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>> No.5220318 [View]
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An original piece:

In Kingdom

Ho! Travelers gather, here mine tale
Of lord and ladies lost
To the wormwood forest, shriveled and toned
By the hot rays of sun

A thousand limping angels
Hear one hundred deadened cries
A thousand humming warriors
To the drums of war they fly!

Hurt and pained, loved and torn
Do the followers know the truth?
That God is vanquished
And man is here
To tackle king and school

To arms! To arms! Fight the laws
And stumble upon the moon!
For in lunar hopes
And with bowls of oats
Will we at last be in tune

>> No.5220281 [View]

An ellipsis is rarely needed more than once in a single passage.

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>>5220204
A worthy selection, and very funny one too. On my part, I have no single favorite but many.

>>5216187
Original Poster, there have been many fantastic titles already suggested (I have a particular love of The Metamorphosis) but I would encourage you investigate the wonderful, perplexing works of Italian writer Italo Calvino if you have not already, particularly The Castle of Crossed Destinies.

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>>5220032
In point of fact, the level of literary knowledge is more or less equivalent

A jest ;)

Now, in address to thy question: I found great wit in Mason & Dixon and it is the strongest of the works you are interested in. I do not recommend Lord Jim and it is my opinion that Mr Wallace's novels are highly derivative of more interesting writers

Happy Readings!

>> No.5220136 [View]

What is your intention? Why did you write this?

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>>5220076
There is nothing "retarded" about showing physical affection for literature. If you truly loved the very act of reading, if you understood the joy that lies within the inhalation of an old tome's ancient perfume, the feeling of a leatherbound novel against the skin of your palms, the taste of aged ink and paper in your mouth, then you would be neither surprised nor angered by mine words.

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e-readers kill the very soul of books, which are meant to smelled, tasted, caressed. I am very glad to know that this fad is dying out.

"Young man, did you do your homework last night?"
"No teacher, I forgot to charge my book."

How ridiculous, yes?

>> No.5220011 [View]

All of the Bible is "cool", particularly the Books of Chronicles which literally trace the entire history of the human race (as it was known). I frequently find myself rereading chapters three and four of 1 Chronicles, which unquestionable has the most interesting names.

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I do not keep women, but if I did, she would not be a pleb. She would be an articulate, self-aware, knowledgeable woman, and more than capable of defending herself from attacks on her intellect (or admitting fault, if she felt that Professor Bloom had a fair point).

>> No.5219865 [View]

Seems about on par with most of the writing I've read here

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>>5219830
I'm sorry but this is not relevant to the topic of literature. There is music board for browsing if you would like to discuss music

>> No.5219681 [View]

>>5219654
Correct, but more specifically, it is worth believing in your ability to one day comprehend the incomprehensible, assuming your study and readings are both disciplined and purposed.

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>>5216235
Excellent post. Once while waiting in line at my campus eatery I overheard the conversation of two young women ahead of me. One said: "I love Friends! I've already got the first five seasons on DVD and once I get my next paycheck I'm going to buy the complete series!"

Upon hearing this I thought to myself, "Those DVD boxsets usually cost somewhere between thirty and sixty US dollars, and the complete series must be around one hundred. This person has already spent and is going to continue to spend a completely ludicrous amount of money on an incredibly popular television show that is already aired constantly on television for free. What's more is that there are various streaming sites both legal and illegal which undoubtedly host the show, torrents, direct downloads, etc, all of absolutely no cost. I wonder, did repeated exposure to show's glamorization of shopping and shopping culture affect this person's psychology and encourage her to make these unnecessary purchases, essentially functioning as a commercial for itself? And now this woman walks around bragging to her friends about what she bought, she herself has become a human commercial."

But that is the beauty of Friends, isn't it? Here we see how materialism breeds further materialism, indoctrinating society into an ouroboros of meaningless consumption by tapping into the American fantasy of being white, wealthy, and sexual active. It represents our greatest desires and our greatest failures, the horror of being a poor minority along with the limits of being privileged and free. It is a better chronicle of our society's faults than either The Wire or The Great Gatsby, which are both burdened by their conscious politics. I also enjoy the antics of the Joey character.

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>>5219403
It's "whom", actually

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Zizek is not a philosopher, he is an entertainer and an analyst, and he accomplishes his job well enough: he makes complex ideas accessible to the amateur and he provokes further inquiry. That is good enough for me.

Have you read Foster or Merrifield? Foster's writings on the 2008 economic crisis were fascinating, and Merrifield's publications in The Nation always win at least a glance from me (which is an award in and of itself)

Keep searching, Original Poster, you shall find somebody to consider if you dig far enough (assuming your shovel is not limited in its length)

>> No.5219111 [View]

>>5219077
Do you honestly believe that fans of literary humor are "forcing" themselves to draw pleasure from their intellectual travels? This is an immature idea: it implies that you and you along can decide what is funny and what isn't, and humor is well-known for it's subjectivity and variance from person to person

For instance, I find your adolescent narcissism quite funny. Ha! Ha!

>> No.5219067 [View]

Your criticisms are lazy and surprisingly purple.

Perhaps you found the novel's barbs to be a bit to close to home? (Apologies, I could not resist)

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"Retarded"

I jest. But really, any insult towards another's intelligence is inherently offensive to the mentally handicapped, they of course being the gold standard of poor thought and self-control. Personally, I hold no brief for the retarded and I find their comments and questions offensive.

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>>5218966
>Aldous Huxley
A drug-addled charlatan, a false philosopher, and a false psychiatrist. No merit or logic to the thoughts which fueled his offensive prose. Dismissed.

>H.G. Wells
A writer of children's fiction and not to be taken seriously by adults. A mediocre political commentator, a turgid writer, a poor historian. He did not understand how to form a complex and intelligent character as he was a simple and unintelligent man. Dismissed.

>> No.5218943 [View]

Aristophanes's The Clouds is perhaps the most fully-formed satire ever to grace the Western World: one could make the claim that all of modern humor is represented within it. I suggest you read this work before moving on to other, more contemporary humorists

Further reading: Aristotle's Poetics, Aristophanes's Frogs, and Things Fall Apart (to be mocked, not read in sincerity)

>> No.5218914 [View]

I do not rank the Arts against one another and furthermore I find the idea of competition in humanity's eternal quest to be a poisonous one.

I am currently rereading De rerum natura, a entertaining work but nonetheless an empty one.

I do not plan my next readings

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An interesting writing

The question of authorship and intellectual laziness is an important one though, and though they attempt to dodge it with self-aware trickery and manipulation, it does not change my views on Mssrs. Franco and LaBeuof: they are charlatans posing as philosophers and have contributed nothing via criticism or content to the artistic world.

"Filtered"

>> No.5218834 [View]

Abhorrent. "Filtered," as they say

>> No.5218814 [View]
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Starship Troopers is the work of a fascist: I cannot abide this man.

I suggest you leave the child's realm of science-fiction and turn to the work of other, more literary men

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