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Is there a more anti-pornography writer than this man? GR, Inherent Vice, Bleeding Edge are the most anti-pornography works I've ever read.
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David Wallace
pornography can be seen as the "entertainment"
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>>7741653
sounds like a weak misreading but I'll take it
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Pynchon definitely has a hog
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Is Man Seeking Woman /lit-core/?
How is the novel for anyone who has read it, any major differences from the TV show?
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No, it's just a surreal dating comedy.
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>>7741573
>watching TV series
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>condom holder on the nightstand
alpha af senpai
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>tfw infinite jest was never translated into my language
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You're not missing out on much.
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Well you know English you cumrag
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>>7741564
infinite jest kinda sucked desu
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What is the best plot that was wasted on bad prose, and vice versa?
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>reading for plot
>reading for prose
>reading for themes
>reading for fun
>reading for intellectual development
>reading
Top pleb
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>>7741548
>reading
>reee
>/r/eddit
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the bible
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1. Plug in e-reader
2. Open calibre
3. post your load
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I want to load on her chest if you know what I mean.
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Ok now what
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Has anyone read this? Its not available anywhere in digital and I'm thinking of purchasing.
Also, anyone have any other Turkish/Turkic/Central Asian lit recs?
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Mehmet, My son.
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If you wouldn't let Walt Whitman lie you down and tongue your penis/masturbate you into a karezza induced orgasm then you don't know SHIT about literature.
http://www.leylandpublications.com/exc_gaysuccess.html
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>>7741386
>Whitman
>Not the BBC who will reverse racism your shit until you weep
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>>7741398
What do you mean by 'reverse racism'? Isn't that that process that allowed that very negro to attain higher education known as affirmative action?
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>>7741425
No it's when he tops you while posting about it to his black followers on social media
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"It should be forbidden to read the Zhuangzi before 30 years old, because in life one has to read certain books and Zhuangzi is a book so wonderful that anything you read after will seem deceiving" Jacques PIMPANEAU
I found it being 28 and I can say this is true. This nigga is the chinese Witgenstein only that its not just philososphy.
Go read it NOW and throw all your other books.
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>"Once upon a time, Zhuang Zhou dreamed he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting about happily enjoying himself. He did not know that he was Zhou. Suddenly he awoke, and was palpably Zhou. He did not know whether he was Zhou, who had dreamed of being a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming that he was Zhou. Now, there must be a difference between Zhou and the butterfly. This is called the transformation of things."
MOM'S GONNA FREAK
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But I'm not 30
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>>7741287
Great quote OP. Zhuangzi alone is worth learning Chinese for.
Paul Rouzer's New Practical Primer of Literary Chinese culminates in the reading of a whole chapter from Zhuangzi.
Experience of a lifetime.
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INTERVIEWER
What do you make of all this recent talk of the “canonical problem”?
BLOOM
It is no more than a reflection of current academic and social politics in the United States. The old test for what makes a work canonical is if it has engendered strong readings that come after it, whether as overt interpretations or implicitly interpretive forms. There’s no way the gender and power boys and girls, or the New Historicists, or any of the current set are going to give us new canonical works, any more than all the agitation of feminist writing or nowadays what seems to be called African American writing is going to give us canonical works. Alice Walker is not going to be a canonical poet no matter how many lemmings stand forth and proclaim her sublimity. It really does seem to me a kind of bogus issue. I am more and more certain that a great deal of what now passes for literary study of the so-called politically correct variety will wash aside. It is a ripple. I give it five years. I have seen many fashions come and go since I first took up literary study. After forty years one begins to be able to distinguish an ephemeral surface ripple from a deeper current or an authentic change.
>i give it 5 years
>he said this 25 years ago
What went wrong?
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>>7741286
he overestimated the normies. the colleges are a breeding ground, and they have yet to be cleansed.
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No it came back. There was a rise of PC culture in the mid 80's lasted into the first part of the 90's.
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>>7741286
While American PC Culture reeks (IE the current Oscar scandal where blacks are all but saying there must be a black actor voted in to keep everything fair, regardless of quality), things like the Man Booker International are a good thing.
For all that good Harold reads, it mostly seems to be high English. The Man Booker International may well seek to overturn canon as Camus did in the 60s and 70s by showing the American public foreign film, or at least I hope so.
Also, this wave of PCism is dying, see the success of Trump. Without discussing his merits or otherwise, 50% of the United States just wants to shit in the mouth of PC warriors. It is definitely evident of a reaction.
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Best Latin translation for harry potter?
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Carpere Urnae
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ERAT AMICUM SIBI!!
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Thoughts on Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov?
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>>7741148
Jesus, it's circlejerked here all the time, is that even a question? Delete this thread.
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Top tier, funny, moving and a little bit too close to home.
Also that childhood dream chapter is literal utopia.
you ever wonder if you're just over thinking everything /lit/?
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>>7741120
Sometimes it seems like it, but when I stop the thinking the problems still remain, so I guess the thinking is attempted therapy for the suffering that is there regardless of it.
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>>7741120
>"over thinking"
Now THIS is a normie meme, apparently 'thinking' is the problem, "why don't you just chill out bro, just zone out dude!!!!"
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>>7741156
>you need to get out of that head once in a while.
i stopped talking to that person that night.
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I am getting pretty triggered right now that I did not learn about dashes in high school.
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>>7741116
I'm actually studying style sheets at the moment and I can't believe I never knew the different kinds of dashes. Also, genuinely, what's the difference between the Figure and the En dash?
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>>7741116
pls esplain
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Uses also change depending on languages, perhaps even just on countries for English...
How much does translation matter?
For example; I can get Don Quixote by Edith Grossman, which has a fair amount of positive reviews regarding translation.
Or I can get the Leatherbound Harvard Classics edition that looks amazing but the downside is that I have no idea if the content will be "lost in translation". Or is it a far better translation because Harvard?
How do you pick your foreign books?
>inb4 learn __x__ language.
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>>7741095
get the tobias smollett one.
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>>7741095
Translation matters above anything else. Kind of a stupid question. It's like asking: "which is more important: the script, casting and cinematography or the DVD casing?".
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>>7741095
Translations matter a lot. All of the reasons why Werther is great simply vanished.
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Patrician adventure literature?
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>>7741061
don quixote
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>>7741069
love it. more?
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for instance, the kind of stuff i'm looking for:
Iliad/Odyssey
Don Quixote
Outlaws of the Marsh
Orlando Furioso
Simplicissimus
any ideas? i'm sure there are some floating out there!