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>tfw you think you've written a unique character but discover a TV Tropes page that almost perfectly describes said character
anyone had something similar happen?
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sure but shklovsky would argue that it's not the device you use but how you destabilise it.
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>>9344024
That's not particularly surprising, considering TV tropes got out of hand big time and there's a page dedicated to virtually every conceivable form of human life out there
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>>9344024
No, because Tropers are plebs or worse, pseuds, who never read anything good even when they rub their eyes across a page of the Bible.
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I don't want to write anymore. What are other activities you guys would recommend?
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Suicide
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masturbate then kill self
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>>9343900
Theres always movies.
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"who-e debel you? You no speak-e, dam-me. I kill-e." -Queequeg 2017-04-06 07:00:34 Post No.9343704
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"who-e debel you? You no speak-e, dam-me. I kill-e." -Queequeg
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Just started reading "Moby dick" today. Any thoughts on the book; advice?
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I'm like a hundred pages in and they still haven't set sail or met Captain Ahab what the fuck.
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>>9343707
Oh fuck.
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>>9343704
as tiem goes on, note how ishmael becomes less and less a figure entirely: he begins to merge with nature, becoming more of the backdrop than the foreground, fading and dissolving in the solvent of all that is.
compare this to ahab, whose intensity only increases as the novel goes on--the focus shifts almost entirely to his obsession, his desire to dominate nature.
and so the two great forces are defined and set in opposition to one another. which one are you?
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> walk into your local library
> see this guy peaking at your qt librarian from behind a bookshelf whilst furiously masturbating.
wat do?
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You want me to fuck you in the stinker? I'll whisper de Sade in your ears.
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I've actually done this before, I'm completely sincere
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Seriously tho. Whats so great about William vollmann?
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hey all,
in response to the threads i previously made
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>>9327692
i have begun to scan in some of the material people have requested. in order to ensure fairness and timeliness, i will be scanning in chunks of the material in rounds.
i will be using dropbox as my filesharing platform.
legal disclaimer: i intend to share this material under US fair use doctrine. i have purchased these books with personal finances and have scanned them in with personal labor. in no way, shape, or form do i intend any/all of this material to be used for commercial purposes; i do not desire any economic return, and reject entirely any economic benefit. i share this knowledge freely and openly for the purposes of criticism, commentary, and satire in a self-titled academic/literary context. i hope only to generate conversation and participate in the explicit purpose of 4chan's /lit board: to share ideas and literature in a community of like-minded intellectuals committed to exploring aspects of history, philosophy, and theory. i do not endorse any use of this material beyond purely intellectual self-improvement/academic conversation.
first file is the first chapter of Czeslaw Milosz's "The Captive Mind" (New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1990):
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/vog1qqg679ncn8k/AAAze8TXLWl82hBP-7i8X7oSa?dl=0
will be posting more throughout the next several days. please refer to the previous aforementioned threads to request material--i will eventually scan in all requests.
i love you all.
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>>9343282
introduction to Richard Woods, "Understanding Mysticism" (Garden City, NY: Image Books, 1980):
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6qcr4olpu57jb23/AAC0y4C53IcBMPISfu2bsyoRa?dl=0
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>>9343290
forward, introduction, and first essay in Richard Hofstadter's "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" (New York, NY: Vintage Books, 2008):
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kn1dzvkalqrjrr4/AACPXYrbFShIvLCV1WgsHeYHa?dl=0
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cheers op, this is very thoughtful of you
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Is there any poetry which is explicitly homosexual?
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All of it.
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Any poetry written after 1950,
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Beginning of The Gay Science
>Nausicaa
>Cyclops
>Sirens
>Hades
>Nestor
>Telemachus
>Lotus Eaters
>Calypso
>Ithaca
>Circe
>Aeolus
>Eumaeus
>Lestrygonians
>Oxen of the Sun
>Scylla and Charybdis
>Penelope
>Proteus
>Wandering Rocks
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>>9342950
Is this best to worst?
desu I think you severely underrate Penelope
that final chapter never fails to make me tear up tbqh
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wtf your bottom three are all amazing
Ithaca is the best
Circe is way too low
Cyclops is too high
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>>9342950
>ithaca not best
Reported
Well? Were they right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8m8cQI4DgM
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>>9342882
>john Oliver
Haha not clicking that, faggot.
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>>9342893
Haha, almost got you :^)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-E7YQyYHZw
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continuing with the Greeks
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I made a thread about finishing The Iliad recently and a couple of of /lit/izens were fairly insistent that I made a mistake by choosing the Fagles over Lattimore translation. Which translator should I choose for The Odyssey?
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>>9342869
fuuuug :DDDDDD
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Tell them to fuck off. Fagles, Fitzgerald and Lattimore are all good options.
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>>9343137
WRONG
Lattimore is the only acceptable option if you have the choice. Don't buy his Odyssey though; the paper's shit. Just pirate it.
Fagles is okay though.
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Escapism is the next literary movement. Prove me wrong.
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It's already in a literary movement. It's called manga.
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>>9342836
And what would an escapist work of literature look like?
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>>9342836
but literature is escapism?
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So what is the future of fiction in the digital age?
I think it's highly likely that the tradition print publishing will disappear, or, if not disappear, become so niche as to cause books to become extremely expensive... like vinyl records.
Literary iction itself will undergo a monumental change. What will that new revolutionary form of fiction be?
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processed meat books
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>>9342614
sounds slimy
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>>9342624
No, dumbfuck. Like dried jerky
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Best literature for insecure men who feel the need to act in an excessively "Masculine" manner?
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>>9342540
Meditations
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any hemmingway
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>>9342540
Satyricon by Petronius
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Are reading glasses a meme?
Will they mess you up? What strength do you use?
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4s
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>>9342363
Good for your eyes apparently
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>>9342363
Just go to a optician and get proper glasses that are actually made for your eye strength
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How would one go about writing a horror/suspense story from the perspective of early man (Homo Erectus/Ergaster)? What could be considered some good sources of information for said story (fiction and non)?
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these seem like questions you should investigate yourself.
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>>9342358
Go to Africa aand see how they live first hand
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Clan of the Cave Bear series is fiction about this prehistory.
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>"in his large face, whiwh seems always to be too close, are the Jew, the Negro and the indian. In his bearing, the tiger and the ape."
>mfw
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Funny coming from that orangutan faced fuck
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https://aboutbasquecountry.eus/en/2016/06/21/uncovering-borges-ignorant-racist-pinochet-admirer-and-hateful-of-the-basques/
"Basque? I don’t understand how anyone could feel proud of being Basque…The Basques are even more useless than the blacks, and notice that the only good the blacks have ever served for is to be slaves.”
“Of course the blacks are unbearable…I don’t retract what I’ve stated so many times: the Americans made a grave mistake in educating them; as slaves, they were like children, they were happier and less annoying.”
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>>9342003
he disappointed me too desu