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If a ship without a sail, say a cruise ship, goes from one place to another, can you say it sailed that distance? When it leaves the harbor, can you say it sets sail?
If not, can you give proper alternatives to use in these examples?

Pic unrelated
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it cruse shipped that distance

it sets cruise ship
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>>9704256
T-Thanks
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Nvm, found it already: https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/to-sail-without-a-sail.2453293/
Sorry for killing another thread for this one. But if it was all the way down it was probably shit anyway.

Good night anons.

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Ay, what's the most fantastical greek or roman literature about badass gods fighting and shit?
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>>9704235
>tfw you will never read the Titanomachia
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The Odyssey actually mentions the Gods a lot and things that go on between them.

Ares cucked Hephistos by fucking Aphrodite for instance and all the other male Gods had some banter about Ares when Heph trapped him
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>>9704292
Ares was by far the shittiest God in the whole of all mythology ever.
>Be Ares
>Fuck the dude who makes your weapons's wife
>who's also a cripple
>get caught in a net by him
>Go fight some noobs in the Iliad
>get punked by some dude with the help of Athena
He just fails at everything.

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I just finished this and I can't figure out how you've all convinced yourselves that this isn't a children's book. Is it just blind nostalgia, or have you really not read anything else?
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Talking to yourself OP?
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Why do you believe that children's books can't be good literature? Is it just ignorance, or have you not thought about it properly?
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LotR's setting is so good it spawned an entire genre.

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Journey to the West is to China as ________ is to ________.
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The Anabasis is to the Greeks.
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anime is to japan
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The Odyssey is to the Greeks.

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What's the book that you "couldn't put down"
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song of the lion by anne hillerman. I didn't read it, someone spread superglue over the cover at the library, it was stuck to my hands! what an adventure
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>>9704151

Anything by Houellebecq
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Recently, The Remains of the Day and Stoner.

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What worked for you to improve your writing or storytelling ability?

If you say practice, I want details on what this consisted of.
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not fapping, bcs when u horny n`shiet u can easier sexualize things in more interesting way
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The Art of Writing in 20 Lessons by Antoine Albalat is the best book to improve your writing, but it's available only in french as far as I know.
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>>9704129
man this picture is comfy

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Do you consider Wonder Woman to be a greek myth?

We're all well aware that Diana's origin is neither ancient nor greek, but that alone should not exclude her. The divine comedy came more than a thousand years late in a very different country, but its lasting popularity and compatability mean it is often considered a part of christian mythos, if not religious doctrine.

Likewise, Diana may be a latecomer, but shes the most well known superheroine of all time, and has been iconic for almost a century. Her status as a myth is not up for debate, but whether her pantheon is the justice league or the olympians is what I want to debate
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>>>/co/
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I hate you and your terrible fucking thread.
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>>9704046
>>9704047

You faggots are such fucking pseuds. You claim to care about literature and mythology but you dismiss your own culture's contribbutions unless its as dull and pretentious as you

Kys

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How well do you read aloud?

Is your voice embarassing and autistic?

Are you flat in tone?

If you had kids could you entertain them by reading or would you be too boring?

How well did you read aloud in school?

I was the guy who read as quickly as possible because I thought it made me seem smart when it probably just made me seem nervous and autistic. Now I read aloud with an embarrassing thespian flair like Artemis from Always Sunny.
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It's funny you should post this because for the past few months I've been practicing reading all my books aloud so as to be prepared for raising children.
>but anon, you're a poorly socialized weirdo who rarely goes out; how will you ever have children
That's a good question. I have no idea.
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I read to my brother and he loves it. Always wants me to read to him, especially fantasy books.
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It depends on my mood. If i'm feeling comfy and/or good, then I have a somewhat pleasnt voice. If I'm having a bad mood, on the other hand, my voice literaly sounds like google translate, not even joking about that, it's weird and embarrassing as fuck.

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>What is the ruinous discount which (((Mordecai))), the broker, gets from poor Woebegone, the bankrupt, on a loan to keep Woebegone’s family from starvation; what is that ruinous discount but a Fast-Fish?

what did he mean by this
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>>9703996
whats this from
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>>9704089
moby d*ck
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redpilled

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Can you guys help me finding "My Work Here is Not Yet Done" by Thomas Ligotti in epub or pdf?
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>>9703986
Bump
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>>9703986
Bump
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>>8949083

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Discuss his body of work
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BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPP
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>>9703893
vaguely neat ideas, poor stylistic and structural execution, total inability to plan/write respectable resolutions
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>>9703893
i love the way he writes kids, and treats them like adults. makes his work perfect for teenage boys wanting stuff harder than harry potter, etc.

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Is there a good way to into Zizek or is he just a meme?

>inb4 start with the greeks
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Why do you autists think you need a primer to every book you read?
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>>9703794
Hegel
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meme. zizek's movies are nice. he's pretty good at explaining shit. dont bother reading him though.

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What e-readers do you fellas use?
I'm in the market for one and didn't notice anything in the sticky about them.

All I need is an SD slot and for it to not be a flimsy piece of shit. I looked at Kindles but they're expensive and have a monopoly so I would only get one second hand if they're really so great.
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kindle paperwhite
reads like paper
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>>9703729
kobo

>>9703764
>promoting non-free software
>amazon
kill yourself
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>>9703729
Kobo, but anything else is probably fine too.
also, >>>/g/
>>9703764
>reads like paper
That's the point of an ebook. Good job.

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGGGGGG

KOBO AUTOMATICALLY UPDATED AND BRICKED I HAD TO DO A FACTORY RESET AND LOST EVERYTHING AND NOW I HAVE TO DOWNGRADE IT AGAIN FUCKING NIGGERS

LIT MUST KNOW OF MY SUFFERING
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Install gentoo, fag.
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>>9703686
>not keeping a copy of all your ebooks on your laptop
what?
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>>9703720

Of course I have those, but I lost all my highlights, notes and progress

Words/phrases that really activate the almonds
>ebb and flow
>archaic
>hitherto
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I'm Illiterate: The Thread
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>>9703545
No it's words you like you dingus
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>>9703545
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