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If a work like this had been made by anyone other than Faulkner nobody would have wanted to publish it and people would assume it had been written by a middle schooler.
And indeed, the disjointed, clumsy approach taken here appears to be experimentation for experimentation's sake more than an attempt to write a coherent work; alliteration and stream of consciousness is great, but Faulkner took the idea and attempted to apply it in such a way that re-reading pages is frequent, if only to decipher the (usually boring) plot, which disappears over and over as the story jumps from scene to scene in a seemingly random order.
And it has become the bane of those forced to read it because "it's a classic." Sadly it has none of the entertaining quality shared by a work like Slaughterhouse-Five or The Hobbit, also classics and actually readable.
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>slaughterhouse five
Points for trying but you shouldve picked a less obvious troll book
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>>9138330
>SV or The Hobbit
4/10 I replied
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Folio publishes it in 14 colors, the way Faulkner envisioned it to help brainlets like you. Now fuck off back to /r/books.
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Quick question about narration and dialogue.
If I'm writing a story in 1st person, should my characters dialogue and narration sound exactly the same?
So for example if my character has a dialect where he pronounces words which end in '-ing' as '-in' (bouncin', instead of bouncing) should he have the same dialect in narration?
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Dropping your g's doesnt count as a dialect. Also don't write in dialect.
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>>9138293
yes
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>>9138348
The -g drop is the hallmark of a shitty writer.
>Hmm...how do I make my dialogue sound real?
>I know! I'll just delete a bunch of g's! That should show how earthy my protagonist is!
Go, wiser thou! and, in thy scale of sense
Weigh thy opinion against Providence;
Call imperfection what thou fanciest such,
Say, here he gives too little, there too much:
Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust,
Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust;
If man alone engross not Heav'n's high care,
Alone made perfect here, immortal there:
Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod,
Rejudge his justice, be the God of God.
In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies;
All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies.
Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes,
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell,
Aspiring to be angels, men rebel:
And who but wishes to invert the laws
Of order, sins against th' Eternal Cause.
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>>9138263
Thats cool and all buddy, but I paid you 5 bucks to read my fortune, so, er, can you do it or not?
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>>9138647
Behold! Anon seeks sight for his fortune,
A fedora-wearing creep on 4chan.
I know nothing of your fate or future,
No balm for past, or healing set suture.
I know of this, for single fact arrive:
You paid poorly, and I now have your five.
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Good biographies thread?
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>>9138236
Are you the guy who posts that thread about this guy's book every day?
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>>9138247
No, I haven't read Witt directly, just Monk's godtier biography of him.
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>An inventor of modernist narratives, Machado de Assis is said to anticipate features of Proust, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Albert Camus, Thomas Mann and Jorge Luis Borges.
>As the narrator of a city-universe, his vision matches those of Constantine Cavafy's Alexandeia, Dostoevsky's St. Petersburg, and the Paris of Marcel Proust
>His unreliable narrators are conscious followers of Laurence Sterne, Xavier de Maistre, and Denis Diderot
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europocentrism was cancer
t. anticolonialist Said
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>>9138219
>posting nonwhite frogs
Reee etc.
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>>9138219
I challenge you to read one of his books and say afterwards that it is a work of low quality.
How do you feel about incestuous themes in books or other art forms ? Are they degenerate or something worth exploring ?
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>>9138126
hard to do, but has powerful aesthetic merit
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>>9138126
I personally think it's degenerate if an older man and younger woman is involved while it's a lot more nuanced and complex where a older woman and younger man is involved.
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>>9138156
You mean mom/son is hot as fuck.
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>And then: The whooping of klaxons. Red lights strobe. Three airspeeders swoop down from the traffic lanes above—Imperial police. Red-and- black helmets. The glow of their lights reflected back in their helmets.
>There comes no warning. No demand to stand down.
>The laser cannons at the fore of each airspeeder open fire. Red bolts sear the air. The crowd is cut apart. Bodies dropped and stitched with fire.
>But still, those gathered are not cowed. They are no longer a crowd. Now they are a mob. They start picking up hunks of the Palpatine statue and lobbing them up at the airspeeders. One of the speeders swings to the side to avoid an incoming chunk of stone—and it bumps another speeder, interrupting its fire. Coruscanti citizens climb up the stone spire behind both speeders—a spire on which are written the Imperial values of order, control, and the rule of law—and begin jumping onto the police cruisers. One helmeted cop is flung from his vehicle. The other crawls out onto the hood of his speeder, opening fire with a pair of blasters—just as a hunk of stone cracks him in the helmet, knocking him to the ground.
>The other two airspeeders lift higher and keep firing.
>Screams and fire and smoke.
