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He was completely unpractical He would rather fall and lose everything than do some simple lip service. The level of obstinacy is the equal of King Lear (though Lear does it out of Ignorance where Coriolanus is out of disdain and arrogance). He is so deficient in political life that no one could say that he did right.

>>7690573
Coriolanus did nothing his mother didn't want him to do.

Prove me wrong.

Coriolanus "did" nothing.

-THE DEAK

He couldn't handle the banter.

The Stranger, Dorian Grey and Divine Comedy in 2010 when I first got into literature

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3 weeks ago

read the first 200 pages in the local library, but moved away now

I can't remember ever ordering any books off Amazon. Shipping to Canada kills any deal.

>>7690445
Increase stamina, eat more, get into fitness etc. I used to feel like this before /fit/. Also, if you have good healthcare consider thyroid problems.

NOT LITERATURE FUCK OFF

>>7690445

I'm in the same situation and continued reading despite it. If I fall asleep after two pages then so be it. If I'm satisfied after a few chapters then shitpost anyway then I'm already more relaxed than I would be if I went straight for the remote or to /r/hotwife

I fucking love schizophrenic threads.

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>>7690328
That is because everyone ends up flinging shit at each other, proselyting, greentexting on orthodoxy, and discussing jews, circumcision, and abortion, not discussing the bible as a literary piece (which is a rare way to discuss it anyways, as most discuss it from a faith based perspective or a a historical-critical perspective).

/his/ is more appropriate, pic related there are 4 threads on the first 4 pages on the bible right now.

>>7690516
All of them are shit.

>meme book
>what did he mean by this

wordsworth editions

popular penguin editions (something like that)

Wordsworth is pretty great. Super cheap.

>>7690332
>popular penguin editions
Can you elaborate or give some examples

Tengo was a beta faggot with a malignant case of oneitis

the only character worth admiration was the dowager

is he the one who reads proust?

I'm pretty sure that she's more well known than he is.

No discernible talent in either.

>>7690187
I doubt that. Why do you think so?

This is so dumb, I can't even start to consider it

what is "plot"

>>7690013

What is dumb about my question?

>>7689909
I love Zbigniew Herbert's essays. They are pure gold. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if they have english translation.
Woolf is pretty great in essays too. Beautifuly written.

>>7690365
i love his poetry, but i had no idea he had essays floating around

what subjects did he write about

Obligatory DFW post (and some other stuff I like):
E unibus pluram (or something like that)
Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky
That one about American Usage whose title I don't remember
Big Red Son
First three are pretty entry level and about literature or linguistics. Last one I found hilarious. I think all of them are free online.

Also, check out Barthes' Death of the Author and Cleanth Brooks' Irony as a principle of structure (most New Criticism is pretty straightforward). I don't know about translations, but Borges' essays are GOAT, at least in Spanish (particularly that one on why he knows Joyce's Ulysses despite not having read it completely, the one about Coleridge's dream and the New Refutation of Time).

nice find buddy. wanna sell it to me?

>>7689829
>falling for the bookstore meme

way to go pleb

>>7689867
I didn't buy it dunderhead that's why Meme is the subject

>>7689629
No thanks :)

>>7689669
Elaborate?

>>7689674
nope :)

>>7689132
>This reads like novel adaptation of a screenplay for one of those YA adaptations
that's how all of those YA books read

reading Morning Star right now :)

>>7690244
Me too.

>>7689132
Stay pleb.

Why are you reading it then you tit?

Fitzgerald is better desu

Lattimore for Homer.
Mandelbaum for Virgil.

>>7689020
nope.

Those 3 books are shit. We always say it.
Damn, boy! Don't you read the threads here???

Maybe the reason you are having such difficulty is because it actually, in all earnest, really is just a bizarre conspiracy theory crafted by fringe lunatics on the internet as a scapegoat for everything they see as wrong with the contemporary sociopolitical ecosystem.

Just a guess.

What I find funny is that people who think Cultural Marxism is real point to theorists like Adorno as examples... despite the fact he was so elitist he thought jazz music was degenerate and that the radio was rotting the minds of his time with senseless entertainment.

No such thing as cultural Marxism. It's a boogieman that prevents conservatives from going back to the "good old days." Marxism proper is about only one thing: class as the primary factor determining historical outcome.

Dan Smith.

If your writing is good it will get published don't hide because you fucking suck mad ass at writing.

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only right answer

>>7687589
Why not give myself an extra edge?