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Hey /lit/, I'm thinking of writing a novel that falls under the typical "protagonist gets transported to a video game world" cliche. I plan to turn it into some edgy grimdark shit with people dying left and right to make ends meet killing monsters. I'm honestly not too emotionally attached to the idea, so I don't care if it gets stolen. But is it feasible? What are your thoughts, /lit/?
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ha nice bait anon, almost had me
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OK, but I want a Greymon.
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Has anyone here stumbled upon the Colin Yost hatetrain that developed on Twitter?
How are they gonna put this guy on blast but let Rupi Kaur get a free pass? His poems seem basically exactly like what she's doing.
https://electricliterature.com/this-instagram-bro-poet-will-make-you-feel-much-better-about-your-work-c252a0faf4d9
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>>9960829
Eh let them eat one of their own. This is the equivalent to a retard making fun of someone more retarded than him.
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He's the greatest poet of our time. Really captures the zeitgeist.
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he's preferable to people who read trashy online tabloids
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I almost started Moby Dick today.
what would I have been in for if I had?
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The greatest piece of American literature ever put to paper
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>>9960783
>American
>literature
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>>9960788
What is the purpose of this post?
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Are there books for women and books from men? My mom says there is no such thing. And my dad... i have no dad.
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>>9960766
no, there are just good books and bad books
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>>9960766
There are definitely men's books and women's books, and since you don't have a dad you should try to read books that help you develop a more manly disposition to help offset the feminized influence of your mom. Jack London, Hunter S. Thompson maybe. I don't know though, been a while since I read that kind of coming of age stuff, which most of it is.
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>>9960766
>Are there books for women and books from men?
There are almost certainly books tailored to a female audience and books tailored to a male audience.
The average man and the average women like drastically different things however. Women like people, and men like things, this is basic psychology. It is no wonder then that some books are seen as masculine and some as as feminine.
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/lit/ is shit. meta thread. 2017-08-31 07:08:04 Post No.9960765
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/lit/ is shit. meta thread.
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Okay you fucks. You philosophizing baboons. Someone explain to me how the May '68 crowd you all go on about e.g. Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault, Debord, Baudrillard, Sartre, Lacan and so on were NOT nonsense-peddling pop-phil Marxists carving a profitable niche from a capitalist system that fetishized their inscrutability. You can't. Late 20th century philosophy was an exercise in masturbation. Pic unrelated.
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>>9960765
Thanks for bringing down this child-infested subforum yet another notch with yet another absolutely pointless thread.
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Rating DFW's works
>"Broom of the System"
F. absolutely dreadful and boring to boot. Freewheeling nonsense that any lib arts major could produce.
>Infinite Jest
C-. Decent effort but ultimately unoriginal and juvenile. In this work he proved he could not possibly produce anything with a semblance of ingenuity or coherence.
>The Pale King
F. No attempt to learn or evolve. The only new (and refreshing)is the inkling that the author realizes what a hack he is.
>Girl with Curious Hair
the less said about this the better. I won't even bother to grade this.
>Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
D. A poorly written cross between Lost in the Funhouse and the experimental diary of an emotionally damaged teenager.
>Oblivion: Stories
D+
>A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
D. A penchant for verbosity and an intense desire to share your cynical but not cynical opinions with strangers hardly makes a Montaigne or Emerson
>Consider the Lobster
F-. This book paints the most intimate portrait of a man who had neither reason or merit to voice his thoughts yet did so anyway.
>Both Flesh and Not
B-
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>>9960718
Agreed.
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Either you read thousands of dense pages from an author you don't like or you didn't read it.
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>>9960718
Oh look, it's another
>I read Infinite Jest so I basically know everything about DFW and his other books so I'm not going to read them
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Hello. I would like to ask for suggestions for a biography on Voltaire. The more encompassing as possible. I am not looking for an introductory text, I would like the whole deal if possible.
Please assist me. Remember that men can be guilty of good deeds undone as well. :D
I am not a novice to philosophy but not quite seasoned either: So far Voltaire seems to be the only person that I have ever read about that broke all of his conceivable chains and had such wit and elegance and mastery over the external world that I was awed. This was a great man. If you have any opinions on him I'd like to hear it, as well.
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>>9960676
>enlightenment thinking
>breaking chains
gbtr or just read your George Carlin books again.
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>>9960997
youre an idiot
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>>9962242
I'm sorry, Opie. I'm kind of cunty when I first wake up.
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Is it possible to be a nihilist without becoming depressed and crippled by anxiety?
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>>9960657
Yes, realizing that nothing matters is actually quite liberating.
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>>9960663
But how? Do you have a purpose?
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>>9960657
Just because life lacks inherent meaning doesn't mean you can't be happy in spite of that. You're free to determine your own rules and wishes.
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Plato reasoned that things deemed beautiful are so because they are a simulacrum of the beautiful form from an ideal state.
