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Anonymous
2016-10-26 01:31:47 Post No.8658807
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Anonymous 2016-10-26 01:31:47 Post No. 8658807 [Report] [View this topic]

Should I read bad books?

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Anonymous 2016-10-26 01:37:53 Post No.8658815
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>>8658807
You should read well written books. You should read badly written but important books with good, interesting, and insightful arguments (that is, badly written books with good philosophy). You should not read badly written books without good philosophy.

Anonymous 2016-10-26 01:41:38 Post No.8658819
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>>8658815
So nothing like John Grisham books or Harry Potter?

Anonymous 2016-10-26 01:55:13 Post No.8658848
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>>8658819
If you didn't read Harry Potter when you were a wee tyke, I wouldn't recommend reading it now. It certainly won't cultivate your mind in the shape of the forms of good thought or true beauty.

Your body is what it eats. Your mind is what it reads.

Anonymous
just got back feedback from a publisher 2016-10-26 01:26:39 Post No.8658796
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just got back feedback from a publisher Anonymous 2016-10-26 01:26:39 Post No. 8658796 [Report] [View this topic]

says it's shit. i know its good. has had interest before. end of rope with queries. just fuck my shit up.

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Anonymous 2016-10-26 01:58:58 Post No.8658865
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>>8658796
Ya gotta post an excerpt if you want us to fuck your shit up, man

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>>8658796
>says it's shit. i know its good.

DROPPED

Anonymous 2016-10-26 02:14:23 Post No.8658916
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Post it, we'll tell you if it's good without ulterior, pecuniary, motives.

Anonymous
2016-10-26 01:09:49 Post No.8658762
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Anonymous 2016-10-26 01:09:49 Post No. 8658762 [Report] [View this topic]

What are your pre writing rituals /lit/?

Who here /invocationofthemuse/?

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Anonymous 2016-10-26 01:17:29 Post No.8658779
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>>8658762
i think about jcs and how i will never have another

Anonymous 2016-10-26 01:19:29 Post No.8658783
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>>8658779
jcs = ?

Anonymous 2016-10-26 01:22:09 Post No.8658788
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Anonymous 2016-10-26 01:22:09 Post No.8658788 [Report]

I don't have any, I mostly just throw around emotional stimuli in my head until I get a strong response and then expand on it.

Anonymous
Ending of The Trial 2016-10-26 01:01:16 Post No.8658740
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Ending of The Trial Anonymous 2016-10-26 01:01:16 Post No. 8658740 [Report] [View this topic]

If Kafka was able to finish this novel - what would be the ending? What would have happened?

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Anonymous 2016-10-26 01:17:38 Post No.8658780
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Anonymous 2016-10-26 01:17:38 Post No.8658780 [Report]

Exactly what happened in the book. Other parts of the book are missing, not the ending.

Anonymous 2016-10-26 01:19:52 Post No.8658784
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>>8658780
pls source

also what about "The Castle"?

Anonymous 2016-10-26 01:23:00 Post No.8658790
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>>8658784
The castle is missing an ending, but Kafka had one in mind. K. would have died after getting a permit to work or something. Google for sources, I'm going to bed.

Anonymous
2016-10-26 00:58:57 Post No.8658734
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Anonymous 2016-10-26 00:58:57 Post No. 8658734 [Report] [View this topic]

>he likes anything after modernism

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Anonymous 2016-10-26 01:00:18 Post No.8658738
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>>8658734
i have a very odd attraction to girls who look extremely nerdy. Braces and glasses make me BANANAS MATE

Anonymous 2016-10-26 01:12:04 Post No.8658769
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Anonymous 2016-10-26 01:12:04 Post No.8658769 [Report]

It is pretty difficult to find any DISCERNIBLE talent (see dfw) after modernism

Pynch is still pretty good though desu

Anonymous 2016-10-26 02:31:37 Post No.8658971
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>>8658734
>not liking the mess that is po-mo

You're a fooool

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books set in the republic of venice? 2016-10-26 00:40:31 Post No.8658686
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books set in the republic of venice? Anonymous 2016-10-26 00:40:31 Post No. 8658686 [Report] [View this topic]

any good ones other than casanova's diary?

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Anonymous 2016-10-26 00:45:50 Post No.8658695
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Anonymous 2016-10-26 00:45:50 Post No.8658695 [Report]

Probably the merchant of Venice

Anonymous 2016-10-26 00:48:31 Post No.8658700
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>>8658695
And Othello

Anonymous 2016-10-26 00:51:19 Post No.8658711
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>>8658695
>>8658700
right, any others?

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2016-10-25 23:56:44 Post No.8658597
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Anonymous 2016-10-25 23:56:44 Post No. 8658597 [Report] [View this topic]

Share a few light poems that you like, it can be from someone else or even yourself!

Here's mine:
A Word To Husbands

To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;
Whenever you’re right, shut up.

-Ogden Nash

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Anonymous 2016-10-26 00:27:13 Post No.8658664
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Through fear
And trembling
Do we find self
In a forest dark

Through fear
We find faith
With faith
We trump fear

Fear is
Lack of faith
Faith in
Something to fear

Anonymous 2016-10-26 00:28:25 Post No.8658666
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Here's mine:
Monsters rise from the ground,
wrought from iron, glass, and concrete.
An old world under shadows drowned, their conquest nearly complete.

Grotesque forms rise to the skies,
Heavens territory is ceded.
The old from consumption dies,
its ancient spirit depleted.

