What's wrong with subvocalization?
Nothing, speedreading is a meme for people who like boasting about how many books they read.
Speedreading should be only for technical stuff. If you don't subvocalize when reading literature you're missing out.
Nothing, it just makes you slow. Which is okay, if you enjoy slow, thought, recital type of reading more power to you, but then you'd have to face the reality of spending 2+ weeks on one novel
Don't worry about who I am. If you really want to know about me, just know that I'm risking a lot by posting this.
If you had a childhood, regardless of when you were born, you should remember the cartoon, "The Magic School Bus". It was a children's cartoon show in the '90s, where a crazy science teacher would take students on weekly adventures into places such as into space or through the human digestive system. It was a rather harmless, and educational show, which is the reason why it has been prominently shown to children since its premiere. What most people don't know about the show was that it was meant to fit into a line of horror stories for kids in a show that was never made, titled "Horror Is Alive!".
The show, much like the "Goosebumps" television show, was about harmless horror stories, with three being shown in one episode. Despite this, the first episode underwent a complete overhaul during it's production. What was to be the opening short was extended to full episode length, after the writer and director of the episode went through a long hard experience with illegal substances, which inspired the middle and end of the short, which uncoincidentally, is where the short takes a drastic turn. Everyone else, or at least most everybody else, were severely scarred due to the experiences making it.
Most quit after reading the script, but others were in desperate need of a job, whether it be they were animators, or mere executives. A whole first season was written, but completely abandoned after the first screening, with the final blow being that the scripts were destroyed in what was once PBS Studios HQ, after an arsonist, who is now believed to be the writer of the episodes (and again, director of this episode), obliterated the building. The few who read the scripts claimed to say they were either too gory to air, or too unnerving for children to enjoy watching. These people wish to remain anonymous, and even remain scarred to this day.
>>8779440
The first episode wasn't even ready to air before the concept spiraled horrifically out of control and terrified test audiences. Originally planned by PBS, it was designed by Melnitsa Animation Studio in Russia, and thus the original pilot episode was partially animated in Russia before the first screening. In the original episode, the doubting school children were brought onto a school bus (it originally did not have eyes) that transformed into a spacecraft and brought them into space, where strange things began to happen. That was the only description the people attending the screening had, so they had no real expectations for it. After the screening, PBS took the original idea back to the storyboards, fired everyone behind the pilot's production, and remade it with well known employees into, obviously, The Magic School Bus.
The episode was sent to me in a cardboard box by one of my online friends, who simply gave me his first name, Sergei. Sergei was one of the employees during the late 80's and into the latter half of the 90's, his job was merely just checking to make sure the VHS copies of the animations weren't distorted, or any lesser quality than a first generation VHS tape. He never told me this until I expressed interest in his old job, which triggered him to spill everything. He is much older than me, at forty-three years old. The method that he used to have obtained the episode was simply sneaking into the Melnitsa Animation Studios, which is now merely a shoe-making factory, and breaking through the safe in what was then where the animation was processed, which was untouched. There, most of the old animations designed by the studio, were there. The episode was hard to find, but due to him having seen the originally copy when it was sent to him, could identify it.
As such, the episode starts normally. The recut includes the original PBS episode 1, but the music is different, with an infinitely descending Shepard's tone replacing the happy intro. The title screen is merely black, with the words (Я нe мoгy дышaть) over what must be English subtitles that says "The Sad Bus". After some resarch, I found that it actually said "I cannot breathe", which makes a little bit of sense, considering it takes place in outer space, of course. The version I obtained was a recut.
>>8779442
Despite the fact it was the original tape, apparently, after the horrific reaction, the writer for "Horror Is Alive!", and the director of this specific episode, in a pout, took the tape and attempted to edit out everything deemed unsavory by the test audience, but quit after about three scenes, and collapsed.
I am guessing that the recut didn't include the bus' eyes, but I'm not sure whether it's a layering mistake, or something much more sinister, due to the fact that two of the student characters, Carlos and Dorothy Ann have no eyes. I mean they are there, but their eyes are missing, and no one mentions it. The bus also looks much more sinister because the front lights are normal on first glance (though still eye-like, almost like a human's eyes while literally frozen) and the grill of the bus just looks extremely sad, like it's in a constant frown. The voice work is also different, with a sense of sorrow and blatant unconfortableness in the American actors' voices. In the PBS edition, Arnold's cousin Janet thinks that Mrs. Frizzle is boring, so Arnold has the teacher take them into space. In this episode, going into space is where things become very messed up. Nothing from the original episode is here, instead the bus "transforms" into a space ship, kind of like one you'd see in a film like 2001: A Space Odyssey.
