/lit/ - Literature

that was literally the best part of the book

>>13108854
>I believe in it, I answer for it, for the whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano-key!
So based

>>13108854
Because it does become better afterward ? I should reopen it then I guess.

>>13109662
that's not what a pleb filter is, you've been pleb filtered by the term pleb filter

Anything by pic related

>>13109148
t h i s. first part best part

Finnegans Wake is the most pure example you'll find

>Woe is me! WOE!

Dostoevsky was a hack and every pretentious "student of Russian literature" in the West seems to relate to Notes from the Underground.

>>13108854

>>13109671
shit im a pleb then

>>13109757
Maybe this will help you

>>13109148
>>13109706
filtered

>>13109148
>>13109662
>>13109706
Why does nobody know what a pleb filter is

>>13108854
bombadil

>>13109735
The middle sure pleb filters you

>>13109797
I only have read short stories and thought they were not so good. which novel of his should one read if one was only going to read one?

The wasteland by t.s eliot

>>13108854
Cetology chapter in Moby-Dick

>It was stated at the outset, that this system would not be here, and at once, perfected. You cannot but plainly see that I have kept my word. But I now leave my cetological System standing thus unfinished, even as the great Cathedral of Cologne was left, with the crane still standing upon the top of the uncompleted tower. For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!

>>13111223
Pretty quotable though: "I will show you fear in a handful of dust," or something like that. Good mustache twirling villain material.

>>13109148
what makes you think that? i think that it was boring as hell.

Pic related is one of the best existential novels ever written, but is overshadowed by "Muh sun in the eyes"

>>13111274
>there are people who recommend skipping the cetology and whaling chapters
>there are people who think M-D is just the story of Ahab and the Pequod

>>13109961
because they're plebs

>>13111315
Why Monsieur you taste, your view, impresses me

>>13108854
The ultimate pleb filter.

>>13108854
better than BK

>>13111274
Every time I read even a paragraph of Moby-Dick that gets posted on here I get hype as fuck. Only novel that beats it is Don Quixote imo.

>a 100 pages accessible novella written by an author most people in this board love about a character 90% of the people in /lit/ can relate to (literally me lmao) is a pleb filter
read more, newfag

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>>13111507
i couldn't get past page 100 of don quixote. it felt like every episode between quixote and his squire was going to end the same way, based on a misunderstanding and reluctant agreeance to his madness by those unfortunate enough to encounter him.

>>13109667
Imagine being this w r e c k e d .

>>13111884
You would be wrong my friend, especially in Part II. Besides, there are many points, especially when Don Quixote goes into monologue, that he's less mad than he may be letting on. In this respect it's a lot like Hamlet. Sancho Panza is also given a village of his own to rule as a joke and that entire section is abound with Biblical King Solomon parallels and subversions if that would interest you more

>>13111763
It's probably more controversial to say you don't like Montaigne than liking him 2bh. He's just way too sensible

people that are women

>>13111192
Washington Square is easiest to get into. I liked The Golden Bowl the most but late James is notoriously hard and inaccessible.