>>8592857
spooked
Hey guys, just started Ego and Its Own.
Am i safe to say that he is basically saying we have bo allegiance to imaginary structures or ideas (spooks) and that an individual should act supremely by their desired volition?
Is he kind of an amoral Epicurus with less focus on pleasure?
>>8593278
Yes, brother. It's a kind of justification for selfishness or enlightened self-interest, something like a politicised solipsism.
Fantasy
>Selected: http://i.imgur.com/r688cPe.jpg/
>General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg/
>Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg/
Science Fiction
>Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg/
>http://imgur.com/a/90laS
>General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ >http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg/
Previous Thread: >>8579022
Reminder that The Bard Quarterly from /tg/ is looking for short stories.
>http://thebardquarterly.wixsite.com/home
The deadline for the next issue is November 11th.
What went so wrong with seven eves?
>>8592745
3 posts early just to shill your website and post that awful chart?
>>8592754
I couldn't sleep.
>not affiliated with The Bard Quarterly
Do you prefer the short or long version?
>>8592737
If by the short version you mean the book and if by the long version you mean life then I prefer the former. bruh
>>8592772
There's two version of this book. A 200 page version and a 50 page version.
>>8592819
No there isn't you fucking moron.
What is the single greatest novel you've ever read? No ifs, ands or buts
pic related
QUICK YALL NIGGAS GOT THIRTY SECONDS TO EXPLAIN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE "PETIT OBJET A" AND THE "BIG OTHER" TO ME IN SIMPLE BUT NOT REDDIT-SIMPLE LANGUAGE.
>b-but he was a hack
YEAH I KNOW HE WAS A HACK BUT JUST DO IT ANYWAY
also lacan/ critical theory general I guess
big Other refers to the individual's relationship in a symbolic order, connecting the real imagery and symbolic the "other, language"
object petite a is the unattainable object of desire, or partial object
>>8592528
And their relationship to one another?
>>8592528
Right, thanks a lot. But this relationship between them? How does the petit objet a reveal the big other (or am i getting this wrong)? I don't really get the Victor Hugo reference except as an example of metaphor and metonymy contradicting one another.
Anyone ever read books outside of English, think its possible to learn another language through reading a book?
Yes, although you need to learn grammar and some vocab first.
>>8592471
Ja. Lingua Latina per se illustratâ by Hans Orberg.
I lived in Europe for a while when I was a kid and all the movies were in English but with subtitles in the local language. Apparently this helped people with their English skills. This was about 15 years ago, the internet has probably sped up this process.
I watched Pearl Harbor in an outdoor movie theatre in Marmaris and my parents let me stay up til 1:00am after we got home because I was very pleased and excited with all the airplanes and violence. That was a strange time. I still like airplanes but I've developed better taste in movies you'll be glad to know.
tl;dr: Watch subtitled movies. That way you'll be able to guess a lot more from tone or context.
Are there any books about being cuckolded?
I want books, other than Ulysses, that really explore the thinking man's fetish.
Saul Bellow's Herzog the guy gets cucked
>>8593333
Bellow's psychology re: women is probably the least interesting thing about him
The majority of Shakespeare's plays, unironically.
William Gass writes about cuckolding in one of his stories too.
I'm choosing three books of poetry to take with me on a two year trip. Poems to really focus on and work with.
I know I'm taken a collection of Auden.
Any further suggestions? I have some candidates in mind, but I don't want to lead suggestions.
TL;DR books of poetry that will accompany me in foreign lands and develop in my mind. These will possibly be my only "media" for months at a time.
Original Chaucer or Milton and a collection of Wordsworth
Pound (Cantos)
Celan (bilingual edition with a translation of your choice)
Prynne (Poems, 2015 edition)
>>8592446
Are you familiar with Vallejo? Would probably be nice to bring one of his collections.
Can anyone explain Heidegger for me? I have no clue what the fuck he is talking about, or rather, what people who dig him are talking about. But I kinda wanna understand him.
And no, I don't have the time to read his book(s) now. But please help an anon out to help him comprehend.
>>8592374
>And no, I don't have the time to read his book(s) now
wew lad
>>8592374
I read Introduction to Metaphysics.
Mostly he writes with his own vocabulary that he invents to describe the concepts that he understands. Central is Dasein which is being in German. He seems very interested in thje linguistic history of being -- the Greek word Logos means word, speech, idea, and gathering. This he interpreted as meaning that thinking is the gathering of information into meaningful chunks. He's very interested by the Presocratic metaphysicists, particularly Parmenides and Heraclitus, whose ideas he writes at length about and quite agrees with.
>>8592848
I applaud your effort, but is this the best /lit/ can do? This guy is praised on here all the time.
Which one of his books or is there a video on-line that provides a summation of his aesthetic or literary ideals and preferences or his arguments for them?
I don't want to read his critiques of individual books, and I'm unsure as to whether 'How to Read and Why' is adequate for what I'm looking for.
>>8592361 I love Bloom, but from reading a couple of his book and watching all the interviews I can find of him, it honestly seems like his aesthetic preferences are just "I know it when I see it." Not saying that's bad, and there are obviously some works which are objectively better than others, but yeah you can't really measure these things in an objective way.
the one where he mixes the jewish kabbalah with his canon
>>8592646
>Bloom didn't do it so it's impossible to do
Just finished the last Discworld book and I'd like to know if anyone here has come across a series or a book with the same kind of vibe - "sensible chuckle" humour in a fantasy setting.
>>8592318
Robert Rankin and Tom Holt are sort of similar iirc
Fritz Lieber's stories of Fahfrd and the Grey Mouser aren't quite as obviously comedic as Pratchett's work, but he doesn't take the heroic fantasy genre very seriously; he was having a poke at people like Robert E Howard.
Thanks for the suggestions!
how will we know if he dies
>>8592278
there will be a screaming across the sky
>>8592278
You'll know when I die. Don't worry kids. It's not happening any time soon.
>>8592278
He died in 1998
What's /lit/ been reading lately? I just came back from the library with the bottom three books here. The rest I'm reading. VALIS is pretty trippy. That book of poetry by Tolkien is pretty cool though.
>>8592174
>Valis is really trippy
I really need to re-read it again since it's been a decade or so since the last time I picked it up. Very cool ideas in some parts and I remembered loving it.
Anyway I'm finishing up The Name of the Wind, it's been okay but not as great as everyone proclaims. Feels like a lot of what Kvothe mentions leads to pretty much nowhere. Also got around 300 or so pages of Infinite Jest left, really cool how Wallace goes into absolute detail how the election happened and the rise of certain industries like the phone conversation masks happened.
Might do a re-read of The House on the Borderland considering it is October before I begin something else.
I'd advise starting The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea after reading all that Tolkien.
Rate/roast/berate/agape
>>8592247
Something tells me you like William Gaddis.
What are some great books on ww1?
Storm of Steel
Under Fire
The Good Soldier Svejk
>>8592164
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
>>8592192
This tbhm8
>This attitude is based on my conception of the writer’s enterprise. A writer who adopts political, social, or literary positions must act only with the means that are his own—that is, the written word. All the honors he may receive expose his readers to a pressure I do not consider desirable.
Would /lit/ accept the Nobel Prize?
>>8592142
I'd accept it and sell it on ebay to some spooked collector for a fatty sum
I probably wouldn't get 4.8 million dollars like James Watson but hey, even if I got about $3.50 that's money for nothin'
>>8592142
Sartre believed in communism. That's why Camus ditched him.
Yes
/thread