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How do people do that? I mean, I'm fine with that, but how do you know when it's the moment to skip pages or passages?

Why the fuck are there so many frogposters right now?

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>tfw there are 8 pepes among the first two lines of /lit/'s catalog

DUDE ANAMNESIS LMAO

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>>9598024
Sophistry

>>9598024
>hmm, what's the capital of Egypt? I'm not quite sure
>look it up
>oh, it's Cairo

I didn't know that, and now I know.

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Why he wear the thing on his head. Looks like a wigger lesbian

Dude, who fucking cares, seriously? Read DFW and shut up

>>9598207
Fuck no

>>9597988
>listening to audiobooks whilst sleepy in bed
Why? Can't you just like listen to them while sitting in a chair or read them in a book format?

>listening to the audiojew
never gonna make it

>>9598000
You have no idea how comfy it is to listen to Kafka at 3:00AM while you're buried under 3 layers of blankets

>>9597958
hopefully it will atract a fuckton of redditors who will outnumber the /pol/tards

yes /pol/ is worse than reddit

>6 Murakami books in the Japanese lit list? Looks about right.
>This is like a list of high school English books.
>/r/fuckingbooks
How shameful

>>9597960
Most /pol/tards today are redditors from one of the Trump dick sucking boards (forget which), so no, redditors are the problem.

is that the young queer chap?

>>9597703
how so

>>9597611
>ben lerner

>>9597523
go to critique thread

as to this, probably not

adverb used in second sentence

sentence length barely varied through first few sentences

cliched language like "deafing silence"

its not terrible, but i believe anon you need to read more and work more

hang in there anon

>>9597535
Thank you. ive been trying to write this for the last five years and im fifty pages in

>3am
>"Dicks"
>John's eyes slowly opened. Freezing, cold sweat. Soaking into the bed. Every night he would wake up like this.

I can't think of a more mind-numbing way to spend your time. Just look words up when you find one you don't recognize.

>>9597411
I really enjoy reading the dictionary in short spurts.......you find some really interesting, idiosyncratic words.

you must hate language. why are you here?

>>9597405

ive got a two-volume oed beside my reading couch that i can't help reading sometimes

blood dance

>>9597380
http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading/sub

>>9597380
Greeks/dante/romantic poetry/modernist poetry/shakespeare/restoration literature/drama anthology/art of fiction by Lodge or Gardner

Boom, you'll be the smartest man on lit on ready to tackle the monsters of modern and post modern lit

If your first thing is shit, nobody will read it and then you can freely do the same thing again without anybody noticing because, like I said, nobody will have read the first attempt.

>>9597330
just write it u fuckign faggot

start with short stories. do what you want as nobody is going to read them.

write a shit short story using your idea....then re-write it as a novel when you're a good writer ina decade or so

>>9596881
If you're the kind of person who would enjoy wallace and infinite jest you probably would already know it and be out right now buying copies of his books to give to co-workers and acquaintances without their solicitation teling them it will change their life.

or you're a normal person. https://www.reddit.com/user/jeremy1122/comments/?sort=top

>You don't need a magic sewer cover to teleport, my friend.
>Have you heard of Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace?
>It is the greatest and most complex novel ever written, and also the most accessible. It is simultaneously postmodernism's densest star and also a great children's book. How Wallace achieved this is unknown at this point in history, but since Wallace's death in 2008, more and more scholars are dropping everything to pursue the book's mysteries. It's not uncommon nowadays for entire English departments to be devoted to studying Infinite Jest. These professors don't teach any classes; they just write on yellow paper.
>How can a book be so instructive and so entertaining simultaneously? We don't know. It's possible Wallace never meant for us to find out. If so, we'll be forever in the dark. I choose not to believe that. I choose to believe that with all the light Wallace has brought into the world, transforming people both intellectually and spiritually with his timeless commencement speech, that Wallace designed the novel's secrets to be ultimately discoverable.
>For now, all we can do is wait.

>>9596897
I already do that, but I've never read Infinite Jest

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Idk why I was given this.

>>9596877
I enjoy reading

For the mystical epiphany that happens every once and awhile. And at this point it's one of the few activities that still holds my interest.

>>9596877
Started as a way to fall asleep at night, now I enjoy it.

Plato's views on poetry and mimesis in The Republic

Aristotle's Poetics

The Romantics (English + German) on the function of poetry and the poet seeing the truer or better reality, or creating it

Auerbach's Mimesis

Northrop Frye on mimesis

Ricoeur on narrative

>>9596849
An excellent reply, thanks a lot anon

>>9597113
No worries, also check out
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88v/blueguitar.html

The man bent over his guitar,
A shearsman of sorts. The day was green.

They said, "You have a blue guitar,
You do not play things as they are."

The man replied, "Things as they are
Are changed upon the blue guitar."

And they said then, "But play, you must,
A tune beyond us, yet ourselves,

A tune upon the blue guitar
Of things exactly as they are."

Araby>Dubliners>Ulysses>Fin

>>9596752
Under which parameters?

>>9596903
kalaeido-parembulaic

>>9596675
the greeks, unironically

Marcuse's two books on Hegel, Taylor's two books, Robert Brandom, Robert Pippin, Zizek's criticisms of Brandom and Pippin

>>9596675
Ask /pol/. They know all about the 'Hegelian dialectic'

>the future you face is one of robots doing production and you as nothing more than a potential threat, at best valuable as a mind controlled zombie in a hegelian dialectic, pitted against your neighbor - cheaper than bothering to assassinate you after all
>that sounds exactly like the hegelian dialectic; no matter what happens israel is the good guy.
israel should be gassed.
>The globalist's social engineers must be very proud of themselves. They had to push the hegelian dialectic to the extreme, but it's starting to work..

Last three replies containing 'Hegelian dialectic' on /pol/. kek