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Why are boards specifically designed for posting and reviewing short stories so terribly shit? I just posted a short piece on a popular German website and got the most retarded criticism. It's not like I think my story was good at all - it's just that the responses were centered on misreading every single line, being unable to fill in very tiny blank and generally had the attitude of people who are dumfounded even at very Middle-Brow stuff. One guy really wrote "It's like you write in a different language." It was a really regular story with a few surreal metaphors shoved in. Is this the general public? Or does it get even worse?
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Idk man, most people are stupid. Very stupid.
It makes it really hard. I posted a story to a discord chat that I'm a part of, and nobody understood it. It was very straightforward and clear, but they all treated it like it was pop fantasy. Boy it makes my blood boil. This one bitch was saying the most passive aggressive things. Woah my blood pressure goes up just thinking about it. wtf
But ya. It's hard to tell cause we could both be retarded man. I don't mean to lump you in against your will but the thing about writers and poets and all creative people is that they never really understand their own stuff, can never really tell if its good or not. At least that's how it seems to me. It's utterly bizarre, but the muses are real. It's almost as if understanding is inimical to good writing. Idk
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>>9238693
Yeah, it's not like I get angry at people being lost about the meaning of something, it was a story that I worked on very quick and intuitively. What really gets on my nerves is that sort of proud mediocre ignorance - like, if you don't understand something, fine, alright, I can work on that. But getting lost about whether it rained in the story because I didn't write "It rained" but wrote about rain puddles and falling water into a pond to ease readers in? That's just fucking retarded. I wrote the word "knuckle nicks" once which is a reference to bulimic people (wasn't really important to the plot at all) and someone misconstrued it to be about nicks and bridges and a deathly accident and it made me utterly confused about people.
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Can you guys keep talking?
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is the equivalent of a brazzers login thread but for jstor a thing around here?
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do you need a specific article?
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>>9238669
You can make a free account and take out 3 articles at a time. Some are probably restricted but I've never had a problem.
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Just use sci-hub you fucking retard
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How do you cope with the fact that 99% of everything you see is propaganda?
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non-linear thinking.
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Define propaganda. From my point of view that's not the case. Where's the propaganda in a tree or even something manmade like a house? You can make a choice to not completely inundate yourself with media
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>>9238639
i accept it and move on.
it doesn't work if you're aware
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>[Pronoun] really was/did.
>Goddam
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goddam flit
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If you read catcher at the appropriate age you should fuck off because this site is 18+.
If you read catcher further down the road you should fuck off because this site is not for illiterate niggers.
Sage
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>>9238623
>I've read every book in existence
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What's a good book to give to a girl as a gift?
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the red and the black might be good
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>>9238534
Natural Harvest: A collection of semen-based recipes
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>>9238550
How so?
/lit/ I'm not a learned man, I don't reads too good, and I didn't get no scholarships to go to the local university. however, I want to read a nice long book. I'm wondering which of these is the easiest to read:
>Moby Dick
>War & Peace
>Infinite Jest
>Count of Monte Cristo
>The Brothers Karamazov
>Les Mis
I've struggled with books including The Divine Comedy and The Scarlet Letter to give you some gauge of my skill
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>>9238490
>I've struggled with books including The Divine Comedy and The Scarlet Letter to give you some gauge of my skill
Ho boy. I'll be nice since you seem sincere.
Start with Les Mis or Count of Monte Cristo. Then move onto War and Peace and The Brothers Karamazov. Save Infinite Jest for later and Moby-Dick is final boss. By then you should have become a significantly better reader by having gone through these texts alone and shouldn't have too many issues with the big Dick.
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>>9238490
Count of Monte Cristo is probably the easiest to read
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>>9238505
Also, you should probably cut your teeth on more digestible works first, like short stories or novellas. I'd recommend giving Flannery O'Connor a try. She wrote plenty of amazing short stories you can finish in a small amount of time. The language will also be more familiar to you as she was a 20th century writer from the South as opposed to the other works you listed which are all 19th century works besides Infinite Jest.
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"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
-Ernest Hemingway
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>>9238453
what a fucking hack
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"Those ignorant of history are muh forms."
- Plato
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>>9238453
I did not miss the last one motherfucker
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Let me get this straight.
All in this book just boils down to "dude be a smug bastard lmao"?
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nah I only read like a quarter but it's mostly being healthily detached and going with the flow of things while still exerting influence where it makes sense to do so
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>>9238398
FPBP
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1/ read the tao te ching
2/ read all available translation
3/ ????
