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Ras Het posted:I think it's in a sense too charitable to talk about "gibberish" or even "nonsense verse" when what you're talking about is 1) puns on existing English words 2) descriptive made-up words like onomatopoeia Also I'm pretty sure "chortle" is a real word, unless this is one of those weird life moments where I'm the only one on the planet who thinks something. But I agree very much with you.
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mdemone posted:Also I'm pretty sure "chortle" is a real word, unless this is one of those weird life moments where I'm the only one on the planet who thinks something. isn't chortle like snark in that it was invented by caroll
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Fairly certain that yeah, Carroll invented chortle, gyre, burbled, and also portmanteau as it refers to shoving two words together. among others. e: i think I've even seen galumph in normal usage, though it's less common. Mover fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Sep 13, 2016 |
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blue squares posted:Good movie I heard otherwise.
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If you want a good book that tackles 9/11 read The Submission by Amy Waldman
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I love 9/11
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Mel Mudkiper posted:If you want a good book that tackles 9/11 read The Submission by Amy Waldman the 9/11 commission report: the graphic novel might be more your speed.
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Eating Animals is a good book, I know it's not fiction but yes it is actually good. Go vegan
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the_homemaster posted:Eating Animals is a good book, I know it's not fiction but yes it is actually good. none of your opinions are good
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the_homemaster posted:Eating Animals is a good book, I know it's not fiction but yes it is actually good. I'd much rather listen to a crust punk band tell me about veganism, instead of the lamest american in the world
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A human heart posted:I'd much rather listen to a crust punk band tell me about veganism, instead of the lamest american in the world So Ultramantis Black?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chxqXhDY5fY
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Mover posted:Fairly certain that yeah, Carroll invented chortle, gyre, burbled, and also portmanteau as it refers to shoving two words together. among others. I'm sure portmanteau is before Carroll, but I'm probably wrong, but he was really into medieval literature (b cos he was cool) and that's where gyre's from. And indeed the entire idea behind the poem.
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I was also an autistic child on 9/11 so it touched me in that way
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTAhSJt_8x8
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End Of Worlds posted:none of your opinions are good What if My opinions are the good ones And all yours are bad? 2016, the year anti semitimisn became OK Also, anyone read the whole man booker Shortlist yet? the_homemaster fucked around with this message at 04:51 on Sep 14, 2016 |
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Are you saying the only reason anyone could dislike Foer is ingrained anti-semitism?
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the_homemaster posted:What if are you having a stroke mate
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So many questions, not enough answers.
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Mr. Squishy posted:Are you saying the only reason anyone could dislike Foer is ingrained anti-semitism? Sammy Davis Junior Junior oh wait Sammy Davis Junior was Jewish maybe I should rename my dog
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Mr. Squishy posted:Are you saying the only reason anyone could dislike Foer is ingrained anti-semitism? maybe not the only reason, but the best 
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Smoking Crow posted:isn't chortle like snark in that it was invented by caroll Mover posted:Fairly certain that yeah, Carroll invented chortle, gyre, burbled, and also portmanteau as it refers to shoving two words together. among others. Well, poo poo goddamn. I guess there's no reason to be surprised at that, really. I've certainly used "galumphed" in conversation and everyone got it. But I didn't know he invented "snark"…is that one true?
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Anyone here read Gyula Krudy? He's a Hungarian writer and pretty weird. For instance, I am reading The Adventures of Sinbad and in the second story Sinbad has a dream he is a King, wakes up and goes to find an ex-lover who turned out to have been watching him since they were apart, then he dies and becomes a piece of mistletoe hanging in the room of another ex-lover. Anyway, it's pretty rad.
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mdemone posted:Well, poo poo goddamn. I guess there's no reason to be surprised at that, really. The titular Snark from the Hunting of the Snark was him, but it's not like the other words in that it didn't catch on until much later and it's current meaning is not really there in the original.
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I just finished correction by bernhard and it's probably my favorite book that i've read by him so far. I want to read some of his plays but I'm not sure what to start with, Heldenplatz maybe? That one pissed off a bunch of austrians so it's probably pretty good.
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That the one where a nazi-rally is going on offstage and nobody mentions it?
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Yeah, I think so. I ended up getting the Voice Imitator which is a bunch of short anecdotes. it's cool cause it has all the standard Bernhard black humor and themes (suicide, madness, political corruption, Austria sucks) distilled into a really short format. Overall i think his novels work better, but i'd recommend it to someone who hasn't read bernhard before and doesn't want to start with a 200 page paragraphless novel. Hotel Waldhaus posted:We had no luck with the weather and the guests at our table were repellent in every respect. They even spoiled Nietzsche for us. Even after they had had a fatal car accident and had been laid out in the church in Sils, we still hated them.
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If u don't want to read a 200 page paragraphless novel where someone continually talks poo poo u shouldn't be reading books at all
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Carlos Fuentes once wrote a novel that ended with the last man and woman on earth loving each other until they became a divine hermaphrodite and ascended to heaven what's the name? i need to stop buying books i have a big al mccoy one and snow and nobodaddy's children and i just bought pale fire and ada from the used bookstore like two days apart
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DisDisDis posted:what's the name? if I told you, it wouldn't be a surprise when you got to the ending! Terra Nostra
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Mel Mudkiper posted:if I told you, it wouldn't be a surprise when you got to the ending! I remember thinking that would hit so many buttons for me and then i read various posts complaining about it and didn't buy it but clearly i should have not been a bitch and taken the plunge
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based on which posters like and which posters hate it, I am going to read The Nix and probably like it a lot
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Yeah it sounds like my life so I'll probably hate it and love it in equal measures.
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I just read the first 10 pages of that on amazon and it is extremely bad, like all popular American 'literature'.
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Only books written by POC and/or other minorities are any good, amirite? (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
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the_homemaster posted:Only books written by POC and/or other minorities are any good, amirite? is your assumption here that only white americans write american fiction or are you just incapable of parsing sentences
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A human heart posted:popular spotted the problem.
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the_homemaster posted:I hate tumblr more...and I like catch 22 more. the_homemaster posted:I'm serious, that's exactly what it reminds me of. Lampooning intellectualism is too obvious, and reading between the lines it's quite clear he is satirising progressiveness. the_homemaster posted:Finally think I get Confederacy. It's sending up liberal progressives! the_homemaster posted:friend of the family the_homemaster posted:White males did everything, is there no end to their superiority? the_homemaster posted:What if the_homemaster posted:Diverse fiction is bad the_homemaster posted:Are you making light of depression? Wow, triggered. the_homemaster posted:Only books written by POC and/or other minorities are any good, amirite?
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blue squares posted:based on which posters like and which posters hate it, I am going to read The Nix and probably like it a lot Don't read the nix. It's one of those books where the author attacks the internet and millennials without a real understanding of either.
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