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Lets go, lads.
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Any of the Wordsworth Classics series.
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Different Types of Meditation?
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So, I was reading the Meditation chapter of The Bhagavad Gita and it mentions sitting upright and concentrating on Krishna?
I thought meditation was just focusing on the breath, how are you supposed to do the meditation described in the Bhagavad Gita?
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>>7475103
You might have better luck at some hindu forum.
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There are many forms of meditation. Focusing on breath is just the most popular. Hopefully someone more learned than I can help you, but there are many types with different purposes and methods.
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>>7475103
Any kind of fixed attention exercise can be called a meditation or yoga
What are the benefits of being well-read?
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Culture and historical references, a more versatile vocabulary, and I'm tempted to say a quicker wit and thought process.
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>>7481571
a smug sense of superiority pervading your every action
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>>7481571
Understanding the more subtle shitposts on this board.
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yo /lit/ whats the best book
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>>7474326
Finnegans Wake, now fuck off and read the sticky.
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One of these
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>>7474340
>Plato
lol trash. The meme trilogy needs to be at least somewhat contemporary, pleb.
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What's your opinion of Ezra Pound's Cantos. Setting aside his own judgment, that they were a complete failure and a waste of time, and even ignoring the high praise and scathing criticism he received for them from his contemporaries, do you think they're worth slogging through just for those few pearls that people have plumbed from their depths?
Also, just for context, my friend and I are trying to decide on a New Year's Resolution-type of reading goal. Last year we got through À la recherche by early March.
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>>7474227
Also, sorry for that apostrophe. I swear I didn't mean to type that.
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I've read most of his poetry, but not the Cantos. Based on the quality of his versification and his mind, I decided not to read the Cantos.
Take that for what it's worth, I guess. Many people who have read them say it was worth the time. But then, anybody who has read all of Finnegans Wake will probably tell you the same thing. Or the Bible. It's hard for people to judge how well-spent their time was. The people who feel their time is being wasted never go all the way through.
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>>7474227
They are obscure, difficult and long. Apparently they are good if you can understand them. I couldn't.
There is enough great poetry out there that I don't mind missing out on the cantos.
I enjoy T.S. Eliot, which is similar in style to pound (from what I hear).
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What are /lit/'s thoughts on the following contemporary French authors?:
Jean Echenoz
Paule Constant
Jean-Noël Pancrazi
Lydie Salvayre
Jérôme Ferrari
Gilles Leroy
Jonathan Littell
François Weyergans
Pascal Quignard
Patrick Rambaud
Andreï Makine
Pierre Combescot
Dominique Fernandez
Pascal Lainé
Georges Conchon
Béatrix Beck
Sorj Chalandon
Pierre Michon
Vassilis Alexakis
Alphonse Boudard
Frédéric Vitoux
François-Olivier Rousseau
Pierre-Jean Rémy
Patrick Besson
Camille Bourniquel
Robert Margerit
Paul Mousset
Emmanuel Carrère
Nicolas Bréhal
Christian Giudicelli
Jean-Marc Roberts
Georges Borgeaud
Alfred Kern
Michel Butor
Éric Holder
Jean-Marie Laclavetine
Claude Durand
Philippe Sollers
Claude Roy
Jean Hatzfeld
Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Jean Rolin
Henri Thomas
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Il suffit d'un seul auteur du siècle dernier pour tous les enterrer, ce qui est assez triste.
C'est fou ce que la littérature est mauvaise de nos jours en France.
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>contemporary
>French
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>>7474162
Yes. That's what I'm asking about.
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Post your to-do pile
/lit/ decides what you read next
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read IJ and keep two bookmarks, one for the footnote page and one for the regular pages :3
its v comfy
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>>7480966
read dunces, my man.
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Finished Dubliners this week and finishing up Crying of the Lot 49 right now.
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Post local equivalent of famous writer
>polish Tolstoy
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finnish joyce
>tfw he will never be translated
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>the English Proust
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>brazilian joyce
>tfw I give a girl a book to read
>she doesn't read it
Do I need to give them shorter books or something, or do they need to have a female protagonist?
