What does Camus mean when he refers to "nostalgia" in this novel? It doesn't seem like he uses the term in the traditional sense.
Also, post general things you don't quite understand in books.
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>>8018703
It's one of his favorite words, I've noticed.
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>>8018703
Desire for comfort that wasn't ever actually there, in this case objective meaning
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>>8018717
Not OP, but this is a fantastic, cutting, and realistic view of nostalgia.
I always struggle with it myself.
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whats the literary equivalent of a hotdog?
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Conferancy of dunces
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>>8018635
The United States of America's Pledge of Allegiance
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The Bible
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Does literary fiction need a plot?
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??? Seriously? Do you have to ask?
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poo
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>>8018600
What if the author just wants to write stream of consciousness and alternate with words that make beautiful sentences, and doesn't want to shoehorn in a plot?
Surely, those too sussed will just decide on a plot themselves after reading it.
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>mfw autists sperging over the figurative use of "literally"
>mfw linguistics
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>>8018581
yeah haha I literally want to kill myself when people do that
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>>8018585
i literally hope you do
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>>8018590
I sincerely hope that the implications that you emitted in the preceding post were true.
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"a tour de force"
is this what reviewer do to authors they secretly hate so no one fucking reads the book?
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>>8018565
I kek'd
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>>8018565
wew that is a rare ludwig
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but a tour de force is an strong approval which indicates to most that it is worth reading..!!!
you've got it all backwards my friend
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what do you guys do when you take too much opiates and keep nodding off while trying to read?
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read standing up dumbass
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>>8018552
Take bumps of blow untill you're at the right level, obviously.
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speaking of opium, how much is standard to do for the edible?
i kind of want to get into some a bit harder drugs, but i know literally nothing about them as i recently found out.
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go
the more autistic the better
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This thread needed love, so here
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>>8018903
Okay I'm new here but what in the fuck is this and why am I laughing so hard
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>>8019056
TheNone!line is what tips me over the edge, the first and every subsequent time I've read that.
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Just finished this and really enjoyed it. Any other books like this?
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>>8018364
Stop enjoying things.
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>>8018364
Dazai's The Setting Sun is even better. I would go for that. Or Soseki's Kokoro.
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>>8018381
sound advice. thanks, anon.
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Fantasy books such as Game of Thrones can damage children's brains, head teacher says 2016-05-09 23:55:23 Post No.8018290
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Fantasy books such as Game of Thrones can damage children's brains, head teacher says
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/06/fantasy-books-such-as-game-of-thrones-can-damage-childrens-brain/
>A private school head teacher has urged pupils not to read Game of Thrones books, claiming they can damage their "sensitive subconscious brains".
>Graeme Whiting also said fantasy titles - such as Lord of the Rings, The Hunger Games and Harry Potter - "encourage difficult behaviour in children".
>He told parents to steer clear of the "mystical and frightening texts" and they should instead read classics such as those by Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley and Shakespeare.
>Writing on his blog, Mr Whiting - head of the independent Acorn School in Nailsworth, Gloucester - said fantasy books can be bought without a "special licence", despite damaging the "sensitive subconscious brains of young children".
>"I want children to read literature that is conducive to their age and leave those mystical and frightening texts for when they can discern reality, and when they have first learned to love beauty.
>"Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, The Hunger Games, and Terry Pratchett, to mention only a few of the modern world's 'must-haves', contain deeply insensitive and addictive material which I am certain encourages difficult behaviour in children; yet they can be bought without a special licence, and can damage the sensitive subconscious brains of young children, many of whom may be added to the current statistics of mentally ill young children.
>"Buying sensational books is like feeding your child with spoons of added sugar, heaps of it, and when the child becomes addicted it will seek more and more, which if related to books, fills the bank vaults of those who write un-sensitive books for young children!"
>"Children are innocent and pure at the same time, and don't need to be mistreated by cramming their imagination that lies deep within them, with inappropriate things."
>"Beware the devil in the text! Choose beauty for your young children!"
Is he right?
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I'd want my kid to read something rather than nothing
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>Shakespeare
>not sensational
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>>8018290
You lost me at "subconscious." Only mongoloids with no understanding of psychology use that term.
I just got this book from a friend of mine, what are your opinions on this piece and the author?
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>>8018254
>just got this book
How about you read it, share your opinions, and then ask ours?
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>new york times best seller
into the trash it goes my friend.
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>>8018281
say wat
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Is HP Lovecraft a meme or does he actually write decent stuff?
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I've only read The Shadow Over Innsmouth and it's pretty good. There's some goofy shit because it was written nearly 100 years ago, however. For example, the main character notices that everyone in the town of Innsmouth looks kind of funny, so he assumes that racial degeneration had taken the town by storm.
Still, it's good, and I would imagine that he wrote some other good stories. The Shadow Over Innsmouth actually succeeded at creeping me out at the end.
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>>8018226
Best horror writer ever.
There's definitely going to be people claiming he's just a meme though.
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If you like lots of adjectives and a bizzare fevered dreamlike story that ends with the character dying or going insane, you will like lovecraft.
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>Arrange by author
or
>Arrange by title
Which do you subscribe to, /lit/?
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Author
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by color of the spine
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year of publication you pathetic spastic
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This shit is just American psycho without the violence
Has Delillo written anything of substance or is he just a meme?
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This thread is shit.
Has OP ever made a thread of substance or does he just meme?
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>>8018143
Delillo is the fucking shaman of literature. American psycho is pop satire. White noise is a meditation on fear and death in the technology boom era.
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>>8018143
i feel u
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Are memes the next evolution of the English Language, like are we transferring to a substantial step like from Old to Middle English? Will people someday communicate entirely in memes and it be unintelligible to people who were not alive when the meme was created?
Imagine court cases argued in memes, for example the Scopes Monkey Trial:
>implying God exists
>*tips fedora*
>>OBJECTION! Cancer
>he's using le hat maymay as an argument *shows laughinggirls.jpg*
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No, language becomes more complex through history.
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>>8018148
How so? I'd say it changes, but not necessarily becomes more complex.
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>>8018148
is more abstract not more complex? Imagine if you had to explain the *tips fedora* meme to someone, those two words represent a lot of knowledge and emotions.
I don't get it. Is it supposed to show how inhuman butlers are?
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>>8018118
The moral of the story is to be yourself. He wasn't himself. He thought he was, but he was lying.
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>I don't get it
>the most entry level of books after YA
quit reading now and forever t b h, OP