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Why isn't Clark Ashton Smith as famous as Lovecraft and Howard?
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He's not as fun.
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>>7795013
His work is harder to find.
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>>7796371
This, also less adaptations.
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yes, its this time of the month again
chinese litearture thread. this time with 200% more dream of the red chamber!
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also , why are there only shitty translations of even the most important classics? try to find the compiled works of Zhu Xi your shit out of luck :( only thing you can find is early marxist literature.
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>>7794747
Because reading Eastern works in translation is beyond retarded. The language/culture are too different to do even a half decent rendering.
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>>7794751
所以我学习中文, but im still far away from being able to read these books.
you read any Lu Xun? quite depressing for someone who wanted to be a revolutionary.
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Homoerotic subtext in books written over a hundred years ago. 2016-03-10 09:30:44 Post No.7794669
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Homoerotic subtext in books written over a hundred years ago.
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Anyone know any examples of it?
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Moby-Dick
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>>7794669
Is this for a regular English Class or an Advanced English Class? Also more importantly OP don't get us to do your homework for you
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>>7794691
I just want to know after having seen pic related.
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I just read this. Was it good?
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>>7794594
Can't make your own opinions?
What did you think?
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>>7794594
it was good but you didn't understand hardly any of it
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>>7794594
Aren't you the same trash who posted a picture of himself with a zizek book a couple months ago?
Ive got bad news everyone.
David Foster Wallace the author of Infinite Jest
is dead
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/books/15wallace.html?_r=0
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Rip
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>>7794558
new here, should I read his work? What to start with? What is it like?
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I've got some really unfortunate, dolorous information to deliver to you all.
Vladimir Nabokov, famed pedophile and lepidopterist, author of Lolita, and some other books, I guess, is dead.
https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/02/lifetimes/nab-v-obit.html
Books that have made you tear up or cry
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Where the Red Fern Grows
Shiloh
circa 2nd grade
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Infinite hest
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S A D B O Y S
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Anyone read this? Just started it tonight and it's great so far.
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>new york times top 100
>has anyone read this
The first five pages are the best. Drop it afterward.
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>>7794472
No need to memetext. I am aware that people on this board have read it- I simply wanted to get a thread going.
>The first five pages are the best. Drop it afterward.
Too late
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>>7794469
Haven't read it yet, but I prefer Pynchon's breezy Lot 49/Vineland/IV stuff over his more lauded labyrinthine pomo works, so I'm thinking it might be up my alley.
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Is this novel good?
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the movie was bretty good.
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>>7794439
Novel. I'm talking about the novel. Is it good?
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It's pretty good - haven't read the Original language though, only a translation
>pic related
Wow. Nothing has ever moved me as much. This defines literature.
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>>7794394
Care to elaborate?
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>>7794394
Dislike it intensely.
Dislike him. A cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. A prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian.
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>>7794394
For you.
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>A blind man, authentically blund for once, held out his hand: in his posture, his rigidity, there was something that caught you, that made you hold your breath. He was handing you his blindness.
What did he mean by this?
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>>7794285
Not from Joyce but Cioran. Also >blund.
5/10 bait
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>>7794298
Maybe I should have said pic not related
I thought about this passage for a little bit, wondering what I would trade a blind man for his sight, but then, coming back to it, I made myself think I was interpreting it wrong, and I wanted to know what somebody else thought, on reading this section.
So, what did you think of the section, reading up to that point?
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>>7794285
Pretty sure it's about being "blind" to the superficial differences we see in people (black, white, poor, rich, etc.). When we see past these differences, we can hold hands or join as one.
Cultural differences are socially constructed BS, as a nihilist like Cioran would have said.
Sometimes, a blind man is portrayed as someone who is wiser than those who can see.
I'm Orthodox, and I'm baffled.
>"All-male images of God are hierarchical images rooted in the unequal relation between women and men," she writes. "Once women no longer relate to men as patriarchal fathers, lords, and kings in society, these images become religiously inadequate. Instead of evoking the reality of God, they block it."[8]
>She is a Distinguished Professor of Theology at Fordham University, a Jesuit institution in New York City. She is a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Brentwood. Johnson has served as president of the Catholic Theological Society of America and is "one of its most well known members."[3]
If you keep letting these subversive elements work so blatantly within your Church, it will go the way of Protestantism
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Yeah, she holds no sway over the Vatican. Don't worry.
>I'm Orthodox
Are you a convert from Protestantism who couldn't get over your anti-Catholic bias, or are you the real deal?
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>>7794275
I'm a convert from Catholicism.
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Pretty soon /r9k/ will be the Catholic board.
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post god-tier books to help sharpen your skills
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posting more
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>>7794199
kek
why would you study unarmed tactics? just carry a gun.
or are you some kind of canadian or something?
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Who /Magicians/ here?
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you clicked the board one too far to the right senpai
get outta here
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>>7793967
>blonde
>with glasses
hhhhhnnnnngggggggg, insta-waifu'd.
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What was in room 101 for Julia?
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>>7793935
reddit general?
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>>7793935
A glass of milk and some warm chocolate chip cookies. Room 101 was only bad for Winston.
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>>7793935
benis in bajina
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>Sunset found her squatting in the grass, groaning. Every stool was looser than the one before, and smelled fouler. By the time the moon came up she was shitting brown water. The more she drank, the more she shat, but the more she shat, the thirstier she grew, and her thirst sent her crawling to the stream to suck up more water.
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Pynchon gets dark, doesn't he?
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start with the greeks
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Is the series worthit, ignoring this quote? Watching the series rn and Im enjoying it.