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What are some great books about sexuality?

Thus far I've read Funeral Rites and Our Lady of Flowers by Genet, Story of the Eye by Bataille, The Lover by Duras, some works here and there by WS Burroughs, but that's it.

I've heard very good things about Peter Sotos. The main theme of the book doesn't necessarily have to be sexual, but as I'm trying to write a semierotic bildungsroman myself, I'd like to crib from the best. Is John Hawkes good? I remember seeing a chart reccing Blood Orange and The Lime Twig among other things.

tl;dr waht are great books about sex?
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50 Shades of Grey
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The Happy Hooker, by Xaviera Hollander
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Academic reminder that eroticism and sex aren't the same thing.

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Advise me English literature about noble girl's youth. Like Estella in Great Expectations.
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A Little Princess and The Secret Garden
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>>8249832
thx, is there anything else? in particular, I want to know about the noble education system.
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>>8249941
There wasn't much for girls. What you might like is Mary Wollstonecraft who outlined why upper class women should be educated (and not be allowed near the pleb women) in The Vindication of the Rights of Women.

Both of Hodgson Burnett's books are closer to what upper class women's education would consist of with occasional tutoring (Secret Garden) or a boarding school at home in England while their parents were abroad (A Little Princess).

If you want to know about the noble education in general, you could look up the trivium and quadrivium which were the standards through from the middle ages, and public schooling in England Public schools in England are not public

Do you want it to be solely female and solely in Dickens' time? There were a few public girls schools at that point but a lot of upper class women wouldn't be sent to them, since the standard of education for them was still tutors if they got any.

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since we do have one thread to contain the anglos let us post the poems we remember in the other languages here.
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Pavana del hoy para una infanta difunta que amo y lloro

A Alejandra Pizarnik

Pequeña centinela,
caes una vez más por la ranura de la noche
sin más armas que los ojos abiertos y el terror
contra los invasores insolubles en el papel en blanco.
Ellos eran legión.
Legión encarnizada era su nombre
y se multiplicaban a medida que tú te destejías hasta el último hilván,
arrinconándote contra las telarañas voraces de la nada.
El que cierra los ojos se convierte en morada de todo el universo.
El que los abre traza las fronteras y permanece a la intemperie.
El que pisa la raya no encuentra su lugar.
Insomnios como túneles para probar la inconsistencia de toda realidad;
noches y noches perforadas por una sola bala que te incrusta en lo oscuro,
y el mismo ensayo de reconocerte al despertar en la memoria de la muerte:
esa perversa tentación,
ese ángel adorable con hocico de cerdo.
¿Quién habló de conjuros para contrarrestar la herida del propio nacimiento?
¿Quién habló de sobornos para los emisarios del propio porvenir?
Sólo había un jardín: en el fondo de todo hay un jardín
donde se abre la flor azul del sueño de Novalis.
Flor cruel, flor vampira,
más alevosa que la trampa oculta en la felpa del muro
y que jamás se alcanza sin dejar la cabeza o el resto de la sangre en el umbral.
Pero tú te inclinabas igual para cortarla donde no hacías pie,
abismos hacia adentro.
Intentabas trocarla por la criatura hambrienta que te deshabitaba.
Erigías pequeños castillos devoradores en su honor;
te vestías de plumas desprendidas de la hoguera de todo posible paraíso;
amaestrabas animalitos peligrosos para roer los puentes de la salvación;
te perdías igual que la mendiga en el delirio de los lobos;
te probabas lenguajes como ácidos, como tentáculos,
como lazos en manos del estrangulador.
¡Ah los estragos de la poesía cortándote las venas con el filo del alba,
y esos labios exangües sorbiendo los venenos de la inanidad de la palabra!
Y de pronto no hay más.
Se rompieron los frascos.
Se astillaron las luces y los lápices.
Se degarró el papel con la desgarradura que te desliza en otro
laberinto.
Todas las puertas son para salir.
Ya todo es el revés de los espejos.
Pequeña pasajera,
sola con tu alcancía de visiones
y el mismo insoportable desamparo debajo de los pies:
sin duda estás clamando por pasar con tus voces de ahogada,
sin duda te detiene tu propia inmensa sombra que aún te sobrevuela en busca de otra,
o tiemblas frente a un insecto que cubre con sus membranas todo el caos,
o te amedrenta el mar que cabe desde tu lado en esta lágrima.
Pero otra vez te digo,
ahora que el silencio te envuelve por dos veces en sus alas como un manto:
en el fondo de todo jardín hay un jardín.
Ahí está tu jardín,
Talita cumi.

by Olga Orozco
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>>8249591
k chido wey
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Ich weiss nicht was soll es bedeuten,
dass ich so traurig bin?
ein Märchen aus ur-alten Zeiten,
das kommt mir nicht aus dem Sinn.
Die Luft ist kühl und es dunkelt
Und ruhig fließt der Rhein,
Des Berges Gipfelt funkelt,
Im Abendsonnenschein.
Das schönste Fräulein sitzet
dort oben wunderbar.
Ihr gold'nes Geschmeide blitzet
Sie kämmt ihr goldenes Haar.
Sie kämmt es mit goldenem Kamme
Und singt ein Lied dabei.
Es hat eine wundersame,
gewalt'ge Melodei.
Dem Schiffer im kleinem Schiffe
ergreift es mit wildem Weh.
Er schaut nicht hinab in die Riffe,
Er schaut nur hinauf die Höh'.

