/lit/ - Literature

>>9343282

introduction to Richard Woods, "Understanding Mysticism" (Garden City, NY: Image Books, 1980):

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6qcr4olpu57jb23/AAC0y4C53IcBMPISfu2bsyoRa?dl=0

>>9343290

forward, introduction, and first essay in Richard Hofstadter's "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" (New York, NY: Vintage Books, 2008):

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kn1dzvkalqrjrr4/AACPXYrbFShIvLCV1WgsHeYHa?dl=0

cheers op, this is very thoughtful of you

>>9343302

have you any requests, friend?

>>9343301

sorry, btw: i have written a LOT in this book, and some of my books have writing all over them. i hope this does not make it unreadable.

>>9343305
No, none at the moment, but it's kind of you to offer and to make all of this available. Just wanted to say thanks for making the effort & good luck.

>>9343301

preface, forward, introduction to Robert Jay Lifton's "The Nazi Doctors" (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2000):

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mjal6m8iylx4ep5/AACefnk3Rbo7n4sGiCzaa1dia?dl=0

>>9343368

assorted short stories:

David Foster Wallace, Incarnations of Burned Children
David Foster Wallace, The Depressed Person
Donald Barthelme, The School
J. D. Salinger, A Perfect Day for Bananafish
Jamaica Kincaid, Girl
James Joyce, Two Gallants
Jamie Quatro, Demolition
Jennifer Egan, Safari
John Cheever, The Swimmers
Jorge Luis Borges, The Circular Ruins
Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
Junot Diaz, Alma
Ken Liu, The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species
Ken Liu, The Waves
Keven Brockmeier, The Year of Silence
Kyle McCarthy, Ancient Rome
Lorrie Moore, How to Become a Writer
Mona Awad, The Girl I Hate
Raymond Carver, Viewfinder
Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Stuart Dybek, Paper Lantern
Tobias Wolff, Bullet in the Brain
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
Wells Tower, Leopard

all from various sources:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/281895i5t4yc5ot/AAAoZwyPDxHuUc0ZNXn64zMPa?dl=0

>>9343327

cheers, man--thanks a lot. feel free to request whenever.

>>9343460

Samuel Johnson, "Preface to the Works of William Shakespeare" from Selected Writings of Samuel Johnson (Cambridge, MA: Belknap/Harvard, 2009):

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/yumsa7tqcxymwor/AACC00qb7aOk6dPsClR3aDJ7a?dl=0

>>9343282
thanks OP.

>>9343560

forward, introduction to Eric Voegelin's "New Science of Politics" (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1987):

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/oj40i83z4yb365m/AADq5rlFzEoyXTob9VpB8sfVa?dl=0

again, sorry--this is a very marked up text. on another note, i have written a summary of Voegelin's intro here (any and all criticism is welcome):
https://catilineconspiracy.com/2017/04/04/1-16-on-eric-voegelin-intro-to-the-new-science-of-politics-part-i/

>>9343460
Not the same anon but I will dare present you with a few items from my list of things I cannot find as ebooks. Mind you, these are not obscure or very expensive; perhaps nobody has taken up the effort of digitizing them so far, or maybe I don't know where to look:

B.S. Johnson - anything
Unica Zürn - anything
Raymond Queneau - Zazie in the Metro - has to be in English
Blaise Cendrars - Moravagine - has to be in English
The Man in the Black Coat: Russia's Literature of the Absurd
Any of Daniil Kharms' children books (ok, this one's really a stretch)

Thank you kindly. Regardless of results, this is a very nice thing of you to do and I hope your kindness returns to you tenfold.

>>9343710

Bernard Williams, "Democracy and Ideology" (essay):

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ve632qw5qyfp123/AACJblOVtexvXOqqFjc5RsTLa?dl=0

>>9343699

a pleasure. request at will.

>>9343780

for sure. a little backlogged with requests--i'll try to intersplice when i can, but i'll get on it.

>>9343282
hey, thanks rapture

request: curves to the apple - rosmarie waldrop
also, can you do the rest of the Milosz book? :D

take your time ofc, months if you need

ty ty!

