Do you think he would be ashamed that not only all of his works that he wanted burned were published, but also his private letters and relationships, notably the tumultuous relationship with his domineering father, and his secretive and obsessive pornography collection?
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>>9763325
This too shall pass
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>>9763325
>his secretive and obsessive pornography collection
is this bait? is this true?
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>>9763403
google it
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Post one based work from your country.
>Italy
>Sostiene Pereira (Pereira Mantains) by Tabucchi.
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>Spain
>Larva, by Julián Ríos
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>>9763302
I read that book! My dad gave it to me when I was a kid. It was cool. Only remember it happens in my country during Salazar's time and the guy keeps eating scrambled eggs!
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The Netherlands
Mystiek Lichaam
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Is he the most handsome author?
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i guess you haven't met me yet.
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sure
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bruh
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Critique my short short story
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"Alas," said the mouse, "the world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when at last I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into." "You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up.
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post it in the crit thread and maybe I will desu
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a little kafkaesque
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can you translate into spanish?
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How has literature changed my life, you ask?
Thanks to Hesiod and Homer, I'm recovering from an alcohol dependency. I've never been one to get blackout drunk, but I've always been a big fan of getting buzzed and staying buzzed for long periods of time. More than anything I enjoy the physical act of drinking. It's just something I can do to pass the time; taking a sip from the glass functions as an outlet for the indefatigable nervous tic than can express itself in so many other forms: checking the phone, jouncing the leg, clicking a pen, or, in 2017, goofing around with a fidget spinner. I was at a point in my life where I would drink a 6-pack of light beer and an entire bottle of inexpensive red wine per day.
One night, long after the nearest liquor store had closed, I found myself towards the end of a bottle. I was reading Homer's Iliad--specifically the portion whereupon Odysseus captures Dolon, who is attempting to spy on the Achaian ships, Book Ten, as it were. After the success of his co-operative venture, Odysseus is enjoined to take his fill of wine, and presumably takes more than one draught. Yet he only does so AFTER pouring out a libation to Athena (after whom the city of Athens, Greece received its name). Returning to my nearly-empty bottle, and confronted by the sobering reality of pre-Christian piety, I poured out my ex post facto libation, and was thereafter unable to drink for the rest of the night. It was a breakthrough.
The second breakthrough came soon after, when I read in Hesiod's Works and Days how a wise Greek would mix his wine with water; one part to four! I'd heard of Semites turning water into wine, but never of the ancient Gentilian practice of turning wine into water! I adopted this practice as well. Now, as Odysseus, I can drink my fill, and without destroying my body. Who knows, one day I might need it to aid in the sacking of Ilion! Sure I'm getting old, but so was Nestor!
So what are your stories, /lit/?
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You're still drinking 1/4 of wine mate.
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>>9763296
yeah you stupid fuck that's only 25% as much
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>I'm recovering from an alcohol dependency. I've never been one to get blackout drunk, but
Fuck off
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weNO9k1TXS0
>tfw you will never be as /lit/ as Glenn Danzig
Why even live?
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>>9763229
>Why even live?
There are other reasons for living besides measuring up lit-wise to Glenn Danzig.
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>>9763281
Name 3
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He is still a manlet.
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Can you recommend me some French literature? Hard mode: can't be existentialist, conceptual bullshit, set in the 19th century/early 20th, or a social commentary on capitalism.
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>>9763223
Arthurian tales. Chretien de Troyes.
Now go be a pseud somewhere else.
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Francois Villon
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Le Rouge et le Noir by Stendahl
Molière's plays (Le Misanthrope and Le Tartuffe especially)
A Rebours by Huysmans
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Damn, Zizek's death came unexpected. Anyway, I was wondering if /lit/ knows any good philosophy of biology.
Someone on /sci/ talked about biosemiotics, which I'm looking into. I've read Peter Godfrey-Smith's "Darwinian populations" which I need to reread because I didn't fully understand. I'm not sure if it is philosophy of biology but "The tinkerer's accomplice" was interesting. I guess I could namedrop Stuart Kauffman as well.
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>>9763205
>Zizek's death came unexpected
It was obvious for a long time that he will die soon. He said it himself in some interview.
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>>9763227
I guess, but he wasn't that old. And I disagreed with him many times, but damn he was sure a one of a kind person
Hoping we could have a philosophy of biology thread or maybe general biology thread though I won't be suprised if there just isn't enough people who read and know about this stuff
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I'm trying to approach the philosophy of biology from a few angles right now, but mostly fringe ones like vitalism, the phenomenology of morphology, critics of the neo-Darwinian synthesis (especially advocates of porous/complex gene selection and activation, epigenetics, Lamarckianism), and wacky phenomenological ecology stuff.
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I just finished writing a story. First time I've ever done anything like this so it's guaranteed to be wank, but I want to get better. Only way to do that is to read more, write more and get feedback. So I'd appreciate a little of the last. Many thanks.
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Have you reread this? Literally anyone should notice how awkward that first paragraph is
Not reading the rest because I'm lazy, but it's probably shit too.
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>>9763163
This, I refuse to read on past the first paragraph. Not only is it clunky, pretentious, and littered with grammatical errors, it's an obnoxious example of how the most pretentious writers are the same ones who think, for instance, that their shitty pieces of "literature" deserve their own thread for critique, instead of posting it on the crit thread along with a critique of a couple other anons' works.
