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The greatest line of prose ever written
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2015-11-07 12:19:56
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ITT: Post what you consider to be the greatest line of prose ever written
My choice: great
granite rocks the foam flying up in the
light of the lighthouse and the wind-gauge
spinning like a propellor, clear to 1ne at last
that the dark I have always struggled to
keep under is in reality my most-
from Krapp's Last Play
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>>7331037
but that's shit
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My whole life I've been a fraud.
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O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space -- were it not that I have bad dreams
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ITT books women can not understand
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>>7331023
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Anything pertaining to ethics.
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Jonathan Green, born roughly 1950 - 1990 BPH (before post-humanism), was an pre-techwar American public intellectual and writer. While only fragments of his work survive, modern scholars unanimously place him among the greatest writers of the pre-transhuman era. After long debate, scholarship now generally accepts Green as the author of the work known as "Cancer Girl".
Sources suggest that while Green was principally known for his writing, he also performed sermons on the "YouTube" sector of the internet, just fifty years before the medium was destroyed. His teachings included bizarre comparisons of women to cereal, postulations on the mind-spirit connection of adolescents whom he believed "more pure" than adults, and cryptic communications with his alter ego, Hank. His listeners, now commonly regarded as members of his cult of personality, were known as "nerdfighters". The etymology of this word remains unknown.
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>>7330871
Kek
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listen "anonymous" enough with your trolls. I put a tracker on your ip adress. I know you are coming from /pol. I am a big invester in 4chan's stock I personally know Michio Kaku the CEO of 4chan!!!. So I suggest you stop messing around before you get a letter from the 4chan legal department and big fat perma ban!!!
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you went too far and blew it
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>tfw reading a good book
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>tfw didn't accomplish anything and shitposted instead
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>tfw reading any book
I can only enjoy literature in retrospect
the act of reading itself takes immense mental strength
it's like doing a squat the whole time you want to read
and its my only hobby
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>those few books that give a weird pleasant feel for some days after finishing them
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I just started reading this. What should I expect?
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Ghastly Rigamorole
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You should expect to encounter the greatest friend of all time, Dmitri Razumikhin.
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just read the fucking book
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Itt: books reddit tricked you into watching
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should I bother with the sequels?
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>>7330783
>watching a book
I also read a sandwich today, because myspace said so.
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>>7330787
Yes, Count Zero is the better book, and Mona Lisa overdrive isn't that bad either.
Where were you when Dan and Phil dropped the modern day Ulysses?
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Mysisterhas this book. I took a peak at it and it looked like pure trash.
There's even a pepe in it, if I recall correctly.
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>>7330780
I think you mean you took a "peek" at it.
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>>7330780
This page, senpai?
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Any fiction books that feature incestuous relationships?
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>>7330658
Ada or Ardor
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>>7330658
uhh whats going on in this picture?
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>>7330658
I only watched the movie because I'm illiterate, but Gone with the Wind. But my understanding is that the incestuous couple were miserable because Scarlett was constantly wanting Ashley's dick.
I am looking for most edgy, psychotic and mad book, i would love it would coitain some travel and theft/criminal moral shit. Sort of, De Sade, American Psycho, On the Road, Bukowski, mixed up.
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>>7330609
>>7330613
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>>7330615
bump
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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>>7330589
>think this poem is candid, folksy, and cute
>read frost's commentary on it
>apparently it's acshually ironic fatalism: teh poem
>now i hate it
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>people actually think this is better than Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
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Hold me, /lit/ ;_;
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can you make a post that isn't in memespeak
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>>7330560
Sorry about the ending, anon. At least they had a little bit of time.
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>>7331772
I just am at a loss for how to feel. Like, I get thatshe had to die at the end,but why?
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Hey, /lit/, first time book writer here with a question. I am getting rather close to finishing my very first novel. It's a horror piece that I've been working on for a year and a half now. Before I try to send it to publishers, I'd like to do a little check off on everything I'd need to make it a perfect story. So, in short, could you guys and gals throw out some literary concepts to make sure I have them in my book? I don't want to seem like some kind of amateur.
Pic somewhat lit related, it's Nyarlathotep, a Lovecraftian monster.
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Will reading your book affect me in a meaningful way?
Can I walk away saying, "After reading Anon's book, I learned -----."
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>>7330505
So the theme/ moral? Yup, I've got that covered. Any good way of driving it home? Like, I hear people discuss novels like, "Oh, Mr. Bla's book covered themes of revenge and lust," yet how do they really make those themes prevalent? Simply making it a large aspect of the plot and the characters?
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>>7330508
I'd say so.
Try to think of your book in as simple a way as possible.
When you boil it all down, what words do you use?
http://www.bustle.com/articles/120919-11-frequently-requested-books-in-american-prisons
11 most frequently requested books in Americas prisons
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why don't you copy and paste the 11 books in your post you tard
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>Stolen Legacy: The Egyptian Origins of Western Philosophy
this meme is getting out of hand
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>>7330504
>argues against the long-taught theory that human civilization started in ancient Greece, defending its origins as coming instead from Africa.
Nobody to my knowledge has claimed human civilisation comes from the Greeks.
It is claimed that Western civilisation comes from the Greeks.
>George G. M. James demonstrates how some of the greatest Greek scholars like Herodotus, Hippocrates, Aristotle, were actually influenced by long-held Egyptian philosophy and teachings.
Well that's quite a bit different to what the title and the first sentence claim.
Its a lot more milder.
Has anyone ever denied the Egyptians influence on maths or medicine?
And for them to be influenced they'd have to be able to read and live in a city with access to writings from across the Mediterranean - a civilisation in other words.
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Any recommendations for modern Chinese or Taiwanese literature (preferably from 1900 onward)?
I looked for a Chinese /lit/ chart, but couldn't find one.
I've read Ha Jin's Ocean of Words and enjoyed it quite a bit, but I guess I consider his work to be more Western in style.
Thanks in advance.
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>Chinese and Taiwanese literature
>Not the same thing
Gweilo pls
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>I looked for a Chinese /lit/ chart, but couldn't find one.
Then you didn't look hard enough
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>>7330441
I know they're not. I'm asking for both Taiwanese and Chinese literature.
I've looked at the wiki. Can't find what I'm looking for. What are the essentials for someone who wants to start on Greek mythology?
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>>7330430
What, to read? Bullfinch or Hamilton. The stories were all oral tradition forever then they were collected. Ovid's Metamorphoses if you want an earlier lyrical version of the myths.
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>>7330434
Yeah, to read. I know the stories and the characters (Medusa, the Minotaur, Achilles, etc) but I don't know why I know them. So I want to read the source. Thank you for the info and suggestions.
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>>7330434
Just checked them both out. Exactly what I'm after. Thanks pal. Much appreciated. /thread