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>>8664787

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility: 1095
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; 1100
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. 1105
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
Fathers that, like so many Alexanders, 1110
Have in these parts from morn till even fought
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:
Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.
Be copy now to men of grosser blood, 1115
And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base, 1120
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'

Whitman's The Wound Dresser.

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>>8664812
Yeah, Whitman and Melville have some great poems on the American Civil War. Part of Melville's Battle-Pieces:

Texans and Indians trim for a charge:
"Stand ready, men!
Let them come close, right up, and then
After the lead, the iron;
Fire, and charge back!" So strength returned to Lyon.
The Iowa men who held the van,
Half drilled, were new
To battle: "Some one lead us, then we'll do"
Said Corporal Tryon:
"Men! I will lead," and a light glared in Lyon.
On they came: they yelped, and fired;
His spirit sped;
We leveled right in, and the half-breeds fled,
Nor stayed the iron,
Nor captured the crimson corse of Lyon.
This seer foresaw his soldier-doom,
Yet willed the fight.
He never turned; his only flight
Was up to Zion,
Where prophets now and armies greet brave Lyon.

>>8664775
Fairly accurate, in my experience

How the hell is Zettels Traum not gibberish? It's arguably more gibberish than Finnegan's wake

I wouldn't say Swann's Way is as difficult as Ulysses or Gravity's Rainbow. It's not super abstract, just requires a lot of focus because the sentences are very long and winding.

>>8664740
because when you put a lot of effort into understanding something, you'll get frustrated when someone else gets the same things out of something for less effort

>>8664740
Because some things are better than others.

>implying a subculture that produces abortions like Emily Gould has any claim to elitism

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boom_latinoamericano

>>8664720
Borges?

>le ebin Boom meme

Lee autores del Siglo de Oro. Si de verdad quieres hacer algo del Boom, sal de la zona de confort de Gabo, Vargas Llosa y Cortazar.

>>8664717

Jesus

God, author of the bible

>>8664717

Adam Smith

AAAAAAAAAAH!!!

Every FUCKING day with these STUPID fucking MEMES! I've had it up to HERE with stupid fucking memes! You guys make me want to KILL MYSELF! Is that what you fucking want? For me to fucking KILL MYSELF and write on my suicide note "Cause of suicide: Couldn't handle all of the stupid fucking memes, killed myself"? Because that's what it might as well fucking say!

You guys are literally, L I T E R A L L Y incapable of having even the SIMPLEST of fucking discussion without "MEME THIS, MEME THAT, PROBABLY PINECONE BE CHILLIN, HERE'S A PIC OF INFINITE JEST BY DAVID FOSTER WALLACE, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA EBIN AMIRITE?" Fucking STOP IT you pathetic fucking FAGGOTS, you are such fucking cancer that I cannot even fathom how you fucking scumbags live your dumb gay lives. Don't you have a job to get to, schoolwork to finish or a family to attend to? Do you literally do ANYTHING productive with your lives other than post stupid fucking memes on the LITERATURE section of a god damn anime imageboard? You fucking people make me sick and you're damn lucky I don't have any of your fucking addresses you fucking pieces of shits. I'd spit in your faces.

What normal people do:
>introduce girl with pleb /lit/ taste with progressively more and more patrician books
>use this as a bonding method and grow closer together over time
>eventually obtain qt3.14 /lit/ gf

What autists do:
>bitch about girl's pleb taste on 4chins

Which are you?

>>8664694
OP here, full autist all the way. Girls are a meme anyway.

>>8664566
Are you the same guy who's creating all these woman-related threads?

Go back to /r9k/

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>>8664512
Presumably they enjoy his writing

i love lovecraft, but it's a fair criticism to say his writing is overly convoluted.
i mainly get butthurt at people who criticise him for being too racist, or make out like he never describes the cosmic horrors because they're too unimaginable when in fact for the most part he describes them in autistic detail

>>8664512
Because they disagree with you, and when you do something like post "X author sucks" on a chat board, you're either trying to start a debate or you're so amazingly dense you have dreamed up some other justification for bothering to say that.
Besides, you seem deluded enough to feel you've made an argument just by giving one vague insulting opinion ("he sucks") and one subjective preference ("overly convoluted") and that your drivel should be welcomed as some kind of persuasive insight. Actually, you are on precisely the same intellectual and rhetorical level as any tween saying to another "That band on your shirt sucks ass and they can't play for shit!"
(I imagine you're incapable of responding without relying on words like "fag" "triggered" "butthurt" or "troll," but feel free to try, if only to momentarily restore my faith in humanity).

>>8664493
It's decent. Beware of the biases, though, as with any text

Yes. It destroys racial realism.

>>8664505
>t. /pol/ falseflagger

>>8664405
Present a coherent argument

>>8664405
Kill yourself, it's the only way to be a feminist ally and serve the matriarchy.

>>8664411
>>8664430
ok, so how do I write an essay about fucking 'A streetcar named desire' without it being a feminist circlejerk like everybody else's then?

>>8664338
must be right

"Big Dick" Nick Land isn't really a fan of his earlier, vaguely-leftist work.

>>8664338
DFW

>>8664206
I'm redpilled and proud of my heritage and will not see it be flushed down the drain

>>8664206
he's not wrong you know

>>8664213
This isn't about your cum box.

>inb4 Catcher in the Rye

>>8664203
Mein Kampf

I'm redpilled as fuck and the future of the white race is always on my mind.

Can't believe what women have done to the world

>>8664209
>Not The Turner Diaries
Cuck

>>8664051
Unwashed hands is a backhand swipe at Jewish purity laws as defining holyness, not hygiene. Its the basis of Paul's arguments against works as a means to salvation.

>>8664051
The people who wrote it didn't know much about modern standards of hygiene

>>8664062
I am currently in bible college and i can confirm this.

>>8664027
Post excerpts that you like

Also, you like it because you are insincere

>>8664029

Are you serious? How is liking shit literature because it's funny insincere? Well I particularly enjoyed that part where Juno tells Jupiter a list of every single mythological and real being she ever fucked (it's everyone).

also, here are some great excerpts of the sophisticated literature of Shawn Wunjo:

>Climbing into the wild blue yonder on a fountain
of piss and shit, the ass-shaped boat took to the sky, and as Lucifer looked down upon the land below like Aeneas surveying the kingdom he had left behind, another floppy cunt-shaped ship landed and shatnered out its load of prolapse-wielding scrotums.The sack of shit panicked, jacked the magic dick off harder, and before the cum-blasters could even throw their fuck grenades at the boat, the two comrades of
the fellowship of the vagina-ass were in the sky,
blasting away at high speed. Lucifer glanced back, grinned again. “Fucking shit niggers!” He said, and the sack of babyshit burbled in agreement, but further up in the sky, like the distance of a giant fucking massive dick
away, some other shit was going down.

and

But none of the gympy retards were eager to die,
so they all ran away like little bitches, clearing a path to the port where the only ship Neptune hadn’t destroyed sat waiting to be commandeered. Like the Ass-Fairy’s boat, this too had a giant magic dick in the bottom of it that had to be stroked to get the thing moving, and as the boat took off into the piss-yellow ocean, it got so hard that it almost popped the burbling sack of babyshit and the razor-bladed dildo had to take over for him. Lucifer grinned, reached into the sack and smeared nacho cheese mixed with
babyshit all over his face. “Holy shit I love life!” He yelled, then turned back. “Oh, andRojir, welcome to the gay fucking fellowship
of the Vagina Ass!”

>>8664111
>>8664027
are you 18?