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>>9609888
>I thought keats was going to weigh in against that nasocartilaginous 'buncle in five, is what I thought he meant

Is this real?

>>9609943
I can't say for sure but by the end of the chat I was pretty fully convinced it was him.

>>9609943
yes it is and i dont know if you dont get it but he's just making a joke about what the countdown is referring to because the guy in the chat named keats was previously discussing carbuncles

Although the rest of /lit/ would probably burn me, they are some of my favorite books, though I will concede that they got WAY too meta at the end

>>9609838
Yeah, while I have generally positive things to say about The Dark Tower, the meta bits after the first one in Song of Susannah had me raising an eyebrow every now and again.

ahahahaahahahHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHA

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>>9609746

It's this fancy new technique you might've heard of, it's called "showing off"

I've ne'er heard of this supposed poem, what manner of gobbledygook is that?

Not /lit/ related

>>9609373
>renowed
Hi John

My favorites are criticaltheory, badphilosophy and shitredditsays

>>9609289
That's the stupedist shit ever. Conceptual is not or executive.

Nigger.

style IS substance

>>9609289
>Concept IS execution.

that's pretty sick dude
isn't beheading people bad enough without you coming up with new concepts for them

hahaha praise le kek

>>9609256
pic unrelated huh?

ishmael is also a coalburner, so that's at least two flaws

>buy a book
>has words in it
dropped. great books are not great because they have words, but because they are great. that's why my favorite book was by .

>>9609054
"What is intertextuality?"
-t. pleb

>>9609054

I think it is just for fun, and it's supposed to create a mood but people are so under-read on classics that it seems pretentious. Like, in music somebody might quote another popular melody or lyric for effect, or in other forms of popular culture you might get allusions meant to work as a practical device to invoke some sort of idea or emotional resonance.

But pop culture is so accessible that these allusions might seem pretty simple. In lit they aren't so simple because nobody has read the Bible all the way through, or they never read Shakespeare, or whatever. But people get that The Dark Tower series has some significance as further establishing a Stephen King universe because they've read other Stephen King novels and get the references, which they then think is more entertaining (or maybe they hate it and wish Stephen King would just leave Pennywise to IT instead of being like "WOAH, interdimensional eldritch spider demon is in this book too!")

>>9609010
>You will never read Benjamin's completed Arcades Project

why live to be real with you

>>9609014
Hey! I've read what subsists of both, and the Benjamin skeleton's the greater tragedy--
In a way, like Don Juan opening the closet to have the nude Fitz-Fulke fully revealed to him in Byron's unfinished epic, setting the Blatant Beast loose upon Europe and the world is almost prophetic in its brilliance AS a conclusion for the FQ. True, the Mutabilitie Cantos are among Spenser's finest, and were intended to be incorporated, etc., but all things considered we have enough Spenser, but not near enough Benjamin. His death like that of Wilfrid Owen earlier was a mammoth blow to Western letters.

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>tfw authorian legends of chivalrous knights errant went out of style

>>9608999
We're fucking redpilled now, cuck

Take your books and shove 'em up your ass. Infographics and youtube videos are the way of the future

>>9609019
damn...

>>9608999
Mods please ban top 100 posting.

>Read good books and you will regret it. Read good books and you will regret it. Read good books or read bad books and you will regret it either way.
-M il Sharan

>>9608969
>Cioran
>pic is of Kierkegaard
Is this one of those epic memes were you make up a quote and pseudo intellectuals think it's real?

>>9609073
It's even worse. That's not a Cioran quote; it's from Schopenhauer, I think.

I'm not sure if I understand your question but some movies convey ideas previously written in a book in a better way, yes. Classical example would be Patrick Sunkind's Perfume. What a fucking bore that book was in french.

But usually books do it better because of no time constraints and your imagination doing some serious work

>>9608993
The movie too was a fucking bore (though I experienced a green text series of events the night I saw it) excluding the cinematography.

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>>9608935

There will always be a place for novels, short stories, and poetry.

However, films have completely supplanted theater. Nobody today can experience Shakespeare's plays the way they were meant to upon release. Actors in theater come and go, and are ultimately completely forgotten after their death.

In film, everything about the film is immortalized for future generations the way that prose and poetry are. The directing, cinematography, acting, and everything else that goes into a film will be experienced exactly the way the artist(s) intended until the end of time. Film is therefore a superior art form to theater.

having sex with boys gave him super powers

>>9608722
That's an 18th century painting, so I'd take it with a grain of salt.
But, the Greeks had to do lots of physical work every day, so he was probably in good shape.

>>9608741
Only slaves did physical work.

he was paid in weed (narcotic plant in the shrub family) to participate in the storied debate with chomsky, which as we now know here on /lit/ was a total farce

>>9608702
I love that interview. It's a shame Foucault died so soon. He was a very cool, stylish, intellectual man. I love the way he talks, he's so confident and handsome.

foucault's putatively intellectual interest in power is nothing more than post-hoc window dressing for his deep sadomasochistic tendencies

It was the system

I think it was the Sun.

>>9608488
Your autism? Yes.

>>9608447
>16 publishers
Look, an optimist.
Start sending out more.

>>9608447
If you are looking for validation + (you)s

Yea thats pretty rad, im guessing most who get rejected dont get such comments

But you gots a ways to go m8

>>9608452
I live in a small country. That's about it.