I made a post about this yesterday but I didn't get any responses. Just wanna see if anybody else feels this way... I'm an English major and I love reading but lately I've been feeling like I don't even know what I'm talking about in the papers I have to write for class. I either feel like I'm overanalyzing the text or that I'm just writing mindless drivel. And it's frustrating because I enjoy writing and I wish I enjoyed it more in the context of my classes, but in the end I just feel like I'm coming up with some bullshit analysis to fill out a paper. I just get depressed a lot of the time when I turn in my assignments. Can anybody relate?
Also books for this feel?
>>9638114
Stop posting things related to literature. It has to relate to women, blacks, jews, plebbit, etc. to warrant replies on here
>>9638114
The best way to honestly engage with great writing, is to write something yourself. Essays are frequently useless. The biggest exception being when T.S. Eliot told everyone that using Joyce's techniques won't make them derivative, because his discoveries were equivalent to Einstein's.
It's all bullshit, but the good bullshit is the bullshit that is confident and convincing.
I tried to read Naked Lunch but I couldn't understand it. It's too complicated for me. Is Soft Machine any better/coherent/accessible? If not, which of his works should I start with?
>>9638066
Junky and Queer are more accesible.
>>9638110
Thanks. How about Soft Machine, though? Is it as difficult as Naked Lunch?
>>9638066
Just watch the movie.
Give me the best books to put me on the path of excellent literary knowledge and understanding. Forgo any comments about starting with Greeks, etc. Give me the good stuff, not the obvious shit everyone knows.
it's literally never going to happen this way.
you will just be a wanna-be cuck in the end.
>>9638019
this will link the entire middle-east for you, everything else comes from the desert
>>9638019
Forgo the Greeks? That's like asking me what is twelve, and you saying, "Don't give me any of that 2x6, or 6x2, or 3x4, or 4x3 nonsense".
what the fuck, I love russians now.
Those Japanese survivors are great too.
context?
>>9638872
after a decade of world war against the zombies, russian with it's few survivors creates concentration rape camps to breed new population from all the women they government had access too
When, exactly, did we shift into a Pynchonian world?
when I fucked your mom, little fagboy
>>9637961
Well that explains where his faggotry came from
>>9637957
When that guy with the Eyepatch modeled for shirt advertisement.
Are his other works as good as this bad boy?
i'd say A Scanner Darkly, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, Ubik, VALIS, and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch are all better
>>9637924
I've read this and Ubik. Ubik was much more interesting a concept. It's technology was much more interesting and "far out." I think DADoES had better pacing and was much more a "solid" book, but Ubik was subversive and surreal.
>>9637924
The Man In the High Castle and A Scanner darkly, definitely.
Hey Can You Guys Rate My Story? It's Supposed To Be Kafkesk:
The Captain Came On Deck. He Was A Mighty Figure, And He Spoke:
"Argh Me Maties, Lads It Is Time To Sail!"
This is unironically good. I wouldn't call it Kafkaesque
>>9637912
Op didn't call it Kafkaesque
>>9637912
Oh, well I was baiting. If I write a novel in the style of a shitpost, will it be good?
>tfw cannot understand written geography
like...the written word geography?
>>9637849
No, when an author describes a areas geography I get confused, I usually can't get a picture in my head. I also can't keep track of directions.
I'm not allowed to insult phoneposters
Phaedo discussion thread. Any thoughts, or insights? I found Socrates' to be pretty darn Stoic. Could he be considered the first practicing Stoic? I mean of course the Stoics descend from his teachings, but he had unwavering principles, a commitment to being virtuous, and an indifference to death. I think that argument could be made. Tell me what you think.
>>9637831
Thanks for your reply, you have certainly come off as far more intelligent than the multitude. I pray to God that you still have voting rights.
>>9637831
Why did his post give you cancer?
I'm not even pissed or anything, just baffled. It seems like everyone is either completely narcissistic and/or brings up non-issues nobody cares about. Also, the passive-aggressiveness of some of these people is unbelievable. Just look at this shit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me4_QwmaNoQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXey2_i7GOA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqu4ezLQEUA
Has Slam Poetry ever produced worthwile content? Can it be saved?
Like all American literary manifestation, slam poetry sucks balls. It's just the American way of life. You just don't have what it takes to produce high poetry or literature.
>>9637810
Saul Williams is the saving grace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5cOJjlyh7w\
Leonard Cohen is great too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2XkfBWSmcs
>>9637810
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znIXyFh6dsI
The only slam poetry that is bearable
>Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
Was he right, /lit/?
the chesterton meme is finished dude
>>9637804
It seems to be your proclamation that he is finished has little to do with him and very much to do with yourself. Further more, it seems to have nothing to do with me and anyone else who wishes to discuss him today.
>>9637797
He's always right.
>>9637804
no it's not now go back to facebook
Is there any interpretation of The Sound and the Fury which views the book as a dream in the Freudian definition, considering that Freud, in The Interpretation of Dreams, states that a dream presents things very unclearly in the beginning and by the end of a dream the representations become clear, and in TSATF, the first half is unclear, but the story becomes clearer by the end?
God, I hope not.
>>9637791
what a stupid, reductive reading. all you've done is reify the trope of narrative
>>9638050
It's just one interpretation I thought of. I didn't say it's the best interpretation, or that I would even agree with it, it's just something I was curious about.
If you read my post, you would recognize all of this, you illiterate dolt. Go shitpost about Jordan Peterson if you aren't going to contribute here.
I'm halfway through this and is one of the greatest things I've ever read. I'm surprised people don't talk about him more here, only latin american lit discussed I ever see is BolaƱo, Borges or Rulfo.
sounds like a DOS RPG from around 1993
What's it about?
>plz no heroes and tombs senpai
i think of gaskun for some reason when I saw that
is this the greatest novel of the 21st century?
It's the only good novel ever written. Hacks like Joyce or Dickens didn't even bother to specify the hex color code when mentioning a color in their novels.
it unironically "pushes the medium forward" better than the most overwrought postmodern pseud shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2A1qYpp4HA
ASMR
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So what book are you gifting your parent for fathersday?
You do still talk to your father right?
Or are you all little Franz Kafkas who are scared and timid when it comes to dealing with your Dad?
dunno he left before i was born
no idea, not sure if i can find a book that would redpill him that he would actually bother to finish
>>9637642
a redpill book that isn't by Milo, Peterson or any of those other sellout, fame seeking, low IQ whores would be really good actually.