/lit/ - Literature

>all these Humeans

>>4722779
>Demian

>>4646788
>stiched onto a pillow

>>4618980
Spanish mother tongue. Know English and Hungarian. (mom and dad were born in Budapest, my grandfathers escaped to latin america during WWII) they met here and a local community club.

>Talks about Baudrillard

>>4329571
>Bradbury - Martian Chronicles

Yes

>Larry Niven - Known Universe Series

Yes

>Niven and Pournelle

YEEEESSSS

>Joe Haldeman

>Arthur C Clarke - Childhood's End


I.... I fucking love you anon...

I just recently finished Childhood's End, first satisfying climax in a Sci-fi that I've read in quite a while

>>4213753

>>4137704
>So, I Have Like Nihilism Or Something?

>>3925606

>>3876213
>Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

This is a great place to start.

Also, I personally find chapters 1 and 2 of Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament very good if you're having a crisis OP.

>>3666405
luld

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>>3618956

My Nigga.

Its like F.E. Halliday said in "The Poetry of Shakespeare's Plays":

“It must be emphasized that Shakespeare was well educated; Stratford grammar school was one of the best in the country (...) On the other hand, it must as emphatically be affirmed that Shakespeare was not a learned man, a scholar, and there is nothing in his work to suggest he was. There are few Latin quotations in his early plays, not always over-accurate, and he had learned something of classical mythology at school; he had no Greek, but some French and Italian he would pick up in London, and his eager and retentive mind would quickly grasp, both with conversations with scholars, courtiers, travellers and other men of the world, and from his extensive reading, all the knowledge that is revealed in his works, which is remarkable only for its breadth and not for its profundity. When his authority, Holinshed or Plutarch [the sources for his historical and roman plays] for example, makes a mistake so does he, and his pages are full of topographical muddles and anachronisms. Not only was he not learned, he was not even a profound thinker. He was an exceedingly intelligent, sensitive, well-balanced and witty man, full of natural wisdom, but on examination most of the stock quotations will be found to be platitudes, and the favorite passages truisms, ‘what oft was thought, but’ – and this is the all-important thing – ‘n’er so well expressed’. There is more originality and profundity of though in a few of Bernard Shaw’s best plays than in the whole of Shakespeare’s works, as Shaw himself was the first disarmingly to admit. Finally, if anybody should ask how Shakespeare could have written so much, let him consider his contemporary, Thomas Heywood, who ‘had either an entire hand or at least a main finger’ in two hundred and twenty plays.”

>>3580211
>Frank Kermode, nigga.

>>3574382
>Chimes at Midnight – Welles

OP here, but I have to say:

My Nigga!

>>3559833
>because man can't write for shit

>>3466692

>Barthelme
Good pic bro.

Read "Sixty Stories" just recently and while I don't usually like postmodern writers, he just blew me away.

>>2810022

>>2786284
OP here

>>2737423

>>2464395
Do they ever notice the missing merchandise, or do you only steal a book once in a while?

>>2460137
You the man!

>>2435088
forgot the pic