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>>8321670
>Is Infinite Jest vaporwave?
Yes

>Is there any vaporwave literature?
No

>>8321670
infinite jest is actually good, so no

>>8321670
>Is Infinite Jest vaporwave?
yes
>Is there any vaporwave literature?
no

>>8321669
Powerful but sparce, rarely seen. Use it subtly. Make it mysterious.

One of the easiest ones is binding it to physical vitality

If you try to pull high level spells while being some weak and unhealthy faggot you simply die. Even then you must wait for it to recharge

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>>8321709
>>>/fit/

Bobby Learns to Banjo by Alicia Glissando
Jane's Big Bass by Tutti Tremolo
and Sally Loves The Double Reed by Dick "Timbre" Minuet

Struts and Frets is a YA coming if age book that this falls under.

>>8321660
This is an oddly specific request OP.

>>8321624
>Hundreds of thousands of workers - carpenters, masons, painters, joiners, paper-hangers, tailors, hairdressers, jewelers, bronze founders, typesetters - spend their whole lives in hard labor to satisfy the demands of art, so that there is hardly another human activity, except the military, that consumes as much effort as this.

>But it is not only that such enormous labor is expended on this activity - human lives are also expended on it directly, as in war: from an early age, hundreds of thousands of people devote their entire lives to learning how to twirl their legs very quickly (dancers); others (musicians) to learning how to finger keys or strings very quickly; still others (artists) to acquiring skill with paint and to depicting all they see; a fourth group to acquiring skill in twisting every phrase in all possible ways and finding a rhyme for every word. And these people, often very kind, intelligent, capable of every sort of useful labor, grow wild in these exceptional, stupefying occupations and become dull to all serious phenomena of life, one-sided and self-complacent specialists, knowing only how to twirl their legs, tongues or fingers.

>But this, too, is not all. I recall attending once a movie set for one of the most ordinary new movies, such as are produced in all European and American movie studios

>I arrived when the first scene had already begun filming. To enter the set I had to pass backstage. I was led through dark underground corridors and passages of the enormous building, past immense machines for the changing of sets and lighting, where in darkness and dust I saw people working at something. One of the workers, his face grey and thin, wearing a dirty blouse, with dirty workman’s hands, the fingers sticking out, obviously tired and displeased, walked past me, angrily reproaching another man for something. Going up a dark stairway, I came out backstage.

>>8321627
>Amid piled-up sets, curtains, some poles, there were dozens, if not hundreds, of painted and costumed people standing or milling around, the men in costumes closely fitted to their thighs and calves, and the women, as usual, with their bodies bared as much as possible. These were all actors, male and female dance groups, or ballet dancers, awaiting their turns and piles of costumes and set dressings. My guide led me across the stage, over a plank bridge through the camera crew, where sat about dozens of engineers and electricians of all sorts, and into the dark stalls. On an elevation between two lamps with reflectors, in an armchair with a bullhorn in front of it, script in hand, sat the director, who conducted the actors and costumes crowds and dancers and the overall production of the entire movie

>When I arrived, the shot had already begun, and a procession of Indians bringing home a bride was being presented on set. Besides the costumed men and women, two other men in short jackets were running and fussing about the stage: one was the assistant director, and the other, who stepped with extraordinary lightness in his soft shoes as he ran from place to place, was the dancing master, who received more pay per month than ten workers in a year.

>These three directors were trying to bring together the acting, the dancers, and the procession. The procession, as usual, was done in pairs, with tinfoil halberds on their shoulders. They all started from one place and went around, and around again, and then stopped. For a long time the procession did not go right: first the Indians with halberds came out too late, then too early, then they came out on time but crowded together too much as they exited, then they did not crowd but failed to take their proper places at the sides of the stage, and each time everything stopped and was started over again.

