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>tfw too much of a sperg to call my local bookstore and order the books I want
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>>9494923
This is embarrassing.
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>>9494923
get drunk and do it
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>>9494923
Get a kindle
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I've been writing more often now, and I've begun to really love it more than ever before, but one thing I'm running into over and over while world building is what kind of style this world has. Middle Earth had a very Celtics, leafy style, while game of thrones has a largely Norse setting.
My question is how did you come to determine what your world was shaped by? Did you choose or did it just come naturally with time? Did you write your world around it or did it just appear in your world?
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I realize maybe my statements about lotr and got were a bit wrong, but I hope the point got across
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>>9494888
I just use the real world
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>>9494888
>wasting these trips on genre fiction
Anyway. Like other anon said, I just use the real world. If you're writing a fantasy story and want to set the world apart but haven't done the legwork of actually building it into something special, you have been derelict. A GOOD setting doesn't just emerge, it is carefully planned.
In the past, I've chosen a setting to complement the story being told. It must be almost a character itself, and tie into the moral and psychological journey of the main characters in many ways. The best way to do this imo is to brainstorm / daydream about the setting itself, apart from the characters, and imagine what weirdo unique circumstances, traditions, objects or tools, geographical features, cultural peculiarities, architecture, wildlife, et cetera might exist. This leads to more daydreaming about scientific stuff like the water cycle and availability, flora, questions about material strengths, food sources, etc that might affect the shape/size of the local and larger civilization.
>Did you choose or did it just come naturally with time?
Significant brainstorm frontload. Followed by scenes/vignettes created during the story that elaborate on the setting.
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I don't get why people like this guy. Not only are his books populist crap but their not even entertaining. Is this goy someone you have to read as an impressionable child in order to appreciate?
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>I don't get why people like this guy. Not only are his books populist crap
>I don't get why people like populist
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>>9494887
It's like the next step after the Goosebumps series.
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>>9494887
>populist
?
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What is some reactionary literature?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kcAgVN1wGo
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You will not get any more reactionary than overwhelmingly pro-Catholic writers. The Church is the biggest force for reactionary thought left in the West, even though Vatican 2 has tried to change that. It hasn't changed nearly enough, though.
Read "The Syllabus of Errors" by Pius IX. It blows Evola and Spengler out of the water.
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Hamsun's Growth of the Soil is an example that isn't often mentioned
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The Greeks.
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Recommend me a book in which the protagonist/antagonist is treated as a god by primitives, /lit/.
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The Damned Trilogy
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Just a short story, but: http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-streets-of-ashkelon/
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The Bible
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'sup /lit/
I am socially conservative, but economically progressive. What are some philosophers / political theorists I need to read?
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Chesterton in general and Belloc's Servile State
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Bane
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>>9494616
There was something in my response that gave me the "connection error" message and I can't figure out what it was so fuck you.
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Why do philosophers rely so much on imagery and metaphors ?
Shouldn't their texts be written using simple grammar and a precise vocabulary, in order to avoid any misunderstandings ?
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>>9494606
>Why do philosophers rely so much on imagery and metaphors
prove it
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>>9494606
Because people need examples and analogy to understand things.
In our next thread: Why doesn't Shakespeare just write You and Me?
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>>9494606
>Shouldn't their texts be written using simple grammar and a precise vocabulary, in order to avoid any misunderstandings ?
Philosophers such as Aristotle, Epictetus, and Descartes do this. Perhaps you are confusing mystics and memes such as Nietzsche with philosophers.
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>tfw relapsed again and spent the last few days playing video games instead of reading a single page
How do I stop this? I'm so fucking weak.
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>>9494569
Find something that you enjoy instead of forcing yourself to read you fucking retard.
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>>9494580
I do enjoy what I'm reading but my body enjoys the mindless pleasure of instant gratification vidya more
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>>9494592
Heres a plan:
1:Stop playing videogames.
2: Read more
What the fuck are you expecting?
