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Need some intimate and idyllic literature. Something to spend lazy Sunday afternoons looking and dreaming for some beautiful thing to happen. Sort of like Murakami. Something that makes you feel infinite.

inb4 Perks of Being a Wallflower.

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In return, I shall dump my Visual Art folder.

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>>>/ic/

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>>1191422
I'll stop then?

>> No.1191434

>>1191429
no, we <3 u

dont stop till you get enough

>> No.1191435

swan's way

keep dumping. thanks

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I like this one a lot. It's really warm and mellow.

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This one too.

>> No.1191467

OP -----> Proust

Spent a year daydreaming In Search of Lost Time

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I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities
or pride; so I love you because I knew no other
way than this, where 'I' does not exist, nor 'you'.
So close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so
close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

- Pablo Neruda.

Here's a bit of poetry with the Visual art :3

Also something to that poem's effect, but in book form please.

>> No.1191477

OP, JL Borges fits the bill to a tee. Pick up his Collected Fictions and spend the next few weeks absolutely lost in his fantastical dream-worlds.

>> No.1191479

Also OP, you need Marquez. Anything by him, but especially Hundred Years of Solitude.

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>>1191467
>>1191467
I'll look into it

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>>1191479
I have that book, but I've always been pushing it off later since I couldn't quite get into the text.

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>>1191483
I'm cut, OP

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>>1191487
uhm. What?

>> No.1191496

>>1191493
and the Borges suggestion?

>> No.1191501

>>1191496
I'm not familiar with him. I'll look into him as well. On a random side note, I first thought it was some English name, and kept pronouncing it as George Bor jes. ._.

Could you compare him to Gabriel Garcia Marquez?

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i love the pictures ...beautiful .... just beautiful.....

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>> No.1191513

>>1191501

Borges is much more complex than Marquez, but his sentences feel modern and sharp in comparison. They definitely express (quite clearly) the "infinite," though.

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English works would be appreciated. I've been reading too much translated fiction.

>> No.1191516

>>1191501
Preceded Marquez (I think), and wrote mainly short stories, although some are around 30-50 pages. Stories tend to be concerned with epistemology mostly, and exploit the boundaries of our imagination and thought as human beings. Quite lighter reading than Marquez. I'll link you to a short story written by him that's a particularly good introductory one:

http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jatill/175/CircularRuins.htm

>> No.1191518

Yes to Borges, No to Marquez

The first one actually gets the magical realism genre, the later is just plain boring

>> No.1191521

Dandelion Wine

yeah, it's by Bradbury, but it's in no way SF or bizzare. It's in every way a nostalgic lazy sunday book.

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Please excuse me for awhile. I'll be reading off of all the suggestions with what I can find off the internet. I'll see if I like their style.

As of now the Proust suggestion looks good. The first few paragraphs of Swann's Way sounds exactly like what I was looking for.