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What should I read next, In Search of Lost Time Vol. 1 or Infinite Jest?
Decide for me, please let me know.

I'm starting in like 10 minutes so be quick!

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>"Yo, spit some poetry Anon."

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Take it to the fiction department and change the entirety of book 2

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Is there anything more terrifying than staring at a blank page?

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>sail to Troy
>rekt shepherds and farmers
>steal their women
>get keked by based Agamemnon
>throw a huge bitch fit
>refuse to fight with your bros anymore
>pray that your bros are killed so that they beg you to return
>still refuse when they beg and offer gifts
>eventually let your best bro go out in your armor to fight off destruction
>he dies
>instead of blaming yourself, you blame all of Troy
>kill based Hector because your god-forged armor is literally impenetrable
>drag his body behind your chariot
>continue to bitch about how your best bro is dead despite the fact it's your fault
>die young and like a bitch in Troy because of "muh glory"

Holy shit is there a worse person in literature than Achilles? "Best of the Acheans" my fucking ass.

Diomedes and Odysseus are the only reasons I didn't root 100% for the Trojans.

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>tfw my English professor pronounces Goethe "Go-eth"

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What kind of place do you find most conductive to writing your great American novel? Pic related. Shitty diner in my hometown.

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Post 'em /lit/

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I want to read academic philosophy journals but don't know which I should go for.

Any recommendations?

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ITT: books that dumb people say are their favourites

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I wanted to acquire this book:http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27194.Pictures_Showing_What_Happens_on_Each_Page_of_Thomas_Pynchon_s_Novel_Gravity_s_Rainbow
What I'm wondering is what is the best edition to go with it? The artist based his pictures an edition that has 760 pages but now is only a collectible and costs a lot of money. Which would be the best edition that's available at the moment? I've head people recommend the Vintage one but that one has 912 pages. Penguin edition seems close because it has about the same amount but I heard people complain about it.

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hey brose

i really enjoyed pic related (no pleb) and was wondering if you guys liked it too.

had to read it for a class and at first i was like "fucking lady writers in muh canon" but really it was really good. it felt like a non-pretentious, more heartfelt DFW tbqhwyf.

it also (forgive my diction please) reads, like, 'accidentally politically.'

it made me empathize hxc with ethnic minorities but not in a forceful way. not "they're people too, white devil!" but just a story about a lot of lost people being lost.

literally felt myself growing as a person while i read this book. what /lit/ tink?

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http://www.thelittleprince.com/hayao-miyazaki-favorite-book/

How does this make you feel? How would you rate the tastes of the God of Anime?

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>Many reviewers of Bleeding Edge have been disappointed with its apparent superficiality, reading it as a sort of, to use Michiko Kakutani’s notorious, if in some ways apt, phrase, “Pynchon Lite.”

>However, this is a plain misreading of this strand of Pynchon’s work. The lack of redemptive language, this apparent hollowness, this total saturation in the cheapest and most superficial elements of our culture is very much the point; these are novels that make no attempt to transcend the culture out of which they emerge, instead attempting to articulate forms of resistance to it that emerge from within, and it is in this light that Bleeding Edge should be read. If it is Pynchon Lite, it is so because it is part of the world in which ‘Lite’ products exist and thrive. And to attempt to avoid that unpalatable truth through recourse to high culture forms or discourses, Pynchon implies, would be at the very least dishonest. As March Kelleher, in many ways the conscience of the novel claims, “‘Culture, I’m sorry, Herman Göring was right, every time you hear the word check your sidearm. Culture attracts the worse impulses of the moneyed, it has no honor, it begs to be suburbanized and corrupted’”

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>It is this possibility of resisting the forces of oppression – be they technological, conceptual, or governmental – that lies at the heart of Pynchon’s writing, and in Bleeding Edge, perhaps more than in any of his previous novels, he explores what resistance from the compromised position of a participant in the total system of modern cultural, political and social life might look like. This is to say that there is no, or at least very little, possibility of stepping outside the system, no external vantage point from which to observe, critique and potentially attack the agents of social, cultural, and political debasement; we are so thoroughly interpolated into the world as it is that escape from it would be escape from ourselves.

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>Given the failure of the adult world in Bleeding Edge to challenge or resist oppression (or even to grow up in ways that would allow them to do so) this gesture towards the potential of children to resist the system from within, to manipulate an all-encompassing and seemingly irresistible version of reality in ways that undermine its hegemonic pretensions is precisely what Pynchon’s novel itself offers in its turning back of the debased language of consumer culture on itself. There is no position, Pynchon’s most recent work tells us, outside of society from which we can resist its pressures and allures. Instead, it is only from within the system that resistance is possible. Like Maxine’s therapist Shawn, the apparently inauthentic, plastic, and shallow can – must, in fact – be the very point from which truth emerges.

What do you think?

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I would like to read something good relating to robots. Any recommendations?