Lit opinion on neil gaiman?
genreshit
>>8694751
YA that's marketed to adults for some reason. not actively bad but certainly No Discernible Talent ®
Good for comics, bad in everything else.
He was obviously not a human being.
Mc carthy evokes much Christian biblical imagery and themes in his works including this one so he's comfortable with toying with ideas of the supernatural.
Was that scene where he leads the Glanton gang across the dried molten rocks supposed to be evocative of Moses leading his flock through the Red Sea?
>>8694576
It certainly has a similarity but Moses didn't keep the Israelites alive just to prod their minds ad corrupt them wholly.
The image is there however. Imagine Moses as a sadistic man wanting to save the Jews only to ruin them himself.
>gets described as a djinn
>djinn sounds like "gin"
>alcohol is a big theme in the book
bravo cormac
Is Harry Potter /lit/ approved?
Only the Chamber of Secrets.
Ginny scribbling in blood. Mmhm.
Adults who defend the literary merit of this shit work at buzzfeed and his
That is, total nu-males
What does it take for a book do be considered a meme?
>>8694483
to be*
>>8694483
It has to have a certain memetic quality
>>8694483
Everything is a meme
Nothing is not a meme
Paradife Loft is my favorite to this day.
duh
>>8694438
thats how "s" was stylized back then
is theory invented or discovered? like math, plato's ideals, that shit.
does theory come first, or reality?
nigga that brain look like a universe matrix confirmed fuck math
>>8694409
dude I swear I invented the circle, its my intellectual property bro
>>8694409
this is pretty hotly contested (or was in the 50s, and the underpinnings of the debate still are relevant) in my field, which is archaeology. it's called the ford/spaulding debate, and had to do with ceramic typologies. ford thought that ceramic types were constructs of the archaeologist, and spaulding that the things we find exist to be found in the first place because they were real cultural categories. it wasn't really resolved, and both are right in a way, but i would think in the present day more people would side with ford in an acklowedgment of the subjectivities of experience.
Can someone share the link that some anon posted a while ago, it contained a lot of books for learning languages by yourself.
google.com
>>8694403
ok, ahhhh it was a document a drive document, please guys i promise to saved it and never asked again
>>8694387
bumping
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How exactly should Carroll be treated in a critical sense? Alice in Wonderland is children's lit, so what makes it important as real nigga literature
Shut uplike a telescope
>>8694341
> Alice in Wonderland is children's lit
No, not anymore.
>>8694391
I think it was always too dismissive tol abel it children's literature. Maybe lit that could be read by a child, but Alice is thoroughly enjoyable as an adult in a way other chidlit isn't
Best/worst novel of king
>>8694338
FUCK YOU LEATHERMAN
>>8694338
who?
>>8694338
Was there ever a good one?
Decided im gonna use my spare time to write.
Figure i could come to /lit/ for suggestions.
Should i write a book and try to get it published? Start with short stories?
Where did you start and was it a good place to?
Art like pic related always has me thinking about a backstory or an explanation but i never can convince myself to put it down on paper or if i do i can never do it in a way that i don't think turns out retarded so i just scrap it. to this day ive gotten a paragraph or two saved in a random spot on my hard drive that i never plan to look at again.
But now ive got the will to actually create a body of work so give me tips.
Reply pls im trying to be the next shakespeare here
>>8694200
>rt like pic related always has me thinking about a backstory or an explanation but i never can convince myself to put it down on paper or if i do i can never do it in a way that i don't think turns out retarded so i just scrap it. to this day ive gotten a paragraph or two saved in a random spot on my hard drive that i never plan to look at again.
read about ekphrastic works, and try some out. they're super fun.
>>8694206
Ekphrastic poems dont really appeal to me as most of them dont have any sort of plot.
As a writer i want to focus on plot and worldbuilding. Thats why i get so inspired by interesting but unexplained art and photos.
The picture was framed to focus on the brother's kite and she is being used to guide the eye of the view to the kite. I don't know anything about the red smoke in the sky.
Why being self-referential means work is post-modern? Those concepts are old as literature itself - Arystophanes, Cervantes, Rabelais, Sterne
>>8694169
its the glut of the self you mong
read more Lennitz and Foals
>>8694169
people call Cervantes and Sterne postmodernist all the damn time which is all you need to know about what a fucking useless label it is.
>>8694169
It doesn't but its the one of the only easy ways of showing plebs a sort of common post-modern trope so they cling to it
How can one man be so based?
>>8694148
yeah weird he never left Argentina. He was really based there.
>>8694159
He was everything
>>8694148
>yorge borge
>good
What is your opinion of the work of Hemingway?
I loved For Whom The Bell Tolls but I haven't read anything else by him
Hemingway?
More like HIM IS GAY! amirite
I loved The Sun Also Rises but I haven't read anything else by him
How's thatfanfictiongoing?
>>8694064
I gave up. It was stupid to do a big post-modern literary thing for a cartoon.
>>8694078
Don't give up, anon. The internet loves that shit.
I was talking to a fat man who told me he learned to read russian because he likes russian fantasy and tolkien is open source there so there's alot of LotR fan-fic but he insisted it was pastiche and not fan-fic and I was like okay there bud
>>8694095
>internet loves that shit.
Nah, I submitted stuff like it before and they don't like it. And I can't do frappuccino slice of lice stuff so fuck it.
Recently I started getting into philosophy, and this is one interesting problem I came across while reading about Plato.
In Republic, he describes the four levels of knowledge / the intelligible and visible worlds with his "divided line" analogy. The problem with the line is the question that Plato doesn't address, of the larger and smaller sections at the ends. Which does belong to the ideas and which to the shadows? My professor drew the line and assigned the shorter end to the ideas, but on the internet people seem to do the opposite, so now I'd really like to hear some solutions and explanations to this problem.
>>8694025
I dont now Platos reason for making the size of space between divisions different. It certainly is not precise. Unless... He was suggesting the final depicted intellectual realm, contains the first two divisions?
I first wanted to think the intellectual realm is larger, in the sense of, that which has separated humans from animals is for starters and at least, our ability to complexly think and perform ideas in our mind,
the visible realm is required for this, but, so, was he trying to suggest there is more information possible in the intellectual realm than the visible? I dont know how you would go about testing or thinking or quantifying that? Counting up the atoms on earth? Or sensible objects?
Then counting up the possible intellectual ideas?
Or if his line distinction was just to represent, this intellectual realm is bigly important, because it what allows us to be not just animals enslaved to only the visible realm.
I'm not sure what you're asking so explain your question like I'm a dog.
>>8694164
Visible Realm: Opinion - A. Eikasia - imagination / B. Pistis - In Greek mythology, Pistis was the personification of good faith, trust and reliability. Intellectual Realm: Knowledge - / C. Dianoia - a type of thinking, specifically about mathematical and technical subjects / D. Noesis - the exercise of reason, esp in the apprehension of universal forms.
OP asked of imagination (Eikasia) and the exercise of reason (Noesis), which belongs to the ideas and which belongs to the shadows.