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I find the beginning of Thus spoke Zarathustra to be fantastic with it's many metaphors and prose. Is this style called something and are there other books that are similar (in style, not the philosophy).
Example:
>You great star! What would your happiness be, had you not those for
whom you shine?
For ten years have you climbed here to my cave: you would have wearied
of your light and of the journey, had it not been for me, my eagle,
and my serpent.
But we waited for you every morning, took from you your overflow,
and blessed you for it.
Behold. I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too
much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it.
I would rather give away and distribute, until the wise among men
once more find joy in their folly, and the poor in their riches.
Therefore must I descend into the deep: as you do in the evening, when
you go behind the sea, and give light also to the underworld, you exuberant
star!
Like you I have to go down, as men say, to whom I shall descend.
Bless me, then, you tranquil eye, that can look on even the greatest
happiness without envy!
Bless the cup that is about to overflow, that the water may flow golden
from it, and carry everywhere the reflection of your happiness!
Behold. This cup is again going to empty itself, and Zarathustra is going
to be a man again.
Thus began Zarathustra's down-going.
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>Is this style called something
A translation.
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I don't agree with much of Nietzsche, but this is a great opening, undeniably.
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>>8448378
Best cover.
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>title of the book starts with "the" in bold text
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>editor's name and logo are three times bigger than the title and author's name
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>>8448357
been a lot of these lately
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>>8448357
Please stop, you're triggering me
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I'm trying to get a book for my Mother's birthday. She read it as a child, and I don't remember the title of it nor do I remember it's contents. I don't want to ask her as I wish for it to be a surprise.
It's about kids, in a treehouse, and somewhere there is a magical gateway to some fabled land, and there is a cat named Earless Ostick (sic). Any guesses would be wonderful. Thank you. Pic unrelated.
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That car dash is aesthetic as fuck. I think cars looked so much better back in the day, especially throughout the 80s.
I don't know the book though sorry. Just wanted to comment on the pic.
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>>8448292
i came here for /lit/, not to get a b/o/ner
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>>8448292
Amazing pic. I never knew I could fancy a car dashboard so much. I've no answer for you, OP, but here is my bump for you.
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Why do we take this fat faggot's word as gospel again 2016-08-29 00:12:26 Post No.8448278
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He said DFW had no discernible talent then goes on to praise Dickens.
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>>8448278
I have no problem with that opinion.
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>>8448278
dickens is spectacular you child
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Has someone's literary taste ever been a dealbreaker for you?
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reading fiction is my only dealbreaker tbf
it's the mark of a womanchild
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>>8448271
This actually makes sense. I'd never date a man into Bukowski either, it'd be a sure way to meet a douche. Him liking Tolstoy on the other hand is a green flag, as it shows he's capable of empathy (as most men are not).
I met a guy a while back who idolized Camus. He was such a pleb, I couldn't help but find it off-putting. He also in general had babby's first existential crisis with "muh nihilism" and the whole deal. Needless to say, I'm not longer with him.
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>not knowing that women's shit tests are all interchangeable illusions, and you can do/say/think whatever you want as long as you remind her of daddy enough to make her panties drop
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Is Lattimore the best Homer? I've only read Fagles before, and difference is staggering.
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This is a SFW board, there is a penis in your image.
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No, it ain't but Barry B. Powell isn't the worst Homes but I doubt you're not pleb enough to haven't heard of Powell.Powell is the best.
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>"Dickens? He's so overrated."
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I lose a lot of respect for a person if they claim to hate Dickens. You can just tell he writes with a genuine desire to make people happier, and he succeeds imo.
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>>8448165
Verne and Dickens are literary memes.
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>>8448175
I haven't read any Dickens as an adult. Name me a book or two, though nothing too long.
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Lit, I want thoughts, weird thought experiments, ones that are as if they were created by aliens, I want to push myself to the limit of what is possible for me to comprehend, in terms of philosophical ideas. I want to be taken as far down the rabbit hole as I can possibly go.
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grks
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>>8448162
Read my diary desu
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>>8448184
post your diary senpai.
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“War to the knife with Rome! Peace and friendship with Islam!” - friedrich nietzsche
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Sometimes I wish Islam would take over the world and have sharia instituted everywhere.
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>>8448121
Nietzsche just never grew out of teenage angst
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What does he have against knives? The Romans hated knives too?
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Why do you read /lit/?
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to improve myself
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I went to public school. I was bullied consistently for being Jewish. I ran track and cross country and I was very fast but often got jokes like "Of course you can run, you've all been running for 2000 years."
I decided to enroll in a Jewish high school. On the first day, we read a verse and then read the corresponding commentary by a medieval commentator. I felt like the commentator was in the room talking to us because he was pouring himself over the same words we were at the start of his own journey. The fact that a dead human from 1200 years ago could connect to me so powerfully through written word really moved me, and this is the moment I feel I was "born" as a reader.
I always loved to read, I always loved words. But I think a lot of lovers of words can identify with a moment that it suddenly meant so much more.
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There's nothing else to do.
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>Turn in an assignment to my teacher
>Turns out its one of those ones where we grade each others works
>Expect an okay poem in return to grade and possibly enjoy reading through
>Get this http://pastebin.com/6HSydZGq
I just don't know sometimes.
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What's the matter pleb, too deep for you?
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>>8448114
i think its good d e s u
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>>8448114
It's not THAT bad
Post your poem anon
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NOVEMBER 22
I woke up at Cataline O’Hara’s house. As I was having breakfast, very early, with Catalina and her son, Davy, who had to be taken to nursery school (Maria wasn’t there, everyone else was asleep), I remembered that the night before, when there were just a jew of us left, Ernesto San Epifanio had said that all literature could be classified as heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual. Novels, in general, were heterosexual, wereas poetry was completely homosexual; I guess short stories were bisexual, although he didn’t say so.
Within the vast ocean of poetry he identified various currents: faggots, queers, sissies, freaks, butches, fairies, nymphs, and philenes. But the two major currents were faggots and queers. Walt Whitman, for example, was a faggot poet. Pablo Neruda, a queer. William Blake was definitely a faggot. Ovtavio Paz was a queer. Borges was a philene, or in other words he might be a faggot one minute and simply asexual the next. Ruben Dario was a freak, in fact, the queen freak, the prototypical freak.
“In our language, of course,” he clarified. “In the wider world the reigning freak is still Verlaine the Generous.”
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>“Three out of four poets in America are gay or bisexual,” he says. “More than half of all the great poets are”
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>>8448104
good thing only epic poets are worth reading
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Reading this book now too
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>ITT: things pseudo-patricians (plebs) say
Plot is unimportant.
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> Good prose is realistic, not stilted
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>entry-level
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Ulysses has no plot.
Could you guys rec me anything ominous or creepy and having to do with conspiracies and stuff, preferably MK Ultra
Can be nonfiction or fiction or both
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Any Pynchon, good night.
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>>8448051
Pynchon's Inherent Vice got pretty paranoid. Dunno about the rest of his work, but I've been meaning to read it.
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What books you need to read before you die 2016-08-28 23:10:59 Post No.8448016
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What books you need to read before you die
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What 5 books do I need to read before I die /lit/?
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Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle
Confessions - St. Augustine
Tsurezuregusa - Kenkō
Either/Or - Kierkegaard
The Ego and Its Own - Stirner
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>>8448016
darude sandstorm
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>>8448490
audible kek