Why russian literature is so young but so rich and genius?
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>>7485012
Cuz of Dukhovnost.
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>>7485012
vodka destroys the part of the cerebral cortex that inhibits creativity
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>>7485012
Doctor Zhivago. Detest it. Melodramatic and vilely written. To consider it a masterpiece is an absurd delusion. Pro-Bolshevist, historically false. A sorry thing, clumsy, trivial, melodramatic, with stock situations and trite coincidences.
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Aren't we all philosophers?
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>>7484853
Jaden pls, go.
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>>7484853
No.
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>>7484868
why not
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Anything related. Personal thoughts, info about him or his life, etc.
Author of story of the eye, death and sensuality, etc.
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>>7484629
I pretend have read him while chatting up girls. If they call me out on not knowing my shit or aren't interested I know that they aren't uneducated and easily impressed by pseuds, in which case they're clearly not my type.
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>>7484653
>why don't you try actually reading it?
Because that would defeat the purpose. Did you even read the second sentence?
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What is the Space equivalent of The Odyssey of Homer? I'm just talking about an odyssey that takes place in space, and don't say 2001 because that shit sucks dick.
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>>7484350
fuck off pleb
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>>7484353
you fuck off, i bet you like stanley kubrick movies you fucking plebeian
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>>7484366
what's wrong with them?
they look nice
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most vivid and radical poetics in english written prose?
except obvious joyce
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MYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY??????????????
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>>7484253
Infinite Jest.
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>>7484275
>Typography makes the substance vivid and radical
ye no
Comfy passages in books. I'll start with this one from Moby Dick
"We felt very nice and snug, the more so since it was so chilly out of doors; indeed out of bed-clothes too, seeing that there was no fire in the room. The more so, I say, because truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more. But if the tip of your nose or the crown of your head be slightly chilled, why then, indeed, in the general consciousness you feel delightfully and unmistakably warm. For this reason a sleeping apartment should never be furnished with a fire, which is one of the luxurious discomforts of the rich. For the height of this sort of deliciousness is to have nothing but the blanket between you and your snugness and the cold of the outer air. Then there you lie like the one warm spark in the heart of an arctic crystall
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I want to read Moby DICK!
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>>7484211
i'm 100 pages in and this book has been pure comfy and humor
i'm in love
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>>7484249
you're in for a rude awakening
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What's /lit/'s thoughts on this book?
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>>7484094
HI DICK MAN
IM IN THE SICK DICK CASTLE K
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BOOK SUCKS
I HATE READING
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Kind of slow, unexciting. Didn't fulfill the potential of the premise.
The show they've made of it annoys me a bit, too. Years after the war and civilian technology seems to have reached the point it did in our universe, yet all the German soldiers use exactly the same weapons, uniforms and vehicles as during the war, despite all the talk about how they're so much more technologically advanced than the nips. It's true to the novel in that a lot of things seem not fully explored.
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>E-reader-owners of Lit, how do you justify buying books to yourself?
I've made arguments against people that buying physical copies is a waste of money compared to an e-reader. That buying books and displaying them in your domicile only serves to make you feel good about yourself and to show the length of your literary dick to others.
While with having an e-reader the books you download and read exist just for you and the reasons behind reading them will remain pure and untainted.
(I should note that the arguments are held in jest and for no other reason than to have a laugh with bookcase-fetishists. And it is also, of course, a bit of an argument against myself)
I still buy books myself and I must admit that I enjoy owning a book and smelling it and putting it somewhere in sight. But I've limited myself to three rules.
>the books are second hand (i.e. : cheap)
>it's a book I will read a second time somewhere in the future
>the edition doesn't look like utter shit
So /lit/, how do you justify buying a book to yourself?I probably came off as a bit of a puff, but that's all right
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>>7484007
>serves to make you feel good about yourself
This is good enough reason for me. It makes me happy, and doesn't detract from my happiness elsewhere (like it would if I didn't have the money or space for them).
I can sit surrounded by my shelves and feel content and comfortable.
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Only dumb insecure american faggots would even give this any thought.
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>for the smell
I will never understand you weirdos.
