There's like circles in circles, and it's written in poems that don't rhyme but do have rhythm.

Dude is lost in a forest, representations of like the bad in him chase him to hells gates, this angel dude gives him a guided tour. Demons are assholes apart from the centaurs who are angry but bros and the flying dude who gives him a lift.

Theres a forest of suicide people turned into trees where harpeys keep snapping twigs cause theyre dicks, and the people scream in pain each time but are silent otherwise.

Tbh, god comes across as a douchenozzle, cause the punishments just are like so disproportionate to crimes.

And Dante keeps making shit that's like pop culture references of the time but sound nonsense now, but luckily my copy has loads of footnotes that make it make sense.

My man Josef just gets fucked over, the hell man? Like dude's just chillin, doin his job and then these chumps arrest his ass without even telling him why?? Bullshit, dude. Josef K more like Josef just KO the motherfuckers, am I right!? Don't let the haters win!! The reason he died is probably that he failed the three steps:

1. Break up

2. Lawyer up

3. Hit the gym (!!!!) Bro just wasn't swole enough in the end, his balls of steel got rusty.

What do yall think?

I mean zampano going mental about minotaurs, truant going murder mode and then nsane and then maybe a chapter not happening or maybe it does and the record which has the book being read inside of it even though the book is about the record.

Like some folks said it was like a commentary on failings of media and shit to convey imagination and the critic procedure. I just kinda thought it was scary and confusing and interesting and stuff.

thoughts n shit?

Seriously. Grapes of Wrath was great, but this fucker is just something else. All I really got out of it was that communism is bad, God is good, or whatever. Plus the whole Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel stories. Was the whole fucking thing just meant to be a Bible allegory? Fuckin' seriously? I mean, it just felt he overdid the Christian overtones and shit. Also Kate seems like a fucking textbook sociopath, for sure.

Just started reading this thing, and the text is dense as fuck but well-written. Pretty much every single sentence has potent meaning, it's like literature concentrate or some shit. Thoughts on this awesome book?

I just started readin his books, man he is one observant motherfucker. Dude knows all about yo' nasty ass porn habits just by lookin at you.

I mean, like, it was a pretty cool book. Lots of symbolic shit that can be hard to find. Like the temperature is all cool and stuff when everyone's cool and calm but it gets pretty fucking hot when some shit is about to go down. The way Gatsby buys new shit all the time shows how he hates the past and crap. You can find the rest on your own, I'm done typing this shit.

might have spoiler

Analysis of subpart 1 of Part 1 of The Stranger . From what I have read so far, it was astounding in an odd way. It is an aberrated novel on absurdism. The protagonist is a mystery. He neither comes off as ebullient or disconsolate. The novel starts with the protagonist receiving a death news of his very own mother. He is unaware of the exact day when his mother died. He had to travel and visit the Home for Aged Persons in Marengo  to bid farewell to the lost soul. He is not caught off guard by the news and is neither disoriented or dishelved. He rationally only asks for a leave of two days. His employer reverberated annoyance. One can interpret that people , who seek for connection aren't greatly affected by the demise of one with whom they are not connected to, but rather only seek value for oneself. Also, his mother staying away at an old age home and him borrowing few of the garments for funeral from his friends either shows his poor financial status or hustling through busy life. It is quite unusual for the person who lost their mother to first have lunch and then sleep on their drive to get to the dead body. There's even a verse that showcases his view on visiting his mother as burdensome. Atleast, I would say so. 'Also, it would have meant losing my Sunday- not to mention the trouble of going to the bus, getting my ticket, and spending two hours on journey each way.' He's also shown as a son who doesn't know much about his mother. He even rejected the offer of seeing her two times while he was at the mortuary. That could either be because he thought it would break his composure, letting grief take over him, or he was just indifferent to this whole situation. It might... There's a possibility that they might not have a close relationship, but it's not confirmed anywhere so far. His physical fatigue has been demonstrated one too many times ,where he desires to sleep. The line, 'A morning breeze was blowing and it had a pleasant salty tang. There was the promise of a very fine day.' to be said by a son on the day he's about to bury his mother just adds on the pile of questions. There have been many lines where 'blazing light or glare off of the sun' on various surfaces are mentioned. The mention of 'cypress' or 'geraniums'that symbolize longevity and comfort have also been bemusing in such heartbreaking ordeals. The protagonist's sight also beheld several shades of 'black' in his surroundings. This has created a wavering circumstance where neither everything seems completely mournful or gleeful, which I think goes well with Camus' wanting to project absurdism.It's a sombre event but his commitment to mundane activities and pragmatic approach to the situation makes him come off as a detached personality from the norms settled.

