/lit/ - Literature

>Get out my house you lazy NEET of a cockroach

>>14883534
kek

My soul doth tell my body that he may
Triumph in love: flesh stays no further reason
But rising at thy name doth point out thee
As his triumphant prize.

The fact that we think there’s something wrong with that cover tells us a lot about the attitude we have towards ourselves. I think we modern people have a tendency to not take ourselves too seriously. Not in a nonchalant ironic way (that is just a pretence) but in the same condescending way one thinks about the problems of children. We don’t think we are worthy of serious reflection, introspection, and empathy. Black and white photographs seem to us inherently more important and artistic than photographs taken with a modern camera. A writer who writes about distinctly modern problems will seem gimmicky and non-literary, whereas a novel set in the past will find it easier to be taken seriously. Same goes with painting. The fine art scene has basically given up on depicting people reclining or going about their day to do, relying entirely on abstract depictions of nothing at all.

>>14883947
kek

>>14883947
My sides

I wish /lit/ still had these kinds of exchanges.

>>14883947
This place really is a crowning glory of 15 billion years of cosmic evolution.

>>14883528
another one? jeez
tell u what, give me one of those trolley memes to add to my extensive trolley meme collection
if it's one I already have don't send or I'll call you gay

>>14884571
Do you have this one?

>>14884636
nope, enjoy your heterosexuality my dude and thank u for the (albeit mediocre) trolley meme

>>14883947
I need the unredacted original, did that OP ever drop it? lmao

>>14884636
Disz'n?

>>14884737
I already have that one faggot, do better next time

>>14884171
>Optimal learning environment is being surrounded with nothing but cocks

Holy fucking kek
Sides left orbit

>>14884868
Do you have the ancap trolley problem where the invisible hand guides it onto the right track? I've been looking for it for a good while.

>>14884880
fraid not

>>14884880

>>14883947
I hate that no matter how many times I look at it, it just keeps being funny

>>14885167
kek

>>14881488

>>14883947
Seen this so many times and it's still amazing.
>It is a nigger's world filled with niggers who know nothing but niggerways. So the world shall become a nigger too. It is already as violent as a nigger. Already as diseased as a nigger. Already the world has been remade in the nigger's image.

>>14883947
Nigger

>>14885280
Amazing

>>14883947
fucking publish it already

>>14883947
Alas, we shall never see the day this is published. Anon, in the end, did not deliver.

>>14885280
As someone who only knows that he's a philosopher of some kind, may I say, what the fuck?

>>14886056
It's fake, albeit extremely well-written and funny as fuck. That said, there are a number of zany Wittgenstein stories that are actually true, like the time he fled a small Austrian village for knocking out an elementary school girl.

>>14884733
you have the post number

>>14883569
underrated

>>14885280
nice, but my favourite is missing

>"It is no secret that he [Wittgenstein] was enamored with animals, but when the zoo installed an orangutan exhibit he became startling obsessed with the creature. He visited the exhibit often and would stand for hours, sometimes chattering with and tossing peanuts from the little packs my wife had given him at the beast; at other times standing silent as the grave, with a swami's meditative gravity to his unvarried glare as he watched the orangutan lope about in the cage. One time during such a reverie I approached him and asked him what it was he found so fascinating about the ghastly primate. He replied, "The whole of my philosophy is summarized in this orangutan." I was stunned and asked him to elaborate. He answered, "No." Two weeks later he and a gypsy import he had apparently hired for a get-away driver were arrested for attempting break the orangutan out of the zoo. My wife had to go down to the station to pay his bail." -Norman Malcolm, in Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir (1966), p. 88

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>>14884199
lol

>>14887083
Is that Ayn Rand with a moustache

>>14886970
More people would read it if it had this cover. Classics covers are dusty and lame

>>14883569
>>14886731
overrated actually, Kafka never explicitly said that Gregor turned into a cockroach, that translation is plain bad

>>14883528

>>14887551
It’s Gogol

>>14886970
>Longfellow's Translation
Kinda based

>>14887614
I think it might be a Mandela effect thing. Everyone remembers him being a cockroach when the text never specifies

>>14883528
>modern
>not contemporary

>>14887614
>t. monstrous vermin

>>14889287
>The University of Tennessee Vol Shop
Absolutely based. If by chance you are from Tennessee and go to UTK, try to take a class with the female Dr. Schoenbach (I think her husband is also a teacher in the English department). She is absolutely based. Best teacher I ever had.

>>14889309
Honestly one of my favorites. It's perfect.

>>14883644
Well said. I completely agree.

>>14883528

>>14887732
based

>>14889380
I wonder what pupperino posters think about the nubbin scene

>>14883947
absolute classic

>>14889484
is there one in DFW's style?

