/lit/ - Literature

>>21667915
the other, older penguin edition with more notes that you can only buy second hand now

>>21668004
Or the macmillan edition i have, which was cheap, its hardback, and it's small enough to fit into a back pocket of my chinos

this one's very good, I also really love their Master and Margaritta deluxe

>>21668008
Step aside Blood Meridian, Moby Dick is still the Greatest American Novel.

>>21668025
Is this a good book? I do not like drinking except orange juice with vodka or champagne in it. I do not like margaritas as I do not like lemon-lime juice or hefty black holes of sugar. Usually if I go to a bar I will just order a water or an espresso. I do not like Russian authors like Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol or Turgenev. I only like Boswell's Life of Johnson, Don Quixote, Hugo's Notre-Dame, and Melville's Moby Dick and short stories. I can tolerate reading Tacitus, Shakespeare, or Poe, but I don't think they're any good. Cats are fine. I usually don't like hearing satanic perspectives. Nabokov annoys the hell out of me, and I got filtered because Milton was too difficult to parse. I have about $20 to spend per week which comes out to $1040 a year. I already spent $19 this week, so I would have to wait until the 22nd. From what I was able to read he seems to be like Joyce or Pynchon with lots of name dropping and toilet humor, and I was never able to finish their books because I thought you're supposed to read them like joke books on the toilet flipping around and trying to find something funny.

>>21668086
it's good

>>21668086
Master and Margarita is an unusual novel, which is maybe why it's so immensely popular. There isnt really much like it. It has a much lighter tone than most russian literature, almost silly at times.

You could classify the book as magical realism I guess.

this'll do

>>21668004
can I have an ISBN

/// The hotel plans to beef up its marketing effort /// I like to swirl in a pat or two of butter off heat to add sheen and give the sauce a velvety texture /// I could hear my roommate plodding up the steps to our apartment /// He tried to fob off an inferior brand on us /// His main shtick is delivering one-liner jokes, of which he claims to have 200 of /// I want nothing to do with that bunch of nitwits /// The Cyclopes, too, were gigantic, towering up like mighty mountain crags and devastating in their power /// The burglar used a jimmy to open the window /// There's a motley assortment of old furniture in the house we're renting now /// How is this attractive aphorism to be converted into constructive policies? /// It's like one of those tinkly bells that you get with Buddhism or one of those religions, a little dry bell /// We refute this scurrilous allegation /// Criminy, what is this world coming to? /// We could hear the sergeant bellowing orders to his troops /// Just plunk your stuff down on any old desk /// He let out a holler as he fell /// The crates were unloaded onto the wharf /// Whence does Parliament derive this power? /// There was no warrant for such behavior /// Now the last of these three objectives was obviously a pipe dream /// Neath his calm surface there was seething anger /// From what I was able to glean, the news isn't good /// The drug has a litany of possible side effects /// Smaller quilts for single beds are exempt from tax /// He has long felt that Ray was set up, that he was a patsy /// I showed up giddy with anticipation, brimming with questions /// To use the vernacular of the period, Peter was square /// As a rule, monocles were a male accessory: If in need of an aid to vision, a woman would use spectacles or a lorgnette, a pair of glasses on a handle /// Both men and women have cowlicks, which can be covered by longer hair so the whorl is not visible /// At parties he always makes a beeline for the prettiest woman in the room /// I've been racking my brains all day but I can't remember her name /// He was agonizing over the moral issues involved /// The team returned disconsolate from three losses /// This had many drawbacks including the added pressure on peewee-aged players (12-year-olds) /// They gobbled up all the sandwiches /// Legislators who enact an unconstitutional law, for example, would be rebuffed by a court through the exercise of judicial review /// The US Constitution confers certain powers on the president ///

>>21668052
Blood Meridian is a better Whale Encyclopaedia than Moby Dick though.

>>21667915
>As I sat there at my ease, cross-legged on the deck; after the bitter exertion at the windlass; under a blue tranquil sky; the ship under indolent sail, and gliding so serenely along; as I bathed my hands among those soft, gentle globules of infiltrated tissues, wove almost within the hour; as they richly broke to my fingers, and discharged all their opulence, like fully ripe grapes their wine; as. I snuffed up that uncontaminated aroma,- literally and truly, like the smell of spring violets; I declare to you, that for the time I lived as in a musky meadow; I forgot all about our horrible oath; in that inexpressible sperm, I washed my hands and my heart of it; I almost began to credit the old Paracelsan superstition that sperm is of rare virtue in allaying the heat of anger; while bathing in that bath, I felt divinely free from all ill-will, or petulance, or malice, of any sort whatsoever.
Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me; and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers’ hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules. Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally; as much as to say,- Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.