/lit/ - Literature

I saw Tao Lin at an American Apparel in LA yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.

He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”

I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him and his estranged hipster wife trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen pairs of relaxed chinos in their hands without paying.

The guy at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first they kept pretending to be tired and not hear him, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

When he took one of the pairs and started scanning it multiple times, Tao stopped him and told him to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After he scanned each pair and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting him by yawning real loudly.

>>2680901
re your question: dunno.

Look into Ford Madox Ford, specifically 'The Good Soldier', which is probably one of the most obvious, succinct examples of literary impressionism I can think of.
Plus a whole lot of good old Victorian priggishness that none of us can get enough of.

>>2680942
>The process of dealing with an external environment goes through 3 processes, sensations, concepts, and then wider impressions.
FH Bradley would like a word with you.

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>>2676289
Do Androids Short Out After Wet Dreams?

>>2667925
Ah, alright.

I've only read As I Lay Dying and S&F, and A, A! and LiA are givens as far as beginning to go through his oeuvre, but from there it seems like a bit of a crap shoot, although I've heard good things about Go Down, Moses.

Ought.

>>2667905
Hey Benny, you like Faulkner, right?
Which are his best novels outside of his "Big Four"?

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>>2667782
>not having BADADDIS as your forger
Shiggy Qua Shiggy

>>2661858
Ssshhh.
And the most surreal part is that it always turns out to be productive, and always gets like 200+ responses.

>>2661423
http://www.theaprilreader.org/

SPINE-TINGLING ACTION

>>2649444
>Palahniuk, Vonnegut
Try Neal Stephenson.

>Defoe
Try Robert Louis Stevenson.
Try Jonathan Swift.

>Orwell
Try B.F. Skinner, particularly Walden II.

>Ken Kesey
Try Huxley, particularly The Door of Perception.
Try Tom Wolfe.

>Mark Twain
....try Melville...and Faulkner.

>Stephen King
There's always more fucking Stephen King to read.
Try Crichton, Grisham, et al.

>>2649378
>It's very subjective. Very personal. I loved it because I saw myself in him.
I realize this, and it always is, and I love when I see myself in a narrator or character that I love.

I suppose I haven't reached my "letting go of the world" stage. I actually find myself buying into the rat race more and more as time goes on.

>>2649355
It's not a bad book per se, it's just really fucking boring, imo.
I really liked the part about him growing up and meeting the music-master and being chosen, and then...he just sort of moves onto this series of vague acquaintanceships with one half-fleshed-out character to another. And it just seemed like I could get "transcendent, all-is-one" business from another book without the psuedo-academic presentation, which did a lot to distance me from the work over 5/600 pages (?-it's been a little bit, however long the history part was).

I've also heard people recommend reading the mini-stories at the end first and then moving onto the book proper.

>>2649319
I've only read The Glass Bead Game.
>favourite novel by Hermann Hesse?
The one that isn't The Glass Bead Game.

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>>2648164
Did anyone think that the Jason section was the hardest to get through?

>>2647908
>how many books should I read before I can be a great writer?
>how many drugs should I do before I'm a great writer?
>how much should I drink before writing so that I can write something great?
>which scarf should I wear to Starbucks this glorious June day so that I can type out something great on my fucking Smith Carona?

>>2644363
Reported for declaring your reporting.

>>2643451
lol
You and ZHKND should go on a date.

>>2641503
Let's compare qualia, REI.

>>2640200
Castletripfag reporting it.
The siege seems to have subsided.
Have a good sleep.