Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 906. page

On my to-read-list

>>9639607
My great-grandfather was with him when they took Fiume. Once I've finished all the shit they're forcing me to read, I want to study him.

File: vittoriale d'annunzio 3.jpg (1MB, 3190x1845px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 3190x1845px

>>9639839
>My great-grandfather was with him when they took Fiume
Woah man, that's fucking nice. D'Annunzio's comrades were very few, your ancestor must have been a privileged man.

Some of those construct languages like Esperanto have tried different variations, like elegance and consistency of rules etc.

But it might help your search to know that like all of a hundred years of linguistic theory and philosophy (which has been predominately linguistic) is against the idea of simplifying or containing language, if anything philosophy would tend strongly in the opposite direction

>>9639335
>asking profound questions requiring actually intelligent posters to answer on /lit/

its been tried before using mathematics formally, and derivative principles for informal language. but it's currently unfashionable for linguistics to go in this direction. it was sort of a big thing in the 20th century.

only a hypothesis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_grammar

an empirical proof would require inhumane experiments with children on grand scale

>>9639330
most people in the world are quite aware of american culture and values

>>9639355
yeah but i want to get deeper into it, like i want to be able to relate to everything. you know, just stronger sense of american culture. that can help me understand people better.

>>9639330
You have to go back.

Shit they are making you experience waiting for godot firsthand anon. You should be thankful!

>>9639399
it never arrives

>>9639399
>>9639430
FUUUUUUUUUCK

Dolce & Gabbana are discussed on /fa/, not here.

How did Guattari find the time to write when he had Lacan's cock down his throat 24/7?

>>9639331
Go to bed Zizek, D&G ruined your master's """"institution"""" and only delusional Christians take it seriously today. Freud is probably spinning in his grave. Good.

"Psychoanalysis is what turns a stupid cow into a stuckup bitch" ~ Houellebecq

pretending to know anything

>>9639277
Unnecessary, comas. They make me vomit, and they're so prevalent in average writing.

>>9639277
I de'spi'se when writer's don't put apo'strophe's in front of every letter "'s"

>>9639258
Most of this board is populated by edgelord tier elitist high school students.

>more obscure = better

File: 2666266626626262662626.jpg (61KB, 487x600px) Image search: [Google]

61KB, 487x600px

>>9639342
>thinking doctor sax by Kerouac is obscure
Feeling defensive friend? K.A Applegate wrote more worthwhile thoughts than most of the writers you newcomers recommend.

Is Lolita literally the only Kubrick work that didn't achieve this?

a scanner darkly is the only PKD book I would say this about.

I think "when" necessitates some subordinate clause as in "When your love for number seven very strong, you're committed to an asylum."

Other problems
>number 7
Generally in formal writing you write out the word in lieu of the numeral. "Number seven" also suggests that you're referring to some object other than the number itself. It should rather be "the number seven."
>Style
This is written like a meme caption on Facebook, which I assume it is. No one should ever write like this.

There are probably more problems but that should get you started.

>>9639099
>There are probably more problems
Can you please highlight them? Would be very appreciated.

someone brought an iphone 7.
Move on, nothing to analyze here.

>>9638923
What is "it"?

>>9638944

http://mundusmillennialis.com/

▲ typing "sage" in the Options field prevents your post from bumping the thread you're replying to back to the first page.

People is weird as caca.

>tfw no gf

Source pls

>>9638905
dude metal gear lmao

Why the fuck would I care who the protagonist is? I'm not writing a blog for retarded people or first year undergrads am I? Have more interesting thoughts.

File: IMG_0089.jpg (84KB, 405x650px) Image search: [Google]

84KB, 405x650px

>>9638905
>there's a protagonist

The idea of dying having accomplished jack shit, like an asshole.

Even if zero people read my book, I will die slightly more contented.

Also it's about a heroin

>>9638895
Remove all distractions. Disconnect your internet, for example.

Set a daily goal for yourself: 1000 words a day or something. Not x hours, because you'll dick around during that time instead of writing.

Have a friend read your chapters, so you'll have an obligation to write to another person instead of just yourself.

There, I gave you three tips. Now stop making excuses for yourself and start writing

>>9638895
Your thread alone makes it clear that you should not ever write a single word because you're neither talented nor inspired. Your writings would only pollute the literary world. Please, do something else.

>>9638886
Why? Aphasia doesn't sound so nice

>>9638889
Language limits being

>>9638893
that's like saying you shouldn't have a kid because you are limited by the social need to raise it. it's "true" but it's not the most relevant statement about what is actually happening

Blood Meridian & read all of Mark Twain's novels

File: duke1.jpg (17KB, 480x360px) Image search: [Google]

17KB, 480x360px

>>9638863
Cat in the Hat is a good place to start if you want to truly understand the literary genies that is Dr Seuss, who is perhaps the greatest influence on western literature as a whole. His writings influenced nearly every major western novel up till this day.

>>9638863
Warlock
butcher's crossing
blood meme

that's it