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Allegory of the Slime Cave
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I pounded that slime cave for hours last night. By the end of of it all she was so intoxicated with lust that she became completely incoherent and began babbling and giggling and pissing all over my bed. I didn't know what to do, I had plowed this fine hunny into complete retardation. I yelled "excuse me WTF are you doing?" but she gave me no acknowledgment. I did the only thing I could think to do, I plugged that slime cave up and kept on keepin' on. I buried my head into my pillow in disgust as I attempted to tame this once delicate fawn, but there was little hope for victory left, and pretty soon my dick began caving under the pressure. I began to cry quietly into the pillow as concentrated streams soiled my inner thighs, and then I blacked out. I woke up the next day itching all over, the smell was rancid and the girl was nowhere to be seen, but my cellphone was blinking with a new text. I opened my flip phone and began to read it outloud.. it read "dddjjnjlzllkzdkpflkdool", and I realized in that moment that this girl was now permanently retarded. I sat there a moment, dumbfounded, imagining in horror that she must still be out there somewhere, babbling and giggling, pissing at times.. after much thinking, I realized that there must be millions, maybe billions, of women out there like this, and I resolved from that point forward to only use my powers of the dick for what is good and honorable. I pitched a tent just thinking about how awesome I can be as a truly focused alpha male. I realized that as long as I am bound to banging sloots, I will be addicted to the cave, where all is shadow and decaying. I put the phone down and stared at my wall for about an hour. It was the loudest silence I've ever been in, but a calm fire began to rage inside me, and I thought about God, and country, and I thought about the cave.
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its about female dependence on intimacy.!?
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>>8364742
Not OP but no way that's what it's about... The woman is not portrayed as attempting intimacy, furthermore it doesn't really seem to be about women at all in the end.
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>>8364862
No the woman is exactly how the man wants her. She will do anything for the hope of the man actually liking her. She was how she thought he wanted her the night they banged and was the same way the next day, all girls are that same way. I guess i more see it as women being slaves to mens view of them.
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In his ABC of Reading, Pound is talking about musicality in English literature, and cites this elegy written for the death of poet Lord Rochester:
''A PASTORAL In Imitation of the Greek of Moschus
Bewailing the Death of the Earl of Rochester.
Mourn, all ye Groves, in darker Shades be seen,
Let Groans be heard where gentle Winds have been :
Ye Albion Rivers, weep your Fountains dry,
And all ye Plants your Moisture spend and die :
Y e melancholy Flowers, which once were Men,
Lament, until you be transform'd agen,
Let every Rose pale as the Lily be,
And Winter Frost seize the Anemone :
But thou, O Hyacinth, more vigorous grow,
In mournful Letters thy sad Glory show,
Enlarge thy Grief, and flourish in thy Woe :
For Bion, the beloved Bion's dead,
His Voice is gone, his tuneful Breath is fled.
Come, all ye Muses, come, adorn the Shepherd's Herse,
With never-fading Garlands, neverdying Verse.
Mourn, ye sweet Nightengale in the thick woods,
Tell the sad News to all the British Floods :
See it to Isis and to Cham convey'd,
To Thames, to Humber, and to utmost Tweed:
And bid them waft the bitter Tidings on,
How Bion's dead, how the lov'd Swain is gone,
And with him all the Art of graceful Song.
Come, all ye Muses, come, adorn the Shepherd's Herse,
With never-fading Garlands, neverdying Verse. ''
And he continues for a few more stanzas.
Then he says:
>I refrain from indicating the chief device here employed to induce clear melody. The student should find it for himself.
>He can only find it by listening and looking. If he can't find it for himself no amount of telling will make him understand it. There is a single clear principle employed.
I, for once, could not discern any clear principle other than the fact that the author maintains the same rhythm througout the whole poem. I also notice how he uses a lot of alliteration, and sometimes repeats in a verse the same sounds present in the verse directly above. Also, there are many monossylables, although this changes in some stanzas.
Can you notice any other device? I am really curious.
Here's the whole text: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A53278.0001.001/1:18.1?rgn=div2;view=fulltext
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>Earl of Rochester
>for one
>monosyllable
I wrote it in a hurry, sorry.
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look at his commas
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>>8364468
You mean the ones in the end of each verse? Yes, I also had noticed that he avoids any kind of enjambement, but I don't know if that's really the principle.
Or do you mean the commas he uses inside each verse? Because I can't see any overall pattern regarding those, specially because there is one stanza in which he barely even uses them (which - coincidence? - is also one in which he uses a lot of longer words):
'' Fair Galatea too laments thy death:
Laments the ceasing of thy tuneful breath:
Ost she, kind Nymph, resorted heretosore
To hear thy artful measures from the shore:
Not harsh like the rude Cyclops were thy lays,
Whose grating sounds did her soft ears displease:
Such was the force of thy enchanting tongue,
That she for ever could have heard thy Song,
And chid the hours, that did so swiftly run,
And thought the Sun too hasty to go down,
Now does that lovely Nereid for thy sake
The Sea, and all her fellow Nymphs forsake:
Pensive upon the Beach, she sits alone,
And kindly tends the Flocks from which thou'rt gone.''
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Has a book/work ever changed your life in a way significant/noticeable to you?
