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Why is his works so highly regarded? Most of it is nothing special.
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>>7617919
This is terrible bait. Try again.
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Fuck off retard. I'll take you shitting on anything else, but not Willy Shakes.
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Fuck off, Lev Nicolaevich
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lets write another masterpiece 2016-01-24 01:19:08 Post No.7617764
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lets write another masterpiece
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The Bangalore Whore who changed the world by /lit/
The thing you got to know about a woman's tits is if you surgically implant c4's into them instead of silicone you can control the world. I know what you're thinking, of course faggot, everyone knows that, but in pre-war India, 2089, no one had even thought of it. No one but me.
I was just minding my own business making poo crayons in the streets of Bangalore to sell for smokes like most 15 year old boys my age, when a whitee man, about the age of my grandfather, walked up to me and asked me if I had ever considered becoming an islamic terrorist.
[you're up next anon]
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>>7617764
>lol so randum xDD
stop shitting this board up
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>>7617764
"stop shitting this boardwalk up you little shit skin." said whitee man as he looked me up and down licking his lips. "haven't you heard of a toilet?"
I cowered in fear as he said the t word. A word my whole family feared. A word that scared my whole country.
"S-sorry sir. Can I shine your shoe with my poo for some money?" I said as I began to drag my ass on his shoe giving it a nice mohogany finish. "See it's nice, it's nice now, sir."
He kicked me in the head and once more asked, "Ever considered becoming an islamic terrorist, you got the bone structure for it."
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>>7617788
>omg so hillaries (:
upboated
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I'm bored at the moment and I don't have any new books to read, so I'm going to dump the Kurt Vonnegut parody that Charlie Kaufman wrote for the National Lampoon.
Also, post other /lit/erary parodies or humor pieces if you want.
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2/5
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3/5
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r there any good places where amateur writers/poets can submit whole works online in pursuit of piquing ppls interest/gaining notoriety? im not referring to lit mags/poetry collections/etc. type stuff but something like a 2DopeBoyz/Pitchfork-type blog promoting up and coming talented poets/short story authors?
if hypothetically 1 of these places didnt exist would the good folks of /lit/ fuq w/ a place that did curate such submissions?
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Bump b/c i've got a genuine interest in startin somethin like this if its not already existent but i couldn't find shit relevant diggin round das-W3 n was hopin' /lit/ ppl mite wanna help as well.
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>>7617361
Reddit.com
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>>7617361
Holy shit my eyes are burning. If you think writing like that is in any way acceptable or appropriate under any circumstances you need to kill yourself.
What happened to you guys hating on Tao? Ever since 2013 it's like he never existed after we couldn't go a day without a thread on how shitty he is.
Has anyone actually read 'Selected Tweets'? I did enjoy Taipei way back when, but I'm reluctant to read anything else by him than maybe this for fear of being disappointed
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>>7617356
Fuck off Tao, we were memeing about you in a nother thread not 15 minutes ago
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Fuck off
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fuck off
read a real book
Tell me about your favourite bildungsroman.
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War and Peace, kinda, the development of Rostov
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I always fucking forget what this memes. Isn't this just picaresque coming of age shit?
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>>7616933
>Isn't this just picaresque coming of age shit?
Picaresque, no. Coming of age, yes.
How does /lit/ strive to not take themselves too seriously?
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embrace the fact of death fully
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don't read books
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>>7616690
I play tabletop roleplaying games.
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http://www.scaruffi.com/fiction/best100.html
what do you think about scaruffi's top 100
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garbage. he's the definition of a pseudointellectual hack
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Perfect, he's the definition of an intellectual patrician
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>>7616489
>has women and non-whites on it
into the trash it goes
What are the best books for better understanding lit, asides from just reading more lit itself? Any recommendations/reading list on crit/theory would be appreciated
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>>7616423
Do you go around telling people you can't think for yourself?
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>>7616441
pleb opinion: the post
super entry level stuff:
norton anthology of theory if you want the comprehensive overview
well wrought urn by cleanth brooks for poetry
mimesis in OP pic is good
shakespeare by mark von doren is a good shakespeare overview
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>>7616423
Thomas C Foster - How to Read Literature like a Professor
Crash Course: Literature (youtube lectures)
How to Read a Book - Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
Harold Bloom - How to Read and Why
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What are some good novels where everyone is an asshole to everyone?
