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My favorite medieval romance was the time I took your mom to dinner at the Pickle Barrel and then jousted her asshole with my dick

>>8323891

>Sir Oreo

Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach is my favourite. A lot of big thinking in a nice story as well.

>>8323864
You need Jesus.

>>8323864
How? Just how?

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>>8324254
he was talking about how fertile the negro ovary was and I couldn't help but thinking of pouring my seed in to an alpha positive black woman.

Like this one.

>>8323862
According to Heidegger, no.

According to most contemporary Nietzsche scholars, kind of.

Just take it as a collection of notes and musings and draw no conclusions from it. Unless you follow Heidegger's argument that this stuff was a collection of the memes that even Nietzsche thought were too dank for the public's eye (or were perhaps in too early a stage and too experimental to publish). But that's a shitty argument considering Nietzsche reveled in being an edgy fuck and had no reservation about throwing out unsupported assertions in his published work when it suited him.

>>8323850
Watchmen is reallyenjoyable

Sandman, Sandman, oh and Sandman.

The spin off with Lucifer is meh.

The "Death" spin offs are great.

If you want some pretty sci fi, "Saga" is alright.

>>8323850

Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
Palestine - Joe Sacco
Habibi
Persepolis

t. based leftist

>>8323841
You're on the literature board

Take your 'feels' to /r9k/

>if I use the Star Trek transporter to make 87 iterations of myself, and all the iterations read 87 different books at once, "I" will be reading 87 books at once!

This is how fucking DUMB you are, clone lover.

>>8323853
>not making 1 iteration of yourself
>not being okay with dying after several billion years
>not embracing true humanity and emotion with somebody
I bet you like omnipotent gods too

>>8323835
for whom?

plurality in mediation
ironic distancing
pastiche
spectrumite

Shit

Polyphony of semiotic irredentism
Irrealist dispositif
Jamaican patties from the train station
AHHHHHHHHH!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>8323780
Tender is the night

>>8323780
portrait
ulysses
finnegans wake

I Pass Like Night

i see this thread all the time lol

im still fond of coraline by neil gaiman

>>8323789
It's the same weirdo who creates them all. Odd obsession

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>>8323795
bro, why would you call me odd, bro
like if you don't like how I act just go mind your own business, no need to think about me or call me odd, bro
don't call me odd ever again like that bro

>>8323772
It's the most leftist because they've been brainwashed by cultural Marxism by Marxist professors in college and university.

The real intellectuals are on /r9k/ and /pol/ where the redpill rules.

The redpill is truth, not academia lies of postmodernist perspective subjective feels.

it is

no, that's /po/, which is why you've never heard of them.
they have the full autism genius, unlike >>8323779 who just have that uptight feel of someone who's never been invited to a sybaritic party despite voting republican to indicate their interest in such things. we just have paper with squiggles on it, which is still better, but not /po/ level smart.

I still read, but down to about 1 book a month.

Wage slave life is garbage

>>8323769
For real. I can't even remember the last time that I sat down to work on any of my writing projects.

I read on the job 8)


Work has definitely cut into the time for my other hobbies though

>>8323749
According to Lacan?

>>8323919
No.

To me it is unclear why she defenestrated. Though perhaps she was just suicidal. She did say at one point that, "I was never really myself when I wasn’t running away.”

Also during Louiki's narration, see says that she spent a lot of time with Jeannette Gaul, the woman she met and befriended while at the pharmacy.
That Louiki was averse to hanging around men in the company of Jeannette. That she jettisoned an entire friends group when they were doing a double date sort of thing in a park.
And that Jeannette frequently visited Louiki when she was married/still staying with that accountant bloke in his apartment.
More pertinently she shares that they shared a bed and discussed the present and their futures. And that during that Louiki is a bit on edge regarding her husband coming home.

Another thing- Modiano never explicitly details Louiki's sexual relations (with anyone), throughout the novella. Though Roland does briefly note that they shared hotels for the night in the neutral zones. And during Roland's narrative bit he describes Jeannette and Louiki's interactions as being mysterious, as though they shared a secret past.

So, not exactly sure. There are vague hints at her proclivities, but nothing obvious or explicit.

Louiki kills herself right before Roland and her are to leave for Majorca. She had already married a man mistakenly and was going through great efforts to avoid his ghost. Was she distraught over potentially being tied down again? Was her freedom from commitment that important? Was it freedom from men she valued? I want to believe that Louiki hurles herself from the window over her inability to have a relationship with Jeannette. But obviously there is no substantial evidence to support this.

I'm curious what others thought about Louiki and Jeanette's relationship and how it pertains to the ending of the novella.

>>8324056

I mean I think you bring up some good points to support it, but it still feels like a stretch.
Especially since she leaves the Jeanette friend group only to exclusively hang around the young men at the Conde and Roland.

But that scene when they're on the bed and she gets spooked about her lame husband coming home.

so yeah, she's prob a closet dyke

Terrible bait. Try harder.

>>8323732
>You don't just want to show off your collection, do you?
what would be wrong with that?

I love material things

I like that if I have people over at my house they can glance over my bookshelf and see what sort of stuff I read

I dont. Library give me 95% of books i read

>>8323695
mishima

>>8323695
I took something different from The Tunnel. I saw it as the story of Castel's self-isolation/self-defeat. He saw himself as an outsider and so of course he ended up alone, in his cell, in his tunnel, due to his actions.
His paintings weren't an attempt to communicate - they were supposed to confirm and excacerbate his isolation. Which is why he had to, in the end, kill Maria, the one who understood. Allende was not the only blind one.

The only escape is sincere communication, and it's not a foolproof method. It's hard to be sincere to others when you have dug yourself that far.


You might like 'The Dark Stranger' by Julien Gracq. If you haven't read 'The Trial' then that too.

>>8323701
Anything in particular by him? Where do I begin?

>>8323762
I see it as a story of self isolation and defeat although I do not view it as a defeat that was entirely self inflicted.

I agree that they weren't an attempt to communicate but to confirm his isolation. An expression of his complete loneliness but not an exacerbation though.

Sincere communication is impossible anon. There never can be anyone who will completely understand anyone else. It is impossible to completely fill the void of someone else's heart because to do that you need to understand them completely and that will never be possible. Sincere communication will always be painfully limited. We're all a bunch of brutes speaking like cavemen unable to fully express what we feel or fully share it with someone else. Which is why all relationships are fundamentally failures. Castel's story is just a caricature of this failure that plagues every relationship between any two individuals. Don't you agree?

Thank you for the recommendations anon. Will check them out.

Might check him out.

I miss the neet life. Being wage slave is hell

>>8323621
Have two different copies of LAUM - gave one to my old man. He gave it back to me within fifteen minutes of being gifted it. Claimed that it was unreadable.

Either he's an autismal modernist with no taste or proclivity towards post-modern prose, or he's correct in his assertion.

I hope it's the former.

I read Life, a user's manual, one of the best books I've read desu. Actually just came across that movie on IMDB and now I want to read more Perec.
It's hard to find online though, might gonna have to make a trip to the library.