>>9343780
Daniil Kharm! can't find anything by him anywhere
-_-

Paranoia is fucking me up, don't know why but I have the slight impreasion that OP is answering to himself.

>>9343816

i got you. tired, gonna finish for tonight, but it's added to the list.

>>9343831

yeah, you're paranoid. stop.

this should be /lit/. thanks op.

>>9343460
there is some way to put the pages in straight (vertical) mode?

>>9343368
>>9343560


Thanks for the hard work friend.

>>9343282
BTW, OP, feel free to flag up anything you’ve read and liked.

>>9343819
I know, anon. As I said, it was a huge stretch anyway. There are three or four of his collected short texts editions in English out there and I have them all, but his children's books, although translated in English, are not to be found in any of the places I know. I suppose nobody has undertaken to scan them. I'm keeping the hope alive though.

>>9343311
i think that's even better, i love marginalia

>>9343802
really looking foward to read this one

>>9343282
>poor scans, words missing
>not paginated
>not ocr'd
>half are covered in annotations
>majority are already on libgen
you're a fucking moron

>>9346385
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little undergrad? I’ll have you know I graduated at the top of my class from every single Ivy League university, have been involved in numerous tech, consulting, financial, and law firms, and have over 300 books on my Amazon wishlist at any one time. I am trained in library science and I am the top archivist in the entire US Library of Congress lending network. You are nothing to me but just another philistine. I will wipe you the fuck out with dialectics the likes of which have never been seen before on this board, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of rare book dealers across the USA and your Barnes & Nobles receipts are being tracked right now so you better prepare for the intellectual storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your collection. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can scan and share PDFs in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with the stack of hardbacks I carry around at all times. Not only am I extensively trained in book-trading, but I have access to the entire inventory of every top colleges' library in the US and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of /lit/, you little amateur. If only you could have known what enlightened bibliothecography your little “modest” collection was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have put down your fucking camera. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn dilettante. I will shit shelfies all over you and you will drown in them. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

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>>9346388

Why are the mods on this board so fucking useless? Do they just sleep?

I'm tired of dealing with rotten human beings. I am truly happy to share what I have- but here's the new condition: I'll post everything everyone wants as soon as these assholes are banned from my thread.

>>9346619
are you 11 years old

btw /lit/ has no mods

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>>9346652
you can put your trip back on

>>9346656

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>>9346662
btw how's that phd program you've been in for 7 years

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>>9346670

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>>9346676
so do you drop your trip and samefag often?

>>9346693

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>>9346694
would you like to have a best of rapture thread?

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>>9346701
MIT and Cambridge huh? Oxford and several Ivy leagues. You've been around.

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>>9346711

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>>9346713
Bentleys are pretty expensive. How did you afford one at, what, 21?

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>>9346728
ur quite a bore

you write some edgy poetry though

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>>9346742

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>>9346745
>>/lit/thread/S2268259#p2269845

>My experience has taught me one thing: people are bland, ignorant, self-seeking or pedantic.

>>9346747

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>>9346754
>>/lit/thread/S2268259#p2270928
>And yes, I am as smart as I think I am.

this thread is a great reminder that tripfags are cancerous faggots who should only be replied to if it's to tell them to fuck off.

>>9346764

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look, I'm speaking directly to any moderator who perceives this here post. i request my own position of power on this board, or at least powers to ban people who impersonate me and de-rail my threads. i ask this as you seem incompetent or at least now in waking hours during my correspondence with /lit/.

if you cannot grant me this, then you shall be at risk of losing a poster of great intellectual value.

this agreement will be mutually beneficial, of that you have my utmost assurance.

(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

>>9346760
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>>9346775
>>/lit/thread/S2272793#p2272856

>What about the post was sexist? You would disagree that women are by nature more vain than men?

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>>9346778
good job anon, you've outed him as problematic, now we can all hate him without feeling bad that he might be progressive or something.

>>9346788
>>/lit/thread/S2272793#p2272924

>Take this as an example: he claims "i'm not saying they're [women] dumber than men, merely that they are superificial."

