What are the local opinions here on Allen Ginsberg?
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talentless hack who only achieved notoriety due to the racial nepotism of his kinsmen
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slayed boipussy like a champ
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he was a fag, hence degenerate and hence a menace to white society
not redpill approved
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¿Qué piensan de esto?
What do yall think about this? Y-you could practice your spanish.
http://pastebin.com/HAKY0Fk2
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Muchas oraciones subordinadas, le falta agilidad.
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>>7631743
eso es por usar demasiadas comas, no? tengo el mismo problema
algún consejo?
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>>7631756
OP here. Es usar oraciones como "El sujeto, que ya había hecho aquello con anterioridad durante los días pasados en Villadiego, cuando esto y lo otro alimentaban su fogosidad juvenil, la cual, estando en compañía de Fulano de Tal, no podía de menos que poner en práctica, se enfrentó a aquella situación que le traía reminiscencias de su alocado pasado con una mezcla de esta emoción y esta otra". Hay muchas comas, pero no consiste solo en eso.
Yo, personalmente, suelo meter oraciones subordinadas que se pueden llegar a hacer pesadas porque me parece que quedan bien. La solución para no hacerlo es releer y cambiarlo, ni más ni menos.
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So I just finished pic related, what does /lit/ think of it? Honestly, I'd say I liked it over all. The colloquial writing style was a bit of a pain but I'm glad I stuck it out. It became really rewarding to read through and realise that the protagonist was having amental breakdown. I think I enjoyed it so much because I've been in a similar scenario. I would have liked to see the relationship between Holden and Mr. Antollini explored further though, I feel like that was the beginning of some interesting thoughts on sexual abuse and betrayal of trust that never got fully explored.
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What's with this whiny entitled kid? His life isn't THAT bad, he's rich and privileged and just wanders around complaining. He's not deep at all.
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I keep finding myself saying "Jesus Christ, dude, shut up.". Holden is such an annoying whiny brat
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160121110913.htm
Very interesting article.
A lot of the books /lit/ approves of or makes a meme out of are in that list.
What are you thoughts on the possibility that the greatest piece of literary work could now be created using an algorithm if enough time and thought was put into it?
Does this help the case of considering mathematics as objective?
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I guess it's not as interesting as I thought.
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>le monkeys on typewriters
Hello there, Reddit!
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pseudoscientific bullshit
I mean it's from "The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences" what do you expect lol.
also pseudoliterary. you get crap like
>At the same time a lot of works usually regarded as stream of consciousness turned out to show little correlation to multifractality, as it was hardly noticeable in books such as Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand and A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust.
>ayn rand
>stream of consciousness
wew lad
this is what failed STEMlords who still want to feel smugly superior to the humanities do.
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Quotes that made you cry?
>The return to civilization was for her the return to soma, was the possibility of lying in bed and taking holiday after holiday, without ever having to come back to a headache or fit of vomiting.
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>>7629179
I've worked hard to appreciate these little things in life. And now some jerk writer wants to belittle them. Come on.
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>>7629179
Why did this make you cry?
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"Tearing his eyes from the empty place in the sky where the sun had set, he stopped stumbling back by years and ran, vaulted through centuries.
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I read a Chretien de Troyes anthology when I was younger and enjoyed it. By far it had the most realistic depiction of medieval fighting, aka people beating the shit out of each other, but swords can't cut through plate. They've got a spontaneity and authenticity you just don't see in the usual literature. This guy could teach the Romantics a thing or two, and probably did.
Have I simply lucked onto the best of the bunch, or are there more stellar volumes out there waiting to be read?
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I'm reading "Parzival" by Wolfram von Eschenbach, and really enjoying it so far.
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He's perhaps the most well-known, but other or older works in the cycle are great for different reasons. Gawain and the Green Knight, and this >>7629079
Then you also get the Carolingian cycle... the song of Roland as I remember it is pretty much one detailed battle.
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Malory's Morte d'Arthur
Your face when you realize /lit/'s sudden hatred for Thomas Pynchon was started by Pynchon himself
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>>7628976
Pynchon is a shit meme liberal cuckold
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even dfw is better
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>>7628976
Wallace, Pynchon stocks plunging! John Williams and Willy Gaddis's stocks surging! Unemployment still high! Wages still low!
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>not applying what you read irl
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>being affected by external things
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>>7628325
>Implying I can just find faith and solve all my Hamletian philosophical dilemmas in the span of 10 pages like Constantine Levin
It's not that easy.
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>>7628325
>tfw read Marcus Aurelius and can now see beauty in the crust of bread
How much of a difference does the original spelling make when it comes to getting the rhythm and pronunciation in Shakespeare?
Answers from elitists only please
(also, any recommended editions with said spelling? free online versions of the older editions have them, but without any notes for the odd word that can't be deduced from context)
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>>7620367
>Answers from elitists only please
Shut up retard, the Bard in the first place is a pretty plebeian author.
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You should read as many alternate spellings as you can get your hands on.
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Is that girl experiencing hair loss?
What's the most 'Kafkaesque' situation you've ever encountered first hand?
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When i went to my grandma's and she made me eat so much i didn't know why
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I woke up with a doorknob on the back of my head
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Is this all philosophy amounts to?https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchhausen_trilemma
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>>7631370
The Greeks didn't understand shit, did they? Yes, you have to provide proof of every subsequent statement unless you give up philosophy.
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>>7631379
Aaaargh. So simple yet so difficult to incorporate as a life philosophy.
Every day I get the feeling that none of this will matter and I should stop being a coward and should do things that I want to:
1. call up a best friend with whom I cut off contact 4 years back. I miss her so goddamn much but don't have the courage or self confidence to re-establish contact
2. ask out pretty women
3. be assertive and confident in general
All these fucking insecurities which won't matter for shit and I keep losing my head over them.
Can anyone recommend a book related to OP's pic? Something that will beat this idea in my head?
Some of you may be acquainted with the slow reading technique - it's basically reading a book through an extended period of time, commonly a year, enjoying it, bit by bit, thinking about it constantly etc.
I've done that before with Paradise Lost and Aquinas. The results are indeed amazing.
What are the books you'd say are worth slow reading? Fiction and nonfiction.
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>>7626452
Anything by Aristotle, really.
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>>7626452
This is fantastic for Proust I'd say, but I wouldn't do it with another writer/work.
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>>7626452
The bible.
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List three books to describe a literary character and other anons guess who your describing.
>Aesop's Fables
>Job
>Leaves of Grass
Hint: Fatalist
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>Infinite Jest
>Gravity's Rainbow
>Ulysses
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>>7632883
Joseph K
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>>7632867
You're assuming someone on /lit/ has read all of the books you're using to describe a book which you also assume this person has read.
You're also assuming people on /lit/ even read.
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ITT: we describe literary characters with pictures from the internet.
>The Judge from Blood Meridian
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>>7632836
victor frankenstein
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>>7632860
What time was it
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Meursault
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What are some essential reads about masochism?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwzaifhSw2c
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Venus in Furs and Psychopathia Sexualis.