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>>7523492
not literature

It was very amusing when I read it in middle school.

Tao Lin

>>7523139
There already are and were a bunch of those. Some of them even got rich and famous like Corncob McCarthy and Aldous Huxley.

>>7523139
Swahili Coates, and Junot Diaz come to mind.

>meaning

in what way? slothrop's mind having fractured he runs through some kind of bizzare comic book scenario parodying the fantastic four
if you want some literality to it, the 'hour' he's looking for may or may not be the discharge papers from gerhardt von goll

but 'meaning?' hmmm
if nothing else it's worth the note that slothrop's ancestors had spiritual deaths in which they saw god's hand reach out towards them in their darkest moments
slothrop, child of the modern waste land finds his darkest hour filtered through a lens of cradling pop culture imagery

>>7523621
so who are the other three characters supposed to be? Marcel, Myrtle, Maximilian, are they supposed to represent characters from the book? Or are they just separate incarnations of Slothrop?

>>7525156
They're what Tyrone defines himself against: woman, negro, technology, all things he's not.

Wasn't The Will to Power a forgery?

>>7523286
They made a new edition from his unplagarised and unedited journals.

>>7523296
Is the passage OP mentioend any different/there at all in those versions?

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>>7522888

>>7522888
You don't have Prime and you buy that many books?

>>7522888
Were you ever part of those mail order book clubs in the 1990s?

I have a library that is around 10k books. Half educational/research in some manner, half in fiction.

What's up with all the pseudoscience

The Biology of Belief (2005) by Bruce Lipton

What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About™: Parkinson’s Disease: A Holistic Program for Optimal Wellness (2003) by Mary J. Shomon, Jill Marjama-Lyons

Then there's a lot of "modern American lit" that I suppose he only has on his list because his publisher sent him these books for advertising, and even more books about drugs

Weird list

>>7522925
>and even more books about drugs

is he burnt out?

The fiction he reads falls into three categories:
1. Rereading the same four or five authors he's reread for years. Lin has never been well-read. I doubt he's ever read a novel published before 1960 except for school.

2. The books of his friends, people dependent upon his own career, like Sam Pink or Elizabeth Ellen. You know, in an interview, Lin said he didn't like to talk to writers more famous than he was. He does not read other writers, including young NYC writers, outside of his followers.

3. His boss at Sarah Lawrence, Brian Morton -- who actually is a great novelist, but definitely someone whose books Lin wouldn't touch if he wasn't his boss.

In fact had a deep impact within me, yet, the doors of perception had a bigger one

>>7522310
The Doors of perception didn't really do much for me, whereas this really did

>>7522310
>In fact had a deep impact within me

faggot

pls discuss soon...

Thanks!

7/10

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Hans Christien Andersen was friends with Dickens for a time, until he went to briefly visit Dickens in England and ended up staying for something like two months. Apparently HCA didn't realize this was rude, but Dickens was so furious about it that the friendship ended.

>>7522910
full story
http://www.booktryst.com/2012/02/when-charles-dickens-met-hans-christian.html?m=1

Didn't Wittgenstein and Russell know each other and Wittgenstein was constantly an autistic pain in the ass to Russell?

Also, much more famously, Schopenhauer was a professor at the same university at Hegel and was jealous as fuck of all the attention Hegel received. That jealousy is actually the core of Schopenhauer's philosophy, it's pretty cringy.

>>7526270
Me.

Guess what my new year´s resolution was

>>7526273

Be the best living poet?

>>7526270

geez, what a pathetic, stupid woman.

I'm sick to shit of spoiled, middle class white American princesses and their "depression."

Everyone wants to be a victim, and "suffering" from depression is the easiest way.

>>7524897
Ahab's speech to the crew revealing that they will go after Moby-Dick

Molly Bloom's soliloquy

The comparison between shit and a negro's dick in Gravity's Rainbow during the BDSM coprophilia scene. Not even kidding for the sake of edge, Pynchon really has a talent for the grotesque and abstract metaphors and Gravity's Rainbow is host to many grotesque moments that are injected with surprising humour and beauty.

The whole speech in the Trial that goes over how the court system works, or something.

Not many people speak morrocan

>>7524441

Wha- it's written in medieval italian

Agreed op, definitely an indicator of good taste, that one flies under everyone's radar.

board meme, like what neutral milk hotel is to mu.

No, they're both great, worthwhile books that you should pick up as soon as possible. Not memes.

Are tgese questions worth answering or are they just a board meme?

It's so hard to find Gombrowicz, library or e-book. I've only read Pornography, but it was pretty amazing.

8 1/2

The Lady from Shanghai

Cinema? Here's the Top 10

1. Leon: The Professional
2. L'Avventura
3. The Boondock Saints
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey
5. Pulp Fiction
6. The Seventh Seal
7. Ikiru
8. Boogie Nights
9. The 400 Blows
10. Citizen Kane