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>>7747284
Most works that have that citation system will include a bibliography.

>>7747254
It is like Gaddis, only Gaddis knew how to drew a line in the sand, and Gass forgot the border between the literary and pure rambling.

On the other hand, it is quite authentic ... true to its narrator.

i wonder, if i repeatedly posted enthusiastically and authoritatively enough about my favourite book (the unconsoled) would it also become a /lit/ meme?
would i want that?

>>7747279
That's how memes are born, anon. Just look at [s4s], that's pretty much all that goes on there.

>>7747129
can we write in other languages that eng?

>>7747129
I'm down for a no-memes-allowed serious collaboration with other anons.

>>7747137
yeah, i don't see why not

Quite good. Poetic powers waxed with age while still being formidable and distinct at all/most stages of his career. A little bit too much "muh Ireland" for my tastes but that's hardly unique to him.

Interesting plays BTW, very brief and poetic. Check out Purgatory.

>>7747000
A budding buddhist and amateur atheist.

best english poet. supreme is his use of beautiful language, use of a style that is at times difficult but never inscrutable and is a joy rather than a chore to try and interpret, vivid in his dealing with lose and tragedy, able to comment on contemporary world events and trends without being pretentious or any of it feeling shoe-horned and in a way that maintains its relevance for all time.

>>7746927
Years ago a mate said something of the sort that he enjoys reading a few pages from a book a day so that he spends more time with it and its world. Back then I thought it was just an excuse for being really lazy but yeah now im feeling it

If the entirety of a book is expended to you on first reading, then its probably not a good book. Those books are like dead whores. Good books are eternal friends.

I could reread those books from my personal canon any time of day and feel either the same or an even vaster connection than when I first read them.

What the fuck is 'The Blockchain'?

>>7746907
It's 'Maybe you should learn about current events and technology'.

belloc

>>7746866
what are you, a cuck? of course!

A great book for a chuckle! Order away

>>7746866
No. Dont give that fag money, Maddox is basically a reverted Reddit

>>7746780
>I dare you to name me a more dissapointing writer!
You

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>I'm so dumb I can't understand what he says!

hahahah

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>do phd research on lacan, foucault, derrida, levinas, kristeva
>spend half my adult life reading them
>come to /lit/ and post universally well-known fact that they were obscurantists (and occasionally hacks)
>undergrads who have never read any of their work post "Seems like you just can't understand them m80 :^)"
>briefly consider posting CV on /lit/

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Learn mnemonics.
Read Yates and Carruthers for basics, then learn with Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium and Medieval methods.

I dont know, sorry !

>>7746754
Are you retarded !

>>7746753
Unironically: yes.

>>7746753
Yes, unless you're a statist, socialist, or collectivist retard.

>>7746759
>>7746766
People might start taking you seriously. That's how /pol/ ended up the way it is.

Ideas of the Hairy Ainus or
the Bagabos of Mindanao-oh
like the poor bastards we put down for fools,
amused by their absurdly sloping chins,
their noses crooked in comical contortion,
eyes that bug out or skew about their sockets,
so you just can't keep a straight face, but smirk,
suppress a snicker that escapes in splutters,
snort-downright chortle-pointing at the rubes-
rolling with uncontrollable hilarity
-only to look up after hours of laughter
to see the clowns are laughing too; in fact
that they surround us like Tibetan Yogis
in levitation to a chant of chuckling.

>>7746729
I can't, I sacrificed my gift of poetry in order to get laid and find a gf.

>PENIS VAGINA
>PENIS INSIDE VAGINA
>CUNT HELICOPTER

HOME POEMS POETS LOGIN
Canto XVI
And before hell mouth; dry plain
and two mountains;
On the one mountain, a running form,
and another
In the turn of the hill; in hard steel
The road like a slow screw's thread,
The angle almost imperceptible,
so that the circuit seemed hardly to rise;
And the running form, naked, Blake,
Shouting, whirling his arms, the swift limbs,
Howling against the evil,
his eyes rolling,
Whirling like flaming cart-wheels,
and his head held backward to gaze on the evil
As he ran from it,
to be hid by the steel mountain,
And when he showed again from the north side;
his eyes blazing toward hell mouth,
His neck forward,
and like him Peire Cardinal.
And in the west mountain, Il Fiorentino,
Seeing hell in his mirror,
and lo Sordels
Looking on it in his shield;
And Augustine, gazing toward the invisible.

And past them, the criminal
lying in the blue lakes of acid,
The road between the two hills, upward
slowly,
The flames patterned in lacquer, crimen est actio,
The limbo of chopped ice and saw-dust,
And I bathed myself with acid to free myself
of the hell ticks,
Scales, fallen louse eggs.
Palux Laerna,
the lake of bodies, aqua morta,
of limbs fluid, and mingled, like fish heaped in a bin,
and here an arm upward, clutching a fragment of marble,
And the embryos, in flux,
new inflow, submerging,
Here an arm upward, trout, submerged by the eels;
and from the bank, the stiff herbage
the dry nobbled path, saw many known, and unknown,
for an instant;
submerging,
The face gone, generation.

>>7746744
>stop discussing books you shitlord

Good insights in this yale lecture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgyZ4ia25gg

The Judge is the ultimate badass, the greatest villain in literature, with the most wicked lines on its side of Nolan's Joker. If you're looking for a 'lil' bit of the ultra-violence, check out Blood Meridian, it's an epic western that even Harold Bloom recommends. Be sure to put your thinking cap on, though, because this ain't Zane Grey. It's capital-L Literature, and you're gonna want to keep a dictionary handy to look up all the obscure words McCarthy uses. Yes, my friend, this is no waltz through the garden, it's a dark and stormy journey through the valley of darkness. As Illidan from Worldo f Warcraft says, You Are Not Prepared.

Good for you.
Now read some more young boy.

(what book though)

>>7746669
Why wasn't it The Tunnel?

>>7746685
gass plz go

Why, browsing /lit/ of course.

>>7746641
videogames,4chan,hentai,browsing...

Shagging your mom.