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>>8476721
here, let me start with this excellent open yale course on don quixote

http://oyc.yale.edu/spanish-and-portuguese/span-300

the quijote gets a lot of love here on /lit/, so I'm sure more than on person will be interested in following this course, more-so recommended for non-spanish speakers

it also has some interesting historical lessons which really helped me contextualize the work

>>8476721
here's a recording of john searle btfoing foucault and obscurantism in french philosophy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvwhEIhv3N0

>>8476721
for anyone interested in a good documentary series on art (sort of like an introduction), here's something you should check out:

https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6740119/_Simon_Schama_s_Power_of_Art___(BBC_2006_-_Complete)

>>8476720
>3x3 thread
>3x4
???

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>>8476729

>>8476720
>literally starts with 3x4
>book covers squashed into 1:1 ratio
>thread that has never worked
The only redeeming thing about this thread is that you seem to have pretty decent taste.

Depends on your definition of 'simulacrum'; the Latin means 'image' or 'representation'

So 'represent'.

>>8476623
"get memed" it means someone memed you if you are not aware

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/simulate

/:

>>8476605
A SUPERB NOVEL

>>8476611
Is this genuine enthusiasm or (more likely) ironic memery

>>8476619
The New York Times agrees with me so you can take my post as a fact.

Rosemary's baby

Candide by Voltaire

Maybe it did get boring for a bit, I'm not sure, but I really enjoyed it for most of it if not the whole thing.

moby dick

Mom-core pleb-galore

>>8476426
How so?

>>8476417
Enjoyed it, mainly the characters. Franzen is great at writing "real people" down to the minute, hidden details no one thinks about. It's also got some good social commentary on post 9/11 US

Just keep jotting those ideas down in a notebook and in the dim hours of the night when you've turned off the computer and are laying in bed but still unable to sleep your mind will mash them together and bounce them off each other like dodgem cars and a narrative will start to form.

>>8476271
This pretty much

>>8476260
Pick up a newspaper or just go to a news site. Read some articles and they will help stir up ideas for stories. Go people watching in cities, malls, parks. Observe the oddities and mundane shit in the world.

See two people carrying a table. Is it because they're moving? Is the table haunted and cursed?

My problem is I tend to gain my inspiration at the oddest times and it's hard to excuse myself to start writing. My ideas flow everywhere, but my desk. It helps to carry a notepad or use a notepad feature on your phone.

>We must remember
>Potential is most useful
>When it is unfulfilled
how about no

>We must remember
>A door that never opens
>Is but a wall

>>8476253
Misreading your own shitpost:7.8/10

>>8476234
Just started Moby Dick. It's a slow read but will hopefully manage 100 pages a day and be done by next week

>>8476236
the question was where not what

>>8476240
Oh. Well fuck you, then

>>8476216
atheism rules xD

>>8476216
shut the fuck up

yeezy season

Letter to a Christian Nation.

Tropic of carpicorn

My diary desu

>>8476113
None, it's just a convention that varies from book to book.

>>8476113
>Wizard
Teleports, summons magical creatures
>Mage
Uses fire, frost and arcane spells, conjures foods and opens portals
>Sorcerer
The most battle-type of mage, all his spells are for combat.
>Enchanter
Uses magic to give you +stats on items.

>>8476128
>Mage Uses fire, frost and arcane spells, conjures foods and opens portals

I too have played world of warcraft

Permanence.

>not buying Pilot G-2 pens

Tsk tsk.

>>8476107
Same reason we all had to leave MySpace for Facebook: an arbitrary idea about maturity.

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I'm finding mythology books to be pretty comfy anon. As an added bonus, sometimes it gets extremely boring, which makes it good bedtime lit.

>>8476111
Kinda neat anon

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COAT

A lack thereof
Nostalgia,
is just a dark road
with dim streetlights
and swaying trees.
A black diamond-back
with stolen valve caps
from a toyota eclipse,
gray and fading.

Every time I go back,
something is rewritten.
The thought corrupted,
by the constant yearning
against change. For something
stable, sacred, static…stop.

It’s being rewritten
again, so let me stop.
In hopes of sincerity,
in the lack of words.

#2

Pleasure was to be assured
Yet little came.
Replaced by disappointment
And nothing changed.

Emotions stagnant and blurred
Movements still the same.
She’s contorted and bent
Her beauty is framed.

It traps us in a few words
And we are to blame.
Whatever pays the rent
That’s how she gets paid.

One Note

Do you hear that?
It’s coming from you.
That snare, that high-hat
It’s red, it’s blue.
But baby, it’s coming from you.

Quick and up tempo,
Dissonance and mystery
Collard shirts and fine shoes.

It’s addictive, it’s smart
It’s maddening, it’s art.
Coming from below and above,
It’s pain, it’s love.
It’s you.

Can’t hear it?
Skip to the beat,
Find it!
It’s got to be along this street.

I’ll snap to your footsteps,
And you will see,
This music,
You couldn’t find in me.