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protip: i can't

GOAThe desu.

Let the Greek mould his clay

To the forms he’s planned,

And take increasing pleasure

In the product of his hands:

nah he's GGAOAT

>>7664236
I haven't heard any hip hop with any poetic merit.
They can make some rhymes, but that alone does not make poetry.

>>7664266
Not the question. I didn't ask if hip hop had any poetic merit, I asked which hip hop performers had the most poetic lyrics. Obviously their rhymes are not going to be on par with poets like Keats or Poe, or many popular poets in literary circles. I was just curious who /lit/ thought had the most skill.

eminem desu

"If I can't batter the women, how the fuck am I supposed to bake them a cake then?"

GOAT

>>7664211
Get on a train journey, put some in-ear headphones in, music or not as you please and enjoy 1-2 hour each way of joyful reading time. I do it a lot on the way to work (about 2 hours each way of reading) and even with the disturbance of being in the rush hour i can pile through books at speed. Plus try reading something different made of paper if you are reading electronically, it may make enough difference to start you off.

>>7664211
Any answer I give would be like telling a fat person who is asking how to lose weight to eat less.

>>7664211
- Pomodoro technique https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
- Try to focus on the process of reading the book
- Learn to ignore distractions
- When you are lying in the bed or some shit and you want to read 4chan or some other shit, start reading the book instead.

Shakespeare, William. Read complete works between 14 and 15. One would like to have filmed him in the role of the King's Ghost. His verbal poetic texture is the greatest the world has ever known, and immensely superior to the structure of his plays as plays. It is the metaphor that is the thing, not the play. A genius.

>>7663991
Bump for hugely under-rated subject proposed in the thread

>>7663991
They had great publicists.

>>7663738
>"dirty realism"
I could understand calling it cliché, but why lazy?

>>7663738
examples of comparing something to a whore?

>>"dirty realism"
Such as?

>>7663753
Shakey did it in the second scene of Macbeth, iirc. Fantasy authors do that all the time too

The question should be : is Joyce the only worthwhile contestant to that title ?

Answer: maybe.

Thomas Pnychon

>>7661347
Joyce is gay

There is no way to know until you try.

Read Meditations, pussy.

It depends on your take of the books of course.
If you see light it will give it to you, if you see darkness you will read that too. Your mind poisons your reading.

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>>7660159
you go ahead, anon

neither of these people are edgar Allan poe. Thread failed.

>>7660649
lol

Beauvoir's Second Sex? I have a friend that swears by it.

Oh and for care ethics, look in to Rudolf Steiner.

the golden notebook^1

1. i don't really know if this does or not

Advise and Consent by Allen Drury is fantastic for understanding the impact of perceived Soviet espionage in the 1950s, as well as the diplomatic process toward a resolution. It's also a valiant effort at chronicling the machinations of the Senate, which is often poorly done. Would recommend

>>7664599

Thank you, I will be sure to check it out

Anything that would help me understand the international political processes

The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John Mearsheimer
Theory of International Politics by Kenneth Waltz
Politics Among Nations by Hans Morgenthau
Social Theory of International Politics by Alexander Wendt
World Order by Henry Kissinger

everything is the aspect of will not just "motivation" your eyes your mouth your fingers, the will to do each of the things they do, it has to do with the kantian thing-in-itself is beyond experience, schopenhauer's will is that thing

for schoepenhauer all things including life is just expression of this will, you can't escape it nor can you satisfy it

>>7664709
so it's meaningless to humans, isn't it?

>>7663961
*shoves you against a locker* hey! y-you're alright anon

we're harsh on each other here but I think its all for the better

>>7663961
Man, 4chan has really one to shit if you think /lit/ is comparatively ok.
/lit/ used to be even better than this.
RIP archives

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At that moment you go soft in disgust and she keeps suckin because she wants that white lightening you begin to look back at all those bad moves and wrong turns. All those good girls you treated like shit and all those smuts you treated like goddamn goddesses. All those times you ignored the pleas of your parents to go to college. That one time or two or three times you fucked a fat chick. The time where being in love freaked you the fuck out and you literally snorted and drank and screamed a stable relationship away. That time where you drank too much and woke up upside down in your car and then went on to tell the cops to eat your dick. And as I think of these grand fuckups my dick shrivels up inside myself and the raggedy whore between my legs is desperately sucking at the hole in my crotch trying to suck my groundhog out of its prairie den. Now I get angry and I need to hit something so I push the living vacuum off my crouch and she starts crying because she thinks her payment of booger sugar won't be coming and I tell her I'm going to slap her around for a bit and after I'm done she'll take the entire eightball and get the fuck out of my shitty one bedroom apartment. She stops crying and she smiles and at its peak just when too much teeth begin to show I start the slappin and she stops smilin. I'm reelin out viscous wallops to her head and face and neck and tits and she's back to crying now. She puts her hand out and softly begs me to stop but a deals a deal so I slap her hand away and go even harder. Open hands become fists and smacks become dull thuds and she takes each one like a champ because this isn't her first rage filled rodeo for coke and it certainly won't be the last. I stop hitting her when my sobs are louder and stranger than hers and like an emancipated bruised and bleeding ghoul she scurries to the glass top and takes the bag of coke and leaves me to my deep seeded issues.

Now I'm a manager at applebees and life couldn't be better. Two years from now will be my big three O and when that happens I'll be celebrating with a shotgun in my mouth. Merry christmas happy new year go fuck yourself.

protip: if you have to selfbump 4 times it's trash

>>7663145
>>7663148
Tip: don't write if you don't understand grammar.

Why are you letting yourself get infected by /lit/ memes.

There's as much shit "literary" fiction as there is garbage genre fiction that the distinction is ultimately superficial. There's only good and bad fiction.

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>>7662379
>why are you guys talking about aesthetics don't you know everything is just atoms

>>7662374
If you can make an interesting argument for the worth of a piece of fiction, go for it. just be aware that for the vast majority of genre fiction, it will be an uphill climb, not only because academia in general will be working against you (though this is starting to thaw out), but the work itself will be absolutely insipid in large percentages.

Anon learns about context and why it is important.

>this retard thinks he is hot shit
>he is not
LMAO

>actually be a college prof
>"anon, don't write that. a^2 + b^2 = (a+b)^2 is clearly false in general"
>but let me tell you about how I think it should go and this really great idea I had about how I could write that equation

the student in question was operating in a finite field of prime order