Some women I find aesthetically pleasing and yet I don't feel any sexual attraction towards them despite being straight. A completely non-erotic appreciation of form.
What characters from literature can I relate to in this regard? Maybe even an example from non-fiction.
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Mishima
You're probably a closet fag just like he was
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D.H. Lawrence
You're probably a closet fascist just like he was
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Stirner
You're probably a closet spook just like he was
I like how it feels to read Kafka. I don't find complex plots or themes engaging (bit slow and not well read), I just enjoy the mood a book sets for me.
Asking for some recommendations of other authors that put a strong emphasis on mood. Ty, ty.
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Vonnegut
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Kafka
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>>7558162
>Vonnegut
i mean good authors, not one hit wonders
What are the best books set in the ancient world, /lit/?
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The iliad
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The Death of Virgil
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The ones written during the ancient world.
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Other good book sites besides #bookz?
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I use #bookz for my ebook needs, but I am looking for other sites and locations for those times Bookz doesn't have it.
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http://bookzz.org/
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>>7557322
I normally just google the book plus epub or whatever format you need. How's using a tablet to read by the way? Starting to get sick of books, always need to find good lighting, need to find a nice posture to read in etc. Considering getting a 6 inch kindle.
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>>7557322
How do I access bookz?
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What does /lit/ think of Isaac Asimov?
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Cool dude. Like his stuff.
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Ya, but I totally called the ending twist like at least two books in advance though.
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R E D D I T
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How do you reconcile the fact of dasein
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I drink and come up with memes to post on 4chan
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by being a nazi
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How much of this do you agree with, /lit/?
>Let's take, for example, an average reader, a cool-headed, mature, educated man leading a more or less healthy life. A man who buys books and literary magazines. So there you have him. This man can read things that are written for when you're calm, but he can also read any other kind of book with a critical eye, dispassionately, without absurd or regrettable complicity. That's how I see it. I hope I'm not offending anyone. Now let's take the desperate reader, who is presumably the audience for the literature of desperation. What do we see? First: the reader is an adolescent or an immature adult, insecure, all nerves. He's the kind of fucking idiot (pardon my language) who committed suicide after reading Werther. Second: he's a limited reader. Why limited? That's easy: because he can only read the literature of desperation, or books for the desperate, which amounts to the same thing, the kind of person or freak who's unable to read all the way through In Search of Lost Time, for example, or The Magic Mountain (a paradigm of calm, serene, complete literature, in my humble opinion), or for that matter, Les Misérables or War and Peace. Am I making myself clear? Good. So I talked to them, told them, warned them, alerted them to the dangers they were facing. It was like talking to a wall. Furthermore: desperate readers are like the California gold mines. Sooner or later they're exhausted! Why? It's obvious! One can't live one's whole life in desperation. In the end the body rebels, the pain becomes unbearable, lucidity gushes out in great cold spurts. The desperate reader (and especially the desperate poetry reader, who is insufferable, believe me) ends up by turning away from books. Inevitably he ends up becoming just plain desperate. Or he's cured!
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The most well read person I've met reads everything from high brow literature, comic books, fantasy, manga, etc. Even watches anime and a shitton of movies. It's absurd.
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>>7556382
You can compartmentalise your desperation with your periods of flourishing outside of books. I'm not sure why people project their love of consistency of mood on others. In my mind the comfort reader is in a trap designed to blunt his discerning abilities.
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I have never met someone who only reads "literature of desperation." In fact, what does that even mean? Literature that is different from Proust or Tolstoy or Hugo? Shorter, more adhd? Apologies, I don't know the source of this quote.
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>go on job interviews (non-/lit/ jobs)
>sometimes get asked about favorite hobby
>say reading
>ask me what my favorite book is
>don't really have a single favorite book
>generally say Notes from Underground
Is this unwise, since the book is about a huge misanthropic asshole?
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First of all - congratulations on your wonderful picrelated choices, nowocioto.
What do the interviewers generally say after such a remark, considering the fact that they probably have not even heard of Notes from the Underground?
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No, just make sure that when the interview goes to shake your hand you shouldercheck him into his office door, to demonstrate that you aren't a pussy-ass faggot like the protagonist. Bosses like outgoing employees.
