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>>7998471

It's not difficult. It's really straightforward.

Depends on your own vocabulary. I recommend reading it now and then reading it again in several years. You'll be surprised how much you can pick up over time

>>7998479
This.

If you don't recognize any of the words, just look them up as you go.

>>7998455
I have a weird system where I underline, sticky note, and annotate useful, beautiful, or thought provoking passages in the book. Then, when I'm finished the book, I go back through and digitize my notes, thus preserving them and the relevant quotations or observations for quick use or referral.

I had a teacher tell me at a young age to always read with a pen, search for the exigency in the piece of writing, and then have a conversation with it. His advice has followed me for fifteen years now.

I dunno. Every time I want to take notes I just get caught up in the book and forget to write anything down.

>>7998502
>search for the exigency in the piece of writing
what did he mean by this?

>>7998424
literally every chivalric text

dudes are straight up going I DO THIS FOR YOU FAIR MAIDEN ______ and then do batshit crazy stuff because they can't fuck the Queen

>>7998429
Not what I mean m80

>>7998424
Sounds pretty close to Siddhartha, about a man trying to find enlightenment.

Poo by Pooer McPoo is pretty good

>>7998414
this

>>7998414
It was pretty shitty actually, so OP should enjoy it.

It's shit isn't it

Maybe I'm just a secret edgelord but I found it hilarious start to finish

I have also only read Naked Lunch but I loved it. Which of his other novels are similar? From my understanding his work is sort of a mixed bag.

Sam Harris

>>7998335
Are these formulas actually useful and applicable? Can someone please explain the merits of economics for me

communism is a spook

>>7998334
I don't think it's meant to be "clever" or even subtle, it's simply to help drive the point home desu and I think your desire to paint it as a pretention to wit only serves to highlight your insecurity in your own intelligence.

What alternative do you suggest, OP, other than simply coming out and saying in boldface exactly what the author is trying to convey?

If you think metaphors are so stupid why not just be an essayist?

Yeh, I hate this shit too. See it in tv shows as well. When the guy is doing something bad he wears a black shirt and it's white when he's doing good


Smh so hard

>>7998203
Don Quixote was written while Cervantes was in prison.

>>7998221
as was Hitler

>>7998235
Hitler was written while Cervantes was in prison?
You must be writer.

cont.

I live with the remembrance of those that I have loved
and hear their names still spoken, who haunt my memory;
some already are dead, others have long forgotten—
but what does it matter? I live remembering the past
and no one can ever take the past away from me.

It is my faithful friend that never turns against me,
that cheers my spirit when my spirit’s a lonesome wraith,
that in my sleepless nights keeps watch with me and prays
with me, and shares with me my exile and my cabin,
and, when all doubt, alone infuses me with faith.

Faith do I have, and I believe the day will shine
when the Idea shall defeat brute force as well;
and after the struggle and the lingering agony
a voice more eloquent and happier than my own
will then know how to utter victory’s canticle.

I see the heavens shining, as flawless and refulgent
as in the days that saw my first illusions start;
I feel the same breeze kissing my autumnal brow,
the same that once enkindled my fervent enthusiasm
and turned the blood ebullient within my youthful heart.

Across the fields and rivers of my native town
perhaps has traveled the breeze that now I breathe by chance;
perhaps it will give back to me what once I gave it:
the sighs and kisses of a person idolized
and the sweet secrets of a virginal romance.

On seeing the same moon, as silvery as before,
I feel within me the ancient melancholy revive;
a thousand memories of love and vows awaken:
a patio, an azotea, a beach, a leafy bower;
silences and sighs, and blushes of delight …

A butterfly athirst for radiances and colors,
dreaming of other skies and of a larger strife,
I left, scarcely a youth, my land and my affections,
and vagrant everywhere, with no qualms, with no terrors,
squandered in foreign lands the April of my life.

And afterwards, when I desired, a weary swallow,
to go back to the nest of those for whom I care,
suddenly fiercely roared a violent hurricane
and I found my wings broken, my dwelling place demolished,
faith now sold to others, and ruins everywhere.

Hurled upon a rock of the country I adore;
the future ruined; no home, no health to bring me cheer;
you come to me anew, dreams of rose and gold,
of my entire existence the solitary treasure,
convictions of a youth that was healthy and sincere.

No more are you, like once, full of fire and life,
offering a thousand crowns to immortality;
somewhat serious I find you; and yet your face beloved,
if now no longer as merry, if now no longer as vivid,
now bear the superscription of fidelity.

You offer me, O illusions, the cup of consolation;
you come to reawaken the years of youthful mirth;
hurricane, I thank you; winds of heaven, I thank you
that in good hour suspended by uncertain flight
to bring me down to the bosom of my native earth.

cont cont.

Beside a spacious beach of fine and delicate sand
and at the foot of a mountain greener than a leaf,
I found in my land a refuge under a pleasant orchard,
and in its shadowy forests, serene tranquility,
repose to my intellect and silence to my grief.

It's in hexameter I think. It's about some guy who leaves for another place away from friends and family (hence the title). It's a foreign land somewhere in asia bordering the sea. South East Asia most likely.

You can fill in the rest i'm not doing your homework for you lmaoa

>>7998096
What was it like splitting into multiple men after reading a book?

>>7998107
Why splitting into multiple men?
I am but one entity.

Apparently not a men of grammars, however.

>>7997929
Very entertaining and hilarious. Literally a page turner. Can't wait to read it again.

>>7997929
It's very long and very misread, almost hilariously so.

Tbh I think most people really need to have top notch note taking/organisation skills and a good amount of time to not rush.

The history of its interpretation is frankly weird and a good lesson in how vast swathes of people can be idiots.

>>7997929
I have a degree in Economics and I never read it lol

>Despite my profound memory
wew

You should have just quit when you hadn't written it and it was still just a meme.

>These sequences are remembered in no consistent order, as though my remembering them in this disjointed state reflects of my inability at the time to form the series of novel experiences with which I was greeted in the months immediately after my birth, into any coherent narrative.

Don't add a comma just because a sentence is too long. The second comma doesn't work there. The passage that is separated by commas isn't an aside, either, so the sentence doesn't work without the passage. Redo this sentence.

Stop trying to use long sentences to appear smarter than you are. Long sentences are a tool that should have some kind of cumulative effect.

That entire sentence could be replaced with "I can't remember being a baby very well."

Everyman's Library, Library of America, Knopf, Doubleday, academic presses

>>7997758
bit of a meaningless question but here are some publishers i have bought hardbacks from recently:
Taschen
TeNeues
Rizzoli
Assouline
Folio Society

>>7997750
it means "very complex"

generally below penguin but above wordsworth imo

>>7997639
What makes the difference? Just general quality of paper etc?

>>7997652
yeah m8. collins have a pretty good smell though imo, nicer than wordsworth.