Is the same true for things that are ugly and evil? Plato never seemed to address opposites when he mentioned his theory of forms. Are things we view as ugly simply ugly because they participate less in beauty than other objects? Or are they manifestations of an absolute ugly? Does this theory only apply to certain values?
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Well I can tell you that when it comes to people, more attractive individuals also tend to be healthier and more intelligent. I'm not talking out of my ass, either. There are proven correlations between physical appearance and IQ.
Physical beauty is an embodiment of your genetics, and your genetics determine your fitness in the natural world.
Beauty is really just millions of years of evolution welling up within you to tell you, unconsciously: "This is right" or "This is wrong", and it's why we attach evil and ugliness together. When we see ugly, we see death, rot, and disfigurement. Subtle cues that tell us, this is not right, are borne from evolutionary lessons a million years hence, and a million years in their honing.
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>>9960645
When you say Plato believed, you do realize your implying Plato belived those those things? Plato wrote a bunch of stuff Socrates said. No where does Plato speak for himself.
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>>9960645
>>9960651
What anon said. It's our evolutionary hard-wiring.
Finding rotting corpses disgusting is useful. They are disease ridden and better left alone.
Finding babies or people as attractive is beneficial. It's useful for us to work with other people, and for us to like our offspring enough to raise them.
You could say the entire human condition was shaped by the earth itself.
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When they said that I should read books, I never thought they meant non-fiction. Why read fiction?
There is so much knowledge and history to be learned. Works shared by the world's greatest minds. Wisdom, passed down from the earliest pre-socratic philosophers, which built the foundation where our society stands.
And now we have our Warren Buffets and Tony Robbins and Dalai Lamas and Popes and other financial giants, whose books and talks aim to change our lives for the better.
Why are you reading your Twilight and Fifty Shades of Gray? Why are you reading made up stories /lit/?
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>>9960632
In many cases they are no less insightful than non-fiction.
Just because you can make up the story entirely doesn't mean you can't attach some kind of lesson or interesting insight to your parable.
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>>9960639
I wont disagree with that. Fiction has its own merits.
However, if reading non-fiction books.( I.E history or Philosophy) does the same thing, arguably better since its written in that purpose, why bother?
Reading for pleasure aside. I dont get pseud cred for reading 50 books year. I dont get smarter reading fantasy vampires killing aliens in a post apocalyptic world.
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I really enjoyed that book.
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>I could not be a virgin, with so many of them walking along in the shadows and whispering with their soft girl voices lingering in the shadowy places and the words coming out and perfume and eyes you could feel not see, but if it was that simple to do it wouldn't be anything and if it wasn't anything, what was I
Was it autism?
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>>9960626
Most certainly the 'tism. That and wanting to fuck his sister.
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Hit me with the best of the frogs.
t. chad
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His wife is a pedophile
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Proust - In Search of Lost Time
Flaubert - Madame Bovary
Montaigne - Essays
Corneille, Racine, Molière - plays
Voltaire - Candide
Baudelaire - The Flowers of Evil
Stendhal - The Red and the Black
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>>9960568
https://youtu.be/DH11-ZN13x0
https://youtu.be/7ktVVtK9UFQ
https://youtu.be/x1hCS7EExJY
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Give me some good novellas
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I've read 3 doorstoppers in a row, and I want to do some shorter reading now. Books <=250 pages.
Themes I like: cheekiness, romanticism, things that shit on edgelords. I enjoy Melville, Gogol, Dosto
Considering: Pynchon, Joyce, Borges, Bulgakov, Shakespeare
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>>9960497
Only novella I've read apart from what you mentioned is Clockwork Orange and L'Etranger. But they're shit, so go for Dubliners or Crying Lot.
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>>9960497
J. L. Carr - A Month in the Country
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>>9960497
>Shakespeare
>novella
When did this happen?
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So you can read dozens of editions of the Galaxy science fiction magazine on archive.org for free. Does /lit/ know if those are also available as text-only, in an e-reader compatible format?
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>>9960428
Get an e-reader that supports pdf files.
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>>9962270
Or just install calibre
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>taking a graduate class on English Romanticism
>reading William Blake seriously for the first time
>Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Holy fuck, being on /lit/ exposes me to so much trash poetry that I'd almost forgotten what genuinely great English poetry looks like. Every poet alive today wishes they had even a fraction of Blake's brilliance. Meaning enfolded within and on top of meaning, brilliant, inventive rhyming and metrical schemes, the way the poems in one section echo poems in the other--it's all transcendent and beautiful.
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>>9960385
He's pretty good. Plenty of poets have
>Meaning enfolded within and on top of meaning
though
that's like, a requirement to be mediocre.
He's the Romantic equivalent of Bob Dylan (and that's not a diss, its why he's so special)
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>>9960385
Just look at big ole' Dat Forehead
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>muh nursery rhymes