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Post your poetry.
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Hail, a fair stranger
Feminist, dyed hair and cats
Another left swipe
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so much
depends upon
the thoughtful
informed post
fraught with
wisdom and insight
beside the
blatant shitpost
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I threw a rock in the water. The water was slow so the surface was flat and showed the mountains clear, but not true.
It doesn't show the mountains true. Always that dark flow below, slow, on which the mountains show, pass little clouds of foam.
My stone, what a beauty: round and flat as I could hope for, with all years I stalked the bank, skipping its flat rocks into the water.
Does it mean anything that I wasted the choicest rocks when I walked with a waddle, diapered bottom, and animal instinct bid me pick up the best and let fly?
Standing there, weight forward, arm flexed, watching my rock skip across the water I thought it did.
I thought it spoke a lot to love, but I'm not sure now.
I watched the rock skip until it sank in the deepest part of the river.
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Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse 2016-03-21 21:20:02 Post No.7836810
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Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
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What is this pretentious garbage. Is it 2deep4me or am I missing something?
Currently 70p in.
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>>7836810
>pretentious garbage
You've answered your own question, the same is true for Hesse's other books.
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>>7836839
t. only read siddhartha and the wikipedia article of steppenwolf
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What's wrong with it?
It's a good book you shitty 4chan hipster
"HURRDURR IM SO ANTI-NORMIE LOOK AT ME DISLIKING STEPPENWOLF"
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What did he mean by this? 2016-03-21 18:59:17 Post No.7836303
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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.
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Who cares, that is highschool pot smoking behind the basketball court to impress the hunnies tier prose.
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What cliche, lowbrow garbage! Stephen King is such a hack.
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>>7836305
>prose
why
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Holy shit.
This hit me hard. It's not even one quote or one passage, it's everything. I never came this close to crying over a fucking book.
To the anon that recommended this, thank you. No irony, no sarcasm, no memes, just thank you.
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>>7835855
If you're looking for something similar to read - I'd go for "Augustus", I've not got round to reading it but it's also by John Williams and the general consensus is that it's even more emotional, and a better novel on the whole.
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DUDE
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>>7836396
It's not about weed at all. Stoner is the protagonist's surname.
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>Be greek
>12 years in school we study the greeks
>goes in /lit/
>''Start with the greeks''
>PTSD
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Well, this statement obviously does not apply to you then, but only to the usual dilettantes that come to /lit/ asking about where to start.
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>>7835693
If anything you have a better start then most people
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why so many grecophiles in this subreddit?
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I have 5h to kill at work. What short story should I read?
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>>7835330
Encyclopedia
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the pederson kid
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>>7835330
>5 hours
>short story
How slow do you read?
Also, Robert Sheckley or Harlon Ellison if you like sci-fi or fantasy without the faggotry and 200 pages of tediously detailed alternate worlds.
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Chinese book review show 2016-03-20 11:18:29 Post No.7831652
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There's a pretty cool Chinese book review show called '1001 Nights', filmed at night in Beijing. If you can understand Chinese you might want to check it out.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_q006uH9CvVsw_LSaeSLxttcsjoVpq8J
If not, rate this list of books. [episode number]
2015
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby [episode 1][2][3]
Primo Levi - The Drowned and the Saved [4][5]
Paul Theroux - The Old Patagonian Express [6][7]
Yang Mu - ‘Someone Asks Me About Justice and Righteousness’ [8][9]
Wang Guowei - Notes on Ci Poetry in the World [10][11][12][13]
Marguerite Duras - The Lover [14][15]
Kahil Gibran - The Prophet [16][17]
Thomas Schelling - The Strategy of Conflict [18][19]
Charles Mackay - Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds [20][21][22]
Vasily Grossman - Life and Fate [23][24][25][26][27]
Eileen Chang - Love in a Fallen City [28][29]
Aesop’s Fables [30][31][32]
Tsurumi Shunsuke - An Intellectual History of Wartime Japan, 1931-1945 [33][34]
John Dower - Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II [35][36][37]
Maruyama Masao - Japanese Thought [38][39]
Bertolt Brecht - Life of Galileo [40][41][42]
Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene [43][44][45]
Ursula K. Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness [46][47][48]
Wu Chucai, Wu Diaohou - The Ultimate Anthology of Ancient-style Chinese Prose [49][50][51]
Joseph Heller - Catch-22 [52][53][54]
Lao She - Four Generations under One Roof [55][56][57]
Friedrich Dürrenmatt - The Execution of Justice, The Judge and his Hangman [58] A Dangerous Game [59]
Friedrich Schiller - William Tell [60][61]
Gottfried Leibniz - Theodicy [62][63][64][65]
George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four [66][67][68]
Wang Zengqi - Short Stories [69][70]
Günter Grass - The Tin Drum [71][72]
Qian Mu - Outline of National History [73][74][75][76]
David Carpenter - Magna Carta [77][78]
Xuanzang - Heart Sutra [79][80][81][82][83][84]
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol [85][86]
2016
Winston Churchill - The Second World War [87][88]
Yang Jiang - A Cadre School Life [89][90]
William Shakespeare - King Lear [91][92]
Tayeb Salih - Season of Migration to the North [93][94]
Benedict Anderson - Imagined Communities [95][96]
Fei Xiaotong - From the Soil [97][98]
Sándor Márai - Embers [99][100]
Kwang-chih Chang - Art, Myth and Ritual: the Path to Political Authority in Ancient China [101][102]
Pai Hsien-yung - Taipei People [103][104]
Ah Cheng - Collected Stories [105][106]
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I have no idea what he's saying but the whole thing looks pretty patrish
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>>7831740
Yeah. It kind of goes against the stereotype of the Chinese as brainwashed and parochial, although there's certainly plenty of that in China too. I mean, there aren't many people in any country who enjoy discussing books.
