/lit/ - Literature

>>15080238
if you know much about me, you know that that isn't likely to happen

>>15079869
>Are you a fucking retard?
i'm a tripfag, the question doesn't even need to be asked
>>15079848
lol

>>15079814
she was an english major, i'm a german major. my brother and i grew up reading a lot.
i guess in some ways i am naive.
i just was wondering what she meant i guess, especially since she got my brother (2 years younger) a game of thrones book.

>>15079788
i don't live with my parents, i just came down to visit
besides, i'm only 19 so it wouldn't be super weird if i were living with them
idk if i have the personality of a conqueror, i think i'm ok with my nature that i have right now

>parents get me a book every easter, as a tradition
>usually just books about language or something i've expressed interest in
>this year my mom gets me a copy of Machiavelli's The Prince
what did she mean by this? this seems like kinda a strange book. i've already read it, but idk if she knows that. it just seems weird. is there a hidden meaning

>>15012096
i thought i could escape hontra
but apparently she's just fucking everywhere
terrible

>>15009927
OP is just a misogynist
wait until he hears about trannies

>>15006883
*stabreim, not starbreim

>>15006849
i haven't read in translation in a long time, and think that moving out of Starbreim really leaves a lot of the feeling of the language lacking
for example:
>Veit ek, at ek hekk
>vindga meiði á
>nætr allar níu,
>geiri undaðr
>ok gefinn Óðni,
>sjalfr sjalfum mér,
>á þeim meiði,
>er manngi veit
>hvers af rótum renn.
sounds much better when you can hear the repeating voiceless velar plosive throughout the first half, and so on and so on

what does /lit/ think of the sagas and eddas? do you read them in old norse or in translation? if so, who's your favorite translator? also, what's your favorite story?
the north germanic history anc culture is often neglected! give them some appreciation!

>>15006588
i'm not a midwit, i'm dumb!

>>15006606
well the question is what would people who speak japanese say, and Souseki is the only author who's been on the currency
personally i think Dazai was the best author though

Sam Walton: Made In America

>>15006440
>the top 1% of the top 75% of the top 99% of all stacies are gettng 99% of all the dick, and i don't think that's fair

>>15006346
>fuck ten Chads a day
even when you can do this you wouldn't want to
it'd get tiring anon

>>15006092
Germany
as a state existing only for a few centuries, but as a nation being ancient
much better

>>15000778
japanese would probably be Natsume Souseki, french would probably be Camus not Hugo, and russian would probably be either Tolstoy or Dostoevsky, not Pushkin, german may be Goethe but i feel like more people would say Kafka or Hesse or Mann or someone other than Goethe (normal people don't like verse lol)
>>15003432
Paradisio was boring but the imagery was kinda weird
if only it permeated our culture in the way his depiction of hell did

>>14989917
this reminds me of that one time that he kept talking about video games and then said something about "vampire chronology"

>>14990649
it was a fun read
>>14990657
deep down, House of Leaves is much more of a romance than it is a horror

>>14455391
step one:
be friends with your sister
step two:
share your interests, and let her share hers

>>14456398
Hegel didn't die, he just went into occultation

>>14455940
My Chemical Romance

>>14441618
I don’t have time for another schizo time to snooze for real

>>14441608
Anon my hairline is perfectly fine
My nose is big but that’s average for my phenotype