I'm not sure if many of you know this because I don't see him discussed often, but if you're all as enthusiastic about quality postmodernism - The Recognitions, Gravity's Rainbow - as 1/4 if the post suggest, you'll REALLY love John Ashbery's poetry, especially his early works. Selected Poems is a good place to start. That is all.
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You're a fucking retard. Don't post here again.
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>>8380469
Nah it makes no sense to me
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>>8380479
Yikes. Why so much hostility? I mean, if you can read poetry, and have read his poems, you know it's true....
ITT: Most pretentious authors
>Pic related
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ha ha i dont think john green is a very good author either
like dan brown ha ha am i right?
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me
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>>8380448
Seconding this
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Hey /lit/.
I'm interviewing Friday for a position with a constitutional legal scholar. His primary focus is on the 2nd Amendment and I was told he would be grilling me pretty hard on all things 2nd Amendment.
I know what the 2nd Amendment says (please clap) but not much about the immense amount of scholarly debate surrounding it.
Can anyone recommend any books/resources that would be solid primers? Any must-reads?
I'm going to be reading about the following cases:
U.S. v. Cruikshank
U.S. v. Miller
D.C. v. Heller
McDonald v. Chicago
Caetano v. Massachusetts
pls & ty
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>implying lit would actually read the only work that actually mattered
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>>8380745
But I didn't ask anything about The Bible
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>>8380383
Have you tried posting this on /k/ and /pol/ as well?Also, there's a guy on /r/guns who is a 2A lawyer who may be a good source. Unless he's the guy you'd be hiring with. I think the redditor is trying to become a director in the NRA iirc.
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>mfw I do something that pleases God
There's no feel more patrician than this one
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blessed brother, i know this feel.
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>>8380379
where in the gospel does it talk about posting garbage in between masturbation sessions?
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>tfw i die of cancer
There's no feel more patrician than this one
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Just started reading continuously for the first time in my life, and I'm looking for something new. Here is what I've read so far this year, just about to finish up Don Quixote.
Any suggestions of a contemporary book maybe? Doesn't need to be, but I think it would be cool to read something modern when I clearly haven't yet.
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>rating Don Quixote before you even finish it
>3.84 for the most forward and technically advanced novel for centuries that still influences writers today
What are you doing
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>>8380356
>9 books 8 months
pleb
people similar to OP would go off better not reading at all
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>>8380362
That's the Goodreads rating. Not mine. As you can see, my rating is blank.
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Did he just really love whales?
(Why are there so many chapters about the anatomy of whales?)
(The shield of Achilles?)
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It's a fantasy book for an era where Whaling seemed fantastical. It's the kind of book that fantasy or epic story writers should take from, as it demonstrates those characteristics beautifully.
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Whales are pretty amazing, if you get right down to it. They're the biggest creatures on Earth. They're also some of the smartest creatures on Earth. We've lived with them, killed them, and loved them alternately for our entire history. They're worth writing a book about.
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>>8380343
dreaming of the ambergris and the rich milky thick and ivory-colored sperm oil I could get from the whale in your pic
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>How astonishing then that students exposed to such a wide array of middlebrow entertainments are not mobbing their libraries and bookstores, demanding heady diets of serious or semi-serious fiction! And how puzzling that I should so often find myself teaching bright, eager college undergraduate and graduate students, would-be writers handicapped not merely by how little literature they have read but by their utter inability to read it; many are nearly incapable of doing the close line-by-line reading necessary to disclose the most basic information in a story by Henry James or a seemingly more straightforward one by Katherine Mansfield or Paul Bowles.
>The explanation, it turns out, lies in how these books, even the best of them, are being presented in the classroom. My dogged search for reading lists flushed out, in addition to the lists themselves, course descriptions, teaching guides, and anecdotes that reveal how English literature is being taught to high school students. Only rarely do teachers propose that writing might be worth reading closely. Instead students are informed that literature is principally a vehicle for the soporific moral blather they suffer daily from their parents. They present vogue for teaching "values" through literature uses the novel as a springboard for the sort of discussion formerly conducted in civics or ethics classes - areas of study that, in theory, have been phased out of the cirriculum but that, in fact, have been retained and cleverly substituted for what we used to call English. English - and everything about it that is inventive, imaginative, or pleasurable - is beside the point in classrooms, as is everything that constitutes style and that distinguishes writers, one from another, as presicely as fingerprints or DNA mapping.
>http://lcps.org/cms/lib4/va01000195/centricity/domain/2376/i%20know%20why%20the%20caged%20bird%20cannot%20read.pdf
>mfw a woman (!) BTFOs lazy SJW English teachers better than anyone on 4chan ever has
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anyone have a guide on this line-by-line reading? I think I understand texts pretty well but this definitly wasn't taught at my school
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next paragraph worth repeating:
>The question is no longer what the writer has written but rather who the writer is - specifically, what the ethnic group or gender identity an author represents. [...] Meanwhile aesthetic beauty - felicitous or accurate language, images, rhythm, wit, the satisfaction of recognizing something in fiction that seems fresh and true - is simply too frivolous, suspect, and elitist even to mention.
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>>8380273
Fuck, Alan Partridge is looking old
What are some good books that have bird motifs or are about birds?
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The peregrine
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Kosinski - The Painted Bird
du Maurier - The Birds
Coleridge - Rime of the Ancient Mariner (lengthy ballad, not a book, but it's brilliant and introduced a bird symbol that continues that has been referenced throughout literature since)
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How hard is it to learn two languages at once? Is it doable?
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you would probably want to learn two that are related
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It's probably quite doable
If you learn two similar ones you could get them jumbled though
In school I learnt French and German at the same time with little difficulty but it's likely slightly harder learning independently
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What am I in store for?
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>>8380149
hot garbage
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>>8380153
I don't understand if that's praise or not
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The main character of your favorite book has been replaced with Shrek. How does this ogregious change affect the story?
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>as Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic ogre
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>>8380148
Shrek will not fly 80 missions, nor will he fly 75. Shrek has decided that 3 missions are enough for him.
Shrek's dead roommate in his tent is dead because Shrek ate him.
Major Major jumps out of his window not to avoid responsibility but because he's worried Shrek is at his door.
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>>8380165
l m a o
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where can i find them all for free?
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>>8380125
trashcan probably
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>>8380125
itunes
most are free
AFAIK, it became non-free only for a few months at some point.
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youtube
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Can someone recommend poetry like the only poem I ever wrote? I really don't want shitty "classic" poetry that you have to analyze and doesn't just feel natural to read.
I can feel the spiders in my mind beginning to awaken and slowly crawl out of their holes, ready to rebuild their webs after a tired sleep, avoiding the light. and the dust slowly settles on my mind as I slowly regress into a state of suspended animation. as my mind grows colder, and more and more dim, i can feel myself growing weaker, and the light in my eyes begins to fade as the last rays of sunshine blinks out from my window. and I die on the inside.
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>>8380103
>CRAWLING IN MY SKIN
what the fuck are you twelve you emo bitch?
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>>8380105
stop right there anon, you've violated the law. now pay the fine or serve your time.
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>>8380103
Your diary desu.
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tinychat com /4chanlit
get in here
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oh no not this shit again
are you trying to bring the namefags back or something?
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>>8380066
No, I'm just bored and lonely and wish that I had some people to talk to.
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>>8380069
iktf bra
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Hi /lit/, Im thinking of buying some philosophy books, where is a good place to start?
>In Before the ego and its own
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g r e e k s
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>>8380047
Critique of Pure reason is the best starting point. Or phenomenology of spirit by Hegel
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>>8380654
absolutely this