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No matter how you answer this question you're a tryhard pseud
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Catcher in the Rye reignited my love of books in high school after not reading for a few years
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas made me realize that books could talk about some real taboo and crazy shit and be as much fun as anything else
James Joyce in general elevated me to understanding what real artistic perfection is, and solidified the yndersranding in my mind that geniuses more often than not are never understood in their time
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The Brothers Karamazov made me be nicer to others, even though I feel like there was a lot I missed
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Hi /lit/,
So I've decided to broaden up my horizon and dive into the world of literature.
I've actually never read a book in my life except some shitty novels I was forced to read in school (I read like 10 pages and gave up, so I just read summaries of them).
I'm huge into anime and movies, but really want to try something new.
Anime I love:
Madoka
Welcome to the NHK
K-on
Movies I like:
Fight Club
Inglorious Basterds
Drive
I would greatly appreciate some recommendations, that fit within my taste.
Thanks, guys.
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Catcher in the Rye
Slaughterhouse 5
Metamorphoses
The Trial
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>>8364319
Thanks man, but I'm looking for something more modern. I've read Kafka in school and despised it.
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>>8364302
>that post
kill yourself
I'm starting a Politics degree, /lit/.
What books should I read? Ideally, I'd like anything that gives me a good overview across the spectrum, although I don't mind anything that applies to a specific niche/ideology.
I bought Rousseau's Social Contract ideally. For some reason, my degree is called 'Political Science' - although I'm not sure what the 'Science' is supposed to imply. If anything, I'd say that Politics having become less philosophical, and more scientific, is a problem. Prior to this, I've read little else than fiction/philosophy.
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Aristotle
Plato
Montaigne
The Prince
Leviathan
Common Sense
Communist Manifesto
Conditions of the Working Class in England
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I'm gonna hop in this thread with my own question. My knowledge of politics is limited, I have a broad knowledge of modern events and occurences in politics but little of the ideologies/histories behind it. Could anyone suggest me some books that might illustrate some of the important or must-know political history or give an oversight on various ideologies? I'd prefer to start with something like that over plowing through lists like the one posted above since I don't always have much time and I'd like to get some knowledge on a bit of everything so I can decide which things interest me most to read up on further.
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>>8364295
Fukuyama
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What are the levels of understanding a work of literature?
I'll start:
1. Superficial, pleb tier:
>this was a boring/simple read
>he uses a lot bad words
2...
3...
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caring most about 'quality of prose' is close to bottom tier.
i think understanding its relevance to your own life and its capacity to engage with you and alter your ways of thinking/acting/being/feeling are top tier.
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>>8364257
Why wouldn't you read Eckhart Tolle or cookbooks forever instead of tryna get something applicable to your life from Homer, you dumb pleb
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>>8364253
1. Plot
2. Conceptual aims
3. Place in the Conversation
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What are some /lit/-approved universities? (besides Oxford) pic-related
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>>8364145
lmfao
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>>8364145
Notre Dame? /lit/ approved?
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>Oxford
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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so, is Morrison worth reading?Does she have an obscure book that is actually better than her most publicized ones?
Im not in the mood for something irrelevant.
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worst book i've ever read and i've read a decent amount
ok not -worst- but definitely most overrated in terms of quality to reputation. i hate the SJW boogeyman but holy shit it's hard to imagine this book is well received for any other reason
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>>8364070
>black
>woman
Take the redpill, nu-male cuck
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>>8364070
Song of Solomon, Sula, Paradise, and Beloved are all worth it.
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Which author had the toughest life 2016-08-05 16:22:14 Post No.8364052
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Which author had the toughest life
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Which author had the toughest life and why? How did it impact on their writing?
Pic related is my answer: me and my diary
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>>8364052
Wow that's some next level embarrassment
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Me
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What faggot censors his first name?
Who is the greatest American author?
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Me
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gaddis
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>>8364029
Steinbeck is definitely a contender.
I would say mark twain would be the first major author to create a style that would be considered distinctly American around the world.
other authors who could understandably be named...Melville, flan O'Connor, hemingway, Faulkner, ray carver, Eudora welty. I'm not just talking quality of their work, but also impact of "American literature."
helo firenfs
i was reedign book forever lauffing
but in mot luaghing
why ????
hepl pleases
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>>8363975
for once I actually believe that a particular OP has in fact just finished reading the actual novel Infinite Jest from beginning to end, and truly is now posting from a mindset of someone whose thinking process has in fact been freshly affected by the novel in question.
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Not all jests last forever.
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>>8363975
Dumb frogposter
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How do I get into literature?
Where do I start?
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My diary desu.
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>>8363815
Start with the Greeks
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>>8363815
start with the Sumerians baka greek
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Good morning everyone. I have some questions.
I am beginning my first year of college in >2 weeks, and my First Year Seminar revolves around literature from ancient times around the world, particularly focusing on those who wrote them, e.g. the Book of Songs and Beowulf (our summer reading).
The professor has mentioned we will be exploring our choice of historical literature to present at the end of the course.
What culture does /lit/ recommend I study? Which ancient peoples will provide the most fruitful literature?
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>>8363799
The Greeks.
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Easiest question ever asked on lit.
Other cultures have great works but none have the range and depth of the Greeks.
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>>8363799
Definitely the Mayans
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When will Randroids learn that nobody cares about their chain-smoking autist of a philosopher?
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When will continentaloids understand that nobody cares about pretentious French pseudo-intellectuals?
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>>8363771
These memelords actually believe she's a philosopher, don't they?
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>>8363771
Dumb frogposter
You can only post itt if you actually read books
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erotic fan fiction novellas count
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>>8363618
4chan itself counts as a book (it's all text, so what's the difference?)