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Do you think Sorting Hat was racist ?
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>>9801266
the sorting hat was creating by the founders of hogwarts (who used to select students to their house) so that he'll select students based on the preferences of the founders after they've passed away, slythrin probably always was a house of dicks
HP is the kind of series that had the potential to be really great and not just fantasy entertainment for young children who can't tell good works from bad ones, 5th book and onward were crap
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>>9801266
he seems pretty color blind, so yeah, totes racist
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Reading is amazing,when I find a book I like it's like I don't see words but a movie playing in my head. Its seriously the best way to experience something. With t.v. and movies you get someone else's perspective of a situation but with reading you experience everything your own way which makes it the fucking titties if you ask me
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>>9801259
nice
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Did you read books to help, or did you just keep writing until you got better at it?
Are there any books or techniques that would help me learn how to write?
If so, what would you reccomend?
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I learned to write by studying novels that I admired. You learn more that way. For example one thing that you will often see is the difference between a paragraph or section developed to describing habits, and one devoted to describe a single episode. So I the first person it might be something to the effect of "I was in the habit of spending my evenings in the Piazza. I would go just after work. The air most evenings was..... I'd often talk to travelers and painters just off from their day's work. I often thought of my friend back home. How sad he must feel at my absence." Etc..... Then the next paragraph begins... "One evening I came back earlier than usual." And this paragraph introduces a single episode. It's a common structure. And you only make discoveries like this from reading. There are lots more.
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>>9801417
Be careful with this, OP. He's not necessarily wrong but you might start emulating the authors you love.
t. cheap Bolaño knock-off who had to learn the hard way
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I am one of the most intelligent, most profound individuals to browse /lit/ yet I don't read books.
How can this be?
I am able to write searing, intense, detailed criticism of both novels and complex theory, be it literary, philosophical or sociological. I am capable of identifying obscure underlying themes in any story I read, identifying the symbolism employed (usually with a heavy hand) by their author, I am able as though it were somehow a natural gift to essentially deconstruct any work of literature and explain in cold analytical terms why it fails or succeeds. I exist in a sense above the world of literature, gazing down upon it like an omniscient adjudicator.
Yet...I don't read books.
What the fuck is happening here? Have I transcended the need and / or desire to read further novels? Does the totality of my knowledge no longer admit any further information which it now deems superfluous? Or has my attention span and curiosity for life become so affected by a culture of haste and instant gratification that I am simply incapable, without a great deal of conscious self-discipline and restraint, to focus on something which now threatens me as a potential waste of time?
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One day you'll know...
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>Are you reading anon?
>Good thing you aren't doing anything important, now drop what you're doing and listen to me talk about what I had for lunch for a half hour
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Anyone else think Reek would've better if they included his physical transformation as in the books? In the book series, Reek has missing fingers, missing teeth, white and brittle hair. It would've been so much better to see this confident youth become transmogrified into this disgusting broken creature.
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Why don't you try posting in /tv/ with all the other got threads eh?
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Can someone briefly explain Land's Qabbalistic number theory stuff in the last few essays of Fanged Noumena? What foundational texts of numerology or history of mathematics do I need to fully understand it or should I just read it again?
All I really understood was that he believes numerology is useless logicization of number, which in itself is "eternal hypercosmic delight" but most of the other stuff in "Mechanomics", "Qabbala 101", and "Tic-Talk" eludes me.
