/lit/ - Literature

>>14448052

Inchoate
Avuncular
Maudlin
Sentimental

>>14312402

Nabokov at least was consistent. Tolstoy, on the other hand, borderline went nuts (but he was still a better writer).

>>14307192

Probably because it's P&V.

>>14306717

I got Magarshack's "The Devils" because I enjoyed his translation of "Anna Karenina". So far, I'm liking it better than Ready's C&P.

>>14306641

Neato. What was your undergraduate degree in and how are you enjoying it so far? What made you want to get into law?

>>14306565

What's your schoolwork and what are you studying in general?

>>14305264

Mathematical knowledge is a more-or-less direct interpretation of the material world, how forms and physical laws interact. They're 1:1 the same for each individual human and don't reference subjective culture or experience (i.e. A2 + B2 = C2 isn't mutable whether the observer is a Hindu or Muslim, a Hellenic farmer or a Victorian professor)

Language is inherently an abstraction of material knowledge, because it is a collective construct. It's a system and tool of the human mind to extrapolate meaning from material observation/knowledge, and to refine that meaning through mutual exchange.

>>14294650

https://www.getroman.com/impatient/erectile-dysfunction/ed-in-your-20s/

Eat your own flaccid dick, coomers.

>>14295535
>>14295547

This is such a kino observation. God damn, thank you for this.

>>14273938

>to do something

She advocated recently for people to buy carbon credits, which demonstrably do nothing. At best, she's a manipulated aspergers child and at worst a corporate stooge.

>>14277784

The Fountainhead / Atlas Shrugged
Arguably, Harry Potter for the impact it had on an entire generational cohort of normies.
The Lord of the Rings for fantasy.

>>14278676

>>14275879

If I could draw, I'd make a four panel comic where you see a hair being extracted with tweezers, then split and measured, before a man announces "There, all done!" before you see a bald woman. Pan out to REDUCTIONIST BARBER SHOP.

>>14275331

I do like Everyman books, but I enjoy my hodgepodge bookshelves. Secondhand thrift shopping and selection of specific translations makes for a comfy mess.

>>14275358
>>14275535

This. A uniform bookshelf is for stores, not looking libraries. It's kind of got a consumerist narcissism to it.

>>14275630

They'd be better off organizing by color.

>>14276487

Bigwigs of Athens:

>NOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T ACKNOWLEDGE THAT RECOGNIZING WHERE YOU'RE UNWISE IS ESSENTIAL TO BECOMING WISER NOOOOOO NOT MY YOUTH NOT OUT HECKIN' PEDERASTARINOS

>>14275571

The only rap group you need is Digital Underground.

>>14276285

>nothing interesting about addiction or poverty or loneliness

Sounds like you've had hard experiences, anon, so I'm sorry. But as someone who also grew up poor and has been surrounded by exactly those things, I respectfully disagree. Those kinds of experiences feed meaningful themes. Suffering is the creche of creativity.

>>14274966

Line eight flows better without "the", IMHO. Otherwise, nice. I think the repetitive words actually work well.

>>14268651
>>14271703

Thanks! Would, as a replacement:

>Great Art and humblest innovations
And changing "claims" to "claim" read better?

Also, have another one (with the sunset that inspired it):

NOVEMBER ON THE LAMOILLE

God, the grandeur of this glow
Of the setting sun through falling snow
The countenance of November fair
Brushed by flakes on the falling air

Silence, first of Winter's gifts
Life transfixed in a season white
This cyclical beauty still warms and lifts
Man's frigid soul to a greener height

Oh, solar aura so sweetly diffused
Across this early flurry
In a tempered, genial fury
You and I, stranger, linger suffused
In a moment that's far less fleeting
Than the breadth of time in our meeting

>>14271563

The first stanza is really good, great floe and imagery for the reliable ABABCC format. I have to imagine that one occured to you coherently and inspired the work (since that's usually how my brain works). Second stanza needs work, "fates" and "mutts" don't jibe, and the last three lines don't feel built as naturally out of the first three (contrast with your first stanza). Third stanza is all right, I agree with >>14273067 about the random internal rhyme, it feels out of place since it's the only occurrence.

Also, >>14273067 I'm sorry to namefag, I'm hesitant to do so. But it's because I actually value the input of anons on /lit/ and I think casting aside the veil of anonymity a little will help me to develop a more consistent voice in expressing myself, since you all can hold me to account if I'm retarded. I'd really like your input, since you did a good job critiquing this poem.

>>14272022

>>14272022

I like the opening line, the "ee" in creeps and sweet is repetition that works. Panoply and modestly don't quite jibe. I disagree with >>14272310, I think your internal rhymes are a nice attempt, but it throws me off that in the third stanza they're in the first instead of third line (which is a shame, because I think the third stanza is the strongest). Also, I think "careless for the pain THEY impart" or "are careless OF the pain you impart" would work better; former to give agency to the fingers in uncaring, latter implies obliviousness to pain given from Selene.

>>14273521

I'm actually surprised by how much I like this. I feel like the insanity of modern culture is ripe fruit for freeform observational verse and you did a good job. Well done.

>>14272256

>must buy carbon credits

Corporate approved activism, ladies and gentlemen.

>>14268601

Welp, I started namefagging exactly to be held to account so I have to admit to you that I read half that poem and stopped reading on an incorrect assumption. I will try to learn a lesson here.

>>14268285

Sensible chuckle.

>>14268134
>>14268221

Just "Until I hear that/the bell" is an improvement.

My contribution, which is (pretty obviously) half done:

Two gifts has Man for his expression
By grace of God - or Chance - endowed
The Hand, for artifice profession,
And Voice, our Soul proclaimed aloud.

The Hand shapes myriad grand creations
All works of mind we could invent
All art and utile innovations
From some twinned forebear claims descent

The Hand made sword and plow and palette
Engraved the wooden stock of guns
And forged the brass machinist's mallet
That birthed yet further digit sons

While Hand-wrought works are impositions
A manifest of driven will
The Voice bears abstract compositions
A subtler power to move or still

From here, stanzas on the power of the human voice, then concluding stanzas on the beauty of writing and literature as a synthesis of Hand and Voice.

>>14268088

On the subject of LARPing, does anyone else find it entertaining that the cohort most likely to use a term like "cultural appropriation" (i.e. white Millennial women with middle class backgrounds) are also the ones most likely to be indulging in consumerized yoga and spouting Sanskrit?

>>14268004

In a serious vein, consider:

https://faculty.weber.edu/jyoung/English%206710/A%20Christmas%20Memory.pdf

If you're looking for something longer, what do you like to read in general and what have you not read that you'd like to familiarize yourself with?

>>14267738

Where are you from, anon? I'm an American from a rural agrarian community who went to college in one of the most progressive cities in the country. I feel like I have way more in common with my family-oriented immigrant coworkers in terms of day-to-day values than any of the middle class suburbanites I interact with.

>>14267719

Reading (and I count 4chan with this) has had a tremendous impact on my political and personal philosophy. Anyone who just accepts dogmatically what they were handed as a child is handicapping their mental abilities stymieing their personal growth.