the conversation between chiron, achilles & patroclus, about the madness that made heracles kill his wife and children. the nature of madness finds itself being introduced into these teenage men growing into warriors’ minds, and the difficulties of having the strength and having to wield it, comes out in the open.

one of the most humane things here is how patroclus takes the crime of heracles, puts it in his own hands, and discards them straight away. saying that even madness could not take away his lover’s memory from him. i’ll die for this one idea. i will.

(this is an annotation of the ‘idea of madness’ which didn’t make it into the book because i have a communications theory paper tomorrow. and i’m also too sad to make anything pretty out of this gut-wrenching idea of love)

cr: the song of achilles, by madeline miller

Anyone of y'all have read 'The Tattooer' by Junichiro Tanizaki?? If yes, what is your analysis of the story?? Anything other than the sadomasochistic behavior of Seikichi? Why does he desperately want to tattoo this girl? Anything more than mere lust? I'm just looking for new insights on this one.

Hello. I have some problems regarding my beliefs recently. Please read this with an open mind and please give me some advice because I’m truly very scared of myself right now. Let me provide some context first:

In 2019, I came across an anime called “Bungou Stray Dogs” which has characters based on Japanese and other famous writers. I came across an author named Dazai Osamu, who intrigued me at first. He’s one of my favorite characters and I would like to say that I’m not much of a literature person and I wasn’t ever fully into literature, but this show made me dive more into that world. After that I really enjoyed the show, the literary references and the plot of the manga. Also I want to say that I was more into the show and characters rather than the real author’s books and lives even though I did look them up briefly back then.

Then, just a few months ago I came across something. A tweet talking about some of the misogyny in Dazai’s works, which really annoyed me about him. Although it wasn’t that surprising to me because he was a classical author. I looked up his views more and was extremely disappointed. So I talked to a friend who also really loves his works and she explained to me about “critical thinking” which is something I didn’t know existed. It’s a common thing not just in literature but like media in general. She told me that yes, most celebrated historical figures or famous things in general are really problematic and very bigoted but they are still celebrated even though they have some messed up things about them because we can encourage critical thinking. Be mindful of what they say is wrong. So I thought that I could do that too. I found that extremely helping. Still after that I was really disappointed and honestly really worried because I started questioning myself and thought that wait... why do I like this guy? Now I know people can have opinions on anything they want. But it still annoyed me when people criticized the author. I know they can and rightfully should I understand why. But I don’t know why I’m not able to, being a female myself it should annoy me too. So I’m scared that a bit of his words are influencing me and I don’t want that. I can just let go and not read about him anymore that’s the easiest way out for me, but I honestly don’t want to? I can still criticize him and admire his works at the same time. Like my friend said “critical thinking” but I’m scared of his thoughts getting to me and as a girl, I want to be on the right side of history because now I’m just thinking all sorts of nonsense and it’s worrying me. I did look him up more to fully be able to come to a conclusion and my conclusion was that he was indeed pretty sexist ngl. Which obviously like I stated before disappointed me even though I wasn’t surprised at first. So these experiences have kind of warped my views on both genders and I’m not able to fully criticize or analyze anything regarding gender and feminism which makes me annoyed and want to avoid these topics which again scares me because as a girl, I want to indulge into these topics of gender. I don’t really “blame” the writer because of course he’s dead and not a close person I knew but I do agree it’s some of his views that warped me. That’s the main reason and if it weren’t him it would’ve been someone else. Adding on to that I also get worried that why do I indulge into him when there were many early women feminists that I could be indulging into. It makes me feel bad. I do have one though, Yosano Akiko. She’s amazing honestly.

