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Cervantes vs Shakespeare 2017-01-23 10:25:25 Post No.9013703
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Cervantes: A poor spaniard who wrote about the reality of his time with human characters that reflected the troubles and faults of real people. Through simple stories he showed a complex portait of his reality. Has very few books because was a poor man who had to work for a living, was a soldier (was a war hero, and was captured by pirates), tax collector, merchant... Also was in jail.
And even though he was the best writter od Spain nobody acknowledged him in his time.
Shakespeare: son of a wealthy british family, did nothing besides writting ( he didn't need to). Writtes complicated books about people that backstab each other and then speak of the inevitability of destiny. Characters in his plays are nobles, kings, wealthy people... And when he talks about poor people it is very irreal (he never was poor). Had the fame and acknowledge of his country.He lived in cotton wool.
I'm with Cervantes,and you?
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I am with the side who judges an author's work on their writing and not the lifestyles they lived.
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>>9013709
>Le death of the author :^)
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>>9013703
>only the poor are 'real people'
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Is proclaiming Shakespeare to be the best writer ever a fair statement? Or has it just been said so much that people blindly accept it as being true?
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>>9013688
It isn't fair. It's a really englishcentrist thing to say.
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He is, without a doubt, one of the greatest. Whether he is the greatest or not is a debate that really doesn't matter. It's just a dick-waving contest.
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>>9013701
What if he didn't write all of those plays
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Should weak people suffer?
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Why shouldn't they? Stop thinking like a rive gauche curly lamb.
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>>9013668
Weak or not, you'll suffer. Whether you should or shouldn't is of no consequence.
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"Should" implies some spooky ideological sense of justice and morality. In reality, weak people generally WILL suffer (generally). "Should" you make them suffer? No, that probably means you believe you have some divine right to serve justice based on what you deem moral or immoral. Genuine understanding and empathy are generally the best way to help them improve
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I want to write a screenplay 2017-01-23 10:16:08 Post No.9013666
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I want to write a screenplay
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2017-01-23 10:16:08
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But I am shit at developing a plot.
You guys need to help me.
Reply with your plot points each in response to the last.
This story finishes at 20 replies (excluding troll replies)
Let's get started!
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opening shot:
Obese, fully nude and erect, obese man, is laying on the floor attempting to suck his own dick.
GIVE ME SOME LOVIN' plays and title card comes up.
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>>9013678
well this went well
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>>9013678
Scene pans to the right past an apartment wall to a second room. Muffled GIVE ME SOME LOVIN' playing as a man snorts heroin off of two women's asses pressed together. The camera continues towards the right.
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>hauntingly beautiful
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what law is there say i cant write that?
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>did say
>did go
Mark of an amateur tbqh
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>>9013606
the law of me kicking you in your butthole if you do
>Supposing that Truth is a woman--what then?
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tfw no gf
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>>9013556
Then what is the truth for a woman?
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>>9013556
Men are to truth as liberals are to "facts".
Nietzsche said that you shouldn't give a shit about other people philosophies, think for yourself, fool.
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>>9013513
>tfw I invented nihilism to myself in grade 9
>had never read any philosophers before
Feelsgoodman
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Joseph Heller thread?
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>>9013525
Google translate must be on the fritz, again.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOk6HB609po
This guy makes German Idealism seem like a cool religion that I would gladly become a devout follower of.
Are there any actualized NEETs on the left that can provide me with something or someone in this vein except from a leftist perspective? Serious question
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>>9013507
this is what happens when people dont have anxiety when they should.
im talking about the video.
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>>9013528
>All the smug normies in that video.
Something needs to be done. Someone has to do something.
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https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/pub
Just ctrl+f german idealism
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/lit Digital Library Request 2017-01-23 09:03:03 Post No.9013443
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/lit Digital Library Request
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i truly enjoy the prospect of sharing knowledge and have spent some time amassing a library that is tailored to the creation of what i would call the "educated american citizen"
to this end, i have a scanner and am willing to share my books in the form of digital PDFs
what i would like are suggestions as to the best way to share those PDFs with you all
as time goes on, i will post images of my library to this thread, with accompanying subjects listed. please refer to those images for particular requests--i am willing to scan in virtually anything, but please make your requests reasonable and expect some delay between their recognition and their execution
tl;dr: want to share library with you all, converting physical copies into PDFs, please tell me best way to share collectively/create digital archive
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MEGA. At /his/ we use it for a big library that everyone contributes to and it's working out well.
Thanks OP
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i want something that i alone can dump into from time to time, but has open access to all users--does mega offer this? please provide link, and i'll trade you several great short-story PDFs to kick things off
thanks man
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>>9013483
Sort of. You'll be able to edit but nobody can just drop their files, they could post them on the thread and you upload them to yours.
Are many classics authors only considered great because literacy was so scarce in their time, and the competition was extremely small?
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>>9013352
Shakespeare
Hemingway
Joyce
Kafka
Pynchon
Homer
Hesiod
Dante
Gaddis
Calvino
Borges
Gass
Dostoyevsky
Kleist
Gogol
Tolstoy
Faulkner
Dante
Marlowe
Marvell
Proust
Carlyle
Keats
Byron
Shelley
Flaubert
Dickens
Moses
etc.
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>>9013367
so basically everyone before David Foster Wallace was only successful because illiteracy was so rampant in their times that any book written was considered a classic?
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>>9013412
Oh yes, I forgot
David Foster Wallace
Thank you, but yes, everyone before and including his time
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Who here /slowreader/? Reading Meditations for the past two weeks and I'm barely half way through it.
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Read more.
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>>9013338
It's good to read that slowly.
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>>9013351
I don't think reading more improves your reading speed beyond whatever increase you may get from having a better vocabulary, and being familiar with different styles of writing.
Also, there are a lot of factors than can affect reading speed such as the content, and your ability to process information (i.e. your IQ), etc. So simply saying to read more doesn't really cut it.
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/lit/ BTFO
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>>9013202
Written by a bitter pseud who doesn't like long books
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You thought I'd read this, but I didn't read this. Don't you feel silly now
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>>9013246
Proof no one on /lit/ reads anything at all, get BTFO fagit
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What's that word for when you realise that you'll look back at the previous year and three quarters and realise it was completely wasted?
>finished a degree I hated
>worked retailcuck part time jobs
>barely read more than 5 books
>did maybe a month's worth of productive stuff in my free time
>went to the gym regularly and lifts went up but ate lots of junk food and had coffee enough to harm sleep at times
>main hobby was taking walks or driving and feeling sad about my life and telling myself I would work extremely hard to learn productive skills tomorrow
>wasted gigantic amounts of time on internet and 4chan browsing
>told myself every day that I'd start working hard and eating healthily tomorrow and having genuine false hope almost every time
I can't motivate myself to work hard on anything or have goals. I know other people have quarter life crises but my life is fucking zooming past, not due to a boring 9-5 job but my inability to do anything with my free time.
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regret?
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>>9013168
This is me. Except I've read maybe 100 books.
As you are on /lit/ maybe you can work on the book bit. Try to beat my record. I believe in you.
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Did you save money?
How many words per day you write?
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I shitpost all day.
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Almost three.
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>>9013910
One more and you can make it bud
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My book haul, any other recommendations?
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>>9013061
Start with the Greeks
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>>9013066
Thanks.
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>>9013061
You should check out this cool cookbook I got from my mom recently. It's something about regional southwest cuisine by season. Just Google that, okay buddy