This has been popping up a lot recently, is this a new meme I'm unaware of?
Is this legit?
I don't get it
>>8278660
>No Henry James Varieties of Religious Experience
>No St. Augustine
>No Sufi texts
>No historical-critical texts regarding the evolution of Christianity and Paul
>No Evola or Marx
>Freud
>Jung
>Graves(?!)
It looks like some shitter took a community college course and through together a chart based off his required reading
Looks like Foundations in New Age Mumbo Jumbo.
Some of it gas merit, but I don't know that it needs be grouped as some kind of inclusive curriculum
What's your mammy and daddy's favourite book, /lit/?
My Dad don't read, Mom's is probably a Stuart MacBride novel
>>8277673
Hello Aberdeenfag
>>8277661
They're both functionally illiterate. Probably The Bible.
>reading translations
how can you bitch so much about prose without being able to read the book in its original language?
is the average /lit/ poster bilingual at least?
>>8276848
I only speak two languages. English and bad english
>>8276848
>you wlll never fuck a girl this hot bookboy
>is the average /lit/ poster bilingual at least?
I think a lot of posters here are from non-English-speaking countries, so the average poster might very well be bilingual. Especially those that speak highly of non-meme non-English authors (e.g. Thomas Mann) have often read the original, I believe.
Besides reading/writing, what are your hobbies /lit/? How they help to make you a better person?
>>8273610
I have a job as a cashier
I listen to music a lot
That's about it
music and film
>>8273610
Video-games, climbing, HEMA, drawing very badly. Haven't been able to climb or HEMA for a while, though, because of exams.
>better
S P O O K Y
Show us your very own poetry and discuss it's meaning with each other.
I'll start it off
O beautiful sparkling ridge which bathed in light
blessed by serenity of the sun’s early wane
Brings an orange hue to that distant sight.
as it sets behind the field, lighting it aflame.
along comes the moon, passing through the sky.
And a blanket of stars follow suit in frame.
abridged by the sweet sound of the cricket’s cry.
As if saying goodbye to their bright dame.
the ridge, now shined with that small glossy orb
who’s pale healing light, the fields absorb
waiting for the cricket to sing once more
which cries blazon the glorious morn.
A life of a soul which passes through time.
and sees the blaze of its youth at its height
then comes wisdom of that dreary night that chimes
until it gives way to another bright day of light.
And as the moon come and go, the sun sets and rise.
And as the fields wither and die to once again arise
The cricket stands ready to sing about the ridge’s life.
We raid your fucking communes
We take your fucking drugs
We rape your hairy women
And set fire to your bongo drums
>>8271931
hahahahah, awesome poem. Is it about an african tribe?
>>8271939
I call it Hippie Blood Stains My Steel
> " yet so as not to make the sense a slave to the rhyme."
What did he mean by this?
christ killing kikes did 9/11
JET FUEL
rappers shouldnt always sacrifice lyricism for better flow / accommodation of the instrumentals
Hi /lit/ I want to get into Lovecraft but wher do I start ?
Can you guys help me out ?
The color out of space.
>>8284386
Dagon
>>8284386
The Outsider
Is /lit/ game enough be Übermensch?
>>8284287
*to be
>>8284296
*or not to be
>>8284312
*can you repeat the question?
http://www.si.com/vault/2012/10/22/106246059/the-vikings-punter-is-a-troll-rogue-named-loate
>Kluwe falls into this last category, though to hear him tell it, he stumbled into punting. His childhood was defined by Ray Bradbury, not Ray Guy. Growing up in Southern California, he discovered a gift for speed-reading—about 15 seconds per page, he says—and put it to use tearing through sci-fi and fantasy tomes. That is, when he wasn't playing video games, acing advanced math classes and mastering the violin.
>"He read the entire Chronicles of Narnia series when he was four and we said, 'O.K., we're going to have keep him from getting bored,'" says his father, Ron Kluwe, a project manager for a startup energy company. "Chris was always encouraged to explore his passions."
Why do people speed read when they're reading books for enjoyment? Blasting through books at an alarming rate is a great way to get basically nothing out of them.
Because some people enjoy doing it that way.
dumb completionist gaming mindset that has infected lots of people
>>8284277
Shit punter desu
Write about something new you learned today. (With quality syntax and intelligence). It doesn't have to be long or short, but perhaps you could give an expose about what significance it has. I'll start.
