/lit/ - Literature

Dubliners is very readable, "The Dead" is one of my favorite short stories. Portrait is a little more obscure. Ulysses is extremely difficult, I havent had the courage to read it.

>>12427631
You can almost certainly find a used copy of Notes for like 4 dollars.

>>12427672
I will try to make good posts and have some fun with it. I dont think Im all that well read, but compared to these zoomers and /pol/ posters, I think I am a relatively good example. I hope others come along who are better.

Look at it this way. The board has a problem. You have anons posting about how
> philosopher x BTFOd philosopher y

Without reading either. And without realizing theres a /his/ board.

The kids watch all these idiots on Youtube tossing around names like Jung and Kant like tennis balls, and the kids think theyre really engaging with them.

You have ridiculous comments about "Postmodernism" and "the Frankfurt School."

You have five "Is it worth reading/what am I in for/what do we think of it" threads for every "hey I just read this lets talk about it" threads

And these stupid "books for this feel" mini blog threads.

And I think the way to combat this is for certain oldfags who still post here to eschew anonymity and show by example that people here do read, people here can be humble and not speak with authority on things they dont know about, people can make quality posts and so forth. Posting with a trip keeps you honest. The point is to establish some sort of reputation, so you avoid shitposting.

Nothing ever encouraged me to be more serious about reading than noticing how serious others were.

>>12423492
Even when you agree with someone, you feel the need to disagree with them. Strange.

>>12423388
My man

(500)+(499+1)+ (498+2)+...+(250+250)
=500+ 250*(499)
=125250

>>12423178
The God of the scholastics, with all his metaphysical properties, is not the same god as Zeus. One could argue he is not the same god as YHWH or Jesus, but thats another matter.

The monotheistic god of rabbinic judaism, and classical Islam, and medieval Christian scholastics, has a very distinct and particular form. I think others developed the same/similar idea of God in ancient Greece and India and probably elsewhere.

This is the god who answers the question "why are there things which exist instead of nothing" and who is approached by such descriptions as "the creator, outside and beyond all space and time, the One of whom being is a manifestation, the transcendent" etc.

>>12423147
You should probably read the introduction when its by the author...

There are several reasons:

1. A desire to fit in with board meme culture

2. A Christian reading of modernity inspired by, perhaps, such figures as GK Chesterton, Alasdair Macintyre, maybe even Thomas Merton or to a lesser extent traditionalists like Guenon. Basically a kind of post-liberal or post-ideological shift thats been carefully thought out and no longer sees modernity as viable.

3. A recognition of the strong Catholic presence in the western canon, including figures like Aquinas and Augustine. [And for this same reason you have those who insist on Orthodox Christianity]. Catholics are "patrician as fuck lmao" or something like that.

4. A stupid /pol/ hobgoblin which rudely points to what seems an obvious antithesis to the excesses of social liberalism ("""family values""" as opposed to promiscuity and LGBT ). These are the worst. They have no sincere interest in the Gospels or in prayer, and if they attend church they do so primarily as political partisans.

Looming in the shadows of your mind is the immense desire to possess a vision capable of consuming and accounting for and expecting, to the last detail and with a great familiarity, all the thoughts of all men. You have called this desire, which all men hold, egoism.

It is an ironic desire because it undermines in its expression precisely those motivations of the self which would more readily obtain it. In short, you excuse yourself of the need to exercise the intellect in reading and study because you assume they will not lead you to the "egoism" described. You are afraid that all you will find at the end of these labors is a slightly more eloquent mediocrity. Clearly this suspicion is at odds with your hope to obtain a greatness surpassing everything.

Truth, rather than the ability to see further than so and so, must be the goal of your reading and your studies. Better still, you must only ever strive to see further- much further- than you now can see.

How many words are in a story that goes 500, 499, 498,...,2,1?

[You should he able to solve this without a calculator, paper or pencil]

>>12423090
Well that's a relief. I guess the original has an expletive? Another translation says "dont know a damn thing."
Who wrote this business about beans? Its ridiculous!

>>12420684
>i dont know beans

Is this Constance Garnett? Jesus, what a ridiculous line.

>>12422978
The most honest reviewer of all is one who despises you, stupid. And if his dislike overpowers his senses, forcing him to point to a spelling error in an otherwise brilliant piece, then you may have all the pleasure of besting his mind.

>>12386478
I'm not angry, I'm drunk. It's fun to squeeze out all your cynicism into hyperbolic words.

>>12386484
It makes sense that you're giving advice on how to make jokes seeing as you're living one.

>>12386466
>text message
Sad world

>>12386437
Yes there is nothing to suggest Hamlet prays or takes refuge in any religious ideas whatever, so the reference to the Everlasting is mysterious indeed and I would hope to know its meaning.
>>12386447
Good! I always liked being a fool. The only man the prince reveres is Yorick.

>>12386389
It's definitely a bit of a joke regarding Freud, whom our friend invoked above when he said he would get a blowjob and describe his unconscious to some doubly unfortunate young lady.

>>12386407
Good catch!
>>12386408
Good observation!

Perhaps I am less smart and you all less stupid than at first it seemed to me.

>>12386396
Grear example, thank you. I'll need to think about this some more. My immediate reaction is that it is rhetorical but Shakespeare is never careless. The play has always felt so secular and Godless to me, as if nobody's emotions or actions were guided by anything like religious faith.

I want to """argue""" (insist Im right despite everything ad nauseum) about this monologue but here I am reading it with fresh eyes and it beckons.

Be back in a bit.

>>12386383
Such as?

>>12386288
Uhhhh, I'll probably regret this but oh well!

The hump:

Mamamamadrematermarelongthonglunamensesfreudechodeinmotherenluftendenimedinornooked

Of a once anon oldfag was refailed later online and early to bed down through all forum posteries. The great hump of the meme post replied a shit post is, the pssss-shit of memeagain, bait biting now, that the Hump to get head of his friendly unread an non-choiring one well to greentext of his ready dumb yous.

>>12386275
My previous pseudonyms were Nagarjuna and BigPenis, ca
2015. I have never read Nabakov.

You have confused me with someone else, and despite my desire to be anyone but me and the morons posting in the Hamlet thread, I am afraid you are mistaken.