/lit/ - Literature

>>11248511
Hamlet, Julius Ceaser ++, The Lion King

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is petersan the demiurge

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>>11248517
kek

>>11248511

Finished this book last night. Not what I was expecting at all 2bh

>>11250002
Reminder that Rosalind Franklin deserves zero credit for Waston's and Crick's momentous discovery of the double helix structure. It is akin to giving an NMR technician credit for "discovering" a new compound by virtue of first processing the assay.
Rosalind did nothing significant and anyone who lists her among the greatest scientists of the second half of the twentieth century knows nothing about science and peddles revisionist history.

>read: the divine comedy
>expected: camoes of famous and cool historical figures
>got: MUH WELFS!

>>11249952
I liked it, Racheal a b word though!

>>11248511
Niebuhr was a socialist. How on earth were you expecting anything else?

>>11249855
Based obama

>>11250548
I don't see the difference

>>11250814
Well, i see

>>11249855
conveniently ignored

>>11250161
I mean it's honestly both

>>11250435
i chuckled

>>11251992
try finishing it

>>11252318
i have..

>>11249855
nice post

>>11251778
hilarious

>>11250236
although i agree with the revisionist stuff about her "discovering" the structure of DNA being bullshit, calling her nothing more than a NMR technician is underselling her contribution. she was actively involved in the formation of the theory both practically and theoretically, and edited the draft for Watson and Crick's paper.

>>11248525
Lel. Simba > Hamlet tho.

>what I read: Iliad, Lattimore translation
>what I expected: action, adventure, bad ass dialogue capeshit
>what I got: "and he fell and his armor clattered around him, and a dark death came over his eyes" x1000
>*fully explained ritual to sacrifice a goat* x40
>weird prayers for all the 80 characters x80
>weird dialogue about fighting, that takes place in the middle of fighting, that is like 4 minute speeches they give when they're supposedly in the midst of combat x300
>"and the bronze-tipped spear hit his shield in its perfect circle and passed through under the war belt and through the chest next to the nipple" x10,000

>>11253894
Don't forget about swift footed Achillesn

>>11248511
Should I read Niebuhr? I have that book on my shelf rn, along with Man and His Communities

>>11250398
Haven't read him directly, but Michael Novak in The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism traced Niebuhr's intellectual journey as a Christian Marxist to essentially capitalistic liberalism

>>11254142
his thesis is stated in the first chapter or 2, and then he starts bloviating about socialism and christianity for the rest. That was my first time reading Niebuhr, but I'd recommend skipping to his later work where he may be a bit more lucid

>>11251999
I picked this up from a used bookstore for a dollar fifty the other day. I have no idea what it's about but this has motivated me to move it up my to read list.

>>11251785
The fact that those are actual quotes from thr book makes it even more funny

caesar corn finally

>>11249855
Cynicism and inaction really fits Chomsky-types.

>>11251999
Thrilled, never read the author, but receive recs of razor's edge

>>11253894
>thinking sacrificing a goat isn't exciting and fun

>>11254291
>don't invade iraq!
>lol cynicism and inaction

>>11254708
>stop dronebombing weddings, funerals, kids etc!
>lol cynicism and inaction

>>11254725
>please don't rape me!
>ma'm, action is better than inaction ergo raping is better than not raping

>>11249855
Based Chomsky. One of the times I find myself agreeing with him on something.

>>11249855
>And the reason is because he
Imagine starting a sentence like this and still believing you had merit as a writer by the time you finished it

Hot off the presses.

>>11251999
now I feel bad for passing this up in a thrift store because of the kinky title.

>>11257336
Sad. It’s probably one of the best books I’ve read.

>>11250002
Well, you can't expect literature books to have anything related to science.

>>11257124
Is that the same the other way around? All I know about ACoD is that he's supposed to go on about Boethius and that he eats a lot of hot dogs, both of which I enjoy.

>>11257536

>>11248511
You have to be an idiot if you think Niebuhr is a communist

>>11254381
I've actually read the razor's edge. was a pretty quick read and relatively enjoyable, but not great

>>11248511

Does anyone have the Death on the Installment Plan one?

>>11248511
This thread
Heterosexuality
Cancer

>>11256788
>Grammarian doesn't punctuate his sentences

well that was fun

>>11248511

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>>11252108

Is that The Beaches in the middle?

>>11262212
yes
YES

>>11251043
Bardamu never harangues for that long though.

>>corn.png

>>11262274
No, he just lets others have pages long monologues about how the world is shit.

>>11262890
should have read the tobias smollet version first my friend. you have done yourself a great disservice.

>>11250161

>>11262944
I read it in Spanish.

>>11250539
Caesar was the most based man to have ever walked on the earth
The pure essence of the arrogant Chad

>>11262969
even worse! i bet it was terrible. should have read Smollett's translation anyway.

Have you had the opportunity or pleasure to read Guzman de Alfarache?

>>11263202
It was the best book I ever read.
I've not, I'd definitely like to get some more novels from that period in, if not only for context.

>>11258047
First one that made me kek

>>11262212
not even accurate

move the what you got stuff to what you expected, and then put in what you got section finnigans wake, an image of a woman being romanced by a beta man, and something connotating parental issues

does anyone have one for infinite jest?

>>11249855
what does the chomskom even suggest as alternative? some sort of completely unrealistic anarchist gibberish iirc

>>11263470
fully automated cosmic innate linguistics

>>11248511

>>11259076
Such an underrated series

>>11249842

Did this guy seriously not understand that was a template?

>>11256788
That's obviously transcribed and so on

>>11263470
muh co-ops muh unions

fresh oc right off the press

>>11253923
>swift-footed Achilleus
>strong-grieved Achaians
>Trojans, breaker of horses
>Danaans of the plentiful corn fields
>flowing-haired Achaians
>Athene of the grey eyes
>Apollo of the great arrows

I fucking get it, Homer. The Achaians have strong grieves. You don't need to say it every time it's mentioned. You could shave off at least 20 pages by removing just half of the times "strong-grieved" is written when describing the Achaians.

>>11253894
But what about the Catalogue of Ships, anon?

>>11264042
>Implying that Homer was writing on pages

The oral tradition is the whole point of these stock epithets. You memorize a bunch of them and they're just the right length/sound to fit into a bunch of lines and preserve the meter.

>>11249952

Very good, sir

>inb4 muh yams

>>11262890
Could you explain?

>>11248511
FUCKING TART

>>11250435

Good one.

>>11265579
"Driven by drink and despair
he committed suicide at the age of forty-nine."

>>11254381
>>11258046
I can't believe I am saying this, but (while I enjoyed the book about a 6/10) the Bill Murray movie is actually better than the book. It's goofy, it's wacky, it's unbelievable that they cast Bill Murray in the main role, but it manages to work and actually pulls off some stylistic tricks that don't work on paper.

>>11250548
Totally misses the point about bullying the hooker fall in love with him and the commentary on love that follows about love as salvation versus a privated love misused as tyrannical domination.

>>11258039
Everyone to the Left of Carl Schmitt is a communist.

>>11263523
He's on another level

>>11265467
Great one

>>11263454
>implying the parental issues aren't already presented in the 'got' part
>implying the "yass slay literary reference isn't epitomized by the lionness"
>implying Plath is similar to Joyce in any signifant way (bar perhaps her sesquipedalian nature badly concealing her poetic ineptitude)

>>11253463
fucking lost

>>11263667
>fencing
top giggle

>>11251992
heh