I buy physical books when I know I will be marking in it extensively—non-fiction especially, and also novels I intend to read really deeply, etc.—and if it is something I will be reading over and over again too. there are other considerations, like if the book includes footnotes, pictures, or whatever, I'll want the real deal. my local used bookstore is massive and has a great selection, too, so I like walking around there and running into books I'd never think to search on Amazon.
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What is the Evangelion of literature?
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Ulysses
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There's nothing, no writers of literature hate their own medium and readers that much.
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>>7484183
What do you mean?
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What is the primary difference, psychologically, between poets and philosophers?
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Poets aren't content with stating their ideas until they are made as pleasing to read as possible.
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what are the similarities?
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They overlap.
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/lit/, I ask you, why do authors always feel the need to insert cucks in their works?
I just got done finished reading thetorrents of springby turgenev, and right before the end of the last chapter a wittol makes his appearance.
what I want to know is, why?
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>>7483615
Literally all published writers are cucks.
They write as a result of cuckoldry, not in spite of it.
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>>7483618
But why?
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ancient authors are all insecure of getting cucked because in days of yore it happened all the time. now the fear persists because ppl continue reading old novels. look at movie of 2014: David Lipsky and Wallace in End of the Tour are both scared of eachother as possible cucks because they have read too many cuckbooks.
Why do people who read books as a hobby so pretentiously agitating? They have a list of "books I should read," whilst remembering little information about the books they've claimed to read. While the attitude itself isn't any different from hardcore hobbyists, it still displeases me how this phenomenon occurs. I like to read as well albeit seldomly. If you're going to have a conversation about the literature you've read without actually having any memory of particular passages, understood the moral of the story or simply didn't finish reading the book; why are you pretentiously acting like it's the single best hobby that everyone should participate?
>inb4 I hurt someone's feelings
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>why do people who read books as a hobby so pretentiously agitating
you should read more, also, reading (or writing) isnt a hobby for a lot of people, it is living through the mind of humanity in print. it is communicating with our ancestors, communicating to our descendants,
honing, learning, seeking, finding, all of these wonderful things, and sometimes, just sometimes, someone comes into this wonderful world of literature and shits all over it with 50 shades of grey. it can be a bit jarring to find out that some people arent a part of this life, and frustrating. please try to be more understanding of those who live their lives in print.
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>being this normal
bet you've seen star wars
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>>7483463
also, please try to see that many of us are quite annoyed by the pretenders hiding in our midst, we call them plebs. the people who seem to wear books as badges.
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LOVECRAFT:
Say, hypothetically, the Lovecraftian universe is our universe... In terms of the great old ones and the outer gods, which is most terrifying for you/humanity?
(I've post this question on /x/ too to see the difference in replies, should be an interesting read)
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>>7483395
Humans.
Great Old Ones and the Outer Gods aren't evil in essence, just utterly alien. They could be compared to our predators like tigers and lions, who treat humans either as pests or meat.
Humans, on the other hand. The whole history of mankind is a testament to their terror, and when you think humans can't get any worse, they surprise you.
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>>7483425
This post is SO FUCKING BAD
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>>7483425
oh pls
What would be the best book to introduce someone to Ayn Rand? I only read The fountainhead, and a very butchered version for school, but I really liked what I did read, and would like to give something Ayn Rand as a present to my dad this christmas. Obviously I thought of the fountainhead, but since I haven't read anything else, maybe you could recommend something of hers that would be a better intro? Thanks!
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Are you mad? Ayn Rand is shit, and I'm in the internet marketing business.
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>>7483362
Why is she shit?
I don't necessarily agree on her postures, but the way she defends and presents egoism as well as the possible outcomes of it seems pretty well structured to me.
I'm a math and econ major, pleased to meet you.
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Probablyshitting into a large bag and letting it ferment for about 2 weeks[/spoilers] and then [spoilers]swimming in it
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In this thread we discuss the best editions and/or translations.
Example:
pic related.
1961 Modern Library version of Ulysses. Has some of the type corrections over the 1922 text, but none of the modified Gabler shit. Ulysses is incredibly debated but just using as an example.
What do you consider to be best editions of classic lit?
Take Brothers Karamazov. Best translation? Best printing? What about inclusion of footnotes/endnotes added by editor/translator?
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>>7483251
garnett. best petersburg translation: elsworth. best translation of don quixote: tobias smollett
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>>7483251
>translations.
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>>7483267
pleb.