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How do you guys keep your political views out of your writing?
Been working on some genre fiction because it's my jam and It keeps turning into a battle against socialism.
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>>7389531
Americans really like shit
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Just have interesting political views and don't strawman, don't appear overly bias or at least do it well.
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>>7389531
>and It keeps turning into a battle against socialism.
I would advise reading books about Socialism so you realise it isn't a childish battle between good and evil.
So I might be getting a tattoo for Christmas, and I was thinking of getting a literature-related tattoo. I already have pic related, so I thought it would match well. Does anybody have any ideas on what to get? Some of my favourite books are:
>On the Road
>The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings
>Watchmen
>The Painted Bird
>Fahrenheit 451
>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
>UBIK
>Silverwing
>Watership Down
>Life of Pi
>The Master and Margarita
>Siddhartha
>Norwegian Wood
>Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
>Nineteen Eighty-Four
>Animal Farm
>The Call of Cthulhu
>A Game of Thrones
It has a budget of $250-$300 Canadian tho so it can't be too big or elaborate. Any ideas welcome.
Thanks.
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>>7389481
I'll never understand why people would tatoo book stuff on them.
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>>7389481
why don't you get a rohrschach inkblot tattooed on your stupid face?
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>tattoos
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It is the 45th anniversary of when Yukio Mishima seppuku'd at the age of 45 on November 25th 1970
Lets get together and talk about our favorite books of his while posting rare 'shimas to celebrate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1AbTRtT7qE
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Get redpilled. Mishima was gays as fuck
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can you explain what that means?
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Mishima, Yukio. A complete nonentity means, absolutely nothing to me. A genius.
Will we have one of those threads where we draw whatever art we're digging right now, paintings or drawings, any era, maybe in the hopes of invoking creative influence or divine inspiration?
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I particularly like how much this one reminds me of Kid A'salbum artwork.
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Is your career literature-related, /lit/? If not, what is your major?
It seems to be considered unwise to major in the humanities nowadays, so I'm curious on the thoughts of those going and doing it. I don't mean to make this into another STEM vs. humanities thread, but instead ask about the thoughts of those choosing the latter despite the "risks".
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Not as cool as the dudes in academia, but I teach English at the high-school level. It's pretty chill. Pay's pretty bad, but I do get half the year off, so it's hard to complain.
The job is WAY harder than you think it is, though.
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Accounting. Extra hours with white collars fucking sucks.
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>>7389199
I'm currently studying for a major in mathematics, which is pretty damn far from literature. But I study it for three good reasons; I enjoy it, I'm good at it, and it will land me a job that'll have me set for the lit life after a year or two of hard work. If I could I'd rather live off of writing, so math is a financial stepping stone for me.
Humanities is only something you should go for if you have a burning passion for your particular field of study, otherwise you'd either end up miserable or finding yourself making up excuses for why this was the best possible choice.
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The degradation of the study of classics is symptomatic of the overall degradation of our education system in general.
It used to be that an emphasis was placed in universities on an understanding of history, and of the ancient debates that form the foundation of our modern society. The better your understanding of the past, it was thought, the better your understanding of the present would be. Under this way of thinking, western civilization was built and maintained, using governmental and economic systems with their roots 2000 years in the past.
This has all changed in the past century. Our focus myopically shifted to the here and now, with any study of history mocked as "irrelevant." The result has been that university is now seen exclusively as a pathway to employment. It fulfills this function well enough, but now graduates are too specialized to comment on general issues with anything approaching wisdom.
Those who favor the practical realities of the world study STEM fields and ignore everything else, but the humanities have not been spared from this trend either. Because those studying them now do so because they want to commit their entire life to them, it has become necessary to invent practical uses where previously none existed. So humanities has splintered into many separate "studies," which teach that something is wrong in the world, that human nature can somehow change, and that it is their job to do it, no matter how many traditions must be upended.
Thus the study of classics perishes, and the result is an ever-increasing tide of SJWs, and an inexcusable acceptance of Marxism.
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You're wrong.
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>>7389195
I'm not in academia but I'll tell you what's really going on: the post
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as a classics student i really have to point out thatyou should go back to /pol/ zzzz
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I've never been serious into reading I don't know what I'm interested in as far as that concerns not knowledgeable about genres or there respected authors so /lit/ you get to decide what I read. I'll be reading every book posted in this thread in order. Please be nice and suggest things you like and not dumb shit.