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What are your thought on "purple prose"?
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>>9494549
Well I'm certain that you should kill yourself.
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>>9494551
lol. gotem
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i agree with horace
Can someone recommend books that serve as a guide for French grammar? Everything I find is concerned with "learning by exposure!" or "Learning like children do!"
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google it fag
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>>9494492
Buy a grammar book written pre-1960
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Sandberg's French for Reading is probably ideal for what you want
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>tfw you will never be an army grunt that shoots japs at day and fucks traps at night
Why even live man.
Anyone else read this book?
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from here to eternity was the only book i never finished.
how does it compare to thin red line?
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>>9494465
Didn't read it.
What are your thoughts on the thin red line?
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>>9494475
I've never read it....but from here to eternity puts me off readign it.
I like the terrence mallick movie
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What does /lit/ think of this dialogue I just had with someone on an 'enlightened' subreddit?
>I don't have free will
Deciding what we experience to be "free will" or "no free will" is like trying to decide if the paint color on the wall is egg-shell white or white. The name doesn't define what it is, the color itself defines what it is. Life with "no free will" looks like this, life with "free will" looks like this, so why does it matter?
>All of the things that cause me pain in my life are my fault because I'm not looking at it the right way
Same could be said for "illusion" or "real" They are just labels ascribed to experiences that don't inherently say what they are. But we do know for a fact we are experiencing the experiences themselves. So why get caught up in the labels? We mistake our labels for the things themselves!
>All of the things that cause me pain in my life are my fault because I'm not looking at it the right way
Fault relies on causation, and a singular cause to the way situations seem to arise can't be found in actual experience. Just try it out, why are you reading this here? Find the sole cause.
>My very view of reality is an illusion, and I'm being tricked
There are no tricks, just innocently formed habits and assumptions. Even then, nothing is hidden. Experience of being habitually pigeon-holed into boring narratives shine just as brightly as hanging out with naked beauty.
> don't even exist
"Exists" or "doesn't exist" is another example of labels given to experience that never actually says what it is. Reality is unfathomable, depthless.
Basically, forget about trying to figure anything out because Reality doesn't make sense. The only sense to be made is in the feeling of hereness, nowness, immediacy of experience itself.
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>nonduality
where do i read more on this?
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>>9494458
https://www.reddit.com/r/awakened/
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>>9494462
im not going to use reddit as an information source..... isn't there a book or soemthing
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Where should I start with Adorno? I hear Minima Moralia is a good one to start with.
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>>9494375
Yes, it's a good start. Read Minima Moralia and then make a thread.
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Aristotle
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your local library
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REEEEEEEEEEE NORMIES GET OUT
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/11/accelerationism-how-a-fringe-philosophy-predicted-the-future-we-live-in
Acclerationism is now officially a normie ideology. RIP.
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>>9494359
Everything that is easy to spell out and summarize will eventually become a normie ideology.
Accelerationism was destined to become a meme from the beginning, especially when you consider how edgy it is. It's basically written for the IFLS and reddit population.
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>complains about ideologies
>posts news article
>gives no own opinion
this is not /pol/
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Ulysses is probably literature. The ingredients on the label of a can of soup? Probably not.
Moby Dick is probably literature. What about Twilight? Literature, but to a different degree? Bad literature, whereas Moby Dick is good literature?
Does it come down to the author? If a computer wrote War and Peace and Danielle Steele wrote some Danielle Steele shit, is her work more literature than the computer's?
Or is it all about re-readability/complexity? I would pick up on the same amount of preciously-missed detail if I re-read Tom Clancy's Op-Center or re-read Wüthering Heights.
Is literature just like pornography, i.e. "I'll know it when I see it?"
Lastly, and most importantly, is my opinion: it's all an academic circle jerk and doesn't matter. A written work is literature if interpreted as such by the viewer.
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Pennis and also dicke and balls
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Bump
Of self
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sometimes movies,,, are films
sometimes books,,, are literature