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Dorian Gray, maybe. Maaaybe.

Tannhauser stoned was a life changing experience BTW. Would recommend to anyone.

>>7648342
DUDE

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>>7648351
My apartment is actually called 'Venusberg' lel

Lame, try reading some Plath or Gibran

>>7648244
keep it up, anon. Yeats is one of the greats.

that feel

>>7647937
strunk and white until you can learn why you are allowed to break rules

>>7647937
you used capitals and full stops properly for the most part. you're already ahead of everyone with whom you are competing.

>>7647989
I don't read. I might have completed college but i wasn't able to get above 60% in English no matter how hard i tried. My inability to write a long essay or near the required amount. Again, whatever you recommend.
Thanks.

>>7647762
Losers who drink, jerk off a lot, and fuck hookers.

There's too much irony in everything I write. I try to make everything funny from some perspective. I am a faggot.

Everyone is fucked but they keep going anyway, something like a bittersweet celebration of life.

>>7647680
This one is called "Teen Love" :

Needy texts
Empty sex

>you spend your time posting on /lit/
>chad takes out girls and touches their tits

I'm never alone,
even when I wish I were.

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“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.”

>>7647638

I ain't even a Christfag but I find it impossible to hate Chesterson. Man Who Was Thursday is one of my favorite 'detective' books. Bet he was a total bro.

>>7647273
Results of mystical experience and poetic imagination. Something 99,9% of 4chan doesn't now about, hadn't experienced, and likely wouldn't experience even once in their lifetime.

>>7647319
Why would you bother typing out that second sentence?

>>7647330
It's the cool new thing to post on 4chan about how much you hate 4chan

>>7647148
Among other things he uses a lot of obscure bits of historical information. Like I had no idea who/what Lothar von Trotha, Walter Rathenau, IG Farben, and Phoebus (the 1920s lightbulb cartel) were until I read his books.

it adds more to your reading but isn't necessary
stop making these threads

>>7647148
>esoteric subject matter

dude weed lmao

>>7647100
Ah, also 'enlightment' literature general, if you may

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anthroposophy is a gateway drug to theosophy

>>7647122
sounds interesting man, saved for the future

Sure. The fuck is this question?

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>>7646482

>>7646482
When Rabbit Howls

>>7646482
moby dick

Keyboard

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>>7646069
>taking lecture notes with a keyboard

the one ur mum puts up her vagoo

That's a crow.

I
Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.

II
I was of three minds,
Like a tree
In which there are three blackbirds.

III
The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds.
It was a small part of the pantomime.

IV
A man and a woman
Are one.
A man and a woman and a blackbird
Are one.

V
I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.

VI
Icicles filled the long window
With barbaric glass.
The shadow of the blackbird
Crossed it, to and fro.
The mood
Traced in the shadow
An indecipherable cause.

VII
O thin men of Haddam,
Why do you imagine golden birds?
Do you not see how the blackbird
Walks around the feet
Of the women about you?

VIII
I know noble accents
And lucid, inescapable rhythms;
But I know, too,
That the blackbird is involved
In what I know.

IX
When the blackbird flew out of sight,
It marked the edge
Of one of many circles.

X
At the sight of blackbirds
Flying in a green light,
Even the bawds of euphony
Would cry out sharply.

XI
He rode over Connecticut
In a glass coach.
Once, a fear pierced him,
In that he mistook
The shadow of his equipage
For blackbirds.

XII
The river is moving.
The blackbird must be flying.

XIII
It was evening all afternoon.
It was snowing
And it was going to snow.
The blackbird sat
In the cedar-limbs.

>>7646060
Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow."

Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.

As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.

If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens.

So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too.

Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't.

It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?

>>7645925
I like to read it on opposite day.

>>7645925
Post some examples.

It sounds like a lame term made up to subgenre authors. How does it differ from surrealism or transgressive?

>>7645932
It's basically pulp but more lolsorandom.

>reposting this cause no one took your stupid b8 the first time around

fuck off

>>7645900
Did OP post this thread before? Can you link the earlier one?

>>7645905
I'm OP, this is the old thread >>7641174

First of noone really answered the last question and second, I kinda want to still have a discussion about this book.