10% of Syrian "refugees" are extremists, even women. 90% might be "regular" but that's still 10% of thousands of people who have no other desire than to slaughter Americans and those of opposing faiths such as the French Catholics?
I would continue but you would tell me to gb2 pol. Anyways, what's something new you realized today?
>>8284212
>women
>having principles
>we know that Western women generally aren't, or at the very best they are extremely mild in their principlism
>Middle Eastern women are literally a lower class citizen in compared to Middle Eastern men
>they're being denied absolutely everything (e.g. equally high education) necessary for development as an individual sentient being
>Middle Eastern women are somehow more principlist than Western women
top kek lad
if you think that they care one bit for that Islam thingy and aren't just pretending in order not to get their skulls bashed in by their husbands, you really do ought to btfo2pol
>>8284212
I learned that unfreezing a frozen bottle of Pepsi in the microwave is a terrible idea. When you open the bottle it will spray pepsi everywhere like a goddamn volcano, and when you actually drink it, there's no gas in it left. Bullshit
are there any good books about romantic jealousy?
fanfic should serve you well here.
Was he short or just a turbo autist? Never understood why this guy had trouble getting it in
>>8284257
both
Is there any good book about cannibal jungle people eating each other?
my diary desu
Jack Ketchum's Off Season and Offspring
Moby Dick.
Time for a challenge. Post better writing than this:
"The Brooklyn riverfront was a maze of rusty containers, sharp-boned cranes looking up from the snowstorm. On a night like this you couldn't help but think of the dark army of dead men, sleeping with the fishes, cement shoes in line. No minotaur lurked in this labyrinth, but somewhere out there, on the clanking deck of his cargo freighter, the skipper of the Charon was waiting, like the ferryman of the river Styx."
I know it'll be hard but let's see what you've got.
>>8284036
Is this some crime thriller or something?
Are we meant to improve upon that paragraph or find better prose which describes the Hudson?
>>8284036
>No minotaur lurked in this labyrinth
Cliche and childish.
I had a dream last night where the name Thomas Pynchon and gravity's rainbow kept appearing. I woke up at 3am and I couldn't fucking sleep and I just ordered the book. What the fuck lit?
>>8283872
Pynchons my fav writer for sure because my fav thing in books is goofs, gags, jokes and rambunctious behavior, and his books are full to the brim of it. Every novel is like one of those novelty snake cans, you open the book & POP you get a face fulla snakes and you fall back cackling. The mad mind, the crack genius, to do it! and then you think hmmm whats he gonna do next, this trickster, and you pick the book back up and BZZZZZZZZZZ you get a shock and Hahahahahah you've been pranked again by the old pynchmeister, that card. "Did that Pynch?" he says, laughing yukyukyukyuk. Watch him as he shoves a pair of plastic buck teeth right up into his mouth and displays em for you- left, right, center- "you like dese? Do i look handsome???" Pulls out a mirror. "Ah!" Hand to naughty mouth. And you're on your ass again laughing as he snaps his suspenders, exits stage right, and appears again hauling a huge golden gong.
Pynchons my fav writer for sure because my fav thing in books is goofs, gags, jokes and rambunctious behavior, and his books are full to the brim of it. Every novel is like one of those novelty snake cans, you open the book & POP you get a face fulla snakes and you fall back cackling. The mad mind, the crack genius, to do it! and then you think hmmm whats he gonna do next, this trickster, and you pick the book back up and BZZZZZZZZZZ you get a shock and Hahahahahah you've been pranked again by the old pynchmeister, that card. "Did that Pynch?" he says, laughing yukyukyukyuk. Watch him as he shoves a pair of plastic buck teeth right up into his mouth and displays em for you- left, right, center- "you like dese? Do i look handsome???" Pulls out a mirror. "Ah!" Hand to naughty mouth. And you're on your ass again laughing as he snaps his suspenders, exits stage right, and appears again hauling a huge golden gong.
/lit/ what are the best (most patrician) plays?
Where does one start?
I never see /lit/ talking about plays, is there even an infographic?
What are you interested in?
>>8283803
All and everything that is good.
I've enjoyed some of Samuel Beckett's plays recently. Waiting For Godot is essential but Endgame is also very good and severely underrated.
At the moment I'm reading some Bertolt Brecht. Read Mother Courage yesterday and enjoyed it even if I'm I feel like I need to read more of Brecht's 'epic theater' to fully get something out of it. Next up is reading some Ibsen