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What are some essential romantic poems? Specifically the happier side of things. Writtings about a muse and such.
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>>9220764
Goethe's Sturm and Drang period poems are pretty neat.
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Endymion is essential; dunno if I'd call it happy.
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>>9220782
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>read longform article
>takes me an hour
>feel like i read at a decent pace
>decide to look up wpm
>only 8000 words
>133 wpm
>look up average reading speed
>300 wpm for adults
>450 wpm for college students
>mfw
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>>9220655
it's okay OP, it's not a race or a contest
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I'm a pretty slow reader. Sometimes takes me quite a few hours to get over 40 pages. Dunno, it's not that bad. Spend less time on 4chan ftw
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>>9220655
word count != understanding the material well
No worries, OP
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What was your favorite chapterbook as a child?
>harriet the spy
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>>9220620
>Harry Potter
>Tamora Pierce's stuff
>LOTR
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>>9220620
>Goosebumps
>Series of Unfortunate Events
>some Hardy Boys
>Jules Verne (~grade 6)
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>>9220620
Unfortunate Events
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I don't normally make threads so I have no idea how to format this without looking pompous. So, I will not format this at all. I have write a 6 page interpretation of a myth or story, it just has to be done using an allegory. Greek or Mesopotamian myth would probably be easiest, since that is the course's focus, but it really doesn't matter.
Please give me a suggestion.
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Note that folk tales, legends, and so on are all classified under 'myth' in this context. For example, I could write on a known historical figure becoming mythologized and draw connects between that and what we are discussing now with Heracles.
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please help
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>>9220514
What is the relationship between the two characters in the picture? I don't think I've ever seen them together before. Does the white guy have a name?
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Fantasy and Magical Realism 2017-03-11 12:27:41 Post No.9220340
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Fantasy and Magical Realism
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>Magical Realism is Fantasy written by people who speak Spanish - Gene Wolfe
Was he right? What is exactly the difference between the two?
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almost right.
fantasy is generally where everything takes place in an invented world (The Shire, Melnibone, Frankston, etc). magic realism is where everything takes place in a conventional setting but with one or two fantasy elements thrown in. the standard is "why is there a purple Giraffe in my yard?"
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>>9220372
So King Arthur is magical realism?
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>>9220340
He's wrong.
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Is reading meant to be fun?
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satisfying, not necessarily fun
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>>9220303
sometimes, but not all the time
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When i consider the two posts above my thought is, well, then reading is like life.
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16 year old general?
the stranger is pretty radical too dude
*dabs*
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that book just kinda sucks imo.
It's all very basic bildingsroman shit with really nothing insightful sprinkled in. It was of it's time.
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lads, i liked the glass bead game, what other hesse books should i read?
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Anyone read this book? What did you think of it? It proves evolution is a lie.
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Why don´t you just turn the other cheek like a good christ-cuck, and stop embarrassing yourself
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>>9219852
What is the disproof? If it's about God, I don't care.
What is some essential gaycore /lit/?
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>>9219828
kek
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Hello /lit/, I am a time traveler from roughly 10 years in the future (we have proper nomenclature for it but the leap temporal science took/will take over the past/next 10 years is mind-boggling and it would pass completely over your head)
If I recall correctly /lit/ will become an obsolete board (see: /mu/) within 2 years if you do not sage/ignore/remove the following:
>recent purchases threads
>stack threads
>age/location/currently reading (and etc.) threads
>humour threads
>any mention of Orwell
That’s all you’ve gotta do
Also there are two quite popular authors from my time who say they were quite active on /lit/, that’s all I can reveal sorry
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>has time machine
>uses it to shitpost
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>>9219705
First post best post
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>>9219671
The first initial of each of the two writers, please..
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Stacks/Recent Purchases 2017-03-10 05:32:41 Post No.9218372
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The last of the books I ordered over a month ago arrived today.
Bit of a hodge-podge. I've finished Winesburg and the Kawabata, thought they were both great.
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Ok
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>>9218382
Send that blood oranges my way son.
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>>9218400
I gotta read it first
On the right: 65 tomes with spine showing (women authors) vs 31 with spine hidden (male authors). Photo shows opposite of what they claim.
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>>9217873
Girls rule. Women are good writers. Get over it.
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did they just assume their gender?
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>>9217873
>go to romance section
>all the spines are showing
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SKIP BOP ZOOBITY BOP PUT THE DRIED POOP IN THE SICK BOX
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Whatever happened the old /lit? Whatever happened to the dozens of threads of people arguing with butters?
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What did you think of the book, though?
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*BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMP*
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What's your two cents on the existence of god /lit/? 2017-03-09 10:49:26 Post No.9214737
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What's your two cents on the existence of god /lit/?
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What do you think of the idea of a personal god?
What's your opinion on the god of Spinoza?
Have you read the arguments against your position?
What do you think of them?
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I'm an atheist, but the way I see it God's existence cannot be proven or disproven as the concept of God is based entirely on faith.
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>>9214755
Former serious Christian here, seconding. Attempts to "prove" god are all troll-tier.
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I know god exists because what's the point of suffering through this life if there wasn't a god
>Post a piece of your own work
>Critique each others work
>Those who do not critique another's work while posting their own piece will not be critique
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i guess i dont need to if i am first. Its in polish
http://pastebin.com/wWhx5ets
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Before I start my Critique, I used Google Translate to read your work. Is pic related accurate?
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The Foolish King is seated shaking upon his throne, snorting lines of coke from his phone’s silver back. He feels it but it’s not much. His brain twitches, gives a faux-enthused half-shrug, not all that unlike his former lover who used to say I Love You Back but eventually only smiled back all sad instead. Either the world is earthquaking at the exact same rate as his body or the withdrawal shakes have simmered. It’s probably the latter: The Foolish King’s hands have cooled down to a meditative vibration. He hits the red button on the TV remote. The thermodynamic receptors embedded within the leathery complexion of his throne begin to whir. Mood-registered. On the screen appears a slickly-shot wildlife documentary about some bastard lion pursuing an idiot gazelle who’s about to have the term Pain In The Ass biblically redefined. The Foolish King nose-exhales, the quietly empathetic kind reserved for when someone makes a joke that’s clearly not funny.