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Every time I go through the bed of Procrustes it's like my cucky mentality is revealed to me.
>You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.
>Preoccupation with efficacy is the main obstacle to a poetic, noble, elegant, robust, and heroic life.
>There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.
>For everything, use boredom in place of a clock, as a biological wristwatch, though under constraints of politeness.
>To bankrupt a fool, give him information.
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Who is this paki isis terrorist fuck that doesn't like nye ?
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>>9544040
I didn't understand any of that. How pleb am I?
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>>9544060
You.
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Can somebody here please give me a guide or chart to 19th century British literature? I want to read more Victorian stuff
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If there isn't one out there already, I might make one, OP. That sounds interesting.
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Thank you in advance if you make one! I've been looking for one but can't seem to find anything.
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Browning (Robert)
Tennyson
Swinburne
Rossetti (Christina and Dante)
Hardy
All you need.
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Personal God Tier poets?
Mine:
Pablo Neruda
Rainer Maria Rilke
Frank Lima
Basho
Allen Ginsberg (but only "Howl and other poems")
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Pic related
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>>9543940
i tried to buy the andes book the other day and got to the checkout and it was fucking $40
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Dante
Omar khayyam
Tagore
Camillo Sbarbaro
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Guestbook entries in the same holocaust memorial.
>Obama: “I am grateful to Yad Vashem and all of those responsible for this remarkable institution. At a time of great peril and promise, war and strife, we are blessed to have such a powerful reminder of man’s potential for great evil, but also our capacity to rise up from tragedy and remake our world. Let our children come here, and know this history, so that they can add their voices to proclaim ‘never again.’ And may we remember those who perished, not only as victims, but also as individuals who helped and loved and dreamed like us, and who have become symbols of the human spirit.”
>Trump: "It is a great honor to be here with all of my friends - so amazing + will never forget!"
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>Trump: "It is a great honor to be here with all of my friends - so amazing + will never forget!"
This man's verbose, eloquent, and literary genius ceases to amaze me.
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>Obama's:
>pretentious and long winded, almost as if trying to use as much words as possible.
>Trump's:
Concise and optimistic. Displays a degree of humility.
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Maybe it's time to stop making a secular cult out of the holocaust.
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What are some good books about damaged father/son relationships?
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my diary desu
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Brothers Karamazov
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how do you guys build plot in your writing? do you sit down beforehand and plan out every piece of the story that will happen and just fill in a couple gaps as you write them? do you just write everything as it goes and just hope it sort of works out?
i need some tips for figuring out what exactly i want to write. i love writing and i have some ideas (some concrete, others conceptual) that i want to get down on paper, but i'm having trouble either figuring out exactly WHAT it is that i want to write or figuring out what should or shouldnt happen in the story.
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i also have the problem of starting writing something that i really enjoy and then almost immediately becoming intensely bored of it, and then being enthralled with a completely different setting and wanting to switch to that.
has anybody been able to combat this somehow? it's been going on for years and it's awful
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Starting point > problem > solution > character growth > halfway > problem > solution > victory and or character growth
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>>9543667
that was helpful, but wouldnt it lead to a somewhat bland story if it just followed that formula?
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Is this the greatest "Life of an Artist" and "Struggles of the Artistic Process" book?
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I don't know.
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No. One of Zola's weaker novels. La Terre, Germinal, Nana, Bete Humaine, Therese, L'Assommoir.. all much better.
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And those deal with Artists?
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And would you consider it worth reading?
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Sure. Why not.
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Very interested to know as well. The Oxford World's Classics edition is prose so that's out, of course.
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age
should I cop /lit/?
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kys
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if you want to be a cunt feel free, but please don't ask us to legitimize it
Do any of you know of any books dealing with the issue of being spied/controlled without knowing it/living in a controlled reality?
Or just something about paranoia and the idea of an omnipresent power
I was just thinking something about this back when i came home from the bus and i thought all these themes would make very good themes for a mystery story, so i wanted to know if there are any.
I searched in google but couldn't find anything quite like what i'm thinking (that in fact i may not be explaining 100% well)
i just found shitty YA novels
so yeah, i'd appreciate any insight or if anyone has a good recommendation about something along these lines.
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(i'm op) i also thought i myself could write something about it as i liked the ideas but first i'd like to know more and make them a little more concrete before seriously writing something
i hate dystopian/sci-fi cliches but i think something good could be made out of this if
addressed the right way (more psychological than technological or fantastic)
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bruh how old are you? dont they make you read Kafka in high school?
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Why aren't you reading what will one day be regarded as one of the most ambitious, most beautiful mythologies ever created by mankind?
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Wat is it
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>>9543447
I'm too dumb to read something like that.
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>List Price: $1,131.92
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Well, what about Juche Egoism?
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Why not?
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self-sufficiency is clearly a spook
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>>9543373
>Juche
You mean the North Korea thing?
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Are there any computer science/programming books that have transcended education and become literature?
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No but see Terry Davis's blog.
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A lot of people still read Darwin simply because his prose was legitimately quite good
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Donald Knuth - The art of computer programming
It is like "War and Peace".
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I'm trying to practice writing, but I'm quite stumped on topics.
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Me too.
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Read books or live life until you have some ideas. If that's too much, I'm sure there's a writing prompt reddit where you'll be welcome.
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Holy shit is that a jackalope?
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/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General
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The Book of the New Sun edition.
Mapping a Masterwork: A Critical Review of Gene Wolfe’s The Book of the New Sun – Ultan's Library
>http://ultan.org.uk/review-botns/
Sci-Fi’s Difficult Genius - The New Yorker
>http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/sci-fis-difficult-genius
Fantasy
Selected:
>https://i.imgur.com/r688cPe.jpg
General:
>https://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg
Flowchart:
>https://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg
Science Fiction
Selected:
>https://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/IBs9KE8.jpg
General:
>https://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg
NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
>https://i.imgur.com/IJxTQBL.jpg
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Greece is the greatest
I am a Greek
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Continuing through book 2 of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stories, I read The Seven Black Priests, a thirty page novelette from 1953. Here, the tall barbarian and his shorter thief companion are journeying through the cold hills and wastes when they see a strange volcanic hill in the distance, one with an indistinct impression of several giant faces below its summit. They spy a gleaming rock set within an 'eye' and resolve to steal it. This is a light hearted adventure tale, buoyed along by the pair's sardonic banter and their encounters with the stone's order of protectors, who ambush the protagonists in variously sudden, desperate, and inventive ways. This is also somewhat of a travelogue with much description of the cold landscape, its rock formations, frozen plains and suspicious cave mouths, along with scenes of outdoorsmanship, camping and hunting. A couple of twists prevent a predictable ending to an entertaining piece of low fantasy, which merits a rating of two thumbs up.
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>book of the new sun
What a coincidence I made a new meme for that.