/lit/ - Literature

Will the new Kindle be good for manga and comics?

just started reading ' how to read a book ' & i am at the part where it discusses the need for writing, underlining & making points at relevant parts of the book. are you anons in the habit of making notes/writing in your books ? i am almost done with part 1 of the book , which i am reading on my laptop-now i feel like my attention & concentration will increase if i were to be reading a physical copy instead of a bloody ebook.

>All happy families are happy in the same way, but all unhappy families are unhappy in their own, unique way

>>13610308
Yeah, i suppose that's true. But i think most people don't detest every aspect of the incumbent order (possibly due to what you mentioned at the end of your post) so the conflicting perspective which becomes established through revolution can satisfy the the most important points of contention.

>asexual spammer disappears at the exact time that feminine spammer appears

>>12525656
really makes me think

Does this mean i can go to an IRL B&N and ask them to order the book in for me, and they'll actually ship it to their store?

Damn... Never thought of it that way...

I'm also interested in the latter aspect but I think to find that stuff you're going to have to do a more elemental study in fields like art /colour theory, visual rhetoric, normal rhetoric, psychology, linguistics, composition, ect. At least, that's what I plan to do.

The Leviathan as the king over the children of pride.

Japanese media tends to stress different themes and characteristics than "western" (read: American) entertainment. In a thread a few months back an anon mentioned 'Mono no aware' as a good example of a theme often present in Japanese media, and you can really see it in an Anime like Mushishi. Animation is also seen as a juvenile medium in western entertainment so the only "adult" animation tends to be comedies, whereas there are more mature showd such as Monster from Japan which fill that niche.
There's also a line of thought that anime appeals to autistic people as the expressions tend to be hyper exaggerated, allowing them to better follow the show. And, well, autism rates are meant to be on the rise in the west, so...

>>11654582
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv268m85ZHM

This is how I read the scene where The Fool is cast by the LARPing legionnaires. His image is replicated en masse, a shadow of The Fool himself, a shadow of a shadow of Christ. The fat legionnaires represent a mind-numbed Christianity for-profit, the kind you see in Latin America more than the West (though obviously there's Burger Christ Culture and all that), again selling on image more than anything else. The violence of The Fool against them is one of sheer terror and rage, but is obviously an allusion to the Cleansing of the Temple. When he eats one of the replicas, this is a reference to the Eucharist, again showing the absurdity and surreality at play -- not just in the eating of the flesh of a man, of Christ, but also in the eating of an image of Christ, regardless of transubstantiation. There's an interplay of meaning between the theological reading, and the personal one for The Fool (as I personally don't believe The Fool is aware of much of the theological implications).

Anyways, the terrified screaming as The Fool awakes has always stuck with me. Surrounded by these images, of Christ to us the viewer, but to him of himself, though they become indistinguishable ofc. The idea being that these are to be sold, but then one must think of all the images of Christ exactly like this throughout the world. In a sense, this scene represents the sheer volume of Christ-images on the planet, throughout space (across the world) and time (across history). So, the Christ-image is one that is massified, consumed like any other product, sold by the fat and stupid. And it is not even the image of Christ, but the image of a fictional man representing Christ, a fictional man whose image may exist in the form of a lowly drunkard like The Fool.

There's a lot more one could legitimately read into these scenes. The rest of the movie as well. An archetypal critique of capitalism and mindless ideology, a rebuke of eschatological belief systems, etc. Jodorowsky's films have the logic of dreams, which is of course open for interpretation, but there is substance behind the images. The images in themselves are staggering, but the substance moreso.

Personally, I think the film is masterful. I once watched it having dropped acid as the film began. The build up escalates perfectly with the film (relatively certain it was intended), once you are inside the Alchemist's tower you peak. Jodorowsky dreams reality for you. I've never had an experience quite like it ever since.

>>11654575
Yeah no that's my Duchamp Nun. Gotta break it out whenever anyone references Fountain.

Although it isn't a very heavy or compelling book, it's a good way to transition kids from little kids book to much more complex novels. Though it in itself is anything but complex or novel.