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>Year you were born
>First book you're reading in 2016
>Favourite author
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1990
V
Nietzsche
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1992
Extinction
Thomas Bernhard
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1992
I am reading 4 books:
- The Complete Cosmicomics - Calvino
- Aeschylus
- JPS Tanakh
- How to Read the Bible - Kugel
Borges
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ITT: Post Your Favorite Bible Verse 2016-01-06 22:04:01 Post No.7550658
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ITT: Post Your Favorite Bible Verse
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Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheep coming up from washing, each one having a twin, and not one missing.
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>>7550658
>There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Jesus Christ
Redpilled faggots BTFO
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Jephath begat Joachim, who begat Joseph, who begat John, who begat Jedidiah, who begat Elijah, who begat Ruth Baader Ginsberg
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"Mixed in with his actual writing skills, Pynchon discusses the thematic relevance of the times he lived in and their effect on his stories. He describes the fifties as "static," saying that one year was like any other giving the overall feeling, "there seemed no reason why should it all not just go on as it was." He felt that there grew from the era an atmosphere of self censorship, partly responsible for his immature dealings with sex. Also, he felt that it led to his "Racist, sexist, and proto-fascist talk," which he actually apologizes for. This may also have grown out of his two years' service in the Navy, which he admits had their effect on his work."
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>proto fascist
Huh Pynchon always seemed like a libertarian socialist to me but I guess I can see it
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>>7549048
Can't wait for his full bio when he kicks the bucket
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I never saw him being outright racist. Sexist, sure, but racist?
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What is the most disturbing thing you have ever read?
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Winston
Rowntree
Has influenced my life, with under a dozen words, more than any book. What the fuck is up with that guy?
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probably some of the later torture scenes in american psycho
>inb4 /lit/ gets baited by that image being posted for the 100th time
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V. In Love disgusted me to the point I threw the book down the aisle of a Greyhound. It was passed back to me with much less confusion than you'd expect.
American Psycho's violence was a joke, like an actual joke you were supposed to laugh at. It's Patrick lying, pretending to be a tough guy.
So now that "Hypersphere" is completed and has been published, when will we commence working on the next great novel?
How long did it take after "The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra" was completed for work on "Hypersphere" to commence? Is it too early to already start thinking about the next book?
What will the next book be about, and what will it be called?
I have a draft of about 18 pages of work saved that was previously created about 2 or so months ago by other anons on here that didn't take off, since "Hypersphere" was already nearly finished.
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Nah... take a breathe... let things percolate... maybe do a minor work, a novella or something, people were talking about doing a poetry or short story collection... do something different with it, maybe an agreed-upon theme or heavy quality control... then, at least a year from now, maybe then think about the next "big one".
That's a nice cover, though
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>>7546386
I didn't misspell breath, I misspelled breather
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>>7546342
What happened to lits old book ideas from pre 2012?
The Penis Was and some book about a Human Panda
Pls respond
My mom keeps badgering me about my NEETdom.
What are some books that will help me find the will to work?
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just kill yourself and spare your mom the misery and us your shitty threads
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No need. When she dies you'll be forced to do something.
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Ready Player One
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This might be the worst thing
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>>7556456
>“I wish someone had just told me the truth right up front, as soon as I was old enough to understand it. I wish someone had just said: “Here’s the deal, Wade. You’re something called a ‘human being.’ That’s a really smart kind of animal. Like every other animal on this planet, we’re descended from a single-celled organism that lived millions of years ago. This happened by a process called evolution, and you’ll learn more about it But trust me, that’s really how we all got here. There’s proof of it everywhere, buried in the rocks. That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? Total bullshit. The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling one another for thousands of years. We made it all up. Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. “Oh, and by the way … there’s no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny. Also bullshit. Sorry, kid Deal with it.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
>tfw none of his criticisms of Christianity can be applied to Orthodox Christianity
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>>7554419
*fips mehora*
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>>7554426
*fasts behind you*
*unsheathes Jesus prayer*
*nods respectfully toward icon*
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>>7554444
whoa shit watch where you point that thing
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So, thanks to some of you I read the book in the pic and it is some of the best prose I have ever read. Any other books with such great prose? Don't say Pynchon. I already tried V. and, despite some really fun parts, it wasn't my cup of tea.
