Any opinions on William Blake?
Nobody on /lit/ has really read him even though he's the most important romantic, even the oldfags around their 30s.
Read him and shill him on /lit/, plz n thx
>>9622711
Love him, but reading a whole bunch of him at once is bewildering.
His almost childishly direct rhythm is infectious and admirable.
>>9622748
Case in point, this dude has barely read past what you can read beyond the norton poetry collection.
I've read the majority of his work, but am too lazy to shill. Also, I hate this place, besides a few people.
Plz do shill him, someone.
Time to get pretenious. What are we reading and drinking Tonight?
For myself, the Count of Monte Cristo, and a Sweet Dornfelder Red
>reading
youtube comments on top 40 pop songs from 2004
>drinking
leftover juice from my pickled jalapenos with a splash of vodka
reading pic related and drinking bottled water
>>9622667
This guy fucks.
How come /pol/ calls /lit/ communist left-wingers when the most popular writers here are people like DFW, Nick Land, Max Stirner, Jordan Peterson, Houellebecq, and the Greeks? To me it seems like this is the most right-wing board on this website.
>>9622534
why are people always desperate to talk about politics?
>>9622534
>DFW
meme
>Land
meme on amphetamine
>Stirner
Legit
>Peterson
Spooked little bitch
>Houllebecq
disgusting frenchman
>the greeks
meme
>DFW
>Nick Land
>Max Stirner,
>Houellebecq
>the Greeks
to label these "Right Wing" ranges from oversimplification to flat out wrong.
>Jordan Peterson,
/pol/ faggots meme him because they want to larp intellectualism
please leave the board now
Convince me why I should dedicate hours of my life to reading the Greeks.
You need to understand the greeks in order to fully comprehend Aquinas, that should be your endgame.
>>9622481
But why should I care about understanding Aquinas
>>9622475
Because the amount of insight they provided into being human still hasnt been matched
This is honestly one of the best books I've ever read. I didn't expect it to be such a beautiful depiction of fatherhood.
Thanks, glad you liked it
t. Homer
>>9622440
The bit with his dog Argos kills me every time.
What I love about it is that, my whole life, I'm conditioned to expect a sort of epic adventure story made up of fights with cyclops and whatnot. Turns out, that stuff is blown through in a couple of books, and the majority of the epic is devoted to an increedible story of identity. Caught me off guard
>>9622467
All related by a disguised old storyteller who tells it to the nobility of an island about to be closed off from the rest of humanity forever. Plenty of room the poet leaves the auditor to suspect it's all a bullshit tale, but one point is that this hardly matters. A lesson very many still need to learn in this OCD 'muh accuracy, muh scientific rigor' age.
So I stopped at my local bookstore and noticed that there was a copy of pic related by the register for 40 bucks. I was pretty shocked to see an actual copy of this (especially so because of how small the store is), I've always assumed its just some obscure /lit/ meme. US it actually worth buying?
If you have to ask, the answer is no.
>>9622300
even if you don't have to ask it isn't worth buying.
Make sure to read all of Poe beforehand
Is Khomeini the closest we've ever had to a philosopher king?
>made a constitution for his country based on Plato's Republic
>composed ecstatic mystic poetry
>reorganized society along high moral principles
>suppressed free speech
>supported the rights of religious minorities, including Jews
Nader Naderpour talked to him for four hours in poetry. Every line of Persian/Arabic poetry Naderpour quoted, Khomeini could recite the following line.
Name me one (1) living Western classicist who could do the same in our body of Greek and Latin poetry.
But we support Saudis who sew women's vaginas shut, Egyptians who bomb Christian churches, because of oil.
>>9621996
>suppressed free speech
Why?
>>9622004
Have you not read the Republic?
I'm not defending Khomeini, none of us would want to live in his state, I imagine. But he's the closest any ruler has come to putting Plato's ideas into effect.
>TFW you want to contribute to discussions but haven't read enough to do so
>they haven't either, they're just pretending, dipshit.
>tfw you have read more than all of them together but discussion is not about actual arguments but about rhetoric and communication skills
>you never pay attention in class, because you're busy finding ways to masturbate without anyone else noticing
Reminder that the human organism has an incredible adaptive capacity, of which you, as you know yourself, are the result, and if you are having any kind of problem with that self, you dont need some spiritual or philosophy shit but simply to appeal again to that inner capacity to build something new. anything holding your back is that old self scaring you so to perpetuate itself. anything anyone might give you wont do a thing.
So just drop the books and face the void. the rest will be done by the organism itself, all on its own.
>>9621946
>drop the books
fuck off
>>9621946
>see old crone
>click to read
>find wisdom older than ancientfags
How many years did you live before finding that gem?
Regardless, anon, thank you.
fuck off you lazy idiot
Obama
they had to give it to a jewish guy or they would be called anti-semitic
Which Fitzgerald books besides Gatsby are worth checking out? I hear mixed things about all of them. Are the short stories good?
>>9621775
I used to be a big Fitzgerald fan and remember liking Tender is the Night quite a bit, but haven't gone back to it in a while. Also remember the short story "A Diamond as Big as the Ritz" having an effect on me. Might start with that and see if you like it.
>>9621775
All of his novels except maybe the unfinished one are worth it.
I liked tender is the night better than the great Gatsby. If you read it make sure you get the 1934 edition, not the 1950's edition -- they change the order of the 3 books of the novel.
After the first book I wants really into it, but each book got progressively better.
I don't want to spoil it but if you want to know anything more just say.
Also, are there any good literature from the Soviet era (that's not bourgeois propaganda)?
>>9621725
We're redpilled and for a white ethnostate with women back in the kitchen where they belong.
We believe in hiarachy, tradition, white culture, and the Lord. Women should remain virgins till marriage and shouldn't choose their own partners. It's what has destroyed this earth
>>9621725
Bulgakov, Shalamov (but they were anti-communists, commie literature is shit by the very definition)
>>9621725
Oh, and also Yerofeev.
Well...? Opinions?
>>9621079
Decent for a children's book. Would suggest it over Harry Potter.
I would put my kid on Narnia instead. (Followed by LOTR in middle school)
I can't think of other mentionable series that are
at that reading level.
why would i read a childrens book
>>9621290
Because it's good
hey /lit/ im stating to read this pamphlet and well, i have some questions for others that have read it before. First, i have pic related, and another edition by Frederic L. Bender. Is there any reason that i should read other editions? or are they all the same? I might read the different prefaces for the different translations but im more curious about what's actually in different editions.
Also, thoughts on the manifesto? comments?
>>9621088
probably the second half of your post, but idk. why do you ask?
>>9621117
Because to understand Marx you have to understand how jews think. Are you jewish?
>>9621124
>Because to understand Marx you have to understand how jews think
explain.
and no im not jewish. i just want to read about history my man.
Felt sick of reading on a tablet so I went to the library to get a copy of Crime and Punishment. The library was closed for construction, but my wife spotted a bookstore across the street. We were in a rush to make a movie so I grabbed their copy and, surprised at the low price tag, got a copy of Dubliners for myself and Pride and Prejudice for her.
Today is the day I accidentally bought three Wordsworth Classics. Should I kill myself?
They're only bad if you hate the covers and the garnett translation of crime and punishment is great so you're not missing out there.
u should still kill urself tho