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>Empson published this at the age of 24
>at that age he already knew more about English poetry than you ever will

Any other books with fascinating close readings of specific poems?

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In simple terms, what exactly does Zizek mean by "pure ideology"?

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Can we have a past, present, future thread?

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(sigh) Here’s the thing: I spent my formative years—basically, from the age of 12 until my mid-20s—feeling not “entitled,” not “privileged,” but terrified. I was terrified that one of my female classmates would somehow find out that I sexually desired her, and that the instant she did, I would be scorned, laughed at, called a creep and a weirdo, maybe even expelled from school or sent to prison. You can call that my personal psychological problem if you want, but it was strongly reinforced by everything I picked up from my environment: to take one example, the sexual-assault prevention workshops we had to attend regularly as undergrads, with their endless lists of all the forms of human interaction that “might be” sexual harassment or assault, and their refusal, ever, to specify anything that definitely wouldn’t be sexual harassment or assault. I left each of those workshops with enough fresh paranoia and self-hatred to last me through another year.

My recurring fantasy, through this period, was to have been born a woman, or a gay man, or best of all, completely asexual, so that I could simply devote my life to math, like my hero Paul Erdös did. Anything, really, other than the curse of having been born a heterosexual male, which for me, meant being consumed by desires that one couldn’t act on or even admit without running the risk of becoming an objectifier or a stalker or a harasser or some other creature of the darkness.

Of course, I was smart enough to realize that maybe this was silly, maybe I was overanalyzing things. So I scoured the feminist literature for any statement to the effect that my fears were as silly as I hoped they were. But I didn’t find any. On the contrary: I found reams of text about how even the most ordinary male/female interactions are filled with “microaggressions,” and how even the most “enlightened” males—especially the most “enlightened” males, in fact—are filled with hidden entitlement and privilege and a propensity to sexual violence that could burst forth at any moment.

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What's up with all the long ass introduction and foreword and shit. it's like those fuckers are trying to get a piece in the books.

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post the titles of books you never finishe. recommend one and tell us why.

the sea
the sweet hereafter
the English patient
naked lunch
perdido street station
the dragonbone chair
hitchhikers guide to faggotry
1984
hyperion
a feast for crows

the English patient I recommend because Seinfeld.

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ITT: God-tier prose

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After reading Max Stirner I am now convinced that region is a "spook". I feel like I am biased with my knowledge though. What some good literature that bring some counter arguments for the opposition?

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What are the realistic chances of the next book being released this year?

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Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well
And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

Was he right?

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Hi /lit/ I want to talk about Richard Dawkings Selfish Gene in 1976. I will refer to a concept in this book and call it the introduction of, "memes".

In relation to this thread >>7995153
"Is a meme a spook or is a spook a meme?".
What if I propose that all spooks are memes but not all memes are spooks?

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>If he dies, he dies.

What did he mean by this?

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/Lit/, what does cuthanatized mean?

As in, "the bottomlessly horrid On the Air, which was cuthanatized by ABC after six very long-seeming weeks."

Did Mr. David Foster Wallace just make this word up?

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Where do you write your stuff? I feel like making a blog is too pleb but keeping a txt in my drive is no longer meaningful

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Hi /lit/

Would you pay 5000$ to convert your novel to VR-Book for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive? It'd be sold on Steam you you'd get 70% from revenue, after Valve's cut; or a website like Amazon.
Like this: http://store.steampowered.com/app/457660/