i wanna start reading melville. should i start with short stories or jump right into moby dick?
>>9777327
Whatever you do don't read the abridged vers. of Moby-Dick, and imo go straight to the latter.
>>9777327
Read The Encantadas and the stories usually associated with that one.
Grab him by the Dick. You've got nothing to lose.
Has anyone read "Why Men Don't Have a Clue and Women Always Need More Shoes" and "Women are from Venus, Men are from Mars"?
Should I read these two or should I go for "delusions of gender"? Which book is actually more closer to the truth?
>Which book is actually more closer to the truth?
They're both garbage.
Read "The Tyranny of Ambiguity" instead.
>>9777298
Why are they garbage
>>9777298
>calls them 'garbage'
>fails to explain why
Let me guess. You haven't even read them.
does anyone have a link to his recent patreon videos?
Cliff Sargent is >tfw to intelligent to be humble and not take myself to seriously
>>9777284
those are good things to be imo
>>9777291
He's right u know xD
i think i may be a genius
Why did god have a bunch of babies hanging around him? Was he a pedo?
>>9776983
Hey! Me too!!! Can we be friends?
>>9776990
cherubs
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
Post an image of the cover too you lazy fucks
>>9776902
Nearly finished
>>9776902
that's a nice cover for the book
The Woman in the Dunes -Kobo Abe
Just finished the Beckett Trilogy
What are the best things to read about Jupiter while in a self-induced mystical trance and drawn to thoughts of Jupiter by spirits whose trustworthiness is uncertain?
gay porn
>>9776804
2001 and its sequels by Arthur C Clarke
The parts about Jupiter are really great
>>9777084
Would you recommend suppressing my knowledge of the movie in my mind if I want to fully enjoy them?
>tfw writing a masterpiece
>>9776699
those tripdubs will probably end up being better than that book desu
>tfw you write a cult book
>>9776699
>Arising in some such way, this instinct drives the genius to carry his work to completion, without thinking of reward or applause or sympathy; to leave all care for his own personal welfare; to make his life one of industrious solitude, and to strain his faculties to the utmost. He thus comes to think more about posterity than about contemporaries; because, while the latter can only lead him astray, posterity forms the majority of the species, and time will gradually bring the discerning few who can appreciate him. Meanwhile it is with him as with the artist described by Goethe; he has no princely patron to prize his talents, no friend to rejoice with him:
Ein Fürst der die Talente schätzt,
Ein Freund, der sich mit mir ergötzt,
Die haben leider mir gefehlt.
His work is, as it were, a sacred object and the true fruit of his life, and his aim in storing it away for a more discerning posterity will be to make it the property of mankind. An aim like this far surpasses all others, and for it he wears the crown of thorns which is one day to bloom into a wreath of laurel. All his powers are concentrated in the effort to complete and secure his work; just as the insect, in the last stage of its development, uses its whole strength on behalf of a brood it will never live to see; it puts its eggs in some place of safety, where, as it well knows, the young will one day find life and nourishment, and then dies in confidence.
Babe
What is your opinion on this man? Favorite story/poem?
>>9776694
best collection was cathedral. the story about the baker confronting the parents over the cake he baked for a child that died is just mastery.
title story was great too. i love his understated tone. check out dubus jr too.
>>9776694
Give me a quick rundown on this guy
How do I into dirty/kmart realism?
>Reads 40 pages of plot
>"this is honestly amazing"
>20 pages of non-fiction reflections about random things
>"well, guess it's kinda of all right
>this process continues to repeat itself, but the pages containing non-fiction just gets bigger
>"1000 pages in and I'm very tired of this already
Holy shit, why does this fucker have to keep writing 80+ pages just talking about entirely random things like Waterloo, slangs, 1832, fuck off already. I'm on the part where Marius goes meet with his grandpa again to ask him if he could marry Cosette, but the grandpa says that he should fuck her already and Marius leaves pissed, now it comes another40~50 pages of non-fiction reflections and no talk about the main characters like Jean Valjean, Cosette, Marius, Thernadier and Javer.
*sigh*
>>9776667
Being paid by the word is a hell of a drug.
