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On a side note, there's an open poll for our first group reading assignment, and I'm pulling for Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald just because I happened to have recently purchased it. Kafka's The Trial and the Stories of Nabokov are the other frontrunners.

>>8402077
if that's what you think it is presently, you have more than enough power to mold it. There's like two posts a day, and we'd be blessed to have your refined intellect to correct our wayward plebhood.

What I see is the potential for a /lit/ sans shitposting because of a lesser version of /lit/'s anonymity, i.e. we're still anonymous but what you post will have an effect on what you post in the future and how it's received.

It's like having a trip on here, but having a trip on here is begging for attention because no one else has one. I believe that there's good to be found in anonymity, thus why I've been an active member of this board for years, but there's also good in accountability. Separate spaces for separate reasons.

>>8402090
I won't spend a second filling up what I've read, that's just way to time absorbing, so I'll try to stick to what I've read discussions

embraced

>>8402023
violently annihilated

Anally violated

oblomov

My diary

Notes from underground, whatever, a confederacy of dunces, oblomov, etc.

>>8401896
Well there's the entire history of philosophy

>>8401902
Be more specific.

>>8401902
It would be an excellent idea to privide the authors name.

>>8401888
He looks like a cool guy, I would definitely want to hear his opinions on Deleuze.

>>8401888
What did he mean by this?
I'd like to see OP's body without organs t b h

>>8401888

>guy looks happy
>anon flies into rage

>>8401883
That quote is getting at the malleability of disposition which accompanies the formation of a person's world view. After it is formed it is relatively unchanging for most people.

'satisfaction'- I think denial/acceptance is a better fit

Talk about the superficiality in a seemingly profound statement. Connect it to your teacher's own attention disorder and compare his silly assignment to twitter.

>>8401895
Hey anon, I kind of get what your trying to say, so thanks for that. But I cant get enough substance from this quote to write an 1100 word essay about it. Can you go into detail please?

Yeah, the narrator of the first chapter is LITERALLY retarded, but you're worse than him for not being able to figure that out

>>8401882
you wanna fuck your sister if you wanna fuck your sister

you wanna fuck your sister if you dun wanna fuck your sister

is faulkner retarded?

>>8401882
This is bait right?

>>8401797
The work is an abysmal mess in itself, but I completely agree with what you are saying. Someone needs to write a novel about an Eliot Rodger, he would have to be made far more intelligent and interesting though. Eliot was a despicable autist, but the point that the sexual revolution has lead to an increase in virginity is not invalidated by his own awful personality.

>he missed the repressed faggotry in both American Psycho and My Twisted World
>he's even OP
please start sucking cocks for your personal mental health.

>>8401804
Exactly. Critiquing his prose and reading it like a novel is a mistake. You have to read it like a critique of sexual capitalism and social alienation in the modern era.

We need to find ways to help socially retarded losers like Elliot rodger integrate into society before they cause some real damage.

Is this even a good book? It seems extremely polarising.

>>8401976
if you like cortazar, sure

i prefer hunting and mountain climbing. but reading is great.

Of the classical cannon of hobbies, it's easily top 5.

Yes, right there on top with

fishing
hiking
playing an instrument
cooking
doing recreational maths
painting
writing
training pets
chess
tennis
hockey
soccer
sculpture
collecting postcards
stealing frozen yogurt
eating doughnuts
making friends
killing clouds
shaking hands
leaving sounds
making lens
piping leaves of grass
mate the world is fading away
I love you call the cops

>>8401730
>Help /lit/ I don't understand my racist anti-comedy meme man!

>>>/pol/
>>>/his/

>>8401752

You are stupid bro

>>8401730

Either you get it or you don't. And it's not fucking called post-irony.

>>8401758
Alright, how would you define it? I'm not saying I didn't laugh, I just want to know more about the reasoning behind his comedic styling.

Dune does not treat the expansion of Human civilization as a good thing. Dune starts out with a rebellion uprising but then becomes an existential pondering on fate/destiny and the terribleness of power.

>>8401708
>>8402385
It is generally said that AT MOST the first four books are worth bothering with. Anything after that is the original author's son or the original author's extended canon which I guess people see as unnecessary.

I've only read the first two, but I hear Children of Dune (the 3rd book) is bad.

>>8402385
>Dune does not treat the expansion of Human civilization as a good thing.

I only read the first two books, but this also is my impression so far.

Just read the book(s), OP. I haven't read Foundation, and I'm only familiar with the 40k universe through casual lore reading and some of the video games. The two aren't really comparable at all, the only parts of 40k inspired by Dune are some aspects of the imperium of man and the emperor. Dune was the beginning of science-fiction that went beyond merely exploring humanity's potential for technocratic societies and our universe's potential for other lifeforms. Dune (reminder I've only read the two first books) explores the idea that highly advanced technology as a defining aspect of human civilization is merely a temporary thing. It will eventually be the cause of our demise, and mankind instead had to embrace inner, spiritual(this word may come to have a new meaning for you, should you ever read Dune) development to thrive and not degenerate. The book takes place thousands of years after mankind began to favor this evolutionary path, and, naturally, this path will begin to exhibit challenges of its own. If you wanna find out more, read the book! :>

im at page 200 and i realllly don't know if i want to keep going

>>8401674
Mario chapters are bite-sized my froggy friend.

Wat book

Soseki.

Yes, I am.

>>8401597
どのくらいですか?

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>>8401501
>Wouldn't their translations be more accurate and have better notes?

How so?

The more accurate translations of Dante are the older ones

>>8401538
They can look at whatever problems and criticism the 20th century translations had and fix them or maybe they learned something new from anthropology or other fields.