>I'm not saying I disagree,

how many books have you read anon? Is it literally all you do? do you have some secret to read so much so quickly?

>>9346791
>>9346792

fuck it. war of attrition and you've won. i'm too tired to pursue any of this further.

i'll post again in another 3 years or so.

i apologize to anyone who wanted more. i am unwilling to participate in such inhuman contexts.

it's been real, gentlemen.

>>9346796
i've read around 20 books.

based on my past pace i hope to read the rest of my 15000 volume collection sometime over the next 3 months.

>>9346807
>i'll post again in another 3 years or so.
how about just kill urself faget

>>9346772
Shut the fuck up. This isn't your personal board nor can you give any demand.

Do this out of kindness and accept that their will be assholes who will criticize you, just like there will be people who will be grateful.

You should have learned that from reading enough literature.

>>9346807
see you in 2 months anon

>>9346807
war of attrition because I could link atrocious posts you've made for the next week. nobody cares about all the books you have

>>9346796
i don't mean to brag, but before my cancer diagnosis I was already of a mental sharpness superior to that of my intellectual peers. the freedom of time has allowed me to reach an almost eudaimonic life, and sharpened my mind to levels beyond what is seen as possible for most men. i suppose i am something of a savant, except even in social matters i achieve more than most.

>>9346813

that's not me, but it doesn't matter. their tactics have been to just use my name and post like me.

whatever, as i said, i'm done. they have won. whether that makes them right--i am not sure. i don't quite understand any of it, but so be it.

goodbye, /lit!

>>9346809
you could just answer

also, have any books on philosophy of history? thoughts on Spengler?(if you read him)

>>9346807
this board is dead rapture. Most of the good oldfags already migrated to discord.

https://discord.gg/8Ab23jk

>>9346807
Hey man,

Really sorry about all the assholes here. You'r eon 4chan after all, it kinda comes with the territory.

I (and a few others) really admire your intelligent typing style however. Would love it if you joined us on this private Discord group we're running. While not as impressive as your cohort of businessmen, politicians, and academics, we nonetheless are doing our best to rise above the puerile masses that populate /lit/. Some of the best /lit/ posters have already migrated to this channel over the years.

Please, do join us.

https://discord.gg/TgjNuAs

>>9346619
join our discord rapture-san, for civil conversation

https://discord.gg/8Ab23jk

>>9346820
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little undergrad? I’ll have you know I graduated at the top of my class from every single Ivy League university, have been involved in numerous tech, consulting, financial, and law firms, and have over 300 books on my Amazon wishlist at any one time. I am trained in library science and I am the top archivist in the entire US Library of Congress lending network. You are nothing to me but just another philistine. I will wipe you the fuck out with dialectics the likes of which have never been seen before on this board, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of rare book dealers across the USA and your Barnes & Nobles receipts are being tracked right now so you better prepare for the intellectual storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your collection. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can scan and share PDFs in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with the stack of hardbacks I carry around at all times. Not only am I extensively trained in book-trading, but I have access to the entire inventory of every top colleges' library in the US and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of /lit/, you little amateur. If only you could have known what enlightened bibliothecography your little “modest” collection was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have put down your fucking camera. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn dilettante. I will shit shelfies all over you and you will drown in them. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

>>9346824

hey, thanks, man--just made an account. gonna check it out. you seem pretty cool--hope to see you on there...

>>9346828
>>9346829

wow, thanks! i really appreciate the invite. logging on now.

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what the fuck is this fucking shit

>>9346846
please answer:
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>>9346772
>(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
nice, that's a seldom sight nowadays

>>9346772
wow I have never seen a user banned on /lit/. does this mean we have mods now?

>tfw was about to ask for Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow by Ted Hughes
>tfw is not an obscure book and relatively easy to find in the US
>tfw not avaliable in third world country and haven´t find any pdf of it on internet
>tfw I´ll never be able to read it

can't wait for my book to be posted. Thanks so much OP.

PS: the scans are fine . Do you people even download from libgen ? half of it is scanned exactly the same way.

>>9346846
Hey man, I've just finished checking your library. If you're still around I have some requests...