/lit/ - Literature

If I read Homer as well as 2ndary lit as well as all philosophers from Thales to Plotinus as well as 2ndary lit could I finally say I have started with the Greeks?

>>8460991
?

>>8460954
How?

>>8460918
How?

What was Celine wrong about, though?

Is liberal democracy really so preferable to fascism or national socialism?

What is the literary equivalent of Eiffel 65?

22.

VOLUNTEER.

TO ENTER A STATE OF HALF- SLEEP BETWEEN THIS AND OTHER WORLDS.

Vom Nachteil, geboren zu sein
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E-M-I-L-C-I-O-R-A-N
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The rest is irrelevant.

>>8143505
No.
I used to correspond with Kevin through email and I am fond of him, though.

Recently he stopped replying to my emails, even though we had been contacting each other for 2 years.

>>8143150
Marcus Aurelius isn't particularly "difficult" or pretentious.

Also, Edgar Allen Poe is one of my favourite authors. How is he trash? This is honestly new to me.

Post recent influences as well as a link to the text, or the thing itself.

Recent influences; Wallace, Eliot, Martin Luther, Goethe, Dante, Gogol, Kafka, Conrad, Stirner, Joyce, Wittgenstein, Ellis, Dick, Dostoevsky, Pynchon, Wei, Nabokov, Gibson, Milton, 1001 Nights, Poe, Keats, Cioran, Whitman, Mann, Deleuze, Hume, Rilke, Aurelius, More, Blake, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, & Hardy.

Text; http://yjlae.tumblr.com/

Short Fiction.

I would prefer if someone would provide sincere criticism of at least one section.

>>8140871
Qaeque.

>>8140858
Willow Shields.

>>8140379
I am not even particularly fond of FW,
more Ulysses and PotA, which is probably what provided me with the afflatus to write what I did.

Ezra Pound was not particularly fond of FW either, if I remember correctly, which lead to him and the Jay falling out.

I wasn't simply trying to re-write FW through short fiction. Until you get your head around that, don't comment upon the text.

>>8140342
Finnegan's wake is incoherent without secondary literature or a professor's brain. There is a perfectly coherent narrative in each piece of short fiction on my blog.

>>8140158
Qaeque.

Post recent influences as well as a link to the text, or the thing itself.

Recent influences; Wallace, Eliot, Martin Luther, Goethe, Dante, Gogol, Kafka, Conrad, Stirner, Joyce, Wittgenstein, Ellis, Dick, Dostoevsky, Pynchon, Wei, Nabokov, Gibson, Milton, 1001 Nights, Poe, Keats, Cioran, Whitman, Mann, Deleuze, Hume, Rilke, Aurelius, More, Blake, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, & Hardy.

Text; http://yjlae.tumblr.com/

Short Fiction.

I would prefer if someone would provide sincere criticism of at least one section.

>>7881205
I personally follow the philosophy of "havin' a laugh".

>>7886831
No, I don't need to consume literature to live.

The problem does lie with literature, in my humble opinion.

>>7886761
The only other anxiety that comes to mind is the anxiety that I didn't do enough to have an aryan cutie not break my heart, which I suppose is connected to the acquisition of knowledge, if I had just known something else, I could have used the knowledge to make sure it didn't occur.

>>7886761
I am not concerned with it.
I am concerned that other people are concerned with it and that they do not seem to like the idea of someone having a semi-casual occupation with literature.

>>7886760
That is what I am constantly trying to do and afraid I am not undergoing the correct steps at the correct speed.

>>7886751
Yes. The anxiety would not exist if there were nothing to acquire. We could simply concern ourselves with something else, based on the fact that we want to do it for ourselves and not in order to defend ourselves against humiliation.

>>7886741
But isn't that exactly where the divide begins, the ideas of plebeian and patrician, which still exist today but are veiled, held together most overtly by literature and one's ability to appear to someone else as having understood pieces of literature in specific ways, which are constantly changing and difficult to identify?

So surely literature causes terror, or causes a terrible divide between a very small amount of happy people and a very large amount of terribly humiliated people.

Surely then if literature did not exist, we would all be happy?