/lit/ - Literature

not everyone in 4chan is an kissless virgin. that's mostly just arcanines.

>>4207958
i see that more as a failure of the educational system in which that poster was raised.

nothing

i've been writing the same two stories since march. and they're under 5k words together. so it's never gonna happen.

>>4206479
writing is 90% editing, so yes, that's a good way to go about it

>>4207942
in a sense, yeah, since her sister is objectified into the ground and turned into a clear-cut symbol, while holden is contradictory and fuzzy around the edges of his personality

but that's just a feature of people, not a failure of the book.

>>4207941
stop hanging out with plebs then

>>4207921
i wouldn't count on that idiot understanding that the perpetuation of the human race is a fundamentally vain pursuit

>>4207905
but he is though, he just has trouble articulating his thoughts.

i enjoyed legoff's the birth of purgatory more than the divine comedy, but then again it was probably a shitty translation.

>>4207901
monet could see in a bit of the ultraviolet spectrum after shitty eye surgery. look it up.

>>4207857
>I don't understand why people hate Holden so much

holden is depressively introspective; most people can't fathom any amount of introspection larger than their own so they're immediate reaction of "get over it" is all they really have when dealing with holden.

>>4207858
>dat rationalization for why you follow slave morality

>>4207874
no such thing

>>4207787
>christians complaining about being slaves

laughing_nietzsche.jpg

>the Greek and Roman world thought for the most part that sensuality was effeminacy and lack of self-control.

mostly wrong.

a) hemingway has some literary cred (which he really shouldn't have)
b) it's not one of his "main" works, so even more cred
c) it sells masculinity in a way accessible to woman as well, I suspect

tl;dr: it's just a cultural accessory, move on

>>4207732
no one in particular, but it's easy to spot an improper reading. in Dante's case it's more like he just imprinted his own personal mythos into the more-or-less amorphous conception of a three-tiered after-life floating around at the time which has very little actual grounding on scripture. the entire thing (afterlife as hell/purgatory/heaven) comes from a handful of unrelated verses extrapolated to an absurd point that managed spread itself around the collective conscious. so he's fundamentally working outside a strict biblical context in the divine comedy. which makes sense, because it's poetry, not theology.

>>4207717
no, it's well-documented he had an improper reading of the bible.

eh calls out language games and doesn't afraid of anything

also, he's hot

>>4207687
but dante (and you by extension) had an improper reading of the bible, so why are you thinking of him as an authority in the subject?

>>4207668
he did, that's well documented (c.f the entire divine comedy), what's your point?

>>4207657
i haven't been paying attention to the board's reaction to it, but i loved inherent vice a lot more than everyone else seemed to so that's good for me at least.

oh don't even get me started sunhawk. i have six books i'm juggling right now but with college and a general lethargy i haven't even finished bleeding edge yet.

he's ok. master of narratives, sometimes interesting prose. perhaps he is better in translation.

ya sure