/lit/ - Literature

>>1361826

Same here.

>>1360602

Depends on the school. Most Christian universities aren't too concerned with your personal religiosity. The staunchly conservative ones don't have large grad programs, anyhow.

I just realized this person is probably talking about applying to undergrad. In that case, it probably doesn't matter as much, but you should be concerned with crafting a well–written statement over all else.

>>1360482

Be /very careful/ about how you work in any sort of personal religious conviction that wouldn't place you in a defined minority category when applying to a school. I would probably only mention it if your area of study made it /particularly/ relevant.

I'll bite. I see this dude talked about a lot on /lit/, but I don't read much modern fiction. What's it about and why did you think it was so good?

How do you guys not sage this thread?

Claude McKay

When the DSM V comes out, y'all will just have autism.

Can't speak to the programming stuff. I stopped that sometime in college, and now only script in Python.

However: Read the Bible before the Qur'an. And don't read the Bible straight through. Take your time, wander around. It's not like you don't know the main parts of the narrative. You're dealing with a book written over hundreds of years, primarily in two languages, with multiple literary styles and types of books. Reading it straight through is the best way to get bogged down in Leviticus, go WTF, and never pick it up again.

>>1358803

My last comment was supposed to be to you, not to myself.

>>1358829

A gentleman never tells.

>>1358778

Har. Actually, we had a thing going for a few months after that. It was one of the better casual relationships I had in college, but I ended up transferring again.

>Sophomore in college, take a freshman–level honors course in American lit. I was a transfer student.
>Class ends early one day. Sarcastic, pretty girl with the husky voice complains about the lack of Flannery O'Connor in the curriculum.
>I commiserate with her.
>In bed.

Men produce more geniuses. They also produce more marginals.

However, men in charge of movements often forget that women have been the vast middle, the backbone of every successful group that tries to change society.

Also, to some of the stuff above: Yes, there are women who can understand philosophy, it's just that they /don't care/ unless it is made personal, usually through social bonds/attention.

This is the source of that Kierkegaard journal entry about how talking to a woman about religion is the surest way to have her fall in love with you.

>>1356561

My second–favorite was Podkayne of Mars.

The Kenneth Branagh Hamlet is why I started reading Shakespeare as a kid. I loved that movie.

>>1356213

>6/15

Anon is feeling generous.

I prefer "The Name of the Rose" and even "Baudolino", but Eco is good stuff, no matter what.

>>1355517

Academic painting has been unfairly maligned. :(

There's not much to interpret here.

I think just just need to sit down with a dictionary.

>>1354968
>>1354949

Maybe they will find each other…

>>1354881

By who?

There really isn't anything in common between their styles other than verbosity and complex sentence structure
. Lovecraft is almost like an exaggeration of gothic style, whereas Faulkner is modern, through and through.

What I find really funny is comparing their style as a serious comment.

What it really means is "I find them both too hard to read to be interesting."

>>1354758

I was just overwhelmed by the non–developing and awfully written lesbian scenes. Actually, the increasing amount of ink spilled on bad sex is part of why I really wish I could just remember the first book.

>>1354730

My guess is that he was mostly overcome with other interests. A side–phenomenon might have been his sympathy, after the fact (it is evident in The Gulag Archipelago) for those Russians and (as he would have called them) "Little Russians" who sided with the Germans against the Soviets.