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What are some poetry books/short stories I can read while on LSD?
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As a lover of lit and a lover of acid, I honestly don't think they go well together. Tripping really demands something more participatory to do.
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>>7790624
The Room, by Hubert Selby
Guts, by Pahlaniuk
Good Old Neon, Incarnations of Burned Children and The Soul is Not a Smithy by DFW
Story of the Eye
Hogg
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>Call me Ishmael
Why is it considered to be the best opening line of a book ever?
What makes a good opening line?
Also, can you recommend books which are similar to Moby Dick?
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tells ya everything you need to know about the narrator
his name is Ishmael and he's modest about it, bada bing bada boom we're done here
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>>7790554
it establishes that the narrator is giving you a fake name and you have to wonder what if anything he tells you is true
it adds an ambiguous spice to the flavor of the fare
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>>7790554
Try books by Cormac McCarthy, Ernest Hemingway, or the KJV
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This girl I like asked me to recommend her some books. I don't think she will like my tastes, since I really like war memoirs and stuff like that. She's a typical sad girlz teen who wears flowery shit. Give me some good angsty or coming-of-age books or whatever a teenager will like.
no Catcher in the Rye pls
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Hamlet
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>>7790470
Oh, and À la Recherche du Temps Perdu.
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Demian
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A while ago I read on here that the best way for an unknown author whose works are neither published nor containing the generic formulas likely to ensure publication to proceed is to create an army of short stories. I remember reading that with such an army, the unknown author has a better chance of having his larger works published if the smaller ones are accepted into journals or magazines.
More for the pleasure and satisfaction found in creating short stories than to adhere to the advice, I wrote a number of them over the last few months and have just finished editing the tenth. I am ready to send them out to a magazines and have found lists online consisting of a variety of them that accept unsolicited entries.
My problem, brothers, is that I find the process intolerable and so I have come to you in hopes of finding someone who knows what to do to make it bearable. The thought alone of sending out mechanical messages asking to be considered for publication after reading through mediocre archives to see which of my works would fit best produces the sort of fatigue makes it more difficult to do this than to write and edit. Before I am repulsed from here by those of you who would say 'just get over it and start sending emails' I will tell you that that is what I am planning to do; I only figured maybe one of you has a better way to go about it.
Thanks in advance and if I am published, I would be genuinely flattered if you guys would deign to read my work. Your criticism is worth no less than that of my mother.
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Take amphetamines constantly like every short story writer worth his salt
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>>7790404
They're not so easy to find when you're no longer on a college campus brother; I'm ashamed to ask high schoolers.
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>>7790534
Look into getting a prescription for adderall. Combine that shit with some high sativa wax and you'll be floating in the air crackling with electricity. You'll get the emails and 3 and half more short stories done before the night is over
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Is there anything to the concept of authenticity? So many philosophers and psychologically driven writers: Heidegger, Maslow, Rogers and on and on see it as the end-game in terms of what to do about the fact you've been given/forced into having a life.
Yet, I don't think I've ever met anyone who seems to take the challenge of it up while I know so many vaguely wish to do so.
Have any of you tried, do any of you live it
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Everything is authentic.
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History always repeats it self. Nothing is new desu, just retold in a different way.
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>>7790303
everything is just energy undergoing a state of transition.
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How do I expand my vocabulary?
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READ!
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read more
learn languagesstart with greek
don't go to public schools
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Theorem: You can expand your vocabulary if and only if you expose yourself to new words.
Proof: Suppose it is false that you can expand your vocabulary if and only if you expose yourself to new words. Then, you can expand your vocabulary by not exposing yourself to new words, and conversely, you can expose yourself to new words without expanding your vocabulary. But words do not generate themselves ex nihilo in your mind. This is a contradiction. Thus, we have proved our theorem. QED.
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What, in your humble opinion, is the most underrated of Shakespeare's plays?
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O T H E L L O
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othello
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Antony and Cleopatra
How does /lit/ feel about Fiorenza's theory of Kyriarchy? It's the source of the whole modern use of the term "privilege", and was argued using Vatican II theology.
