All right I've seen so much talk here about how riveting this book is that I have to read it now.
What translation do you recommend?
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Penguin, Buss translation. Cheap and great and unabridged/uncensored.
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>>7619539
seriously just read up to the time skip and then make up your own last 700 pages. this novel is serialization bloat to the max.
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What is going on in that picture?
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>mfw plebs try to name any country with a greater literary tradition than Ireland
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England
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>>7619133
/thread
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>The OECD Adult Skills Survey shows that 17.9% or about 1 in 6, Irish adults are at or below level 1 on a five level literacy scale. Ireland ranks 15th out of 24 participating countries. At this level a person may be unable to understand basic written information.
https://www.nala.ie/literacy/literacy-in-ireland
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/zen/mumonkan.htm
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>>7618842
>http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/zen/mumonkan.htm
Who's reading this?
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>>7620752
I tried
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>>7618842
>'entangling your eyebrows with theirs'
Mu!
Am I doing it right?
>mfw the communist roommate in Crime and Punishment talks about how he will bring home lovers for his wife to have sex with in order to prove to her how radical he is
>mfw the Luzhin says he doesn't want to wear the horns of a cuckhold
>mfw the communist roommate says he should wear them with pride as a badge of progress
>mfw reading about Betrand Russel
>mfw he literally promotes cucking in "Marriage and Morals"
>mfw I find out his dad literally prepped bulls to shag his wife because he wanted to be progressive
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You're just now starting to figure out that the enterprise called Western Literature is a bunch of cucks competing to write the prettiest letters? How new are you?
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>>7618281
stop shitting up the board with stale pastas
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Is anyone else here an undergraduate studying English with an impending fear that their life will peter out into mediocrity due to insufficient writing talent, connections, and drive? I write a reasonable amount but my stuff has hit a glass-ceiling in terms of quality, and my self-belief has slowly whittled away. Before I contented myself that I could turn into a sort of willing Bukowski or Henry Miller or Jack Kerouac, roaming from job to job and place to place with only artistic ambition to guide me, but now my luster has rusted.
The option of doing a Masters glimmers in the distance, but I don't think it'll increase my job prospects or achieve anything more meaningful that an additional bit of debt and another year marooned in my rather limited country.
Has anyone else felt this before, been in this kind of position? What did you do? What happened in the end? Am I destined for a life of quiet desperation?
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>getting an english major with aspirations of being a creative writer
wew lad you're dumb
this is why english majors are a joke now - everyone wants to be DFW instead of wanting to be a bloom (or replace bloom with your critic of choice if you dislike him, the point stands). English is meant to teach analysis and criticism not some wishy washy creative writing bullshit.
And since you're too stupid to realize this I doubt you're gonna succeed at being a writer.
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>>7612530
>I write a reasonable amount but my stuff has hit a glass-ceiling in terms of quality
It isn't, there's a reason every author wants their earliest and oldest works destroyed on their death.
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>>7612530
nah im not going to college and im perfectly fine with my life petering out into mediocrity as long as i can occasionally get the succ
Opinions on the Min Kamp (My Struggle) series by Karl Knausgård?
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1-3 are good so far.
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>>7621394
I read 100 pages into 1 and I was bored to tears.
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The first two were outstanding, in the middle of the third right now and it's also really good. Very evocative of childhood.
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What does /lit/ think of it?
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I have an option to buy it really cheap and wonder if it's worth reading. It would be my first book by Barth, I've planned reading Lost In The Funhouse and The Sot Weed Factor for quite some time now and now I found this.
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Anyone have read it? I thought Barth is quite popular around here, not only in terms of memetic post-modernists worship.
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He's not that popular around here. Check back in a year.
Write a love letter to the love of your life in your most refined prose.
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Cholula,
I fucking love you.
Kisses,
Anon
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>>7621323
I love that two timing bitch
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hi Ursula, i/d lOvEE to(2) puTT de_q1OO%q in UsOmEdAy
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"radiant Dawn with her resplendent gaze"
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willow best girl
dawn a shit
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>rosy fingered dawn over the wine-dark sea
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"Their armor shone like fire in the sunlight,
and Argo plunged onward, its long white wake
most like a pathway through a grassy plain."
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Can we have a Mencius Moldbug appreciation thread?
I'm surprised he's so seldom mentioned on /lit/. His prose style is idiosyncratic, modern (it chimes with the sensibilities of the Internet Age more than, say, Christopher Hitchen's did), and presented exclusively in blog format. He's at the cuting edge, a pioneer; the days of the essayist à la Johnson or Orwell are over and the big tombs of yesteryear will rot in the confines of academia as the frontiers of literature and political thought push forward into the digital era.
>In the 21st century, any writer whose work appears anywhere but his own blog is a shill. Or at least, he should be assumed to be compromised unless proven otherwise. The Internet has all the tools you need to write and be read without being beholden to anyone. If anyone rejects this independence, you have to wonder why.
Is he right /lit/?
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The Baffler had a great piece on him and other Silicon Valley pseudo-libertarian royalists. Let me see of I can dig it up.
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>>7621201
this is the master b8
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Hey, that was easy: http://thebaffler.com/blog/mouthbreathing-machiavellis
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Best cyberpunk literature that isn't Dick, Gibson, or Stephenson?
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>>7620167
I read Bruce Sterling's 'Distraction' a couple of years ago, thought it was pretty fucking good for genre lit.
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>>7620167
Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker, John Shirley, Greg Egan. And all the other guys in Mirrorshades.
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>>7620167
Read some proto-cyberpunk like Preferred Risk by Frederik Pohl, or read Metatropolis for a view of cyberpunk from a 2010s perspective.
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What is the best edition of Ulysses? I picked up the shitty blue Dover edition, huge mistake. Is there one the that has footnote or explanation and a good intro?
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I'm personally trying to decide between the Alma Classics publication (1939 text) and the Oxford World Classics publication (1922 text). I'm wondering exactly how jarring or confounding the various errors actually are.
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America: Vintage paperback, Modern library hardcover, Everyman's Library
UK: Penguin classics annotated
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>>7619842
Why don't you go for Everyman's Library? I assure you won't regret.
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Which philosopher is best, just from a literary standpoint? "Which philosopher has the most beautiful prose"?
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Kierkegaard
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>>7618904
He's not on the list, and is a faggot literarian anyways. He is only a philosopher to the extent that any other person on this list is a "philosopher", what a fucking faggot.
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>>7618899
Plato
Post you are /lit/ waifu
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Mira Gonzalez
Author of Selected Tweets
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