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finnegans wake
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Blood Meridian
breathtaking, nearly poetic prose that remains readable. visceral scenes without an artificial story. short length. you'll love it.
What does /lit/ think about GEB?
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Dunno; never read it. Anyone have an ePub of it? All I can find are PDFs.
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I find it boring without much point other than just 'ooh look at this loop/paradox, cool amirite?'
Just rambles about those 3 guys plus alan turing. Might as well just read their biographies
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do you really think any of the pseudo on /lit/ are capable of understanding its contents?
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I just finished reading "Good Old Neon". I'm no DFW apologist but want to hear other people's thoughts on it (couple reading this story with the essay "David Foster wallace and the New Sincerity in American Fiction" by Kelly).
The narrator's perspective (which we're led to believe by the end is some representation of DFW himself) is in many ways like me in progression of thoughts (although I'm still too young/sheltered to be nearly as nihilistic)right down to his affinity for symbolic logic.
Also would like to see how you'd characterize the story in terms of "postmodernism" / "post irony" / "new sincerity" etc.
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Wallace, like the phony in the story, was preoccupied with turning life into a Turing test. So Wallace treated sincerity like a Turing test and you can see the results yrself.
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>>7389339
Rare DFW thread?
0002word essay on pic related due tomorrow and haven't even started yet. Please help me.
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>>7389047
Die young
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fuck butt
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>>7389047
"I care."
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I will be teaching myself Chinese and Arabic semi-intensely (when I actually can afford the time) over the next few years. Are there any good linguistics books on these languages? Also, please give any advice for learning new languages (these will be the first since my high school language).
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Both very "geopolitical" choices...
If that's what you're after, trust me when I say you should learn Russian as well.
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Thanks! That expedited my search in terms of Arabic, as long as that poster also dumps the rest of his stuff.
I'm still looking for accepted/recommended Chinese textbooks, though (really excited to read Chinese poetry).
Do you know anything, personally, about Chinese at all?
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Is Mark Corrigan not a young Leopold Bloom?
>Socially awkward but somewhat lecherous
>More sexually active than one would expect
>Exceedingly well-read
>Bored in a middle-manager position
>Irish and probably Jewish as well
>Friends with a much more outgoing, much dumber guy
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>stream of conscious
I think you're onto something... How long until the next season?
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i think considering jez to be dumber than mark is a grave misreading of what peep show is
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What do you guys do with books you don't want anymore? They're just random paperbacks so it's not like they're worth selling online. Mostly they are books I've bought for class, but I'm an English major so they aren't really textbooks.
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Leave them on public transport or in coffee shops/bars
Or donate them to a charity shop
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Give them to Goodwill, if you're American.
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>you don't want anymore
does not compute
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Hey /lit/. It's been a year or so since I've posted here, but I come to you needing opinions.
I've been asked by the university I teach at to present a short, half semester workshop on postmodern literature. I've only been working here for a couple of years so this is something I need to do well. This is my first open-ended teaching experience.
I've got to select and teach 4 books, one a week. I've chosen so far On A Winters Night a Traveler, Times Arrow, and crying of lot 49.
I need one more.
What do you guys think I should choose? And of my current list? I'm not a huge Pynchon fan personally but I feel Lot 49 is probably a necessary book for an undergrad seeing this stuff potentially for the first time.
I need to finalize all of this by December 3rd so the information can be processed and posted for students signing up.
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>>7388810
Of Grammatology
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The Cannibal by John Hawkes
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>>7388818
This is a great selection if the class was allowed more content, but I feel I need to throw them into applied concepts a little more. I selected Lot 49 and Times Arrow because they should be able to genuinely enjoy them, and I selected If On A Winters Night because I hope it will challenge and intrigue them, but I feel Of Grammatology is a little too philosophical to fill any logical role alongside these. To phrase it differently, I worry Of Grammatology may be too far in the direction of theory rather than application. I'm going to do on/off lecturing and cover as many general topics as I can while also having days dedicated to the books, and I certainly plan to weave other books and their ideas into the general days, but I can't justify having that one be one of the four books they actually read and have to write on.
So when the Devil is talking about the Ubermensch, was that just a general idea among intellectuals at the time in Russia, or what?
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Idk but keep posting silly covers.