/lit/ - Literature

not masking your true opinions behind irony. Its a reaction against it.

>>7052743
its largely shaped by a community of people like your culture though.

I call it reverse-Solipsism

Only other minds exist though I am unsure if my own mind does.

>>7052773
This and Marx's theory of alienation as well

Steppenwolf
Notes From Underground (pretty much any existentialist novel)
Botchan
No Longer Human
Portrait of the Artist as the Young Man
Journey to the end of the Night

Still heavily influenced by Germanic folk tales and that. Didn't it just start off as a personal hobby and then he decided to write books on it because of how vast his world became?

>>7052437
I think he wanted to write something like the equivalent of what Homer is to Greece for Ireland.

"Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race" - Portrait of the Artist

http://www.finwake.com/1024chapter1/1024finn1.htm

Babel - the city and tower, of which the attempted construction is described in Genesis xi, where the confusion of languages is said to have taken place; a confused assemblage + FDV: The babbling babblers of with their tongues have been & have gone, they were & went, thigging thugs were and houhynam songtoms were & gumly comely norgers norgels were & pollyfool francees fiancees;

teanga (Irish) - tongue, language + tanga (Portuguese) - a type of very brief bikini, the thong or g-string; a former coin of Portuguese India, equal to the 10th part of a rupee.

Confucius - Chinese sage + Genesis 11.7: "let us go down and confuse their languages..."

thigging - begging + tuigeann tú (Irish) - you understand [the Irish-speaking Celtic settlers in Ireland] + thinking.

thug - gangster

Houyhnhnm - The name given by Swift in Gulliver's Travels to one of a race of beings described as horses endowed with reason and bearing rule over a degraded brutish race of men, called the Yahoos.

Sodom - an extremely wicked or corrupt place. Freq. coupled with Gomorrah, the name of the other of the two wicked cities of the plain in Gen. xviii-xix + hymn, song.

comely - having a pleasing appearence

norgeln (ger) - to grumble, complain + Norge (Norwegian) - Norway.

playful fiancees + Parlez-vous Français? (French) - do you speak French? + FDV: thigging thugs were and houhynam songtoms were & gumly comely norgers norgels were & pollyfool francees fiancees;

Nabokov's Pnin

>>7050154
Its a start though. I mostly just used it because its well known and what got me interested in poetry. I figured it could work for others as well.

>>7050126
why not? its simple and fun

>>7050016
The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere is a good start to English poetry

>>7042237
just finished this, it felt like Joyce's Dubliners with a more memorable and comic character throughout. Wish it was longer

>>7049515
>missionary position with a partner of the opposite sex
>better

>>7050020
That's pretty cool, I seen the same image on a telephone pole recently and started to wonder about it

>>7049989
how so? Is it the post-apocalyptic theme?

>>7049968
Does anyone have any recommendations of other artists from the 19th century that deal with imagery as dark as Goya?

Can't have an art thread without this one

Cardinal Richelieu at the siege of La Rochelle

>>7049857
Google tells me its Jeremy Mann

untrimmed bowl of blossoms

Richard Schmid