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Are you exceptional /lit/?
http://gokuislovegokuislife.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-problem-with-being-exceptional.html
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>>7450395
>goku
not reading that shit
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This was the moment Vegeta understood everything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNSNkNxQuwE
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>>7450395
dude, havent you learned that the way to sneakily include goku into /lit/ is to mention journey to the west? SUN WUKONG
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Anyone else notice eerie similarities between this book and the Trump campaign?
Also, why is Lewis never discussed here? he was the first gringo to win a lit Nobel prize after all...
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He was a socialist and denounced the American Capitalist Culture that was blooming ever faster. They did not really like it.
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>>7450362
>Anyone else notice eerie similarities between this book and the Trump campaign?
There's a lot that /pol/ does not know about Trump.
In other words, yes, Lewis is underrated and eerily prescient.
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Phoenix Rising is about some Muslim becoming president and shitting up the country that is very clearly aimed at Tea Party readers. It's fear porn more or less. How is the book in OP Amy better?
Let's get this shit going
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>>7450337
is Del Toro's prose OK? Some of his films are very literary but I don't think of him as someone who could also write books.
>>7450371
Re-reading the shakespeare or first time?
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>be ravished by the beauty in everything
>too talentless to ever express it
JUST
U
S
T
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newsflash: ur a fag
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>>7450267
Back to /tv/, fag.
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If you can't externalize your knowledge or conception of the world, then you don't have any knowledge of the world at all.
What's your favorite word that you never get to use in a sentence? Mine's "Versimilitude".
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ineluctable (and no "modality" with it)
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>>7450118
It's "verisimilitude".
Floccinaucinihilipilification.
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acquiescence
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>"How shoddy and contemptible life is, note that for it to be shoddy and contemptible, all it takes is you not wanting it (it being given to you anyway), and nothing about it depending on your will, or even on your illusion of your will. To die is to become completely utter, that's why suicide is a cowardice. It's to surrender ourselves completely to life."
What did he mean by this?
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hue
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Same thing Camus meant when talking about suicide.
>life sucks but i'll not suicide i'll suffer it all to the end instead because it sucks so much it's not even worth rejecting kek
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>>7451209
But Camus is shit.
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>start reading
>1 hour later
>only 60 pages read
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>start reading
>stentence doesn't make sense
>have to read it over and over again to understand it
>finally move onto the next sentence
>repeat the same process
>forget what the first sentence was about on the way
>realize it took you 20 minutes to read two sentences you don't even remember
>give up reading for the second time this month
The book I tried to read was Brave New World because it was the first book in the /lit/ starter kit.
I'm never going to be a reader, am I?
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>>7449954
>60 pages in an hour
That's fine, retard.
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>>7449968
Start with the children's section
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Ask questions you have about books but don't wanna start an entire thread dedicated to it.
Examples:
Which translation of ____ should I get
What is the better intro to ____ author
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What is the difference between the 1855 and 1892 versions of Leaves of Grass? do they both include the same poems but the later is revised?
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>>7449708
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass#Republications
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Which TL of dosto's The Idiot?
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>Barely writing 300 words a day
>And every single one of those 300 words are shit
What's the point of even going on?
I'd be better off learning how to be a plumber or electrician or something along those lines...
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something something plumber something something you're writing is shit
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>>7449393
Go to a therapist to talk about your bullshit.
Go cry on tumblr.
If you are here, kindly shut the fuck up.
GTFO
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>>7449393
I write 300 words a day
And they're all "shit"
Everyday I add another 300 "shit" to my draft
I'm still looking for a publisher to take on my ever-growing manuscript
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how many pages do you read per hour?
how many books have you read this year?
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2.
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>>7448946
n/a
90
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yeah more or less
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So let's talk about this lie. The lie of omission perpetuated by all advanced high school english and freshman comp classes alike.
>Oh look, Hamlet just happened to find Yorick's corpse and get moody!
