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I walked to the street
Walking just walking
Until I fell
Then there was no more street to walk

>>7593982
This isn't the poetry thread mang.
>>7576867

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>>7593982
not bad

Do you think you're an intellectual?

>>7606482
>yeah
>not if you're reading translations lol

Nice try, nerd

probably Polish or Czech or whatever

Another anon here, I'm also looking around for this. Fuck paying those exorbitant prices.

>>7606286
responsibilities cool-/but there's more things in life
like getting your dick-/rode all fucking night

How peculiarly unimaginative you must be.

>>7606121
>How is having "a fate worse than death" supposed to be scary?
Look, when you actually arent in front of your screen writing this stuff and you actually face something that can kill you you will be scared. It is a normal reaction in every living creature basically.
A fate worse than death would be a state where you would rather not exist than experience that forever.

Stop trying to be so fucking edgy.

>too autistic to appreciate basic horror
>completely missing the point

>>7605816
Open the 'cover' or outer layer of the book away from the pages from the opposite side of the hinge or 'spine', proceed to interpret the signs of the pages into words, turning each page over as you exhaust it.
Then if you really want to read some critical analysis of it on the internet or something, the book itself is fairly self explanatory.

>>7605816
Open it first.

>>7605816
Hesiod is pleb trash. Read Homer instead.

just write you spent a month or two in the funny farm

they cant prove you wrong

>>7605708
I'm not doing your fucking homework.

>>7606094

Talmud

>>7605671
Might have better luck on /biz/.

https://www.warriorforum.com is what I used to use for above ground stuff, they were pretty happy to oblige, and blackhatforums is what i used for spamming advertisements.

Marketing literature is useless because it is mostly theoretical.

>>7605681
Already asked in /biz/ and had no luck, but thanks a lot!

>>7605338
What makes you think you can't?

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>>7605368
Modern man is fractured and cannot achieve the great holism that came naturally to the Greeks.

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>>7605338
>mfw reading TBOT for the first time after being used to late Nietzsche

>>7605178
fuckin spooky, desu famalam

>>7605191
i'm scared to click pls tell me what happens

>>7605490
nvm i clicked.

officially SPOOKED

;__;

Norton anthology of criticism is the best single book and willmdo.more for you than pretty much anything else.

it misses moers city of dreaming books. thats a good start to fuel the love for literature

>>7604946
I assume that's not a book to be read from cover to cover -- could one just jump in and read the works that interest them from the anthology?

I have. It'd be cool if you didn't do anything to bolster the efforts of those who are pushing it to meme status though.

M E M E
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I read his short stories and they were terrible. Horrible stylist. Not going to waste my time with a shitty doorstopper because muh big hard buks epeen

>>7604831
Well...
Nobody's asking you to say something new and original in an exciting way.
Go read moar.

>>7604831
Anon, haven't you realized that you're going to have to enter into an obsession with another, established writer, to the point where you are so agonizingly concious of your own flaws that you snap and start interpreting flaws into the other writer that you can then fix with your own works

>>7604833
What's the point if you aren't contributing in some way?

>inb4 art for art's sake

If I were the kind of social juggernaut who could manage to go on more than one date with a woman, it would honestly be my diary.

My valve sputters at the mere sight of such a thing, o fortuna why do you mock me?

An excellent presentation of autism.

>>7604410
I read Gaddis's recognition and there's a website with sypnosis's and chapter by chapter guides. So I would read a chapter, think about it, and then read the site and see if my understanding was similar to the sypnosis of the chapter.

Doing things like this helped me. after this, i moved on to JR

I was totally lost until I stumbled on Susan Wise Bauer's "The Well Educated Mind." It gave me a reading list which is actually what led me to /lit/, but more importantly for your sake (since you're already on /lit/ and likely have a decent fix on finding real literature), it was basically a crash course in literary analysis for each of the five genres it discusses: fiction, history/philosophy, autobiography, poetry, and drama.

Each section has an introductory ~30 pages for the history of the genre, a reading list with blurbs about each text (with spoilers, mind you), and then three stages of analysis: one as accompaniment while you read, one as a simple analysis of questions with definite answers (e.g., who is the main character, what do they want, what's in their way), and a more open-ended section of questions (e.g., what makes you empathize with each character and why; what comments does the book make about our fate as humans/the human condition; is there an overall message in the book, and do you agree with it).

It won't make you a pro critic, but it will absolutely set you on the right path by providing you with a series of deceptively simple questions which actually open the door to a whole host of new ideas if you stick with them and take them seriously.

I hope I don't sound like I'm shilling (you can easily find a tidy pdf of this), but cannot stress highly enough how much I recommend this book as a starting point. It genuinely changed my life through changing how I read and, largely as a result of that, how I think. There's a new edition as of a few months ago but I haven't looked into it; the one I have is from ~10 years back.

Apologies for any typos; I'm on my phone. But feel free to ask me any questions you may have about the book.

>>7604439
I appreciate it anon, I'll give it a shot.