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>>7679512
>No skirt
5/10 only looked once

Me

>>7679512
Faulkner

>>7679401
You need great daily discipline required, sometimes you get to work with the original author and if not with their agents, you're required to send frequent advances to work in tandem with an editor, and the pay is often shitty given the amount of work you need to do, but it's still worth it because it's cool.

>>7679269
loneliness
or discombobulatugorianism

it happens when i finish a long book because i lived with it for so long.

Yep, I hate having to say goodbye to characters I love

i don't remember dropping a book.
you can get a lot from a shitty book.

American Gods

Actually bought a copy of Fifty Shades of Grey off a homeless person in the street for a fiver, mostly to stop him from reading it.

Read a couple of pages. Awful beyond belief. Even the harshest of reviews simply do not do justice to the level of retardation required to pull off that prose. Difficult to believe that there is such a large subset of masochists out there who literally get off on writing that is that painfully awful.

>>7679074
wish I could learn instrumental and quant without a highly paid lecturer

>>7679074
>real people's
because most porn/erotica/fanfic is written by robots?

>>7680242
I meant like actual nonfiction autobiographical stuff.

Probably should have written "people's real sex stories", sorry.

so he denies discourse? that's bullshit.

>>7679047

An example that he gives is that telephones as a whole affect the way the world functions very much, but what you in particular say on the phone affects very little.

>>7679051
Wouldn't the telephone as a medium only consist of the sum of all things said over the telephone, like the messages that are conveyed through the media are what give those media their importance?

That quote is attributable to JP Sartre. But honestly could you not argue over determinism without literature? Doesn't STEM cover this?

>helping my enemy
''no''

>>7678992
Unfortunately no

>>7678948
Anyone have no idea what Whitman's supposed to be about? It's all like, "I jizz over all the trees, the mountains, and glorious rivers, and over my soul, which is not myself, but in all your hearts," and I have no idea what it's supposed to me about.

>>7678953
>not sure if serious
Well if you're not kidding:
You should start from the very beginning and do your best to understand the message behind each poem. It's more about life being too precious to be concerned with anything else but love and nature. When Walt refers to himself its usually not about him physically. It's about the thing inside all of us that keeps all of us connected: Consciousness.

Siddhartha tbqhwufam

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>>7678939
>pic very related
enjoy senpai

>>7678952

But that's just a book of poetry, not on poetry, isn't it? Or is it really meta or some shit?

Aristotle's poetics is probably a good place as any to start.

It is a good film, but an awkward adaptation. If you want to see a Shakespeare play, go and watch a play. There are plenty online btw.

Watched it earlier today, Fassbender's good but when its not done by Shakespearean actors, they tend to deliver the lines awkwardly as if they're speaking a different language they don't understand.
Anyway see what you think, the cinematography is amazing.

>>7678862
Please link to some. I couldn't find any on YouTube.

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My source is primarily books.google. Good proportion of their covers can be viewed in larger resolutions by just adding couple of zeroes to the link while only viewing cover.

>>7678637
(this is a cover to a comic adaptation, in case you hadn't noticed)

>7678546
"Yes"

But of course, OP.

London is made of 6 letters.
Define Barrack Obama.
Sex is a word.

>>7678589
London is made of six letters drawn on a map; the city no longer exists outside of the abstract.
It's unfair to define Barack Obama by his race over his performance as president.
Sex is a word whispered in one's ear, a light kiss on the neck, and a feeling of incredible intimacy.

watch and listen to interviews
then read a supposedly fun thing i'll never do again (the book)
then read infinite jest if you want

>>7678400
Sounds good, but should I read Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself as part of the interviews or save that for when and if I decide I'm that invested in the guy?

Dive into Infinite Jest. It's the only way to find out if you like David or not.

Overly simplistic, but yes, IMO

>>7678297
This, I don't see anything wrong with it

sort of...

man vs reality and man vs technology are pretty modernist

'man vs meaning' is probably the ultimate 'postmodern' conflict

Start with the Greeks.

>be me, pleb music listener looking to expand taste
>be listening to random schoenberg on blast in preparation to attempt reading Adorno
>enjoy and follow some pieces for a few seconds here and there
>thoroughly confused by everything else
>want to kill myself
>end up googling Schoenberg on Wikipedia
>i am not smart enough to attempt Adorno

a portrait of the artist as a young man

but if you really want to be patrish and get a reasonable amount of the references in ulysses you're going to have to study the western canon for many years at least. you can get by by constantly referring to annotations but you lose the flow imo.

really though the book can be enjoyed by just about anyone for its own merits, some of the best prose in the language