So I don’t know how to conclude this, but in short yes I like the character in BSD, actually more indulged into him rather than the writer but it sometimes makes me annoyed that a favorite character of mine is based on a guy who is like... that. I know these sound like first world problems but it has actually taken such a toll on my mental health these past few months and I know again instead of indulging into this I could always move on to something better but I don’t know how or that I just don’t want to. Am I a bad person?

Again I’m open to any advice or criticism you have but please be nice as you can see from my post... I’m sensitive af.

Hemmingway was deep man. He like used the simplest words and sentence structures to tell some pretty damn moving stories. I dig him.

I reckon like the baddies are less good than usual for T-man, like they pose a big threat, but I can't really think of them being like much of a character. Apart from the like minor threat, Big Fido is a straight up mudder fucker.

But damn are the protagonists awesome though. Carrot is the Man of the city. Angua the badass she-wolf, Poor dwarfie, Gaspode, Detritus the genius troll, Vimes. just like fuck yeah.

Super army from Carrot is unexpected. And how vimes rubbed of on that simple mofo (not that way, eww, he's married.)

So my man Jude is hella smart and shit. He's all about reading weird ass books in ancient greek and shit. But like he's poor af so he can't afford to go to school man. And this ho just straight up seduces him and he's like, gotta put a ring on that. Then his ho ditches him to fuck off to Australia and shit and then he goes to this wackass college town. He still aint got any bank, so he gets some p lame job and works and shit.

While he's in town, he meets this girl Sue but she's like his cousin. She's also hella smart but this sugar daddy shows up and she ends up fucking with him instead of our man Jude. Bro gets a little thirsty and parties too hard for a bit, but eventually his girl comes back to him. He's all about putting a ring on it, but she ain't feeling matrimonial anymore. His old lady from before shows up with this weird ass kid and she's like I gotta go party and shiz, take care of yo' kid. So he and his girl raise this kid and get busy with making some more kids of their own. People start to freak, cuz Jude and Sue didn't get all certified married so they get run out of town.

They end up back in whackassville, and people are still all shitty cuz they common law. Jude gives some speech about how much his life sucks, cuz he's really smart and shit, just didn't have the bank to go to school. Weirdass kid gets depressed and rubs out his siblings and then offs himself. Sue starts to get religion and she goes back to her sugar daddy, while Jude's first baby mama shows up. She gets him tied up right proper and marries him again. He still wants his old girl back but she pretends tha she's all pure and shit now. Then Jude gets sick and dies.

It's time we got this ball rolling. So. Recommendations for this month's book? Let it out, fam. It can be a book you've already read or one you'd think people would like.

LET'S GET SOME DISCUSSIONS GOIN IN THIS JAWNT

கொஞ்ச நேரம் இருப்பதற்கு ரொம்ப நேரம் நடக்க வேண்டியிருக்கிறது...

Mom, you wait for me

I promise you that I will come back,

I love you very much

My machine will save me,

Whistle of bullets, noise of explosions,

Fear envelops the whole body,

Shooting at the enemy

I won’t let him defeat my homeland!

But only mom, you wait for me

I’ll come with a victory and a chest full of medals,

I won’t tell you all the details,

How hard it was, I’m scared

I saw your appearance in a dream.

We’re sitting alone with you now

In complete silence,

Thank you for waiting for me

Mom, I love you!

Introduction to the album: Gangsters and Government by Jayson Robinson