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>Kafka burned 90% of his work
Imagine how many great works of literature we lost
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how Kafkaesque
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good, his writing is shit
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>>8965595
>tfw you're a book and you don't have any choice in getting burned or not.
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Far from the cacophony of the crowd,
I find serenity.
Where the soft wind blows and the pines do sing,
My God comes close to me.
I need not the voices of my fellow man
to hear the symphony.
The murmuring brook and the rustling leaves: These sing His hymn to me.
Many men have been given the talent
To paint what they do see,
But none can capture the many beauties
Given to us by Thee.
When I am in need of a brief respite
From our society,
I enter into Your Cathedral
And sit beneath a tree.
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>>8965518
>female redditor detected
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>>8965523
Wrong on both accounts, actually. How is the poem itself?
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>>8965526
Be honest: your a woman, right?
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What is the Christine (2016) of literature?
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>>8965461
Were against women here
Take the redpill
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>>8965464
I love this poster
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>>8965464
this
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Have you ever considered becoming a librarian, /lit/?
I'm thinking of doing a Masters in Librarian studies. Basically I'm looking for a job where I can do a lot of sitting down at a computer with nothing to do so I can write in free time while I'm working.
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>>8965441
No, I couldn't stand to see women walking around in a library like they have any business there, or as if they belong
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>>8965447
I hope to work in a Legal or College library. Hopefully a few less ditzy chick-lit reading women.
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>>8965441
>Masters in Librarian studies
this is the most retarded thing I've ever heard
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I love iambics, it is so dramatic but still so calm.
What do you think?
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>>8965417
Women can't understand it, their minds are inferior
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Iambic poems are base and obscene. I prefer poems that praise something rather than blame or insult something (there are exceptions of course).
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>>8965428
No i think there is something beautiful and subtle about it. However the rhytm is much dependent on the different strength of conconants too i believe and some iambic poets missed that perhaps.
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Why does everyone here hate him so much? Or is it a meme?
Do you just hate the poems, or the stories too? You know he invented detective fiction?
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>>8965340
i liked some of his stuff as a youth. saved me from a dark time in my life. who cares anyway? read his stuff, decide for yourself. i think he's quite good, honestly.
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I like him a lot, actually. I think he's deep and edgy TM but I do appreciate his work. Shame he's been coopted by the soods
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Don't hate, just think his poetry is trash. Everyone knows him and offers their meager insight.
Great writer. Telltale Heart is a favorite from adolescence to adulthood.
Just got these. What should i expect?
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>>8965288
It's going to turn your world upside down, as evidenced by the picture.
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>>8965288
that doctor faustus is boring as shit.
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>>8965288
I can almost safely enunciate that The Red Book will be unintelligible to you. As for me, it kind of gave me the impression that it's essentially just pointless babble by someone who got off on writing obscurely just for the hell of it.
Also, while I'm at it, HOLY GUACAMOLE, how much did those two volumes by Aristotle cost? I'm betting they were outrageously steep.
Really need a thread with inspirational quotes and anons supporting each other.
Talk about what you love about the craft, tell us how far you are away from finishing your next piece and generally be positive pls. Tough love accepted if it's about helping with someone's laziness (like me)
I'm writing draft one of my novel, have the outline completely done and am on chapter three. Just getting already kind of tired of chipping away at it everyday, can't wait to be finished the first draft. Then I know things will go a lot faster.
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Does /lit/ like jonathan franzen?
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>“I stood up and ran outside. I made it to a trash can outside the gym, five feet from the double doors, and heaved toward Gatorade bottles and half-eaten McDonald’s. But nothing much came out. I just heaved, my stomach muscles tightening and my throat opening and a gasping, guttural blech, going through the motions of vomiting over and over again. In between gags and coughs, I sucked air in hard. Her mouth. Her dead, cold mouth. To not be continued. I knew she was drunk. Upset. Obviously you don’t let someone drive drunk and pissed off. Obviously. And Christ, what the hell is wrong with you? And then comes the puke, finally, splashing onto the trash. And here is whatever of her I had left in my mouth, here in this trash can. And then it comes again, more—and then okay, calm down, okay, seriously, she’s not dead.”
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Every time this is posted I get intrigued by Scandals in sumo.
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>>8965144
no not at all.
