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WELCOME TO /LIT/, HOME TO LONG-LOST TOME TOTIPOTENTS N DOGEARRED DONG-DUST DOMESDAY-DUMPSTERED MICK FOLEY VOTIVE VOYEVODIN

GENERAL BOARD RULES:

1. Global rules relating to illegal/board-jeopardizing content are enforced.
2. Slander/libel Dwayne "Wanton Waylaid Bercesure-Jobber Names" "The Rock" Johnson at ur own peril.
3. As much as possible keep discussion related to literature or its creation/critique. Philosophy threads should preferably pertain to a direct written source (this definition's flexible in anticipation of wat ppl like 2 use these boards 4), branching out accordingly. /lit/ boards regularly serve as catch-awls for "social science" discussion, which suffices in moderation but doesn't excuse eschewing conversation about the board's chosen topic + its baseline medium (writtan + reedan).
4. Poasts awn this board are occasionally harvested foar submissions ean2 the board magazine, THE /LIT/TYZEN'S FEUILLETON (collective issues interred herein: https://mega.nz/folder/vh5ilKLZ#6AuBFAfWUYlBdr_ob1j5KQ) - if you do not desire your poasts 2 evur find their waie ean2 the feuilleton, please note in the subject phield oar body "NF". Submit werks 2 [email protected] eef 1 soe desires.

This serves as a haberdasherized nu hoam ov duh /lit/erary loam for collective /lit/izens blasted to the four winds after the 'kunpocalypse. Preservation and perseverance provides the utmoast value in prestige-emptied pallet-towns lyk our parochial neck ov duh wouds, so pick your patois and commit to poastean-novelly pashtunwali - or simply enjoie the livean archives, thrivean n growean b4 ur eyes.

/lit/ will inevitably remain a slow board, so post appropriately & enjoy your stay.

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Friends from the webring:

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Frans frum overtoobs:

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On the table there sat…
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 No.5694

"Yeah Charlie you're on to something here next time I won't be all…gung-ho on the just-getting-people-to-smile part because this is beyond fucked up a bit, Charlie. Even if it is Samuel Hydecker himself."


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B.O. OP EDIT: VIEW THE /LIT/PENDIUM HERE - https://mega.nz/folder/ThhnnayI#T30OHb3sHifcmVzLlnkYZg

Today begins a new chapter into the /lit/club. I made a fateful mistake by choosing the subject for the first nomination (Book Published 2 Years Ago) because of those bastards at the FBI. There are different resources vying for the vacancy filled by such a great site and I found one called

annas-archive.org which indexes a bunch of shadow sites.

Anyways without more stalling tactics. I present the list for this season and the nomination: World of Wonders
https://annas-archive.org/md5/fce03919d0c018a1334ff83aa0790a7e

Thank you everyone as usual and I look forward to your tastes.

ANIMAL PLANET is the next theme, books centered around animal characters and their environment.
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 No.5716

This is a big book, maybe a month total maybe 5 weeks. I'm keeping pace to do a month. So far, not even close to There Will Be Blood…


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 No.120[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

"Literature"? What are you, gay? We'll have none of that nonsense in this thread. Come and talk about stories about cool things for men.
>nuuuuh, but my poetry
I will literally beat you up.

What are your favourite books? Who are your favourite writers? What are you reading now? What do you plan on reading, but have not yet gotten around to?
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 No.5231

Who the fuck is John Scalzi and why he's being so fucking shilled as the biggest sci-fi author from this generation???

 No.5365

Re-read Paycheck by Philip K Dick and Goldenman by him too.

I enjoyed more the last one. Its over for Louis K Dick and other nigger loves. The golden gods will take over the Earth.

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 No.5714

Jim
1,263 reviews · 82 followers

June 19, 2023
Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) is better known today than he was in life and perhaps best-known for his story that the movie "Blade Runner" was based on. For me, his book "The Man in the High Castle"(1962) is one of my favorite SF books, a book I first read when I was in 6th grade. I found Dick's depiction of an America under the control of German and Japanese conquerors to be disturbing…the idea of a defeated America was hard to accept for a kid who enjoyed watching John Wayne films!
"The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" was published in 1964 and I first read it in the 90s. And even though I was an adult, I also found it disturbing. The story is about a man of mystery- Palmer Eldritch-who returns from a trip to the Proxima system bearing a gift for mankind. It's the drug "Chew-Z" capable of transporting people to illusory worlds. In the world of 2016 (when the Earth has heated up and Antarctica is a beach resort), the drug appeals especially to the lonely colonists of Mars. But this gift has a price…. I have to say I did not find the book so disturbing upon a second reading- in this the "real" year of 2016. The reason is that I find the reality of our political situation to be even more disturbing. Hopefully, however, Trump will not be another Eldritch Palmer!

