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what do you do after you realize you are god
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kill them all
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>>7838007
Wonder what happened to the powers I was promised.
Why no water into wine and multiplying of fishes.
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>>7838007
Grow up
Do you have any literary or philosophical role models? One of mine is probably Zhuangzi. The fellow was a total bro.
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Ayyy Taoism circle jerk thread incoming
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reporting in for zhuangzi circlejerk
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You have an writer over for the night.
Who are they and how do you entertain them?
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David Foster Wallace (AKA DFW, author of The Infinite Jest)
I entertain him by calling him 'Big Dave' and constantly mentioning the fact that I don't own a TV
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lowkey cuck posting
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Thomas Pynchon.
Weed, snacks, and an introduction to /lit/. We can take turns reading posts aloud and shitposting.
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Has anyone ever thought about publishing an elite collection of 4chan shitposts? Gore and /b/ are not eligble
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Buying shitpost would be pretty post post post ironic
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>>7837916
Give it 10 years, kids born today will be listening to music about shitposting
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>"Tolkien has become a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed into the absurdity of our time," Christopher Tolkien observes sadly. "The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing. There is only one solution for me: to turn my head away."
>"They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25," Christopher says regretfully. "And it seems that The Hobbit will be the same kind of film."
Are you patrician enough to have the same opinions?
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I'm patrician enough to think LOTR is just shit in the first place.
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haven't read them. i will say the hobbit movies are pretty bad and dumb
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Tom Bombadil is weeping somewhere in a forest :(
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ITT: books for reading on the beach
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FUCK THE SUNS TOO BRIGHT NOW I MUST COMMIT AN ABSURD ACT
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vurt
City of God - paulo lins
the once and future king
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So I've recently gotten into Tennyson. I loved The Lotos-Eaters, In Memoriam, and everything else.
But I got to The Kraken and I absolutely do not fucking understand it. I tried looking up what it meant on a whim, but there where no clear answers. Does the Kraken represent industry? Science? Religion? Nature? Because I have no fucking clue what this poem's supposed to mean.
If it is supposed to represent one of those things, then why all the ancient imagery, and why the fuck does it die as soon as it surfaces?
Am I just being stupid? Is the answer obvious?
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bump
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Anyone? I read some more stuff about it but now I'm just more confused. There are so many different interpretations, and none of them explain the death at the end.
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he's sleeping until the earth gets fucked up by the wrath of god. i don't understand why he'd rise just to die either, though. anyway, cool poem, thanks OP if i have any miraculous insight i'll check back in
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When I read about Crane's biography, I couldn't believe this moron. I feel bad for him. His degradation, his failures, and his suicide. I don't know how anyone can spin his life and personality in a positive light. He was honestly an idiot.
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he was a good ass poet, at least.
>...nor ever trust beyond it
>spry cordage of your bodies to caresses
>too lichen-faithful from to wide a breast.
>the bottom of the sea is cruel.
god damn the gays can write.
also, his last words were "goodbye, everybody!" which is fucking great, to say the least.
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>>7837685
he was a good poet since he was hyper-sexual, so his mind was pretty virile. being gay in that time period probably made him a little stir crazy, hence adding to the anxiety and passion to his writing.
he was gay, but then messed around with his friends ex-wife, then was confused even more about what the hell he was.
it was bad decision after bad decision.
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>>7837639
>one of the greatest poets in all of history
>an idiot
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how valid would you say the critiques on the crit threads are? what kind of people usually give feedback on the pieces of literature posted - are they the more educated, experienced browsers, or just the cynics?
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Something like hack the planet amount
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Nobody here reads.
The best of them are pathetic firebrands, who even with generous advice, are ludicrously wrong in the broad picture. That makes up about 5 of them.
The rest are simply plain idiots/trolls, who should be ignored.
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Cynics. Anonymity breeds them. You get the rare response that's genuine, but of all the pieces that get posted in those threads, the chance that they pick yours is pretty slim.
For book recs, I like this place, but as far as getting feedback is concerned, I'd rather stick to real life interaction, or even Reddit, over /lit/.
> >>/reddit/
Okay.
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Hello lit, im buying a few books from a local website, so far i have in my basket:
-Moby Dick
-kafka's Metamorphosis
-The Dwarf by Par Lagerkvist
Can you recommend me some other good books for an entry level reader? (i started reading last year and so far i read entry level "classics" by camus, tolstoi, dosto, wallace, orwell "etc)
Thank you in advance /lit/
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>>7837436
Lady chatterly lover
The good soldier svjek
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>>7837436
I dont know. Can i?
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>>7837457
not sure what to make of these two works paired together... u ok there m8
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Any philosopher/writer that talks about the pleasure of self harm and death?
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>>7837415
Is she eating ice cream?
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>>7837415
Bump, I would like to know this as well.
On a side note, are there any good books on logical argumentation? I'm reading The Art of Deception but it only elaborates on high school level argumentation
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>>7837774
She's sucking a lemon, that's why she's teary eyed.
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Is there any book you could not live without?
If war broke out tomorrow and you were drafted; what one book would you take?
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>>7837323
Mein Kampf. To redpill as many to my side as possible
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>>7837323
The Bible.
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>>7837371
Good answer
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Can someone recommend me any books like Catch-22 please? It doesn't have to be a black comedy.
I went on goodreads and they recommend The Deptford trilogy (I mention this one because The Manticore's cover caught my attention), is it any good? Also it's probably worth noting that I'm not a fan of Vonnegut.
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Infinite Jest
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Infinite Jest
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>>7837282
adolf hitler: my part in his downfall by spike milligan
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why haven't you read this yet?
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>>7837256
Because I saw the movie, which is pretty great btw.
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keep getting the st augustine version by accident, sorry famm
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>>7837269
sheeeit man the books really good. the movie only follows about 1/3 of the characters from the book.
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>Even in literature, although the homology is not perfect, I'm tempted to say Joyce vs Beckett. Joyce is I think too bright for his own good. It's too pretentious in this encyclopaedic approach, like using all languages in Finnegan's Wake; the true genius is for me Samuel Beckett. If I were to choose one novel of the 20th century, it's his Unnameable. I think that the three absolute masters of 20th century literature are Beckett, Kafka and the Russian Andrei Platonov. If you put the three of them together, I'm ready to burn, sacrifice all other books just to keep these three.
What are your thoughts on this?
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>>7837148
I don't think John Green said this. Beckett's The Unnameable is dope though, an utterly unique book.
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>>7837160
>an utterly unique book
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>>7837163
Have you even read it you memelord?