No you fucking fucks. As the court jester Yorick was a member of the royal court, specifically a member of the royal court whose job it was to speak the truth even if it was guised in humor. The significance of this entire scene is that Yorick was found just outside of the castle in a shallow grave years after his mysterious disappearance without explanation. The obvious implication is that "someone" had him murdered, particularly someone within the castle who felt that they could freely murder a member of the King's court back when Hamlet was a child. If we're narrowing it down, it was probably Claudius, the same guy who murdered the King back then.
Hamlet didn't have to hear from a ghost to know that something was foul in Denmark, he probably knew it quite well when a man who used to make him laugh and give him rides on his back was murdered for making a crack about the King's brother trying to sneak into the King's wife's bed shortly before the King's murder.
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TO BENIS OR NOT TO BENIS
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>>7448934
/thread
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>>7448934
10/10
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Indecisive Waste of Space 2015-12-11 04:56:51 Post No.7448411
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I blew it tonight, you guys. I really blew it. If you don't know me, I've been reading the classic novels. I figured it's good to experience the great works of art that have been made before I was born and also, and this is the main reason, I want to be able to recommend books to the girl I love. She enjoys reading. I took some time off from reading for a while after I finished The Stranger. I'm now halfway through Lord of the Flies. I'm not enjoying it as much as the other books I've read so far, it's a little heavy on adjectives for my taste, but it's definitely good enough for me to finish it.
I've been making these threads and people always make fun of me. I understand why. I'm pretty awkward, but I still think I have a chance with her. Well, tonight I screwed up. I botched a conversation worse than I ever have before. I started a conversation with her, that's progress for me. I just thought I'd say a few words to her, then leave. I was feeling confident because I was previously able to bring up my new reading hobby and mention a few books I've read. So I come up to her, say a few things and start to walk away, and then she says something that I didn't hear. I stutter like an idiot for a while pretending I did hear whatever she said. I don't know why I do that. You know how sometimes that works? You don't hear what somebody says but you say "yeah" anyway. Well here it didn't work. She just said "huh", and then I said the stupidest, most autistic thing I've ever said in my life: "I didn't hear what you said. I was just trying to end the conversation." I don't know why I said that, it just came out. I want to kill myself.
Anyway, I saw Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind for the first time today. I was really great. It made me think of her, anything romantic does. She inspires me to be a better person, she really does. Anyway, in that movie they mention Alexander Pope. I'm interested in him now. Where do I start with him?
Thank you for reading. I needed to tell this story. I keep replaying it in my head. All I had to do was say "What?".
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>>7448411
1. you don't love her
2. you're reading some lesser classics. If you haven't read at least King Lear and Hamlet, please do that
3. if she knows you at all she knows you're awkward because obviously you're socially awkward
write about in a fictional format
oh and Pope fucking blows. Just read some Percy Bryce Shelley or Robert Browning
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Yeah, you know...just uh, avoid anything H.I.V. related, support transgendered people and faggots, and kill niggers, and it'll all be good.
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>>7448411
Stop trying to impress girls and stop trying to improve yourself for a girl.
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shit facebook taste thread 2015-12-11 04:20:47 Post No.7448290
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shit facebook taste thread
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2015-12-11 04:20:47
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>go to kikebook
>pick your most literate friend
>click the "about" tab on their profile, scroll down until you see books
>post their pleb taste
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>>7448290
>having a facebook
>pretending you're better than any of the other sheeple
I think the real pleb here is YOU op
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>>7448295
this desu
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>>7448295
this
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Hey there pleb. Yeah, you. What books are you reading? They better be patrician.
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>>7447824
Bloom looks so much like Sartre here.
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>>7447824
Ultrapatrician, transcendent even: The Recognitions and The Lime Twig.
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why is steve buscemi asking me what i'm reading? (borges)
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Do you guys think that Barnes and Noble exclusives are worth it?
I've been buying a shit ton recently just because how fucking majestic they look compared to the cheaper alternatives.The only problem is that they burn a huge hole in my pocket since they're ridiculously expensive.
Pic related- it's the one I'm thinking of buying next
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You buy moist turds in book form
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>>7447686
>they look good
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>>7447686
Do you find them aesthetically pleasing?
Do you think you have enough money to buy a lot of them so they match on a shelf?
Do you think Barnes and Noble is going to still be selling books in the next decade?