/lit/ - Literature

>control+f
>Octavio Paz
>no mentions

what the fuck is wrong with you people?

>>1424020
dat paragraph reads like an intro to an e.e. cummings book

>>1421821
can't be worse than Joyce fucking all the farts out of asses

I do like me some Whitman. I feel like it helps being an American; you have to really be embedded within the mythology and intellectual history of the United States to appreciate much of it (especially Song of Myself). Some of his narratives get a bit ridiculous, some poems a bit too proselike, but his description and interpretation of the Transcendentalist state of mind and solidarity for men and their ideals is, if ridiculous, made beautiful and lyrical by his works, and I appreciate that much.

Lemme see...

The Federalist Papers
In Defense of Lost Causes by Slavoj Zizek
The Year of Obama by Larry Sabato
Plato's Republic
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
Philosophical Investigations by Wittgenstein
Leaves of Grass by duh.

bitches don't know Bayesianism

>>1416031
Well those three novels are a trilogy, compiled into one book. So if you coun them as one book since I read through them at once, the list looks more like:

Moses, Man of the Mountain by Zora Neale Hurston
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Molloy/Malone Dies/The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett

Molloy by Samuel Beckett
Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett
The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett

Godzilla has come unstuck in time.

>>1401937
it's an obscure word that has been coopted by a non-mainstream community to mean something slightly different. i guess that makes it not so different from slang. y u mad?

Zora Neale Hurston is my favorite, and rather one of my favorite authors. If you're into negrospeak and fucking awesome metaphors all over the place. I did also like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis. Which is a graphic novel but still ya know.

for the record, Austen sucks, Plath sucks.

language is fluid and ever changing.

next.

>>1397369
Thanks. Popa looks interesting.

sup /lit
I'm looking for poet recommendations. My favorites are probably Paz, cummings, Whitman. What u got? Gimme something I haven't heard of.

pensive zizek unrelated

sup /lit/
I'm looking for poet reccorecommendationsmendations. My favorites are probably Paz, cummings, Whitman. What u got?

pensive zizek unrelated

sup /lit/
I'm looking for poet reccomendations. My favorites are probably Paz, cummings, Whitman. What u got?

pensive zizek unrelated

Philosophical Investigations - Wittgenstein (in german and english...fuckin kickass)
A Tree Within - Octavio Paz

also I got an amazon gift card and just bought:
Plato's Republic
Intro to Metaphysics - Heidegger
Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche
Jonah's Gourd Vine - Hurston
The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
Gravity's Rainbow - Pynchon
Sirens of Titan - Vonnegut

so fucking stoked.

>>1388203
what's that joyce story where her arse was full of farts and he fucked them all out of her?

much hart

idk, I think it's pretty good. your imagery and command of language is crisp, and has a lyrical and unintrusive flow. Nicely done. If there's anything I'd add, it'd be something more indicative of the atmosphere you're trying to create, descriptor-wise (that atmosphere being, as far as I can ascertain, one of patient if vaguely worried reflection, and loose calm). But that's just me, and my style, talking. I tend toward more of a vagueness in message, with lots of description, but you carry your message with a fulfilling sense of carefulness, not really too trite, nor unappealingly obscure. I might advise you to experiment with a bit more vagueness, then; if only because I enjoy it a bit more and the opposite can lean precariously towards triteness.

keep it up OP. The world needs more poets, in several senses of the word.

this.
pretty enjoyable once I got over dat wall of text. it is at once dizzying and entrancing in its style.
<3 beckett

second question, how badass is james carville?

>>1385635
fuck you man gy!be is too beautiful. THEY DON'T SLEEP ANYMORE ON THE BEACH

but i respect your opinion and do enjoy mogwai occasionally.

why is Godspeed better than Mogwai?