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Let's be real here. Protagoras pushed Socrates' shit in bigly.

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What makes the prose in Great Gatsby so enjoyable to read?

>I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye. I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove. Sometimes, in my mind, I followed them to their apartments on the corners of hidden streets, and they turned and smiled back at me before they faded through a door into warm darkness. At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others — poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner — young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

Even the purely descriptive ones just feel so musical and enchanting

>It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North America. It was on that slender riotous island which extends itself due east of New York — and where there are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land. Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound. They are not perfect ovals — like the egg in the Columbus story, they are both crushed flat at the contact end — but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead. To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.

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*Bad penmanship
*Bad writing
*Bad thinking

Prove me wrong!

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This book is stupidly hard. Has anyone read it to completion? I'm at p. 283 and I'm still having trouble understanding the dynamics of scenes. Does anyone know an online resources to help with this book?

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Can we get some separate CRITIQUE THREADS; this one is poetry, another can be a short story one. It'll make things easier for people to help with things they specialise in.


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Unsown golden seed of hunger while she
Does listen upon the verse and else
Upon the happy thirst of war
Does consume the broad and and praise the lord
While riding to face the breadth of the law
Yet amidst the smoke and fog that hounds
The times of youth that linger in spit
The trifling breed do bread with louts
Sharing tears shed but rarely a-fit
The consecrated sod does trifle the earth
And dense are the lads that foot the shadows
While war is poetry penned by rifle’s girth
The land of the living will hardly remiss
And insolence of times ahead keep the line
And law of the land will prosper
In consecrated tears the seed demands
Excavation for another lover fallen
Death be to one as life be to many
Yet the passing fade will lift atop
And humanity perhaps moves to infinite glory
In the minds of those shot
Now is the time for congregation to pause
And congress will rise and fall by our hand
And the sad satan that roams the dark halls
Will rise of the land to answer our call
And evil is subject to those unafraid
Yet objective words will keep us in line
The heaven will hear the call of man
If the scream does lift above the pain but
Else does the words of pain and joy
The spoils of war left to the spoilt
And the living will forget the lesson living
That what each generation finally figured out
Be free to be who you are
Be free my children of art
Be free for the life is tainted

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Is 6 inches enough?

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What literary websites do you visit lit?

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ITT: People who didn't deserve a Nobel Prize in literature.

I'll start: Albert Camus.

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How do I tell if I'm having an existential crisis, or just run of the mill depressed?

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>“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

What did he mean by this?

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>One of the finest books in Croatian literature that I've ever read.
>I highly recommend it
>Eugen Kumicic Zrinsko Frankopan Plot

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Any of you guys ever publish anything, either self or through a legit publisher?

I put my first book on Amazon on the 4th, and already it's trending to bring in enough income to replace my day job, if I quit to write for a living, and I did it in the Swords and Sorcery genre. I'm curious if any of you have done the same, and what your experiences were with it.

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What are some books that focus on showing how little or how much one's life is worth?

For example, in books about slaves, they often make a point about how disposable they are

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Hi /lit/ this is my nonfiction collection, what do you think of it? Do you know of any similars you might recommend?

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Hi /lit/
Any good books about marijuana? Something like an introduction to cannabis?
Thanks.