/lit/ - Literature

My favorite Poe illustration by Dore

I kind of feel the opposite way, the fear of running out of good material to read. When I think of those authors I just think about how I've already read their best works and that there will never be another Kafka or Joyce I will get to read for the first time. Luckily I've still got a few years of solid material before I have to take more risks with less popular authors and even then the books usually surprise me.

Western Canon is just a big spook. Its generally trusting people like Bloom who seemingly know their stuff to come up with a list of stuff that is important to western culture. Check out his list if you want a general idea

Eastern canon basically became westernized at some point. Check out the sticky for Chinese and Japanese books though, you could probably consider those Eastern Canon

"there is nothing outside of the text"

Words depend on other words for their meaning, so you can never completely explain things.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtOQi7xspRc

Nice Joke thread OP. I kind of like Zizek the best for his Lacanian Marxist interpretation of Hegel. Are there any others starting to get their name out that are similar?

>>6410064
this. I've noticed they've been getting more popular though. Hopefully a few good ones pop up

>>6410066
Knit a toque

And watch Andy Warhol's Empire while swimming

Usually some something with soft or no vocals. Modal Jazz is nice


Lately I've been listening to this album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgT_YSy4Xwk

depends if you consider novels books.

>>6409916
you mean poetry?

the obvious one

>>6409894
the cat part was cute too

Mkgnao

I like Calypso for this part in particular


No, not like that. A barren land, bare waste. Vulcanic lake, the dead sea: no fish, weedless, sunk deep in the earth. No wind would lift those waves, grey metal, poisonous foggy waters. Brimstone they called it raining down: the cities of the plain: Sodom, Gomorrah, Edom. All dead names. A dead sea in a dead land, grey and old. Old now. It bore the oldest, the first race. A bent hag crossed from Cassidy's clutching a noggin bottle by the neck. The oldest people. Wandered far away over all the earth, captivity to captivity, multiplying, dying, being born everywhere. It lay there now. Now it could bear no more. Dead: an old woman's: the grey sunken cunt of the world.

Desolation.

Grey horror seared his flesh. Folding the page into his pocket he turned into Eccles Street, hurrying homeward. Cold oils slid along his veins, chilling his blood: age crusting him with a salt cloak. Well, I am here now. Morning mouth bad images. Got up wrong side of the bed. Must begin again those Sandow's exercises. On the hands down. Blotchy brown brick houses. Number eighty still unlet. Why is that? Valuation is only twenty-eight. Towers, Battersby, North, MacArthur: parlour windows plastered with bills. Plasters on a sore eye. To smell the gentle smoke of tea, fume of the pan, sizzling butter. Be near her ample bedwarmed flesh. Yes, yes.

nah, you can learn just as much with an internet connection and library access

How about some reconciliation with the Russians?

Nothing would be more divine than to eternally return to face any hardship that is thrown at me

These are the annotations from

http://www.finwake.com/1024chapter1/1024finn1.htm

FDV: The story tale of the fall is retailed early in bed and later in life throughout most christian minstrelsy. The great fall of the wall at once entailed at such short notice the fall of Finnigan, the solid man and that the humpty hill hillhead himself promptly prumptly sends an inquiring unquiring one well to the west in quest of his tumptytumtoes.

gaireachtach (garokhtokh) (gael) - boisterous + gargarahat, karak (Hindustani) - thunder + Joyce's note, Scribbledehobble, Circe: 'clap, Finnegan'.

"Joyce asked me 'Aren't there 4 terrible things in Japan, "Kaminari" being one of them?' I counted for him: 'Jishin (earthquake), kaminari (thunder), kaji (fire), oyaji (paternity).' & he laughed." (Takaoki Katta, "15 juillet, 1926.")

ukkonen (Finnish) - thunder

brontę (gr) - thunder

Donner (ger) = tonnerre (French) - thunder

tuono (Italian) - thunder

thunner (Dialect) - thunder

trovăo (Portuguese) - thunder

Varuna - Hindu creator and storm god

åska (Swedish) - thunder.

torden (Danish) - thunder

tornach (tornokh) (gael) - thunder

I guess its subjective since I don't think everyone has the same view on what makes something feminine.

Id go with Belle myself

>>6409651
this. it also includes 'thunder' in multiple different languages. kaminari is Japanese and ukkonen is finnish, both meaning thunder

What questions in particular are you asking about?

That is so K

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