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My crush gave me this book.
What am i in for?
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>>8583920
Just let him fuck your ass, homo
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I'm sure it's fine.
Though his comics are what he's really known for.
Check out his run on Swamp Thing, or MiracleMan instead.
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2 and a half months after starting it, I've just finished this book. Can I join your secret club now /lit/?
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>2 and a half months
pleb alert.
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the club is for people who pretend to have read it
if you actually read it, you're prementantly banned from the club
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What'd you think about it?
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Is poetry objectively more capable of portraying sublime beauty than prose?
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>>8583802
Yeah, because it can be shown though prosody rather than just using metaphors and shit that can be done in prose too.
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Prose is more capable. Poetry is loose thoughts, fragments of ideas. Prose carries the weight of context behind it to give it more power. I think it is harder to write moving prose than moving poetry.
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>>8583802
it's not a competition
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Hack
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He's better than Pound and Crane.
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>>8583786
You misspelt genius
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>>8583804
Pound maybe, but Crane? C'mon son
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This book is an exercise in tedium
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I don't know if it is because of the translation but the writing is just so cluttered. Especially the narrator, he fucking keeps repeating things over and over in such "subconscious" way, in a manner of speaking that it just ticks me off. Subconscious as in it's not apparent at first but the further you get in the book the more it bugs you. I couldn't read the book because of that.
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>>8583778
You don't even know what you're talking about.
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Thank you for this book report, Davey, and thank you for trying.
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>>8585366
fuck
>Have incredible story idea in my head
>Can't decide if I want to make into a novel, webcomic, visual novel, animation or videogame
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>Story
You already failed
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>>8583757
Do it all
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>>8583757
If you are worrying about your medium, you probably have a very, very inept story idea
What makes people think this book is so good? I'm about 200 pages in, and though I admire Tolstoy's observational skills, and his way of creating very realistic scenes, there's not much else of merit that I can find in the book. Why do people say Tolstoy is up there with Shakespeare? His command of prose isn't even all that incredible, besides the convincing way he describes things. Though he makes the characters very lifelike, I can't help but think that there is a missing dimension to them. Shakespeare is a much greater character builder because his characters seemed to have an much deeper inner life, while Tolstoy seems to concentrate a lot on the exterior and most basic of emotions. I'm reading the Maude translation, not pic related.
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>>8583744
Russian lit characterization comes more from the philosophy they represent and their ideals. English lit characterization is more on reactions to other characters actions or events.
Also, never forget that a lot of the prose is lost in translation.
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>>8583744
>page 200 of a 1200+ page book
you're literally still in the exposition.
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>>8583744
We literally had a long thread on this last week. Try and check the archives before posting this shit everyday.
What makes people think this book is so good? I'm about 200 pages in, and though I admire Tolstoy's observational skills, and his way of creating very realistic scenes, there's not much else of merit that I can find in the book. Why do people say Tolstoy is up there with Shakespeare? His command of prose isn't even all that incredible, besides the convincing way he describes things. Though he makes the characters very lifelike, I can't help but think that there is a missing dimension to them. Can someone help explain this dude to me because I'm sure my opinion doesn't outweigh the much more informed opinion of scholars. I'm reading the Maude translation, not pic related.
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Finish it first. Then form your shitty opinions
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>>8583734
Who compared Tolstoy to Shakespeare? I've read War and Peace and most of Shakespeare's plays and unless you're rating art purely from the "morals" it conveys than no, in every single way Shakespeare is a better writer, though Tolstoy is great.
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>>8583756
>in every single way
Harold, man. You gotta stop this shit
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Name the philosphers, starting from top left and going to bottom right horizontally.
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>>8583706
Top from Left to Right
1. Simmel
2. Bloch
3. Hutcheson
4. Foucault
5. Hempel
Bottom From Left to Right
1. Adorno
2. Cioran
3. Nietzsche
4. Derrida
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Rossue, not sure, not sure, camus, diogenes/cynics, neetstache, schopschop, hobbes, objectivists/bill nye
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What?
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what's the font?
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>>8583645
first you have to tell us what your tattoo is going to say
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>>8583665
It's not for a tattoo.
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Something in imitation of uncials? What even is the middle letter(s)?
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>tfw you see a story with the exact same plot as yours, down to a T and having decent commercial success
I don't even care anymore. Just fucking end me now. All those months of hard work wasted.
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have better ideas then
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>tfw you came up with your own philosophy at 15, then learn about Nietzsche when you became 17, and realized he came up with your philosophy over a hundred years before you. Goddamnit.
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>>8583605
>implying my brain functions well enough to create good ideas
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ITT: Good horror books for October
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>>8583504
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>>8583504
No suggestions?
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>>8583504
The Ruins is perfectly good.
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How can anyone even compete?
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>>8583475
Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Homer, Dante , Chaucer and Chekhov are all superior.
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Why the long face?
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>>8583475
By writing better books, like so many have done
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>“From so much self-revising, I’ve destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I’m now my thoughts and not I”
What did he mean by this
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>>8583419
Trying to 'fix' tiny bits of his self he changed so much that he became something other than himself, and that's not the goal he had.
The same for thinking. Constant rumination upon his nature and problems made that state chronic. He basically overthought his life and left no room for actual living.
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>>8583456
thinking is same kind of living as doing anything else in life. 'actual living' is a just a no true scotsman fallacy
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>>8583848
Except I didn't mean what you are implying I meant.
How can you stay sane if all you do is think about something obsessively? It's like when you are so obsessed with what the others think of you: you lose track of your real self, you can't live your own life the way you want; you're always restrained by your anxiety because you're always thinking about what others will say. That kind of thinking is technically living, but rather sad living if you ask me.
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What are books similar to Serial Experiments Lain?
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childhood's end kinda
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>>8583401
and you should try posting this on lainchan
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The New Testament.