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What the fuck is this guy talking about?

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Hey /lit/ I read this Roberto Bolaño short story yesterday and thought you all might enjoy it. I've read 2666, By Night in Chile, Antwerp, and some of The Unknown University. Have read the first few stories of Last Evenings on Earth, which is there this story is from. This story is my favorite so far, with Sensini a close second.

http://www.enriquevilamatas.com/escritores/escrbolanor3.html

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Does anyone here read this guy? I strongly urge you to do so if not. I'd like to hear your thoughts on his particular type of social critique. Relevant to those of you are interested in everything from post-structuralism to modern cultural criticism!

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I didn't write this one (just stole it off this one site), but feel free to tear it to shreds as an exercise/opener.

Waves lap at our toes tick by tick
And we just can’t stop falling for
The hour hand’s insidious trick;
Melted chessboard’s eroding core

From those wretched quartz lips,
Second by second, slow,
A sundial’s ichor drips

We’re all buried up to the brain
While earwigs march along the plain
Past windmills made of hopes unclaimed
Stars bleed from galaxies unnamed

From the mind’s soup rises a beast most vile
All drooling, its seven mouths eat their fill
Counterfeit crowns ajangle with dank spleen
Yet far worse still, in chains beneath that hill,
There ticks a phantom wreathed in threads of guile

Rejected breath
Inverted death

Three hands with twelve sets of teeth fracture a shingle
Opening the roof to depraved euphoria
Through which an unsteady stream of chained faces pours
As sense—common or otherwise—crawls on all fours
Ahead of this writhing phantasmagoria
Far above, overseeing it all, a single

Eye

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Can /lit/ tell me why the $ comes before the number and not after?

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Who was the best poet ever and why was it Keats?

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Non-native English speaker here. I haven't taken any course on writing and I was wondering if it's possible to write good shit without any structure whatsoever?

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Who writes ekphrasis here?

"Musée des Beaux Arts" by WH Auden

Musee des Beaux Arts
W. H. Auden

About suffering they were never wrong,
The old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position: how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.

In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water, and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

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Guys I was wondering if I could get some help. I suck at grammar, and I need to pass this shit. Please help.

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If I'm interested old Germanic lit, should I learn Old Norse or Old English? Which has a wider/more interesting array of literature?

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The author David M.J. Aurini once wrote: "If you don't know how to love, all you understand is hate."

And with the narcissism that is widespread through Western culture I have come to understand myself as an expert hater. Such sentiments are extremely profound and deep to me. I would be very interested in others sharing their experiences related to this.

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How is he going to end this shit?

What will be left to tell of in the third book?

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What are some good character names that aren't normal, but aren't completely out there either?

CHARACTER NAME FIGHT

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What's the title of the most charming book you've ever read? Mine is The Napoleon of Notting Hill.

Can lit name an author more charming than Chesterton?

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Okay /lit/ I have a hard task, a long while ago, I read a this book briefly. It's illustrations were in the time burton style. It's a young adults level book. The only thing I can remember about it, is that the main character has to care for his fat parents who sit in bed all day. Help me find this book with this bit of information.