>>8321632
>The procession began with a pantomime by a man dressed up like some sort of Turk, who, opening his mouth strangely, sang: ‘I accompany the bri-i-ide.’ He would sing it and wave his arm - bare, of course - from under his mantle. And the procession would start. But right away the Frenchman does something wrong at the end of the pantomime and the director, recoiling as if some disaster has taken place, yells "cut" through the bullhorn. Everything stops, and the director, turning to the procession, falls upon the Frenchman, abusing him in the rudest terms, of the sort that coachmen use, for having done the wrong step. And again everything starts over. The Indians with halberds again come out, stepping softly in their strange shoes; again the actor sings: ‘I accompany the bri-i-ide.’ But this time the pairs stand too close together. Again the yelling of "cut," the abuse, and it starts over. Again, ‘I accompany the bri-i-ide,’ again the same gesture with the bare arm from under the mantle, and the pairs, again stepping softly, halberds on their shoulders, some with serious and sad faces, some exchanging remarks and smiling, take their places in a circle and begin to dance. All is well, it seems; but again the yell of "cut", and the conductor, in a suffering and spiteful voice, begins to scold the male and female troupe members: it turns out that they fail to raise their arms from time to time while dancing, as a sign of animation. ‘Have you all died, or what? Cows! If you’re not dead, why don’t you move?’ Again it starts, again ‘I accompany the bri-i-ide,’ again the female troupe members dance with sad faces, now one and now another of them raising an arm. But two of the female dance members exchange remarks - again a more vehement yelling of "Cut". ‘What, have you come here to talk? You can gossip at home. You there, in the red trousers, move closer. Look at me. From the beginning.’

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Do seconds count ?

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>>8321644

Might Dubs Count as Well ?

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Who IS watching the Throne ?

>>8321600
Because the Greeks have been removed from most of Western education.

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We live the same lives in different times, friendo.

>>8321600
>arrogant because some random guy didn't give a speech as good as one of the most iconic pieces of rhetoric in all of western civilization

>>8321620
This is pretty much the entire point of reading the Greeks, Thucydides (and so Pericles' speech) especially. There is a certain constancy to human nature without which the study of history would be meaningless for giving us insights into the future.

>>8321609
Also this. Classical education is all but dead. Maybe it still exists in some high class and exclusive upbringings, but it's totally overshadowed by the masses of people going to university without even tasting classical education.

>>8321560
can you clarify

>>8321560
What?

>>8322227
>>8322229
Great works that satisfy at least one of the things mentioned. Sorry, I really thought it was clear after providing the list.

>falling for the nyrb meme
good goy

A bill for 24 loonies

>what am i in for?

outing yourself as a pseud when people see you reading NYRB classics

i saw a guy with one in Tim Hortons once and watched him as he proceeded to eat his entire meal checking his phone and not reading the book he had prominently displayed on his table

i'm reading Fahrenheit 451 as we speek.

Poor Clarise

>>8321489
You can read and post at the same time?

>>8321479
i have a book open in another tab

i don't exalt literature though

when in doubt, go with Oxford, Scribner or modern library.

>>8321427
Can you read French?

>>8321451
no

muh prose

It's gonna subvert your mind into complete absurdity, and that's ultimately what every intelligent person wants, at least, that's what I desperately crave. I haven't read the book yet, though LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL.

>>8321414
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL-ita

nah dude i'm sure you're probably smarter than the greatest philosopher of all time, no worries

you're not missing out on much anon. plato got completely BTFO the other day anyway >>8314013

/lit/ is dead

>>8321329
>unironically using an irony point

>post-ironic
did you enucleated ur i's?

>>8321405
>implying I'm capable of pre-irony

>>8321320
both

Its a good book; not for plebs.

>>8321320

Intelligent people don't hate this book.

I won't say you're retarded if you didn't enjoy reading it, but I would suggest revisiting it at another point in your life.

>>8321307
Can't help but I'll give you a bump.

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Here's one that comes to mind. A bit of an odd book but I found it to be a comfy read.

'Waiting for the Barbarians' by JM Coetzee. I suppose it's not actually specified that it's in Africa but at the same time it seems abundantly clear to me that it is.

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>>8321307
>>8321391

Another one.

I don't remember much about this book other than it's very, very big in Africa (like, read in every high school big) and it was also a comfy read.

Most of the African literature I'm aware of has a lot to do with foreign presence (go figure) so I imagine a variety of these texts would be cool to read while staying there as a foreigner.