You have to do a serious monologue for a theatre class, 2-5 minutes, memorized. You can choose from anything but plays are best. What do you choose?
The conjectural poem by Borgaroos
>>7734926
My last duchess by Robert Browning
When I was in highschool I did a monologue from An Inspector Calls (think that is what it was called) and it was e.z.
If I did one now I'd do Ahab's doubloon in the mask and foam at the mouth.
I can hear them in my walls when I sleep, the calls of the lost chefs. I believe their ruler lives in the pantry. I have seen him before, once when I was getting a nice bowl of spaghetti o's, it was around 1am when I saw him slowly rise from the dryer, those lifeless eyes, rosy plastic cheeks. I saw him that night. I saw chef boyardee
Gritty.
LOL
>>7734868
Post boipusi
>>7734997
That's a sexy af gravity's rainbow
>be in coffee shop with dad
>old hardback copy of Don Quixote he just bought under his arm
>young female shop assistant asks what it is
>he shows her
>”Ohhh I love old things”
>”I’m old”
>move myself to back of shop to sit down
>outside he tells me he got her number
>think its a joke and laugh
>one week later they meet up
>holyshititsreal.jpg
>they start seeing each other a few times a week
>are now in a commited relationship
>dad now has a gf my age
>mfw
>>7734819
Did he name his car Rocinante?
>>7734819
My dad married a filipina 3 months younger than me. Hes 23 years older than I am.
Your dad seems a lot cooler.
Once my step dad brought home a girl for me but she started crying so I sent her home in a taxi.
Basically old men got game I'll never have.
>tfw 3 years till wizard status
I recognize this greentext, faggot.
Hi, i'm new to this board and looking to get more into books. I was just curious as to what the general consensus on audiobooks is.
They ruin good writing, no punctuation, set pronunciation and pacing, etc.
They also make complex books very difficult to understand.
What is it with the ridiculous amount of newfriend threads lately? Is this some soft trolling attempt of another board or is r/books down? Read the wiki and delete the thread.
I have a more lenient stance on audio books than most of lit. I think they are fine to listen to if you have already read the work.
It you are listening for first time you should just kill yourself.
>author is american
>don't read
Americans know the alphabet?
>Author is a nigger
>Don't read
>don't read book
>discussion about it comes up IRL
>call it shit and give it vague criticisms
>"Yeah, now that I think about it, you're kind of right, Anon."
Give me some Zen poetry and literature.
We had a nice thread going last time lets do this agian :)
My father gave this to me what should i expect?
One of my favourites.
Not twice this day
Inch time foot gem.
This day will not come again.
Each minute is worth a priceless gem.
Other than being a meme, what has this man done?
I've seen the ideology films, but I don't think that stuff is the core of his thinking
>I know better than Zizek what Zizek thinks
he's written books that 90% of his fans never read
>>7734657
>I don't think that stuff is the core of his thinking
It's not.
Is there a philosopher ice berg chart?
>>7734623
That's not an ice berg you dip
The most accessible ones are at the very bottom, have you ever heard the term "tip of the ice berg" as in the very accessible thing you see first?
>>7734630
>That's not an ice berg
yeah no shit. you know what i mean
>>7734637
a pyramid
How many books have you read? How many books do you read on a yearly basis? How many pages a day do you read?
>>7734511
0
0
and 0
People on /lit/ do not read.
Now start with the western canon.
Day: 15 - 60
Year: 8 - 20
Interested to see how this measures up, think I'm probably on the lower end of average for a "reader"
since Jan I've read 4
What do you guys think of this new portrait of Shakespeare (pic related)?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/william-shakespeare/12166254/New-portrait-of-William-Shakespeare-as-flesh-and-blood-man-you-might-see-down-the-pub.html
I liked a lot. It’s touching to see a very human likeness of the (possibly) greatest writer of all time (and in his work table, a very nice decision). He looks alive in this painting.
The passage that he is writing is this one:
Hamlet. O that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Fie on't! ah, fie! 'Tis an unweeded garden
That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely. That it should come to this!
But two months dead! Nay, not so much, not two.
So excellent a king, that was to this
Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth!
Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on; and yet, within a month-
Let me not think on't! Frailty, thy name is woman!
A little month, or ere those shoes were old
With which she followed my poor father's body
Like Niobe, all tears- why she, even she
(O God! a beast that wants discourse of reason
Would have mourn'd longer) married with my uncle;
My father's brother, but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules. Within a month,
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,
She married. O, most wicked speed, to post
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
It is not, nor it cannot come to good.
But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue!
>when the clothes are better done than the face
what a shitty portrait
I really like it.
>>7734500
It's good
Tell me about your book club, /lit/.
Mine gives me aids, but interesting discussion is scarce.
i stood in the corner for a while and then thought "why bother" and left
>>7734430
How do you omegas even function? Book clubs are designed for you.
>>7734436
i am inherently invisible and unlikable
i think people can just detect "woah there are clearly things wrong with that guy", i just radiate mental illness and unlikability
Name a more literary profession than carpentry.
Writer
>>7734326
literarian.
check mate carpenters.
>>7734330
Carpenters can nail down words better than writers.
Carpenter 1
Writer 0
Have you ever read a book ironically?
No, but I've read plenty of ironical books.
>>7734293
Da.
>>7734293
No. What kind of a fucking retard would waste their time like that?
I like it so far, I've read every story except the dead. I'm not sure how I'm going to do with Ulysses since I feel stuff is going over my head. In Two Gallants I didn't pick up that they were stealing from that maid's master until I looked online. In Grace everything went over my head since I don't know a whole lot about anything they were talking about. Also in Clay, I had to look online to see what had happened since the significance of the clay was lost on me. Do I have no chance with Ulysses or am I doing OK?
read portrait first. you're probably not gonna have a good time with ulysses if you're missing a lot of stuff in dubliners, though ulysses can be enjoyed without knowing symbols/significance/context since a lot of it is just the style and prose and wordplay.
>>7734302
Would you say that it's "too much" if I'm missing just pretty much just the stuff in the OP?