/lit/ - Literature

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>>2340180
Highly reccomend "Within the Context of No Context" if you liked "Society of the Spectacle". It's like the latter book on steroids.

Under the Dust by Jordi Coca

Within the Context of No Context by George W.S. Trow

Just finished this. While I believe that the part about his mother was rather out-of-place and manipulative, the rest of the story was well-paced, with a huge cast of surprisingly fleshed-out characters. What did /lit/ think?

>>2310110
how so?

>>2309899
haha I said it to the other guy in the /mu/ thread who was asking why boards were getting personified like it was a new thing.
Anyway, you are correct, /mu/ is a great deal older than /lit/.

>>2309884
It absolutely was. /lit/ is only one year old. You must be new here.

Just finished reading this, /lit/. Thought it was slow and dry in the beginning, but it really picked up and got interesting in the end. Are the sequels worth reading?

By the way, you probably shouldn't bring any mountaintops to the dance, unless you want our semen to stain them or something.

We make a cute couple, don't we?

I'd like to read this when it's done.

>>2107461
Hey, I'm reading The Golem right now. Cool.
Wanna help explain all the little side-vignettes and song lyrics and stories that Meyrink throws in?

My absolute favorite children's book author. Read the shit out of all his stories when I was younger. My favorite's gotta be either The Hoboken Chicken Emergency, or the longer one about the Lizards. I forget the exact title of the book about the lizards. It was a while ago, man, but that story and his others definitely helped contribute to my surreal sense of humor. One of the all-time greats, good thread OP!

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>>2105467
This isn't a real school paper. You can tell by the teacher's writing. He writes all of his letters the same way.

>>2100349
That's my favorite chapter in the book too. So far, at least. I really like when O'Brien, or any author, shifts into post-war fiction. There's this sense that nothing is happening, but really everything is happening, the way he drives in circles over and over again, stops at that little fast food restaurant that offers this macho-man commodification of war, the way everyone else's life seems to have moved forward while part of Bowker is stuck in Vietnam. It's such a lovely chapter but it's so, so sad. I remember just setting the book down and thinking about it. Not wanting to go on. Just wanting to live in that world and think about Bowker a little longer.

Gonna finish reading this tonight. Thoughts on "The Things They Carried" /lit/?
Also, what album should I listen to while I wrap up these last 60 pages?

http://vocaroo.com

Give it your best shot /lit/

But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
who is already sick and pale with grief,
that thou her maid art far more fair than she:
Be not her maid, since she is envious;
Her vestal livery is but sick and green
and none but fools do wear it; cast it off.
It is my lady, O, it is my love!
O, that she knew she were!
She speaks yet she says nothing: what of that?
Her eye discourses; I will answer it.
I am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks:
See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O, that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek!

On page 60 right now. Someone tell me that it gets better than this.

Within the Context of No Context by George W.S. Trow is one of the most brilliant discussions of our culture I've read.

>>1791032
I agree that it's worth reading. I disagree that it's dated. There's this great passage where Trow writes that he can't wear a fedora these days without a hint of irony. I get the sense that Trow hates Irony because it's kind of like the "fake love" that he believes Television promotes. Nowadays there's entire subcultures based around a context of no context. Take the Hipster. A stereotypical hipster wears clothes from the '80s and listens to pitchforkcore and wears ironic branded t-shirts. Their whole lifestyle revolves around irony because they spent their childhoods plugged into either TVs or Video Games. But, ugh, don't call them a hipster. Commitment to any aspect of life is the opposite of everything they stand for.

>>1791026
It's a reprinted essay that originally ran in a special edition of the New Yorker. It's about the demise of Serious Culture in the developed world because of Television. I thought the idea was silly when I first heard of the essay, but after reading it Trow's ideas make perfect sense.

Anyone else read it? I'm about halfway through right now.

>>838241
>actually read it
>agent smith, jones and brown kill the whole cullen family and bella too
>feels good man

>Twilight/Matrix Crossover
>Twilight meets Matrix. The Agents are sent to Forks, to get rid of some suspected exiles under the alias "Cullen"

Fuck.