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how does one expand one's vocabulary, /lit? Hoping to become an eloquent motherfucker

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new bookshelf thread

post your shelves and discuss other shelves

post em if you got em

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Is it a violation of Asceticism if I get drunk?

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Fuck it, lets have a favorite quotes thread.

"Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity." -- Ecclesiastes 1:2

"The stone that the builders refused has become the cornerstone." -- Psalm 118:22

"Someone, I tell you, will remember us,
even in another time." -- Sappho

"Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always." -- Rilke

"I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own." -- Arthur Rimbaud

“The wolf howled under the leaves.
And spit out the prettiest feathers.
Of his meal of fowl:
Like him I consume myself.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

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Was there ever a book that dealt with programming / computer science in a meaningful way?

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funny picture i found

it is my favorite author

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Have you read any books from Occult.bz ?
Are the books there worth it?

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>The Measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and Virgil in Latin; Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried away by Custom, but much to thir own vexation, hindrance, and constraint to express many things otherwise, and for the most part worse then else they would have exprest them. Not without cause therefore some both Italian, and Spanish Poets of prime note have rejected Rhime both in longer and shorter Works, as have also long since our best English Tragedies, as a thing of itself, to all judicious ears, triveal, and of no true musical delight; which consists onely in apt Numbers, fit quantity of Syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one Verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoyded by the learned Ancients both in Poetry and all good Oratory. This neglect then of Rhime so little is to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar Readers, that it rather is to be esteem'd an example set, the first in English, of ancient liberty recover'd to heroic Poem from the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing.

It feels so weird to call John Motherfucking Milton pretentious, but I honestly can't think of any other explanation for this. You don't want to write your 11-book-long epic poem in rhyme. Fine. No problem. Also no need to be an arrogant prick about it, especially when the poem you're writing is a story about being an arrogant prick.

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>i fell for the greek meme
fuck you /lit/ this shit is cringy.

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>be on bus reading pic related
>girl taps me on the shoulder and points to the book
>she says, "kill yourself"

wtf

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Schopenhauer is right about women, among other things.

Anyone here disagree? If so, why? Would be interesting to hear some /lit/ femanons input too.

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what kind of books does your sister read?

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Hello.

I'm bad at phrasing questions, so I'll put it this way. I came upon one Ludwig Hohl through the convenience of a thread that originated here, and am now become enthralled by relatively obscure authors, but am at a loss as to where to begin searching for them, really. I want things that break from the mainstream, outspokenly individual and divorced from a modern want of subscribed genres, things that don't basically speak to the individual as a product of his contemporaneous society but as, and this will sound a bit esoteric, the individual as concrete as time itself. The work does not necessarily need to be philosophical, but I would love, personally, had the work been in allegory, hinting to the meaning but never claiming to achieve it. Can /lit/ help name some authors or books? Anything on par is permissible.

Also, feel free to discuss civilly.

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Best stream of consciousness /lit/? I'll start with the obvious.

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Hey /lit/ (my first time posting here by the way)
I'm looking to get into reading out of these books which one is a good starting point? I like introspective shit, so if i could get a recommendation for one of that criteria it would be cool.