Where were you when Lovecraft BTFO Eliot?
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/poetry/p228.aspx
Waste Paper
A Poem of Profound Insignificance
Πἀντα γἐλως kαἱ πἀντα kὀνις kαἱ πἀντα τὁ μηδἐν
Out of the reaches of illimitable light
The blazing planet grew, and forc’d to life
Unending cycles of progressive strife
And strange mutations of undying light
And boresome books, than hell’s own self more trite
And thoughts repeated and become a blight,
And cheap rum-hounds with moonshine hootch made tight,
And quite contrite to see the flight of fright so bright
I used to ride my bicycle in the night
With a dandy acetylene lantern that cost $3.00
In the evening, by the moonlight, you can hear those darkies singing
Meet me tonight in dreamland . . . BAH
I used to sit on the stairs of the house where I was born
After we left it but before it was sold
And play on a zobo with two other boys.
We called ourselves the Blackstone Military Band
Won’t you come home, Bill Bailey, won’t you come home?
[It keeps going]
Lovecraft was a pulp fiction writer making 5 cents a story.
Still Lovecraft's best work:
When, long ago, the gods created Earth
In Jove's fair image Man was shaped at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts were next designed;
Yet were they too remote from humankind.
To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man,
The Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
Filled it with vice, and called the thing a Nigger.
>>8425526
Absolutely dreadful, lovecraft was a worse poet than a writer
How many times do you read a book before you judge it as good or bad ?
>>8425496
>rereading a book you hate
You realize you only have about 85 years to live, much less if you live in MENA.
0.
>>8425496
once.
go back to /mu/ you fucking retard underage, hurr durr stuff magically changes second time around xD
Are there any authors that mix the post-modernism of someone like Pynchon or Joyce with a traditional fantasy story (a la Tolkien)?
Peter S. Beagle maybe
Gene Wolfe
>post-modernism
>Joyce
Weird, I feel a sudden rush to kill myself.
Here it is.
It is 7:25 am, the alarm is blairing as Erick Hayden sits up straight in his bed, a cigeratte sits in his mouth. He forces himself into the shower, he was up all night again, his body shaking he puts another cigeratte into his mouth as the icy cold water runs off his white back. His black hair covers his face. After his shower he quickly gets ready to go to work, in his car he gets stuck in traffic, he snaps and yells at the kids in the school bus on the oppisite lane, he hits his steering wheel and decides he wants some coffee. Finally after getting his breakfast consisting of; 100g of Xanex, 50g of cough syrup under twelves, 500g of monster energy drink, 375g of flat, black coffee and a piece of bread, he pulls into his companies parking lot. 'RESERVED PARKING - CEO - ERICK HAYDEN' Erick smiles for a split second, he opens his monster energy drink, and drinks the entire thing, a bite into his multigrain bread, a handful of Xanex and shot of cough syrup. Erick is ready for his day!
>>8425448
He puts on his ear phones, some kind of tibetian tribal music is playing, Erick bobs his head to the beat. Taking off his suit coat as he enters the office he walks into a chair that sits near the entrance. Angry, but wordlessly he kicks the chair with his leg, he glares at the lobby attendant.
"What?" he remarks, Erick turns 360 degrees than walks to the printing room, he kicks in the door and stares at Rehambo, the somoli affirmative action hire. He continues off to his office just down the hall, punching the door right off it's hinges. He throws his car keys onto the desk and sits down, leaning back on his office chair, the music is still playing, he is up to the part in the track where the tibetian tribal leader sacrafices a goat in the name of the frog god.
"SEE MOO LAH, AHH BOO SAH!" Erick sings along with the music, his face is very red, he has probably over dosed on Xanex, however Erick went over the edge a long time ago.
Erick is typing a report for his share holders on his laptop, however the PC freezes.
"Should have brought a Mac he whispers to himself bitterly." He picks up the cup of coffer that is on his desk, he brings it to his mouth however because it is hot he spills a drop on his tie. So he decides to spill the hot coffee all over his suit under shirt, before punching his laptop and breaking the screen with his fist. He slams it shut then proceeds to bash his head against it, Smack! Smack! Smack! Whispers can be heard from the printing room across the hall, Erick hates those guys, all they do is print out stuff.
Erick has calmed down and has changed his shirt, his attendant, a large women with her hair tied back opens the door that Erick fixed earlier.
"Umm... Mister Hayden sorry to bother you but..."
"Super busy!" Hayden is hitting his pen against a blank piece of paper, glaring at the lady with anger.
