Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 3926. page

>>7984975
To be fair, if you trusted Kojima all the time, we would probably be in a mental institution.

Why are you being aggressive?

Could you please explain your reasoning behind using two forms of quotation notation in a post that does not contain an actual quote?

On The Road.

>>7984965

OP pretends to want to be able to "help" others when he really just wants such a book for himself.

You can polish with some self-improvement/help career book, but what you really need is not a book, but a father, or more generally a good set of parents. R9K users regularly self-report that they themselves are the products of single motherhood, or of what they believed to be poor parenting.

Unpopular opinion: r9k, in spite of its own (collective) self-pity, actually understands fairly well how the world works.

>>7984965
No Longer Human
Shutting out the Sun: How Japan Created its Own Lost Generation on Hikkimorri

The Japanese problem foresaw the rise of neetdom

>>7984885
start with adorno

>>7984885
I am not a fan of Habermas at all, his writing is so dry and bureaucratic.

Here is a secret fact for you

in Spanish Habermas means Havemore

;)

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>>7984828
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Way_for_the_Gas,_Ladies_and_Gentlemen

>>7984833
I've read somewhere that he completely made up that whole story. It might be /pol/-tier conspiracy, but I can see it being true.

You can't sell anyone on it that way.

Post a nice passage and maybe we'll believe you.

>you're chilling in a Gaddis thread
>suddenly, a gassposter rocks up and slaps your gfs ass
What do?

>>7984782
Silly OP, /lit/ doesn't want to be challenged (lol) or to work, it wants to be rewarded for name-dropping and posturing. Let's leave that for all Gass-posting and Gass-related threads. Gaddis is synonymous with work, and in the best sense of the word. The work is the world built out of the word, the worth plumbed out of the plumed work.

Yes, I am extremely drunk right now.

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I just keep on dancin'

>>7984793
hey there, I'm a huge fan of Ellie, but this is definitely one of her worst songs

all of her songs are kinda shit but this one's extra shit

of course, he's the greatest science fiction writer of the modern age

>>7984657
Jokes aside, he's not bad and worth reading. Don't expect too much, though.

>>7985045
whoops, i meant bad and not worth reading

>>7984586
A scribbler of juvenile adventure stories.

>>7984586
DUDE THE ARMY IS SO COOL EVERYONE SHOULD KILL LOTS OF BAD GUYS AND GET TOUGH OR THEY AREN'T MEN

Literally 6 years old.

>>7984617
He was literally six years old? Wow, that's impressive that he managed to get so many novels published when he was literally six years old. Crazy to think that one of the most revered science-fiction authors of all time was none other than a literal six year old. Hell, even if his books aren't that wonderful, I'll still give him a helluva lot of credit, because he wrote them when he was literally six years old.

>>7984532
It used to be great when Fish was the Department head and it was the all-star team of critical theorists in America but naturally too many egos ruined the department and I'm not sure if its bounced back yet (I only know this because one of my professors at Davidson was there for all of this)

http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9902/yaffe.html

>>7984549
isn't fish something of a meme in academia at this point?

>>7984559
At this point, yeah. That's not to say at one point he wasn't kind of a powerhouse, unfortunately every professor has found a way of adapting "Is There A Text in This Class?" into an excuse for not professing quality material or expected undergraduate work but really niche texts of study that defy canonization, but really they're usually really gimmicky and bad, professors use them as low-hanging fruit. There's pretty much a trifecta in every liberal arts class now of learning: Duchamp's "Fountain", Barthes 'The Death of the Author' and Fish's "Is There.." to promote whatever they want to teach so they can do more research on it while professing so they can present their teaching methods of gimmicky works at conferences. Not all professors, just the ones who meme Fish, which is a fair amount (they're the ones who try way too hard to connect with the kids and be cool)

>>7984457
>writes book
>"lol I don't read books."
People do this?

>>7984457
get a new friend

>>7984463
He's a pretty good guy to have around at most times and he's definitely not stupid. I have no idea why he went full retard on this issue.

>>7984462
He believes watching the movie adaptions of books are better than actually reading them. I had to keep my face straight when I hear this the first time.

>>7984419
The Francis Steegmuller translation - by a mile.

>>7984419
>>7984426
I've always heard the Lydia Davis translation recommended. I haven't read it yet, though.

Argh, I put so many typos in that post, here goes nothing:

*the anthology is folk tales retold in a sci-fi setting
*last name first, referring to one another by last name until further aquainted
*I don't want to bug the editor about it

My first drafts, as you can tell, are always atrocious. So much editing x.x

I don't think the last-first order will be confusing, as long as characters' first names are said a lot afterwards, or you say something silly and explicit like "Qingqing, daughter of the Gao family." I'm a dramafag so my opinion might be skewed, though.

In my writing on China I use the Chinese name system. It's not that difficult to adjust to when you're reading, I find, and it's only a slight cultural detail that adds a lot to how you depict your character's relationships. Go for it.

>>7984376
bump

Sure, you aren't supposed to memorize every single book. Specially if you read a lot of random books.

>>7984376
After every reading session explain what you just learned to an imaginary friend. It will substantially boost your retention.

>>7984329
Good Old Neon by DFW. Not memeing. It's long for a short story but genuinely great.

>>7984212
I know this is a joke post, but brushing your teeth really isn't necessary if you don't eat any modern crap.

Cutting your hair, bathing and trimming your nails certainly have primitive precedence, just not as frequently nor with soap.

>>7984222
It's not a joke post, I idealize Diogenes. Fluoride is mind control, it's why toothpaste is marketed. Would you like to see my fingers

>>>/his/