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Have you not yet realized that the most sublime can only be reached with God? That literature can only reach the peak of the sublime if there is a God to reach out to, beyond our pathetic and degenerate selves? That after the death of God, literature has been sinking in ever-diminishing circles, aping the sublime but never quite reaching it? That the last sublime thing, the last important tragedy, was this very death of God, which has been pounded into cliche by all too many artists since its conception? Why do you keep writing when there is nothing truly important yet left to say? Art could only save us when we had the capability to be saved in the first place.
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>>8965138
totes agree with you.more noobs should read the holy bible
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>>8965164
yes, or they should just stop writing
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we don't want art to "save" us.
we don't need to be saved anyways
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Any /lit/erati like Rudyard Kipling?
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>>8965071
He's the perfect example of an unashamed imperialist Briton. A true man of the Empire.
On the other hand, Kipling is perhaps (to me) the best example of why Nietzsche didn't like the English. There's something very...colloquial about him. It's disgusting to think that the plebby English vernacular that he captures in his writing actually did (or does) exist.
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Really enjoy his poetry. It's not always politically agreeable, but he's such a master of his form. Folksy, song-like, often with some doses of humor.
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>>8965090
See my gut reaction to seeing your post (or any mocking British Dialects) was to criticize your culture blindly so I suppose you're right.
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There are always threads here about how you can't write anything if you haven't experienced anything. Like, how can you write about losing your virginity if you haven't lost it yet. The respons of some is that writing fiction is about using your imagination. You have to be creative and make things up. That is the whole point of writing fiction.
But then i have to ask: rather than having experience is it not better to be very knowledgeable about some or many subjects? For example when the author is writing in detail about a characters job he has to be very knowledgeable about that field of work. Or, if the book contains a lot of parts where boating is the main activity don't you have to know lots about boats and how to use them? Or, if you want to write about election fraud don't you have to know lots about the election process?
Discuss among yourselves.
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>>8964938
Women have no knowledge, their simple inferior
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>>8964938
Are you asking because you are a virgin and want to know how to write about losing your virginity?
I mean, if you want to be a writer, go buy a bottle of cheap wine and pay a whore
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>>8964938
I think you're on to something, OP.
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Chapters 81 through 85
Late thread. RIP character of interest. Please discuss the events pertaining to said character.
>Ebooks and audiobook just in case you fancy a challenge and want to catch up
https://mega.nz/#F!NIcBwCYL!ZZo5gGqjat1yL_-RkuzZFw
>previous bread
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Still playing catch-up after first day of reading. Just got to Morrel being saved from ruin.
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>>8965502
The tension then got to me. I wanted to shout at morrel not to rush into suicide, like give it 5 minutes after the bell.
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What is an example of a well written fiction?
I really want to read some good examples to inform my own style. I am a pleb in this arena.
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Your question is as specific as saying that you currently live within the universe.
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>>8964866
Mein Kampf
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>>8964866
The Essentials List.
Absolutely Required Works:
The Odyssey and the Iliad by Homer (~12th - ~8th century BCE)
Major Plays of Aeschylus (456 BCE)
Major Plays of Sophocles (406 BCE)
The Holy Bible (~8th century BCE - 1st century CE)
Genesis
Exodus
Daniel
Ecclesiastes
Job
Psalms
Romans
Gospels (Matthew, Mark, John, Luke)
Revelation
Apocrypha
The Aeneid by Virgil (19 BCE)
The Divine Comedy by Dante (1307)
Don Quixiote by Miguel de Cervantes (1605)
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (1616)
Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667)
Faust (Part I and II) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1808, 1832)
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin (1833)
The Major Tales of Nikolai Gogol (1840s)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1856)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodr Dostoevsky (1866)
Major Plays of Henrik Ibsen (1870s)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1877)
Dubliners and Ulysses by James Joyce (1914, 1922)
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (1926)
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1929)
The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges (1949)
The Recognitions by William Gaddis (1955)
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (1962)
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)
Zettels Traum by Arno Schmidt (1970/2016)
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So how do Stirnerists actually live?
What are the practical consequences?
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>>8964864
We simply hate women
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It's a bohemian lifestyle, where you can do anything you want because anything goes. Everyone is spooked but you and property (state protected or otherwise) is definitely not a spook, for some reason.
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>>8964920
property doesn't just mean physical property you spooked child. property - as in the special qualities of something, properties as in intellectual properties, and properties as in physical properties which your will can be acted upon. Stirner's english translations can't do it justice without further explaination. And spooks refers to hauntings of the mind and being possessed in the spiritual sense by non physical entities that directly influence your daily life and decision making.