Which is the best Portuguese book of all-time, and why is it Mensagem?
>>8599788
We said Portuguese
I assume that my question is relevant to this thread.
BR living in Portugal here. What is the best, but still accessible edition of Livro do Desassossego available?
Nietzsche ruined me by giving me sight of the possibility of a beautiful life which I am unlikely to ever achieve. He tore down the things that make life bearable in the seeking of this greatness that might just be impossible for me due to many of my flaws.
Read Camus
>>8599770
>getting spooked by Nietzsche
lel, try again, fag
Life is about enjoying the simple things.
Have you been reading the Bible lately, /lit? Which books? Made any interesting observations?
In an effort to improve this board's quality, I'm starting a Bible general thread. It could be a daily thing.
taken as a series of narratives, it's pretty bad.
if you try to understand that the old testament is almost entirely war propaganda from a series of primitive tribes still amazed by the newly-found technology of writing, it's so-so.
what passes for character development is for shit.
Rebump.
>>8599372
i am on ezekiel 33 took me 4 months to get here
Holy shit!
He actually did it, he destroyed the Cultural Marxism Conspiracy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoOD57-T6O0
GO TO: 1:22:17
He gets to it soon. Thought he would never get there...
>>8598938
He didn't destroy it!!!!!
Hahaha wtf
seeing what this board has to say about zizek is excruciating
>>8598961
By "destroyed" OP means "identified"
/crit/ thread, motherfucker.
First page of what I'm writing.
Post what you got.
>>8591311
I stopped reading a little after the twelve sentences used to describe the sun.
>>8591360
Me too. Basically says, "I'm spending so much time on describing the landscape, that you just know there's no substance to this shit."
Get to a fucking story, we know what a goddamn desert is.
>>8591368
oh yeah? whats a desert?
POST YOUR FAVORITE ETYMOLOGIES. THINGS THAT REALLY GIVE YOU ETYMOLOGY BONERS
>jupiter
plz respond
>>8589836
>Not even posting the ety
4shame op
>from Greek, zeu pater, for "heavenly Father"
Whatever, pretty lame etymology I guess.
I like weird's
>from old English, wyrd, meaning "having the power to control destiny"
Are there books about cool etymologies?
Write her a love poem, /lit/
I wait for you after class,
For you are my lass.
May God give us a pass,
Even though we don't attend mass.
You give me some sass,
But I have the brass,
Now let me fuck you up the ass.
fuck you, you fucking WHORE
u chose that ugly baby face POORFAG faggot over me, DUMB BITCH you will regret it
Was told to get a spicier pic.
Votings going on for a few weeks. Meme posts will be discounted wholly, so don't do it. You can go back and change your vote at any time until poll.
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I do like this pic better
Don't want to start a new thread for this.
Is the Lydia Davis translation the best translation of Swann's way?
>>8584529
Can we have the list of the least voted this year? Maybe doing so we can discover lesser known titles.
>>8584587
You can have the full list and look at all the 1-vote books like last year?
I feel like I have to turn in my geek card, but...I don't think I like The Lord of the Rings. The prose is very...meandering. Lots of sentences and thoughts that seem to start and then peter out without having gone anywhere.
I know I'm a failure as a human being, but dammit I've tried a dozen times now and I just can't make it through. What am I doing wrong here?
>>8605608
It's just not for you.
It's literally just a long fairy tale for kids who have too long of an attention span due to autism.
>>8605608
is this a reddit copypaste
>lol christianism is dying so everyone will become nihilists
>but I don't like christianism because reasons so instead have this eternal recurrence
Ridiculous.
>>8605488
>Christianism
I'm thinking that at this point the fedora should be replaced by the boater due to how essential it is for strawmen.
>>8605488
wow i hate nietzsche now
lets waste our time and share our love for literature, music and the fine arts.
join us on tinychat com / 4chanlit
dont join if you are a pleb
and die antwoord
>>8605411
>and die antwoord
newcomers, as general rule just ignore this guy (sktich).
Why was the first half so superior?
>>8605215
I'm on the last 100 pages and I'm almost skipping pages..
>>8605263
pleb
Which brother did you guys find most relatable? I though Alyosha.
What genre is Dean Koontz writing? Or rather, what genre is it when most of the story is modern times/regular real life stuff, except for a few things. Like say...how the SCP files are. For the most part, the stuff could be believable, except for the anomalies themselves? What the hell is that called?
Everyone always asks me what genre I like to write in, and I really don't know what to tell them besides fiction/dark/adult. I can't give them a specific genre because I don't know what it would actually fit under. But it's similar to these other things.
>>8605135
post-Stephen King
>>8605143
Is...is that actually a genre? Or is that just a good way to describe it to people?
>>8605135
thriller
You are now aware that the longest written work ever created is a 15,000 page epic about little girls with penises.
>>8604961
>being long makes something notable
Kill yourself.
>>8604972
Insecure micropenis detected
>>8604972
Henry Darger's clusterfuck/masterpiece is notable for other reasons as well
What the fuck is this guy talking about? Does anyone on lit claim to know? If so do you have any tips on where to start, good secondary lit, etc.?
start on any page
I don't know who he is, but he looks French, and the French have a well-known history of intellectual charlatanism.
>>8604710
"What is philosophy" is quite accessible and very pleasant.