The show is financed and hosted by two of the Chinese youtube clones - Youku and Tudou. Luckily the makers also upload it to Youtube because Youku and Tudou are very slow from outside China.
11mins 15secs is cute:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W75DXeK8_c
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>>7831778
>"we are taking about Leibniz, you can't help here"
Kek
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who here in academia? any level.
i'm starting my bachelor's essay next week. i'll have two months of time to write about whatever i want, as long as it ends up about 30-35 pages long. i have been interested in ai and artificial consciousness for a while and there is such incredible progress in the field so i think i will use it in some way. thinking about beckett's the unnamable. maybe i can compare his fictional isolated consciousness with artificial consciousness. don't know.
what you researching? writing about? being angry about?(i know it's feminist/gender/postcolonial bitches getting all the buzz)
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>bachelor's
>academia
lol ok buddy
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>playing go
>incredible progress
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>2 months to write 30-35 pages
lmao pussy
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Did The Crying of Lot 49 presage 4chan Trump supporters? 2016-03-18 14:56:41 Post No.7825291
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Did The Crying of Lot 49 presage 4chan Trump supporters?
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>The Crying of Lot 49
>California counter culture youths unironically supporting Barry Goldwater because it's cool to be against the grain
>4chan
>20-something edgemasters supporting Donald Trump to spite their liberal high school teachers and college professors
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that's just rebellious, contrarian youth in general, trump has nothing to do with it
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>>7825291
Oh (you).
It can't possibly be that people just like him better than the other candidates, can it?
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>if you don't agree you're contrarian
nice 「logic」
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rare/neat books and lit stuff 2016-03-21 19:53:27 Post No.7836469
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rare/neat books and lit stuff
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Hey, guys I went to the 34th annual Florida Antiquarian Book Fair last week.
I thought you guys might appreciate some of this stuff.
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This is Thomas Mann's autograph in a Dostoevsky book
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A misprint perhaps?
>tfw you want to read everything in your backlog at the same timehelp me
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>tfw you are reading everything in your backlog at the same time
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>start reading one thing
>interest wanders to another
>skim read last half of book i'm currently reading to get to the next
>mfw it's an infinite cycle
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>>7835202
>>mfw it's an infinite cycle
Hey that's the same word as in The Infinite Jest... have you read David Foster Wallace?
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>Last book you read
>Book you're currently reading
>Book you'll read next
Try to guess facts about each other.
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>>7832485
Last
Light in August
Current
Typee
Next
Cassandra at the Wedding
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>Last
Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman - Laurence Sterne
>Current
Anabasis - Xenophon
Tractatus logico-philosophicus - Wittgenstein
>Next
V. - Pynchon
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>>7832505
I remember the summer after high school, I decided to read as much as possible. Morning, evening, late night; I was going through books like breathing. Tristram Shandy stopped me cold. It took me a month to get through it because I just knew this was something that had to be enjoyed patiently.
Funnily enough, I was planning on rereading V. after Typee, but I've had Cassandra... sitting on my shelf for too long.
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How long did you study a language before trying to read a book in that language? What language was it and what book did you start with?
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11 Months.
Das Parfum by Süskind in German. Had to look up phrases here and there but it was overall a very pleasurable experience.
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>>7832791
Did you teach yourself or study at university?
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I could slowly read Camus in French after like a month or two of on-off but intensive French study.
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I'm looking for some really perverted book with brutal slavery, homosexuality, scat, torture, piss, and whatever depravity can be thrown in there minus necrophilia. Thanks!
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Sade, or Jean Genet
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>>7831915
>really perverted book with brutal slavery, homosexuality, scat, torture, piss
>minus necrophilia
Good to know where you draw the line.
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>>7831915
Whats your problem with necrophilia?
what books do atheists read to rationalize not killing themselves?
please no snide replies proving my point thank you
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>>7830976
You seem to think that atheists are especially prone to suicide. Got a newsflash for you: they're not. Three out of the seven great world religions are either atheistic or non-theistic. Most of those people aren't struggling with existential angst like you assume.
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The one where the author tells the atheist that his life has great value simply for being atheist, as opposed to the religious whos lives are devoid of all value simply for being religious, regardless from actual achievements from the individuals on either side. Because choosing to be atheist in itself is considered an achievement in itself these days
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>>7830987
>Got a newsflash for you: they're not.
this is demonstrably false