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Is this a good book?
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why does this get asked every week.
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I enjoyed it.
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>>7868284
It's enjoyable, but probably not the best of Vonnegut's works, even though it's his most famous. So if you've read others by him it might not compare. It's a great intro into his catalog though
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>I believe in stressing the specific detail; the general ideas can take care of themselves. Ulysses, of course, is a divine work of art and will live on despite the academic nonentities who turn it into a collection of symbols or Greek myths. I once gave a student a C-minus, or perhaps a D-plus, just for applying to its chapters the titles borrowed from Homer while not even noticing the comings and goings of the man in the brown mackintosh. He didn't even know who the man in the brown mackintosh was. Oh, yes, let people compare me to Joyce by all means, but my English is patball to Joyce's champion game.
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But Joyce himself structured it to rhyme with The Odyssey...
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>>7868183
Recall that Nabokov was overall one of the most intelligent authors that ever lived.
His books weren't necessarily the most intelligently written books, and as he himself acknowledges here, he's not the best author ever by any stretch, but he was without a doubt the most objectively intelligent person to become a significant figure in literature.
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>>7868134
>wew Vlad
volodya*
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Post elder-god tier kids books itt.
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Edge Chronicles. Specifically pic related. Cool thread OP, shame I had to end it
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ITT: Post a good/interesting/cool picture
If you see a picture that inspires you, write about it: poetry, prose, dialogue, anything,
Dumping a few to start.
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what the fuck is everyone talking about. I know what's going on. don't really know who the fuck everyone is or what the fuck they are talking about is. will I figure it out eventually? I'm barely 60 page in. this is my first pynchon novel. I don't give a fuck about reading his other shit in any sort of order. I start with what ever I feel like it. because I'm in control. I like the dog. he's really British.
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You sound pretty stupid.
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>>7866912
I am
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>>7866919
Me too.
thoughts on slam poetry?
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monkeys have tails. i think that guy means apes
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>>7865885
what a fat and ugly worthless white male. Pathetic
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So, I wanna start with the Greeks, but where do I start?
Besides like Homer, what is THE essential Ancient Greek literature?
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Prometehus Bound
It's an ancient play, one of the oldest we have, about a simple man who was horrifically punished by the powers that be for the terrible crime of trying to bring light to the common people.
In the words of Aeschylus, "No good deed goes unpunished".
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there you start
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Hey,
so I'm trying to figure out all the major works of modernism especially in countries that might not get as much global attention.
I'll start the list as follows:
>Novels/novelists
>Conrad - HoD, Lord Jim, Nigger of the Narcissus, etc.
>Faulkner - A,A!, AILD, LiA, TSatF
>Joyce - Everything minus Finnegans Wake
>Woolf - To the Lighthouse, The Waves, Orlando, Mrs. Dalloway
>Fitzgerald
>Hamsun - Hunger
>Kafka - The Trial and The Castle especially
>Mann - Buddenbrooks, Death in Venice, Magic Mountain, etc
>Musil - The Man Without Qualities
>Proust - ISoLT
>Stein
>João Guimarães Rosa - The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
>Poets
>Mina Loy
>William Carlos Williams
>Yeats
>T.S. Eliot
>e.e. cummings
>Rilke
For this list let's just leave out the transitional writers between modernism and post-modernism: (Nabokov, Beckett, Borges)
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>no Salinger
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>Everything minus Finnegans Wake
why tho
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Too transitional between modernism and post-modernism
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redpill me on this pairing
dont know wether to post this on /mu/, /pol/, /his/, or here......but here it is
so yeah thanks
also since you all probably have better taste than moo, add your favorite nietzsche AND wagner work to the end of your post pls and thanks
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Nietzsche hated Wagner
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>>7863224
Nietzsche was completely in love with Cosima, Wagner's wife. The end.
Nietzsche - The Birth of Tragedy
Wagner - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coLxM2hq_gA
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>Wagner
Daww, babby's first classical music :')
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ITT: Post the first line of your current writing project.
Pic unrelated.
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>>7860831
In the tartan lilt of childhood I liked to spin between glass cases.
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The rain relentless and the street was deserted and the stranger's hand was edging ever closer to my wife's breast.
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>>7860877
The rain *was relentless
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Anyone here into reading mystic thinkers? I was reading about some Heidegger and found he basically stole pic related's ideas for his own agenda: anti-representation, muh presence and the like.
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I just bought Teresa D'Ávila's Inner Castle. Looking forward to read it.
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>>7859341
R u Christian?
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>>7859350
I was. Then I became an agnostic. Then suddenly I'm reading a lot of Christian related material (literature and philosophy) and my interest is returning, but I wouldn't say I'm Christian now.
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post a work of art and people recommend a similar book.
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>>7857065
Werther
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>>7857065
This is literally the cover to my edition of Elizabeth Gaskell's Gothic Tales, so I guess that.
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I'm already reading Moby Dick (this image reminds me of the Nantucket town before Ishmael and Queequeg set sail), but other books in a similar style to this painting would be most appreciated.
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Let's have a new chart thread.
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but why, it's the same shit everytime
just check the archive
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>>7856982
Just go and look at the wiki. They're all collected over there.
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Critique Thread - Poetry Edition
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Come on, you know you've written a few poems, anonkin.
i'll start.
>dream-weaver
>arms are that of memories
>& wings that wrap around us
>between the holes in our bodies
>where flesh-spiders crawl
>& all this time, i've been eating
>the little grey pieces of love
>that fell out of your body
>on the day that they found you
>pissing out flowers
>& they all smelled like semen
>& all else was broken & wet
pretty shite, i know.
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it is
spit frothing on my tongue
blood pooling in my toes
oh, how angry I am
no one knows!
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>>7856242
made me think about suicide (as if i needed any help, amirite)
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>>7856248
I'm sorry :(
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What's his endgame?
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To bring about the degradation of the west, the same as Twnety One Pilots and Halsey are doing, by implementing materialistic, nihilistic, and apathetic themes in his works. He is subliminally morphing our youths into assimilated and alienated hedonists.
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To write the kind of books that require daily threads on the Literature board on an anime website
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>>7870706
Look at that face.
It's the face of a man who thought "I'll just do it for a little bit for some quick cash and then get on to more serious work."
It's the face of defeat.
Instead of telling people about how it's all water, he's telling people about how Twilight, Harry Potter and Shakespeare are all on the same level.