There is no sexual relationship
tell me about it.
speak for yourself
What is the purpose of the personification here?:
"Going on was not altogether easy. They had packs to carry, and the bushes and brambles were reluctant to let them through."
- to give more to the action by creating an antagonist in the passive nature of the plants?
>give more to the action
give more to the protagonists being together. There can be no "together" as long as there's no "against"
>>9209064
It tries to make a natural passivity a rational one.
>>9209064
to characterize their own misgivings, or dark reluctance to continue on
What does /lit/ think of The Violent Bear It Away?
>>9208995
Not enough bears
Too many bears
>>9209039
i keked
Could I easily replace an art history course with a book or two on the subject?
>>9208885
lol
>>9208885
Yes, but it would be a shit course. My college had a obligatory 4 semester course on art history + a 2 semester course on national art history and demand still made them create african and oriental optional classes, amd we were expected to read anything from 5 or 6 essays and it became kinda ridiculous because some people had more credits in art history than even atellier courses.
Also, Gombrich is kinda outdated and even attacked by people who feel him and Panofsky fucked Warburg over (those people, Agamben and Didi-Hubermann come to mind, are right, btw).
>>9208939
isn't the story of art updated frequently? what parts are outdated?
Any anons ever publish books? I want to bully them and make memes.
>>9208730
why is no one commenting? anon come on.
Yeah I wrote a book called Taipei it's great check it out
>>9208730
>doesn't give sauce
fuck off fag
If one would like to write Shakespeare-style tragedies today, contemporary Shakespeare-style (or Elizabethan-style) tragedies, what plots one could steal?
pic is clic-bait
Anyone with some familiarity with Shakespeare knows he often took plots from other sources and modeled them to his own purposes. Well, so let us suppose that one would like to to the same thing today, what:
Movies, books, comics, cartoons, Korean-cinema, Bollywood-cinema, etc.
Are good material for tragedy-adaptation?
I am not talking of modern-day re-telling’s of the Shakespeare’s tragedies. I am talking of brand new material that could be reworked with a more poetic and intense language and set on stage
pic is click-bait: you guys deserve it
What makes you think you could write in Shakespearean style when it's already obvious from your post you're not a native speaker?
Not a put-down, but people thinking this shit is easy always ends in embarrassment.
>>9208718
dont be a fag
anything can be made poetic if you do it right
Just watch Scarface and Carlito's Way, the two greatest tragedies of the 20th century.
>2017
>not speaking the only syntactically unambiguous human constructed language there is
what's your excuse for not being a Lojbanist /lit/?
Because i'm busy speaking the only relevant language
>>9208719
you're a pussy
do you think some writers have actually read the dictionary?
Marshall Eriksen definitely did.
>>9208699
>they choose an actor that looks like the original person
>is nothing like them
Worst meme in film
>>9208699
I did, but I'm not much of a writer.
I was just a lonely, bored, weird kid.
He's right y'know.
and yet he hasn't killed himself yet
>>9208819
But he died inside a long time ago.
>>9209025
So he is just living out a miserable life instead of creating a great one?
Why was he so butthurt and assblasted about philosophy and social sciences?
>>9208604
Autism
>>9208604
>Philosophy
He was autistic.
>Social sciences
He was redpilled.
>Waaaaaaaaaaaaah i lie awake at night regretting my participation in the creation of the atom bomb, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
He was a hack and an immoral dullard.
Ok, explain something.
Why this board dismisses so easily the plot if all the western canon shit I've read it seems more important (by important I mean impressive) the plot of the story being told and the ideas behind the work.
It seems as if the plot and the quality of the ideas (that are simply tropes and retellings of previous authors tropes, or philosophical mumblings over ethical concerns) matters more than the quality of the written text.
Am I on the right path?
Does most authors simply use the language in eloquent (but not amazing) ways, this includes most of the western canon.
By not amazing I mean, the language reads as simply the use of someone well read, but doesn't go beyond something extraordinary.
Am I wrong in my impression that inmortal writers are mere humans, who also shat and peed themselves, with failures and love in their lives, mere mortals of flesh and poop.
The only writer I've seen that comes near to make something impressive to me, is shakespeare.
Oh dear shakespeare.
Is he the only one who fulfill my desire to see greatness or am I a pleb for not taking seriously the other mere mortals?
Learn English.
Any of you got some Daoist memes?
whenever tao lin is mentioned (which, thankfully, is not as often as it used to be) and I'm around, I comment that 'the tao that can be understood is not the true tao'
I manage to make myself chuckle each time
>>9208369
Taoism has too much mumbo jumbo to be reliable.
It's like Buddhism's younger brother but with Chakras and shiet
How do I know if my writing is poor?
>>9208325
When you show it your parents and you can see that slight hope, which you had given them by telling them you wrote a short story, die.
You'll know.
>>9208325
If it can't afford a five star review hotel then youre poor
Read a lot
Develop a literary taste
Write something
Read it like you would read any other text
Decide if it's good or bad
>Read philosophical (translated) work.
>The amount of references by "it", "that" makes it a hell to figure out what did he refer to
Jesus why do they do this, do I need to guess what it is referring to when in the last chapter there were at least 3 relevant things or shieet.
you have poor short term memory
read slower
what book
>>9208356
Time & Being in English. It is very inaccurate. Why don't translators, when concept is introduced, use a short hand for it? Example, Dasein, short version (D) and then use it?
Does reading really make you smarter besides
"learning new words"?I watched Stuck In Love and I really want to get into reading now
>>9208179
No.
learning new words is alteady being smarter...
it can provoke independent thinking, so yes. but it's not an indicator of intelligence. you can read the canons and still be an idiot
>>9208200
Thanks