What are you reading?

[Moonlight-Moonlight]

wat if we all read gravity's rainbow. and we read a set number of pages per day. daily reading like having a nofap streak.
thoughts?

 

[Moonlight-Moonlight]

if u guys wanna read powered wig poetry thats cool too but i probably won't be able to participate unless i order adderall from the darkweb

 

[resu]

you and braus both like keats and yeats and powdered wigs

I told you before I hate the Romantics! And I don't like Yeats, either. No good poetry was written after the Augustans (roughly).

if u guys wanna read powered wig poetry thats cool too but i probably won't be able to participate unless i order adderall from the darkweb

Okay, start installing Tor. We'll begin with Dryden.

 

[Moonlight-Moonlight]

"keats and yeats" is a smiths reference

 

[Moonlight-Moonlight]

https://ia902309.us.archive.org/5/items/hindpanther00dryduoft/hindpanther00dryduoft.pdf

redpill me on why should i read this instead of going and playing killer7

 

[braus]

you and braus both like keats and yeats and powdered wigs
slerk seems to like old stuff too
mochi is reading the driest thing possible it's literally a textbook

im da only one who would want to read something really violent or sexual or avantgarde

i just read whatever sounds interesting to me. i used to browse /lit/ a lot, so most of the books i own are "western canon," like what slerk reads.

but i would join a memforum book club

 

[Moonlight-Moonlight]

i just read whatever sounds interesting to me. i used to browse /lit/ a lot, so most of the books i own are "western canon," like what slerk reads.

but i would join a memforum book club

so have u read gravity's rainbow? wat about moby-dick
those are the top 2 books i want to read this year and both are /lit/ memes

have you read anything by james joyce?

 

[braus]

no to all three

 

[resu]

https://ia902309.us.archive.org/5/items/hindpanther00dryduoft/hindpanther00dryduoft.pdf

redpill me on why should i read this instead of going and playing killer7

That's his best poem. To summarize his life up to then, Dryden was born a puritan and worked for Cromwell's government in his early life; at the Restoration of Charles II, Dryden converted to Charles's religion, Anglicanism, and became the first official poet laureate under Charles; then, on the succession of his brother James II, Dryden once again converted to the new king's religion, Catholicism, and, once again, served as the poet laureate. Dryden's many enemies saw him as an unscrupulous timeserver, so he wrote the Hind and the Panther as a justification for his conversion. He argued that the reign of a Catholic would not last long and that England soon would return to Protestantism. And all throughout his poem, he evinced his convinction in the truth of the Church and his readiness to bear whatever suffering that will come from his conversion. It should be added that Dryden converted his family, too, and gave a son to the priesthood.

If joys hereafter must be purchased here,​

With loss of all that mortals hold so dear,​

Then welcome infamy and public shame,​

And last a long farewell to worldly fame,​

'Tis said with ease but oh how hardly tried​

By haughty souls to human honor tied,​

Oh sharp convulsive pangs of agonizing pride,​

Down then, thou rebel, never more to rise,​

And what thou did and dost so dearly prize,​

That fame, that darling fame, make that thy sacrifice.​

'Tis nothing thou hast given, then add thy tears​

For a long race of unrepenting years,​

'Tis nothing yet, yet all thou hast to give,​

Then add those maybe years thou hast to live,​

Yet nothing still, then poor and naked come,​

Thy father shall receive his unthrift home,​

And thy blest Savior's blood discharge the mighty sum.​

(I quoted all that from memory by the way ) There's much more to be said about this poem. Let Pope's judgement suffice when he said it was the best example of Dryden's versification.

 

[resu]

Also, Dryden's fears were, of course, prescient. In 1688, William of Orange usurped the throne, and Dryden's positions were given to his enemies. The greatest poet alive reluctantly had to turn back to theater in order to scrape a living (and suffered much else besides).

so have u read gravity's rainbow? wat about moby-dick
those are the top 2 books i want to read this year and both are /lit/ memes

have you read anything by james joyce?

I'd like to read Moby Dick as well.