/lit/ - Literature

>post number 13619868

>>13606800
>Dark Souls of literature
Clearly you forgot
you know who

>>13605288

>>13605077
hope the ban is longer this time

I just realized that I'm no better than normalfags that listen to pop/rap trash. I've been listening to nothing but anime OPs, happy trance and EDM to cheer me up recently, which is just as meaningful as pop/rap.

>Finnegan's Wake

>Decide to read hyped up philosophy book
>Read about the author/philosopher in question and think his ideas sound cool so it should be fun
>Read 10 pages of The Preface to the Translation
>Read 90 pages of the Translators Introduction and 95% of it is explaining why they decided to use "Presentation" in the title over any past translation titles(Interesting but nonetheless drawn out)
>Read 10pgs of yhr preface of the first edition which is the author demanding me to read and fully understand Kantian theory before reading the book but also reading his thesis(Which I read and frankly enjoyed)
>Read preface to the second edit-

>>13573662
>book

>>13550515
>it's another read 100 books by old dead men to understand useless concepts so you can understand more useless concepts that have been debunked by modern science for 200 years thread
When will you retards leave my board

>it's another shitpost proving that lit is infested by non readers

>Finnegans Wake

>Finnegans Wake

>>13514419
How do you become detached from the material world?

>be me
>birthday
>get given a book wrapped up
>take it upstairs
>unwrap it
>read title
>Finnegans Wake

guess

>>13496104
Please don't

>>13495255
>penguin classics

>>13489043
AHHHHHAHAAHHAHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAH HE SAID THE FUNNY WORD AHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAAA COVFEFE RIGHT GUYS?

truly the most intellectual board

>>13481592

>mom found the Dostoevsky shelf

>he didn't cry when Priam's wife, on the eve of an important libation, said: “Ask Zeus to send a favorable sign in the shape of an eagle which will appear on our right hand so that you can go in full certainty; then I will not oppose your going.” Then Priam in his turn says: “Grant me, Ο Zeus, the power to go to Achilles and give me a favorable sign in the form of an eagle which will show that I can go in all confidence among the Achaeans.”

South Korean, artificial beauty attained with heavy application of make-up and surgery. Makes me depressed that people are so ugly that they have to spend so much money to look good. I would know since it takes a ton of grooming just so I don't look like a goblin every day

>>13438953
>>13438958
write it on your blog niggers