 No.5720

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I finished Kings of the Wyld yesterday, the book so hyped by gen x and some redditors. Isn't as great as they say, but this slut crying about the book improved a little bit my opinion since for me, the book was very reddit-like and full of Canadian culture aka gay and cringe.


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 No.5704[Reply]

I saw Emily Wilson at a grocery store in Philadelphia a few days ago. I told her how cool it was to meet her in person, but I didn't want to be a douche and bother her and ask her for autographs or anything.

She said, "Oh, like you're doing now?"

I was taken aback, and all I could say was "Huh?" but she kept cutting me off and going "huh? huh? huh?" and closing her hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard her chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw her trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in her hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like "Maam, you need to pay for those first." At first she kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, she stopped her and told her to scan them each individually "to prevent any electrical infetterence," and then turned around and winked at me. I don't even think that's a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, she kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

 No.5706

I hate women.

 No.5707

I've been lifting weights while listening to Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War and it's striking how many similarities there are between the Athenians and the USA. A powerful, democratic government that's always seeking to reshape everyone else in its own image. The line that the Athenians "are a people never given to rest and who give no rest to others" hits particularly close to home. I've always heard people compare America to the Roman Republic, but Athens is a much more apt comparison.

 No.5708

>>5707
Nothing compares to ZOG, which is all America is today, certainly not ancient Aryan cities and empires.

 No.5711

>>5708
Read Thucydides and tell me there aren't strong parallels there.

 No.5719

>>5711
There are strong parallels between America and every failed state.



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Thoughts on Yukio Mishima?
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>>5117
more like literally whokuio mishima

he's good but overrated by the politically ostracized and weebs. there are probably ten thousand better white writers. he was my favorite writer when i was still watching anime and making every asian woman i met uncomfortable

 No.5552

>>5161
Me on the left

 No.5705

He IS burning in hell

 No.5712

i'm planning to grap some of his books, i hope he is actually good not just a meme

 No.5718

>>5160
Necro response but I am unsure if he was actually a faggot, I have heard other sources claiming he was not. Either way faggotry aside he says so much based shit that it really levels it out.



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The most dishonest and idiotic reviews you've ever seen /lit/

 No.5717

>(((ayn rand))) was a hecking white supremeist
Uhh do we tell xer anons?



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 No.5710[Reply]

Let's talk about our favorite Vinge novels and anything you want to discuss about his work.

 No.5713

I never read anything by him, Op, give some quick rundown.



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 No.4690[Reply]

>Virgil is shallow and phony compared to Homer
>Roman literature in general is shallow and phony compared to Greek literature
>the French chivalric romances and chanson de gestes pale in comparison to the German ripoffs
>the Decameron sucks
>the Canterbury Tales are even worse
>the "picaresque novel" is the worst is the worst thing to ever come out of Spain
>The Faerie Queene is a much better "English Renaissance Epic" than Paradise Lost
>all of Shakespeare's early comedies are awful
>Amadis of Gaul is better than Don Quixote
>Moliere is neither amusing nor insightful
>the 18th century was the dark ages of Western literature
>Voltaire is the most overrated writer in the history of Western civilization
>nobody cares about the literary merits of Jane Austin's novels, they only read them because they were written by a woman and have women protagonists
>Percy Blyth Shelly was a worse poet than Mary Shelly was an author (bad!)
>Walter Scott was better than William Makepeace Thackeray, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot combined
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>>4690
Canterbury Tales, Faulkner, Joyce suck I agree with. Disagree about Don Quixote. The rest I haven't read yet

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>>4690
join a youth group they said

 No.5698

I dislike intensely The Brothers Karamazov and the ghastly Crime and Punishment rigamarole. No, I do not object to soul-searching and self-revelation, but in those books the soul, and the sins, and the sentimentality, and the journalese, hardly warrant the tedious and muddled search. Dostoyevsky's lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity - all this is difficult to admire. I do not like this trick his characters have of "sinning their way to Jesus" or, as a Russian author, Ivan Bunin, put it more bluntly, "spilling Jesus all over the place." Crime and Punishment's plot did not seem as incredibly banal in 1866 when the book was written as it does now when noble prostitutes are apt to be received a little cynically by experienced readers. Dostoyevsky never really got over the influence which the European mystery novel and the sentimental novel made upon him. The sentimental influence implied that kind of conflict he liked-placing virtuous people in pathetic situations and then extracting from these situations the last ounce of pathos. Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoevsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist. He was a prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. I admit that some of his scenes, some of his tremendous farcical rows are extraordinarily amusing. But his sensitive murderers and soulful prostitutes are not to be endured for one moment-by this reader anyway. Dostoyevsky seems to have been chosen by the destiny of Russian letters to become Russia's greatest playwright, but he took the wrong turning and wrote novels.

