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Was Shadow Over Innsmouth really about race mixing?
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I think that his xenophobia definitely bled through in SOI but I do not think that it was *about* race-mixing as such.
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No.
I honestly don't think Lovecraft gave a fuck about human races much.
He described ports as full of unsavory foreigners which they were at his time.
Literally everything else is unrelated.
This large scale attempt to explain all his writing as racial based is so fucking tiring. He wrote one racist poem that was unpublished. Its not an explanation for the guys life or work.
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>>7520447
fuck off back to /pol/
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what does /lit/ think of Fight Club?
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The movie was better
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>>7520326
I think it's one of those rare cases where the movie is better than the book
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Suppose this is legit. If you had $35,000 right now to spend would you buy this?
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>>7520223
forgot the link
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Thomas-Pynchon-SIGNED-Mason-And-Dixon-/262128102149?hash=item3d080d6b05:g:KQ0AAOxyHIlTY8Dx
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no i have an epub
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i dont read/collect shit
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My feelings have geometric folds....
Feelings with geometric qualities.....
They can be measured by a tiny ruler...
But the ones who measure, whether nephilim or some strange forgotten god, they cannot hold the ruler...
Thus, they cannot know my feelings....
My soul, trembles as dewy tentacles sprout.....the sound like a tree snapping itself in half.....
The sprouts reach in all directions.
Screaming to be known,
Screaming to be acknowledged,
Screaming to be measured.
A mass of spinning and odd shaped geometry.....I hold an uneven number of sides, in my time we called it a heart.
The spinning mass, with it's reaching tentacles, take hold of the first ledge it comes across.
Pulling itself onto a platform that surely must contain it's true shape.
But, there is no true shape.
Only the mother waits on the platform,
a distant membrane that feeds on it's young... It convulses and erupts, spilling digestive juices, a tidal wave of acid over takes the platform....
My geometrically incorrect mass, does not witness the event. The tentacles lack strenght to raise itself onto the platform and mourn in confusion....
My feelings in geometric folds, measured by peculiar rulers unknown to children of angels, long dead gods or actual humans.
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>>7520036
0/10, juvenile, redundant and overwrought.
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infantile sorry
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simply awful
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I didn't get it.
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Don't bother going any further.
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>>7520014
If you don't get this, literally every single philosopher will be inaccessible to you.
You can't even start with the Greeks. I feel so sorry for you.
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>tfw you feel like you have good ideas but don't have the writing ability to make them sound smart
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>>7519937
>good ideas
>needing to sound smart
Get a load of this gay
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>>7519943
>writes well
>needing good ideas
Get a load of this gay
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>>7519943
We should work together
>tell a girl who likes me I'll send her short stories over break
>>tying my romantic success to my writing ability
Holy shit I'm a moron
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>>7519864
Incentives are always good.
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>>7519864
>a girl who likes me
>>>/reddit/
>>>/facebook/
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Lmao get rekt normalfag
I need some advice. What is stylistically better?
>trilogy of novels following a few characters but no real over arching plot, just smaller subplots
or
>3 separate novels having similar but distinctly different characters and universes tailored to fit the respective plot of each novel
pic unrelated
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not writing pleb trash is bette
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>>7519813
>not even attempting to be helpful
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bamp
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I'm interested in the philosophy of mathematics and sciences. How would I go about learning more, and what should I read?
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The "big" names are Popper, Kuhn, Feyerabend, Lakatos
Kuhn is IMHO the most famous in laymen, but he vastly oversimplifies in Structure Of Scientific Revolutions
I'd read that, plus Popper's Logic Of Scientific Discovery, and For And Against method by Feyerabend/Lakatos
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Popper is good. Kuhn is okay. Feyerabend is shit.
Mario Bunge is worth reading and covers them.
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>>7519788
>Feyerabend is shit.
dems fighting words boyo
Ernst Mayr wrote a bit about philosophy of biology if you're into that, Lakatos wrote "Proofs and Reputations" about philosophy of mathematics
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What is some good literature about Tea and tea customs?
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>>7519722
Mind not lewdposting with my waifu like that?
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Tea: History, Terroirs, Varieties - Gascoyne, et al
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Orwell has an essay about tea. I can't be bothered to get it for you because that pic, mostly. Just Google "orwell tea".
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Holy shit, this is awful.
Tried reading Bulfinch, too, and it also sucked. Can anyone give me a good intro book to Mythology?
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>>7519707
Edith Hamilton - Mythology
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Mythology by Edith Hamilton
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So are the meme trilogy books actually decent, or are they glorified trash?
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>>7519671
>translations
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>>7519671
Ulysses is a classic of english literature and one of the most important novels ever written.
Gravity's Rainbow is a masterpiece and captures the mood of the post-war era very well.
Infinite Jest is bloated and confused, but still a nice display of talent.
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>>7519671
hijo de tu chingada madre, why?
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Hey /lit/ I used to be big on reading but then I started to rot my mind with video games.
Now I want to get back into reading, but it's been a while and I don't have any good leads on a book to pick up.
What are some page turners? The kind of thing where I will feel the need to finish in one sitting?
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Basically anything that will not be recommended by the pretentious wankers on this board.
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>>7519584
Okay.
So can I get a ton of recommendations.
That way I can avoid those books. :^)
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>>7519586
sticky
What will he write next?
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I wonder if on Twitter he documented that mustache, from his initial decision to grow it to its final form as a shitsmear on his face, absolutely disgusting but somehow possessing more artistic merit than his literary output.
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>>7519590
Which of his books did you read?
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>>7519797
Do you think they fugged?
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The year is 2016. I decided to finally read Infinite Jest. What should I expect? What does it make so good and relevant today?
Also, I spent 2015 reading Tolstoy and Dostoivesky. Will DFW make me want to go back to the russians or he is truly great as /lit/ says?
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It's really dense. On the front cover write words you don't know, postit note the section in the back because you will reference it often.
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>>7519534
>What should I expect? What does it make so good and relevant today?
What's the point of asking these questions if you've already decided you're going to read it?
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>>7519534
Why don't you read it and form your own opinion?