"I'm sorry but mister Wilsnack called and he said that he doesn't want to pay that 3 dollar service charge on the gasoline so we are going to be cutting down to 30 meters and not 31."
"So are we going to be taking this out of your check or what do you want to do?!" Hayden snaps at the lady.
"Um... err... if we have to? I'm sorry, heh." She nervously says.
"Good job." Hayden throws his pen against the desk and looks down as the lady leaves the room.
It is later in the day, Hayden just wants to go to 'his place' tonight, where he feels accepted. He stands up and looks out at the dimming sky lighting the city. His mind is foggy, he downs some more Xanex and cough syrup and spits the mixture out after a few bites. Closing the blinds as a Rick, the Diversity consultant enters his office.
>>8425450
"Hey... Erick, hey sorry to do this to you man but... I have to take off a little early, my daughter has a basketball game." The run down looking man says.
"Ah no, don't be sorry. There is not much going on around here! Why don't you take my car!" Erick picks up his keys off his table and throws his keys at Rick.
"Get out off here you dammed communist!" Erick yells, "Take this to!" He throws the japanese white porceline vase at the door smashing it.
"Take care man." Rick quickly leaves.
"Have a good time!"
That night Erick had a blast at the local rave club he finds a corner with a few girls and gets wasted on Xanex and Cough Syrup.
lmao took me a second to get it
Halfway through A Dance With Dragons, and I'm getting really sick of this series. Some aspects of it are so good, but others ruin it for me.
Firstly, Martin exaggerates everything. The Wall can't be 300ft, it has to be 700ft. It can't be frosty, it has to be "so cold it drives men mad" with waist high snow. Even though it's still only autumn.
Secondly, it's over sexualized. The lesbian sex scene with Cersei was like something from a fanfic. It just makes Martin seem like a horny creep.
Thirdly, his latest books would be greatly improved by removing a quarter of the content. No wonder he writes so fucking slowly when he keeps throwing in all this shit which does nothing to advance the plot.
>>8425438
SUNSET
>>8425438
Next tell us what you think about Harry Potter.
>the lesbian chapter is like a fanfic
It is. Reading it hurt my brain.
>The Wall is exaggerated
>waist deep snow although it is only Autumn.
It is fantasy, senpai. On one hand, The wall being gigantic is not a big deal. The story has dragons, wood elves, ice zombies, resurrection, etc. On the other hand, having deep snow when it is only autumn is quite the rule for martin, he is obsessed with long seasons spanning years where winter is super cold so a cold end-of-autumn is logical.
Is there anything like a Rate Your Music for books?
Good Reads seems to be really fucking bad
>>8425422
Yeah, we call them classics.
>>8425431
This. The canon for literature dates back centuries and is much more established than that for pop music since the 1960s... so something like RYM doesn't really need to exist. I guess it'd be nice to have one for contemporary literature but you're better off sticking to the classics anyway and waiting for classics to emerge from contemporary over time.
This is useful for music because recording techniques, instrumentation, song structure, etc has changed so much in the past 50 years (and its a much more commoditized industry, so in general the mainstream pop stuff is bullshit) but the recording technique for books is pretty set in stone.
Rate Your Music is really fucking bad itself, so Goodreads won't be a big downgrade. Just ignore the YA fags and add /lit/izens. Honestly, for cataloging, only Excel sheets are comparable with GR, all other sites have shit databases or have to be paid for.
I went to film camp. I’ve read Sard. I’ve read Thomas Pynchon. I’ve read Ayn Rand. I’ve been to Italy. I’ve been to France. I speak French. I’ve been to Spain. I’ve been to South America. I’ve been to Kenya. I’ve been to China. I backpacked across Europe. I prefer tea to coffee. I’ve been to Greece. I love Greek food. I’m a foodie. I’m always on the lookout for a great little place to get breakfast. I sometimes go to Barnes and Noble and lose track of the time. The black people that I’ve met said I have a lot of flavor. I love my MacBook but I also love my MacBook Pro, because it has the word Pro on it, short for prolapsed.
echos of prolapsed
I drive an ancient Volvo that barely starts. The Matrix and..and Inception are the first movies in the last ten years that made me really think. Yeah I paint, no big deal, I think conventional painting rules are…stogy, archaic. To bend the spoon, you have to realize there is no spoon. Think outside the box. Coexist. Coexist, and one more thing, If you don’t know the difference between your, and you’re and you’re and your, you’re a fucking idiot, get the fuck off my Facebook wall.