Ich weiß noch, am Ende verschlingen
die Wellen Schiffer und Kahn.
Das hat mit ihrem Singen
Die Lorelei getan.

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post some real-life tragic heroes, someone who could BE in A Shakespeare play, dog
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the monkey that got left at ikea
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>>8249558
geert wilders
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>>8249571
I didn't say real life Patrick Bateman
>>8249572
yes

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What book would you like to turn into a film, who would you hire to direct it and who would you cast? I like to see the kinds of people others imagine when reading. Sorry for the potato quality, I had a template but lost it
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Why would you want a hack like Nolan to direct it?
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Phenomenology of spirit directed by james franco
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Crime and Punishment starring Christian Bale, directed by Wes Andersen.

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Has anyone here read Industrial Society and It's Future. I thought it was pretty neat and want to know more works that reject technology and modernism.
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>>8248632
It's too late and I don't know what to do.
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>>8248625
>creating art to react against and reject the state of society
>not creating art for art's sake
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>>8248625
I think he's wrong. Technology makes our live easier. Sure, some are excluded, and technological progress also gets abused, but in general the world's getting better every day.
Nevertheless, he made some interesting points and encourages you to think instead of just consume.

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Has a woman ever written a masterpiece?
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The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein
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>>8248595
yes, please stop posting this thread now
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mój cień jest kobietą
odkryłam to na ścianie
on się uśmiechał falistością linii
i ptak bioder o zwiniętych skrzydłach
na gałęzi uśmiechu śpiewał


drzewo kwitnące
obwieszone zielonymi papugami
poprzez skrzydła
pomarańcza złota dojrzałość
słońce na kroplach połyska
w deszczu
proste i nagie drzewo
moje usta uchylone piersi

wschodzący księżyc rzęs zamigotał
i zgasł
gdy zdmuchnąłeś zapałki płomień
i oparłeś na ramionach moich dłonie
mój cień był kobietą
nim zniknął

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are self-help books just a meme?

if not, what are your favorite self-help books?
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Yes they are a meme. LMAO if you read this garbage.
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Meditations is the only self-help book worthwile
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>>8248552

The self-help genre is basically a watered-down version of New Thought, which is a water-down Hermeticism.

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>your favorite book
>when a cute girl asks
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cute girls don't talk to me
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>>8248097
>>your favorite book
The Twelve Chairs.
>>when a cute girl asks
*if but it'd be the same
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>Ulysses
>Ulysses

And that's how i found my fiancé

Gee, maybe lying and pretending to be someone you're not is fucking stupid

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Which author have you read the most books from? Don't lie

>John Green
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John Red
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probably tylo be chillin really it's JK Rowling
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Scott Bakker
then John Hawkes, I think

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>tfw 4chan has completely ruined your attention span
>tfw you will never live the literary lifestyle
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I have the same problem. is there a
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>>8248141
no there's no
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>tfw time travel to the 1920s is literally impossible
>tfw you will never live the literary lifestyle

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who is yalls fav english-language poet?
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>>8247746
ur mom faggot haha
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>hair tied up in the shower
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B-Real

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Marxism is practically racism for the lower class.

Marxism is an ideology designed to appeal to the dumb and poor, the loosers. It is destined to lead to genocide and end in chaos and economic collapse .
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Yeah Marx wrote several thousand plus page volumes, complete with dense footnotes and references to Feuerbach, Hegel, the French socialists, Smith and Ricardo in order to appeal to poor, dumb "loosers."
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>>8247397
You don't say?
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How much have you read about Marxism? Probably the same amount that about feminism, and your perception of both probably is equally correct.

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Would You a Dragon? Edition.

Recommendations:
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/r688cPe.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg/
Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg/
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg/

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Would you?
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I'm going to write a fantasy story that might as well be a Ligotti story in a fantasy setting. I'm going to take this genre beyond GRI, watch me.
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>>8246726
Please do, I'm sick of everything being an edgy GRRM derivative.
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Has anybody ever done an alien terraforming story before, or no, has the idea not been done before? If not, I think I just brainstormed.

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Relevant Philosophers who believed in God:
>Aristotle
>Plato
>Thomas Aquinas
>Anselm
>William of Ockham
>Francis Bacon
>Thomas Hobbes
>Spinoza
>Descartes
>Leibniz
>Berkley
>Augustine
>Kierkegaard
>Kant
>Hume
>Hegel

Relevant philosophers who didn't believe in God:
>Nietzsche
>Wittgenstein

Whose side are you on /lit/?
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>>8244699
>relevant philosophers whose careers, livelihood, and even life could be taken from them if they explicitly advocated atheism

>>Thomas Aquinas
>Anselm
>William of Ockham
>Francis Bacon
>Thomas Hobbes
>Spinoza
>Descartes
>Leibniz
>Berkley
>Augustine
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>>8244717
So atheism was such a dubious and improbable position to them that it wasn't worth taking the risk of espousing it. Thanks for clearing that up.

Christians risked their life to spread belief in God, why couldn't atheists do the same for the god of materialism?
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>>8244717
>Kierkegaard
>Kant
>Hegel
>life could be taken from them if they explicitly advocated atheism
Come on now. I agree for Plato and Aristotle (although even then, it's very possible they did believe in a God, just not the christian one of course), but why these?

>>8244699
>Hume
>believed in God
He was an agnostic. Also you could name many more atheist philosophers than those two. Are you baiting?

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