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>>7820582
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>>7820582
Lol ummmmm the magus. you're in for some shit.

>>7820582
The corrections?

>>7820450

Once the name I gave to hours
Like this was melancholy, when
It was not happiness and powers
Coming like exiles home again,
And weaknesses quitting their bowers,
Smiled and enjoyed, far off from men,
Moments of everlastingness.
And fortunate my search was then
While what I sought, nevertheless,
That I was seeking, I did not guess.

That time was brief: once more at inn
And upon road I sought my man
Till once amid a tap-room’s din
Loudly he asked for me, began
To speak, as if it had been a sin,
Of how I thought and dreamed and ran
After him thus, day after day:
He lived as one under a ban
For this: what had I got to say?
I said nothing, I slipped away.

And now I dare not follow after
Too close. I try to keep in sight,
Dreading his frown and worse his laughter.
I steal out of the wood to light;
I see the swift shoot from the rafter
By the inn door: ere I alight
I wait and hear the starlings wheeze
And nibble like ducks: I wait his flight.
He goes: I follow: no release
Until he ceases. Then I also shall cease.

>>7820450
Donne

Woman’s Constancy.
NOW thou hast loved me one whole day,
To-morrow when thou leavest, what wilt thou say ?
Wilt thou then antedate some new-made vow ?
Or say that now
We are not just those persons which we were ?
Or that oaths made in reverential fear
Of Love, and his wrath, any may forswear ?
Or, as true deaths true marriages untie,
So lovers’ contracts, images of those,
Bind but till sleep, death’s image, them unloose ?
Or, your own end to justify,
For having purposed change and falsehood, you
Can have no way but falsehood to be true ?
Vain lunatic, against these ‘scapes I could
Dispute, and conquer, if I would ;
Which I abstain to do,
For by to-morrow I may think so too.

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O Carib Isle!

The tarantula rattling at the lily’s foot
Across the feet of the dead, laid in white sand
Near the coral beach—nor zigzag fiddle crabs
Side-stilting from the path (that shift, subvert
And anagrammatize your name)—No, nothing here
Below the palsy that one eucalyptus lifts
In wrinkled shadows—mourns.

And yet suppose
I count these nacreous frames of tropic death,
Brutal necklaces of shells around each grave
Squared off so carefully. Then

To the white sand I may speak a name, fertile
Albeit in a stranger tongue. Tree names, flower names
Deliberate, gainsay death’s brittle crypt. Meanwhile
The wind that knots itself in one great death—
Coils and withdraws. So syllables want breath.

But where is the Captain of this doubloon isle
Without a turnstile? Who but catchword crabs
Patrols the dry groins of the underbrush?
What man, or What
Is Commissioner of mildew throughout the ambushed senses?
His Carib mathematics web the eyes’ baked lenses!

Under the poinciana, of a noon or afternoon
Let fiery blossoms clot the light, render my ghost
Sieved upward, white and black along the air
Until it meets the blue’s comedian host.

Let not the pilgrim see himself again
For slow evisceration bound like those huge terrapin
Each daybreak on the wharf, their brine-caked eyes;
—Spiked, overturned; such thunder in their strain!
And clenched beaks coughing for the surge again!

Slagged of the hurricane—I, cast within its flow,
Congeal by afternoons here, satin and vacant.
You have given me the shell, Satan,—carbonic amulet
Sere of the sun exploded in the sea.

Finnegans Wake is a mess. Finnegans Wake was a big fat mistake.

>>7819574
Rubbish.

>And agus wir ware... Truly attendentes de Finnegans Wake.

Really Joyce? Really???

>>7814845
Why are you acting surprised? Just Kidding Rowling is a shit writer.

i never read HP as a kid (parents opposed witchcraft)

Where does it stack up in the world of children's literature?

>>7814875
super average, no significant faults or merits either way.

We won't know until we're past the era. It's like looking back at something and realizing the change. You can't tell change in the moment.

>>7822557
this chart is so wrong, lmao

>>7822557
Whoever wrote this pic has never read a iota of modernist theory or criticism.

dfw

>>7822032
Validate your point, mister/miss Obvious.

>>7822041
he had no discernible talent

"DAVID FOSTER WALLACE!!!!!!!!"

Don't smile because it's over, cry because it happened.

>>7821639
Lots of people here have and they didn't like it. I've read selections from it and I have to agree with them.

>>7821639
It's alright. Cool premise, cool world, but it indulges the 80s pop culture thing way too much. The characters are more or less non-entities. Prose is functional, with a few groan-inducing metaphors here and there.

Read it if you have nothing else to do some afternoon, or if you really desperately want to form a dismissive opinion of it.

Literal dogshit.

Controlled environment (?)

>>7821474
Safe-Space

>>7821486
But it's non-specific to feelings of ease.

>>7821337
xD

>>7821337
kill yourself

>>7821326
Ultimately Levi is the 'best' (if there can be such a thing, I'd prefer 'recommended'). An intelligent & incredibly imaginative & eloquent man in horrific circumstances. I also recommend his 'The Drowned & the Saved'.

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Posting a couple more of his pieces for reference.
1/3

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3/3

you're not supposed to read it at all

>>7820845
ok thanks

Puns like "toot and come in" a reference to Tutankhamun and Finnegan "Fin again", references to the cyclical nature humanity and Egyptian reincarnation are pretty common. He extensively references Hindu/Eastern myths and much of his language is chosen to express certain religious and psychological truths.

It really separates the men from the boys. The only way to "read" it is by audiobook tapes.

You listen to a round where on page one, a stereo tape plays (with an osculation between both channels), then you play a second (mono all the rest after 1,1 are mono) tape from the beginning when the begins page 2, then, when the tape reaches page 3 play a third tape from the beginning, when the first tape reaches page 5 play a fourth tape. Continue this for pages 8,13,21,34,55,89,144 etc playing new tapes when the first tape reaches each of these pages. YOU are page "0" and the work is page zero. O it's not over yet my bumpkins, when the first tape finishes the book you reset the tape and againbeginFinneganbeginagain you keep going ad infinitum until you starve to death, you are NOT allowed to eat or sleep. Water is okay.

>>7820653
I read when I have time, it's fun to see books that you've read being discussed.

A lot of people on here are intelligent and well-read but they waste it all on poisonous attitudes and self-loathing.

Some people will say yes and they will be lying.
Some people will say no and they will be telling the truth.
Some people will say no and they will be lying.
Some people will say yes and they will be telling the truth.
Bloody stupid question, really.

none good enough to mention

>>7820418
You probably think Pynchon is one of the world's greatest writers

Jorge Luis Borges
Juan Rulfo
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vargas Llosa
Julio Cortazar
Carlos Fuentes
Ernesto Sabato
Roberto Bolaño
Fernando del Paso
Juan Carlos Onetti
Alejo Carpentier


Poets:

Vicente Huidobro
Cesar Vallejo
Ruben Dario
Octavio Paz

It really did help me, as a white person, understand race in the United States. I don't mean that in a meme-y way, it's that I genuinely felt I understood better what it was like to be black in America after reading it.

It's also a great novel in its own right.

Great book, Ellison's prose flows like water, cracks like a whip. The social commentary is oddly still relevant.

What you think of it, OP?

I haven't read it but I've heard SJWs hate it so I might check it out.