Hey, I heard you guys were pretty smart about books. My english teacher told me that I use commas as James Joyce. What did she ment by this /lit/?
>>8428929
0/10 for effort with your shitposting aptitude though you would be baiting dozens of (you)s in the average /pol/ or /r9k/ thread so go there instead
>>8428938
Im not baiting honestly, she said so and I've never read Joyce so I'm curious.
>>8428929
Here's an extract from the last chapter of Ulysses. What do you think she meant?
YES BECAUSE HE NEVER DID A THING LIKE THAT BEFORE AS ASK TO get his breakfast in bed with a couple of eggs since the City arms hotel when he used to be pretending to be laid up with a sick voice doing his highness to make himself interesting to that old faggot Mrs Riordan that he thought he had a great leg of and she never left us a farthing all for masses for herself and her soul greatest miser ever was actually afraid to lay out 4d for her methylated spirit telling me all her ailments she had too much old chat in her about politics and earthquakes and the end of the world let us have a bit of fun first God help the world if all the women were her sort down on bathing-suits and lownecks of course nobody wanted her to wear I suppose she was pious because no man would look at her twice I hope I'll never be like her a wonder she didnt want us to cover our faces but she was a welleducated woman certainly and her gabby talk about Mr Riordan here and Mr Riordan there I suppose he was glad to get shut of her and her dog smelling my fur and always edging to get up under my petticoats especially then still I like that in him polite to old women like that and waiters and beggars too hes not proud out of nothing but not always if ever he got anything really serious the matter with him its much better for them go into a hospital where everything is clean but I suppose Id have to dring it into him for a month yes and then wed have a hospital nurse next thing on the carpet have him staying there till they throw him out or a nun maybe like the smutty photo he has shes as much a nun as Im not yes because theyre so weak and puling when theyre sick they want a woman to get well if his nose bleeds youd think it was O tragic and that dyinglooking one off the south circular when he sprained his foot at the choir party at the sugarloaf Mountain the day I wore that dress Miss Stack bringing him flowers the worst old ones she could find at the bottom of the basket anything at all to get into a mans bedroom with her old maids voice trying to imagine he was dying on account of her to never see thy face again though he looked more like a man with his beard a bit grown in the bed father was the same besides I hate bandaging and dosing when he cut his toe with the razor paring his corns afraid hed get blood poisoning but if it was a thing I was sick then wed see what attention only of course the woman hides it not to give all the trouble they do yes he came somewhere Im sure by his appetite anyway love its not or hed be off his feed thinking of her so either it was one of those night women if it was down there he was really and the hotel story he made up a pack of lies to hide it planning it Hynes kept me who did I meet ah yes I met do you remember Menton and who else who let me see that big babbyface I saw him and he not long married flirting with a young girl at Pooles
>Hie und da
FUCKING WHY? EVERY FUCKING TIME. IS THIS AN INSIDE JOKE? FUCK YOU
>>8428911
is that german for 'and but so'?
are you reading fucking INFINITE MEME in translation?
did you get memed this hard?
are you serious?
>>8428921
No it's a spelling error. It happens unironically literally literally every time. I don't get it.
Fuck this shit why does nobody add the r. Must be on purpose
Hast du unendlichen Spaß ? :^]
Why is Western civilization and culture so much greater than all the rest? What's the secret?
I think it's down to the Westerner's unerring ability to post threads onto the appropriate board.
Being white
>>8428889
Geographical determinism for a serious answer /pol/ if you want your insecurity alleviated in the short term and exacerbated in the long term talking from personal experience
>I know that I know pure ideology
What did he mean by this?
In order to understand what Zizeck means by pure ideology you need to have a good grasp of the connection but also the differences between the definition of ideology per se and the notion of ideal mental content. The two differ in a particular way even though the one derives from the other. In an ideal, the very best outcome for a situation or object finds its representation in your mind. The ideal of buying a lottery ticket amounts to winning the lottery however unlikely. In an ideology however the ideal mental content occurs as the perspective itself. The ideology of buying lottery tickets even though you have an extremely low likelihood of winning has to do with the justification you give yourself to overcome the obstacle of poor chances. The ideology justifies the proposed possible ideal. The notion of a pure ideology suggests that the ideal content (the subject of the ideological perspective) has undergone removal. Only an abstract justification remains in 'pure ideology' pointing to no idealized content only the remains of some positive emotions that would have attached to that subject. Strictly speaking the perspective that a thing has positive content remains intact when the thing in question no longer exists. When Zizeck says he knows pure ideology that means he has seen these desiring perspectives that lead nowhere, to nothing. Usually people use the term 'pure ideology' somewhat rhetorically to indicate to thier interlocutor that the likelihood of their projections rank much lower than their expectations. Although, to extend charity to Zizeck, he may actually believe that people in capitalism do respond to pure ideology.
>>8428994
Did not expect, thank you for the high quality response.
Are Zizek's ideas testable? It would make a difference if it was tested.
>>8428884
>What did he mean by this?
He's probably writing another book about it as we speak.
Gotta give the cry credit for being able to milk Hegelian-Lacanian nonsense for so long.
Do you have any ideas? Hunter S Thompson? Pic unrelated
>>8428870
They're called FPS (first person stories), noob.
>>8428870
like anything in first person?
Lolita if thats the case.
>>8428870
Moby-Dick
Lolita
The divine comedy
The life and opinions of tristram shandy, gentleman
Gulivers travels
What is your greatest writing weakness /lit/?
