/lit/ - Literature

>>8731235
Our folk culture mostly comes from southern blacks who created a mythology around the land beyond the plantation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%27er_Rabbit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Remus

Carribean blacks also developed hybrid folk religions adapting elements of Christianity and voodoo.

Bob Dulan basically ripped of Woody Guthrie,, and Guthrie basically ripped off 'Lead Belly. There is also Ska and Mento and Calypso music, both of which traveled out of the Carribean and into America, and from there into England, influencing the development of Rock and Roll. The Clash basically ripped off Jamaican ska culture

>>8730807
yeah I would like to see him try to repeal NAFTA and get fucking shut down hard by congress

Even with a republican controlled congress he/s not going to get money to build a giant wall, and he's not going to force auto manufacturers to bring their plants out of Mexico. His constituency is delusional if they think the president has any real unilateral power

this guy probably

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHdnlifj2rE

>>8723914
you should check out czarface, it has that same sort of sound, heavy multimedia sampling, jazzy staccato instrumentals + heavy beats

it's put on by Inspectah Deck and features a great boston duo 7L and esoteric

>>8727130
very much. hipster-hop is really bad and rap that aspires to justification or apologetics is generally rubbish

Nas is able to look critically things without becoming uninspired and over explanatory

>>8727077
>stupid drivel or rappers rapping about how well they can rap

It's called braggadocio and it is a poetic convention. Really it varies so much among rappers--in some instances it really is just trite, repetitive boasting but in others it is pretty oblique and has more to do with reflexion on craft and meta-competition than literal bragging.

>>8724580
Carle Combes out of Lansing MI offers this tip: cock one leg up at the knee when reclining so your balls fall comfortably between your legs

for a treat give this a go! lie on your stomach with your head risen so you can cup your chin with your open palms while your elbows are held askew, now lift your legs and let them rest back, calves against thighs, every once in a while you can hook your foots together one way or the other

>>8723037
She is so sharp and ghastly. Like wet paper draped and dried against outcroppings of rock, so it's come to cling back along the hollow pockets the stone beetles over.

>>8719809
What did she say?

Were we really boiled to fucking oil by her?

>>8726782
Boiled To Fucking Oil

>>8712097
Is that Bloom. He is long in the tooth and given to praising books based on how they operate within canonical systems.

Since he thinks Blood Meridian closed the western cannon [cowboy/manifest destiny wester] he probably finds it particularly pleasing for its role among an interrelated system of texts.

>>8711799
Boiled To Fucking Oil

>>8711959
>I cannot understand why Blood Meridian is considered asthetically superior to Gravity's Rainbow.

I've never heard anyone try to make this case. If anything the two resist comparison because their styles differs so dramatically.

I would put GR above Blood Meridian largely for the reasons you put in. GR plays to a terror more vertiginous and icy than Blood Meridian. Plus GR is so relentless. Though they are both phenomenal works.

>>8711934
Louisana I mean.

Thou really you could do books for the major cities as well.

>>8709587
It's a great book. The style is totally unlike most McCarthy; it's far more Joycian in nature, really introspective and subject focused. It's also McCarthy's biographical novel and does a great job of depicting the life of aimless, broke roustabouts in the 1950s.

You don't really need to read any other stuff; this book would actually be good to read before his later stuff. It's dense and wordy but no more so than most books brought up here constantly.

Alos Confederacy of Dunces should be for New Orleans.

>>8711562
I was thinking of thinking of tariffs on assembled goods, either ones that are being imported directly for resale, or that are being imported as disassembled/partially assembled components.

>>8711638
no no, I was asking about his book, I could google what his current rhetoric sounds like, I wanted to know where the guy stood when he hadn't a political agenda

>>8711448
>at least in relation to foreign trade)

What are his views on trade? I heard a bunch of grumpy rust-belt union thugs talking about how Trump is going to bring back the jobs that Obama removed. Is he really going to push congress to start throwing up tariffs and back out of NAFTA and the like?

>>8711317
I think that's mainly because Protestants don't venerate the saints or believe in intercession. Knowledge of saints requires a knowledge of church history and the hagiography of the saints in question, which sometimes means a knowledge of certain areas of theology. Protestants also don't have robust monastic culture--learning about the Jesuits and the Benedictines requires a less than trivial knowledge of the same areas mentioned above.

>>8710827
all caps, you can see the long s down in the guts of the text

>>8710738
>Who cares if he's been watching elections since before even your fucking parents were born, he's le dumb!!!

It's kind of embarrassing how 12 hours of college credits in political science, American history, and economics can overpower a lifetime of unstructured experiential knowledge

The Marrow of Tradition for North Carolina

>>8708462
Bonfire of the Vanities for NY

Suttree for Tennessee

>>8707451
bring up how T. S. Eliot originally wanted to open The Waste Land with a quote from Heart of Darkness but Ezra thought that was unbefitting a poem of such stature

it'll cause a ruckus