Hello /lit/, I'm gonna make an introductory literary chart for environmental literature. This is supposed to be an ambiguous and all-encompassing term, and will allow for non-fiction, economics, poetry, climate change, etc., just for everyone to get a basic grip on the beauty if nature and what's going on around us.
To start with I have:
William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Cole: Lyrical Ballads
Henry David Thoreau: Waldon
Rachel Carson: Silent Spring
Peter Singer (One Atmosphere)
EF Schumacker: Small Is Beautiful
The Guardian
The New York Times
Any other suggestions?
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>>8124312
Is Walden any good? I'm asking because it seemed to inspire Christopher McCandles.
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>>8124625
Oh god yeah
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>Christopher MemeCandless
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Are there any fiction books or short stories, about prehistoric man, hunter gathers, ice age etc. ?
I found my myself fascinated by Gobleki Tepe-like discoveries, and the idea that there were once multiple hominid species living at the same time.
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>>8124293
The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness by Michelle Paver
A Voice In the Fire by Alan Moore
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>>8124319
i want stuff written by good authors though
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>>8124319
Will check em out, thanks anon
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Write your diary entry here lad.
Lets gain some insight into each others lives.
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Selling a car is more difficult than I thought it would be, setting the price seems entirely guess work.
My fitness regime is going well, I seem to be improving at a steady pace. However I've been experiencing extreme stomach pain, perhaps at the sudden shift in my diet.
I've been expected to talk to be a lot more than before. I've found this difficult. My own personal hang ups make connecting with new people a trial. However for this new position I must push forward.
In an attempt to lengthen my attention span I have begun forcing myself to partake in singular tasks in hour long spans. Otherwise I'll simply get nothing done.
I hate myself.
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>>8124262
I threw away one of my old diaries because it made me cringe hard.
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Nausea all day again
Chest pains didn't go away
No energy to look for job today
Headaches went away
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"The child was sleeping soundly, she had got warm under the blanket, and her pale cheeks were flushed. But strange to say that flush seemed brighter and coarser than the rosy cheeks of childhood. “It’s a flush of fever,” thought Svidrigaïlov. It was like the flush from drinking, as though she had been given a full glass to drink. Her crimson lips were hot and glowing; but what was this? He suddenly fancied that her long black eyelashes were quivering, as though the lids were opening and a sly crafty eye peeped out with an unchildlike wink, as though the little girl were not asleep, but pretending. Yes, it was so. Her lips parted in a smile. The corners of her mouth quivered, as though she were trying to control them. But now she quite gave up all effort, now it was a grin, a broad grin; there was something shameless, provocative in that quite unchildish face; it was depravity, it was the face of a harlot, the shameless face of a French harlot. Now both eyes opened wide; they turned a glowing, shameless glance upon him; they laughed, invited him.… There was something infinitely hideous and shocking in that laugh, in those eyes, in such nastiness in the face of a child. “What, at five years old?” Svidrigaïlov muttered in genuine horror. “What does it mean?” And now she turned to him, her little face all aglow, holding out her arms.… “Accursed child!” Svidrigaïlov cried, raising his hand to strike her, but at that moment he woke up."
was he?
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>>8124183
No but you probably are
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>>8124183
>not being able to separate admiration of beauty and sexual urges
>current year
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Real question: was Nabokov?
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Tell me about that book you're righting, /lit/. What ideas do you have? What is the characters/setting/plot like?
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>>8124039
I have an idea for a book where this guy writes a book made entirely out of ideas he stole online.
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>>8124039
I wrote 20 pages so far. it's Hamlet, basically.
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>>8124039
i'm righting a reply to your shitpost
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ay I'm about 4,20 pages into this book
when does the kush hit in?
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>>8123997
I don't get it
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>>8123997
Congratulation on the worst post in the history of /lit/.
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>>8123997
this is my fourth favourite thread in all of /lit/ history
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So /lit/, what is a spook? Do you know or just force this like a meme?
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'forced memes' are a spook (and vice versa)
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Anon is a spook.
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Its when letting nonmaterials (morals, social agendas, religion) influence how you live. For instance, if your trying to have a nice day, that's a spook.
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>the marks humans leave are too often scars.
favorite quotes from him? this one really speaks to me about man's inhumanity to man
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>>8123968
It really Ye's to the corncobbiness of a tortilla.
