Could someone redpill me on Nietzsche?
Also, any tips on/about reading pic related?
Nietzsche isn't very hard to read, senpai. Just enjoy it.
Nietzsche is the german word for nazi.
What are you some sort of nazi who wants to ban the outsiders?
>>7645023
kek
Currently about 30 pages through and meh it really hasn't clicked with me yet. Does it get any
better?
You gotta' read it as a parody of
1. academic writing
2. stream of consciousness
3. etc.
From someone who liked the book, the parts where Johnny Truant is the narrator are sometimes entertaining but mostly pretty shit. Once the plot about the house in the academic writing (which slowly morphs into very un-academic writing) gets going the book is great though.
What are good books about nazi concentration camps written by actual holocaust survivors?
that shitty one dfw always plugged in order to please his jewish publishing house masters
>>7644644
No one survived the Holocaust
I had to read some of Nightmare Memoir in American history and that was pretty decent. Its from the perspective of a French (?) POW, I really liked the part where he described the march to the camp itself, I had never read about that.
God I just started reading this and I had to put it down because it was making me too jealous/ depressed about my own life.
How do you guys come up with the money to buy so many books?
I steal it from my dad
>>7644504
Pretty richfag here. I use the library, alibris often sells for 1-99 cents + 3.50 shipping, and I pirate.
If you are buying full price from amazon or big box book stores (unless you are buying modern library or everyman or folio editions) you are doing it wrng.
>buying books
>>7644524
Also many anons swear by thriftbooks
Have you ever felt like Holden Caulfield ?
Yesterday I was supposed to go to the movies and the restaurant with friends, but instead I chose to stay in and sleep all day.
I woke up to like 30 missed calls and I decided on a whim to give away half of my stuff to the non-profit down my avenue, mainly books and old clothes, not that I own anything of worth.
Then I booked a megabus and travelled halfway across the country (from Lyon to Strasbourg) for no reason in particular, I visited it's museums and went to the movies and the restaurant by myself, alone.
I feel bored and tired. Books are the only pleasure in my life now.
I don't know why I'm posting this, I'm just really lonely and sad.
Sounds like depression mate, go to a doctor/do drugs.
LSD can fix depression for about a month. Either that or get on those dick killing pills
I believe you just forced yourself into actions to be able to relate to a character
Guess your just a poser
>>7643338
or it can convince you to take the final step.
>tfw can't write
>tfw having only stupid ideas like some guy turns into a cockroach one day or some guy kills a woman with an axe
how do i learn to write /lit/?
Kill yourself. Filthy dumb frogposting scum.
Write about your life and add 4chan greentext stories
LSD
So wait, why did Pierre Gringoire leave Esmeralda alone with Frollo?
Couldn't the 4 of them just run away together?
Also why didn't Esmeralda realize that Phoebus doesn't give a shit about her after he didn't even speak for her, visit her or ask about her in months?
frollo was going to inquisition the fuck out of all the nonbelievers thats why they had to get away from notre dame or else
>>7645242
What the fuck are you on about?
/Literature/: A competition of who is the most well educated, who reads the best works, who reads faster, who shares the "right" political, religious, phylosophical opinions. Who is a illiterate pleb for not having the same beliefs, who is the patrician.
>Not trying to share and give the opportunity for others trying to expand their knowledge, throwing stones at them instead.
I bet you all already read books that discussed being a better person, directly or indirectly, so why not apply it here and in life?
>>7645094
Most people on /lit/ are very nice and helpful, I don't know which board you were browsing.
>>7645094
I almost told you that you confuse /lit/ with /fit/, but /fit/ is a nice board too.
That's what a pleb would say.
What is /lit/'s favorite translation of Canterbury Tales?
>>7645085
The Middle English one.
>needing a translation
It's written in English
It's perfectly accessible in its original state. Just get an edition with notes if you're having such trouble
It seems like love is a social construct. Partners get boring with time, and one is always on a look out for younger beauty.
Anyone have an input?
Yes, stop taking those red pills.
>love is a social construct
Spot the undergrad
Women don't look out for younger beauty, only men do. Temporary love sure does exist, forver after love not so much.
But it sure feels good to have a best friend of the opposite sex that you can fuck
Need help remembering a poem's title an author
an old king wanders into the woods and asks the trees where his dead wives and dead children have gone
the trees say nothing
i think the leaves are either dying or dead and gone
I think it was by a formerly respected academic American poet who isn't read much nowadays, somebody like Roethke or Allen Tate or Yvor Winters
Does this sound familiar to anybody?
"Yes I'm paranoid
But am I paranoid enough?"
-- DFW.
He claimed to not be influenced by Pynchon but it's clear he was lying.
What was your question again?
>writing poetry has made me incredibly good at freestyle rapping
>now I have tons of black friends
You are living the dream.
Yeah this happened to me too.
Made me popular at some parties.
>tfw somewhat good at impromptu battle rap
I've listened to/seen too man Eyedea songs/videos
I'm also hesitant to post some of his lyrics onto /lit/ since they fall more into the aesthetic category, and are mostly rap-renditions of philosophers
For example, I know that this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcPvZkLb6rI
Is practically a retelling of "Axolotl" by Julio Cortazar
Still though, I think as far as his content goes, it's pretty good/unique
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RgY_Fw3p_s
What do you think of this book? After reading borrasca, 1999, candle cove, penpal, the one with the rollercoaster, and necropotence, I was looking into reading so more creepy/unsettling stories, but something with more depth and longer, like in a book.
I remember reading the excellent, 'dionaea house' and someone suggested this book, but I have been putting it on the back of my mind.
Someone told me it was, ultimately, a love story.
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee;
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping
slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket
sings;
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.
Ending brings me to tears.
My favourite of Yeats' poems is definitely In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz.
One thing that always puzzled me was how non-Irish people might react to Yeats' poems at first glance. Some of his greatest work pre-supposes a knowledge of Irish history and politics.