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Only according to plotfags

>>7575284
Nah senpai, literature is pretty language with some philosophy around it.

>>7575284
i think about this all the time

like all the great novels are really just dozens, or even potentially millions of encoded messages meant to be translated into the readers internal language

like virginia woolf intentionally wrote her novels in order to convey a message about the way the mind wanders, and the manner in which we place emphasis on certain things and how a single moment can sometimes capture a persons entire life in microcosm.

and so its like, she knew all that shit, and then wrote a code, Mrs. Dalloway, which we are then all meant to decrypt so WE can know it too.

then take Ulysses, renowned because of the breadth and depth of the decryption required, because unlike Mrs. Dalloway where the only real knowledge necessary is our own experiences in social scenarios Ulysses forces us to have a familiarity with Shakespeare, the Greeks etc

Bloom sees his reflection and it has a shitty, patchy beard, and souless eyes. we set about decoding it: ok hes describing shakespeare but twisted. shakespeare - 1. Bloom is seeing himself as a shitty shakespeare. Joyce sees himself as a shitty imitation of Shakespeare.

and its almost like regardless of what Joyce actually meant, he meant SOMETHING and then wrote the passage as its code

Tolstoy is even more obvious, hes saying something about the passage of time and one's resting state in Death of Ivan Ilyich. How someone can become old and decrepit in just a few moments, from youth to the grave in moments but also decades. Ivan doesn't need a full novel, thats intentional, because lives gain momentum and it requires concerted effort to keep the passage of time slow.

but these are philosophical ideas, can they really be the point of art? of novels?

>>7575215

1) It was a poem, not a story.

2) No extant copy is known to exist.

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>>7575222
>No extant copy is known to exist.
>No existing copy is known to exist
>obnoxious numbering to no purpose

>>7575052
Yes, what if?
What if Neitzche had been Polish?
What if David Foster Wallace had worn melons on his face instead of glasses?
These are all examples of questions that do not need to be asked. Not only do they propose investigation into an idea that simply does not matter, but they also are not insightful or humorous in any way. These, friend, constitute what we here on 4chin like to call "shitposts".

>>7575099
what if you had never spent all that time on your post?
>>7575052
What if you had an imagination?

>>7575146

that is imagination.

Ben Brooks comes here to shill Lolito every weekend.

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It is I *sniff* Slavoj Zizek, and so on. *pulls shirt*

>>7575034
i fucking asked tao a question on his website about a response he made on the kcrw bookworm podcast and he never responded and then turned off questions on his website a day later. that makes me feel like he's a punk ass bitch

idk much about warhammer but i think they have something like that

The Mist suck like u ass.
Read the Lovectaft essay "The Supernatural Horror in Lit.." a guide

>>7575005
The Mist is heavily influenced by the works of Lovecraft so you should definitely look into his bibliography. I would start with At The Mountains Of Madness.

you sound stupid when you talk like that

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>muh hamed

>>7574909
Hahaha nice one :)

>>7574889
Shameless self-bump

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Greek interlinear?

>>7574916
Thanks, I didn't initially consider getting an interlinear. That might be a good idea, but I'm looking for a copy with the Old Testament as well, not just the New Testament. Idk if there are any interlinears containing both the Old Testament (Hebrew/Aramaic) and the New Testament (Greek).

I guess I should clarify further, however. I'm looking for one with more notes and references, considering that my historical background it a bit lacking.

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Considering the term's relation to Finnegans Wake, you'd think people would give a fuck on this board.

Link: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kOOasQ6rbk0

idk mayne but dfw has the best audiobook voice ;)

>>7574929
I don't think I'm alone in having listened to every sentence he had ever muttered on YouTube. Hours and hours worth of beautiful vocals

>>7574830
>Ganymede
Homo

if this is an elaborate hook up thread saying "i'm not just a faggot, i'm a bottom', kudos, OP

otherwise, read the fucking sticky

>>7574830
are you coming out to us, op?

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>The novel was dedicated to Carsac's American friends and science fiction writer colleagues Poul Anderson and L. Sprague de Camp, from whose works the author acknowledged borrowing some elements.

>L. Sprague de Camp called the book "a whale of a story," and with the permission of Carsac's widow undertook to translate it into English for the American market. His agent circulated a three-chapter sample with a synopsis of the remainder of the story to U.S. publishers, but it was rejected on the grounds that Carsac "had no name recognition in the US and, being dead, could not be sold as a 'coming' writer."

Why are we stalking them from the bushes?

What are we about to do to R E B E C C A?

That's not just a book about womenfolk problems. Unless you think falling in love with a murderer and being an accomplice to deadly crimes is a typical "woman problem".

>>7576453
I'm just here to make a woman hate thread in /lit/ desu

Meditations chilled me out a lot. I'm an uncommitted fuckwad so I'll probably never live the stoic life, but it was fun to pretend :)

>>7574761
Leaves of Grass.
It inspires me to simply do something, live life, see everything as something grand and wonderfully eternal. God that man is spectacular.

>>7574761
I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery

Read Raymond Chandler's novels starting with The Big Sleep. He's one of the greatest prose and dialogue writers of all time.

>>7574641
>liked the beats

Degenerate.