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>>9855434
oh cmon now

>>9855434
Thomas Pynchon
William Faulkner
William Gaddis

Not many come close to those 3, in my opinion. The only 2 novels I've read that do are Women and Men and Darconville's Cat, but from what I understand Theroux never reached those heights again.

Living? Ligotti, without a doubt, and without even being a horror buff.

Read Aessop and you'll realize he ended literature over 2000 years ago

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one possible answer: wisdom.

you read schopenhauer: he makes total sense.
you read plato: it could not be otherwise.
you read nietzsche: ofc he's right.
you read pic rel: how else could it be?
you read x: x.

if you know what you are trying to say, and you believe it, the reader will also. certain kinds of writing aren't like painting. it may very well be more like mind control, as weird as that sounds. but better to call it something else. minds are just plastic like that.

same as training to do anything else. you see somebody doing something really well, some of that rubs off on you. you can learn more about cooking from fifteen minutes with a world-class chef than from three weeks with some random dude.

ofc there are literary stylists, but this too is just the product of understanding yourself well enough to be able to say what it is that you are thinking or feeling. because it all comes from Nature or whatever you want to call the experience we live in.

i don't know. just my hot take. the more you know about a thing, the less you have to worry about What Did He Mean By This. just read everything there is to know about a given subject and then say how you feel about it. if you've read everything there to know about subject x, whatever you say will in the end be interesting to anyone else who wants to learn about subject x. it will bore anyone who is not into subject x, but who cares? you're not writing for them anyways.

just write about what you love, anon. that's all that matters. there's no point in writing about anything else except what you love and want to talk about.

>>9855441
How do you become a wise man, girardfag? Is it the by-product of reading a lot? Having a virtuous life?

>>9855410
feel the same way about EWS and am wondering same thing. its short tho, so good reminder, i might just read the pdf this morning

last time i watched EWS something clicked. i was talking with my gf and i said something like, "i wonder why there are christmas lights in most scenes" and she said, "anon, those are not christmas lights, those are part of the rainbow."

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>>9855410
>translations
reading it in german is the only patrician way

>>9855410
Plan to read it. Never seen it mentioned on /lit/ before. Nothing else to contribute.

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I think you should actually pay more attention to context. Suppose you're trying to read and get a solid understanding of Thoreau's Walden. You might want to know something of Thoreau's thoughts and ideas beforehand and, in this case, reading some of his shorter essays, or aphorisms, should help you. Keep in mind that academics, especially in recent times, are much more prone to slip their own agendas in their interpretations. Do read critique if you find it interesting, but beware.

In the words of Hobbes: "...he that takes up conclusions on the trust of authors... loses his labour; and does not know any thing, but onely beleeveth."

Scholars dedicate their entire careers to the study of a handful of selected authors, you didn't. You interpret from your experience, they interpret according to the authors' historical, social and cultural context.

Reading the Bible is a constant challenge to your interpretive abilities, particularly when seemingly discordant passages show up. It actively calls you to make sense of It.

We shouldn't forget hermeneutics was born out of Bible studies.

>>74381944
Heres a bump because im kinda interested

>>9855332
dance, huh!

Skin, by Kathe Kozha

> non fiction only

never mind.

>>9855331
Why do you let your wife work?

>>9855344
So I can invest her paycheck

>>9855351
The cost of her working, for you and society, is greater than whatever you might think you gain.

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Nah

>When participants were asked to press a button and rate the control they perceived they had over whether or not a light turned on, depressed individuals made more accurate ratings of control than non-depressed individuals.[6] Among participants asked to complete a task and rate their performance without any feedback, depressed individuals made more accurate self-ratings than non-depressed individuals.[7][8][9][10] For participants asked to complete a series of tasks, given feedback on their performance after each task, and who self-rated their overall performance after completing all the tasks, depressed individuals were again more likely to give an accurate self-rating than non-depressed individuals.[11][12][13][14][15][16] When asked to evaluate their performance both immediately and some time after completing a task, depressed individuals made accurate appraisals both immediately before and after time had passed.[17]

>In a functional magnetic resonance imaging study of the brain, depressed patients were shown to be more accurate in their causal attributions of positive and negative social events than non-depressed participants who demonstrated a positive bias.[18] This difference was also reflected in the differential activation of the fronto-temporal network, higher activation for non self-serving attributions in non-depressed participants and for self-serving attributions in depressed patients, and reduced coupling of the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex seed region and the limbic areas when depressed patients made self-serving attributions.

tl;dr Depressives have a more accurate grasp on reality

>>9855341
I never denied that desu

Unironically Winnie the Pooh. It's an absolutely beautiful work. However, I think you might have to understand that a lot of the wholesome stuff is going to feel childish. I also think that's part of the point of wholesome, relaxing, or otherwise affirmative media, especially books--to be childish.