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Some say they've read it, others just remark that they haven't heard of it.
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What the shit was Sloane's problem? Did I skip something essential, or why was he so depressed about the actual end of the war? Does this get explained later on (I'm only on page 90).
Sorry for another Stoner thread, I couldn't find the one that was posted a few days ago.
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Oh yeah, let this 404 within the hour but fucking bookshelf threads can exist for WEEKS on here.
Seriously fuck this board.
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>>7556225
Stoner is one of the most discussed books on this site, friend. Just wait two days (maybe even less) and another one will pop up. No biggie.
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The thread was nowhere close to 404ing you sperg
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Hey /lit/, so I want to get Infinite Jest, and I can't decide whether to get the paperback or the hardcover.
The paperback will be $26.50, and the hardcover will be $23.80. Although the hardcover is both cheaper, and will be of better quality, because it's a hardcover, I like the paperback's cover more.
Which one would you suggest to purchase? If you have the hardcover, would you recommend it? And if you've got the paperback, would you say the quality is good for a paperback?
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>not getting both
David is disappointed in you senpai.
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>>7555969
let's all come together and not respond to this
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>>7555969
but the paperback is only $12 on amazon.
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What I can i read to find out more about the intersectionality between marxism and feminism?
Is there any?
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>wikipedia
>the sticky
>fuck off, you're not making a good threat and can't add anything to any discussion
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google marxist feminism, proletarian feminism, etc.
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Well, intersectionality refers to "intersections" among groups, such as women, gender and sexual minorities, the working class, and various racialized peoples. Common struggle and all that.
But if you're asking about the relationship between Marxist thought to Feminist thought it's pretty readily apparent. IIRC there's a whole section in the communist manifesto regarding women's lib.
What do you guys think is the best Conan story? At least among Howard's originals.
I just started reading them and I'm pleasantly surprised. The world is realistic, vivid, and interesting; the characters and their motivations are well thought out, Conan isn't just a stupid killing machine as he is often depicted, and the stories provoke some interesting questions relating to barbarism and society.
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I forget the name, but its the one were at the end Conan chases some evil wizard down and decapitates him and the head flies off with the body chasing it.
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"The Pool of the Black One" has been my favorite ever since I read it. It goes Full Lovecraft and actually has Conan sail to an entire other realm populated by inhuman monsters. Plus he kills a man just so he can steal his woman. It's fantastic.
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The Scarlet Citadel out of what I've read.
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Hello /lit/
What are the religions out there that i can study and maybe adhere to if i do not believe in an anthropomorphic/abrahamic god?i know that there is buddhism, but are there any others that you can tell me about? and some books which i can get my hands on to read about said religions.
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It's not really a religion but deism. Read Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason
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>choosing what religion to follow based on what 4chan posters tell you
Don't do that
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>>7555846
Christianity is the true religion.
Guys how long Divine Comedy is? I have some weird version, it says "exerpts" and its 400-500 pages long, but i counted verses and its ~14000 more or less. Yet in internet they say full version is 1000 pages long (?). Please, could anyone say how long this masterpiece is in full full version, and should i read what i got or throw it in garbage??
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How old are you? This actually matters
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It's 14,233 lines, which can be as few as few hundred pages or over a thousand depending on font/spacing/notes/italian inclusion.
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I have the copy in your pic and the poem is 482 pages.
Not trolling, just a stupid question from a retarded atheist. If Christ is God, and he had 30 some odd years here on earth to do anything he wanted, and he didn't write the bible (or something like it), why is there any reason to think that the Holy Spirit was working through men when they wrote the bible? if God wanted to write a holy text wouldn't he have done it while he was here?
And this is about the bible and its authority as a religious text so yes, this is /lit/
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>>7555775
God didn't want to write a holy text.
He wanted to do things described in the New Testament.
Then he left things in the hands of the apostles who are said to have been blessed by the holy spirit very directly who founded a church members of which wrote and composed the bible.
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>what is ascetism
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>>7555775
God works in mysterious ways and you have to trust him. Although you probably can't understand this because you're an atheist.