was later able to sort of predict with his cock where the rockets would fall.
all in all it's not very logical, but what did you expect?
>>8708799
forgot to add that V2s had some parts made out of Imipolex, hence the predictions
>>8708799
This. The rockets weren't "summoned."
Hi /lit/
Do any of you know a book about perfect facial skin? The kind of skin the models have like pic related. It should be a good of very good quality that deals with both skin care and lifestyle changes.
rub books on it
>>8708231
This is literature.
>>8708250
And I'm looking for a good quality piece of literature that will deal with the topic of perfect facial skin. both care, tips and lifestyle
Got over 10,000 words written today, /lit/. How many did you write? If none, how much did you read, and what book was it?
Gif unrelated.
Got my first novel I'm proud of done. I tried to do it in as least words as possible, it's like 40,000 or so words, took me a month total in between procrastinating and writing other stuff.
Also did like 4000 or so that I'm going to scrap for my erotica CYOA adventure story.
I've been consistently shitposting for 5 hours until I got banned from /pol/ for posting bullshit like pic related, by my estimate I'm anywhere between 3000-6000, and 5 catalog lines worth of forum sliding. It's a pathetic waste of my time, but it felt cathartic considering how much those fuckers shit up my board.
>>8704973
>erotica CYOA
damn that's a good idea. You know how to sell out like an absolute madman.
So can we all agree that the SS officer was dracula and General Entrescu was a werewolf, right?
No.
>>8704918
the fuck
"At midmorning they came to a castle. The only people there were three Romanians and an SS officer who was acting as butler and who put them right to work, after serving them a breakfast consisting of a glass of cold milk and a scrap of bread, which some soldiers left untouched in disgust. Everyone, except for four soldiers who stood guard, among them Reiter, whom the SS officer judged ill suited for the task of tidying the castle, left their rifles in the kitchen and set to work sweeping, mopping, dusting lamps, putting clean sheets on the beds."
“And what are you doing here, at Dracula’s castle?” asked the baroness.
Serving the Reich, said Reiter, and for the first time he looked at her.
He thought she was stunningly beautiful, much more so than when he had known her. A few steps from them, waiting, was General Entrescu, who couldn’t stop smiling, and the young scholar Popescu, who more than once exclaimed: wonderful, wonderful, yet again the sword of fate severs the head from the hydra of chance."
"Soon they came to a crypt dug out of the rock. An iron gate, with a coat of arms eroded by time, barred the entrance. The SS officer, who behaved as if he owned the castle, took a key out of his pocket and let them in. Then he switched on a flashlight and they all ventured into the crypt, except for Reiter, who remained on guard at the door at the signal of one of the officers.
So Reiter stood there, watching the stone stairs that led down into the dark, and the desolate garden through which they had come, and the towers of the castle like two gray candles on a deserted altar. Then he felt for a cigarette in his jacket, lit it, and gazed at the gray sky, the distant valleys, and thought about the Baroness Von Zumpe’s face as the cigarette ash dropped to the ground and little by little he fell asleep, leaning on the stone wall. Then he dreamed about the inside of the crypt. The stairs led down to an amphitheater only partially illuminated by the SS officer’s flashlight. He dreamed that the visitors were laughing, all except one of the general staff officers, who wept and searched for a place to hide. He dreamed that Hoensch recited a poem by Wolfram von Eschenbach and then spat blood. He dreamed that among them they had agreed to eat the Baroness Von Zumpe.
He woke with a start and almost bolted down the stairs to confirm with his own eyes that nothing he had dreamed was real.
When the visitors returned to the surface, anyone, even the least astute observer, could have seen that they were divided into two groups, those who were pale when they emerged, as if they had glimpsed something momentous down below, and those who appeared with a half smile sketched on their faces, as if they had just been reapprised of the naivete of the human race."
Has anyone else read the Brief Wondrous life of Oscar Wao? did you like it?
i enjoyed the character construction and cultural portrayal. if we're talking about novels with obese protagonists i'd go for Confederacy of Dunces, but i think Toole could have been a little more like Diaz
>>8712434
yeah it was a fun read. have you read it?
