Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 843. page

>>9631796
Often the best books i've ever heard had a mediocre, simple or bad premise. So i don't really trust it that much.

>>9631895
Well yeah but when YOU judge a book how do you do so

>>9631796
I judge books based on how much personal enjoyment I get then rationalize my way toward a decent opinion. Yes pleb

>>9631694
I heard that some monkeys are able to build sentences by pointing on certain symbols.

https://www.sciencealert.com/in-1975-a-cat-co-authored-a-physics-paper

maybe you should read a
BOOK
about it

>>9631677
prose is literature, free verse is not

Your curriculum will have to evolve as you go, you cant map out more than the next few months of study at a time.

For philosophy, use stanford encyclopedia to get general knowledge on specific philosophers/topics, looking them up as you go.

I also would google syllabus reading lists for introductory classes on topics.for example if u want to get into american history, google "harvard undergrad history syllabus .edu"

Learn to hit topics at varying levels of depth, and calm the impatient mind that hungers to know everything. Learning is always slower than we want, and nobody knows much ultimately.

Dont be overly thorough or obsessive, keep challenging yourself and let your curiosity guide you.

>>9631526
Did read your advice, will keep in mind the bit about reading the syllabus of literature courses, I forgot those were often publicly available. Thanks.

He looks like a dork but this kind of finger-pointing and laughing is enabled particularly by the anonymous nature of this website. Imagine if you had an account and we could see your face and your post history. This kind of thing isn't found anywhere else and the reason is because the people who do it are usually fairly shit themselves and you can only really criticise someone else if you're holding yourself up as the exemplary. Amusing, non?

>t. @seanmcelwee
t. t. shitty mcmemer

>>9631285
Yes it matches that one cuck who posts ironic redpills in EVERY thread

>>9631317
I was starting to think I was the only one seeing that. Thank god I'm not going insane.

>>9631103
There are many handbooks, like Deutsch's, one can pick up if one's really interested. But a GREAT book to start with is Owen Barfield's Poetic Diction. Combine with Pinsky's The Sounds of Poetry, but read Barfield first.

>>9631068
STOP MAKING THESE FUCKING POSTS

IT HAS TO STOP

FUCKING NORMIE SCUM GET OFF MY BOARD

ONLY NORMIES WRITE FUCKING PROSE SHIT

POETS ONLY

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.

...

Dar land lilac 4 memory noodles
mixed with brutal skill levels were killed five months. Dry the tubers in warm winter snow globe.

http://www.translationparty.com

>>9631136
Was born in Chicago, and go make a record in the free style - United States - Chicago, that somber city - myself and my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes less sin. Human nature is his destiny, heraclée.

I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. But a man's character is his fate, says Heraclitus, and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.

>>9631016
some Reddit fag

>>9631016
Bronze Age Pervert

>>9631080
Yep. They even celebrated the first of april as "Chuck Tingle Day" on r/books.

>>9631001
exactly the kind of cynicism this board needs

>>9631031
Agree.

The sooner /lit/ recognizes scholarly pursuits are a farce and Harold Bloom is a jester and surrenders itself to the unconscious womb of pure enjoyment the better.

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>>9631001

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>>9630729

what did you think of The God of Small Things?

>>9630729
I fucking hate rupi kaur

>>9630744
i liked it, but could not shake the feeling that it was too blunt or one-note. Dont know too much of Indian culture to know for sure.

Suck a few penises

>>9630706
haha thanks!

>>9630688
Start with any of them. If you need a title, try The Sound of Waves, a beautiful coming-of-age story.

>>9630419
How many fucking threads have you created today, you boring faggot?

>>9630419
>used to think literature was some kind of highly advanced art form I will never understand
>a lifetime of reading later and I still feel the same way

I'm some kind of stupid.