>>8425410
>hfw he's a manlet irl
Unsubtle, try again in a few months
>Sard
It's actually Sartre
https://youtu.be/QKwMFas9XnY?t=5m55s
>enter a bookstore
>there is a 7/10 girl attending
>"hi what do u need?"
>"hey i'd like to ask if you have L'étranger from Albert Camus"
>"let me see but let me help you"
>together looking for it
>nice ass
>"i know wwich book is it but im not sure if we still have it since its very new"
>autism was growing inside but i decided to embrace it
>"yes indeed, i heared u have a lot of books and stuff hehe"
>"so wich books do u like to read apart from this guy" she asks
>i said that i dont know, i knew albert camus because he was a big friend of herman hesse
>"aww yeaa, i love hitman stresse too!!"
>asks my name
>say im jean paule proust
>that stupid cunt didnt even find the book i was looking for
that's what you get for talking to 7/10s instead of learning how to use the alphabet
Why would you talk to a 7/10?
>>8425318
Low standards. Haven't gotten laid in 24 years.
Does reading a kindle before bed mess with your sleep?
Blue light does
>not having a lamp and your to-read pile next to your bed
plebs
The LED's used to light kindles are still blue light, but the way it's lit makes it less intense than a standard LCD screen. Any light exposure can mess with your sleep. Ideally if you're going to use a kindle in bed you should turn the brightness all the way down and turn on a lamp.
ITT: overrated trash
I wouldn't call him trash but if most people didn't know about Rimbaud's life story his fanbase would be a tenth of what it is.
>>8425214
You realize Harry Potter's main target audience are children
What are some funny Philosophical theories or texts ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6nI1v7mwwA
>"'How are synthetic a priori judgments possible?' Kant asks himself - and what is really his answer? 'By means of a means' - but unfortunately not in five words."
Diogenes was a funny guy.
>>8425194
>diogenes
mah niga
Who are some of the best songwriter lyrics wise? All genres and eras, doesn't matter.
>>8425106
Frank Zappa
I thought I was smart, I thought I was right
I thought it better not to fight
I thought there was a virtue in always being cool
So when it came time to fight,
I thought I'll just step aside and that the time would prove you wrong
And that you would be the fool
I don't know where the sun beams end and the star light begins,
It's all a mystery
Oh to fight is to defend if it's not now than tell me when
Would be the time that you would stand up and be a man
For to lose I could accept, but to surrender I just wept and regretted this moment
Oh that I, I was the fool
I don't know where the sun beams end and the star light begins,
It's all a mystery
And I don't know how a man decides what's right for his own life,
It's all a mystery
Cause I'm a man not a boy and there are things you can't avoid,
You have to face them when you're not prepared to face them
If I could, I would, but you're with him now it'd do no good
I should have fought him but instead I let him-
I let him take it
I don't know where the sun beams end and the star light begins,
It's all a mystery
And I don't know how a man decides what right for his own life
It's all a mystery
Shakespeare may have "invented the human", and the past writers and humanists may have been dealing with, and expressing towards the humans of their time.
But do you truly believe all the great writers and philosophers of the past would have expected what the human is today? Do you think the humanity they are dealing with is the same humanity in the now?
I sometimes get the sad, hollow feeling that when I read something like Dostrovesky or any other great author that deals with the human and the human spirit. It's the feeling that the humans they were writing for no longer exist in today's times, or at least we as a species are going through a spiritual transition towards the future state of humanity and we are the generation caught between two eras. Yearning to connect with the past but not yet fully understanding who we are going to be in the future.
Do you believe that the literature of the past still deals with the humanity of today? I believe that the threads that relate us spiritually and humanly to the past are being cut every year. I mean just look at places like China. It seems like Humanity are slowly losing their souls.
humans are a century away from extinction.
we should embrace our AI overlords, and whatever superior bio-concoction they can cook up.
Jesus, I haven't seen this much melodrama in one post for ages.
>>8425146
Damn you are cool dude
Is being 18 too late to start becoming /lit/?
You shouldn't worry about that, if you enjoy reading then do it. There's no competition for enjoying a book, myman.
>>8425009
Also, you pick up on things along the way, don't fret about trying to understand everything, nuance comes with time and eperience.
YOU'RE A FUCKING WHITE WHALE
dumb but i laughed. ill allow it.
Who here thinks Moby Dick would be more awesome if it were a white shark?