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How to learn to understand and appreciate literature more? Anonymous Tue Oct 28 14:29:31 2014 No.5648495 [Reply] [Original]

Math major here. I feel nothing but numbers, yet I want to learn to appreciate poetry and literature in general better. Please, help.

>>	The cats Tue Oct 28 14:30:26 2014 No.5648498 >math >numbers How's high school, faggot?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 28 14:52:59 2014 No.5648618 >>5648498 Fine. I feel nothing but mathematical objects. Now please, suggest a reading for getting better at reading or something like that.

Anonymous Tue Oct 28 14:56:15 2014 No.5648627
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>>5648495
Double major in English and math here. There's no set way to "learn to appreciate poetry and literature better" other than to just read a lot and think about what you're reading. There are plenty of fictional works that offer good inroads for STEM-types into literature. Vonnegut (a chemistry major at Cornell) is probably the most common and most recommended, and some people dislike him here for being too easy and simplistic, but I think he's great. Try Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, and The Sirens of Titan.

Pynchon (a onetime physics major at Cornell who later worked for Boeing before becoming the patron saint of /lit/) engages science and math concepts on a deeper and more poetic level than Vonnegut ever did. Try The Crying of Lot 49, which has a whole chapter on Maxwell's Demon.

Or, if you're not looking for something that specifically connects to your math background, just pick anything from the starter kit. They're all very readable and fun. Personally, I like Huck Finn, Catch-22, and Lolita best.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 28 14:56:26 2014 No.5648629 File: 2.39 MB, 1920x1040, 138770vlcsnap2013061522h27m26s198.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5648495 Actually nevermind the part about feeling. I feel a lot, it's just that I am asocial made me write that. But still.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 28 14:56:38 2014 No.5648630 read the sticky

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 28 17:13:47 2014 No.5649126 >>5648495 >I feel nothing but numbers, Not true, faggot.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 28 17:14:36 2014 No.5649129 Z here: I hate math and I'm failing my math course, currently.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 28 17:15:45 2014 No.5649136 >>5648495 >Math major here. I feel nothing but numbers Fake and gay. Math doesn't deal with numbers at all once you graduate elementary school.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 28 17:18:14 2014 No.5649146 >>5649136 Who learns calculus in elementary school...

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 28 17:40:18 2014 No.5649229 >>5648495 sup princetonfag? Go to Firestone and read Salinger's unpublished stories >>5648627 Saunders was also an engiqueer and writes accessible (read: pleb-tier) stories Math nerds might also enjoy Borges (stories about alephs and shit)

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