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>>8256984
Oh hi mom

It's non-denominational, non-erudite, New Age Baby Boomer Christian lit.

Your mother is probably "moved" by episodes of Oprah. Write her a letter saying "thanks for the fire kindling mom".

This is your mother OP. Stop being a fag and read the book.

>>8256938
I live next to an airport

>>8256938
I live next to a train

>>8256938
i am a car

On the Road
Rayuela

>>8256867
How was it?

>>8256889
Not Op but it is good but pretty inconsistent. The first 100 pages or so is great, the rest ranges from excellent to very very tedious.

Postmodernism is what's hip.
Read Foucault. Read it in public so qt intellectual girls can see what a patrician you are, and offer you fellatio.

>>8256887
i would read foucault if it lead to a blowjob, and i think he would cheer me on from heaven

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>>8256922
I'm sure he would, Anon.

>OP eats his topkeks straight out of the packet like a barbarian

everything outside poetry was made for plebs who couldnt into poetry
kysfam

What...

Pottery is the production of a useable object.

Writing is placing down ideas onto a page.

Why compare them?

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>>8256833
>Have boobs.
>Be pop-feminist
>Make a shitty, hipstery youtube channel, twitter, and tumblr.
>Amass followers with slef-help videos and sex-positive feminist nudes or semi-nudes.
>Publish with either little, hipster, pop-feminist, millennial press or self-publish.
>Tell all followers to buy book.

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Write a book in a cryptic cypher with crazy illustrations, then bury it. In time, somebody will find it, and reproductions of it will soon occur.

>>8257295
But then I'll be dead, anon.

>>8256748
The word 'racist' is a slur coined by Jewish communist Leon Trotsky. Anti-Racism is a code word for the cultural, biological and psychological subversion and dismantled of White European Civilisation. You can guess what side (((Bloom))) was on.

>sonic.net
>sonic

Except he isn't, you fucking retard

>>8256697
Ross Douthat's column in NYT.

>>8256697
every once in a while i like to read comics. carl barks, hergè, enki bilal, etc. i'm even getting a bit into manga again: just read all of "lone wolf and cub" and "path of the assasin", next is "samurai executioner".

>>8256697
Comics and interviews, mostly.

>>8256690
The only thing depressing about the Book of Disquiet is that I paid $10 for it

Post-war Jap lit as a whole is pretty fucking depressing their culture considered. The end of The Sound of Waves struck me pretty hard especially, but the ones listed here are certainly good too

>>8256690
Skylark is pretty sad
The End of the Affair and The Power and the Glory
A Little Life is basically designed to make you feel awful
Jude the Obscure
Anything by Hubert Selby
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
Execution by Hunger by Miron Dolot
The Decay of the Angel
Underground by Murakami

and in first place, The Remains of the Day.

>>8256724
How did you like The Sound of Waves? Its the only Mishima book at my local bookstore and it doesn't seem as popular as his other works

get another copy lol

maybe even a really cheapo used copy, and stick the first edition on ur bookshelf

>>8256681
Just take pictures of all the pages
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>>8256736
Don't shill your products here

>>8256634
it depends.

>>8256634
Derek parfit

>>8256634

Unironically, no.

All the post-modernism/structuralism that followed since, has been nothing more than an exercise in naval-gazing that no one outside of a university's Humanities department will ever notice - minus the occasional piece of social engineering.

Philosophy needs another Copernican revolution, but more than that - because we now live in a largely post-philosophical society. I mean 'philosophical' in a meaningful sense - modern morality/philosophy is an exercise in metaphorical Epicureanism. As opposed to praising that which tastes/feels good, modern man loves what 'sounds' good. Hence the surge of 'progressivism'/etc.

The next 'giant' will not only have to change the game - he will have to get people to play the game again in general.

Best way is to enroll in University. If not, Wheelock or McKneown. No, I started without the knowledge of any romance language, but it certainly helps with vocabulary. I might argue that it interferes with learning some of the grammar rules.

>>8256664

Not to shit on the anon above, but avoid Wheelock like the plague. The way the grammar is introduced in a haphazard set of discrete lessons will ensure that you never get to 'read' Latin.

I'd recommend something like Moreland and Fleischer's 'Intensive' Latin. It requires considerably more effort than Wheelock, but it introduces you to more grammar and vocabulary per chapter - the downside as I say, is more effort and time has to be spent per unit, but the upside is you get a better idea of how syntax and accidence are interrelated and work as a system - far better than learning one, tiny category at a time as with Wheelock and many other courses.

I'd also recommend you read Orberg's Per Se Illustrata. You will see this recommended over and over again as a 'direct' reading method that immerses you and imparts the language as if you were a child learning it, or as if you were learning a modern spoken language.

Now the book is excellent for helping with your reading comprehension and in helping you to pick up speed - ultimately it helps you skip translation in your head for all but the most difficult sections. What people who recommend it don't often say is it MUST, MUST, MUST be a supplement to a regular coursebook (e.g. Moreland and Fleischer or Sidwell and Jones etc.). It cannot be your sole tool, because like it or not, as a highly inflected language, Latin requires lengthy, in depth grammatical explanation in the learner's own language.

t. 12 years a slave (to Latin).

I recommend starting with "teach yourself Latin". It's available on archive

>>8256618
>those who wish to be writers

It's inspiring, but at the same time there's a palpable sense of frenzy in how Faulkner describes the writer's life/process/etc. And I don't feel the same drive—the drive to steal from my grandmother, for example—to finish my works and to write in general.

Thanks for posting.

He just said everything I think about, but never say, when people ask me about my stuff. The '50s were certainly a more honest time.

>>8256608
>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Mf0WtYXH9oDbcFQAQkaUU5EHkBrnmNNgNhVvvGPss5c/edit?usp=sharing

Oh boy, get ready for another wild /lit/publication.

this sounds very gay.

I was going to put it in Comic Sans font to mess with everyone, but I cringe too hard just seeing it.

>>8256574
the greatest book i never read.

>>8256574
it's great

>>8256590
>>8256582
great, thanks, good to know. i dont want to look like a pseud in front of my literary friends