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>>9181535
Dumb frog poster

poetry is easier
trust me
I write poetry
all the time

>>9181535
Metrical poetry obv
When you get into freeverse it gets more ambiguous

It also depends on the quality of the prose or poetry, it's very easy to write shitty prose or shitty freeverse. It's not as easy to write something that's in meter, even if it is shitty. However, it may be harder to write super beautiful Nabokovian-Updikean prose than it is to write mediocre blank verse.

Basically this >>9181545
saged, idk why I wrote so much for such a dumb thread and self-evident question fuck u

>>9181357
>tfw you will never suck a warm Deutscher Dichter on the stairs

Those are some BIG legs

"WAIT!!! Dont start the painting yet!!! HILDA!!! damnit!! HILDA QUICK!!!! GEt My FAVORITe Snuggy(tm)! Qucik, Fetch it you DOG!! YOu Scoundrely Bitch!!!"

"Dude... im still working on the background... its gonna be another 7 hours... relax bro.. just be yourself, look natural"

>>9181340
Youtube 'the nutcracker', also youtube 'swan lake', but before you watch those watch this, starting at: 45:00 (you really should hear the whole thing, its great, famous overture intro too... but unfortunately this video the sound is off with the visual... but its my favorite quality I found all else considered so I deal with it)(its not a ballet... its an opera... but there is lovely ballet scene... just... sacred, beauty and perfection, you will see, it is transcendently comfy, cathartic, peaceful, mellow, calming, pleasantly distracting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NufaurLuCw

well step 1 is being a faggot. Seems you've got that covered.

>>9181340
>>>/fit/

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does lit not talk about this book anymore?

Haven't read but I dropped JR for being kind of shitty. It was very hard.

I can't imagine this being harder considering JR is entirely dialogue.

>>9181406
This board has been /lit/ up with The Recs threads for the last week. I'm 75% through it now and it's probably the most difficult book that I've read. It's hilarious; the plot is relatively easy to understand, but I feel like I'm missing a lot.
Read it. It's great.

>>9181332
GAYMAN :DDD

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Sure, why not?
Get out of the house and do something interesting.

What does Neil Gagman bring

The only reason to read early greek authors is because Philosophy, from its beginning, directly opposes them.

Since there wasn't a real powerful priest caste in ancient Greece, the whole knowledge about physics, history, religion, aesthetics and moral values came from the poets. Philosophy challenges this with the innovative (for that time) idea that truth should be investigated with reason.

Reading the ancient poets will be useful, but you will probably still need footnotes and commentaries to understand all the references, for example, in the Republic.

Another thing: don't just "skip" to Plato. In order to understand Plato you need to study the philosophers that came before him, or else you will not be able to make sense of a lot of what he is saying (just look at all the recurring threads that say Plato was a moron, if you want a preview of what will happen to you). At the very least you should understand:

- where the basic problem on the being comes from (Parmenides + Heraclitus)
- what kind of solutions had been tried before Plato (the pluralists)
- the relativism and the dialectical innovations of the sophists
- Socrates (he was the one that ultimately moved the focus of investigation from nature to man, revolutionized the moral values of his society, pioneered the research on problems of language and invented the modern concept of soul on top of that)

>>9181320
You don't even need to read Homer, Hesoid, or Sophocles (although you should, for their own sake, because they are good). If you want to read Plato, just read Plato. No prerequisites.

>>9181320
A good way to start understanding Greek philosophy, in my opinion, is to listen to the great courses (also known as the teaching Company) lecture series on Ancient Greek civilization and also the series on Socrates and Plato.

The professors are award winning teachers and really help introduce and breakdown for you some of the most vital chunks of info about the subject.

Plus, it will make you very interested into the subject. Highly recommended.

Epitome as epee-tome
Pseudo as puh-sway-doh
It was very satisfying to finally recognize the pun in Sudowoodo's name.

>>9181245
imprimatur, segue, caste

>tfw to intelligent for correct pronunciation

Some for me: Askance, askew and omniscient

>>9181233
Damned interesting. I'll read it tomorrow and reply again afterwards.

>>9181233

Add irony. to your list People need to know the fucking difference between irony and coincidence.

You can't really put a semi in your colon :/ you really need to be full bone.
Good try I guess

>>9181220

>>9181220
The Bet

>>9181220
The kiss

>>9181167
LOLITA hehehejeheejejjeje xD

>>9181167
Yes. /thread

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It sounds edgy as fuck but 120 Days of Sodom. Only time I've ever masturbated to a book.

>>9181163
Every Stephen King books.

>>9181163

Are you shitting me? The story was so much better than the movie. The story didn't have that shitty plot involving the military or being able to see in the future in order to gain information. It was more about how language naturally affects our perception, whereas the movie turns this device into an illogical plot line.

Nick Land. But don't hit on him, silly intellectuals, he's NOT your average Marxist.

Lots of chinks.

Marxism IS mysticism.

female warriors ruin books

>>9180806
Hello /sffg/ I am looking for novels that involve secret military units fighting supernatural shit so far I have found the Joe Ledger series by Jonathan Maberry any other suggestions?

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>>9180818
women ruin everything

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>without tying it to politics or governance

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>>9180778
Well I have an inclination to believe that nation is what a people have when the government is stripped away.

If anarchy befell the world then the Chinese would still have reverence for their ancestors, speak Mandarin and adhere to Buddhist/Tao/Confucian thought. Mexicans would still go to church, have fiestas, speak Spanish and make the same dishes. Tribes would know their allegiances and rules regardless of the old laws. The Kurds would fall back in with other Kurds, forgetting the government imposed borders because there si something to being a Kurd beyond civil law and borders. I assume that is where nation lies but I feel like i need to go deeper.

This is just how I see it and I want to test it against the thoughts of people who actually know what they are talking about.

Read any of the Torah (First 5 books of the Bible) or really just the Old Testament, it's all about the Jewish people and how God chose them.

>>9180410
1. it's about the morality of aesthetics in general
2. and yes you fucking retard it was supposed to make you care about the suffering of the lobster. If you struggle this much with empathy you're obviously reading just to make yourself feel smarter.

>>9180410
Spoken like a true uncultured swine.

>>9180418
>empathy

cute. I bet you read to learn things about yourself.