I've never used this board before, but I've been reading My Life In The Bush of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola lately and I've been finding it enjoyable, if a little hard to read at times. Do people here like this book? Other works that are similar?
Bumping for you in the futile hope that another anon has read something other than the 10 novels we discuss on /lit/.
It was surely damn good album
>>8740081
If you like the album you'll like the book
Who were some anti semetic writers?
>>8739414
probably your diary desu
>>8739418
You're probably right
>>8739414
Go away drumpf. Back to /pol/ you goddamn cunt
Hello, I am a stupid white male who has read a lot of male philosophy but no female philosophy whatsoever apart from some Anscombe.
I have decided to make this chart based upon names dropped around here. Please feel free to name some more female philosophers so that I can add it to the chart and improve it overtime including the look of it and dates etc.
Please no beta memes about women in philosophy, I don't care if they're bad, I'm just looking for reading material.
>>8739374
You'll trigger the frogmen
>>8739381
Do you think it's pointless to make this chart if a list of female philosophers already exists on Wikipedia?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_philosophers
I would rather a chart be made of the most important ones so people don't have to shift through shit.
>>8739386
I don't care. I don't look at charts
So, I was hearing some frog radio program and someone said that american english is what it is because all those people coming from such different places needed a simple language to communicate despite their vastly different cultural backgrounds, ie different conceptions and behaviors.
So, that in such a mess some order was needed and we got this 'english' as a result. Some kind of natural esperanto, so to speak. Something not as ugly as a preconceived language, but not quite as a natural human language either.
And we all know how language reflects/inlfuences the culture and thought of those holding it.
Thoughts?
None of this makes any sense when you consider British English exists. Also not /lit/
>>8739337
What? The implied message is that British English is real English, or in a more broader perspective, a genuine and spontaneous human creation, while american is some lesser creole product of colonialism, which means it is some subhuman monstrosity that keeps those holding it trapped in a state that apparently they are condemned to suffer as long as they exist. It is what they are.
>talk about language
>not lit
i wanna slap your face gently but hard.
>>8739360
an it is, just hearing americans speak make me want to vomit.
Who were some Chad writers?
Chad Harbach
>>8739296
>Chad
You aren't on /r9k/, you massive loser
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chadian_literature
I quit literature, and I quit writing. I am sick of being only the "dregs of my work." I am sick of the disconnection from life that writing and literature creates. I am sick of imitating life, and am ready to start living it. I hope that you join me, /lit/.
>>8739277
Nah, I'm good.
>>8739277
>he tried reading and writing anything at all before having something tangible to say
perhaps /lit/ should be a 30+ board
If i join you, am I going to get a mug or t-shirt or handjob or anything?
I've just started to read this book. Any thoughts about it? What's the part that called your attention the most?
Why don't you finish it before you ask that shit.
>>8739181
This.
What a fucking retard
>Picks up book
>Decides to post about it on /lit/ before he actually reads it
Read the fucking book first
3 books you would recommend
>>8739166
>Memoirs of Hadrian
>War and Peace
>The best of Shakespeare
>>8739174
Ok.
So: Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, A Midssumer Night Dream, The Tempest, Henry IV parts 1 and 2, Julius Caesar, Anthony and Cleopatra and Romeo and Juliet.
>>8739166
Infinite Jest
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
1984
>book has more than one word on each page
>have to arduously scan from left to right, causing immense eye strain and mental effort just to know whats going on
>>8739042
"saccades" you shitbucket. Get familiar with research related to the physical mechanics of research, or just fuck off with your scraping-the-chum-bucket bait
>>8739042
HEHE FROGPOSTING IS SO FUNNY LOL
HEY! didn't you hear? lit is attempting to making a journal!
anyone can join in and submit work!
we can say we are published !
a project for us and by us! that will be released for free for all to enjoy!
resources from last thread
http://litquarterly.com/
https://mega.nz/#F!ZhRkSYDJ!znjtIBp0RaiVozOAW30B4A
https://discord.gg/RVzq4zg
post work in this thread or send to
[email protected]
and
[email protected]
>>8738970
what kinda art does this journal want
I was that guy who posted the dog and I've realized not much of my stuff is /lit/
>>8738989
we are taking anything
just make sure its something you are proud of or enjoy or find funny
it also has to be spell checked and well formatted and stuff.. basic stuff
proofread the stuff before you submit it!
this is a project for fun!
GOOSEBUMP'S
"THE GHOST THAT COMES THROUGH MY DOOR EVERY SUNDAY"
Hi. My name is Edward Milliby. I live a fairly average life in Huntingtonville, Arizodaho. My father shouted down to me "Edward! Get your dumb butt down here and help me with these bags.
We're moving to a place called Ducksplace, New Yorsey. It's a long boring drive, and I don't want to leave any of my friend's behind, which made me angry at my dad. I yelled down to him "I'm going for a walk!" and then I ran out of my house to go for a walk. I didn't need to put on my shoes, because I was already wearing them indoors.
Immediately after leaving my house, Edwanda Misilby grabbed me as I almost ran past her. Edwanda, who was my bestfriend since preschool, was my bestfriend since preschool.
"Oh. Hey, Edwanda. I'm leaving, and I wanted to say goodbye."
Edwanda grabbed me by the shoulder.
"Ghosts come through your door every Sunday."
How could my life can any crazier?
Damn, were they really that corny?
>>8738946
"Corny?!" I yelled.
"I don't care if I'm being corny! If we don't arrest those ghosts by sun down, mom and dad are going to be their slaves for the next three-thousand years!"
That was the moment I knew we had to trap the ghosts in the Internet by creating sanscrit copypasta. The white middle class ghosts would have to haunt the pasta because how could they leave without looking racist?
It was then I knew I would save Mom and Dad and we would all go to Applebee's afterward.
Presently, how do we wholly redeem the adverb's unjustly sullied reputation?
Carefully
With care
>>8738904
> sullied reputation
Said who?
Americans are the ones who refuse to use it; the rest of the world is fine with them.
Can /lit/ tell me what makes Harry Potter so shit tier? I've heard Rowling used the same word instead of walking 100 some odd times.
>>8738866
this is why ROWLING is shit, not harry potter
HP is shit because
>tons of plotholes due to the very existence of magic making almost any job obsolete
>no way to enforce a magical law that would prevent someone using polyjuice potion to assume the role of fucking anyone and kill anyone else or assume their position
>magic is just learning how to say words and wave your wand
>predictable ending, cliched ending
>no deaths in the series until the very end where she realized she needed some
>no themes or ideas presented or explored, as they are in other children's series, like narnia
>>8738882
It can, but her own illustrations of the characters also depict her as white.
How many novels are your 'writing' at the moment?
I'm currently writing one mainly, have another one on the backburner that I write to decompress from writing the other one, as well as three more that I intend to go back to at some point. I have about 10 novels that I made a decent amount of progress on before abandoning as well.
Never finished one shaking my head to be honest family
I always write one, and edit the last one I wrote simultaneously.
writing an epic, a play, two novels
They are going okay.
>>8738859
One novel with a quasi sequel planned. I work on a lot of culture essays too.
Now that the dust has settled, what is /lit/s consensus on "choose your own adventure" books?
Hopscotch is p gud
>>8738813
They are in some sense poor literature. And yet in another sense they're good children's literature because they engage the reader, are a novel literary form, and in many cases use the second-person, a rare voice. This also engages the reader's imagination.
I devoured like 50 of the things as a kid, and I think I'm better for it despite the first above clause.
The idea of reading one was always more fun than actually reading it.