>1808 pages
dropped
>>8530472
>mic
dropped
You don't need to read all of them.
>the name of who's speaking isn't in the margin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_g6-Zq4skE
>6:16 mark
Is he right, /lit/? Have you tried it? What are your techniques for making writing easier?
Also, have a Joyce pic.
Yes. It helps clear the mind and after doing it for a while and getting comfortable with the routine and route, you're mind has no where else to wonder but to tackle with what's on it. Exercise should also be done too routinely to help you mentally, but I believe everyone should take an hour out of their day to walk a route.
>>8531062
>It helps clear the mind and after doing it for a while and getting comfortable with the routine and route, you're mind has no where else to wonder but to tackle with what's on it.
Like using the boredom of the well-known route to make your mind make something of its own?
That's an interesting take on it.
Too bad you can't walk outside anymore if you're ugly and male.
you think he cares about not getting the nobel prize
If he wouldn't be bothered to show up to accept it, why would he be bothered.
Pynchon is Don. The Nobel is the guy who cut off his nipple.
DeLillo deserves it more.
>But an examination of his life reveals a yearning for marriage frustrated by a train of rejections. In the year 1831, Schopenhauer fell in love with a girl named Flora Weiss. At a boat party in Germany he made his advance by offering her a bunch of grapes. Flora’s diary records this event as follows: "I didn’t want the grapes because old Schopenhauer had touched them, so I let them slide, quite gently into the water." Apparently, she was underwhelmed.
He had a child once but the child died.
>>8530303
Someone should have told Schopenhauer to just be himself
He was already old then. Apparently when he was young he was in a contest with a friend for who could fuck the most women and earned a solid reputation as a womanizer
What am I in for?
A bad translation
>>8530220
This.
Avsey is the only decent translation
A crude sensationalist
>"anon, you remind me of Holden Cauffield"
>>8529983
she means you seem introspective and have a cunning eye for the true nature of the world, OP :)
Someone told me I remind them of Howard Roark. I still feel embarrassed.
>>8529989
Or that I'm overly bitter and mistrustful despite not being old enough to justify it
has someones journal ever been a good read
my diary to be honest
>>8529921
can we please continue this meme?
>>8529921
holy... I want more..
Have there been any classics in the 2000s which could be considered a masterpiece of all great literature?
My Twisted world
>>8529988
God I hate this place.
2666
Seiobo There Below
Post times in literature that give you vulture flesh
> It is a mild, mild wind, and a mild looking sky...
>And there's the wall of sound: the nightly wall
>Raised by a trillion crickets in the fall.
>Impenetrable! Halfway up the hill
>I'd pause in thrall of their delirious trill.
>That's Dr. Sutton's light. That's the Great Bear.
>A thousand years ago five minutes were
>Equal to forty ounces of fine sand.
>Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and
>Infinite aftertime: above your head
>They close like giant wings, and you are dead.
>implying anything, ever will top this
what if he does not exist?
I had fun anyway. It's also how I reconcile my relationship with my Anime waifu.
Lem doesn't exist. It was an acronym of Lenin, Engels, Marx.
t. Phillip K. Dick
what if tom was one of us? just anon, like one of us?
>Hey anon, whatcha' reading?
>Uhh, Moby Dick, haha.
>Oh! I've read that before! It was great!
>Wow, cool. What'd you like about it?
>Oh, I don't know. Just, everything
Why are normies so stupid?
>>8529431
What is it with /lit/ now and moby dick. make shitty threads about other fucking books you stupid mong
>>8529431
maybe ask a better question you dumb fucking autist
something more CONCRETE?
fucks sake get your shit together
You missed the opportunity of a lifetime, op
>ey toots, you wanna see my moby dick ?
your go to literature when 20s existential crysis hits, name 3 books
>>8529221
The Recognitions
Life A User's Manual
Sorrows Of Young Werther
Is there really such a thing as an 20s existential crisis or is it more an existential crisis that drags on throughout one's whole life?
>>8529237
probably goes on and on, at least i hope that angst will end soon
Books whose writers you wish you could go back in time and kill to stop them from being written.
>>8529185
You're going to have to do a lot of killing... decades and centuries apart.
>>8529188
Is that a synopsis of the plot?
MEIN KAMPF LOL
Feel free to post anything that you think might help about proper reading/learning/understanding. I'm reading pic related and even though its a bit of common sense it has some really good points.
Didn't they teach you that kind of stuff in school?
>>8528969
1. Stop subvocalizing
That's it.
>>8528971
>Missing the point completely
You're just pretending right?
Best Don Quixote translation?
It's a first read so I'm looking for readability without sacrificing too much accuracy.
inb4 "LOL translations"
>>8528769
>translation
>>8528769
You fucked up OP, translations are for faggots and leftist numales.
LOL translations