/lit/ - Literature

Yes! Some of Lloyd's Development and Growth of Aristotle (20 pages about), Milton's Samson Agonistes (100 or so lines spoken aloud), and Herodotus in Greek (a couple pages). I plan on reading more too! :-)

By taking what he thought was right from his predecessors and running with it in his own way

William Blake
Lev Shestov
Vergil

I went to bed yesterday almost at 4.am after writing 3000 words in a single sitting. I'm kinda proud of myself, /lit/.

Those words. They sting. They rip you apart like a papershredder. Emma used to be the light in the tunnel, but lately, things have been dim like an autumn evening. Thirty years of shared joy and grief, in sickness and health. High school sweethearts turned middle-age strangers. She doesn’t remember my existence, and I can’t forget hers, I can’t forget a single thing. But I don’t want to forget. The grief has become my friend. She is forever gone, if there are forever things in this universe. Goodbye Emma. Thank you for all the memories.

>>18193263
Do your best.

idk shit about writing, is this dialogue okay?

As we were driving I couldn’t help but notice the smell of peanut butter and that she kept throwing quick glances at me and holding back her smile.

“How long have you been a hikki?” she asked with great intrigue.

I paused. “I’ve been alone at home for about six years now. What about you?”

“Just two. I’m but a rookie. I don’t see my status changing anytime soon though.”

“Got kicked out of a love hotel too?”

“That’s right. Couldn’t stand that place, too many obligations and no personal space. I didn’t even want to find love. The men stank.”

“That’s tough luck, getting just low T’s. I had the same, just a rex after rex. They didn’t even shave their armpits. Jumped out just three weeks in and broke my ankles.”

“You live with your parents now? Or in one of those rag communes?”

“Tharents. I plan on moving out in the near future, I found some work to do.”

I registered a puppy in my peripheral vision running across the road right in front of us. It was too late to brake or turn away. We heard a loud thump and a hint of bones cracking under the car.

“Wha--”

“Just a pup.” I cut her words.

“Ah, good riddance.”

“One of those pests found a way to our shithole, gave a good scare to my thommy. She ran out and actually sharted on our expensive rug.”

“Fuck that, that reminds me that I need to buy more pup poison.”

to be cont'd....

I started reading books today. Starting with Dune, 30 something pages in and it's quite a lot to take in. But I'm pushing through!

Hello frens! It's Esteban. What are you frens reading? I'm reading my The Cat in the Hat :)

>>15183568
im on tonight you know my hips dont lie and im starting to feel it boy
No one really cares about finding truth or standing their ideas up against another's. It's all about winning. People like Ben Shapiro and Destiny would get the same amount of satisfaction beating one another in a Quake 1v1 as they would by winning their debates. It's pretentious competition for people who were too weak to participate in sports as kids.

>>13674336
fpbp

>>13673931
gj fren. Aristophanes, like anon said. Also the Argonautica of Appollonius Rhodius. And Heroicus. You should also read the trial and death of Socrates, as there are quite a few similarities between Socrates and Jesus.

Can God create stone so heavy that he himself can't lift it? Because if he can't lift a stone he is not almighty. On the other hand, if he can't create such a stone he is not almighty either.

>>13253212
>tfw Rei is Guanajuatense

Can anyone recommend good books on the history of math?

Let's be real, there are underages on every board, including this one. Let's take the opportunity to give them advice, whether that be to do with literature or just life in general. Zoomers are in incredibly lonely situations if they read, and this is probably the best place they can find to discuss literature and philosophy - that's sad. Let's try to make it better for them by giving them advice:
>don't beat yourself up about not having read everything, you never will, and even reading just 10 pages a day for a year makes you better read than most people will be in a lifetime
>challenge yourself: don't put off Ulysses forever because you don't think you're ready, because it won't be the only time you ever read it
>don't fall into the trap of only reading novellas and <300 page books, read doorstoppers too - a lot of them aren't even difficult, they're just long, like Don Quixote and Anna Karenina

Is there anything I should read before:
>Moby Dick
>Tristram Shandy
>In Search of Lost Time
>Berlin Alexanderplatz
>Gravity's Rainbow
>Infinite Jest
In the same way that you should read Dubliners, Portrait, The Odyssey and Hamlet before Ulysses?

I want to start reading plays, so I have a few questions
>Which Shakespeare plays are essential?
>Which translation of Goethe's Faust should I read?
>Which translation of Oedipus Rex should I read?
>Which Ibsen plays should I read?
>Which translation of Ibsen's plays should I read?
>Which Moliere plays should I read?
>Which translation of Moliere's plays should I read?
Apart from what I mentioned, I also want to read Waiting for Godot and Death of a Salesman, are there any other plays I should put on high priority?

What are you going planning to read this summer, /lit/? That classic you always wanted to read? That big doorstopper that haunts you? Something from a particular list, perhaps Le Monde's top 100? Maybe you're doing Infinite Summer?

ITT crap songs with god tier instrumentals
https://youtu.be/nLOr_T5LDDA

Who are the greatest English prose stylists?

Is pop sci worth reading? Is it like genre fiction in that most of it isn't but there are some good books?

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56964/speech-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/dulce-et-decorum-est
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42889/hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers-314
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57261/exposure-56d23a961ef5a
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48860/the-raven

Which of these should I get?
>Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
>At Swim-Two-Birds
>Skylark
>The Blind Owl
>Kokoro
>Miss Lonelyhearts

What are some essential (auto)biographies?