>>14889554
sadly, thats all ive got

>>14889330
kek

>>14889596
>EVERYONE BE ON YOUR BEST GOD DAMN BEHAVIOR, WE'RE HAVING A LADY OVER
lmfao

>>14889560

>>14889661
kek very nice

>>14889293
Are the people who display cheap Barnes and Noble reprints really proud of them? Or is this a joke?

>>14886798
>I was stunned and asked him to elaborate. He answered, "No."
Kek

>>14889293
The Snow Queen in the bottom right was what the Disney movie Frozen was loosely based off of ^.~

>>14889596
jesus that was hilarious, ex-/pol/ack here looking for a new board. Think I've found the one.

>>14889296
yeah, pretty much...plus descriptions of walking through snow

>>14889754
no thanks man, feel free to go somewhere else

>>14883644
>Black and white photographs seem to us inherently more important and artistic than photographs taken with a modern camera.
That's a huge cliché.
>A writer who writes about distinctly modern problems will seem gimmicky and non-literary, whereas a novel set in the past will find it easier to be taken seriously.
This is just completely false. All praised literature is about life in the modern day while historical novels or fantasy/sciencefiction are not taken serious as "artistic" literature.
>The fine art scene has basically given up on depicting people reclining or going about their day to do, relying entirely on abstract depictions of nothing at all.
Because before they depicted normal people doing normal things, the fine arts were concerned with mythology, kings or majestic battlefields as their subjects. Art moves on. Showing peasants working in the field has been done to death.

>>14889882
perfect, i'll be staying. any good books you would recommend?

>>14884171
>I wish /lit/ still had these kinds of exchanges.
be the change you wish to see in the world.
2018 isnt that long ago.

>>14889324

?

>>14885280
>Absolutely so!
Funniest part of this for some reason.

>>14889936
Gravity’s Rainbow.

>>14887732
saved

>>14889288

>Yo uh legion o' horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out o' uh fevered dream wif da skins o' animals an' silk finery an' pieces o' uniform still tracked wif da blood o' prior owners, coats o' slain dragoons, frogged an' braided cavalry jackets, one in uh stovepipe hat an' one wif an umbrella an' one in whitey stockings an' uh bloodstained wedding veil an' some in headgear or cranefeathers or rawhide helmets dat bore da horns o' bull or buffalo an' one in uh pigeontailed coat worn backwards an' otherwise naked an' one in da armor o' uh Spanish conquistador, da breastplate an' pauldrons deeply dented wif old blows o' mace or sabre done in another country by niggas whose very bones wuz dust an' many wif they braids spliced up wif da fro o' other beasts until dey trailed upon da ground an' they horses' ears an' tails worked wif bits o' brightly colored clof an' one whose horse's whole head wuz painted crimson red an' all da horsemen's faces gaudy an' grotesque wif daubings like uh company o' mounted clowns, deaf hilarious, all howling in uh barbarous tongue an' riding down upon dem like uh horde from uh hell mo' horrible yet than da brimstone land o' Christian reckoning, screeching an' yammering an' clothed in smoke like those vaporous beings in regions beyond right knowing where da eye wanders an' da lip jerks an' drools Jus' like Orenthawl James.

>>14889304
>(I'm really a nice person)
sure thing, cunt

>>14883947
This whole thread was gold:

https://archived.moe/lit/thread/10249418

>>14884171
>boipucci
I miss that, we should bring it back.

>>14890533
It never left, sugartits.

>>14889484
>CIA, light in the darkness, fire on the rise.
>that hemingway version

>>14887732
Ayy it's Bobby B

>>14889288
oh no no no he saved the thumbnail

>>14889309
the answer is no

>>14890850
this would be funny to a much wider audience without the symbol of peace

>>14892061
Perhaps this then?

>>14892081

>>14892086

>>14892094

>>14892103

much better.

>>14892111

>>14892124

>>14889304
haha I think I've read this review on the actual page before. Is it for Light in August?

>>14890159
the capital T truth bit in this always makes me laugh

>>14885280
Please tell me this is fake, wtf

Anyone got that screenshot of the Lit Quarterly page on Amazon with the Unabomber's collected essays in the "People Also Bought" section?

>>14883947
>teehee he said nigger guise so fune

>>14890149
MUSCLED LIKE A MAIDENS FANTASY!

>>14892264
Grow up, dude.

>>14892660
Ironic coming from you. Nobody above the age of 15 finds spewing the word "nigger" to be "oh, so hilarious"

>>14883644
So we need a brothers karamazov cover with anime yaoi bishonens, and not to judge fujos.

>>14886090
He damaged the girl's inner ear drum thing, he apologized as a bitch some years later.

>>>14892034
Haven't laughed so hard in ages.