There's no transition, it just becomes this. The walls are all white and there seem to be infinite corridors with steep drops. From the outside, it looks like a Soviet space rocket (which still makes sense, due to this being animated in Russia), but larger. Arnold comments that this wasn't what he expected and he wants to go home. Janet and Carlos also seem equally confused, but Janet is smiling. Mrs. Frizzle says that there is an override lock on the ship and nobody can leave until it has reached its destination: "We are hurtling toward the sun". Mrs. Frizzle tells everyone that she can turn off the airlock and suffocate everyone, only jokingly, before saying that she will put in the manual override, but it will take six months to reach Earth. After this, the screen begins distorting as the picture goes out of focus in a similar fashion to how the Max Headroom Hijacking went into transmission during Doctor Who. An out-of-place slideshow then played over what sounded like an acoustic version of the Star Wars theme. The only pictures that were shown are that of planets, with each picture having some subliminally hidden disturbing human elements across the planet being shown. Basically, imagine the planet Jupiter having angry-looking human eyes melded into it, realisticly, but not something too out of the ordinary for a skilled Photoshop user to have created.
>>8779445
She suggests that everyone go into stasis sleep, when a cancerous sore has developed on Mrs. Frizzle's face, that nobody mentions. However, Mrs. Frizzle mentions that there are only nine stasis beds and there are eleven people, including herself. She told them that she'll be fine staying up for six months, but one of the students will have to stay up as well. Ralphie suggests they draw straws. They do so, and Arnold is determined to be the one who has to stay up. Now up to this point, the episode was bafflingly strange, but this is where the show descends into realms that I couldn't make up if I tried. After everyone goes into stasis sleep, Mrs. Frizzle tells Arnold that originally there were thirty students in the class, but twenty of them died. She tells Arnold that she is going into the upper airlock where there is a separate bed, and she only told the students there were less beds because she didn't want them to face the idea that one person would be alone for six months. In addition to this, the time frame for returning home was actually two years. She leaves and locks the door behind her from the outside. After this scene, the same distortion affection occurs, as a long string of text appears, saying "BUT WHAT ABOUT JANET?" several times.
You could tell that time was passing by only because Arnold became more dirty as time passed. The nine beds line the walls, and there are porthole windows along with a control panel that is deactivated. The food that was left for him sits in one corner of the room, and tries to ration it, but it only lasts him one month. He also has no means of a bathroom, so he urinates and defecates on the floor. After about two minutes, two months have passed, and Arnold is looking noticeably nervous and disheveled, yet hopeful. He's extremely hungry, more so than he's ever been. Ralphie's catchphrase, "I think I'm gonna be sick," begins to play, repetitively, over the music track. I think it was meant to reflect Arnold's mind, but then Mrs. Frizzle begins to talk. "You're hungry, aren't you" Arnold now realized the predicament he faces. He won't survive two years in this environment, and if he tries to kill himself by smashing a porthole window, he'll kill his other students. "You didn't leave me enough food!", Arnold screams, as his voice begins to crack. Several quick cuts of the spaceship from 2001 play about as rapidly as the human eye can blink. The voice begins to grow darker and more tinged, and deeper. "Oh, but Arnold, I did." The animation does a long, slow pan across the room with what looks like a stylization of a wide-angle lens, pointing out the beds. And then the voice changes. "I am your extrasensory nervous system. This is no hallucination, Arnold. I am you."
If you could ask John Green one question, what would it be?
>>8779384
"Could you please sue 4chan to keep them from allowing your image or discussion?"
>>8779384
Why dont you write more challenging and visceral work? You have the diction, emotional depth and skill to do it, yet you choose to churn out pseudo-meaningful teenage bullshit.
I wish I could inject Bataille into his brain
>>8779738
>The fault in our solar anus
What are books that women actually, unironically can never understand? Pic related.
>>8779312
>tfw my waifu actually and unironically understands this while repeatedly stomping on my balls wearing an 80s power suit with those big shoulder pads b/c she's fucking coked to the max and shit-talking lee iacocca on a rotary dial phone
>>8779312
Mishima's Patriotism.
It pretty much divided my class 50/50 between the guys and the girls.
>Anon why would intentionally take the hard path?? What is ego development?
How good are these books? Are they worth a read?
>>8779284
Not and no.
>>8779284
Shit tier
>>8779284
Yeah, tremendously enjoyable fantasy lit. If you're not a stuck up pretentious person who only reads obscure philosophical essays.