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i'd like to know this also but i wonder if even land himself could explain some of that shit anymore, or whether it all belongs to r'lyeh now
>archetypes are sad limitations of the species, while numbers are an eternal hypercosmic delight
it would be extremely painful &c
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Tic talk is about problematizing the number line, turning it from a line into a point cloud
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In [Sotion's book The Horn of Plenty] is found the following anecdote about the orator Demosthenes and the courtesan Lais: "Lais of Corinth," he says, "used to gain a great deal of money by the grace and charm of her beauty, and was frequently visited by wealthy men from all over Greece; but no one was received who did not give what she demanded, and her demands were extravagant enough." He says that this was the origin of the proverb common among the Greeks:
>Not every man may fare to Corinth town
for in vain would any man go to Corinth to visit Lais who could not pay her price. The great Demosthenes approached her secretly and asked for her favours. But Lais demanded ten thousand drachmas" [...]* "Amazed and shocked at the woman's great impudence and the vast sum of money demanded, Demosthenes turned away, remarking as he left her: 'I will not buy regret at such a price.' " But the Greek words which he is said to have used are neater; he said:
>I will not buy regret for ten thousand drachmas.
*One Drachma was about the average wage of a day-labourer
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>>9800654
Hier ein (You) für meinen Landsmann.
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What books can you only understand if you have read the Bible?
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>>9800622
My diary desu
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you'd probably understand Paradise Lost a lot better. Wouldn't need as many footnotes and shit
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>>9800622
A huge portion of works since the dawn of writing will be centered around themes of God and religious texts, regardless of the faith.
Understanding something like the bible will probably give you a better understanding of pretty much everything in the library of humanity.
So, sure you can understand pretty much anything, but with that supplemented knowledge of religious texts and their meanings it will probably open up certain doors.
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>tfw you wonder if this is a bannable post
>could be i guess
>plz mods no bully
i'm curious /lit/. what's your preferred faction and 2nd/3rd picks in alpha centauri?
>this counts as philosophy, no?
pic rel: cybernetic consciousness best consciousness
>hnng prime function qt
>2nd pick: zak/uni
>3rd pick: maybe treehuggers
>no domai
>no miriam
>fuck you nick land look what you made me become
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WesNGqKgBg
>t. Original Poster
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>also tfw you have in so choosing made an enemy of god-tier taoist ubermensch sheng-ji yang:
>what do I care for your suffering? pain, even agony, is no more than information before the senses, data fed to the computer of the mind. The lesson is simple: you have received the information, now act on it. take control of the input and you shall become master of the output
>tfw declined stupendously interesting advice
>tfw fucked
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i dunno man prime function qt looks like a roach. got them antenna eyebrows. and what is alexa's life philosophy anyway can she seperate herself from her experience? she is the data on the wire and the wire itself.
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What is the most UNSPOOKED character in literary history, and why is it JUDGE HOLDEN?
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Anyone read this? Just how bad is it.
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well now you know
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>>9800165
Every fucking time
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any literary works of fiction that:
1) have a cohesive narrative
2) help teach you about yourself?
I feel like fiction is either pulp like Gene Wolf with little value besides interesting story, or something like Dostoevsky where the stories are just a platform for the writer to spend different chapters ranting about some profound concept/idea. Any writer that blends the two? I've had success reading plays, I read Ivanov by Chekhov over Christmas and Ghosts. Their story's just feel more valuable, don't know how to word it without being pretentious. More "artistic", less world-building? Like they're written for a purpose and not just to tell a story.
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Not looking for an argument, I don't think Wolfe or Dostoevsky are bad writers and I don't even read enough for you to care for my opinions.
>>9800120
Ghosts by Ibsen*
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I also enjoyed Shakespeare in school, Othello and Hamlet and Henry V. I can't really get back into him because I'm not used to the language barrier anymore.
Last post, give me your input senpaitachi.
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>>9800120
Middlemarch
Book of the New Sun (I'm saying i disagree with you)
To the Lighthouse
Some Tennessee Williams if you like Plays
Frankenstein
Beowulf
What are some novels I can read in under 45 minutes?
I'm trying to pad out my goodreads profile but I really cba to spend a whole week reading just one book.
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>>9800094
wikipedia
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>>9800094
>what are novellas: the post
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Are there any nonfiction books of essays on a broad variety of topics? No opinion pieces, just presenting the dope on interesting subjects. Pic sort of related, it breaks the opinion pieces rule, but something like this from an objective viewpoint.
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