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What's the difference between story and plot?
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I kow what is
I just can't put it on words
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Story is the gist of what happens.
Plot is how the story all unfolds.
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Story is events explained as time goes on, plot is more of an emphasis on the causality of each event to the next.
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What's the appeal of reading low-quality genre trash?
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>>9406742
it's fun
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>>9406748
Why though? What's more fun about low-quality schlock as opposed to something that's genre yet also well-written?
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some people lets face it, plebs and women, can't comprehend anything more
look at the anime posting moron above me, this is all he knows, and all he'll ever know.
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Suggest great short stories
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>He glanced at the girl lying asleep on one of the twin beds. Then he went over to one of the pieces of luggage, opened it, and from under a pile of shorts and undershirts he took out an Ortiges calibre 7.65 automatic. He released the magazine, looked at it, then reinserted it. He cocked the piece. Then he went over and sat down on the unoccupied twin bed, looked at the girl, aimed the pistol, and fired a bullet through his right temple.
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Anything by Raymond Carver.
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Tobias Wolff - Bullet in the Brain
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Salinger - 9 stories
Chekhov - throw a rock in his direction, you'll hit a good story.
PKD - Minority report.
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As a reminder we are starting the A rebours (Against the Grain/Against Nature/etc.) reading group today! The book is about a disaffected scion of a decayed French family who is tired of
>normies REEEEEEe
and retreats to a cottage to meditate on art, society, and life. It's essentially proto-/lit/
It's a brief book (~200 pages in most editions) so we'll be wrapping it up by Sunday or so.
https://discord.gg/dtBkgFK
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>>9406653
bump
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I'd participate but I have exams next week. Hope the reading group succeeds though, they're a good trend for the board.
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>>9406678
we've done a number of successful ones and this one is v short
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Is /lit/ the Lost Generation v.2?
Will the /lit/ generation be anything? Is it anything now?
Pic kinda related, it's a guy sleeping in -20°C
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/lit/ is talent less losers killing time on a forum dedicated to "literature" which is vague enough to become whatever the loser wants it to be, a patrician institution of written word and scientific knowledge, an aesthetic device to demonstrate sophistication, an escapist form of mental masturbation, or a combination of all these and more.
there is no deeper meaning here. even in this post into which I must now insert some self aware platitude about how I am either part of or immune to the condition I just described in order to ward off inevitable criticism.
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>>9406668
>using big words
As my guy say, no.
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Well, I plan on being a great writer. I think I'm on my way, too. I don't know about the rest of you fuckers.
What's your favorite Lovecraft story?
I really liked 'The Rats in the Walls'
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The colour out of space or The shadow over Innsmouth. The Dunwich horror is also pretty nice.
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That's probably my favourite too. Second would be Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family, one of the few that genuinely creeped me out as well as entertained. I think that's because the creepy stuff is all relayed second hand until the very end, plus it makes the twist obvious without totally spelling it out.
Haunter in the Dark is up there as well, very atmospheric and more spooky than his usual cosmic terror stories.
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The Music of Erich Zann
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How does it feel being BTFO /lit/?
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>>9406590
has there ever been a communist success story?
no?
they've literally never won?b-b-bbuuuut muh star trek
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>>9406600
north korea
checkmate
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>>9406600
has there ever been a capitalist success story? America is one of the ugliest, most miserable nations in the world, a country of fat consumerist hooked on anti depressants and panem et circenses
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Help me understand please please. Is it grammatically accurate to put please at the end of a sentence?
e.g. "pass me the pepper, please."
If it is, is it "please." or "please?"
and if it is "please?" , what is the question being asked, "if you wish to please me"? or just "if you wish to do that to?". I think it's interesting to think what the nature of the question implies about the society the formed the language.
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No question mark.
I've always assumed the implication was "if it pleases you" like French.
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Who cares? Life is meaningless
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>>9406584
dude
Has anyone ever bought multiple copies of the same book for any particular reason?
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https://youtu.be/Qk1i7UGBz1Q
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>>9406517
MFA ex-gf put out a poetry chapbook, i bought some copies.
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why yes, I have.
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Any books similar to the general theme/feel of the Metal Gear Solid games? Except for the actual mgs books
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Crossfire, The spy who came in from the cold, Google it OP, somewhere online Kojima mentioned his influences
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>>9406486
1984
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Kojima got half his inspiration from 80s movies, the other half from his insane and beautiful mind. So basically, you're boned
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>Several years later, teaching at Illinois State, Wallace designed a class that Max describes as covering “great novels of the twentieth century”; in the course syllabus, DFW described it as “a contrived, excuse/incentive to read several interesting, difficult U.S. novels…. The class is to function as a large, sophisticated, energetic reading group.” In a letter to Steven Moore, Wallace wrote, “I’m gearing up to do 2 DeLillo, 2 Gaddis, 2 McCarthy … and 1 Gass. Death by fiction.”
What would you realistically give up to be taught such a syllabus by 1990's David Foster Wallace?
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>>9406416
I would ironically be in the class.
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>>9406416
>this is Harry Potter now - feel old yet?
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>>9406416
has he taught anyone noteworthy?
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chart thread
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ITT: we share bookstore stories
So I just got home from Barnes and Noble. Their fantasy selection was abysmal and the religion section consisted of nothing but bibles.
I was pretty frustrated, so I took a nice big shit in their bathroom floor, and schmeared a shit swastika in the bathroom wall.
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>>9406259
Why correct behavior when the perpetrator doesn't know they did anything wrong?
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>>9406267
I wasn't correcting anything. But if you can't run a business properly, you get dung on your floor.
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Happy birthday, Adolf
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is Alain Badiou any good?
where to start with him?
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nobody here cares about philosophy anymore?
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>>9406282
>French theory
>Philosophy
Pick one.
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I don't like him. I would recommend, instead, Gilles Dauvé's Eclipse and re-emergence of the communist movement.
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Who are the best intj writers?
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Nietzsche, Kant
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>>9405689
>Nietzsche
>T
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>>9405689
is kant intj?