/lit/ - Literature

>>1057887

>Tiny 7' screen
>7'

>>1057385

I've read 56 books since May 15. It's not difficult, you just have to fucking READ. I even read some of those books twice, and I've read some short stories as many as seven times.

I'm not bragging, I just mean that if you honestly have all the time in the world, it's very easy to read a book per day, provided it's not some literary epic like Ulysses. In fact, I find that it is actually much easier to read and analyze a book very well if you do it all in one sitting.

>>1057371

Good writers read. It's a nice way to form ideas about literature and writing and find your own sense of style. If you only read children's books and didn't communicate with anyone else on a higher level, odds are that you wouldn't be able to write anything more complicated or beautiful than a children's book, unless you really stripped language down to it's core and bought dictionaries and such.

i like nabokov, borges, and schulz, and all for completely different reasons.

I read this a few years ago and remembered loving it. It was something really different and refreshing.

What didn't you like about it OP?

i like this thread.

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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/etymology

>>1053851

6
in! in! the bow-sprit, bird, the beak
in, the bend is, in, goes in, the form
that which you make, what holds, which is
the law of object, strut after strut, what you are, what you must be, what
the force can throw up, can, right now hereinafter erect,
the mast, the mast, the tender
mast!
The nest, I say, to you, I Maximus, say
under the hand, as I see it, over the waters
from this place where I am, where I hear,
can still hear

from where I carry you a feather
as though, sharp, I picked up
in the afternoon delivered you
a jewel,
it flashing more than a wing,
than any old romantic thing,
than memory, than place,
than anything other than that which you carry
than that which is,
call it a nest, around the head of, call it
the next second
than that which you
can do!

Charles Olson - "I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You" from The Maximus Poems

>>1053846

5
love is not easy
but how shall you know,
New England, now
that pejorocracy is here, how
that street-cars, o Oregon, twitter
in the afternoon offend
a black-gold loin?

how shall you strike,
o swordsman, the blue-red black
when, last night, your aim
was mu-sick, mu-sick, mu-sick
And not the cribbage game?

(o Gloucester-man,
weave
your birds and fingers
new, your roof-tops,
clean shit upon racks
sunned on
American
braid
with others like you, such
extricable surface
as faun and oral,
satyr lesbos vase

o kill kill kill kill kill
those
who advertise you
out)

>>1053843

4
one loves only form,
and form only comes
into existence when
the thing is born

born of yourself, born
of hay and cotton struts,
of street-pickings, wharves, weeds
you carry in, my bird

of a bone of a fish
of a straw, or will
of a color, of a bell
of yourself, torn

>>1053839

3
the underpart is, though stemmed, uncertain
is, as sex is, as moneys are, facts!
facts, to be dealt with, as the sea is, the demand
that they be played by, that they only can be, that they must
be played by, said he, coldly, the
ear!

By ear, he sd.
But that which matters, that which insists, that which will last,
that! o my people, where shall you find it, how, where, where shall you listen
when all is become billboards, when, all, even silence, is spray-gunned?

when even our bird, my roofs,
cannot be heard

when even you, when sound itself is neoned in?

when, on the hill, over the water
where she who used to sing,
when the water glowed,
black, gold, the tide
outward, at evening

when bells came like boats
over the oil-slicks, milkweed
hulls

And a man slumped,
attentionless,
against pink shingles

o sea city)

>>1053837

2
love is form, and cannot be without
important substance (the weight
say, 58 carats each one of us, perforce
our goldsmith’s scale

feather to feather added
(and what is mineral, what
is curling hair, the string
you carry in your nervous beak, these

make bulk, these, in the end, are
the sum

(o my lady of good voyage
in whose arm, whose left arm rests
no boy but a carefully carved wood, a painted face, a schooner!
a delicate mast, as bow-sprit for

forwarding

Off-shore, by islands hidden in the blood
jewels & miracles, I, Maximus
a metal hot from boiling water, tell you
what is a lance, who obeys the figures of
the present dance

1
the thing you’re after
may lie around the bend
of the nest (second, time slain, the bird! the bird!
And there! (strong) thrust, the mast! flight
(of the bird
o kylix, o
Antony of Padua
sweep low, o bless

the roofs, the old ones, the gentle steep ones
on whose ridge-poles the gulls sit, from which they depart,

And the flake-racks
of my city!

There's very little reason for me to have one or not to have one, so I have one.

I have a link to my goodreads profile in my favorite books section.

>>1053548

>Longtemps je me suis couché de bonne heure

n'oubliez pas d'embrasser ta mère !

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see

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>>1053432

mon oncle a dit que «à la recherche du temps perdu» est son livre préféré, mais il faut arriver à la fin. c'est vrai?

je peux apprendre camus (il est très simple (passé simple !)), mais mon français n'est pas suffisant pour apprendre proust, mais j'y vais...

I recommend starting with the gay science, then, if you still feel the urge, thus spoke zarathustra.

it was a good book and i wasn't expecting it to be.

>>1045041

oh, fuck

generally shit library for such a big city, but at least their interlibrary loan system has its shit down.

not pictured: university ID (>1.3M volumes)

>>1044874

I'm aware of this. I say that this is dumbing down because whom and whomever are words that are still used correctly very often today, and it seems to me that language is changing much more quickly now than it has in the past. I don't know for sure, though - how would I be able to tell? You're probably right that the words are on their way out, but they aren't quite yet.

>>1044857

Those are words that are far more out of use than whom/whomever.

Since 5/15/2010:

R. Bolano - 2666
D. Hofstadter - Godel, Escher, Bach
J. Jacobs - Death and Life of Great American Cities
B. Hrabal - I Served the King of England
B. Hrabal - Too Loud a Solitude
V. Nabokov - Complete Short Stories
D. Brooks - Bobos in Paradise
J. Borges - Collected Poems
J. Borges - Collected Fictions
P. Neruda - Selected Poems
P. Neruda - Posthumous Poems
A. Schnitzler - Lieutenant Gustl
M. Kaku - Physics of the Impossible
P. Roth - Portnoy's Complaint
P. Roth - Our Gang
P. Roth - The Breast
M. Gladwell - The Tipping Point
M. Gladwell - Outliers
B. Schulz - The Street of Crocodiles
B. Schulz - Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
U. Eco - Foucault's Pendulum
W. Gombrowicz - Ferdydurke
A. Breton, P. Soupault - The Magnetic Fields
J. Middleton - An Dantomine Eerly
S. Stanišić - How the Solider Repairs the Gramophone
I. Svevo - Zeno's Conscience

>>1044813

This is only because very few people who write what people read know and use these rules. I blame the dumbing down of schools and newspapers and of society as a whole.

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http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/whoever.asp

100/100/93/100 here, i wonder what i missed...