One of the worst books ever written and symptomatic of our dystopian PC culture that it was awarded the Pulitzer
Is Obama the most /lit/ President?
>I haven’t read “The Waste Land” for a year, and I never did bother to check all the footnotes. But I will hazard these statements—Eliot contains the same ecstatic vision which runs from Münzer to Yeats. However, he retains a grounding in the social reality/order of his time.
Facing what he perceives as a choice between ecstatic chaos and lifeless mechanistic order, he accedes to maintaining a separation of asexual purity and brutal sexual reality. And he wears a stoical face before this. Read his essay on Tradition and the Individual Talent, as well as Four Quartets, when he’s less concerned with depicting moribund Europe, to catch a sense of what I speak.
Remember how I said there’s a certain kind of conservatism which I respect more than bourgeois liberalism—Eliot is of this type. Of course, the dichotomy he maintains is reactionary, but it’s due to a deep fatalism, not ignorance. (Counter him with Yeats or Pound, who, arising from the same milieu, opted to support Hitler and Mussolini.)
And this fatalism is born out of the relation between fertility and death, which I touched on in my last letter—life feeds on itself. A fatalism I share with the western tradition at times. You seem surprised at Eliot’s irreconcilable ambivalence; don’t you share this ambivalence yourself, Alex?
>>8712334
Yes but Iron Mike is still the King of /lit/
>>8712334
Yes, probably.
Someone got ahold of his undergraduate poetry four years ago. They showed it to Harold Bloom, who said he was "not unimpressed" with the effort. Though he ultimately concluded that Obama should stick will politics.
Damn /lit/ is boring tonight
Post the last piece of literature that made a big impact on you
>>8712232
Middlemarch probably.
I was wondering if it was just me. I spent almost all of Sunday on /lit/ and it was great but there's been nothing good over the past few days
ulysses desu
Which book should I read?
In AP /lit/ we have to choose one of these to read alongside As I Lay Dying by Faulkner. Which book do you prefer (and which is most /lit/)
Would it be difficult to read 2 Faulkner books at the same time?
holy shit is a separate peace actually put up with those other two
it seemed corny and lame even in 8th grade when i had to read it
>>8712185
>The Road
>A Separate Peace
>AP Lit
You need to go back
>>8712196
He did say it was the easiest, and I was actually considering it because reading 2 books by the same author at the same time sounds like a pain, and The Road doesn't appeal to me that much. Is A Seperate Peace actually bad, or just criticized for being easy to read?
what is the stranger things of literature that isn't stephen king
>>8712021
Steve W.W. Kang
It
>tfw when never really wanting to read SK (Stephen King) because his name sounds stupid and he looks like a nerd
ew
>tfw that overwhelming amount of literature and poetry
>tfw you have only one life time
>tfw when any work cant be understood by mere reading but by engaging in life experience and accompanying it with the reading
how do you fucking cope with this? i guess one is to choose and discard practically the whole thing by focusing in a couple of authors right? or just read a couple of as much as you can?
>>8711909
read casually, but passionately
le tempe est court et lart est long
>>8711916
voulais-tu dire peut-être: la tempête courte la terre élongée?
I read Marx, but apparently marxists don't exist anymore only Marxists-Leninists
What book should I read to understand Marxism-Leninism better?
>>8711775
Idk mang lenin's maybe
>>8711876
Yeah but what book
Marxism leninism is bad.
The actual thing you should do is go back and read Hegel and become a Hegelian communist.
Hey guys, I'm the OP from this post: >>8683638
I have completed my non-philosophy form of argument which I think proves my philosophical ideas, but that's up for debate.
This is the science version of the ideas.
The true explanation and evidence for The Big Bang Theory.
It can be found here:
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>>8711755
If this was actually true you wouldn't be posting it to /lit/.
>>8711771
Not sure what your reasoning is exactly kek
>>8711755
Wait... you took out the 'everyone should kill themelves' stuff? What gives?
If you were writing a shitty, deplorable human being for a character that also read books, what would be his favorite book?
Pic related.
Bible
>>8711543
my dairy desu
Speaking off
dubs means posting a page
roll now
Atlas Shrugged probably.