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Cell phone novels appeared in the early 21st century. Written by and for cell phone users, the novels—typically romances read by young women—have become very popular both online and in print
>and in print
>and in print
>and in print
fuck my life
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>The first cell phone novel was “published” in Japan in 2003 by a Tokyo man in his mid-thirties who calls himself Yoshi. His first cell phone novel was called Deep Love, the story of a teenager engaged in "subsidized dating" (enjō kosai) in Tokyo and contracting AIDS. It became so popular that it was published as an actual book, with 2.6 million copies sold in Japan
wew lad
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>Yoshi
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muumuu house and all its clones
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>tfw a byronic hero
What are some books with this type of character?
Already read Wuthering Heights
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Hero of our time. Pechorin is GOAT.
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Byronic antiheroes and frogposters are mutually exclusive
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Moby Dick is a pretty standard answer here.
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What's the best book on copywriting?
Also, are there any copywriters on /lit/? Could you give an advice on how to write a persuasive and non-trite copy? Your favourite examples of good copywriting?
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What's your favorite font for ebooks? I'm looking for something that strains my eyes the least.
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Any sans-serif font, it's just easier to read. Of course now the pseuds will come out and say it doesn't look "dignified" or whatever.
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>>9944995
Depends on what I'm reading. Sometimes harsh texts help me pay attention better to dense material
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Magic Card regular 12pt
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Is it any good?
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I'm also wondering this. I really liked BreenGrub.
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What about the 37th mandala?
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What are some good books by St. Thomas Aquinas and/or St Augustine which counter arguments this neo atheism, which is basically "I cant see god, so he doesnt exist".
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Summa Theologica
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None, Aquinas didn't write for contemporary atheists and his proofs first require solid understanding of core terms such as the 4 causes, Act and Potency, essence, substance, contingency and so on. Thomism on the other hand exists still and deals with attacks on classical theism.
Against contemporary atheism: Edward Feser, Aqunas: Beginners guide, The Last Superstition, Scholastic Metaphysics, 5 Proofs of God
Against Kant, Hehel, Spinoza, Hume and Mill: Garrigou-Lagrange, Reality A Thomistic Synthesis, God His Existence and His Nature vols I and II
Against Wittgenstein and logical positivism: Elizabeth Amscombe and Alsadair MacIntyre, After Virtue, Whose Justice Which Rationality, Three Rival Versions of Moral Inquiry, Intention, Human Life, Action and Ethics
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Why do you care what someone else believes?
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"Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!"
I'm a bit lost here. What does Wilde mean when he says each man kills the thing he loves?
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To love something is to project your own ideal onto that thing. But in reality human affairs are flawed, so your love fails not because it is not ideal, but you are.
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I don't know, but I do know that Oscar Wilde wrote a story in which one man killed another man by shoving a glass bottle up his ass and having it shatter inside him. What an absolute madman.
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>>9944718
Love grows tired, anon. As Wilde himself states. And like most ideas when thought and overly thought about. Consider (if [you] must) entropy....
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Can someone explain to me in plain english what this excerpt from Thomas Pynchon's “Gravity's rainbow” is trying to convey to me about Pirate Prentice's "strange gift"?
I have some theories which may be more or less crocks of shit but i'm curious if others pull similar conclusions.
"Just hum the nitwit little tune they taught you, and try not to fuck up:
"Yes—I’m—the—
Fellow that’s hav-ing other peop-le’s fan-tasies,
Suffering what they ought to be themselves—
No matter if Girly’s on my knee—
If Kruppingham-Jones is late to tea,
I don’t even get to ask for whom the bell’s . . .
[Now over a lotta tubas and close-harmony trombones]
It never does seem to mat-ter if there’s daaaanger,
For Danger’s a roof I fell from long ago —
I’ll be out-one-day and never come back,
Forget the bitter you owe me, Jack,
Just piss on m’ grave and car-ry on the show!
He will then actually skip to and fro, with his knees high and twirling a walking stick with W. C. Fields‘ head, nose, top hat, and all, for its knob, and surely capable of magic, while the band plays a second chorus. Accompanying will be a phantasmagoria, a real one, rushing toward the screen, in over the heads of the audiences, on little tracks of an elegant Victorian cross section resembling the profile of a chess knight conceived fancifully but not vulgarly so—then rushing back[…]”
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I'm thinking it's some kind of meta-thing.
Like referring to the performance of the song dance number a writer does in creating the cathartic fantasies such as the one youre engaged in. It's a helpless never-ending game (thus the chess-knight) rushing back and forth before our eyes as we await unknowable tragic dmise.
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>>9944679
Just continue reading it
It's just Pirate's gift to be burdened by other people's fantasies
Also the book is full of songs
And thanks for quoting this passage because it talks about something (the chess knight) which appears later on and is linked to an important character
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Bumperino bumparoo
Monitoring for gr's clues
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man, they really had it hard back then without urbandictionary!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pippa_Passes#.22A_distressing_blunder.22
Besides the oft-quoted line "God's in his Heaven/All's right with the world!" above, the poem contains an error rooted in Robert Browning's unfamiliarity with vulgar slang. Right at the end of the poem, in her closing song, Pippa calls out the following:
But at night, brother Howlet, far over the woods,
Toll the world to thy chantry; Sing to the bats’ sleek sisterhoods Full complines with gallantry: Then, owls and bats, cowls and twats, Monks and nuns, in a cloister’s moods, Adjourn to the oak-stump pantry!
"Twat" both then and now is vulgar slang for a woman's external genitals. It has become a relatively mild epithet in parts of the UK, but vulgar elsewhere. When the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary enquired decades later where Browning had picked up the word, he directed them to a rhyme from 1660 that went thus: "They talk't of his having a Cardinall's Hat/They'd send him as soon an Old Nun's Twat." Browning apparently missed the vulgar joke and took "twat" to mean part of a nun's habit, pairing it in his poem with a priest's cowl.[2][3]
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>>9944621
where to find more catgirls?
OP, also, your message is not coherent. provide some context, im not gonna read all that shit.
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>>9944794
/lit/
reading is hard
it is just a quote from wiki
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>>9944794
That is a wolf you dumb cunt
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In what order should I read Nietzsche ?
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Front to back, top to bottom, right to left
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>>9944604
start to finish
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>>9944604
birth of tragedy, human, all too human, wanderer and his shadow, the gay science, zarathustra, beyond good and evil, geneology of morals, twilight of the idols, the anti-christ then ecce homo. in other words chronologically
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>muh Martin Fierro
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Do you place old, used books alongside new ones on your bookshelves?
For fear of silverfishes I have been keeping the books I have on new and better editions apart from the rest. I also store them inside a closed cabinet, to keep them away from the dust, instead of leaving them with the others on the bookshelf.
Are those good ideas or am I just being autistic?
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I'm gonna read one book by pic related, which one should it be?
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Everyone's gonna say The Stranger so I'm going to say read The Plague, which I found fascinating (and horrifying)
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The Fall and Myth of Sisyphus.
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Is their a literary equivalent to Cum Town?
I'm in the market for a no holds barred podcast with light banter, good friends, and humorous observations about Western literature.
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