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None.
You don't really have to read them anyway.

>>8188529
the meme trilogy

>>8188532
>>8188536


Well I wouldn't want to be found out at a party so I'd have to read them

Whats in the meme trilogy

Memes don't need a reason

>>8188510

There's one thing and one thing only that the mods could do to immensely improve the board, instantly, overnight, and that's facilitate more threads about David Foster Wallace. Create them, nurture the ones that exist, guide the discussions, and make sure they stay on track. If we're here to discuss literature, ultimately, we are here to discuss David Foster Wallace. There is no way for a person to grasp the full implications of Infinite Jest and not realize this. We're talking about the smartest man who ever lived. You must realize this. It's not a joke anymore. We're seeing the world degenerate further and further into chaos, and we're standing by and watching it happen. You want to fix this board? You want to fix the world? You want to fix your life? You need only take one step: read Infinite Jest. There is no substitute for hard work, and that's what Wallace requires of you if you are to understand him. If you are to understand not just him, but the world. We're not talking about escapist literature, fan fiction, genre nonsense. We're talking about saving our lives. We're talking about meditating on God. We're talking about communing with the primary presence. This is not an issue to be treated lightly.

>>8188510
It's obviously part of a book that's meant to be retarded.

>>8188472
>reading Lolita for a quick wank

>>8188472
>I pray, Vladimir, or Nabokov if you prefer it I venture, move now and steady to the wished point and pin-point it later without so much wordiness.

>>8188472
>reading for plot

>>8188397
No: it's edgy and blandly written.

>>8188441
edgy is not actually a criticism

what you mean is that edgy, but badly written and void of value

>>8188445

yes it is you dummy

get the fuck out of here with this furry garbage

>>8188341
hemmingway*

That's not corrected for inflation though.

french was a lingua franca in Russia among the nobility and that kinda people. they thought it was prestigious. it's like when english people jack off to latin.

Hatred of their own, inferior barbarian culture.

>>8188297
Noblesse oblige.
La Noblesse russe était éduquée en Français et, tu peux le lire dans "La Guerre et la Paix", certains nobles avaient même un peu de mal avec le russe.
Nabokov, lui-même issu d'une famille d'aristocrates, avait d'ailleurs apprit le français quand il n’était qu'un enfant.

quite a bit because you didn't mention Joyce, who is part of the sacred meme trilogy, forming a consubstantial holy trinity.

I learned recently about a video-game term that teenagers these days throw around: "overpowered," or "OP" for short. If a character type in a competitive video game is inordinately more powerful than the others, then it is "overpowered"; the game as a result is deemed "unbalanced," and fans will complain on forums that the developers have delivered to them a swift "slap in the face." It's an interesting metaphor. Life, of course, is no game, and it's a truism that it isn't fair. But every once in a while we get a striking reminder of how unevenly Mother Nature distributes her gifts. Take the literary world for instance. By any measure, David Foster Wallace, the author of the acclaimed novel Infinite Jest, was overpowered. If he were a class in a role-playing game, then you wouldn't hear the end of the complaining. When it came to the writing of fiction, Wallace blew his competitors—historical and contemporary both—out of the water. To borrow another term from video gaming, it's fair to say that he "owned" them. When Infinite Jest hit book stores in February 1996, the title's two words were in the mouth of every serious reader in America; every living writer, however, was faced with a different pair of words: "Game Over."

>>8188281

There's one thing and one thing only that the mods could do to immensely improve the board, instantly, overnight, and that's facilitate more threads about David Foster Wallace. Create them, nurture the ones that exist, guide the discussions, and make sure they stay on track. If we're here to discuss literature, ultimately, we are here to discuss David Foster Wallace. There is no way for a person to grasp the full implications of Infinite Jest and not realize this. We're talking about the smartest man who ever lived. You must realize this. It's not a joke anymore. We're seeing the world degenerate further and further into chaos, and we're standing by and watching it happen. You want to fix this board? You want to fix the world? You want to fix your life? You need only take one step: read Infinite Jest. There is no substitute for hard work, and that's what Wallace requires of you if you are to understand him. If you are to understand not just him, but the world. We're not talking about escapist literature, fan fiction, genre nonsense. We're talking about saving our lives. We're talking about meditating on God. We're talking about communing with the primary presence. This is not an issue to be treated lightly.

>>8188165
My diary desu

zizek

pynchon

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>>8187993
>Finnegan's
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>>8188005
prob should jus delete the thread now desu

>>8188005
fpbp

>1870+146
>still falling for the Dickens is good meme
Dickens is children's literature, has been treated as such for some time, and ought to be treated this way into perpetuity.

anon you've been stuck on the same book for almost a month

just read something else that you actually enjoy

>>8187975
he wrote some of the best prose in the english language. bleak house is one of the best books ever written. tolstoy thought david copperfield was the best novel ever written.

I don't know, but he talks like a fucking robot

Continental philosophy in a nutshell. Never forget Sokal.

>putting phenomenological jargon in there

Hey that's not fair. They were AGAINST the poststructuralists.

>>8187927
My diary t b h

>>8187927

What do you read OP?

You could try uh, making a friend, getting a job, or picking up a new sport.

That, or visit r/iamverysmart.

>>8187927
Ez b8

>>8187772
Homer and Dante are historical memes

Shakespeare transcends all eras, read him and you'd know that you fucking pleb

because being an instrumentalist is the saddest fucking thing to be.

>>8187772
Because a rich enjoyment of a text isn't just in its reading but also in coming to explain an understanding of it, we've had traditions of literary interpretation for Homer dating back thousands of years while some random post-modern author you pick up will be lucky to have a couple of blogs talking about him.

watch Krapp's Last Tape, read Last Letters from Montmartre, Psychosis 4:48 and Hamlet and King Lear.

It depends on your character's mental state and circumstance, but if he does it successfully I would avoid conspicuous despair. Make it, tonally, resolute.

There's currently a suicide note in 8ch's suicide board, I would recommend reading those. Pretty bitter though, I don't know if that's the tone you're looking for.

>>8187777
thanks for the fast reply, I forgot to mention that the main character is a war hero.

>>8187679
They did. They chained themselves in the cave because they sought to minimize their suffering. Even today, when information and discussion is literally available to anybody, people are willfully ignorant or disregard the harsher realities and truths of life.

it's a metaphor

The muse of memes.