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Post your favorite short story collection, everything goes.

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Can somebody recommend a good essay about valuing things in film/literature other than didacticism? I'd especially like something that talks about being immersed in an /aesthetic feeling/ or some shit like that.

I've already read Nabokov's nerd rant that's included in my edition of Lolita.

thanks

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Do public schools teach anything useful about literature and rhetoric?

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This is my introduction paragraph. If it sounds like shit its because im an 18 year old junior that's never written anything in my life, and I am also too retarded to be good with words.

If I was asked to make a list of things that make me happy, it would be near endless. To name a few enjoyable things I experience daily would include, taking a warm shower in the morning, putting on some refreshing clean clothes, feeling the sun and the wind on the way to the bus,looking forward to lunch, hearing the last bell ring, and finally jumping into bed as soon as I get home. But sometimes I'll take these things for granted, I become desensitized to the gigantic list of miniscule things that usually make me happy. After that, I lose the effort to continue my usual daily routine, life will start to seem repetitive and mundane. Feeling like life is monotonous is dreadful. When I each day is the same I have alot of time to overthink things, I’ll start to feel insecure, depressed, hopeless, anxious and paranoid.In order to keep myself happy I need to have some variation in each day. To combat this, I try to break my comfort zone and find something else to distract me. Something as small as shovelling the driveway can help clear my mind just a little. So the broader answer to what makes me happy, would have to be diversions and change.

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What is the greatest short story collection ever?

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What books will help me understand the development of the English language?

1. Canterbury Tales
2. King James Bible
3. Book of Common Prayer
4. The Faerie Queene
5. Shakespeare

...? What else? Some non-fiction perhaps?

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would /lit/ be interested in working on a collection of short stories? legitimate short stories, not lol so randum shit packed with memes.

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When will rap lyrics be recognized as modern poetry?

Not talking about "fuck bitches get money" (even though I do think that has a deeper philosophical meaning), but rap lyrics in general about life, issues, politics, love, etc.
Be open-minded.

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All verse that is English and sustained--that is to say longer than a few flourishes--and rhyming past Middle English (which rhymes much more organically and doesn't sound like limericks), is awful, just awful. If you prefer translations of the Iliad like Pope over someone like Rodney Merrill or Lattimore, it's because you have a short attention span and need rhymes to continually amuse you.

And yes, they're all shit compared to the original Greek. But Pope is shit compared to the other two.

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hey /lit/ i am a /b/tard and /pol/ack, I will not lie i have a presentation on the early 20th century. I was wondering if there is a book or a writer during this period that would be interesting and academically tested. Basically a book or author that tryhards bring up during literature discussions. I am a stem major so i am not knowledgeable on this topic and think that /lit/ might have some great ideas.
>ib4 how do 14 year olds keep on finding 4chan
please take rare pepe as payment

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Anyone gain any insights from reading Lacan?
Why does Zizek like him so much?
Where does one start with Lacan?

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Has /lit/ read any holy book?

Really want to start with the Torah and move onto Bible, Quran and then Bhagavad Gita

Any tips or suggestions? Dont know which version of Bible to read or Tipitaka

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>Everybody don't have to have a reason to be someplace.
>That's so, said the judge. They do not have to have a reason. But order is not set aside because of their indifference. Let me put it this way, if it is so that they themselves have no reason and yet are indeed here must they not be here by reason of some other? And if this is so can you guess who that other might be?
>No. Can you?
>I know him well.
>This is an orchestration for an event. For a dance in fact. The participants will be apprised of their roles at the proper time. For now it is enough that they have arrived. As the dance is the thing with which we are concerned and contains complete within itself its own arrangement and history and finale there is no necessity that the dancers contain these things within themselves as well. In any event the history of all is not the history of each nor indeed the sum of those histories and none here can finally comprehend the reason for his presence for he has no way of knowing even in what the event consists. In fact, were he to know he might well absent himself and you can see that that cannot be any part of the plan if plan there be. The evening's progress will not appear strange or unusual even to those who question the rightness of the events so ordered.

What did he mean by this?

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So I was talking to the guy who was my English teacher when I was in high school and he said he loves Ayn Rand's books. How does this make you feel?

To be fair he also said she wasn't very good at writing a narrative, but that if you want a good story you can just read something on the NY times best sellers list.

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Cucking memes aside, Bertrand Russel made a pretty good case in Marriage and Morals as to why monogamy is an evil and destructive invention: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marriage_and_Morals

I'll remind you that NO ONE has actually give a decent rebuttal to Marriage and Morals. Betrand Russell himself was raised in a progressive household: his father allowed his wife, Russell's mother, to sleep with Rusell's tutors. Yet Betrand Russell turned out a genius, and grew up to the win the Nobel Prize in literature.

Who are some other thinks who held this opinion? I don't mean edgelords like Sade. I know in The Origin of the Family, Engels makes a case for monogamous marriage being necessary for development, but also the beginning of oppression and something which must ultimately whither away.

>Thus when monogamous marriage first makes its appearance in history, it is not as the reconciliation of man and woman, still less as the highest form of such a reconciliation. Quite the contrary. Monogamous marriage comes on the scene as the subjugation of the one sex by the other; it announces a struggle between the sexes unknown throughout the whole previous prehistoric period. In an old unpublished manuscript, written by Marx and myself in 1846, I find the words: “The first division of labor is that between man and woman for the propagation of children.” And today I can add: The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male.