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if it isn't a romance book or a cookbook they won't be interested. Just ask her to come over for netflix and chill
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>>7479792
>netflix and
Sorry, but I'm not a mouth-drooling consumer that needs to watch television with a girl in order to get laid, pussy
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>he interacts with people irl
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>be a sophomore in college in the mid-2000s
>intern at a literary website
>assigned to survey all other literary websites and compile them into a spreadsheet for future linking/best practices reference
>find out about HTMLGIANT, Big Other, and 3 AM Magazine
>3 AM Magazine has cool weekly roundups linking to good old writers and punk bands, but HTMLGIANT and a few writers on Big Other really grab me
>regularly keep up with both websites and in the process, get hooked on alt lit
>watch Tao Lin blow up as a literary phenomenon
>watch Marie Calloway temporarily blow up in a similar way
>other people related to Tao Lin like Megan Boyle and later, Mira Gonzalez, have their 5 seconds of fame
>alt lit scene exciting as hell, the literary movement of the 21st century, making literature relevant for post-post-modernists
>all of a sudden, SJWs attack
>VIDA study enrages women writers when they see concrete proof that men dominate the field
>HTMLGIANT ripped from within and outside by women writers
>HTMLGIANT closes under pressure in fall of 2014
>Tao Lin accused of statutory gay rape around the same time
>alt lit veteran Elizabeth Ellen, of Hobart, writes essay defending Tao Lin and others and wondering why human beings aren't allowed to be complicated and problematic in the internet age
>EE is viciously attacked for her essay and takes a break from social media
???
>summer of 2015, EE returns to Tumblr of all places, with her don't give a fuck about SJWs attitude
>find out that she hosted a reading at her house for Tao Lin and Mira Gonzalez after an individual at the bookstore where the they were supposed to read complained that they felt uncomfortable with them reading there
So is alt lit dead or not? Is it even more of a circlejerk scene now that I have no chance of finding out more about unless I stalk them like with EE? Did any website rise up to replace HTMLGIANT? Or is my only hope for reading more posts from Blake Butler just regularly checking VICE for his column?
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rip HTMLgiant you sweet prince :(
afaik nothing else has risen in the place of htmlgiant, but there's a few things that seeb=n they have potential
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>>7479651
>>alt lit veteran Elizabeth Ellen, of Hobart, writes essay defending Tao Lin and others and wondering why human beings aren't allowed to be complicated and problematic in the internet age
sounds pretty cool, is her work any good?
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>>7479688
If you like trashy stories about breakups/sex/drugs/rock&roll, you should check out her short stories. She does a lot of flash fiction too.
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Which city of the world do you consider as the bohemian/creative capital similar to Paris between 1870-1960? (pic unrelated)
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Portland
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>>7479452
it's the internet age, that doesn't exist anymore
by the way, it was without a doubt new york after 1945, not paris
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>>7479452
You should try Phnom Penh
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>could care less
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saying could care less is perfectly fine tbqh
most of the time you probably could care less
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>>7479343
You listen here you dumb shit
That phrase is used to explain that you don't care about something. If you "could" care less, it means your value on the care-o-meter is greater than 0, which implies you DO care.
How the fuck has the vast majority of people completely forgotten about 1st grade grammar?
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>>7479349
you obviously care enough to feel compelled to assert how much you care.
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where do I start with this beautiful faggot?
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Confessions of a Mask
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>>7477858
whenever I see this pic I think what a totally self absorbed deranged lunatic he was.
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Sailor who fell from grace with the sea
Temple of the golden pavillion
Sea of fertility
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Hi /lit/. I work in the lobby at a hotel. I take care of little nuisances experienced by the clientele. There is this female who has been living here for 3 months. She has just flown in from Spain. I saw her reading a book in her native tongue. I have not met her yet butI hope to catch her attention. I want to leave a note in the chair that she tends to sit in. I will transcribe "Cuerpo de Mujer" by Pablo Neruda on to it and then sign my name. I hope to catch her attention with this. What I am asking is whether the Spanish or English version is better. (Which one would you prefer?) And also, If you have a better poetic option do let me know. I also, would like your comments on whether I should present it to her myself or leave it for her.
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Spanish, you dunce.
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>>7477463
Yes, but is this poem good? I don't know her and I think this would be a romantic way to become acquainted.
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>>7477506
If you don't understand the poem don't give it to her. What if she does know it and tries to discuss it with you? You'll look like an idiot. Just talk to her like a normal person.
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Why don't philosophers just tell us what the meaning of life is? What's the best thing to pursue? Instead they spent all their time battling stupid dualisms or semantic games...
Kunt, Neetshit, Hidenigger, Plado, Keekygard didn't help us at all. They wrote tons of shit and didn't even solve the problem
What's the final solution??
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Death
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>>7476968
no meaning to life. there is nothing worth pursuing. do not reproduce. die young.
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>>7476974
>I Dindu Nuffin the philosophy