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>>8027958
>Tell me you're not THIS pleb /lit/?
Definitely not, I don't love Thomas Pynchon

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>>8028049

>>8027958
I only bothered with the intro

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>>8027823
>philosophical aesthetics
Here you go mate, $183 and you're set

>>8027823
just read adorno aesthetic theory

Plotinus and Aristotle for ancient thought

Then jump into Burke and Kant which are key for understanding any posterior aesthetics.

Finish with Benjamin, Adorno and Heidegger.

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>no responses
>[hello darkness my old friend intensifies]

>>8027814
Other Selby books, like The Room or Last Exit to Brooklyn

>>8027814
Like a similar theme?
Or just depressing books?

>>8027805
ah, maybe I phrased that weirdly. I mean to ask about first-person perspectives with multiple narrators.

>>8027805
The best to find out is to try it out.

I found it fun to experiment with and difficult to reasonably keep track of. Give it a go, s e n p a i.

just give it a shot and see if you think you did well, if other people think you did well

I really like this image macro you posted haha (actually laughed out loud too!)

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>>8027716
seems to be some kind of DRM-bullcrap!

>>8027716
im reading a pdf right now using my mediapad x1

>>8027709
If you use the word "literally" when you shouldn't, you are a pleb.

>>8027754
By merely voicing the preference, you are literally transported back in time to ancient Rome.

>>8027758
Oh fuck off Catullus, you're drunk again

I guess you don't know what gay used to mean.

>>8027539
anon, samuel coleridge wrote about gay marriage!

I dare not doubt him, that he means
To wed you on a day,
Your lord and master for to be,
And you his lady gay.

later in that ballad, about the same gay person:

With tear-drop glittering to a smile,
The gay maid on the garden-stile
Mimics the hunter's shout.

>>8027550
Kafka was so prophetic that I choose to believe that he foresaw the sodomic implications of the word.

Chesterton's book on St. Francis is pretty good.

>>8027504
I'm interested, bump

>>8027504
also interested. Saint stories were the comic books of the middle ages (stories about superheroes, everybody knows the main ones, some people get really into it, debates about canon, etc.)

I refuse to believe that you're trolling.

>>8027525
I know I cant find a billion wicked thoughts

You got me good OP.

In case you're serious (always a possibility) the one stop for your needs is gen.lib.rus.ec

If your book is not found there you are either using the search function incorrectly or it's pretty obscure material that you might as well buy.

you tell me, you're the one that's just read it

Ballard is probably my favorite author. his themes of the intersection of media/technology with humanity, surgical prose, and subversive spirit strongly resonate with me. Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan might be one of the greatest things i've ever read.

>>8027404
Ballard is great.

Love the Atrocity Exhibition, Drought and Hi-Rise

One could argue that sometimes his characters seem the same, but then, one could argue that many a post-modern man seems the same.

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>Engineering and science faggot here.

>I have a question: is there true value to a formal humanities education rather than reading and discussing the arts on your own.

Humanities here. If you have a question than why didn't you end that sentence with a question mark?

>>8027380
What's this pic? It's cool.

>>8027393
That doesn't really answer the question, sorry for the error I am on phone. My dorms wifi is banned from 4chan because someone was asking for CP.

>>8027394
It's a king getting cucked by a dragon.

>>8027371

You're sooooooooooooo gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyy

>>8027371
Fucking lost it

>>8027371
Pics or didn't happen

>>8027377
>/lit/ is a slow board! Please take the time to read what others have written, and try to make thoughtful, well-written posts of your own. Bump replies are not necessary.

>>8027381
>bump
because im a rebel

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>>8027382
best get reading this then

>>8027353

Plato- Symposium

>>8027353
iliad

>>8027353
Confessions of a Mask
Forbidden Colours

Now go, go and read you lala homo prancing man.

>>8027347
what's wrong with the like minded people who share your love of thinking and literature here on 4chan?

>>8027351
I think he wants real people, like friends and stuff

>>8027351
Honestly, nothing.
But life is more than reading and sitting on your computer talking about books.

If /lit/ had some sort of mason-esque clubhouse, I'd be down every weekend. I just find it so difficult having reading/writing as a leading interest, because it's so difficult to find people who share something like that, especially when you're talking a specific literary scene and not like ya trash or asoiaf ect.