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>tfw rejected for publication again
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Who cares, as long as you enjoy writing.:^)
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>>8666591
I don't enjoy writing so much as I need to write. Same as other great men, how Einstein needed to do physics.
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>>8666891
subtle bait
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>Reddit.
Am I the only one who gets angry when they see shelves like this?
>Hardcovers.
>Covered with shitty knick knacks.
>99.9% YA fiction with disgusting covers.
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looks difficult to get to the books
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>>8666554
Those cases should be burned.
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I don't really take other people's homes personally. I assume my bookcases enrage you as well?
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Brothers Karamazov > Crime and Punishment > Demons > The Idiotfarts> Ulysses > Portrait > Dubliners
Misato > Asuka > Rei
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Hardboiled Wonderland > Kafka = Norweigan Wood > After Dark >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 1Q84
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Remove this filth.
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>>8666508
>tripfag disagreeing with me
Thank you for proving my tastes
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Why is this book the best book? 2016-10-28 02:43:56 Post No.8666439
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Why is this book the best book?
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I can't figure out why this book is so good. Is it good because everyone says its good? Does everyone say its good because its good? Who is everyone? Is good a useful descriptive adjective for literature? Why do I get this sensation that a giant Leopold Bloom is looming over my head staring at me, wearing glasses that hide his eyes?
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>>8666439
You never read this book.
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>>8666512
This.
I'm reading the book for class right now. My primary impression of Bloom is that he's a quiet, sort of shuffling man, a man who would make way for me without a thought as I was charging down the sidewalk, but as I passed he would notice me carefully.
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What edition of this book do you guys recommend most? I'm looking for a version with end/footnotes preferably.
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He's really not THAT bad. Is hating John Green just a /lit/ meme?
>"Eileen," her mother said. "Honey. You let the car roll in the lake. Nobody stole the car. I just got a call from Mrs. Wolstetter. You didn't set the emergency brake and you didn't put the car in Park. It rolled across the Wolstetters' lawn into the lake."
>"Park, Eileen?" Louis's voice was glassed-in and adenoidal.
>"The little 'P' on the far left? N for Neutral? P for Park?"
>"Louis," their mother said.
>"Or is it N for No and P for . . . Proceed? D for Desist?"
>After this trauma Eileen could no longer retain information about where Louis was or what he was doing.
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dude cereal lmao
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>>8666211
His prose is fine for YA but people hate him here because of his cuckold politics.
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>>8666211
This is from Franzen.
Do you get off on trolling prose critics?
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Anyone know a site where one can freely host a book? 2016-10-28 01:32:33 Post No.8666167
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Anyone know a site where one can freely host a book?
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No word limit, (no separate pages, unlimited scrolling)
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>>8666167
pastebin.com
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google docs
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>>8666167
Any others?
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Poor Richard's Almanac 2016-10-28 01:17:07 Post No.8666098
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Discuss
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Discus
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>tfw your kid's school makes you sign a permission slip so he can read Fahrenheit 451
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>not home schooling your kid
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>>8666087
>This book was challenged because of it's theme of the illegality and censorship of books
i wonder what ray bradbury would say about this twist
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Your kid's teacher gets your kid to write a permission slip as an exercise and a lesson in censorship.
Did you not even read it? Though it was easier to trust your knee-jerk reaction?
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couldnt find old one in catalog. below is part of a script; montage is supposed to be something like 'a day in the life of american energy.' Arrow is a fictional oil company.
EXT. SHALE GAS DRILLING RIG - DAY
Reflected off a shiny swirl of brackish wastewater, the rig operator's hard hat is emblazoned with the Arrow logo.
EXT. NATURAL GAS PIPELINE - DAY
An elevated pipeline snakes through a grassland canyon.
EXT. HYDROELECTRIC DAM - DAY
White water crashes through the underwater turbines, spilling out and settling in a rush toward the ocean.
EXT. OVERHEAD POWER LINE - DAY
Droning electric cables stretch from the dam's switchyard.
EXT. COMMERCIAL PORT - NIGHT
The sun sets on a berthed oil tanker unloading its cargo.
EXT. PETROLEUM REFINERY - NIGHT
A bright skyline of smoke stacks and catalytic reactors twinkle in the deep tanks of unprocessed crude.
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My try at an 18th Century-esque fantasy. Yes it is inspired by Harry Potter thank you very much.
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Give it all you got lads, I want your critiques.
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Aphantasic reporting in.
What am I supposed to feel when reading poetry and descriptions in novels? Do people really hallucinate while reading?
How much am I missing out if I can't form any kind of mental image?
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If I described it you wouldn't be able to imagine it desu
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>>8665977
Well, you can try.
What does happen when you read? Do you just start seeing images overlaying the page? Do you just close your eyes and see exactly what you were reading?
Is there even a point in reading descriptive passages if I can't really imagine them?
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Aphantasia isn't real, it's you overthinking things.
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i just reading schopo "the world as will and representation" ( i go for four hundred more or less, in a book of one thousand, so maybe i missing something important) i like the guy and appreciate his sincerity.
but it´s not too misterious his vision of Will?.. it´s not just the vain and simple meaning of "will" that we commonly use.
i mean... i feel like it can´t be really be demonstrate that his vision of will was something different of some religious jerk talking about we are childrens of god.
i know im totally wrong for somebody who really admire to schopo and his pedestal in phily. but for somebody who read it and can understand my question.
he give a religious meaning and the beyond time and space cliche to the word WILL?. because for somebody so harsh in some parts sounds too naif his believing in all this.
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gonna let you in on a little secret opif you want your question be answered stop using this dumbass picture
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>>8665926
Isn't will for Schopenhauer just "Desire" or "Want"?
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>>8665949
i doubt it. he go much deep with the concept. like the unnameable desire behind the desire or something like that.
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Can anyone ever really one-up Tolkien in terms of fantasy and lore? I feel like Tolkien is the genre's end-game, and to try to write something better would only be presumptuous.
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Tolkien is truly the first and last when it comes to high fantasy.
No other author has been able to make their fantasy world feel as if it has once truly existed and all the characters are real historical figures like Tolkien has.
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>>8665905
Tolkien isn't high fantasy but his is the best artificial mythology.
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What books should I read to get ready for my English Ph.D.? 2016-10-28 00:16:07 Post No.8665871
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What books should I read to get ready for my English Ph.D.?
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>Help an educated Black man out /lit/
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>getting ready for a PhD
>in October
nice try whiteposter, you can't fool me, good luck in college though, you could make something of yourself if you just pursued your passion instead of shitposting
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>>8665871
What do you want to focus on? American? British? Irish? Diaspora?
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>>8665883
World Literature is my focus.
How does one come up with a good title for a book?
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from what ive gathered you just scan shakespeare or the bible until you find something cool-sounding
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>>8665798
>http://www.bibledice.com/
>2 Timothy 4:4
>And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
>Turned Unto Fables
Pretty good.
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>(But this transparent thingum does require
>Some moondrop title. Help me, Will! Pale Fire.)
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>mfw britbongs pronounce it "dan-tee"
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>>8665679
>pronounces it to rhyme with 'paint'
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dahn-teh
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>>8665679
But we don't
> Dan-tay
with the first 'a' nasalised.