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>>7325806
Stop spamming this hack here

>>7325806

Complete with a photo of a fucking leopard.

Jesus Christ man. Stop shilling so hard. I am legitimately amazed at the amount of reverence sociopaths with blogs can gain. It's not an uncommon phenomenon, and it boggles my mind.

>>7325806
>"Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit."

The image of blood recalls bleeding, which in turn recalls a sharp object, probably a weapon of some kind, a katana unsheated. which recall a cutting edge, which recalls the expert, one of whose qualities is that he is at the cutting edge of his field of expertise filled with euphoria. The metaphor is intended to emphasize the value of being extreme: "writing with blood" means going so far in your chosen subject that you end up far ahead of everyone else, utterly alone, breaking new ground, and consequently sustaining the most wounds, wounds which bleed, blood which you should use to write.

Pynchon. Are you Simpsonbro from the critique threads?

>>7325645
I am nothing—which happens to be everything. Why do you like Pynchon so much?

>>7325634
I like Robert Anton Wilson, VERY similar to Pynchon tho

>Female protag has a cat named after a historical figure
Makes me cringe desu

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>The one where the protagonist likes his fucking coffee very sweet, using an excessive amount of sugar?

Why no... never have

I like my coffee like I like my cock, black and in my butt.

IT'S HARD MAN because most of the critiques are cogent

It's not so much the critiques as the behaviour of the people who identify with them that is most annoying. If you learn to ignore those people, you can pretty much just keep writing history, and every time the Hayden White Fairy buzzes by your window and tells you that you're a spooky nerd who just writes novels, you can throw pencils at the glass and he'll fuck off to another apartment.

>>7325549
>because most of the critiques are cogent

like which?

>>7325544
You're living in late post-modernism, which essentially knows that it is itself bankrupt and has truly come to believe its own lies. Therefore none of its proponents or users or believers have any problem with "selling out" because as they see it you cannot really sell out as you were never representing anything true in the first place.

The correct criticism of postmodernism stems from the scientific method. Statistical repeatability utterly shatters the postmodern conceit that there is no objective reality; there IS, we just don't sense it directly. In the chaos that stemmed from the discoveries in physics at the turn of the last century, it was thought that perhaps there was nothing at the bottom of everything except random chance; while this is truly possible, it instead seems that rules hold and are repeatably demonstrable and predictably applicable across all of experience.

Postmodernism BTFO in a paragraph; you can deconstruct the rest of the monstrous mistake from there.

SJWism is just Plato's Republic, but instead of philosopher kings, it's led by the oppressed

Pynchon still is alive, you idiot

>>7325342
>tfw Pynchon will die someday and we might not know for months

Define memey? He's memed plenty here, and everywhere else really.

What are you, blind? Menard already made that thread the other day.

>>7325223
He's overrated

>>7325062
the grapes of wrath
the bible
the quran

ALL SHIT
senpai

>>7325062
listening to everybody poops on audiobook desu

>>7325088
I love that new desu feature DESU

>>7325009
incredibly better
being cryptic in matters of knowledge is for faggots, it serves no purpose

>>7325009
>>"What be 'Be'? You cain't say that 'Be' be, cause you saying 'be' to talk about 'Be', and it don't mean nothing to say that 'Be' be dis or 'Be' be dat. 'Be' be 'Be' to begin wit'. So don't you be saying 'Be' be 'Be'. You wanna talk about 'Be', you gotta talk about what ain't be nothin' at all. You gotta say 'Be' be what ain't 'ain't-Be'. Now when you ain't be nothing at all? Dat be when you be daid. When you daid you ain't be nothing, you just be daid. So 'Be' be somewhere between where you be and where you ain't be, dat is, when you be daid. Any time you say 'Be' you is also saying 'ain't-Be', and dat make you think about being daid."
HAHAHAHAH, this is hilarious. ;_;

>>7325085
They're only being "cryptic" because language makes the matter difficult to communicate effectively, they in doing so are actually only trying to make their point as clear as possible, ironic in a way.

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Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

>>7324948
what film is that, OP ? sorry if not /lit/

>>7325025
Kurosawa did a good rashomon. Giving it a read would be pretty cool.

Andrei Bely. He wrote Petersburg, one of the best pieces of Russian literature.

>>7325034
>Implying that everybody on this board doesn't know about him because they're Nabokov fanboys who've memorized this: http://wmjas.wikidot.com/nabokov-s-recommendations.

>>7325052
In addition: it's on multiple charts

>>7324903
>black straight hair

so, was oscar wilde gay?

>>7324903
this book is shit
>>7325075
this
>>7325079
The whole time I was reading the book, I was like, is he gonna stop hitting me over the head with these gay sexuality vibes anytime soon?

Yolo

>>7324781
>iambic pentameter prose
huh?

>>7324781
da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM

>This is the most simple one, I can come up with.

>>7324700
>>7324700
Ok- let me get more specific.

I feel like Camus wanted to safeguard individualism but individualism that promotes open thinking and care for other humans. It's like he wanted to prove through philosophy that you can be moral without religion (without falling into the nihilism trap)

Wtf is Sartre on about?

You should start with Sartre's plays and short stories. Closed Door, The Flies, Dirty Hands, The Wall, etc.

>>7324761
i'm 3/4s through being and nothingness

Well that's a pretty broad question. Many things. Is there anything in particular you want to discuss? Of course it's a pretty crazy chapter.

>>7324668
I don't know, the long sections of fantastical vignettes threw me off. I sort of see what Pynchon was trying to accomplish with the text becoming more fragmented just as Slothrop in the zone was being split in to pieces so speak. And the novel ending with the crash of the rocket, completing the parabolic trajectory of the "screaming coming across the sky".

There were just some pages towards the end that I could not make sense of even though I didn't have too much trouble with the first 3 sections. Was wondering if anyone else had this experience?

>>7324668
What's the significance of Byron the Bulb?

Naturalism<<<<<Realism<Modernism.

(actually I don't have an opinion, I just wanted to bump)

>>7324658
Its depressing.

>>7324658
>realism
>look at me, I'm a perfectly normal person doing normal things. i might deviate slightly from the norm, but my story's being told thousands of times over. now read about it for thousands of dense, glacially-paced pages.

>naturalism
>holy fuck! look at how dirty and miserable those labourers are! their lives are a document of their era. now read about it for thousands of dense, glacially-paced pages.

Also, there's a dried wine stain glimmering in a beam of afternoon sunlight on an oak wood table somewhere in there.