>>14892132
I was thinking the Sound and the Fury. As I Lay Dying is difficult but not confusing, and I haven't read Light in August, so that's just my guess.

>>14889475
it made me heckin sadderino

>>14889754
just keep politics out of threads where it would be off-topic.
literally no one gives a shit about your political opinions. keep that in mind.

>>14893058
based...

>>14889936
infinite jest or GTFO

>>14890413
wOAH they made a novelization of the movie?

>>14892094
kek

>>14892719
is that thom yorke second from the bottom left?

>>14893026
most based post ive read in a while

>>14886056
Ol witty had a pretty bad case of the ‘tism

>>14889291
N

>>14883583
lmfao

>>14893046
what did he mean by this?

>>14893046
wew

>>14884199
I love it, is there a name for this style of humour

>>14884873
This place talks too much like reddit to hate reddit

>>14889272
Kek

>>14892155
One of them is real, but only one.

>>14890235
Blood Meridian in pidgin?

>>14889327
anyone got thw zizek holding the eva dvd?

can some one share the oddesey writen by a black man meme

>>14883947
>Oh my goodness! The N-word? COMEDY GOLD!

>>14892995
Fuck I love that Artemis Fowl line

>>14892721
Didn't make me laugh but it's true.

>>14883644
I pray to Jesus that you shut the fuck up forever

>>14889596
Holy crap I had to stop reading several times because I couldn't breathe from laughter...

>>14896573
jej

>>14895318
where the fuck did the onion meme conspiracy come from?

>>14892264
>>14895318
Plebs

>>14889554
Does that count

>>14894150
odegger

>>14893886
>I'm on a seafood diet. I see food, and then I eat it.
That's actually funny tho

>>14892734
where to start with serrano

>>14896783
Doesn't even make any sense

>>14893026
We're seriously blessed to have people like this.

>>14892264
Yes.

>>14887732

>>14893062
literally me

>>14896798
Sea and see are homophones.

>>14897150
But this is text-only so there is no sound

>>14892264
this but unironically

>>14897158
>humor must follow the same framework as Derridean deconstruction
Oh no, we have broken you.

I do feel uncomfortable about defending such a fossilised dad joke now tho.

>>14886753
what books are these all from

>>14886753
final one is berdyaev i believe

>>14887732
I can tell this is a spin on another pasta but I don't know the original

>>14892995
unpaid for is the perfect punchline, I hope this guy writes comedy professionally

>>14897233

Game of Thrones

>>14893833
nah i plan to insert my political views into every thread. 4chan is /pol/ territory

you cant beat the classics

>>14883644
>The fine art scene has basically given up on depicting people reclining or going about their day to do, relying entirely on abstract depictions of nothing at all
Extremely wrong. Something like 50% of contemporary art is abstract. Probably less.

>>14896750
Zizek's Lacan.

>>14895489
BASED

>>14893001
The ending fucking kills me

>>14896721
/fit/

>>14894945
lurk moar, jonah hill

>>14883583
Lol

>>14897360
just be aware that this inability to turn your shit off for five minutes is unironically turning people against you and definitely not doing you any favors.
hearts and minds anon, hearts and minds.

>>14898337
>that footfag turn the ending took
pretty based ngl

>>14883583

Incredible

>>14895489
Still one of the all-time greats.

>>14896798
okay ESL student

good thread

>>14889351
There is something off about her face.

>>14885280
Can someone please post the one about the philosopher who became addicted to cream and biscuits as an old man? It was by one of his students and was pretty cute.

post oats

>>14897365
classic

>>14892744
that's where you're wrong, bucko

>>14892744
You need to go outside

>>14901290
I actually read that, it was pretty good

>>14901397

Can you tell me more? Like, how's it written and what happens? Is it a fun read?

>>14886970
based

>>14901393
Someone hasn't heard the news...

>>14883528

>>14903559
Hegel was a big guy though

>>14885280

>>14889287
>>14889314
/suttreebois/

>>14889904
>That's a huge cliché.
Do you seriously think that it's untrue, though?

>>14898026

is it really so perverse?

>>14903884
Nah he’s probably a /pol/fag who was tricked into reading it

>>14889904

>That's a huge cliché
Black and white photography reveals the essence of an image; colours might be just baroque ornaments, but underlying structures represented in b&w the pure shapes. Just like a verbose wont in literature.
Obviusly is not a total arguement, though is quite my point of view.

