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Lit, I want a book that you don't read for pleasure, I want a book that you read for knowledge beyond your wildest imagination. I want it to be knowledge akin to this moment in Le Sacre Du Printemps which I marked in the video https://youtu.be/9wK8fSkjOy0?t=458 wait for the end of the buildup.
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>>8415177
>https://youtu.be/9wK8fSkjOy0?t=458
>>Young Boulez
Also baka the bassoonist rushed the whole solo, and the grace notes barely came out baka.
But to your point, Ulysses is probably the closest literary equivalent to Rite.
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>>8415942
It's a matter of taste, I suppose. I actually think this piece is a bit more urgent, which is why I find it more exciting than other renditions of Rites of Spring that I've heard.
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Just read the dictionary you moron, front to back.
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Is this modernism?
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"low" modernism
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Is it any good
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You ever try to read or write while high on cannabis? That shit is practically impossible. My mind moves 1000x faster than my hands and I can't keep up with the thoughts.
Drinking is a little bit of the same thing, but I end up falling asleep not long after beginning to write.
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reading is harder but writing is significantly easier up to a point
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i like reading while having a drink... a beer or two. no more than that.
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>>8415131
Writing drunk worked for me once but every other time I've been unable to actually focus long enough to do it.
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Okay, so it appears to me that all philosophers, even if their ideas are very radical, are ultimately guided by benign motivations - to improve society, help people live meaningful lives etc but are there thinkers whose works are explicitly malignant and deliberately written to corrupt and pervert people?
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all the german ones have purposely tried to ruin europe
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Marquis de Sade?
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>>8415137
even Kant?
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What is this garbage? All I'm reading is techno-babble and Muslim fellating.
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>>8415079
weird because they don't use technology
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>>8415079
Muslim fellating? Because it's a desert and they have a messiah?
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>>8416187
It was written in an era when orient was exotic and hip, his feels are triggered due to post 9-11 brainwashing.
Had he lived in 50s he would tell how Dostoevsky had all dem russian commie shit
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Is DFW's Hal a successful, appropriate, or failed spiritual successor to Shakespeare's Hamlet?
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not entirely in any of your cases
orin corresponds some of Hamlet's personality, as does mario, as does hal.
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>>8415000
They both succeed in being whiny lil bitches
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>>8415659
This is the most accurate response.
Hal takes on Hamlet's hesitance and thoughtfulness, Orin carries out the passionate revenge for his father, Mario is probably the least like JOI (becauseJOI isn't his dad) and yet carries on one of his most important interests.
I would say Hal individually is not enough of a parallel to Hamlet the character to say if he succeeded or not. Hal's role is very different.
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what are the great romances of the 20th century?
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romance was born when the church replaced quest for the none christian spirituality with quest for Real love in old texts, i think roman ones. then rousseau with his gay romanticism. it is bullshit.
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>>8414998
>confirmed for having never been on long walks by the beach with his lover
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who is nyc based?
english theory majors at hunter's english program?
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>>8414944
Paying people to ask me to read???
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>>8414944
I wouldn't say "based", but pic related was conceived and largely written on the Q train.
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I'm from Bushwick. Graduated Hunter a year and a half ago. Working minimum wage and writing. I'm so depressed.
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>want to write a book comparing my experiences as an enlisted sailor vs. my experiences as an officer
>not sure where to start
How do I go about this without sounding elitist or holier-than-thou?
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start with the ending and work backwards from there
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>>8414928
It's not over yet, though. I'm not sure how to begin with an ending that hasn't occurred yet
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>>8414920
link all the experiences together by the shared act of sodomy wherever you go.
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Why do you plebs purchase books instead of getting them from a library?
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>>8414916
I live in Canada all the libraries have burned down.
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>>8414922
Canada doesn't get fires
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>>8414916
Because I don't like the idea of having to bring books back.
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What are some entry level books to help me learn about Buddhism?
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The Dhammapada
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism
Read all of this
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>>8414903
Dubliners
Can you rate this /lit/
Its just a journal entry, but I feel like i can take it further, fictionalize aspects, writing is my cure, Im only just starting out working on my storys and research full time. But given my lack of experience, do I have potential?
"I don’t want to wake up one morning, sun peering in through the window to find l, like many men before me have lost my health and my humanity to an inescapable void, a hunger for desire, all bad men eventually walk\ a path of unfortunate events, brought on by nothing but hedonistic lust. I remember being a young boy, puppet like, held up by strings, stringers knotted in family ties and affairs that were ignored, the masks they wore soon tattered and worn. These memories while recent \in the span of my life, seem so distant, they seem a nebula of dust, broken thought and shattered memories.. Those that I remember, despite my sadness, I look back on and smile, my mind will briefly dance in fantasy, a warn and comfortable dream.
My experience seems void of positivity and drive, why pick flowers in the meadows when one can bask in the shadows, and from a distant watch the world grow and decay, and grow again. In my mind I stand at night on a rainy street corner, Lost in desire as I stare at the rear legs of a whore, as if in away I am absorbing her heat, her scent, For some reason my senses are heightened and I can almost smell her pheromones seeping through her pores. I am trapped, Oh i am trapped so greatly in the euphoria of one great extreme, as another part of myself fights other possibility, other dreams and dark impulses."
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>>8414844
Makes me lose the will to live/10.
Holy hell, cut down on the pompous Byronic teen crap. Are you the novella anon again? And read the rules on comma splices: you're addicted to them.
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>>8414844
>the rear legs of a whore
Okay, if the whores in your story have more than two legs, I MIGHT read a few more pages.
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>>8416202
>whorse
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alright so my girlfriend just got hired for a one year nursing contact in NYC. as much as I love the idea of being able to write for a year straight uninterrupted I can't afford that. I'm a Canadian citizen and have no greencard. what are some jobs that pay cash I could try and get? to keep this /lit related have any of you gone to another country to write? how did it go?
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break up. it's impossible to write real lit if you're in a stable relationship
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>>8414843
Sell drugs
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Books that are so profound, depressing, unsettling or strange, that will leave you with a lot of different thoughts on the book you just read? I'm talking REAL NIGGA books.
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Get your daddy to clout you with the family bible.
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>>8414834
History of decay
Book of disquiet
My diary desu
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>>8414834
The Room by Hubert Selby, Jr.
Synopsis: Man is in prison and dreams for 200 pages about ripping the testicles off of dogs.
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Describe the book which you could read endless, suggesting that this book never ends.
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Garden of Forking Paths
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The I Ching
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>>8414781
I hate when you retards do this, as if there were a single answer and you happen to have discovered it.