What are some good books on metanarratives?

the boys i mean are not refined
they go with girls who buck and bite
they do not give a fuck for luck
they hump them thirteen times a night

one hangs a hat upon her tit
one carves a cross on her behind
they do not give a shit for wit
the boys i mean are not refined

they come with girls who bite and buck
who cannot read and cannot write
who laugh like they would fall apart
and masturbate with dynamite

the boys i mean are not refined
they cannot chat of that and this
they do not give a fart for art
they kill like you would take a piss

they speak whatever's on their mind
they do whatever's in their pants
the boys i mean are not refined
they shake the mountains when they dance

By the quads!

>refined

Hi Tom. How's the novel coming along? Really hoping the copypasta's actually in there, I think Veeky Forums deserves a place in literary history. Best wishes.

that italo calvino one, If on a winter's night a traveler

Wittgenstein's Mistress is pretty good. Aside from presenting a new creative and experimental way to tell a story, it also comes as close to approximating the way human thoughts actually work as any of the best stream of consciousness writers I've come across. DFW called it "pretty much the high point of experimental fiction".
The novel told in first person present by the protagonist as she types her thoughts out on a typewriter. She'll often have thoughts which function as corollaries to previous thoughts, and then corollaries to corollaries, hence the title. Its structured like Tractatus.

rupi kaur

Is this actually from a Calvin and Hobbes comic?

The font is right and it wouldn't surprise me, they're full of stuff like this. Recently got out my complete collection, had forgotten just how good they were. Also I can't understand how I loved them as a kid, read all the albums multiple times. Reading them now I must've missed half the jokes.

July 19, 1993

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I'll never know how Bill Watterson made an actually funny comic strip.

He never did. Calvin and Hobbes was a social atomization shibboleth for status conscious white climbers, nothing more.

You definitely need to reread it.

90% of calvin and hobbes is just unfunny faculty door bait

>tfw the simple Peanuts has more symbolic value than Calvin and Hobbes aka pseud bait
Bill Watterson should kill himself

old school matt groening had better faculty door material, i mean "school is hell" still goes hard to this day... shit, i need to download some pdfs of those books for nostalgia sake

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one more classic, for old time's sake

>I've only read Calvin and Hobbes through panels printed on faculty doors.

Bill Watterson is the finest comic artist to have ever lived. I'm not going to claim he never stooped low for an easy laugh but hey, it was a syndicated comic published one strip at a time. The guy had to stay in business. And with the amount of comics he put out even 10% being genuinely clever is a considerable amount.

Though as someone who's read them all faculty door bait is much less common that refridgerator bait.

calvin and hobbes always too pseudy for me, i mean it's called fucking "calvin and hobbes" give me a break, even dilbert is better, but honestly the farside was my favorite, i always looked forward to a new copy of the valley advocate as a little kid just to see the one lone farside panel in the corner of some page towards the back

The far side is also very good. I never got a pseudy vibe from C&H, then again I'm not from Alabama where folk are afraid they might be stigmatized as intelligent.