/lit/ - Literature

I just filled in some stuff for chapter 69, will send in my further edits and endnotes when I am better condition

this is a great project

>>16765921

One of my favorite pepe’s so far. Makes me think of 2666

>>16086220

this. read it and athenaze

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Good goodposting. Ιθι χαιρων

>>15913411

GOod, but if you're going to pick Mann, don't pick the scary one. Pick Doctor Faustus or Zauberberg.

>>15737862

I would agree. Hadj Murat is the best novella. On par with Notes from his Yang, Doesto

I've heard that Dostoevsky's writing style, in Russian, is kind of "bad," and that his prose is not "artful." In my opinion, this is what makes him even more compelling as an author, because it shows that it's his stories that are making his stories good, not the prose. His descriptions of people, their lives, and the subsequent unification of their lives with a universal that each reader can bond with and take something from, or see themselves in: something that doesn't need "prose" to be communicated, but can be done with intent, rather than technique. Or at least that's how I romanticize it.

Is Dostoevsky's prose considered "unartful" in Russian?

>>15561096

Quality

>>15562126

No expert but I think we can all agree we wanted the haze

>>15559638
Second winterling.

Extremely insightful

>>13759271
>Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off -- then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

Honestly true. Being at sea forces you to survive. To have a purpose. To be away from the distractions and wiles of the land.

Honestly sounds pretty blissful.

>>13747695

the real harvard students browse this board.

>>13720856
>Also you might want to find out a bit about their backgrounds, like if they're southern or Catholic. Lest it turns out they're functionally pro-life and end up with a kid in Georgia that you never see but costs you money you don't have because postdocs make crap and another kid in Italy but that was cool because she had a husband and wanted nothing to do with you but then he dies six years later in a freak medical accident and wants you to take care of the kid and her other kid who you aren't even related to.


More, I think this is interesting. Could make for a great book.

>>13717164

I am an undergrad and I'd actually be really down to start a literary movement of some sort. Like just an anonymous magazine or something, that highlights the creations of undergraduates / maybe graduates. But it would have to be a special type of unique that would make it worth being showcased, especially in the current milieu of oversaturated publications / nepotism that makes most literary circles not worth involving oneself in at all.

eli can you please stop typing?

just kidding i love you :)

>>10857382

Yeah anon that would really suck. And you know how I know you're a Gov concentrator? Because you're selfloathing and you just can't help it, brining the shit out for the whole world to see. Should have been History my boy.

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I'd be willing to bet the amount of Harvard people on this board is at least 3, maybe more.

>>10853571

Everything in this post is blatantly false. Harvard “economics students” do not read nor do they take classes that imply any sort of mastery of “economics.” If youre not going into IB or some garbage from ec you’re a fraud or a failure.

Not a single ec student at H knows any of those words

We're all bound to the rock: It's just that there are no chains, and we are free to travel the world as we please, forever doomed to rationalize it as anything but the flesh clawing torture that living is, before we die and are set "free" once again an another, equally fated life.

Absolutely OP. It's timeless in the fact that it's a decadent literary society's greatest literary achievement, and something that we would have a hard time reckoning with today. If someone asked you to create a world so vivid, so new, and yet so old and steeped in humanity, could you right now in this century come up with something as compelling as Middle Earth? It is important because although people today "know" far more than people in the past, even one hundred years ago, did, people like Tolkien existed in more learned, more storied, and more instinctively literary societies in their more true form, and this is one of the greatest pieces of evidence compelling that notion.

Second, I would say that beyond the surface level studying of how the story was able to come about, the author's ability to track very quickly into one of the most important vein's of thought throughout the coming centuries, and perhaps humanity's fate in time as a whole before all of this gets washed away by a coming singularity / eradication of human evolutionary needs of the past, in that he applies a metaphor to our world as a whole: the greeks that have sailed away, and the quiet, wholesome life of the anglo-saxon / northern european lineage coming under fire from a resurgence of the forgotten humanity that lies below, outside of the fortunate land of "middle earth." In his world, the problems we are too afraid or too weak to address and see now are eviscerated in their core existences, and serve as a springboard for a greater more fruitful tract of what it means to be human at all, a creation for which this trait will be increasingly valued as we fail more and more to come close to achieving it once more, in the twofold sense of both of the points I've raised: our literary humanity as a western culture, and our ethos as a western society that is on the brink of first being tarnished and then more swiftly too being swept away in favor of the nothingness that is to follow.

>>10343009

>the hls library isn't open 24/7

I wish I could be there, enjoy.

>>10341780

Yes, and that's what makes it great. I envy people that get to study philology; it's a quality discipline that arms people with some of the best of the liberal arts and equips them to actually be able to qualify humanity in a way more narrow, expedient, and modernly objective fields cannot.

Hello everyone. I go to Harvard, and my favorite book is "The Value Investor" by Benjamin Graham. In my free time, I like to row up and down the Charles.

I go to Harvard and all I do is sit around and eat the food. Luckily, tonight's dinner (or, at this point last nights dinner) was fantastic. The turkey burger with cheese and avocado was actually pretty good, but the bun really was what made it. Also, the three cheese Tortellini was probably in the best form I've ever seen it in. The mushrooms were alright, but I also ate them last, so they may have been jus a bit cold. The texture was great though. The chicken pot pie was great too; even though it was put into a spinach spanokopita type thing, not actually in a pie crust, the filling was wholesome and tasted really good. And of course, I'm always happy to see more sweet potatoe fries. Great call, HUDS. Finally, the best part about the meal was definitely the apple pie dessert: substantial, warm, with good quality apples, and a perfectly viscous sauce that put the crust and the apple in a sublime marriage that definitely solidified itself in my opinion as the best pie I've ever had at HUDS. My only complaint was the lack of baked Brie, particularly my favorite, the raspberry, which we had every Friday last semester.

God I fucking hate this place

>>9994834
i liked it

ok someone read my poem:

Broken grammar sonnet
She looks over under her hair and whispers,
And the mist of the tension between us falls,
The sound of her breathing make then my vespers,
Her blink a fragment of that which my soul calls.

Narrow eyes in the hushed darkness pull away,
Effacing the bluntness of the communication,
As the spangled thoughts so ideal float loll and sway,
The knowledge of what is gone, missing, frustration.

Her sigh echoes liquid the overflowing impossibility,
That I will never live to articulate it,
That she is for my heart my one tranquility,
Rescued from the grammar to which I commit.

The nascent love furrows deeper among my singularity,
Rising incipient for the light that it knows as austerity.

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>>9981616

Agreed, OP! And also, nice frog!