While I set my book upon the floor, I glance right through the sliding door and see the people in the park. Three floors up I sit within the apartment I chose. It is within a happy distance, for me, from the ground. The sound, the light is most the same, for me, sitting here, from where I was ten years before. The books I read have caused me thoughts, to think about, or sometimes not.
Wake me up when the plot starts.
>>9657609
A box fan pushes in the tepid air of summer. That used to bring me joy. I looked at the sky today, through the window facing south, inside the building where I work.
Now that the dust has settled, what does /lit/ think of Sinn und Bedeutung?
>arguably the smartest minds of the 20th century argued mainly about how weird it is that sentences can refer to things
wew lad
>>9657552
I couldn't understand it tbqhfamalam
>>9657552
A seminal work in philosophy. It's a shame plebs here won't give it the time of day just because it uses some basic logical notation
I was at the theater tonight. As we all walked out I heard a man claim you can petition the Lord with prayer. "Petition the Lord with prayer", he said. "You can not petition the lord with prayer" I said to him. He responded by claiming our every act is a petition to earn his favor. I told this gloid to fuck off. The play was shit by the way. As I was walking to the bus stop I saw him putting his coat in the trunk of his car. Noticed a coy of Friedrich Nietzsche: "The Gay Science" lying within. Currently on the bus writing this.
so, what are the top 25 non-fiction works in existence?
i see a lot of fiction top lists, but very rarely are non-fiction works discussed.
TRANSLATE MAINLANDER REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>Reading Bloom's Western Canon
>"We do not read to unpack our hearts"
>imblying
Which short stories are your favorite?
In general, Edgar Allen Poe's. The Fall of the House of Usher, the Maelstrom, the murders in the rue morgue. Good prose, good story.
Honestly though The Dead by James Joyce is the GOAT.
>A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly on the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned softly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
>>9657243
damn that is nice
>>9657227
The Blue Hotel
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
A Shower of Gold
Where do I start if I want to tackle John Green's oeuvre?
Read it in alphabetical order, it's the true order.
Non meme reply incoming:
Don't bother. I think he writes good YA (which is goosebumps for girls, actually precocious teen should read YA) but that's all it is. Characters are archetypes of despair and dialogue is hammy without it being genre fiction.
Stephen King is acceptable because he writes horror, he needs to elicit a basic response. Green would claim to be a novelist, but doesn't push the literary tradition.
It is a waste of time and brainpower. Read Nabokov.
You would
>>9657195
Who dat
We're about as friendly as...
we are choleric.
>>9657111
neighbors.
An alcoholic.
Is anyone interested helping me to solve the Lolita riddle? (Pic Related)
I have a list of 90 characters and I want to start a thread that organizes their characteristics to figure out who the murderer and rapist actually is.
You must have a copy of Lolita! It HAS to be the annotated copy.
get out of /lit/
>>9657081
Fag
What happened to ForTheLoveOfRyan? I miss the dude.
>>9657068
I fuckin hated that dude. especially after his pretentious Infinite Jest rant vid.
It legitimately irks me to see him holding books I like. I don't want to hear whatever dumb shit he has to say about Giovanni's Room.
>>9657068
I'm curious as well. I enjoyed his reviews, yet he hasn't had an update on his YouTube, or the twitter that he links on his YouTube profile, in six months.
>>9657068
this guy looks like the dude who used to sell me weed in high school. i actually thought it was him when i saw the picture
Where do I start with Johnson?
bitch
>>9657051
Rasselas, some Rambler and Idler essays, then both his and Boswell's accounts of their journey to the Hebrides. Then Boswell's Life. Then Johnson's own wonderful Lives of the English poets.
>>9657141
Nah
Read the Rambler, then move on to his biographies and verse.
If you liked these, read his lives of the poets and the idler essays.
holy shit this mother fucker is boring. I thought David is supposed to go crazy. I'm almost 300 pages in and this book is just memories. I've read 2 other McElroys and both were great and really intense. this is meandering af. anyone read it? I'm going to finish it. hopefully it comes together.
Does anyone have a PDF, or know where I can get a PDF for A Street Through Time?