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Do we privilege the author or the work?

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i'm finally doing it, i've decided to dive into Ulysses and try to understand it the best I can. My question to you is how should I go about using the annotations? as of now i'm marking in the annotations in the chapter before i read them so i don't have to flip back and forth between books, but its a very long process and it expands my reading time by a good hour or two (sometimes even more depending on the length of the chapter), is there a more convenient way to do this? how did you read the book? did you even use annotations at all?

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Do any /lit/ anons know any resources for learning Latin?

Are there any anons that can speak/read Latin? If so how did you go about practicing it?

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I need something uplifting to read /lit/

Books with a positive message about humanity please

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this is the first /lit/ book i've read in years, so please bear with me if these ideas are elementary/played out. i'm still interested in hearing /lit/'s thoughts on this.

so, basically this is a book about the artifice of art - language, literature, representation, and perhaps of human experience?

this reminds me a lot of films like antonioni's blowup and hitchcock's vertigo -- where the "romantic paradox" seems to be embodied: experience and vitality are at odds with conscious awareness; or, in other words, reality and representation (variations of this duality -- the concrete vs abstract, phenomena vs noumena, synthesis vs analysis, reality vs spirit)...

reflecting our own existential tragedy, the faustian bargain of art itself -- of photography, film, literature -- is that while it seems to capture life, it does so at the expense of being in reality devoid of life and never actually capturing, in any authentic sense, life itself

this is reflective of how we live -- when we're in the moment, it is because that our experience is so in-the-moment, uncontaminated by reflection, that makes it so vital and human; when we think about things retrospectively, sure, they're eternal and ideal, but the cost is that such things are no longer lived

lolita reflects these points beyond conventional ontological register, and thus becomes an embodiment of these points as well:

in humbert's memorialization of lolita, lolita obviously winds up reduced to an object of his fancies, a figment of the imagination and memory -- to us she seems a pretty, attractive mist, but with nothing of her, dolores, herself underneath it all (and her childhood robbed from her -- who else thinks this story was incredibly sad?)

the language is written seductively, of which nabokov must be self-aware, but he is also aware of its substantial bankruptcy -- it's beautiful, but it's beautiful just to be nice to read and doesn't really contribute to any sort of conventional moral payoff or anything; what, then, is the point of it all? -- i believe this question is the very point...

(also, the ambiguity of character here -- do we like the guy, as he certainly seems to be portrayed -- if only in his own account -- sympathetic to me, or hate him, for continuing to fuck lo's life up despite knowing that it's a shitty thing to do -- is like )

within the metafiction, the episodes are like subjective memory in all of its artifice. this reminds us again of the lifelessness of our remembered experiences, and in a way the impossibility of art (and memory and representation) to authentically express life itself -- for then it would be lived experience

i have some questions:

is humbert a sympathetic character? if it's ambiguous, what is that supposed to mean?

what do you think this book is about? anything i missed? any crazy theories?

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This series worth investing myself in? The first novel seems awful.

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Do you think it's possible maybe if we could all chime in and upload our personal libraries to the net as a way of open-ended sharing? I'm led to believe some of us have literature that is otherwise barred from others. The purpose of the library, as I see it, is to provide the widest possible chronological/genre-specific catalog of books we can find and maintain.

archive.org is one suggestion for a platform.
https://archive.org/about/faqs.php#1051

I realize this requires some extraordinary commitment from the /lit/ community. It would be tremendous if it can pull through, it could be a great and accessible resource that is both affordable to maintain and to add onto.

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>It's a "Dan Simmons whines about Islam" episode

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write your suicide note in this thread.

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Thought on von Kleist? Do you prefer his fiction or philosophy?

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Just finished this book. Who wants to discuss it?

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What parts of the Tanakh/Hebrew Bible and the Apocrypha are worth reading? I know what parts of the New Testament are worth reading but I couldn't find anything in the wiki about the tanakh and the apocrypha.

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I have a decent grasp of prose and i think I'm pretty clever but i cant think of any stories i want to tell and im worried that i have nothing to say. anyone else feeling this feel? pic unrelated obv

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What's the best version of the bible for the most accurate version of the Old/New testament that isn't the original language it was written in?

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Does /lit/ know any good books about trees? Books on tree species (general or local), arboriculture, tree farming, etc. Nonfiction, fiction (though preferably observational / informative - think The Peregrine), memoir. I'm not looking for poetry, but feel free to post it anyway.