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>>8437673
It would've been Eliot but he's a bitchboy anglophile traitor

>>8437673
Are you saying you don't like Whitman?

>>8437651
I believe this is the board you're looking for >>>/tv/

"Upon my soul," declared the President, "I own I fancy nothing better than that taste. When I was in Parliament I must have voted at least a hundred times to have some poor devil hanged; they were all innocent, you know, and I would never indulge in that little injustice without experiencing, deep within me, a most voluptuous tittilation: no more was needed to inflame my balls, nothing used to heat them more certainly. You can imagine what I felt when I did worse."

>>8437651
the nomenclature for the hoi polloi on this board is "Plebs". Please lurk more, as it might afford you an opportunity to learn some rather magnificent memes, such as the Meme Trilogy, Epic DFW Face Captures, and even the beloved >Translations Meme, and our treasure trove of Gassposters. Among the flora of our humble domain, you might even spot the rare and valuable Gene Wolfe fag, Aramini. Please, take up a book, scan from page to page, and join us in our rants and raves, anon.

If not, get the fuck out, pleb.

>>8437605
>Dreaming in memes
Time to take a break from 4chan mate

Bur could you discern any talent?

pathetic

is pynchon every random old man on the street

>>8437609
no one knows

>>8437566
I feel like a total normie, but I honestly jot down ideas in my phone notepad. I just don't dress like oliver twist, so I rarely have pocket space for a pad and pen.

I have a little notebook for story/book ideas, quotes or lines I'd want to use.

When I actually write something it's usually on google docs or microsoft word. I make a book manuscript in word as well.

>>8437566

Marble Notebooks are amazing if you are okay with doing by hand. I feel like I get ideas down without feeling dumb. Also if you look at Walmart or target you can get them for like 50 cents each for 100 sheets. Well, low quality ones for 50 cents, but paper is paper. Nabokov wrote on index cards so you really don't need much pizazz

>>8437542
Why not both?

I'm currently listening/reading the Iliad

They're two different translations, which means I'll definitely learn the dumb Roman god names

>>8437542
if it's poetry, it's fine. poetry was meant to be recited. if it's prose, you should be reading the pages as you listen.

>>8437542
They're both completely different methods of reading a book and you'll get a different experience with an audiobook than if you read it yourself.

>>8437521
no.

>>8437521

Winston Smith is a cog of the state, kept docile by the government-provided drug Soma, being entertained by the inauthentic music of a player piano, under constant surveillance by Big Brother because he lives in a house made literally of glass.
One day though he falls into a forbidden love with Julia, and the two plan to escape aboard an airship called the Integral. They flee toward the Integral in a refurbished Model T Ford, with Big Brother in pursuit. However the machine stops, Julia is taken away, and Smith is put in Room 101, a sort of torture chamber where he's placed underneath a giant glass tumbler full of cockroaches.
I don't think it's right to give the very ending away so I encourage you to pick up the story in the last 20 pages or so to see whether Smith is able to escape and so on.

>>8437571
Oh thanks. I didn't actually expect to get help. I've been finding stuff and piecing them together. I think I have just enough to get it together, I'll try read a little bit more to get a better understanding. Thanks!

Truth is I've been meaning to read this book but for some reason my mind just doesn't want to read it even though I like reading. I probably have ADHD or something.

>>8437498
Isn't it just Pirate dreaming or using his dream ability?

>>8437527
No it's literally just a quote from Finnegans Wake

It's Pynchon's way of telling a joke

>>8437532
? I don't remember that

>>8437494

ur dairy t b h

>>8437494
The kite runner

>>8437494
The Very Hungry Caterpillar

It's all in the linebreaks my dude

>>8437439
It's like a mix of prose and music.
Economy of words.

I remember Pessoa saying that prose was the superior art because the writer is able to give a rhythm when he need it, but on poetry the rhythm was a necessity and most importantly an obstacle.

How does this work for uninflected languages like French?

>>8437436
French has poetry based on syllables not accents.

>>8437436
different meters for different languages. Italian poetry is easy as fuck to make sound incredible. English is a difficult language for poetry.

...worth what?

Depends on what you want to do. Actually, I wanted to make my own thread on self-publishing but I may as well ask here.

Any anons here self-publish? How was it? What sites would you recommend?

>>8437390
you know the effort versus traditional publishing.

If you're goona post shitty poetry at least use decent formatting

>>8437348
1/3rd in it dawned on me that it was Death Grips

>>8437372
Please, this is some voluptuous contemporary poetry and you're too stubborn to dull your /lit/ edge to appreciate it

Marx looks pretty black from his pictures

>>8437323
Haha funny you should say that. I always wondered if he was like one of those "otcoroon" cats like Homer Plessy.

Coetzee

Male here. I much prefer reading pornographic material, than looking at images or videos. However, most of the content isn't well-written and can't establish any nuances ; most of the content is just for an easy jerk off, nothing really entertaining, uplifting or too interesting. Although, even if poorly written, some content is ''decent''. I would be in heaven if I ever found something that suited my sexual tastes and was well-written.

>>8437279
>putting hours into reading a book to wank you could spend trying to get a gf

>>8437346
Girlfriends are for plebs