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>>9659966

Because threads shitting on Infinite Jest are more fun.

>>9660000
That is very unfortunate. Also great digits.

Is the Nabokov translation good?

He's saying you can do what you want, but you don't choose what you want, basically.

>>9659844
So man does what he desires and what he desires was predetermined?

>>9659876
You got it

>bourgeois philistine
>Ubermensch

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Uberfrau

If we get rid of borders does this mean that we can go colonize Africa again? Or is it just a one-way deal?

war and peace isn't that cool

ulysses is the best novel of all time

So, Ulysses

the bible

>>9659768
But I am already reading that now, a little bit, in the background as secondary material, every day, mr.sir!

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>fan fiction
Heh

>>9659558
well, it seems better than rupi kaur at least

>>9659436
he's a talentless american postmodern maximalist masturbator, what else did you expect?

>>9659445
what does American have to do with anything

>>9659462
american postwar literary proclivities tend more towards this kind of obscurantist garbage. it yields talents and masterworks like gaddis and gass but it also lends itself easily to derivative drivel like mcelroy, dfw, and vollman

>"context" - matt easton 2017

>>9659298
I am the last true barbarian.

I have a curved dagger with a skull pommel, that has R.I.P. SUSAN engraved on the blade. It is sharpened to an exquisite razor's edge.

I use it to slice open all of my mail with the affected mannerisms of a slinkily animated Disney villain.

>>9659269

Disclaimer: I don't know moonspeak so I read it in english.

just started reading this today, read the first chapter and it seems pretty interesting, haven't got to his adult life yet but i can see what you mean, i'm already getting vibes of l'etranger

>>9659311

The beginning was the most interesting part for me.

I really like the intro where he describes the 3 pictures.

Dat low barrier to entry desu

>>9659230
it's called a "pseud"

Either anxiety/depression, or some vague passing interest in the idea of literature.

Go directly to kill yourself

Start with the Nabokov, 'specially Lolita and Ada. Also Sade's 120 Days of Sodom and Incest, though he kind of sucks next to Vlad

>>9659100
what you need is hentai desu

first thing is to read poetry out loud, in original preferably.
even if you don't understand, ie italian, learn how to pronounce it and read it aloud.
after that you develop a sense of meter and rhythm which you could study more and have even more appreciation for the craft.

it is taken that you've read Homer, but honestly, Baudelaire is also an acceptable starting point

Bumping, I want to know this too.

Just get a basic poetry "rulebook" like Oliver's A Poetry Handbook or Hollander's Rhymes Reason, and then a big collection of poetry like the Oxford Anthology of English Poetry or whatever the fuck Bloom's anthology is called and read it.

Make sure to read out loud, read multiple times, and don't try to rush through shit. It's bad enough rushing through prose works, but its just fucking retarded to rush through poetry.

>>9659002
Lmao this guy was bananas XDDDD

>>9659002
this question reads like you wanted to talk about pynchon but couldn't think of an actual question to ask or suggestion to make so you just asked the most generic question possible

I like the scene in Gravity's Rainbow when the guy plays Lady of Spain on accordion, I found a version from Lawrence Welk that I think is the one he's referring to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ziYB_73u2E

Twist ending got me. i never would have expected him to be Wednesday

>>9659202
The Man Who Was Thursday: Origins
>directed by brian singer

i heard it will be a trilogy

I thought early on that all the detectives would be representative of creation (at least in name, I didn't really see much symbolism during the novel) and that Sunday would be God - but I can't believe I was right. And it was done in such a surreal manner.
Even though I predicted it, I didn't know what was going on.

only in the sense that he is overexposed by "nerd culture" people who never read him and slap Cthulhu on every piece of merchandise possible. Otherwise I think it's perfectly sensible that he's considered one of the most significant horror writers.

Not really, his short stories are amazing.

>>9658764
Yes, Robert E. Howard is literally better in every way.

take psychedelics

>>9658652
black dick

Character building? Start working out, read books, take a multivitamin, and stop jerking off.