>Kyriarchy, pronounced /ˈkaJriɑːrki/, is a social system or set of connecting social systems built around domination, oppression, and submission. The word was coined by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza in 1992 to describe her theory of interconnected, interacting, and self-extending systems of domination and submission, in which a single individual might be oppressed in some relationships and privileged in others. It is an intersectional extension of the idea of patriarchy beyond gender.[1] Kyriarchy encompasses sexism, racism, homophobia, classism, economic injustice, colonialism, ethnocentrism, militarism, and other forms of dominating hierarchies in which the subordination of one person or group to another is internalized and institutionalized.[2][3]
>Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (born 17 April 1938, Cenad) is a Romanian-born German, Roman Catholic[1] feminist theologian, who is currently the Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School.
I am slightly surprised she's use the term "kyrios" so negatively, seeing as how it is synonymous with "God" in Christian hymns and theology.
Here is an Orthodox example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1ryVj9MiD4
It's even used in Catholic hymns a lot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mgn2Y1Yvhs
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well it really means "lord" or "master" which ties into the whole domination/power angle, guy
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>>7789979
Despicable and she should be excommunicated.
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>>7789979
>Vatican II
For what purpose?
1. The Brothers Karamazov
2. In Search of Lost Time
3. War and Peace
4. Ulysses
5. Anna Karenina
6. Crime and Punishment
7. Moby Dick
8. Paradise Lost
9. Great Expectations
10. Middlemarch
Do we all agree?
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>>7789928
No. What a completely stupid ranking.
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>>7789934
Well provide yours then
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>>7789928
>le anglophone + meme russians top 10
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Hey /lit/. I picked up pic related on a whim earlier today and started to read it and I was really enjoying myself. I was just wondering as to the level of difficulty in the book. If it remains roughly the same as the beginning I could see myself diving in right now but I didn't want to jump in without feeling ready for it. I haven't read any of the material that is commonly referenced in the book so its hard for me to know if I would get so much out of it by attempting to read it now. However I do have the oxford world classics version which explains much of these references and subtle symbolic likenesses in the endnotes.
Your opinions would be much appreciated as there are not very many avenues of discussion regarding ulysses for me outside of this forum.
conversely I could just read Tristram Shandy or The Divine Comedy which come in the mail in a couple of days.
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just keep reading you can just use the notes
the "difficulty" ramps up SIGNIFICANTLY in chapter 3, drops back down again, and then ramps up towards the end of the book/with certain chapters
reading stuff like divine comedy, dubliners, portrait, hamlet, etc. is useful but i mean if you're already into it just soldier on. you can (and should) reread later anyway, when you have a better grasp of the influences/canon.
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I should also mention that something about this book down right terrifies me.
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>>7789686
Keep reading. If you get stuck you can always pick it up again later.
Difficulty varies from chapter to chapter, biggest hurdle for a first time reader to get over is chapter 3 (Proteus).
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Is there any short story that I can find online that cover the absurd movement where life seem to have no meaning like in The Stranger or Waiting for Godot?
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>>7789622
Myth of Sisyphus
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>>7789622
No Longer Human
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>>7789622
not doing your homework
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What makes poetry and philosophy different?
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>>7789544
Poetry gives you direct access to being itself while most philosophy gets stuck in metaphysics (at best).
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>>7789544
nothing. you can throw psychology in there as well while you're at it.
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>>7789544
What, this old quarrel?
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Long story short: i'm currently working on a long term project and i got an eye condition that doesn't allow me to stay for long times on a pc so im doing it old school with pen and paper.
My question: is there a term or brand for Notebooks that are designed to last for years?
You know with thick sheets that won't break because of continuous use, waterproof and more stuff i cant think off right now
Please consider that i live im a third world country (Mexico)
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>>7789480
rhodia or moleskine
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>>7789480
Maybe go to an art supply store and get a bound artist's sketchbook. Make sure the binding is woven not glued and the paper quality is right. These things can put up with a ton of abuse.
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>tfw you bought the Wordsworth Classics version of The Iliad with the homo cosplayer on the front
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Best version t.b.h lad
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HECTOR?
I'M ACHEA
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>i dont blacklist wordsworth classics as a company from my mind
>i dont take them out only during LSD trips or while drunk to laugh at the poorly photoshopped tim and eric tier covers until my sides rupture and my throat is bleeding
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Where exactly does one start with the Greeks, /lit/?
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Either Homer or Hesiod. They're the oldest. I think Homer, strictly speaking, is the oldest, but Hesiod isn't far behind.
I might actually read Hesiod first, since he collects a lot of the myths and religious tales and fables that are in the background of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
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>>7789036
The Quran, chapter 1.
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>>7789043
>not chapter 30