How do I learn about "beauty"?
>>9844764
Stop looking in the mirror
imagine how zitty and disgusting that face looks under all that makeup
>>9844764
>tfw no literary French qt 1.34 gf to cuddle and read with
How do you call this architectural feature?
A Heinz protrusion
>>9844740
Are there books that features characters that are in love with inanimate objects or people who do not exist?Kind of like a waifu
>>9844740
The Mongols made a giant hole in The Great Wall of China?
What literature captures what it means for a child to become a man?
Hobbit
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Venus in Furs
Just finished reading this. Has anyone here read it?
I am not American so I feel like I cannot be a reliable judge of the verity of the circumstances portrayed. That being said, I thought it was pretty eye opening, as this is probably the first non- sugar coated account I have ever read on what it means to be black in the US.
Can we have a discussion on it /lit/?
>>9844587
It's bad.
https://www.viewpointmag.com/2017/05/17/the-birthmark-of-damnation-ta-nehisi-coates-and-the-black-body/
Quick reminder that in this book TNC admits he felt pain for neither the firefighters who died on 9/11, nor their surviving family.
>>9844673
So fucking what? Why should he? Why did you?
Get over 9/11 you fucking sap.
>Start reading the Odyssey
>All those references to Ulysses
What a hack
>>9844541
hehe shud have posted a frog :)))
>read moby dick
>all those references to the simpsons
Wtf?
>read lord of the flies
>all those references to metal gear solid V
WTF!?!?!?!
what are some patriotic books that will add some red and white to my current blue feelings?
If you want to read something patriotic about reds and whites the works of Lenin and Mao can help you out a bit
I am sick and tired of this. Every day I come to /lit/, and every day there is at least one thread up with an OP image of an attractive woman dressed scantily and posing seductively. It's probably the same one or two people who do it honestly. Let me tell you something, you faggot pieces of shit who are doing this: you are the poster child for everything that is wrong in literature, art, and society as a whole today. You are incapable of coming up with anything creative, thought provoking, or of substance, and you lack even the smallest modicum of intelligence, so you use "style" and "flash" and pizazz in place of it and to draw attention to yourself, because that's the only way your SHIT "creation" and ideas would ever get seen by anyone. And before you say anything, this has NOTHING to do with the fact that I don't have a girlfriend. Anyway, I will be petitioning the owner of this website to ban your asses, so enjoy being able to post here while it lasts, because it's not going to last long, just like you that one time you convinced an obese girl to let you fuck her.
>>9844458
Those tits..
>YWN be a sophist.
Books on learning how to write and debate with rhetoric?
>>9844416
>it's another "uninteresting edgy philistine tries to adopt a worldview for the sake of being contrarian" episode
Schopenhauer how to always be right
>>9844416
No but here's a platform you can use to practice:
http://www.debate.org/
I really wished you didn't kill yourself, so I could hear what would you say about Trump becoming president, and social media
narcissist of the highest order, hypocritical psuedo-revolutionary, and pedophile snuff film enthusiast
Got a good laugh out of him in my late teens
What's your policy on keeping books?
Do you keep every book you've ever read? Or do you give them away?
I'm like to have as few personal possesions as possible, so I'm currently throwing away every book I think I will never read again. Seems selfish to hoard them when someone else might be reading it.
>>9844413
I keep em, usually.
>Unread, and want to read eventually = keep.
>Read but the book was really good and/or I want to read it again in the future = keep.
>The book was shit = get rid of it.
>The book was bad/shit/dropped, but it is some high brow canonical work of lit or philosophy = keep it just cause.
>>9844413
I abhor excess data and delete every single book the very moment I reach the last word. In fact, I prefer to run the risk of missing the conclusion, author's reedition remarks, last chapter, or epilogue, to wasting energy on the first page of the Bibliography section, or the end mark of those Project Gutenberg books, and so I delete them outright whenever I reach the end of a page and the counter indicates 97% progress or more.
Picrelated is in the mail. How is it?
>>9844278
>drool over oxford classics KJV
>start realizing that norton criticals are superior than owc and pc
>see this
FUCK
>>9844278
I like mine more
>tho it's catholic
>tho Isen't full of critical notes
>but it was free so I am luck as fuck
b u m p
>come to ask, "I know Gene Wolfe is a literal catholic but is he seriously doing this"
>archive search "sun catholic" first
>pic related
I see you've already been there
>>9844264
Genre Woolfe is low tier sci-fi trash.
>>9844268
Is this true? I started shadow of the torturer and it's pretty cool so far
>>9844305
Yes. Dhalgren shits all over Genre Woolfe.
Does anyone have a PDF of Gravity's Rainbow or can help me find one?
The signs are all around you, are they not?
Sharpen up, paddywhacker!
I have only ORIGINAL COPY, MR POLICEMAN
>>9844211
aside from googling "where to find books online"
I would strongly recommend a physical copy because
> you're more likely to get through it
> it's easier to take margin notes
>you can let a friend(>implying) borrow it
how does someone without a college education get into understanding philosophy?
is there some reading order I should follow before branching out into more niche writers?
What philosophy really is foremost is the study of human discourse. As such it is best to start at the very beginning with the greeks, and then move on to the enlightenment period, the modern era, and so on.
i hear the greeks are pretty cool. the republic did nothing wrong. stoics also
>but even before that you have to get with the proper 40k faction i would think
>>9844210
The only god xeno is a dead xeno, fuck the Taus
Let's talk about this big guy
very interesting
>>9844189
No we won't.
>>9844189
Not as known as Freud but none the less just as remarkable. Though I do think Freud might be more original and Jung bumped older idea's.
http://www.strawpoll.me/13613424
Both doing two different things
>>9844016
I don't consider Twain to be a good writer at all, he was more like a movie maker. Good stories and characters but not an artist