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>Thought this was too hokey and sentimental to be written by Yecarthy
>I was right
Dumb quote at any rate. You can't leave scars. You can leave wounds that form into scars after a period of time.
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>>8123968
We've gone full circle with this meme. Feels good.
Just got a Poe collection for $2, hardcover. What are the essentials?
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The Cask of Amontillado is the greatest short story ever written.
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>>8123974
oh hey
>>8123967
House of Usher
Purloined Letter
Rue Morgue
Amontillado
The Man of the Crowd (this one very underrated)
The Gold-Bug
Tell-tale Heart
William Wolson
The Black Cat
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Masque of Red Death, in addition to the above listed
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Someone in my Facebook timeline:
>"Research" or "studies" people, not "researches"
>Just a heads up...
What do they mean? Is it wrong to use "researches" for 3rd person singular? Should it always be replaced by "studies"?
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Aren't they talking about nouns rather than verbs? Like, you don't write reasearches as a plural of research? Don't know if that's true though, is the words defective?
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>>8123925
Oh.. you're probably right, it may be about the noun forms which makes sense... I never heard 'researches' in that context
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Thanks for the blog post OP, did they post anything else lately?
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Daily reminder that it is disingenuous to pose as somebody you don't like in shitposting while reducing them to their most undesirable traits and ideological beliefs. Its rude and fallacious.
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>>8123738
Wring picture
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>daily reminder lying is fun
well, nuh, it's a books board.
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>>8123738
Take the redpill, sheeple
I am planning on starting to read the works of James Joyce, probably in the order Dubliners->Portrait of the Artist . . . ->Ulysses->Finnegans Wake. What should I keep in mind as I'm reading so I can get the full experience? Are there any companion books I should read beforehand or alongside (I already plan to for FW, since I'll never be able to interpret it on my own)?
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>>8123651
>companion books
Stop getting into Joyce as if he's some guy exclusive to the very top of the erudite circles. Just pick up the book and read. Trust me, you will enjoy him without the companion books. You can use those while rereading, though. Just don't suffocate yourself with key guides and excessive studies on the novels at the beginning, they will ruin the superb flow of his work for you.
Read and enjoy, he's truly one of a kind.
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>>8123651
I think Dubliners and Portrait are accessible enough to jump right into them, although it's very important to read about the history of Ireland around the time they're written.
Two very important guides for Ulysses are Stuart Gilbert's book on Ulysses, and Gifford and Seidman's annotations to Ulysses. Although I hope you'll start off the book by just jumping right in and only reading those books after you've already digested enough Ulysses for yourself. And if on that first reading you're totally lost and have no idea what's going on, you can always just look online.
As for the Wake, this site here provides some good tips on getting into it and has some recommendations for "survival tools": http://www.fractiousfiction.com/finnegans_wake.html
Richard Ellmann's enormous Joyce Biography is essential and good to read whenever you want.
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>>8123672
Okay. I was not too familiar with Joyce and his work beforehand, which is why I was approaching it that way, but if it's best just to read I will. Surely though I should at Keats have notes for Finnegans Wake? From what I've flipped through, it seems too obscure to be read straight.
>>8123706
Thanks for the recommendations! I'll read Joyce's Wikipedia article to get the bare context for Dubliners and Portrait and then just read. I'm excited to get started.
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>Ah Frankie Sinatra, ah Frank Sinatra
>Frankie me boy don't know
>You have the perfect voice to sing calypso (what did they say?)
>Ah Frankie Sinatra, ah Frank Sinatra
What did they mean by this?
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they spent 16 years trying to come up with the next stage of their sound, and ended up just making a c grade gorillaz song
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>>8123620
Gorillaz didn't have MF Doom, so...
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>>8123627
yeah they did
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zFnaDH-PWc
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Hey son ;)
Tell us about the book your reading! :*
FAG!
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I have seen the face of God and he has abandoned us
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>>8123579
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUCUsNx1HTs
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f-family dinner is a spook, i'll be in my room.
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What is some essential cosmic horror?
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>>8123456
>cosmic horror
>horror
Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
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>>8123459
thats not what that is
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Could you give some examples of books that fit the "cosmic horror" genre?