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Why does he look like slightly sinister, and what can I expect from his works?
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>>8441693
He's great. It's like reading a stream of consciousness in beautifully legible Victorian prose.
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He has a very particular style. No one writes sentences the way he does. They're very arduous and it can take a while to make sense of them.
When we read a James novel in my 19th cent Brit lit grad course more than half of the class of otherwise educated people with good tastes hated him.
I think what he does is a lot of fun and maybe even profound, though.
He's a love/hate kind of writer.
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>Turn of the Screw
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AND PORTRAIT OF A LADY MADE ME CRY
Are literary agents necessary anymore? Hasnt self publishing destroyed that whole (((industry)))?
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>>8441684
Yes. Maybe 0.05% of all self-published writers make even close to what you get if you're actually published.
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>>8441694
And that 0,05% is mostly garbage that has massive appeal.
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>>8441694
I don't think that's true though, I think it's something like 40% of the amazon top sellers are self-published.
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How in the actual fuck does someone write a love story/prose/poem that doesn't sound overtly cringe-worthy?
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It's only cringe to those who haven't felt it themselves
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>>8441663
If you're in love you don't care if it sounds cringe, it's about expressing what you feel. If it doesn't make you want to barf when you reread it after you break up you failed at your job
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Hey /lit/, I've been reading Le Morte d'Arthure recently.
As I was reading I happened upon the word "raundom". It's in the context "and they lowered their spears with much raundom".
I had several theories on what it means, but nothing solid as dictionaries and the internet are no help. I tried translating from both Latin and French, but found nothing.
Any ideas?
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Excuse the pic from Tumblr, I found it on Facebook an forgot to crop it
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>>8441652
>I found it on Facebook
You say this as if it is not just as bad.
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>>8441668
I know but I needed a picture ad that was the first thing that showed up
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Are there any mods on here?
Whats up with the porn thread, thought this was a sfw board.
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Report and hide.
But don't make meta threads
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Its just unreal, theres a blacked photo and a fucning naked boy with a bone in his mouth. Can i be a mod here?? Ill clean up
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How do u hide threads?
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Get spooky, boys.
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Can "spooks" itself become a spook?
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Whats spook actually mean?
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>>8441642
Boo
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AHAHA BRUH look at this dude.... LOOK AT THE TOP OF HIS HEAD
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Why is it objectionable to be a racist and not a plain old misanthrope?
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>shut the fuck up christofah
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Хaхaхa cвятoe дepьмo
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Post unknown very interesting books.
I'm reading "The Jewish crooks in Germany, their tactics, their ways and their language" a very interesting book from 1842, I don't think there's a translation.
http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/freimann/content/titleinfo/4568129
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Es sieht interresant an, Ich werds mal lesen.
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>>8441618
Das ist kein deutsch, digga.
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shut up /pol/
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after invisible man and beloved, you do not need to read any other texts about the black american struggle or slavery
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You might not NEED to, but to kill a mockingbird is fun.
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>>8441533
Very false.
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>>8441563
Yet you declined to prove him wrong.
Was the governess hysterical or quint actually haunting?
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>>8441473
I just took a fat dump and didn't wipe before heading back to bead
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James's preface in his New York edition don't indicate he meant this as anything but a conventional ghost story. But he probably realized the story works better if you can never know for certain, because both possibilities are pretty horrible.
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>>8441473
The only book I've left unfinished in my life.
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Let's be clear here: Ciardi's, Mandelbaum's, and Musa's translation of the Divine Comedy are all awful. Dreadful. And even those terms are too poetic. They are trash as far as poetry goes, they're worthless. If your translation is going to be trash as poetry, it might as well be ultra literal (like Longfellow's translation). But if you aren't going to write an autistically literal translation, there is NO excuse for it being bad poetry. Pinksy's and Cary's translations are at least decent poetry, although far from great, but the three first mentioned are dumpster-tier.
I know Dante is very difficult to translate, and by that I mean impossible, since his poetry is perfectly economical (unlike, say, Homer's, which employs a lot of stock phrases and long description--not because it's bad, but just because Homer's culture and style is that, and he employs it to poetic effect on par with Dante's skill). Dante;s rhythm is completely inaccessible in English (so is Homer's in that he uses quantitative verse, but you can give a very good qualitative approximation of Homer's rhythm, as Rodney Merrill does). Nonetheless, that does not excuse the atrocious translations of Ciardi, Mandelbaum, and Musa.
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>>8441351
So what is the best translation? I know you said its untranslatable, and I won't debate that because I speak no Italian, but is there one that is less shit in your opinion?
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>>8441421
Pinsky's or Cary's. Longfellow if you want a reference to see pretty much what Dante wrote word-for-word, even following (tortuously at times), the syntax.
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Does anyone experience depression during summer? It's nearing the season's end here, but for the first time I am feeling stranded for no particular reason and I believe it's due to the summer.
Sob, it's hot, wah it's bright but it really fucks with me. I just got done reading through a big book that took me months, and I jumped right into another one that I am loving but can't seem to get myself to read these past few days because the light seems inescapable and it's only dark for 3-4 hours. Anyone else experience a similar discomfort with reading during this time of the season?
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>>8441346
congratulations you've found a way to complain about having too much light to read.
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>>8441346
My depression sets in in early July and doesn't relent until spring. Spring is a time of mania and beauty for me, the rest of the year is a write off where I attempt not to end in jail or homeless from outbursts of violence and general listlessness. This spring was particularly amazing and so the summer has been correspondingly very hard, and I have done some very bad things, but I think I am leveling out to a kind of more apathetic depression, which is a relief.
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>>8441346
>Seasonal depression
Kek, what are you, gay? A true intellectual (like myself) is depressed all year 'round.
A sorrow which does not stop for swirling snow or scorching sun, like a postman.
Ah, what a burden to bear! WOE IS ME.
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Anybody else read the book World War: In The Balance?
I fucking love books like these. Its about an extraterristrial reptilian race invading earth during the height of WW2. Anybody got books similar to this.
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What the fuck is up with all the lizardmen posting recently?
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>>8441335
This is my first post on /lit/ so I have no fucking idea what you are talking about.
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>>8441342
Can you /x/ faggots stop migrating and shitting this board up? It's already bad enough from /pol/, /mu/, reddit, and summerfags.
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What was the last Cormac McCarthy book you read?
Currently finishing up The Road, the one I haven't read and it's pretty damn good so far.
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>>8441295
He ate the last of the eggs and wiped the plate with the tortilla and ate the tortilla and drank the last of the coffee and wiped his mouth and looked up and thanked her.
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>>8441303
I actually really like this sentence, its stream-of-consciousness is immersive if you're not too much of a pleb to allow it to be. flows nice.
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>>8441318
>its stream-of-consciousness
No, it's a description of a man eating a tortilla from a 3rd person perspective. And read it out loud, it does not flow at all.
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who /brown paper masterrace/ here
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>brown paper
>as it decays, it blanches to white
Who wants to help me patent this? I just need a chemical engineer. I'll give you 5% of the profits.
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Why would I want brown paper?
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>>8441268
Works for cheaper and doesn't complain too much about taking dirty jobs.