In fiction, what's the difference between magical-realism and surrealism?
Thanking you in advance, /lit/.
google it fag
>>8779212
Calm down, comrade.
>>8779205
Kiko an amazing.
What are the greatest philosophical texts ever written? I'm reading this right now, feel like Ive been endowed with mad knowledge. By philosophical texts I mean either dry expository text like pic related or philosophy presented as a story (like Thus Spoke Zarathustra or The Stranger)
>>8779145
Jesus I hate that book so much. What a nightmare for ethics.
Favorites:
Birth of Tragedy
World as Will and Representation
Interpretation of Dreams
Laocoon
Herder's Treatise on the Origin of Language
Spinoza's Ethics
Confessions
Fear and Trembling
God's Zeal
Varieties of Religious Experience
Benjamin's Essays
Lukacs's Theory of the Novel
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Phenomenology of Spirit
>>8779335
I can only take so much of this before growing weary.
c.g. Stein's Objects
/lit/'s thoughts on Alan Watts? Is he worth reading and listening too?
he is entry level. but good at it.
skippable imo but not useless.
>>8778960
Anything you recommend with similar philosophy that's not so entry level? Listened to his lectures since yesterday but wasn't sure if his books holdup as well.
Bullshit.
Do /lit/ agree?
>>8778919
>Warren peace
>>8778919
that's clearly a response to somebody asking "Why should I [consume something in its original form]?"
>>8778953
It isn't https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/5fi5zy/100_books_every_man_should_read_art_of_manliness/
Talk about the ubermensch, /lit/.
Who or what fits your description?
What kind of regime or lifestyle would they have? What would they do?
How much do you think about this idea? Is it interesting to you?
Is ubermensch-philosophy underrated, overrated, properly rated? Does it belong in the past, or is it something that people now and in the future will be/should be paying attention to?
Write/share/post whatever else comes to mind on the subject.
shameless self-bump
Are truth and courage the same things?
Can you become the übermensch by rigorous study of philosophy and experiencing and understanding life's sufferings or must you be born innately great?
Nabokov
What is your opinion on Maimonides?
Is Guide to the Perplexed worth reading?
>>8778911
>that filename
לל
Hey OP,
I know a lot about medieval Jewish philosophy. Unfortunately, this board never really cares about it.
If you want to delve into him, you need a background in Saadia Gaon. This will help you understand the pre-Maimonidean Jewish philosophy and see how he changes it.
Second, you need a large background in Aristotle. Maimonides very much is trying to synthesize Aristotle with the Bible. Sometimes he agrees with Aristotle (Ex God is incorporeal and therefore allusions to God's body are metaphorical) and sometimes he tries to maintain Jewish thought (Ex eternity of the world and creation ex nihilo both cannot be demonstrated so let's preserve the Jewish view)
If you've read most of the Torah and then pick up The Maimonides Reader and the Hackett Guide to the Perplexed then you'll be in a good spot.
His political philosophy is honestly brilliant. The importance of Maimonides cannot be overstated. Seriously.
>>8781804
thanks for the thoughtful post
Roshar Edition
Fantasy
Selected: https://i.imgur.com/r688cPe.jpg
General: https://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg
Flowchart: https://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg
Beginner's Guide to Fantasy: https://i.imgur.com/fOGNfWK.jpg
Science Fiction
Selected:
https://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/IBs9KE8.jpg
General:
https://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg
NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
https://i.imgur.com/IJxTQBL.jpg
Previous Thread: >>8771831
ISNOTTRUTHINFINITE?!
Chart again
"As she finished explaining to him why socialism is so shit, Atlas Shrugged, looked at her and said..."
Fucking really? what a hack
>>8778817
>We've really blown it now, Eve. Our Paradise, lost.
Christ, Milton deserved to go blind.
>>8778817
>Thank you for reading my diary desu, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
HOGG YOU FUCKING HACK
>>8778817
Thank God for another one of these
>book has an exclamation mark
>>8778626
You mean in the RJ Hollingdale translation of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, where the Persian prophet exclaims
"Behold!"
At least three million times?
>this kills the anon
>a boolean statement is negated with the negation operator '!'
DROPPED
ITT: Good books you've never seen discussed
You don't discuss the rack in polite company. You peek and then you pretend it's not there.
>>8778615
>THE RACK
hehehehehehehheheheh
>>8778615
I would say it's not discussed because it doesn't have a Wikipedia page, i.e., pseuds can't google it and act like they know what they're talking about.