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Hey /lit/!
This is a thread I would create ~3 years ago if anyone recalls. This is a thread for writers who would like some critique without having to give any.
Here's how it works:
>I started this thread sometime before I went to bed, you post what you'd like me to look at.
>When I wake up, I'll go through the submissions from top to bottom until I reach the end.
>If I give you critique, please consider giving some to somebody else in the thread!
>Please no poetry though, I am not a poet.
What do I gain out of this?
I am not a published author/editor/critic, so please take my words with a grain of salt. I am a fellow writer, like you, but I've been in a slump for ~2 years and I thought this might be a way to jumpstart my old hobby.
I won't be brutal and entirely negative, but I will be honest.
Have a wonderful night, anon!
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>>9352684
>This is a thread I would create ~3 years ago if anyone recalls.
Prove it.
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>>9352699
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/5871128
that is the last thread I made.
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There's a man walking down the street. He is skeleton thin with a big coat that hangs on him like a bat to a wire. He wears two different shoes, and there is a shadow in his eyes that lets you know hes not all the way there anymore. He walks around the puddles and when he cries no one notices, because it all flows to the sewer.
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What a great fucking comic book...
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>>9352441
>t. Jew
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>>9352457
>t./pol/tard
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What are some good books about the culture of capitalism?
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>>9352402
my diary desu
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White Noise
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>>9352402
The Communist Manifesto
Nausea
The Conquest of Bread
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Why are the majority of opening lines in stories and novels cringe-inducing?
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ummm... hello???
give me an example????
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>Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt.
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Do you guys think flannery was a qt?
Did she die a virgin?
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>The Gulf War Did Not Take Place
>Gulf War clearly took place
how do some philosophers get away with such blatant lies?
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>>9352316
>clearly took place
No it did not. You did not experience it.
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>>9352321
>solipsism
kill yourself, kid
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>>9352316
it's a reference to The Trojan War Will Not Take Place, if you read the book you'll know Baudrillard doesn't actually think the gulf war did not take place
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Please leave and never return if you agree with any of the following;
>you read any form of genre fiction
>you think fantasy, science fiction, detective fiction, young adult fiction or horror are literature
>you barely know your classics
>you tend to believe that if you like a given work, it is justified on an artistic level
>you think everyone's opinion should be accepted and respected
>you speak a single language
>you read contemporary versions of Shakespeare or Milton
>you read for the plot
>you read for entertainment
>you rarely read nonfiction
>you don't have a solid grounding in philosophy
>you do not at least have some understanding of the Three Tragedians and Homer
>you have little to no understanding of literature outside of your cultural horizon
>you have little to no understanding of literature within your own cultural horizon (muh african authors)
>you mostly read contemporary literature
>you believe 'the author is dead'
>you make your literary analysis proceed from ideology
>you think intricate prose is 'pretentious' and that the author 'should just get to the point'
>your rarely read poetry
>you think Rhythm and Rhyme is just useless rules and laws restricting creativity
>you have a hard time explaining why you like a given work
>you have a hard time forming structured and relevant literary criticism
>you tend to refuse to judge works for yourself, rather relying on the opinions of literary authorities
>you rarely read for more than one or two hours straight
This is a board about literature. You're not welcome here. Please take your plebeian garbage to /b/ or reddit, where you will find both a demographic and a general atmosphere more consistent with your tastes and your culture.
Also, what is the patrician book you are reading right now?
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>>9352103
Stop
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ejaculate
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>>9352103
>I am autistic and you can be too! the post
Except too many mistakes were made in your post so I think it's more;
>I got made fun of and know I need to vent! the post
But please continue to be an angry little person and tell me how that works out for you.
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What is the best book to understanding Assad, Syria, and ISIS? Or has it not been written yet?
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>>9352087
book of job
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Okay, get this.
Saudi Arabia, the gulf states, Israel, and america are in a proxy war with iran and the shia crescent over regional control, oil, and threats to Zionism.
The cia, uses terrroist groups to overthrow nations, they did it in libya, egypt, bharaine and tried it in syria, didnt work out that well, arab spring turned into arab winter.