Mine is over describing environments. Each one of my chapters have massive pace destroying paragraphs at the start of them that go on about all the intricate details of the hills/building/beach/whatever. It all feels important to me at the time, and as I am still battling through my first draft I am pushing forward rather than wasting time continually revising at this stage, but I know that when I come to revise for my second draft am going to have to sort these sections out. Plus I'm probably an underwriter so my word count is going to suffer.
>>8428869
>describing enviroments at all
t. your nigga Dosto
>>8428869
read stoner if you want to find (what i feel to be) a good example of short environment description. williams provides brief but not lacking (succinct i guess) descriptions that dont interrupt the pace and feel vivid in my mind.
on the other hand, try reading lolita. nabokov has humbert go on and on about landscapes and beauty, but the prose is so motherfucking good that you feel invigorated just reading it.
if youve already read those, try going back over passages of them. it really helps me.
>>8428900
Thanks for the recommendation. I will certainly look up Stoner as I have not come across it
Favorite religious writings? Read anything written by a monk you recommend?
Cloud of Unknowing and Dark Night of the Soul
I love Christian mysticism, it's comfy
>>8428853
>Favorite religious writings?
As in specifically religious or does fiction pass? I'll give a list of random works I liked
Thoughts in Solitude by Thomas Merton
Dark Night of the Soul by John of the Cross
Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
End of the Affair by Graham Greene (as a person a lot less Catholic than his writings would tell you)
Silence by Shusaku Endo (will pray a rosary for anyone who can get me some of his epubs that aren't Silence, Kikus Prayer or Golden County)
Jesus of Nazareth by Joseph Ratzinger
There's a lot of interesting philosophy, modern thomism has had a pretty large revival.
>Read anything written by a monk you recommend?
Outside Aquinas, recently, nothing.
>>8429467
Great list, although technically Aquinas was a friar not a monk.
Anyway, I'll add:
Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas
Confessions by Augustine
The Sources of Christian Ethics by Servais Pinckaers
Grace: Commentary on the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas by Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange (reading this now)
Commentary on the Song of Songs by Bernard of Clairvaux (this guy was a monk)
The Experience of God by David Bentley Hart
And for some fiction:
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin
a good book (fiction or non fiction) discussing about mental health? Can be on depression, PTSD, social anxiety etc
Most late 20th century lit that isnt sci-fi, fantasy, or romance.
Disturbing the Peace, Richard Yates.
I suggest to read about the imprinted brain theory. Not necessary have to read the books on it.
>>8428841
you didn't build that. shakespeare invented it.
>>8428841
What's that hanging on his neck? Something medical, I guess. Like something with an alarm switch that the moribund can press with one of the last barely coordinated twitches of his reptile hands, so that caretakers can rush to do whatever it is they do to keep him a little longer in this muddled limbo of a world? Is that it? Thanks for reminding me he's mortal and sinking inwardly, a shitting, wheezing skeleton inside its pergament case. Leave him be into his non-being. Broadcasting his inner melting wirelessly, are they? Download his soul to a microSD card, why won't you? So we can all snatch a copy of him from #bookz and smarten his punctuation. Fuck, this makes me mad, sick and sad.
>>8429713
That'll be all of us if we make it that far one day
Now that the dust has settled, what's the verdict on this man and his works?
Sam Harris comes dangerously close to being a smart man. He displays a rational of thought that is respectable enough when discussing religion... then completely shuts down and allows bias to take over when talking politics.
I like listen to his debates on religion, a topic on which he is quite knowledgeable. But he is practically intolerable when discussing politics... and not just because I disagree with him on some issues. He would back a bad candidate to the ends of the earth, and in that respect he is as bad as some BFE farmer in Kansas.
>Yesh, I support the death penalty because Sam Harrish is still alive.
I like him, though I don't agree with him on everything, like on the topic of Hillary.
His writings are pretty decent though.
wtf I can't be sure of anything now
wtf I hate the state now
wtf I wanna bang my mom now
wtf where am i now?
Is this patrician?
>>8428794
>bookmarks
>patrician
>>8428795
Makes things easier, especially since I'm constantly switching back and forth between the main text, the notes, the glossary etc
>>8428794
>ask if something is patrician
asking makes the act instantly pleb, this is AWAYS the case, even if you are asking if Beckett or Kawabata are patrician
why? think it like the schrodinger's cat, it maybe alive or dead, but if you look the cat will aways be dead
Same goes with the concept of "patrician", because one of the defining characteristics is the lack of need of validation by others, so a work can be or not patrician, but if you need validation it doesn't matter because YOU will aways be a pleb
is my mom /lit/?
bonus
is she???
>>8428754
What Kindle is that? Looks bigger than the Paperwhite
Any good editions of Nabokovs Lolita that don't have girls/women/bodyparts on the front? Except for the Olympia first press edition that I could literally buy my own physical lolita for in Asia.
>>8428745
Why do you want such an edition?
>>8428787
I just really like simple covers, as well as reading a book with "lolita" in big font over a tweens bust isn't my cup of tea
>>8428791
Faggot
I'm European and rarely have trouble pronouncing names, but Goethe is really weird to me. Is it really pronounced Gur-tah and not Goh-teh (or similar)?
Also Goethe general I suppose.
>>8428705
Where exactly did you find an "r" in Goethe?
Just google it you dip, look up some German pronouncing it and be done with it
>>8428705
I don't know how I'd go about typing it, but it's easy for anyone who isn't retarded.