What do you think about Blood meridian?
>>10379863The Kid, who has become The Man by this point, has changed his ways. He's tried to leave the violence of his past self behind. When he sees the old lady kneeling he goes to help her, something Glanton or David Brown or any of the other members of the gang would never have even considered. His attempt to aid the woman is, of course, useless, because she is just a dessiccated corpse. This is a fitting metaphor for his redemption as a whole. His attempts at kindness, at atoning for the past end up barren, pointless. Think about where he ends up later, in Bexar, a town that is declared to him as sinful and ungodly, yet he still proceeds there. He kills a youth, though justifiably, and heads to drink and whore. And this is where he meets the Judge again. The Man falls back into his old ways, the only ways he has known since he was a child. "The child the father of the man" as is narrated in the first page of the book. His attempts to redeem himself are impossible, he has been too long a creature of darkness
>>10379046The entire book was "x">poster obviously didn't read the book.Mentions scenes about corpse rape>never happened Black Jackson was great and in no way shoehorned into the group. To think Mccarthy tried to include him to appease a group or to provide a "token" character is... ah yes almost as if you were posting this as some kind of funny joke again....>>It's literally antiwhite revisionism meant to make us sympathise with savages and pretend we aren't two massively different peoplesIt literally isn't. You are grasping and trolling and honestly doing a bad job at both. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>10379188Little girl wasn't there alone. She was part of an act. Who knows how the handler got the bear.
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>>10380168Truly the best meme from that thread>enmity and landscapethough there was little enmity in Sutree
Is it worth reading his manifesto?
>>10380116Unironically this. Rodger took himself/his peen too seriously. Coupled with not reading he was in for a bad time
>>10380169He was a fucking freak, they always take themselves too seriously.
>>10379974Tip.jpg
>>10380193>>10380169I feel a lot like him (except for lust for murder). What's wrong with taking life seriously? Doubt you can name specific times where he thinks 'wrong'.
>>10380286Rodger idealized women/romantic “love” to an extreme degree...it prevented him from contextualizing his predicament appropriately.Undoubtedly he was right that getting his dick sucked would improve his life.
Why are penguin classics editions of literary works looked down upon?
>>10380162Their Tale of Genji and collection of japanese plays also use new translations.
>mfw people bitching out penguin and not realising they own vintage, everyman etc etc
>>10379740The black cover penguin classics are made of shit tier toilet paperThe discontinued orange ones used to be much better
Plebs
>>10380290>ReclamThey stress me out. These book can fall apart anytime, anywhere if you are not careful. Hasn't happened to me, but it could happen.
What books should I read to help get over my social anxiety and to stop being a spineless indolent coward?pic mostly unrelated
>>10377706It's inoculation and building up a resistance. You have to want it though.
>>10379335no, its me.
My Twisted World
>>10380236I AM A WOMAN. PLS WORSHIP MY VAGINAi'm a girl btw xDDDDDD!!!
>>10377706It is the right thing to do and making a smart ass reply isn’t going to help you you pussy
We all love being miserable, but let's cheer up and remember the best parts of our lives.Write about the happiest moment you experienced in your life.
>>10380164pseudo intellectualism, drugs, video games, genre fiction, gf, friends, normiewhat's there not to hate about you
First time I hung out with extended family since I was a kid (live on the other side of the world). They treated me as their own. Never had that feeling before. That warm safe feeling.
>>10380102I'm a foreigner currently living in the UK for my studies and it blows my fucking mind when I hear brits blame immigration for how shitty this country is. British people are what ruined Britain. Before I came here I have never been exposed to such a high density of downright stupid, uncultured, and most of all nasty people. I've lived with 7 different Brits over the years and absolutely all of them were complete retards with no sense of responsibility or hygiene. You might say now that it was just bad luck, but that's not the case. I've talked to numerous other international students, mostly European ones, all of whom have made similar experiences. In fact whenever I meet up with internationals 70% of our discussions are centred around the absolute fucking disgust we have towards this country and how we can't wait to get our degrees and piss off. The expression nasty English didn't come into existence out of thin air. Face it, England sucks because it's full of English people. The English ruined Scotland, the English ruined Ireland, the English ruined America, the English ruined India.tl;dr The UK is full of disgusting rats.
>>10380255best feel for me too in similar circumstances
>>10380269As a fellow foreigner, I must disagree. British further education is almost as bad as American SJW memes. 90% of those interested in culture and politics come out of British Unis as Marxists. Heterodoxy is discouraged in academia. Scotland is far worse than England in this respect and this isn't due to the English. There was a time when England attracted immigrants who wanted to live there because they wanted to be English. The vast majority of post mid 60s immigrants want to insulate their culture from English values and younger generations are in direct opposition to them - mind you, this is also true for many young natives.