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The Nigger of the Narcissus - Conrad
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>>7553654
You're welcome, friend. I'm happy you like it.
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>>7553654
try some gaddis, The Recognitions might be more your cuppa
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Excluding Shakespeare, who is the greatest English-language poet of all time?
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Beckett
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Objectively Milton
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dickens
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An evil witch has cursed you, you suddenly become fluent in three languages but may never read translations, which languages do you choose?
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english, spanish, japanese
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>>7549128
French, German, Russian.
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Latin, German, Enlish
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Fess up, anons. Have you ever intentionally plagiarized something? This is an anonymous space, you can be honest.
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>>7548226
Once I performed Pink Floyd's Hey You and claimed it was an original composition.
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I regularly take popular/real author's styles and try to write something new in them. I think that's not uncommon.
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I am in a constant state of paranoia that if I post any of my ideas online for any reason, no matter how vague or truncated, someone else will steal them and write it themselves.
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Hey /lit/, so seeing as your board is totally inundated with newcomers currently, should we have a QTDDTOT (questions that don't deserve their own thread) thread to try and tidy things up?
Anyways, I'll start with a few I have.
>what Dostoyevsky do I need to read before Karamazov?
>what are some good resources for checking on the quality of various editions/translations of a book, so I don't buy a shit one?
>what are some good online resources for learning better grammar, prose and for learning to analyse a book for themes, characters and prose?
Thanks.
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> What Dostoyevsky do I need to read before Karamazov?
I read his shorter works - Notes From Underground, The Double, The Meek One - and then read his other main novels - The Idiot, Devils and Crime & Punishment - before tackling The Brothers Karamazov. There's no real order to do it in, but if you've not read Dostoyevsky before, his shorter works will be the least taxing. Hope that helps, anon.
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Thanks. I've been lurking here for a couple of weeks and Notes from Underground seems popular. I might get that and/or Crime and Punishment. How do I assure I don't get a crap translation? Spelling mistakes and stuff also drive me mad, they always kill my immersion.
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Do I treat The Divine Comedy as one book with three main parts or three books?
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I have faith in your intelligence, /lit/.
This belongs to /lit/ for it is about The Bible, which is a book.
LET'S DANCE.
>God creates animals
>God creates a man and a woman
>God creates a special tree
>God orders the man and the woman to avoid eating from that tree
>a snake, which is a good creature created by God, makes the good woman created by God eat from the forbidden tree
>the woman makes the good man created by God eat too
Three good creatures created by God, who is completely good, perform evil actions.
Where does evil come from?
CHOOSE:
>God creates evil and puts it in the snake, in the woman and in the man; therefore, God is Satan.
>God is so weak that Satan (evil supernatural being that was not created by God) introduces evil in his garden without him noticing it (therefore, God is not omnipotent, God is not infallible, God is not omniscient, and God is not God).
>inb4 absurd shit
>inb4 trolls (won't reply to them)
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>Three good creatures created by God, who is completely good, perform evil actions.
>Where does evil come from?
Free will
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>>7554959
God is Abraxas. There is no pure Good or pure Evil.
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>>7554981
>inb4 absurd shit
think again
Why did A Camus receive nobel prize? What did he accomplish as a writer?
Official explanation
"for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times"
To me he seems just like whiny child who disregards honor, emotion, respect and empathy (you know, all the normal human feelings) and then wonders why life sucks
I've read Stranger, Plague and Fall.
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>>7553815
you don't get the zeitgeist
and you haven't read his most important work
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>>7553815
>disregards honor, emotion, respect and empathy
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>>7553815
>What did he accomplish as a writer?
He wrote a bunch of pretty good books.
The Nobel prize isn't really a 'best writer' award, and you shouldn't treat it as such. The Nobel committee is frequently accused of blundering when awarding the literature Nobel(not giving it to Borges and Tolstoy, for instance).