Hey /lit/,
So here's the deal, I'm a uni student and I got mad blazed before realising that I have an editing assignment due.
Can any of you brilliant minds with an incredible handle on english see any mistakes that I may have missed?
The differences between the twins, who were separated at birth and raised in two different countries in very different circumstances, are certainly surprising. Each child requires a lot of attention from their guardians, and neither of them enjoys school. However, the subject that is the most interesting to the researchers in that it demonstrates the significance of nurture in shaping one's attitude to their environment, is the behaviour that the two children exhibit towards authority in both school and at home- neither Daisy or Antonetta were prepared to be removed from their guardians or their classroom. When Daisy was separated from her mother due to a school camp, which occurred just after her mother's birthday, it affected their relationship deeply. She couldn't wait until she got home- she spent a lot of time inquiring about when this would occur. As research began when the children were only five, the years of their short lives were marked by considerable intervention from both the education and welfare system. When Daisy gave a hair-raising performance in her school play, the audience failed to applaud. They were horrified by her improvised simulation of a grizzly murder- the first thing that she saw from her place on the stage were their petrified faces. One of the twins rides to school every day, and always terrifies pedestrians and law enforcement agents with her antics. When a collection of stolen items were found in Antonetta's schoolbag, she confessed to her adoptive mother that neither of the books, or the DVD, was hers. Daisy is one of only a couple of girls in her school who play soccer. Though her style is unconventional, every team that she has been a member of since primary school- the under 12's, under 15's and Talton Women's team, has won the finals.
BTW Bukowski sux and Tennyson is the height of classic poetry. Help me pls.
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Tennyson?
Fuck off. Fail for all I care.
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>>8460342
say what you will, I think it's pretty impressive that somebody who couldn't read pulled that shit off
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so I guess you're in the friday class.
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To those of you who have finished Infinite Jest (however few there may be), what do you make of this interpretation of the "ending"?
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/ijendmfw that was written by aaron swartz
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>>8460318
To me the message is that the end is just the beginning
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>>8460336
The first chapter definitely happens at the end chronologically, but what does that signify
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>>8460318
I don't agree with the part about those things all taking place after the ending. I think Gately already lost his sense of time by the part where he "dreamt" he was with Hal at JOI's grave (meaning that actually happened when he thought he was dreaming) and the part at the very end of the book was him having a dying flashback to the thing with C and that friend of his after they'd gotten back from there and he was taken to the hospital again.
What are some good happy books?
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Why do I relate to gondola on such a deep level
What the fuck is gondola
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>>8460217
From sickness unto death
>>8460247
Gondola's cute, unassuming features manage to communicate to the innocence we all wish we still had. His prominence in 'comfy' styled art further enforces this. He is at once astounding and relatable
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>>8460247
it's an empty vessel that projects a certain melancholy and is fit to capture your emotions
i remember that time when i felt like i could REALLY relate to feels man, beyond anything i had ever felt for another human
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>freshman in college, want to become more /lit/erary
>decide to go to first meeting of school book club
>full of blue-haired harry potter fans
>the only books they read have movie adaptations
>the meetings are just watching the movies
is /lit/ just a countermeme?
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Young adults are just a plebby demographic
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>>8460084
Don't go to school book clubs. Even uni ones dedicated to literature courses are full of dumb fucks who love John Green and JK. Do your own research, thrive on independence.
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>>8460932
We made a book club at my Uni (and we were mathematics' students) and it was quite patrician: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Dick, Oe, Boris Vian, Kafka, Dostoievski, Sepulveda, Kawabata...
I guess the point is making the book club with the people you know is not shit. It's true that other "official" book clubs of the Uni were shit (or too involved in things we didn't care, like the shitty dialect that is spoken at our city).
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Illustrated book of fairy tales about bros
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Hey all, I wrote a illustrated book of satirical fairy tales about bros called BroTales: Fairy Tales for Bros. It features stories like Swole White and the Seven Pledges, The Giving Bro and Oh the Places You'll Bro.
I'd love to know what you think of the concept: http://Brotales.lol/kickstarter
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>>8460053
the world would be a better place if you killed yourself. im not even kidding
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>>8460060
this
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>a illustrated
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Can you be an awesome writer and still have wrong opinions?
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Yeah if Pedokov can make peddlefeelya beautiful. Provided you though first and foremost an awesome writer.
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>nothing happens: the book
I do not understand how people could believe this is better than War and Peace.
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>war
>and peace
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I do not understand how people can believe anything by Tolstoy is better than Dostoyevsky's best works.
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>>8459963
You don't understand why anyone would prefer anything else over a cheap and vulgar sensationalist?
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Are there any rappers whose lyrics have literary value?
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It's literally the same question as "does david foster wallace have any discernible talent?"
The answer to both is no
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>>8459943
/thread
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Not sure. Whats this rapping music?
Monkeys postioning themselfes in the trees?
>he cant listen to music while reading
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>he listens to music while "reading"
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Listening to music while reading shows a lack of appreciation for both media
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>>8459928
Is it even possible to read without listening to music? It's so distracting otherwise
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How come Ebola was so popular with fascists when he was an edgy India-obsessed gay hippie on LSD? Same goes for Mishima who was a literal faggot on steroids. Does this parallel the modern alt right obsession with gays and invalids like Milo, Millennial Woes and Adam Wallace?
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>>8459921
Because (wow) people who are obsessed with fascism overseen by a strong masculine father-figure and with overly masculinized gender roles are fucking homos.
http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/h/hitler-adolf/oss-papers/text/oss-profile-05-07.html
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>>8459945
Isn't that a well known shit smearing propaganda website?
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>>8459945
>tfw no abusive straight fascist bf to fugg my trap boipuss
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I love surrealisn. Paintings. Books ( 'Nadia', André Breton)
How would you regard Beckett in terms of those
I know his not. are there any correlations?
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>knowing Beckett's not
I don't know what to say
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>>8459802
Not exactly except perhaps on the most superficial level. Superficially, not even that much. His earlier novels (Murphy, Watt, Mercier & Camier) are absurdist, somewhat picaresque novels that show a very pessimistic Schopenhauerian attitude towards life, very funny, and somewhat Joycean, actually caring about allusions and poetic prose style, but never that surrealist.
His famous Molloy trilogy is concerned with complete minimalism, taking away the dictates of characterization, plot, prose style, allusions and themes to the utmost level, having pretty much nothing happen and nothing be certain. Molloy is the concretest, funniest, and closest to his earlier novels, Malone Dies and The Unnamable seem to be monologues by dying men/a single dying man with random stories narrated by them that probably never happened.
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>>8459846
Im thinking, when nothing happens, its implying the viewer/reader take part of understanding, therefore being part of the work?
Sorry noob here.
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Where do I start when writing an autobiography?
Do I just divide my life into sections?
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why the fuck would you write an autobiography
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>>8459685
For fun.
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>>8459692
It depends on whether you want it to be comprehensive or entertaining.
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ITT: Terrible books you've had to read
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>>8459655
Who the fuck are those two fags in the canoe?
Huckleberry Finn isn't shit either.
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>>8459688
>Huckleberry Finn isn't shit either.
if you like seeing the word 'nigger' in print, (and let's face it, who doesn't?) it's an all time classic
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ITT: words that pseuds use
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>prose
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>pseuds
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Who wrote ' The incredible shrinking man'?
Or was it a Hollywood script?
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>>8459622
it's just a dude that shrinks to be real small
holywood scripts are also written by people they don't drop from the sky
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>>8459627
I seems te remember I read it, some novel.
I know whats its about
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>>8459636
you literally just have to type the movie's title into google and look at wikipedia stop being stupid