>Permanently broke off from friends I've had since high school.Books for this feel?
>>10377738Adults don’t have friends you fucking child
>>10380031Obviously this.
>>10380038ThisFriends are for women and children
>>10380035This but unironically
>>10379584I'm interested in hearing more about how two valleys 30km apart can have such distinct cultures. Is this in North Carolina?
>I read for the plot>I'm a psuedPick three.
Thoughts on this quotation of Schopenhauer? He is true.
>>10380086It concerns pretty much every nationality, autismo-san.
>>10380196You're conflicting who he was with the ideas he is known for. Nietzsche himself was not an Ubermensch but does that mean he can't talk about the ideals of one?
>>10380260>the cheapest form of pride however is national pride.that is the first sentence. he refer to any form of national pride. all national pride is identity with the nation. im not this anon >>10380196 but hes right
>>10380273Well I stand corrected
I don't know, seems kinda hypocritical considering he was awfully supportive of the Empire and actively encouraged soldiers to commit war crimes.
Can we get a serious (>) thread about the state of contemporary literature and what style(s) of writing do and do not appeal to the contemporary reader?I'll start off with first reply
>>10379245It's hard to have a tone of divine sincerity when no one believes in the divine anymore.Don't get me wrong, I'm not religious myself. But those epic, religious tones were only around because people genuinely believed that stuff to be true.
>>10379606Delillo uses repetitive sentences all the time and it creates a great effect
>>10379502I think this actually reflects what people DON'T want. People don't want writing to try to sound like music, or to sound fancy, they want writing that feels real and blunt and honest. Even if it feels awkward, that's ok, because most of our thoughts are awkward and not necessarily elegant.
>>10379245>a sort of purity, sanctity to previous works of artHAMLET. Lady, shall I lie in your lap?OPHELIA. No, my lord.HAMLET. I mean, my head upon your lap?OPHELIA. Ay, my lord.HAMLET. Do you think I meant country matters?OPHELIA. I think nothing, my lord.HAMLET. That’s a fair thought to lie between maids' legs.OPHELIA. What is, my lord?HAMLET. Nothing.OPHELIA. You are merry, my lord.https://youtu.be/C78HBp-YoukComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>10379169OP, give me approx. 5 years to mature as a writer and spend that time learning German. Thank me later.
I’m making some today.
>>10364226if you expected that you are legit retardaded
>>10376901Paint user level 9
>>10380206Would this be a u sub?
I recommend these excellent graphic novels. Allegedly they strongly influenced Tarkovsky while he was working on "Ivan's Childhood".
>is he good?>whats your favorite flaubert book?>whats the best starting point?Huysmans mentioned sentimental education in Against Nature, should I read that before or after Madame Bovary?
>>10380084Begin with Julian Barne's very short Flaubert's Parrot to gain a sense of what youre getting into. Then I'd read Sentimental Education, Bovary, the trio of shorts, then Bouvard and Pecuchet. Really, he's like no other.
don't read one word in translation, wait until you are fluent in french
>>10380113Probably the best advice. No Scott-Moncrieff or Donald Frame exists to do him even remote justice.
just start with madame bovary, do the obvious choice it won’t disappoint you
Been meaning to read Salammbo. It looks quite interesting and I'm wondering why it is more or less forgotten by the english speaking audience
What am I in for?
memes
how to read and why by harold bloom
Read this last week, it was very humbling to read the analysis of the most well read living man, he has some great insight into why reading is important. while i hadnt read all the books he discusses, he gave me reason to. Also hes a bit of a cucked professor so he kinda throws the female authors in there but he has way fewer good things to say about them, he doesnt overblow their literary significance
>>10378760Does it really matter if you don't actually want to grow as a person and just want to fully appreciate the aesthetics of literary works?Will Bloom just tell me to get a job/better myself?
>>10378721A disappointment. Literal babby’s first literary analysis. Bloom has no original or inciteful thoughts whatsoever. It’s all posturing.
what are the prerequisite readings to Shakespeare?I want to read the plays
the epic of gilgameshthe biblehomer - iliad & odysseysophocles - oedipus & antigonevirgil - aeneidovid - metamorphosesdon quixotedante - the divine comedymilton - paradise lostgoethe - faust
>>10379515>reading works written after Shakespeare died before reading Shakespeare himself
>>10379520those are extras
>>10379515Why would you need to read Paradise Lost or Faust before Shakespeare
>>10379515Don't forget>Petrarch's poetry>Chaucer - Canterbury TalesPlutarch's Lives>Montaigne's essays>Boccaccio - Decameron>Spenser - Faerie Queene>the plays of Ben Johnson and Christopher Marlowe
the prose and cons
the poes and cons
the gets and gots
>>10379602his nose her mons
Bump
great thread op
