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I'm looking to take some pretentious shitpostesque senior pictures tomorrow. My plan is to pose smoking a pipe while reading some quality meme literature. My ideas so far are Infinite Jest (because everyone owns a copy but few have actually read it), Atlas Shrugged (because all of the fedora tipping libertarians nut at the thought of Rand's philosophy of objectivism), and the Communist Manifesto (self explanitory). What are some of \lit\'s recomendations for good meme literature?
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The Koran,
Finnegans Wake,
Communication Essentials for Dummies
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>>8520766
The Republic, Crito and Meno, because according to /Lit/ autists they are the first step to acquiring a basic understanding of philosophy but in fact they really aren't important unless you're a classicist or specialise in ancient philosophy.
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>>8520766
>because all of the fedora tipping libertarians nut at the thought of Rand's philosophy of objectivism
not even remotely true.
even /pol/ hates her
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Was it autism? No doubt this is the most visually splendid of Hamlet adaptions, but Branaugh is absolutely awful in both how he directs dialogue and how he delivers it. It's all extremely self-conscious, all the lines are delivered like small town production, they're over-the-top and oratory at times. After watching Laurence Olivier's and even Mel Gibson's renditions of Hamlet, this guy comes off as awful, as if he's reading poetry before an audience at some family reunion, as opposed to being the part of the person he's portraying. And the way he makes the other actors deliver their dialogue is just as bad, the ghostly whisper of Hamlet's father is so off-putting and destroys the actor's capacity to naturally express himself, and Ophelia talking to Polonius about Hamlet sending her the letter is soap opera tier.
Again, this guy has an excellent eye for the visual, for unfortunately, he's completely autistic about the dialogue, which is kind of the point with Shakespeare. Heck, he for some reason he felt it required include every piece of dialogue for this play even those Shakespeare himself cut. Why? This isn't even a play, it's a film, and thus the dialogue ought to be heavily cut in order for it to work with visual storytelling. The film Coriolanus, the one with Fiennes, is an ideal example of Shakespearean play turned into film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TArNqebm_Gg
This guy's Hamlet, by comparison, is terrible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjuZq-8PUw0
Compare with Gibson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf2TpWsPvgI
It completely blow Branaugh's vanity production away
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>>8520719
more Hamster hhaha
Just kidding.
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>>8520719
Olivier's Hamlet is the best I've seen on film. Maybe the best Shakespeare adaption
His Richard III was also excellent. Haven't seen the 90s one but it got good reviews so I was thinking about watching it tonight
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>>8520757
It's solid. No one can compare with Olivier, of course, but it's still very good and a unique interpretation
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best/favorite short story writers
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>>8520683
Joyce
Chekhov
Cheever
Borges
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>>8520683
>best/favorite
Kafka/Munro
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>>8520683
W. Somerset Maugham is the all time king of the short story.
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How's the writing career coming, /lit/?
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>>8520615
It doesn't.
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I self-published a book, so I guess there's at least a spark
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I quit and now it seems silly that everyone on /lit/ thinks everyone who reads should be a writer.
It's a bad idea. But we are having a bad night. Literature. Beers. Music.
Tinychat / 4chanlit
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Lets share our love for art, literature and music.Ignore bob's music.
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>>8520576
YEAH
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books I should die before reading 2016-09-18 00:34:19 Post No.8520495
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books I should die before reading
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tibetan book of the dead
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IJ
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the neverending pun
anything by ayyn lmand
the unbearable silliness of memeing
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I want to read more about this topic.
What texts are available?
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The 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Kant is the most historically significant expression of this view, it's probably worth reading some work by Edward Sapir who wrote about this kind of issue but with reference to anthropology.
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>>8520580
Can I jump straight into Kant? Although I love reading and I like to think I'm pretty smart, I don't have any serious background in philosophy. Is there required reading I have to do beforehand or can I get through it just by trying harder?
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>>8520587
Better to just jump in. It's the best way to increase your comprehension for philosophy in general in my opinion, a set of introductory text just seems to get me bored on the subject and take more time than is necessary to get an understanding.
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Who best synthesized romanticism and the enlightenment?
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Don't know. I reckon you'd need to know bout literature to answer a question like that.
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>>8520330
You mean compared the two? As in a transition from the englightenment into romanticism?
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>>8520330
Adam Mickiewicz
Polish-Lithuanian cuck. His works are shit though.
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Can we have a good old fashioned booktuber thread?
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>>8520212
No, they're all shit.
But if you can find some fap material then post it.
Sage
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Cliff Sargent is the man
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Even though she's buying those to look good on her wall, they don't even look nice. It would look better if she pushed them to the front of the bookcase
And all the retarded colours YA have on their covers look awful
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Hi /lit/ I posted one of those some weeks ago, and it got quite a lot of replies, so I figured we should give this another shot as it was quite enjoyable to read through.
Post English words that you find pleasurable to hear/read, ones that you love for whatever reason.
I find threads like this especially interesting to better my personal eloquence (non native speaker), so maybe someone will find them helpful as well.
I'll start out with some of my favourite
>lagoon
>dawn
>luminescence
>chandelier
excuse any mistakes, it's late over here.
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>>8520188
oasis
finale
aroma
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>>8520188
One of these*
Your English is great!
Phantasm
Discreet
Cylinder
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>>8520188
Undulating
Chasm
Latticed
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What's the book version? 2016-09-17 23:02:17 Post No.8520160
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80's feelz senpai
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>>8520160
Grow up manchild
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A coloring book that came with a 1987 Burger King kid's meal bought on eBay for seventy dollars.
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>>8520160
Did you like Harry Potter?
Try the original. Feelz nothin' this is legit early 80s There's a chapter with Voyager passing Saturn.
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Is this book overrated? 2016-09-17 22:59:50 Post No.8520153
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For something to be overrated it first needs to be praised by people who are not mental retards, and even the mental retards who like similar trash dislike this book
But as a person who had the displeasure of reading this: it is shit. It is basically blue-pilled r9k guy lives in alternate reality and things go for him as obviously and "journey of the hero" as it is humanly possible to write a story.
This is, easily, the worst book I read in the last ten years.
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>>8520368
I liked it, though to be fair I am an autistic pseud
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>>8520153
stop trying to push your shit book. Who needs that much exposition?I would call it unimaginative and contrived mess full of cringe-worthy dialogue
He has a 25 year old son. I get how Thommy P stayed hidden but the kid has to be going by a different name or someone would have found him
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He had a public facebook and someone wrote an article about him. Apparently he plays in a band and Vonnegut's his favorite author.
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>>8520149
Kek. I'd be such a better son to Pynch.
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>>8520112
>his eldest son killed himself
If women weren't ostracized and discriminated against for thousands of years, would we have twice the number of great works of writing?
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>>8520100
Probably not no
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>>8520103
What makes you say that? Men were off fighting wars and doing work while women took care of children at home, they would have had infinitely more time to write... had they not been discriminated against.
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>>8520109
This. I also firmly believe if all the starving people in Africa were given food we'd have eight or nine masterpieces by the end of the year.
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Who was best girl?
I say Jordan
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>>8519990
Daisy is one of the best characters of the 20rh century
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>>8520007
Explain further
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Reminder that Tom did literally nothing wrong