>Two of those gathered—a father and son, Rorak and Jak—quick-duck behind the collapsed statue. The sounds of the battle unfolding right here in Monument Plaza don’t end. In the distance, the sound of more fighting, a plume of flames, flashes of blaster fire. A billboard high up in the sky among the traffic lanes suddenly goes to static.
>The boy is young, only twelve standard years, not old enough to fight. Not yet. He looks to his father with pleading eyes. Over the din he yells: “But the battle station was destroyed, Dad! The battle is over!” They just watched it only an hour before. The supposed end of the Empire. The start of something better.
How did he get away with writing like this? How did he get a three book, an important three book, deal? Apparently he boasts about finishing this book in 45 days, as if that's something to be proud of.
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>>9137754
It's written for children
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>>9137754
Star Wars is for children.
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>>9137754
>How did he get away with writing like this?
Whats wrong with it?
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Will reading books make me smart?
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Which ones should I read to be the smartest?
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my diary desu
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They may make you well-read.
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>Will masturbating make me good at sex?
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what kind of book is this the cover of what author, genre, or plot?
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yes
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tao lin
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I love books of Frances Hodgson Burnett
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dunno why exactly
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Perhaps you love them because they are good? That wd be my guess.
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>>9138327
maybe, maybe I just love depoctions of little girls in literature (no pedo)
and they are good, very good
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How do I read more than 10 pages at a time?
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>>9137421
Stop being a pleb
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Have you tried reading more than ten pages at a time? Works for me.
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>>9137421
ok. ok. wow. just... ok. so when you get to the tenth page in your reading, your turn the fucking page and continue reading. what the fuck is wrong with you?
Let's talk about money.
What's your philosophy on it? How much do you need and want?
What are you willing to sacrifice etc
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>money
heh, don't make me laugh
go read some marx
fuck capitalism
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>>9137419
ok. ok. wow. just... ok.
>let's talk about money.
ok.
>whats your philosophy on it?
stoicism and zen. aka go fuck yourself faggot
>how much do you need in want?
how much does a noose that i can give you cost?
>what are you willing to sacrifice?
what the fuck are you even talking about?
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>>9137419
>What's your philosophy on it?
a) they have a corruptive influence
b) given the amount of suffering in the world that directly depends on economic matters, every form of blatant luxury (everything that goes beyond a comfortable life) should be seen as immoral
>How much do you need and want?
I earn 2100 euros/month and a 30000 euros account for eventual medical bills. I've always lived with about 500 euros every month (I pay only 300 euros in rent, wich is common if you're European), and give the rest away to a few local charities and a few international ones.
>What are you willing to sacrifice etc
Absolutely nothing, everything I care about that can be bought (books and music scores) can be accessed for free through libraries, and my social life (wich I'll have to admit, is pretty lacking) doesn't imply any sort of expense.
I genuinely don't care about money and material possessions, I'm 100% content with a few books, a few good friends, a piano and a fulfillong job that I can ethically exploit.
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Just bought this today, /lit/.
What am I in for, is 'virtue' dead? As I understand it, he basically admits that Nietzsche more or less destroyed Enlightenment morality and virtue ethics, but hearkens back to Aristotle in their defence.
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>>9137257
It was a good effort from MacIntyre, but his argument is too heavily dependent upon Aristotle. A bit dogmatic.
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>>9137257
Virtue is cool and all, but how much is it really worth? If I get how much of what type how much can I sell it for?
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>>9137752
what do you have to be like that man?
>Being an Academiacuck in the age of the internet
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are you posting this because you are afraid of going to school and subsequently are indulging some solipsistic fantasy of being an autodidact and showing up all those cuck cohorts you secretly wish you could join also, but you're too afraid of, so you're shitposting obvious bait on /lit/ instead
or not - rupi kaur
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>>9136977
Academics have never been needed more. And alas, once they're actually needed they're nowhere to be found.
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>>9136986
Why would I spend money or my time doing something I could do for less in both?
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Start with the greeks? 2017-02-21 04:27:05 Post No.9136845
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Do you think I should read the illiad and the odyssey before reading ancient greek philosophy?
If so, why?
I read Edith Hamilton's mythology book, and pic related, after seeing an infographic flowchart about starting with the greeks.
When I try to read the illiad, I find it very difficult to concentrate on it. For those of you who have read "thinking fast and slow", trying to read Homer is very much a "system 2" activity. I could force myself to read it if necessary, but perhaps I'm wasting my time by not going directly to Plato and Aristotle (which was always the goal)
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>>9136845
You don't have to read them, just understand the basic plot elements and the themes and you will get most of the references thrown at you.
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>>9136858
thank you
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>>9136858
This guy is right. On the other hand, if you can't cope with Homer how do you hope to deal with Plato& the gang? Or maybe it's the poetry you have a problem with and not the complexity of the ideas within? Anyway, give it try but you're really missing out if you skip Homer because it's beautiful.