Soulless blocks of glass now stand,
where once stood old forms proud.
Gone are the days of beauty grande,
replaced with a more modern brand.

Anonymous 2016-10-26 01:56:35 Post No.8658852
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Candy is dandy
But liquor is quicker
-Ogden Nash

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underground literature ?? 2016-10-25 23:56:37 Post No.8658595
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underground literature ?? Anonymous 2016-10-25 23:56:37 Post No. 8658595 [Report] [View this topic]

For an art project I'm doing underground culture; I have to find 3 aspects of it. I have come up with underground film, music and literature.
However I have no idea how to classify "underground literature" i need examples for a page in my project so could anyone show any examples or tell me how to classify or define underground literature?

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Anonymous 2016-10-25 23:59:14 Post No.8658604
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>>8658595
Are you looking for contemporary examples or can it be historical stuff?

Anonymous 2016-10-26 00:00:29 Post No.8658613
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>>8658595
bottom's dream probably. start with the greeks. holy... i want more... dfw

Anonymous 2016-10-26 00:04:13 Post No.8658622
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my rap battles desu

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2016-10-25 23:42:35 Post No.8658548
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Anonymous 2016-10-25 23:42:35 Post No. 8658548 [Report] [View this topic]

What are some good books on pirates? I'm thinking of teaching a course on piracy /lit, but I'm having trouble filling it out.

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Anonymous 2016-10-25 23:43:02 Post No.8658554
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Anonymous 2016-10-25 23:43:02 Post No.8658554 [Report]

Moby Dick

Anonymous 2016-10-25 23:44:59 Post No.8658566
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Anonymous 2016-10-25 23:44:59 Post No.8658566 [Report]

>>8658554
Not really.

>>8658548
If you mean fiction, Treasure Island is pretty fun. If you mean historical, I'm not sure.

Anonymous 2016-10-25 23:46:30 Post No.8658569
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>>8658548
arrrrrrrrr

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2016-10-25 23:33:44 Post No.8658518
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Anonymous 2016-10-25 23:33:44 Post No. 8658518 [Report] [View this topic]

more books like Fin's Wake that invent a lot of words/language?

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Anonymous 2016-10-25 23:34:52 Post No.8658522
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Lord of The Rings

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A clockwork orange has a lot of made up or developed language in it called "nadsat" however I've no idea what fins wake is about so whether it's "like it" or not I don't know

Anonymous 2016-10-26 00:19:06 Post No.8658650
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>>8658518
care to explain that pic

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2016-10-25 23:25:23 Post No.8658485
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Anonymous 2016-10-25 23:25:23 Post No. 8658485 [Report] [View this topic]

How's that novel coming?

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D-
Is this really all your work? Please see me after class.

Anonymous 2016-10-26 01:05:43 Post No.8658748
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>>8658485
is she levitating that book?
pretty badass

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Is that a Picasso?

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Anonymous 2016-10-25 23:23:28 Post No. 8658476 [Report] [View this topic]

Where would be a good place to start on Kierkegaard

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Anonymous 2016-10-25 23:24:28 Post No.8658479
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>>8658476
is that really the only picture of him

Anonymous 2016-10-25 23:25:21 Post No.8658484
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>>8658479
Yes, now tell me where the fuck I should start

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>>8658476
Skip Spookergaard desu

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Anonymous 2016-10-25 23:22:11 Post No. 8658470 [Report] [View this topic]

I'm trying to develop better (less shameful) habits. Been at it for a while but still not really enthused about reading.

Only porn and sometimes video games can give me that full body, tingle in the balls excitement to go and do them so am wondering if any of you get that feeling for reading consistently?

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>>8658470
Read Stirner. Stop being spooked by motivation. Reading is already your property, you need only to exert power over it.

Anonymous 2016-10-25 23:54:06 Post No.8658589
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>>8658480
Lol

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>>8658470
you have responsibilities to yourself as a person. gotta get the ball rolling so you can truly enjoy it.

you know you like reading so let yourself read for a while.

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Titus Groan 2016-10-25 23:12:04 Post No.8658437
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Titus Groan Anonymous 2016-10-25 23:12:04 Post No. 8658437 [Report] [View this topic]

I'm not a huge reader, but I am a music-head, and I realized there's a lot of good music based on this series, so I decided to give it a go. I just finished it; I really loved it.

Do you guys enjoy the series?

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Anonymous 2016-10-25 23:22:56 Post No.8658474
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bump. Send the music anon, i didn't read the series but am very interested in it, seems amazing

Anonymous 2016-10-25 23:37:38 Post No.8658536
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>>8658474
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_37Kl473jpE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiTlaetHG9U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycxc8Xitweo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j53D4o0CfQ

plus a bunch of others that I either haven't heard or kind of suck, the guy from Can did a whole opera apparently

Anonymous 2016-10-25 23:42:54 Post No.8658551
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Lol there was literally just a thread on this. But yeah its one of my favourite series of books. Really great atmosphere and prose.

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Anonymous 2016-10-25 23:07:42 Post No. 8658422 [Report] [View this topic]

Please, /Lit/Lord's, recommend me a good book set in the wild west.

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Anonymous 2016-10-25 23:10:09 Post No.8658425
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Blood Meme
Warlock
Riders of The Purple Sage
Shane
The Bad Lands

Anonymous 2016-10-25 23:11:43 Post No.8658436
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Anonymous 2016-10-25 23:11:43 Post No.8658436 [Report]

West of Eden by John Steinbeck

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>>8658425
Blood meridian?

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