>>9855341
OP just wants some happy reading.

I've never read him myself, but everyone who's ever recommended him to me has been a pseud. His novels are short, though, aren't they? It's still summer, might be worth it to buy one, make yourself a whiskey, and sit one hot, lazy afternoon and see for yourself. If he's good, then you've found a new author; if he's bad, then you've learned a new way how not to write (sometimes reading bad books is more useful than reading good ones).

He's pretty good. I think he's been called dirty realism and thats about what his work is. He gets a lot of hate for some reason which I don't really get, I think the beats in general get a lot of hate.

>>9855259
Worst thing to ever happen to poetry

OP here, I'll start us off:
Which edition of the Book of Disquiet should I read? It's a particularly sensitive issue here, since not only do I need a translator, but I also need an editor, who in this case has to curate a collection of notes left behind in some dead author's trunk.

>>9855256
>translations
lmaoing @ ur life

>>9855256
"Rudislav" is not a Romanian name. Bad start.

Who said it was?

>>9855251
i think wikipedia says something about critics being underwhelmed

>>9855227
read it, let us know afterwards your thoughts . no sarcasm intended .

This may help: https://youtu.be/qIdCRanZZyw

resurrection/redemption is an extremely common theme in literature. tale of two cities is a major example.

>>9855221
Decision makers who value safety will find it advantageous to protect each other and not harm each other, since one would lose very little and gain safety and much more when one cooperates with others. This is a secular basis for ethics.

>>9855221
If the world turned to face me, it would break.

I am No ones bloody keeper

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>>9855143
>Buying digital goods when you can buy them in physical version
You know you don't truly own anything digitally right? they can always take it back from you with some bullshit law in their contract if they really want to

Also books are more pleasurable when you touch them

>>9855163

he probably meant just pirating ebooks. why would someone buy 4000 ebooks?

also that's retarded. that's something someone who views books as a fashion statement would say


can you recommend me ur top 10 coffee table books, mr thinkgeek?

No I don't.

>own 3 bookshelves full of books.
>reading in front of them gives me the slight push I need to read that extra page or two per sitting
>feel my brain reward itself after placing a read book neatly back on the shelf
>everyone compliments my bookshelf and checks it out
>ohh I've read this one! What did you think anon?
>go into lengthy literary discussion over coffee and pastries


Ebooks are a meme

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>>9855137
how i am supposed to take seriously someone that sounds like a puppet frog?

>>9855137
His definition is limited to Derrida and it's a misinterpretation at that. Or maybe his problem is with the misinterpretation of Derrida by others. Basically he hates what he calls 'postmodernism' because it can lead to psychic turmoil and totalitarianism when the professors say that everything is a social construct. It seems he believes this has a basis in Derrida's critique of phallogocentrism. He doesn't explain it very clearly. I assume he's blaming Derrida for the action of the professors instead of reading Derrida. He says he read Foucault though.

>>9855162
Thoughtful men usually are soft spoken or shrill. Nietzsche was extremely timid and was criticized by an acquaintance in a letter that he conducted himself in person as if he never spoke to others before, and ordered things like dining utensils with compulsion. In all probability he was a shrill kraut.

>>9855108
retaled again...in bed...christian minstrelcy...

I wish I had that book memorized by now.

>>9855108
This was maybe the second most rewarding thing I've read this year.
>tfw no Anna river waifu to stick up for you no matter how much of a loser you are

>>9855124
tell me tale of stem or stone
Tell me tell me! Tell me elm! Who are shem and sawn the living sons and daughters of? Night now!

I only remember loose bits but oh what a laugh