>>9776667
>Reading for the plot
>>9776667
>he didn't find those parts interesting
never gonna make it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3GUbWZ81AY
>>9776571
Sora no Woto was so good
>WHEN music affects us to tears, seemingly causless, we weep not, as Gravina supposes, from'excess of pleasure' ; but through excess of an impatient, petulent sorrow that, as mere mortals, we are as yet in no condition to banquet upon those supernal ecstasies of which the music affords us merely a suggestive and indefinite glimpse.
You can't recreate the feeling you get from music because it is the paramount source of true joy we can feel.
You can't recreate this "feel" in any other form.
Interested in some of the finer sides of poetry and keen to see people opinions of poetry (Love it or hate it) and some opinions of particular aspects of poetry
Post poems, favorite poets, hated poets. Favourite genre etc.
peotry is pretty broad my dude. My favourite poets are John Forbes and Dorothy Porter (who are both Australian, I'm not sure if they are known overseas, Porter possibly is).
This is a poem by another well known Australian poet I like:
https://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/murray-les/the-mitchells-0560074
>>9776564
Naturally poetry is pretty broad. Hence the need for a thread
I'm Australian as well. Interesting to see how this country fairs quite poorly with fiction but punches well above its weight with poetry
>>9776564
I do like it. Appreciate the aussieness of it. However I can't appreciate it that well nor do I think many others, regardless of whether you think this country is filled with too many wogs or not. So many people, myself included are first generation of British working class, more tied to the English than any Australians
Anyway, potentially because of this I'm a bigger fan of romantic era poets, especially becAuse of their use of meter
Hello,
We settled on all the details of the Wittgenstein reading group. Every week we are going to meet in this discord ( https://discord.gg/q8VkR4m )
We are meeting this Sunday at 10 PM GMT. Please read the first 43 sections (each one varies from a sentence to a few pages).
Even if you cant make the meeting, feel free to join the discord and just talk philosophy with us!
>>9776419
First, that's a neat picture of W I've never seen.
Second, this the Tractatus?
Third, yeah, I might join.
>>9776419
Are you reading the Tractatus or PI?
I remember seeing a thread about setting up a Wittgenstein reading group years ago, I'm glad it finally all panned out.
I love the prose and melancholic atmosphere surrounding The Book of the New Sun's setting. Any books that capture this mood?
Music for this feel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Xm7s9eGxU
>>9776305
Jorge Luis Borges gives me the same kind of feel, and he was a big influence for Wolfe to the extent that he has a cameo in that book as the blind librarian Ultan
>>9776315
Is it worth reading his translations? I dont know spanish...
>>9776577
Yes. I don't know Spanish either but it's still amazing.
My favourite Borges collection is "Labyrinths"
>"I cheated on my husband and it ruined my life. My husband has saved me so many times throughout our marriage and I took him for granted. I was young and stupid and didn't understand what kind of man i had. My husband stood by my side and showed me what true love really is, he never gave up on me and never stopped trying to make me feel better. He has always been a rock for me and for everyone who knows him. I have changed my life because of him and i owe it all to him. He will tell you that it was all me and that he had nothing to do with it because thats how he is, but truth is i'm nothing without him. We have made it through and we have managed to create a better life for us and for our daughter. neither of us gave up and we both fought as hard as we could to save what we had. My husband is IAMTITANIUM. This is my first post on this site, I read it regularly but never comment because he pretty much says it all, but I just wanted to let him know how much i love and appreciate him. I am beyond sorry for what i've done and will spend the rest of my life making it up to you, you are my best friend, my knight in shining armour, and my one true love. You are Titanium, and I am forever yours. I love you Jay."
How's my storytelling?
didnt read but nice pic
>>9776225
>How's my storytelling?
didn't read, it's outside of a critique thread
did u cut and paste that off "red pill women" lol thats the only thing i read on reddit just to get some good schadenfreude lols at chicks complaining that they can't find an alpha chad yet even tho they're getting old and fat, or complaining that their bf won't stop smoking weed and playing video games long enough to get a job etc. if u ever feel overwhelmed with normiehate that site can put u back in a good mood
What is the greatest work of art in any medium? In this thread we will determine the superior medium by determining the peak of art and which medium it exists in. My vote goes for pic related.
Why?
This for video games. It doesn't come close to the top of other mediums but you just wanted the peaks so we could compare them.