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need advice on Kokoro and Hagakure english versions please :D
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>>7564165
learn japanese
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TL: Kokoro means heart
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Read excerpts and see the one that you find reads best.
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literary 'detective' fiction
auster, eco, pynchon, borges and ....?
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>>7564117
King
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>>7564359
king who?
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>>7564447
King Missile III
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I/ II
Alphabetic reorganisation as a form of futurist liturgy by means of which uneducated unemployed pieces of plastic, alloy, metal, glass, people'd computers, wired cities, piss [ochsenfjord] and dried semen pretend they are carrying sables. Pieces of bound tree as ammunition through which criminals shoot in to the crowd, lazily and with eyes closed. Earthworms think of Earth and nothing else. They secrete their juices over unseen places and meld in to the walls, carpets [ochsenfjord] and cities made of vomit, climbing over each other and dripping from the bottom of bins, frightening the girls. They don't eat at the café, nor eat with knife and fork [ochsenfjord] and have no goals but to wriggle and decease [yet even when you try and cut them]. Consider abandoning participation. Why have ears when there is nothing to hear? What does the dribble that is spat in to the webbed wasp's aural cavity and is dressed up as conversation matter? Contemplation has ended where contemplation is nothing but repeated platitudes and uninspired banalities. "Why had we even walked here when we could have stayed at home?" Familiar? The life that has already ended requires no general practitioner nor consultation. Why leave the cave? Metal and Plastic reality has already seized our cities with a klang klang boom and we've made good use of her clowns and whores. Isn't Marinetti standing amidst the humming wires that sit like the nerves of the city above the tram tracks and glass? Hadn't we imaged ourselves storming throught this or that alloy manifestation of electrical paralysis?
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II
Hadn't we been lodged between these two buildings before and had let their glass and alloy grow like lichen upon these ivory shapes? What is wrong then with letting metals and plastics [and thunder channelled through copper] infect the other end of this sinking platform? The mental faculties are in disrepair and there are no more aphrodisiacs with a strong enough poison to make extension erotic to these yellow crusted eyes. Aren't there those weeks where upon our paralysed motions and upon our turgid reflections sits the illusion of transcendence, naked and white with a little death around the eyes? [And that we know that our only chance at fucking the whore is in doing something reprensible]. Wasn't the aphrodisiac a boredom of listlessness? For bowmen who sleep on the roof in winter there is only that and nothing else. The rest is merely dressed up pieces of cardboard. Is it right to drink the nectar? Or wrong? It would seem one day both and the next day neither and if only the latter then it is the most necessary of aevyls. There is no charity but in giving absolute hegemony over extension toward yourself. It can not be shared with anything but the smallest of audiences who stand on tippy toes to hear for something that may very well never come. [And how could I possibly share the steps that lead to the illusion of transcendence with anyone but someone who is willing to understand it even if it is wrong?] Splendour is only available to those with the weapons necessary for its acquisition [one for the dagger and one for the sable] or an infinite amount of daggers and no sable? [For who can really say they are Achilles?] Consider[...] nowhere is paradise written but in the non-sequacious dribble that drips from gutters, old bridges and train stations in disrepair [only in drinking these poisons do we imagine we have seen Zarathustra in the rusted metal chassis swinging beside a half-broken stone gate near the metal tracks and pebble stones]. That is paradise. Because that is all we know, we will continue to commit crimes both literary and otherwise, through humiliation and embarassment. I've seen veneration of a leaf, but this is not to be praised. This is to be feared.
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>>7564089
crit threads exist to contain garbage like this
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>>7564110
And yet it occurred, bitchface.
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ITT we confirm that the Penguin's Classics publishing of Gargantua and Pantagruel has the best translation.
pic unrelated. shit tier translation.
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Actually, I heard it sucks.
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>>7564070
Then what?
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>>7564083
The out-of-print Penguin-- J.M. Cohen
>Can't afford Shakespeare
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Is that a wojak?
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>Can't afford Wordsworth
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Why didn't you save him /lit/?
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>>7563971
He told me to go set up my studio for a showing.
