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Is pic-related kino or pleb?
I picked it at the local library in middle school at complete random and it's always stuck with me
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>Middle school
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I actually read that. It's fiction, but it's good.
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>>8788583
After like 15 years I still remember the line about carving out the guy's eyeballs and pissing in his skull.
I was far too young to be reading the book
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Is monolingualism pleb? 2016-12-01 23:25:37 Post No.8788529
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What languages do you speak/read? I feel bad when I want to read an author and I need to get a translation cause I don't speak the language they wrote in, or when I want to read a book and there's no translation into English or Spanish.
I can read in spanish, english, portuguese, some Italian and french, currently studying russian.
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Translations are the greatest crime against literature
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Once I get Spanish down I'm going to try to learn Greek and Latin. I really want to be able to read Homer, Sappho, and Virgil in their original languages.
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>>8788529
I can read Hungarian at about a childs level, so not so good for lit but not bad for conversation
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I've recently got back into reading after a long hiatus and a head injury. Reading has been a cathartic experience. I started with easy reads like Motley Crue's 'The Dirt' and have worked my way up.
Anyway, I just finished reading McCarthy's 'Blood Meridian' and am still putting together what I just read. The prose was something else, no punctuation, paragraph-long run-on sentences, dialogue that isn't clearly attached to a character. It read like some sort of poetic biblical story.
>Had The Kid died back at the campfire, by the young gunslinger?
>Was The Judge the devil? A god? Or just a man
>If so, had The Kid cheated death a number of times and it finally caught up with him, thus him resigning to enter the room at the end with The Judge.
>After the native Yamas(sp?) attack, leading to Glanton's death, did the Ex-Priest see something in the Judge and then suggest for the Kid to shoot him down? I couldn't completely comprehend the motives.
Anyone got any ideas for what I should read next? I'm about to hit buy on Child of God, All the Pretty Horses and Nic Pizzalato's 'Galveston.
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if you ever go running to /tv/ telling them we aren't responding to you we are going to smash your head in with out copies of Infinite Jest, take your murder porn and shove it far up your ass you dimfuck
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>>8788959
;^)
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>>8788959
>REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Neva change, 4chin
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Do you think Christopher Hitchens is overrated?
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Yeah, kinda.
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>>8788443
Hitchens is smoking a cigar in heaven right now. Looking down on your ignorance and chuckling to himself.
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Yes. His brother is better.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38148892
>We watch her colleague calming a little boy who's got himself worked up because he doesn't think he can do the writing exercise he's been tasked with.
>The child next to him offers some positive advice.
>"If you're upset, you could try meditation or breathing deeply," she says. "And you should believe in yourself."
>Dr Plant smiles as we watch them, happy to see last week's lesson on positive thinking has sunk in.
*sniff*
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>>8788439
CBT is unironically a prime example of what Zizek means by pure ideology
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Wow....
I wish somebody told me when I was young that I should take it easy if I'm upset, and believe in myself.
Nobody ever once said anything like that!
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>>8788445
He also says that ideology is inescapable. So do you have any criticisms of CBT that show it is worse than other ideologies?
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Okay 4chan so in English I had to write a freestyle poem so I decided to write the poem below. My English teacher is quite lenient so I know the cursing wont matter. Also I know its messy and unedited but I am not especially good and English and the messiness is kind of the point. Opinions?
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sorry its sideways
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how do you write up and down like that?
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>>8788384i look autistic af now
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Which of these gents does /lit/ prefer?
Stirner is the golden memeboy, but his actual writing is the rambling of an edgy teenager
Gödel is the faultless logician, but his robotness and schizophrenia make him a little hard to grasp as a person
Both noted and wrote on big holes society skipped in thinking, making contracts null or just exposing them for being arrogantly and faultly self-righteous
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>>8788367
>Gödel
Him, duh.
He was a mathematician, too, so he's actually smart.
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>>8788382
>He was a mathematician, too, so he's actually smart.
What are you doing outside of /sci/, property?
>>8788367
>his actual writing is the rambling of an edgy teenager
Hardly. He's succinct for a philosopher, poetic, and doesn't talk down to his audience. There are only minor hints of edginess in the first quarter of the book.
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>>8788407
Okay, that's a good image and all, but you don't want to mess with me.
So, stop.
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Do any of you guys listen to music while writing? I mostly prefer mellow type of music while doing a school assignment. How about you lit?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKRA7weVyLs
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>>8788340
FAST
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. JAZZ
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>>8788340
A school assignment isn't "writing"
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I listen to a soundtrack of your mom having an ass orgasm that one time I was pile driving her in the laundry room. Good acoustics in there.
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Post a pic of your prettiest book.