Well, these methods have blow back like rapugees, and terrorism.
The people in charge are legit morons and monsters who dont care.
Thats about it
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>>9352118
So... kill them all?
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>General Grammar, Aristotelian Logic, and Classical Rhetoric comprise the first three rules-based subjects of the 7 Liberal Arts and Sciences. As these disciplines are learned and practiced together, they form the overarching, symbiotic system for establishing clarity and consistency of personal thought called the Trivium.
I never considered that grammar, logic, and rhetoric could be that helpful as a tool for organizing thinking.
Is there some merit to the Trivium? Why is it grown out of use?
Are there similar systems for strengthening understanding and communication?
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Honestly, I wish there was more discussion about how to live a non-degenerate life and how best to obtain a grounded perspective of the world, in academics and in pragmatics. Even at the end of the Roman Republic, the politicians were still intelligent, passionate, and capable thinkers. Caesar, Cato, Cicero, etc. It seems like we live in highly degenerate times in comparison, given how incompetent and shallow our leaders are. We have volumes of knowledge of not only how to express great ideas, but also on how to live a good life, and yet not even the greatest of us seems to follow those prescriptions. Compare Jeb Bush to Marc Antony--the former wouldn't have lasted a minute in the Roman civil war.
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Can someone give me a quick rundown of the Trivium?
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>>9351976
Grammar - not only to convey your message clearly. Grammar is also pretty fucking important if you're learning Latin and Greek as classical languages.
Logic - learning formal logic and knowing how to conduct arguments.
Rhetoric - understanding how people are persuaded.
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Is there a reading order?
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What did he mean by this?
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Eco is dead nice try
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>>9351852
he says you can read it in any order
might be fun to go chronologically
i just ordered antifragile as my first
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/fitlit/ thread
posting here because theres already some on fit but none here.
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fit please go, I don't actually want to be fit
I just want to read books and be cute
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>>9352514
Show boypussy
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/fit/ might need /lit/, but /lit/ doesn't need /fit/.
if you want to follow the stereotypes, you're the assholes who used to beat us up and make fun of us for being nerds. now your face is cratering from steroid abuse and you want us to help you recover your previously good skin condition.
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The very fact that Kant and Hegel can't put their philosophy into layman's terms means it is bourgeoisie horseshit for people with too much time on their hands.
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nigger feces
excuse my french
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Yup
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Not going to make it.
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Will she ever return?
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>>9351308
They usually come back after a year or so, kind of like that girl that reviews classics.
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>>9351308
Oh man I miss her mom's channel so much
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>>9351363
it was so good. random insights into an extremely conservative family life in a slightly unreal way. the mom will definitely not come back. Carli may but I really do doubt it, she honestly doesn't read that much and she's going to get older and not care as much about it
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There is literally nothing wrong with hedonism.
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>>9351206
Why?
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I agree. There's nothing that tells me i should have any reverence for anyone else but myself.
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I agree, but normies have no idea how to maximise pleasure.
If you're sexually active you're already doing it wrong.
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What do you guys think of this thing I just thought up?
There is a house. Cavernous easter egg house, somehow small and familiar. At the far western wing of this place - A structure. A stained-glass tent, made of metal, 20 feet tall, distorted as if seen through a melted mirror. A sheet of Rainbow glass draped over a rod at its apex, pulled taught. No doors or flaps, a lazily winding triangular tunnel that twists around the corner of unfinished space. You stand at the entrance, multi colored biblical shadows diffusing the light on the floor ahead of your feet. Take a step, don’t fear this new place, this place where you can’t see more than a few paces ahead of you for the curve, but where what you can see holds in its rays the pastel echo of the adventure that you were promised all that long time ago, before the pattern formed, before you were resigned. Your pulse is getting faster. You remember, don’t you?
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Nice and purple just the way I like it
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>>9351011
Only quoted posts can be purple retard.
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iohu
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Which book could be its counterpart?
This book totally fucked me up and I want to read what the opposite side has to say/argue
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Totalitarianism in a Tundra.
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>>9350830
Thanks, this saved my life, you cunt.
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>>9350830
Next book when?