/lit/ - Literature

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Reading Dune for pleasure, Colonizing Egypt for class, and will probably pick up a novella to get through as afternoon reading tomorrow.

My week went alright, glad that the weekend's here. Have a good one.

Moby Dick

comfy Huysmans: A vau-l'eau

Just started Anna Karenina

>>13895702
>just moved
>now have a gas station on the way to work, so i stop there sometimes
>been stopping there two or three times a week for like the past 3 weeks
>sometimes there's this qt girl who work there
>yesterday i had slept through my alarm clock and i felt like shit when i woke up so i stopped there to get some orange juice
>she's there and asks me "how's it going?" or whatever
>tell her i overslept
>she says "yeah, i noticed you were a little late today"
>tell her i also feel like i'm getting sick which is why i'm getting a jug of orange juice
>she says "yeah that's what my mom says, just chug a bunch of orange juice if you feel sick" or something like that
>leaking precum inside my pants by the time i get to work
>didn't even get a boner or anything, haven't fapped in like a month
so she definitely recognizes me, and we know that she made a note of me not showing up at my usual time, which means taht she has a certain expectation of my presence, perhaps an eager one. and she's now associated me with her mother, which is a good thing??? how do i proceed?

currently reading the anabasis of cyrus

I’m about 200 pages into Mason & Dixon, I’ve read two Pynchon books before this one and M&D’s tone shocked me. He takes a much more sincere turn with this book, there’s only been one slightly vulgar reference to sex so far, everything else has been very beautiful, even spiritual at times. You can really tell that he wanted to write a deep novel with this one, but it still maintains the Pynchon sense of humor throughout without spoiling any of the more serene bits. His handling of relationships, love, mysticism, sympathy, and much others are really mature and intelligent in M&D. It’s by far my favorite book by Pynchon

>>13895946
I just finished a few days ago and it really is a beautiful book. enjoy, anon :)

>>13896047
honestly? i could never get passed his ugly face. he looks like a literal retard, so why would i read his books? no offense.

>>13895997
Ask if she wants to snap into your Slim Jim.

Mostly class related stuff, but for giggles I picked up The Order of Things by Foucault because of its connection to linguistics. Think I may have jumped into something I wasn’t ready for though.

>>13895702
Week went like shit as usual. Fucking hate this job.
Hopefully I'll finish fear and trembling tonight, depends how busy is work tonight.

>>13895702
Currently reading The Master Mariner Book 1 by Nicholas Monserrat and just started The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by José Saramago since I wanted to read something other than naval historical fiction for a bit.

Everything is okay, moved up to a new city to begin my postgrad studies so the week has been quite interesting, trying to adjust to a new place and new people and things seem to be going well. Thanks for asking OP.

Finishing Lolita. It was hot at first but now it's not hot at all.

>>13896177
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.
My sin, my soul.
Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth.
Lo.
Lee.
Ta.
She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock.
She was Lola in slacks.
She was Dolly at school.
She was Dolores on the dotted line.
But in my arms she was always Lolita.
Did she have a precursor?
She did, indeed she did.
In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child.
In a princedom by the sea.
Oh when?
About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer.
You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied.
Look at this tangle of thorns.

>>13895935
Based, how are you liking the text for class?

>>13895702
Halfway through Speak, Memory, next on the list is As I Lay Dying (working through major Faulkner chronologically)

>>13895702
BOOK OF THE NEW SUN AND I REALLY WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT

[SPOILER]SO SEVERIAN IS JUST DEADASS THE CONCILATOR? THIS WHOLE TIME HE WAS TALKING ABOUT HIMSELF IN THE PAST. WHERE DID DORCAS EVEN COME FROM DID SHE JUST HAVE A KID AND IMMEDIATELY DIE? WHY DOES THE STORY NEVER ADDRESS IT, WILL IT BE ADDRESSED IN URTH OF THE NEW SUN? WHAT WAS THE BEST MONSTER, MINE WAS THE SALAMANDER BUT THE MEMORY MONSTER IS A CLOSE SECOND.

>>13896096
Kant and Socrates also looked stupid yet they were brilliant

Just started The Sound of Waves by Mishima

>>13896467
Delete your post and remake it with actual spoiler tags and I'll reply to you.

>>13896479
I CAN'T I'M TOO DEEP NOW I DON'T BELIEVE IN DELETING MY STUFF THAT'S WHY I STILL HAVE RACIST TWEETS UP

DO YOU LIKE PRINGLES BECAUSE I'VE BEEN EATING NOTHING BUT PRINGLES THIS WHOLE BOOK

>>13896469
yeah but they looked weird in a aristocratic way. pynchon looks like some bottom of the barrel fetal alcohol syndrome anglo who shoots heroin and gets into fistfights over soccer matches. idk, just really don't like his face.

>>13895946
Was it a whale of tale?

>>13896497
YO YOU MIGHT JEST BUT HERMAN MELLVILLE STRAIGHT UP LOVES WHALES DUDE.

HE LOVES PICTURES OF WHALES AND THE WAY THEY LOOK AND THE STUFF THEY'RE MADE OUT OF AND QUITE FRANKLY HE'S INTO CETOLOGY AND READING ABOUT WHALES AND HE WROTE THIS WHOOOOLE FUCKING BOOK TO TALK ABOUT WHALES

>>13895702
Just about to start Gravity's Rainbow now that I read through pic related

>>13896405
Not liking it too much. Was expecting a lot more Egyptian history rather than a somewhat opaque view of colonization which just uses Egypt as a point of reference.

>>13896496
>not reading someone because you don't like their face
Are you being serious?

>>13896535
yes.

>>13896488
Okay fine, you nut. You're lucky I love BotNS or else you wouldn't be getting shit.
Yes, Severian is the conciliator. Urth of the New Sun makes this explicit via time-travel stuff that I still don't fully understand. As far as I remember Dorcas was just a normal girl who died from disease or something, it's not like she has any special qualities beyond being brought back to life by the Claw. And I agree that the Salamander was the coolest monster, although the Autarch's mutant troops were pretty cool too.
I just got a new edition of the books and I'm really looking forward to re-reading them.

>>13896509
>Just about to start Gravity's Rainbow
Good luck, it's a great book if you can handle the abundance of goofs and gags.

>>13896509
YOOOO IS THAT LIKE A 1000 PAGE DICK JOKE? I'M AT THE BEGINNING AND HE'S JUST TALKING ABOUT ERECTIONS A LOT.

Gotta get through 200 pages of "Under a Cruel Star" for class this weekend and then I can get back to Other Men's Daughters. Just finished The Elementary Particles this morning as well.

Troilus and Criseyde, twenty pages left. I'm finishing it tomorrow. Weeks good, worried about my housing situation.

Right now I'm reading Fernando Pessoa, my love.
Can you please me my gf and save from myself? I'm on the verge of suicide.

>>13897044
Based and I don’t care about anything non literature related at all, I’m not your psychiatrist

>>13897044
OH I WAS LOOKING FOR SOME FRIENDS OF MINE
YEAH I WAS LOOKING FOR SOME FRIENDS OF MINE

Is the artist the only person who is irreplaceable?

>>13895702
Conquest of the Useless
thinking about getting a gf

I started Ulysses earlier today and motherfucker I don't even know what way is up on that book. I never had to look up so many words in my life.

>>13896471
Based. Finished reading The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea last week and picked The Sound of Waves and After the Banquet up from a local shop this morning

>>13897188
Once you get the rhythm of Ulysses you can't stop reading

>>13897366
This. I reread it last year around May-June and I plan to do it again. Incredible, life-changing, addictive piece of art. It's a universe, not a book.