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>>7563971
I'd like to think /lit/ is the reincarnation of DFW
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>>7564100
Not-Pynchon was
Anyone hear from ideologylit yet? Less than a week till go time.
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they shut down lmao
look it up in the archive
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>>7563930
Yep. Didn't even make it past their first issue.
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>>7563936
what about pinecone mag? i liked the first issue.
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How in the hell does someone manage to read the classics and have any idea about good contemporary - no, 20th century even - fiction?
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Contemporary fiction hardly matters.
20th century fiction has been analyzed enough that the essentials are easy to pick out and easy to read and fit with their respective philosophies.
If you think anybody reads everything you're dumb. You just accumulate pieces here and there. A lot of people start reading classics extremely early.
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>>7563917
who is this cock dock?
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>>7563917
who is this suck n' chuck?
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Underrated/Unmentioned Writers 2016-01-09 20:49:57 Post No.7563746
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Underrated/Unmentioned Writers
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2016-01-09 20:49:57
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We recommend one another our favorite underrated writers, ones we feel aren't really known or talked about enough on /lit/ and otherwise. Non-American writers a plus.
I'll start with a few recs:
Shusaku Endo (Silence, Deep River)
Gilbert Sorrentino (Mulligan Stew, Aberration of Starlight, The Moon in Its Flight)
Georges Perec (Life a User's Manual, Things: A Story of the Sixties)
Robert Coover (The Public Burning, The Brunist Day of Wrath)
William Saroyan (The Human Comedy, The Time of Your Life)
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>underrated
>overrated
Please leave.
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None of these are either underrated or undermentioned.
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>>7563755
? Are you having a bad day? I'd love to hear about it.
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so, erotic authors of /lit/
what do you use for inspiration?
porn with a story? or just straight up porn?
do you post your work anywhere, or publish?
do you proofread your own work,
or do you have an editor?
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I'm working on a porn story that I'm going to self-publish on amazon under a really retarded pseudonym. How long are they typically? Like 8-20 pages?
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>>7563501
between 20 and 50
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>>7563504
Guess I'll do 25 or so then.
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http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Goethe-Johann-Wolfgang-von/dp/0691162905
1056 pp.
Princeton University Press
>Selected poems
>Four complete dramas: Faust Part I, Egmont, Iphigenia in Tauris, and Torquato Tasso
>The complete novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
>A selection from the travel journal Italian Journey
>Selected essays on art and literature
>Selected essays on philosophy and science
>An extensive introduction to Goethe's life and works
>A chronology of Goethe's life and times
>A note on the texts and translations
3 days
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>no Faust II
DROPPEDI might get it.
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>>7563450
overrated, reactionary blithering idiot. if i had a time machine i wouldn't travel back to kill hitler, i would kill goethe instead.
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Hey /lit/. I've never come here, but I'm really looking for books on existentialism, mostly on death and dying and stuff in that category
I found some lectures on this sort of stuff that was really interesting to me, if there's anything discussing stuff like in this video I'd be really interested in that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cQWYoS64Gw&feature=youtu.be&t=16m38s
thanks if you help
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bump or something
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use google
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>>7563371
>>>/his/phil
They will be able to help you out
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Book 1: Count of Monte Cristo IN SPACE where everyone is cunty lesbians
Book 2: the adventures of robo-captain on a shitty space station
Book 3: the adventures of robo-captain on a shitty space station: the reckoning
Why were books 2 and 3 such a complete letdown after the first?
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Where do you get your ideas?
check em
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>>7563226
well done
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>>7563244
These won't go unnoticed
>first half is gothic explorations of madness and occultism with a spooky, cryptic motif connecting each story
>second half is overly-florid, boring, francophile circlejerking without anything that made the first half interesting
Well that was disappointing.
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>>7563183
i didn't 'get' it either. is this supposed to be a single piece of work, or is it just a collection of, sometimes, loosely connected short stories. and why is this one guy in the mademoiselle d'ys story called hastur, this has to be of some significance.
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>>7563183
I thought the same. The first part was pretty good. I really enjoyed In the Court of the Dragon and The Yellow Sign, specially. I couldn't get even to the half of the second part though.
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>>7563239
i read to the end, because i expected some big revelation that ties everything together, but, nothing