>>14895489
>teacher comments in a 14-year-old's handwriting
>"Page is to big"
This isn't even plausibly real

>>14897225
second is Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Wittgenstein

>>14892264

>>14883947
I wish this madlad would finish his story and publish it here

>>14889293
goddam i fucking hate hardcover books

>>14886753
>>14897225
>>14904592
>>14897232
http://www.jesus-for-all.com/fikr/pdf_3188.pdf
B O O P

>>14903841
I thought the carpet was a wall for a second and was really disgusted

>>14904731

>>14883947
top zozzle

>>14895489
>works cited
>google.com
>yahoo.com
>tubgirl.com

this one's a classic, still has me in tears every time

>>14903841
those landmark editions are patrician as fuck

>>14892264
>>14895318
I think /pol/fags should go back to plebbit as much as the next guy, but you should join them if you don’t think the word nigger is objectively funny

>>14889754
well deployed bait, thanks for engaging my critical mind beyond the tired memes.

>>14901290
>look it up
>it's real

>>14893842
>infinite jest
i legitimately can't tell if you guys are serious about it or not, the name is so faggoty. I know you're not supposed to judge a book by its faggot cover, but i n f i n i t e j e s t lmao wtf

>>14905003
lurk more faggot

>>14905038
...so is the novel a meme or is it worth the read?

>>14904811
>only /pol/fags hate niggers, the word is simply objectively funny and ironic teehee
I hate you disgusting tourists so fucking much. You have no idea how much it makes me sick to my fucking stomach to see what this fucking board has become.

>>14896573
that's a really fucking funny insult

>>14905062
You have to cut it in half.

>>14905003
its a quote from hamlet, retard

>>14905062
both, but yes

>>14905101
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TTsOjtnV838

>>14889293
>bookmarks are all at the first part of the book or at the middle of it

>>14895489
the original Anti-Oedipus

>>14886798
>The whole of my philosophy is summarized in this orangutan
>Two weeks later he and a gypsy import he had apparently hired for a get-away driver were arrested for attempting break the orangutan out of the zoo
Man was too based for this plane of existence.

>>14886798
if this were true it would be legendary

>>14903250
Why do boomers and nazis not know how to spell Semite

>>14893058
fuck I'm gonna coom

>>14893836
Ok, /pol/

>>14883583
thoroughly lost

>>14893001
I remember replying to that OP, sincerely hope he's alive and well, kek

>>14888185
The illustrated cover usually shows a cockroach.

>>14889293
>"whatcha readin?"
>get up from my armchair to stoke the fire
>"oh just the Constitution of the United
States of America"
>light a match and take a few puffs from wooden pipe filled with my own pubic hair.

>>14897365
I just realized corn is native to the Americas. I just figured it meant Caesar went on and on about military logistics. Did I miss the joke?

>>14892264
Yikes, not a good look sweaty.

>>14906447
that yellow plant is called maize but usually referred to as corn, but corn can refer to any cereal crop of a region like barney or wheat which is how it is used here (maize is A corn but so is oats), do you need any more help

>>14906481
So the pictured plant was unknown to caesar but he used the term "corn" frequently in his comentary?

>>14906485
yes

>>14906481
>like barney

>>14905411
It's just semintacs.

>>14893026
This is just unironically autism

>>14906447
>I just figured it meant Caesar went on and on about military logistics.
He did, but mostly about food, corn means a cereal crop p much.

>>14898337
Lmao

>>14906949
It's autism on autism, the gf sounds like she had autism (I've had relationships with autismos and they do worry about what is normal and not way too much, or way more than normal, and create these little rules like "no sneakers, converse only").

>>14892253
It's still up there.

>>14906949
No fucking shit

>>14905198
top lel

>>14905705
Even in Houellebecq's best photo he looks like a witch

>>14908098
I can write the bluest novels tonight

>Hum... It seems that it's not very convenient being the president of the socialist party.

>>14898337
>despite your bovine toes
best line

>>14893026
>US normies
Those aren't even humans, what's his point?

Anyone have that one where it's like
>Socrates says something
and it's like a dozen lines of different characters saying
>you're right Socrates
Haha

>>14892111
High as fuck Hugo always makes me fucking gasp for air

>>14905249
hot

>>14895489
I hope to god that is real

>>14894945

>>14892755
I'm not all that familiar with Solzhenitsyn's works. Which other book is this referring to?

>>14909561
This is one of those horrible, violent Japanese animations where you have mechas, which are portrayed as a nice secret between mother and son. I like this.

>>14885280
TIL wittgenstein was autistic

>>14910064
Im assuming its referring to 200 hundred years together

not a lot of humor in this thread

>>14890413
But that's not Hitlery Klanton.

>>14910797
>democrats are the real racists
We get it, you Trump guys are good intersectional anti-racists.

>>14885250
So why do you hate it?

>>14910820
>'we' get it

You're not speaking for me faggot

>>14910748
>epistemology vs metaphysics

>>14889275
Holy shit this makes me like Sadler