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>>7616181
The idiot
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>>7616181
A frolic of his own.
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Sentimental Education
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There is no antonym of onomatopoeic 2016-01-23 15:38:17 Post No.7615886
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There is no antonym of onomatopoeic
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Why do exquisite sounds, such as 'vile',
often refer to negative concepts in English?
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You will have to give more examples but by my reckoning it is likely because "exquisite" is the intrinsic property of non-common usage, negative concepts causes them to sound "exotic".
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vial
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It's how they're pronounced -- vile, for instance, has a certain phlegm behind it. I'm no expert, of course. There's definitely books on the subject.
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"I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the oil is threatened, then you turn on the television and they tell you where the country is, what the language is, how to pronounce the names of the leaders, what the religion is all about...The whole world takes an interest int his curious way Americans educate themselves."
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>>7615630
DeLillo had a real obsession with american life and how that relates internationally. Its easy to see why someone like Franzen would idolize him.
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>>7615630
Why does this look this it came from a VHS copy of a movie from the late 80s?
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>>7616360
it's from the early 90s you pleb
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Best snow reading go
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>>7615586
>I will never have a winter with 4 months of snow to read with a coffee
why live?
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>>7615586
Mason & Dixon. Anything by Tolstoy but specifically War & Peace and the short story Master and Man.
t. Canadian
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My back yard rn. Virginia. We usually don't get very much snow. It's actually been a warm winter so far.
I can't find any info on this. I know Martini did it, but I cant find any books it was in. Google was a nogo
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>>7615218
I didn't know anyone else appreciated Alberto Martini's work. I just recently picked up a collection of his ex-libris at an auction. The attached is an illustration for one of poe's books.
Ask away - I live down the road from his place in Oderzo, Italia.
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>>7615796
Any chance you know which book that illustration is in?
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>>7617185
Tales of Mystery and Horror by A. Poe.1908
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How did you get started? Why do you read?
I'm going to start:
My grandpa was an avid reader. Every time he came home I amazed myself watching him read. I knew that if I looked out the window, there he was. Legs crossed, book in hand and always the same expressionless, severe look on his face, for hours on end. He could recite entire paragraphs and that left me speechless as a little kid.
There was a room in my grandpa's house, a thousand kilometers from home. It was the book's room. There I could enter and pick whatever caught my attention, and he had read every single one of those works. Not only were the books beautiful and smelled good, but they also contained amazing, breathtaking stories and the knowledge that entitled me to sit besides the old man and talk about the it. From man to man, even though I wasn't one.
Time passed and as an adult I saw thing in him that I didn't like. Not only ideologically, but also in his craft. I didn't like the the way he wrote. I wasn't attracted to the themes he had chosen. It was only then that I understood and could really feel grateful for what he had done.
He made me feel like a grown up when I was only a kid. Why should I feel afraid to use my voice if I knew what I was talking about? He taught me why reading was important and why I should read. Why my life was going to be better if I made mine the experiences of others. Why reading gave me the tools to formulate robust ideas of my own, enriched by the life of people long dead, or contemporaries living in a world so different that it feels alien.
My grandparent played an important role. One that I hope I can play myself when the time comes.
Needless to say, literature got me the first time I set eyes upon her.
Sorry for my disgusting, basic English. Not my first language.
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>>7614186
>Sorry for my disgusting, basic English. Not my first language.
>writes better than most amerifags
Fucking eurofaggots, man
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>>7614223
Well that's encouraging. I don't write a lot and I'm going to start practicing my English. Oh, and I'm from Argentina.
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>>7614186
i'd always been somewhat a reader. a few years ago i got sick of /mu/, so i decided to try some other boards. i found the same idiocy and herd think on all the other boards, but /lit/ sort of stood out. so i started reading to keep up with the bants. now i'm taking a master's in english with plans for a phd, have a published a short story, and plan to be a prof.