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what do you guys think about Arthur Miller?
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>>7996429
Forced to read the Crucible. Was not that good.
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>>7996452
reading it rn. wanted to get death of a salesman, but bookstore didnt have it, so i got the crucible instead. I like American history so its ight
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>>7996429
I was really moved by Death of A Salesman and All My Sons
Thought The Crucible was dull
I enjoyed A View From the Bridge though didn't think it was as powerful as Salesman or Sons
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Who would win in a fight between The Kid Diddler Vlad, and Corncobber Bill?
Who would win in a math contest between DFW and Tommy?
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>>7996416
>Who would win in a math contest between DFW and Tommy?
DFW would definitely lose. He was clueless.
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>implying The Cornclobberer wouldn't faulk Vlad "Don't touch me there, dad" Nabokov's shit up
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DFW doesn't know shit about math. He's just good at making it seem like he does.
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Any good books that are thrilling, suspenseful, sad?
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>>7996377
John le Carre - The Spy who came in from the Cold. It's somewhat anticlimatic but that's the point, it criticizes books like James Bond.
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That's a great album by an otherwise mediocre band, OP
Good taste
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>Conceived as a boy group, showing girls who long to believe it that not every guy is a jock, a thug, a lothario, or a male-bonded mook, they might even have their uses. Conceived as a pop alternative to U2 and Radiohead, however, they're an argument for death metal. Precise, bland, and banal, their sensitivity emotionless and their musicality never surprising, they're the definition of a pleasant bore--easy to tune out, impossible to care for.
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I need a tittle for a text that analyses different passages of Hamlet
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The Slob's Hairy Balls
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>What we have to go on.
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>>7996375
Do you have a specific subject in mind? Are you looking for something that's analyzing the Oedipal Complex?
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>all of the great works you read will eventually be dispensed into nothingness when you inevitably die
>everyone reading this will one day cease to be
Who /existentialdread/ here?
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>>7996372
dawwwwww goo goo gaa gaa, does babby need some nappy nap time? is babby having some big boy "existential" problems?
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>everything you do is part of the world spirit's contemplation
>the world spirit is thinking of a fat dude fingering his shitter
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>>7996372
>he fell for the consciousness meme
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John Green thinks the Persians > the Greeks. What do you think /lit/? Can you refute a New York Times Bestselling Author™? If not, we should start with the Persians, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-mkVSasZIM
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>>7996358
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>pc cuck prefers brown people
more at 11
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He never said that.
As much as I want to gloat over John Green's numale carcass, I can't accept shit that you just made up.
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Thoughts on this novel?
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Two Franzen threads already up
Kys
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>>7996304
I enjoyed it. Just gifted it to my father.
I like how he takes real social issues and uses them as a kind of driver for a lot of what's happening, and he somewhat makes birds and environmental law interestif. Also the Iraq war.
He has a lot of true things to say about relationships, family, children, neighbors, life, etc. But it's simple stuff, but written in a comfortable, feel better about your own life, sort of way.
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anyone else cringe at anything you wrote like a month+ ago? Are these feelings valid or just a part of art and creation?
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I knew they were bad at the time, it's just ideas and first drafts.
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Absolutely. Sometimes there's stuff that I remain proud of, but part of it is sharing it with people I respect and having them enjoy it. But I just wrote something which I'm proud of
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>>7996297
I had a shitty idea and wrote it down a few weeks ago, now I changed it and made it better and more appropriate. I'd probably cringe at what I've wrote, it's gone now, deleted.
>Uses "rude gesture" as a euphemism for flipping off
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>Anon scowled at the inscrutable original post, before sighing and gesturing rudely with both hands towards the screen, as though the OP could see through it.
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>you will never live in The Culture
Why even live? After reading The Player of Games, it makes life on Earth right now seem like shit by comparison.
>post scarcity economy where basic needs are accounted for and most reasonable wants are granted by advanced benevolent AIs.
>almost completely anarchic - no states or empires in control. The only punishment is for murder, which rather than incarceration is a robot following you around making sure you never commit murder again.
>lack of want allows humanoids to finally tackle space elevators, galaxy colonization, etc. The last real social hierarchy is the Star Trek Contact organization and Special Circumstances - its military intervention arm
>ability to change gender, species, and appearance at will
>genetically engineered drug secretion
>live for centuries in a 20-year old body, can live indefinitely if you so desire
>nonstop orgies/harems in reality and VR
Honestly it sounds kind of plausible. I want to donate money to the Singularity Institute now.
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>hey guise, escapist concepts look better than reality!
Don't donate to Yudkowsky, all he does with the money is write anime fan fiction
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Can you at least agree that the level of opprobrium she receives is out of proportion to the actual flaws in her work?
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As if anyone on /lit/ would know
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>>7996217
I'd say it's quite fair.
Even putting aside political qualms and disagreements with her work Atlus Shrugged is one of the most poorly written peices of shit I've ever had the displeasure of reading.
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>>7996238
Would you mind explaining?
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What's /lit/'s honest opinion of this man?
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He was good in true grit.
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I don't know who he is but he has the face of a 14 year old with a grey beard so I'm skeptical
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Who is the "best" translator of Sophocles?
Or Aeschylus?
I know all the arguments between Fagles/Fitzgerald/Lattimore/Chapman/Pope/etc for Iliad and Odyssey translations, is it the same with other greek works?
Sorry if threads like these have been beaten to death, I tried asking in other threads and was ignored.
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Also, I read Fagles translation of Oresteia and really enjoyed it. Same with his translation of the Iliad, though I think I would prefer something more faithful to the original next time.
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>>7996174
Lattimore.
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facts that let you surprised
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>alexander pope was a dwarf
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there are no facts only interpretations
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>>7996134
there are no facts only interpretations
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there are no facts only interpretations
Let's have a bronte thread.
Anne is so much more of a realist compared to the romanticism of Emily and Charlotte, eh?
God tier bronte books
Withering heights
Tenant of wildfell hall
Good tier
Jane eyre
Shirley
Agnes grey
Meh tier
The professor
Ngl I haven't read vilette.
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Kate Bush did it better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1pMMIe4hb4
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>>7996097
I prefer the other vid. Prettier dress.