 No.5699

For some reason, I just didn't like Kafka's short fiction as much as The Trial or The Castle. I recently read DFW's essay about Kafka, and it convinced me to retry the short stories to see if I can force myself to enjoy them. Perhaps specifically trying to find the humor in each one, as was part of the purpose of Wallace's essay.

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Readers are retarded and most of the time, they just want to shoot you down.
>write direct prose with short sentences
>OH MY GUCCI, LEARN TO WRITE! YOUR PROSE DOES NOT PAINT ENOUGH OF A VIVID PICTURE UGHHH DO YOU THINK IT"S THE READER'S BURDEN TO INTERPRET YOUR TEXT WITH XIS IMAGINATION?!
>write slightly fancier prose
>OH MY GUCCI, LEARN TO WRITE! I AM LITERALLY SHAKING RIGHT NOW, AND HERE IS WHY: ONE, YOU DID NOT READ THE MEDIUM.COM WRITING GUIDELINES FOR AN EASY TO DIGEST TEXT WHICH IS WHY YOU ARE DESCRIBING THINGS, UGHHH WHY DO YOU DESCRIBE THINGS THIS IS SO OPPRESSIVE, AND TWO, YOU USED A METAPHOR HERE, DO YOU THINK I CAN READ YOUR MIND, DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND THAT THE READER MAY NOT GET THIS METAPHOR?! CONCLUSION: YOU ARE A HECKIN' PROBLEMATIC BIGOT THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE.
>*Cormac McCarthy writes an incredibly obtuse passage with no punctuation*
>GENIUS!!! :-OOOOO I LIKE HIM ALMOST AS MUCH AS JOYCE (I AM VERY SMART)
Yes you are very silly. After many years of blaming myself and thinking I'm a hack after receiving feedback, I have concluded that most people don't understand shit of what they read, but keep canned responses on the ready if the author is famous. If my slightly fancy prose is unintelligible you should hate Joyce or McCarthy with a passion because they're incredibly more difficult to parse.



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 No.5667[Reply]

Imagine asking what's stolen my powers, you
Stinking whore, all this endless time,
When you've one black tooth, and when ripe old age
Furrows your brow with wrinkles,
When an ugly hole like a leathery old cow's
Gapes between withered buttocks!
Yet that flabby chest, and those breasts, like the teats
Of a mare, can still excite me,
And that spongy belly, and those scrawny thighs,
Set on those swollen legs.
Bless you, and may masculine figures in triumph
Bear your funeral along.
Let no married woman wander about, weighed down
By rounder fruits than yours.
What if the little works of the Stoics prefer
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>>5682
>is a porn addict who loves a literal gay nigger pornstar because it is the only thing left that can get him off.
>calls someone else an incel
if anyone is the epitome of an incel virgin, it is you and your gay nigger porn addiction. I don't see much of a future in what's left of your life.

 No.5686

>>5685
Leave James Baldwin out of this!

 No.5688

>>5685
>another Episode of nuzach projecting and now trying to pretend to be part of /cow/

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>>5668
>>5680
>>5685
Who is your muse? We know you are obsessed with Ramon to the point of thinking about him during your daily life. Ramon and his nigger cock is your MUSE!

Have you ever written a gay erotica just through sheer obsessing over your lovers so called "boy bits" and written an eidolic poem? I'll start

>the last of his boys have squirt

>>out into an anal oblivion.
>His penis, so small but so fierce
>>to squirt out this army of djinn
>into anal folds unknown

I call this poem "anal folds unforeseen"

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His cock so small I take it all in my mouth
Vanishing a part of me
The tumid bit I'm suckling
Like a digit, like my thumb
Like I'm drinking from my mum
His nipple dick hairless prick
Wrapped between my baby boy lips
Suckle suckle sip
When he comes I get my fix
Burp and lick my lips

This is for the chick I see at the coffee shop
we locked eyes and smiled today (or smirked is more like it)
(we'd only ever locked eyes before)



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