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Hi all i am new to /lit/ and i am interested in reading. I have read oscar wilde, natsume soseki, yasunari kawabata which i enjoyed. But also i have almost completed the new testement of the bible and also the first five books of the old testament. The bible is really unlike anything else ive read in terms of quality and importance. Anybody else here feels affected similarly? Bible general.
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what does dfw have to do with the bible
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you should check out the greeks as well. I get a lot of the same feelings from the bible and more from them
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>>7669581
havent read dfw and he seemed like an interesting person. Did he write anything in reference to the bible?
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Dan Schneider > Thomas Pynchon 2016-02-07 04:44:52 Post No.7669421
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Dan Schneider > Thomas Pynchon
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http://www.cosmoetica.com
What do you think of this great poet?
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>>7669421
I think Dan Schneider is an idiot who should leave the critiquing to Bloom. I'm not even that big a fan of Pynchon, but the way this guy just spouts unsubstantiated claims is infuriating.
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>>7669434
Being obviously correct in criticism and how some…: http://youtu.be/GMMz44C8xH0
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>>7669450
Probably the biggest [citation needed] I've ever seen.
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Thoughts? Discussion.
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>>7669381
>Female author that isnt Plath, Atwood, Dickinson, Bronte, or Austen
I would recommend another book discussion site, like Goodreads or perhaps le Reddit
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It's good but the central conflict is shit. Ill.post a more detailed response when not on mobile.
Someone tell me if the sequel is good
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Was it rape?
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>Maman died today
Is this the most kafkaesque thing he ever wrote?
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Aujourd’hui, maman est morte
Probably. The French reminds me of the beginning of the Metamorphosis because the shocking part is at the end of the sentence just like "transformed" is in the Metamorphosis
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>tfw evola next to derrida on my shelf
Who else /eclectic/ here?
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>>7669319
I once put Turgenev next to Dostoyevsky, and it burst into flames.
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I have Homer next to Taipei
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>tfw can't make a single post of substance discussing the books themselves so decide to namedrop
who else /shitpost/ here?
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/lit/ things that piss you off 2016-02-07 04:06:25 Post No.7669317
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/lit/ things that piss you off
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>when genre fiction plebs act like 'narraritive structure', 'character development' and other useless bullshit of that nature actually matters
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>when plebs make shit threads like >>7669317
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Hi, Ben.
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Can we all please take a look at this guy Bernard-Henri Levy?
I normally give these kind of guys the benefit of the doubt but this one is a fucking hack for you. Claims to be a philosopher but is just some weird bratty joke.
Please tell me there's some French people on /his/ that can give some good stories about this fucker
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>this nigga need to get himself together desu
Early essays, such as Le Testament de Dieu or L'Idéologie française faced strong rebuttals from noted intellectuals on all sides of the ideological spectrum, such as historian Pierre Vidal-Naquet and philosophers Cornelius Castoriadis, Raymond Aron and Gilles Deleuze, who called Lévy's methods "vile".
More recently, Lévy was publicly embarrassed when his essay De la guerre en philosophie (2010) cited the writings of French "philosopher" Jean-Baptiste Botul. Botul's writings are actually well-known spoofs, and Botul himself is the purely fictional creation of a living French journalist and philosopher, Frédéric Pagès.
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If there is one man i could publicly defecate on its BHL.
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fuckin antisemetic bastids
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What are some good books on empire as a concept? Not really histories on any specific empires, but about the nature of empire itself.
Historical, scientific, or philosophical takes all welcome.
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Vanished Kingdoms by Davies
Waiting for the Barbarians by Coetzee
Submission by Houellebecq
Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts
The General in his Labyrinth by Marquez
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>>7669341
Thanks friend, I'll check these out.
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>>7669212
Empire - Negri/Hardt
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Share proper /lit/ which you find interesting.
Here's a documentary about Saramago and his wife, made a couple of years before he died:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gtRxhfcFi0
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>>7669207
proper /lit/ videos, I meant to say.
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>>7669211
You first
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>>7669217
in the header, the documentary.
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Just finished this. I know I'm a huge pleb, but I'm trying to restore my interest in lit. I'm reading Lolita tomorrow.
Did Camus intentionally create an autistic protagonist, or was it just coincidence?
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That's the point
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>>7669179
OK. So I was right. Glad I caught on to something.
Names
How do you come up with good names. I have a character atm that I essentially want to call Mrs. plot device (I'm Meta) but I can't just call her Mrs. plot device (I'm not that Meta/bold/a tard) but I can't think of a clever way of obfuscating the meaning. I can't just call her Mrs plot device in latin or something. How do other writers/ you come up with significant names that aren't completely on the nose?
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It just works
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trying to come up with a name that has a meaning will always be on the nose. just give them a name.
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Mrs. Sue
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>part first
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>couldn't find a Yoda image
>ooh maybe Pepe as Yoda
>that would've been amusing
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>chapters are in Roman numerals
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>each chapter is 300+ pages long
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Does anyone take any non-Christian, non-traditionalist post-postmodernist movement seriously?
Literally the only place you can go after postmodernism is backwards. Or, not strictly backwards, but any movement beyond postmodernism has to involve a recovery of the wisdom of the past, the wisdom that both postmodernism and modernism thought was useless. There is no moving 'beyond' postmodernism without that. Postmodernism by its very fundamental nature leaves no room for anything wholly new to come after it. To go any further, we first have to go back. This is why New Sincerity and metamodernism and everything else has failed.
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no shit pisslord, after the enlightenment came romantacism...history goes in cycles
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Secular humanism is legit.
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>>7669122
Gnostic Futurist Individualism soon.
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Never Read a Romance Novel? Grow Up 2016-02-07 02:00:52 Post No.7668953
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Never Read a Romance Novel? Grow Up
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The categorical dismissal of the most-read genre in the world reveals ignorance, not intellectual superiority.
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>most-read
>genre
>soapbox
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anna karenina?
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Gimme two good ones
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"To hell with damnation"
Something I recently thought up.
I really liked it and wondered if anyone else had thought of it, I googled it and found that some fucking indie shit had it already. What happens when this 'username taken' thing happens to everyone? As we all know, humanity hasn't been around very long and pretty soon all the thoughts will have been thunked, (if you were in the future) how would you stay original? Be you an author, artist, or even an admirer of them all, how would you cope with the inevitable blending of us all into gray muck and how will you fight it? Or will you give up and die as another like a dog?
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>>7668943
If you honestly believe that "all the thoughts will be "thunked"" then you either have a ridiculously narrow view of what constitutes thought or an Icarusian attitude towards collective human memory.
We will forget everything* much sooner than we will know it.
*everything = a categorical function of all compossible thought
This isn't even taking into account the fact that you are living a completely unique life. Nobody in the history of everything has ever experienced exactly what you've experienced and if you don't think that's conducive to the production of "new" thoughts then what is?
You're probably 17-21, calm the fuck down, you don't even know a quantifiable portion of all there is to know. Get out there and experience instead of jacking off to your own armchair philosophizing.
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>>7668985
I'm not talking about literal thoughts, that's ridiculous to think they'll blend. We as humans like to keep track of things, and of all the things we've recorded most of what we publish will remain. What I'm saying is, how will anyone, say, write a new book (etc.).
"What's your book about?"
"A man who was kidnapped by a psychotic musician who trains the man to play the piano for him."
"Oh, you mean like 'The Music Through the Boards'?"
"Fuck"
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>>7669022
All language (books included) is nothing but a constellation of "literal thoughts"