4/ profit
Who's the most overrated writer? And yes I only made this thread to shit on Hememeway
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>>9238366
Hemingway or Borges, definitely.
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ITT: Overrated Shit
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wew
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Hello /lit/
Can anyone recommend the best books to read about the history of the library of Alexandria?
Thanks in advance
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>>9238343
Seconding, also, any book on Hipatia?
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>>9238343
is that a black woman reading a scroll? alexandria was progressive as fuck.
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>>9238512
You didn't expect the middle east the northem africa to be full of aryans did you?
It looks like a guys arm btw.
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literally show me a healthy person
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are you ready for the literary event of the year, /lit/?
>Darcie Wilder's literally show me a healthy person is a careful confession soaking in saltwater, a size B control top jet black pantyhose dragged over a skinned knee and slipped into unlaced doc martens. Blurring the lines of the written word, literally show me a healthy person is a portrait of a young girl, or woman, or something; grappling with the immediate and seemingly endless urge to document and describe herself and the world around her. Dealing with the aftermath of her mother's death, her father's neglect, and the chaotic unspoken expectations around her, this novel is a beating heart at the intersection of literature, poetry, and the internet. Darcie Wilder elevates and applies direct pressure, but the wound never stops bleeding.
excerpts:
>in third grade when everyone cool had glasses like arthur from arthur i faked having bad eyesight at the eye doctor's but i wanted to be sure that they thought my eyes were bad enough to need glasses so i said i couldn't see colors and they stopped the test and i had to wait in the waiting room and my mom went to cry in the bathroom and they guilted me into confessing the truth and i had to retake the whole test and then they dilated my pupils so i really couldnt see and it was so scary and they gave me fake glasses that i was too ashamed to ever actually wear and now my mom is dead and i have astigmatisms
>grammar question: do you wake up "with terror" or "in terror"?
>what if banks was yahe mommy and you have to vosit and say i love you and then have to one day bury
more: https://nytyrant.com/blogs/new-york-tyrant-blog/literally-show-me-a-healthy-person-excerpt-by-darcie-wilder
praise:
>"Darcie Wilder's literally show me a healthy person is a book of aphorisms and short texts in the vein of Fernando Pessoa, if Pessoa grew up on Blink-182, found his voice on Twitter and had cum in his tights. Like the internet, what at first appears fragmented and tethered to fleeting moments of pop, builds movingly into a more timeless narrative of death, love, longing and disappointment that flows between all of us."
— Melissa Broder, So Sad Today
>"literally show me a healthy person reads like the schizo-monologue of a young, wired maniacwho's given up trying to figure out where and why the fuck they are, why anything is what it is, why anything. In here, all rules are off, all time is broken, and all ideas are drugs. Who the hell writes like this about daily life? Darcie Wilder does."
— Blake Butler, 300,000,000
>"This book is what they have you drink so that you'll throw up all the poison. Or it's just more, better poison. I don't know, I'm not a doctor."
— DVS, rapper
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Lads...
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>>9238338
>women
>good literature
lol
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melissa broder's praise lol
they're good friends. it's so dishonest.
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My niggas, let's have ourselves a bookshelf thread to suck each other.
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>>9238319
I thought mine was bad but your shit is terrible.
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It's getting there 1/3
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>tfw all studying philosophy did was make you more confused
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>he expected definite answers from phiosophy
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Just read psychology and political science. I can tell you which philosopher is considered right and it is Hume.
Try "How the mind works" by Steven Pinker and "The righteous mind" by Jonathan Haidt and from there you just follow your own path.
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>>9238349
Not sure if bait but I was biting till Memevin Pinker.
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tfw when I was a kid (8-14 y/o) the professors would read my creative papers aloud in front of the class but I have never been able to create anything worth afterwards outside of school
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>>9238281
Kill yourself already, frogposting scum
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>>9238281
Well your probably <25 years old right now so if you can't create like you used to you got plenty of time to practice.
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literally me
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Hello /lit/. I want to read and fully understand the bible but I'm struggling to do so.
Are there any guides or lectures that help you understand all the chapters of the bible? Like a lecture which you can watch after reading Deuteronomy that explains things.
There's a lot of evangelical/political nonsense on youtube, I don't see anything by real academics or moderate pastors.
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poop
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Look up Yale Open University. They're pretty great.
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Pick up a Study Bible.
But frankly, you can't fully understand the bible without reading the whole Western Canon.