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"The fucking fascists who call the shots haven't stopped needing races to hate each other, it's how they keep wages down, and rents high, and all the power over on the East Side, and everything ugly and brain-dead just the way they like it." What did Thomas Pynchon's character mean by this?
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Seems pretty straightforward to me.
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This book really lends credence to the theory that Pynchon died and someone else is ghostwriting now. It's so devoid of depth.
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>>9917923
I’d believe it, desu.
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Victoria by Knut Hamsun? 2017-08-20 12:04:07 Post No.9917680
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What do you guys think about this book? I was recommended this by someone and 7 chapters in, it's just a hackneyed story as far as i can tell. Is there something I'm missing?
This is my first Knut Hamsun btw.
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Norweigans are too happy. Read Strindberg instead.
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>>9917722
Haappeeenesssss!
Weeeeeeeee!
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>>9917722
which one do you suggest?
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Why aren't you taking the forest passage, /lit/?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J67nkzoJ_2M
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Sell me on it
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>>9917663
It's barely 80 pages long, so you can look cultured and deep for the minimal investment of the 3 hours it takes to read it.
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>>9917647
kek, nice shit post,
Threadly reminder that Junger invented vaporwave with Heliopolis.
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My grandpa has the complete works of this guy, which specific works would you reccomend?I've read the Karamazovs and I thought that The Adolescent, The Gambler and A Writer's diary would be interesting to read
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>>9917564
Those and Notes from the Underground are his most important.
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What's the point of reading fiction?
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>>9917527
>the point
>the
what a totalitarian notion
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What's the point of reading?
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>>9917527
What's the point of posting frogs on a Zimbabwean rock art forum?
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What are some good books on anime and manga criticism?
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ulysses if you read it right
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What are some /lit/ essential reading companions?
So far I have:
>Roget's Thesaurus
>Oxford English Dictionary
>A book on trees
>A book on birds
I'm seeking books that will expand my future reading and rereading experiences in this vein.
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Unironically the bible.
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>>A book on trees
>>A book on birds
wat
here are some photos of cincinatti library before it was bulldozed in 1955
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How does it happen that Jean Baptiste-Lully is not even as popular as those despicable overrated harlots you can find anywhere on the Internet (Facebook,Instagram,other social networks,etc...) ? Is our society really starting a total and non-reversible cultural downfall?
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French music was a gross mistake anyway.
>despicable overrated harlots
And I raise my hat to you as well, my excellent sire, for you are undubitably a man of wit and grace like no other.
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What are books you didn't finish after starting?
Gravity's rainbow, against the day, broom of the system, JR - Self indulgent pomo by authors who know they'll be published no matter what so they see entertaining the reader as beneath them and they try to drop "incredible insights" by the standards of """literary intellectuals""". "Like, what is cause, and like, what is effect? How we know?" Boring. Who is this written for? And this whimsical lolsorandumb tone they take to try to keep one cowardly toe in the entertainment pool and so the dumb masses can pretend to have some appreciation. Even the dumb lit majors wouldn't dare talk about Gravity's rainbow cause and effect nonsense irl.
Wuthering heights, Suttree - boring
Snow Crash - I think none of it clicked and I just lost interest
Books I read but should have given up on: Dracula (after 50 pages), all three books in the border trilogy
Books I read and later gave up on the reread: Mason & Dixon, White Noise, Crime and Punishment
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Your fault for trying to read so much american trash.
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I think you're just thick. Not much you can do about that. Perhaps try a different pastime that's more on your level such as anime or gaming?
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>>9917335
Why do you keep trying to read American postmodern authors if you don't like them? Just give it up
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I saw this on /tv/. Your thoughts?
>It amazes me how absolutely incomprehensible certain male qualities are to women. Honor, brotherhood, loyalty, sacrifice for a cause, hard work, difficult decisions, camaraderie formed in strife. It's all functionally impossible for women to understand. Women want to be a part of the boy's club, but when you let them in they attempt to dismantle the whole thing, then they throw a fit in the wreckage. It's the duty of all men to tell women like this that they are dumb cunts. This is an act of love and kindness because given too much freedom, women will destroy themselves and their happiness. It is the duty of men to keep them in their place.
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/lit/ is for the discussion of literature, specifically books (fiction & non-fiction), short stories, poetry, creative writing, etc. If you want to discuss history, religion, or the humanities, go to /his/. If you want to discuss politics, go to /pol/. Philosophical discussion can go on either /lit/ or /his/, but ideally those discussions of philosophy that take place on /lit/ should be based around specific philosophical works to which posters can refer.
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>Honor, brotherhood, loyalty, sacrifice for a cause, hard work, difficult decisions, camaraderie formed in strife
>tfw have none of these but have a penis
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>>9917241
>I saw this on /tv/. Your thoughts?
I think you should go back to /tv/ and stay there from now on.
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there's like 3 or 4 translations of this bitch
which one do you recommend?
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bumpf
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literally doesn't matter
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Feeling bad about myself and looking to look down on some plebs, /lit/. Give me the best you got.
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>>9917205
You want us to pick apart a year-old comment? Do you at least know the guy who left it?
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holy fucking shit the cringe
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Does this count?
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Looking for books that will help me come up with word puns, etc. I could just rewatch episodes of Xavier: Renegade Angel over and over again (example of show):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akAoRhIzkK4
Open to any book suggestions.
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Puns are for reddit. Even their self-identifying term is a fucking 'pun'
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>>9917179
Really though this show is great. I'm glad 4chan is discovering it.
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Are you willing to put up with shitty writing to hear a good idea? 2017-08-20 08:23:58 Post No.9917158
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Are you willing to put up with shitty writing to hear a good idea?
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Cause most people aren't. They are far more interested in your literary style, overall tone and thematic elements that add style and nuance to your story.
We don't pay writers to express complex ideas simply. We pay them to express simple ideas in a complex way.
I think that was my first mistake.
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>>9917158
My second mistake was underestimating how much work it takes to get people to drop their guard and accept an already established premise.
I'd always assumed people craved novelty when they read a book. But the truth is what they admire is the consistency. But people generally are too shallow to admit that. They want to imagine they have refined taste and are capable of nuance and subtlety.
So you kind have to trick them into buying it. 90% of your job is designing the wrapping paper around a story that has been told thousands of times before.
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>>9917167
The third was not understanding that YOU are the primary sale. Its not your book, its you, your look, your style, your personality. You want to look like somebody other people admire and want to be like. You have to say the things they are too scared to say, its your eccentricities and your "stage persona" that they want, not you.
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>>9917158
Writing is a great way to work through your insecurities. If you are good at writing, if you enjoy it and practice it often, you will want to show other people your work. That desire, to share your work with others, will take you out of your shell and force you to work with others, to accept new ideas and new challenges.
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Protestantism, humanism, secularism, liberalism, modernism, progressivism, conservatism, nationalism, socialism, fascism, postmodernism...what trash!
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trash...what trash!
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Is it wrong for trash to call trash trash? :thinking:
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>trash
americanism