Mine is LotR in finnish, printed 1985. It's falling apart and has coffee and blood stains all over it but I still love it.
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>>8788324
I bet you don't even own a fedora. Full pleb.
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>>8788316
Far from the best books I own.
But I don't own many hardbacks so these are the best looking ones
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what
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>translations
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>>8788560
>que hay dentras de la ventana
It all makes sense now, amazing.
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>translations
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Is there, date I say it, a better publisher?
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>>8788276
Everyman by Knopf or the NYRB desu senpai
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>>8788287
also Loeb and Oxford University
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>>8788287
holy pleb alert
you haven't read a single dalkey book
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>tfw you submit your honors application
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>>8788275
What's your thesis senpai?
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>>8788281
I argue Shakespeare was a homosexual, focussing on evidence in his sonnets elucidated by various modern psychoanalysts.
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>>8788281
It's just my application to be accepted; the only writing involved were quick essays about life goals and experiences.
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What is your writing process like? For instance, I write very slowly. I can spend hours and only get a few paragraphs down. I analyze every sentence and try to make it as perfect as it can get. It's been months working on my first book and I have around 25 pages. (Aiming for 100). Do you write at night? Slowly? Quickly? Listen to music? Silence? How distracted are you? My biggest personal issue is the motivation to write, is it hard for you anons to get started working writing? General writing process discussion.
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>>8788220
Not sure that I can speak, since I haven't written in a long time. But my best, and basically only writing I've written that I'm proud of, was written really quickly. I didn't look back or revise, just wrote whatever came to mind. I'd start with an image or an action and develop an scene around it. If a scene started boring me and I got an idea for one later in the story, I just started working on that one. Your early draft will be shit no matter how meticulous you are, so having a fragmented pile of slush is fine. You can fix it in editing.
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I used to be exactly like you. I would spend hours on something as mundane as an email paragraph, let alone actual writing. I trained myself to write faster by getting drunk enough to inhibit my perfectionism. Now I can write several thousand words a day. I think it's foolish to edit while you're writing your first draft, which is essentially what you're doing.
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That's another question for the thread. Do you PLAN what you're going to write and does it help?
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There is something I can't remember. It's a story, but I cant remember if it's a poem or a song or what. But it's about a cowboy who's on the run from the law when he meets a beautiful young girl and they plan to run away. But they get betrayed by someone else who loves this woman and the law comes and accidentally kill her instead of the cowboy. It's a fairly long story and I heard it in school if that helps
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>>8788201
this sounds oddly similar to my diary desu
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That's Lolita
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>>8788201
OP here i vaguely remember there being a farm and the guy who betrayed the two lovers was described as not very attractive (stringy greasy hair, etc.)
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The stigma of listening to audiobooks as somehow lazy or 'cheating' needs to stop. 2016-12-01 21:55:44 Post No.8788190
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The stigma of listening to audiobooks as somehow lazy or 'cheating' needs to stop.
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As I'm sure for most regular readers and those who aren't, the act of reading a book is a large part of the enjoyment. Relaxing in bed, on the couch with your feet up, as it rains outside and you're warm inside, you feeling cool in an air conditioned living room on a blazing summer day and just being engrossed in a book. The smell of the book and the sound of the pages being turned can almost be ritualistic.
That being said, the primary act of reading is to enjoy the story. People often complain about not having the time to read when I mention a good book. So a little back story, I had brain surgery 5 years ago and while the results were good I've been left with vision and neck problems (parinauds syndrome and double vision) which makes reading more of a chore than a pleasure. So I turned to audiobooks, I've read over 60 books that I've kept track of (possibly more) on Audible and old school CD based books; books that even with perfect vision and no neck pain I'd never have read. It works great for me, I can 'read' while cooking, cleaning or enjoy it like a normal book and lay back in bed or on the couch, close my eyes and engross myself.
However whenever I tell people this I often find myself defending it when they say I cheat.. as if reading is some competition and you only get credit if you physically read the pages. Yes I can and do use my condition as an excuse but I shouldn't have to defend myself because I read my books in a different way.
Reading should be shared, great stories should be shared, no matter how it was consumed.
TL;DR Audiobooks are good for everyone and isn't cheating, it doesn't change the journey the author takes you on.
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>>8788190
>crippled pleb tries to justify with plebness with "reading is for enjoyment and happiness and cupcakes and sunshine!! :)"
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>>8788190
Cheater
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>>8788190
>it doesn't change the journey the author takes you on.
It does. You can't say a narrator doesn't alter your perception of the text.
>Reading should be shared, great stories should be shared, no matter how it was consumed.
I agree with this though. You're in a wheelchair, you can still enjoy the great game of basketball, it's just a little bit more shit.