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>>9763163
I feel like i have blinders on when i read it, because anywhere that doesn't flow well, my brain patches it with the image i'm trying to evoke.
That being said, your right, it's clearly clunky. I'll work on that
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Long after the days and the seasons, and people and countries.
The banner of raw meat against the silk of seas and arctic flowers;
(they do not exist). Recovered from the old fanfares of heroism,--
which still attack the heart and head,-- far from the old assassins.
-- Oh! the banner of raw meat against the silk of seas and arctic flowers;
(they do not exist).-- Bliss! Live embers raining in gusts of frost.--
Bliss!-- fires in the rain of the wind of diamonds
flung out by the earth's heart eternally carbonized for us.
-- O world! (Far from the old retreats and the old flames, still heard, still felt.)
Fire and foam. Magic, veering of chasms and clash of icicles against the stars.
O bliss, O world, O music! And forms, sweat, eyes
and long hair floating there. And white tears boiling,--
O bliss!-- and the feminine voice reaching to the bottom of volcanoes
and grottos of the arctic seas. The banner...
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He is affection and the present since he opened the house to foaming winter and the hum of summer, he who purified drink and food, he who is the charm of fleeting places and the superhuman deliciousness of staying still. He is affection and the future, strength and love that we, standing amid rage and troubles, see passing in the storm-rent sky and on banners of ecstasy.
He is love, perfect and reinvented measurement, wonderful and unforeseen reason, and eternity: machine beloved for its fatal qualities. We have all experienced the terror of his yielding and of our own: O enjoyment of our health, surge of our faculties, egoistic affection and passion for him, he who loves us for his infinite life
And we remember him and he travels. . . And if the Adoration goes away, resounds, its promise resounds: “Away with those superstitions, those old bodies, those couples and those ages. It’s this age that has sunk!”
He won’t go away, nor descend from a heaven again, he won’t accomplish the redemption of women’s anger and the gaiety of men and of all that sin: for it is now accomplished, with him being, and being loved.
O his breaths, his heads, his racing; the terrible swiftness of the perfection of forms and of action.
O fecundity of the spirit and immensity of the universe!
His body! The dreamed-of release, the shattering of grace crossed with new violence!
The sight, the sight of him! all the ancient kneeling and suffering lifted in his wake.
His day! the abolition of all resonant and surging suffering in more intense music.
His footstep! migrations more vast than ancient invasions.
O him and us! pride more benevolent than wasted charities.
O world! and the clear song of new misfortunes!
He has known us all and loved us all. Let us, on this winter night, from cape to cape, from the tumultuous pole to the castle, from the crowd to the beach, from glance to glance, our strengths and feelings numb, learn to hail him and see him, and send him back, and under the tides and at the summit of snowy deserts, follow his seeing, his breathing, his body, his day.
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Thank you for essentially spamming a poem.
No one appreciates your lazy attempt to start a discussion.
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>>9763159
You're a poopy head individual and deserves no sympathy from the cultured masses.
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I'm going on vacation to Cuba and I'd like to pre-game by reading some stuff on Cuba or by Cubans.
Any decent recommendations?
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>>9763003
Way to support the communist regime you dipshit.
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>>9763003
Also, Jose marti
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>>9763003
>pre-game
fuck off to r/theredpill already
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How'd I do /lit/?
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Doing great
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>not getting Bulfinch's mythology
>not getting Fagles' translation
literally pleb tier
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mythology is literally wikipedia copied pasted
Hey, lit, am I a good writer? How can I improve?
I'll post two of my fanfics.
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second 1
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>>9762900
Stop using passive voice. Stop using big words until you can actually write sentences that read well.
Play less Roblox and read some fucking books. Start with the sticky.
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>>9762900
There are so many things wrong with that first sentence that I don't even know where to begin. No, you are not a good writer. You know big words, but you have no idea how to use them. And you have no idea how to phrase and structure a sentence that doesn't make me want to gouge my eyes out when I read it. The main problem with your writing, like every new writer, is that you put all your effort into sounding intelligent rather than attempting to write well. Start off with simple sentences that flow well and tell the reader everything they need to no, rather than vomiting out clunky phrases, grammatically incorrect sentences that have absolutely zero flow, and unnecessarily complicated images. It's also exceptionally purple: you use a lot of words in an effort to look smart, but actually say very little.
Stop writing and go read a bunch of classics. Writing practice is not what you need right now. You really need to understand the fundamentals of writing. I genuinely feel bad for whatever discord you posted that garbage in.
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Why don't my classmates read any books? 2017-07-16 06:37:32 Post No.9762809
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Why don't my classmates read any books?
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I'm the only one in my class to read book for fun. What is wrong with young people today?
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/a/, /vg/, /tv/
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Because books aren't instant gratification. Due to technology, people want instant pleasure and entertainment. Smartphones accomplish this, people would rather mindlessly browse snapchat/normiebook for their dopamine hit than sit and chew on a book for a time.
I want to write a story with a robot or an android, preferably from their perspective. Do you know of any books that follow this point?
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>>9762766
Don't waste your potential on scifi anon. It's time to grow up.
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My diary de-su~
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>>9762766
read i, robot and bicentennial man by asimov.