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I just read Description of a Struggle by Kafka and I am so damn confused and lost what is this short story
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Well it's a description of a struggle ya doof
Says it right there on the cover!
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>>9847419
I remember laughing so hard when I read it many, many years ago.
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>>9847419
>Reading translations
Just learn german and read the original.
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I know people have talked to death about this book, some people like some people hate it. Personally I liked it and will probably watch the movie when it comes out later, even though its hugely differant from the book. My question is how on earth was the writer able to fit so much pop culture stuff into this book without getting into trouble with the property holders? He referances all kinds of games, movies, music and series. Is there some kind of copyright loophole or something? Did they have to get special permission for this stuff? I'm interested in writing stories that referance things I like, but I'm worried off getting sued.
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>You're approaching your girlfriend's dorm room when this guy steps out, unzips his pants and says over his shoulder "I better go before your MALIGNANTLY USELESS boyfriend turns up"
What do?
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>>9847403
I actually wonder what Ligotti's sexual history is like. He seems so sterile and alienated from everyone and everything. Although, in an interview, he did mention that he self-medicated with hallucinogens when he was younger. If he ever casually indulged in sex, it would probably have been then.
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>>9847403
>malignantly useless
>ergo obsolete
>evil is obsolescence
>first impulse is to murder both of them
>murder is evil
>it is congruous action
>i am evil
>kill them
>stand over their corpses
>cry tears of joy
>existential crisis is resolved
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>>9847403
>steps out, unzips his pants
So he'll masturbate in the corridor?
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Do french write obscurely on purpose, so as to hide their cluelessness?
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both
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>>9847300
I hope this is supposed to be an ironic joke.
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Non, they write obscurely _by accident_ to hide their cluelessness.
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Troll literature?
And I don't mean genre-fic, I mean like Peer Gynt and ... I dunno ... maybe the first two parts of Beowulf
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looks like the dust has finally settled. Thoughts?
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>Now that the dust has settled guys
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>Now that the AI has finally improved guys
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Just what *was* Malone? Ashes? Or, a phallus?
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have you read other books from the trilogy?
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>>9847198
Molloy, ofc. It was great. I'm halfway through Malone Dies.
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>>9848872
You'll find out in The Unnamable. Sort of.
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How do I get a short story published into The New Yorker?
>In b4 buttblasted failed /lit/ hate on the esteemed and important publication.
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it's pretty much by invitation only now
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>>9846955
publish a novel and have your agent send the editor a copy of a short story.
seriously. no reason not to submit there, i guess, but almost nothing makes it out of their slush pile.
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you need a coverletter from someone who is "in"
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Proclus' triad of goodness, wisdom, and beauty:
"Now there are three substantial natures among the intelligible and hidden gods, and the first is characterized by the good where lies the paternal monad, the second by wisdom where lies the first intelligent perception, and the third by beauty, where lies the most beautiful of the intelligibles, as is the account of Timaeus (30d); three monads subsist in accordance with these intelligible causes, causally and unitarily existing in the intelligibles, but first revealed in the "unutterable" order of the gods, viz. "faith" and "truth" and "love"; the first founding the universe and establishing it in the good, the second revealing the knowledge that lies in all beings, the third turning back everything and uniting it to the nature of the beautiful. This triad proceeds thenceforth to all the divine orders and radiates to all union with the intelligible; it reveals itself differently according to the different orders, combining its own functions with the individual characters of the gods. Sometimes, as we said, it is present in a manner unspeakable, unknowable and unitary, sometimes as holding and binding together , sometimes as perfective and formative: sometimes intelligently and paternally, sometimes as imparting movement and life and productively ; sometimes sovereignly and assimilatively, sometimes freely and purely, sometimes in multiplication and division. From above, then, love ranges from the intelligibles to the intra-mundane making everything revert to the divine beauty, truth illuminating the universe with knowledge, and faith establishing each reality in the good. "For everything," says the oracle "is governed and exists in these three"; and for this reason the gods advise the theurgists to unite themselves to God through this triad."
- Proclus, Commentary on Plato's Alcibiades, trans. William O'Neill, 1965, 51-3, pp. 31-3
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"if anyone who is devoted to things of sense imagines that the Good is wafting towards him, and flatters himself that he has encountered the Good, he is entirely in error. For, in truth, the attaining of it requires a method not easy, but rather divine; and the best thing is to neglect things of sense, and strive enthusiastically to master the mathematical sciences, contemplating numbers, and thus to develop by practice that science which teaches 'What is Being'."
- Numenius of Apamea, fr. 2
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Proclus on the consummation of dialectic in the One:
"Parmenides, then, is imitating this and ends by doing away both with the negations and with the whole argument, because he wants to conclude the discourse about the one with the inexpressible. For the term of the progress towards it has to be a halt; of the upward movement, rest; of the arguments that it is inexpressible and of all knowledge, a unification. For all these reasons it seems true to me that he ends by removing the negations also from the One. For this whole dialectical method, which works by negations, conducts us to what lies before the threshold of the One, removing all inferior things and by this removal dissolving the impediments to the contemplation of the One, if it is possible to speak of such a thing. But after going through all the negations, one ought to set aside this dialectical method... so here all dialectical activity ought to be eliminated. These dialectical operations are the preparation for the strain towards the One, but are not themselves the strain... Finally, when it has completed its course, the soul may rightly abide with the One. Having become single and alone in itself, it will choose only the simply One… It is with silence, then, that he [Plato] brings to completion the study of the One."
- Proclus, Commentary on Plato's Parmenides, Glenn Morrow trans, pp. 602-3
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“Platonism is the philosophical Odyssey and the Platonic dialectic is neither a dialectic of contradiction nor of contrariety, but a dialectic of rivalry (amphisbetesis) a dialectic of rivals and suitors.”
- Giles Deleuze, The Logic of Sense, 1990, p.254
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Hey, /lit/. I'm really interested in reading some books about psychoanalysis. I have started some Freud's work but where should I move next? I was thinking into Lacan. Is that ok for starters? Thanks!
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>>9846833
Jung
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Dianetics
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If you have a subscription to one of these sites, please grab this page for me in full size:
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/69646038/
https://newspaperarchive.com/great-bend-daily-tribune-nov-12-1961-p-3/
(I want the "check list for your shelter" and the article underneath)
I have been looking for hours, but it seems all newspapers carrying this ad are behind these two paywalls (only results in google).
I have tried messing with the URL of the thumbnail to get a higher resolution or the original, no dice.
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Also tried registering with a fake, valid credit card for the "free" trial, got a message back "payment failed" immediately.
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What's essential dog literature? Can anyone provide a chart?
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travels with charlie is comfy as heck
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>>9846683
It's all super sad just pet doggos don't read about them
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>>9846697
I have no dogs to pet, just give me this essential comfort. I demand a dog chart.
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>apparently Mainländer is unavailable in English
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apparently you're a bitch ass homothug
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>get book you've always wanted to read as a gift
>it's the signet classics version
>mfw
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>think you got clothes of something as a gift
>it's actually a copy of Infinite Jest wrapped up in a white polo shirt
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Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
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Just took this out from the library - has anyone read this? If so, what was your impression of it
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He's supposed to be very good at the epistolary style, that was popular back then, it can be seen as corny by contemporaries but there's a heart warming quality to it often times.
18th century english books are top comfy, you should enjoy it unless you're a brainlet.
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>>9846328
iirc one of the longest single volume works ever published, shitload of satire revolves around Sam's works, Shamela, for instance, was devoted to shitting on Pamela by ol' Sammy. Probably a gigantic dull book.
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>>9846568
nobody's read this long ass book, k? just read it yourself.