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When I get high, I write better and read better.
Should I just get high all the time when I write and read? I feel like I'm cheating if I do.
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>>8090781
Do whatever works nigga, of course its your own, no writing ever simply comes from a man in a vacuum anyway, its always a product of the nexus of our associations, relationships and drives that are developed from external influences
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>>8090781
You should kill yourself
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Is Hopscotch Ulysses-tier when it comes to difficulty? Is there anything I need to read before?
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Nothing, it's actually a very easy and comfy read.
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It in no way resembles Ulysses
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>>8090747
Es muy bueno y tiene muy bonitas frases. Bastante romantico y artistico.
I have no idea how they could translate that chapter full of made-up words.
Why is Shakespeare so famous?
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Have you read Shakespeare?
That's why.
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Why are people like you on /lit/
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He wrote great poetry and created a lot of memorable characters.
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Lets give this a go, we could really do with more close reading on /lit/. Write a paragraph discussing in any fashion you like about the last chapter/sit down with book you're reading, fiction or non-fiction and your take of it.
Hopefully we can get a more active thread going instead of a bunch of short lived threads of similar close readings.
I've just read Part Two Chapter IV of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, I'm starting to believe the character of Raskolnikov killed the old woman as a way really of making sense in the world of his own experience of self pity and paranoia, it seems to me that the only difference in his psyche through the transition between the murder and how he was before is only that before he had nothing to point towards to explain his alienation, self loathing and suspicion of everyone else. Its a sort of reconciliation between his estrangement from humanity he felt in his childhood dream observing them beating the horse to death, in a derranged fashion he's found a way to feel he is associated to his fellow man again.
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>>8090707
Does anyone find it weird that both Raskolnikov's and Nietzsche's fathers died at an early age, and Nietzsche famously went mad while seeing a man beat a horse the same as Raskolnikov's dream of the beaten horse? that they both have very much the same temperaments, ideas, and the proneness to sickliness and madness? that Dostoyevsky's works seem to have been preemptive, premonitive admonitions against Nietzsche's way of thought, against some way of thought he saw shaping up in the modern world ...
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>>8090745
>at an early age
(as in, when their sons themselves were young)
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Good observation OP
Cart leading the horse, in a way. Trying to rationalize one's feelings of alienation and coming up dry; committing a forbidden act in order to reconcile the feelings w/ reality.
Is this the worst book ever written?
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no, this is
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Bru i have owned a copy of this book for five years, and i vave never got past the first chapter. Currently. I decided to read it, but even though i have carried it with me every where i have gone for a week, i have not read a page.
Is it worth the time?
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I'm 80 pages in.
>3 different sets of characters have been described as looking like they're "running from something- probably the law"
>narrator can't think of a way of explaining why he likes someone without saying that the person is "mad"
>needless namedropping
>symbolism in the security guard passage was totally transparent
Kerouac is a really lazy writer, at least so far. Why do people like this book?
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>>8090617
Dude beats lmao.
The only one of them worth reading is Burroughs, but even then you have to like reading about rectal mucus and such for him to not get old right away.
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stinky poo poo butt
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>>8090733
So does the acclaim of the beats basically just boil down to them being proto-r9gay?
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Completely ignoring any sort of religious shitflinging, the Bible is pretty well-written.
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>>8090602
Well obviously, your religion doesn't sweep through and convert the entire Roman Empire without force without it being a damn good story
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>reading translations
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>>8090602
Yes, not a religious man myself, but it is a great work.
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>Among those 602 people, the average correct score was slightly lower at 5.76.
>A total of 76 people at top universities, including Oxbridge and the Ivy League, took part and fared little better.
LMAO, I knew it, Dickens is utter shit and everybody knows it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2297869/
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>>8090597
>602 people
That's not a sufficient sample size and really only enough to write a clickbait article about, nothing more.
Dickens is shit though
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>>8090597
Dickens is famous for being a shit prose stylist. Retarded test.
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>>8090597
>plebs fail to recognize the difference between a pleb work and a great author
Colour me surprised
And yes "prestigious" Uni students are still plebs
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What is /lit/'s stance on audio books?
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>>8090509
"Depends"
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>>8090513
On what?
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>>8090509
Sign of the Apocalypse
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I dont get it.
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So glad I know that now.
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"Achieves notable heights of cosmic fear" - what kind of description is that? Imagine "succeds at making me adequately horny" written on the front of erotic novel.
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>>8090501
Ja, heil
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Musashi.
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Yojimbo.
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Bigukoku Sukito.
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Reading this aloud feels like freestyle rapping.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HgCjtd2iPU
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deletethis
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>>8090278
Man, he goes all out on thunderwords.
So why the fuck was he executed in the end?
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>>8090251
i can't tell you if you won't co-operate. it's out of my hands.
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>>8090251
My perspective is that it was an ultimate libidinal payment.
Kafka was being torn about by his own feelings of guilt for his experience of estrangement and the burden of labour expected by him throughout his life as a young male. Its not so much the execution itself that mattered but the experience of an impending execution that overshadowed him.
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LIKE A DOG!
>heh, nuthin personnel kid
that last line is genius.
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Lady Chatterley's Lover 2016-05-27 18:58:03 Post No.8090201
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What does /lit/ think of Lady Chatterley's Lover?
I thought the writing was occasionally shit, too much telling and not enough showing, lazy summing up of adjectives etc, as if the text wasn't rewritten enough.
For example:
>"[...]she said, with startling abruptness, looking into his eyes with her big blue eyes. His big blue eyes took on a the frightened look of a man whose social conscience is not quite clear.
(four paragraphs later)
>[...]looking into her father's eyes. They were big blue eyes rather like her own, but with...
Would the novel enjoy its current status if it hadn't been so controversial?
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>>8090201
I would always hear praise for Laurence and after finally trying out Lady Chatterley I could not go through with it. It feels like college level writing, but maybe his themes and overall structure of the book is good. can anyone confirm?
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>>8090201
"Sons and Lovers" was his only readable book - and just barely.
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>>8090350
Themes are interesting but mostly all on the surface, not a lot of structural problems. But yes it's college level writing?
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What is nothing?
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>>8090092
what girls feel 4 u
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>>8090092
I am the Creative Nothing.