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What does /lit/ think of this novel? How much of it do you think really happened?

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Hello /lit/
I fancy buying The Library of Greek Mythology but I see two versions being recommended. The Loeb Classical Library version or Oxford World's Classics.

On Amazon I notice the latter has less pages, does this one have less content?

Any recommendations that aren't these two? Thanks

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so the real reviews are in..... and they aren't good. welp what did you expect? i went to pick my copy up and exchanged it for J R, good move?

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i think it might just be parodying the common sentiment

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Are you a bookworm, /lit/?

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I'm curious who you have the most books by on your shelves/ in your readers. I went hard mode and left out genre fiction and children's or YA books, since those authors are prolific and tend to write in series--so if you read them at all, you probably have a stack by them. Here's my list of fiction and poetry authors I own five or more books by:
Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, A.S. Byatt, Italo Calvino, Joseph Conrad,
Robertson Davies, Charles Dickens, Fyoder Dostoyevsky, Margeurite Duras,
Umberto Eco, William Faulkner, Timothy Findley, Elizabeth Gaskell, Grama Greene,
Anne Hebert, Shirley Jackson, Henry James, James Joyce, Evelyn Lau, William Morris,
Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Robert Nye, Michael Ontaatje, George Orwell, Salman Rushdie,
John Steinbeck, Mark Twain, Jane Urquhart, Charles Williams, Eiji Yoshikawa.
Poets: Dionne Brand, George Elliott Clarke, Leonard Cohen, T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas,
W.B. Yeats.

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Has anyone made a legible English version of Finnegans Wake yet? Where you just get the story using regular words?

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does it disgust you knowing how little the average person reads? most people are so ignorant of literature and they seem proud of it for some reason.

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You rather be Dante or Michelangelo

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Can someone recommend me books related to long distance relationships?

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Spoilers for pic related below. Much of what I discuss here is taken from the site containing annotations to the Recognitions.

So how are you supposed to discern that Anselm castrates himself? The text reads: (page 645)

>On all fours, he trotted down the emptied platform. He paused for a moment and raised his head to look round him; then he went on, and bumped open the door to the men's room with his head. It was empty. He rose to his knees and reached into his pocket. The crumpled picture he threw into a toilet. With his other hand he undid his clothes, and opened the razor. He paused so, staring up at the dim illumination of the weak electric bulb, his voice audible only then, -In nomine . . . though his lips continued to move, without a tremor, as his hands worked quickly, with deft certainty, unseen.

There is literally nothing that tells you this is what happened. If you go back to page 103 where Anselm first appears, there is a brief excerpt that reads:

>Slightly offended by Bach and Palestrina, short memories reached back, struggling toward Origen, that most extraordinary Father of the Church, whose third-century enthusiasm led him to castrate himself so that he might repeat the hoc est corpus meum, Dominus, without the distracting interference of the rearing shadow of the flesh.

In addition, right before the castration scene, you get, on page 635,

>Anselm came toward him, crushing the orchid under foot...

Recalling page 201, where Gaddis calls to attention:

>the orchids, blossom, not questioning the distant Greeks on how they got their name, driving innocently from the devil's residence in man: that part which the angels cut from the monk Helias.

Am I missing something obvious on how you were supposed to understand what happens to Anselm without recalling all of these throwaway references? Most of the other major plot points in the book were, though not beat into you, not nearly as subtle as this. In fact, I had actually known of the Anselm castration prior to the book and I still "missed" it when I actually got to it.

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Is this book worth reading? I'm not very well read in Philosophy. I've only read a select few of Plato's dialogues, but I'm interested in the subject.

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>when the novel doesn't include minors having sex

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So I just finished this today and I think my brain is broken. I thought I was a leftist but...but I just don't know anymore. Has anyone else had this experience? Awesome book btw.

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How has the /lit/ you've consumed impacted upon your religious beliefs? Were you reaffirmed reading certain philosophers beliefs, or did they shift your world view?

posting knee chi because obvious reasons