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New "Write What's on Your Mind" Thread 2016-08-16 12:51:24 Post No.8403673
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Cont'd from >>8391162
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Nice screenshot, faggot
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>>8403673
1999
Amidst the more acute months culminated of our sophomore high-school year, a social quarrel emerged between a trio of beloved pupils — a dispute that rendered the community torn when previously sewn of such their individual services and peer-obligated esquire. I was before the vacuous spectators peering the baste fold in arduous festival; center I engaged the creases of emotion and delusion, neglected of three. The information, only could I assemble, illustrated likewise the private null surrounding the worst of our sensibility: what occurred kinetic betwixt a communist, a humorist, and a feminist.
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>>8403673
Why haven't I talked to somebody for over a week? I have people I could talk to but I just don't know how to start a conversation anymore, I don't watch the same animes, I don't play the same games and I feel generally I don't have much in common with my friends anymore. Do I just force myself to consume stuff I'm not very interested in so I can be social again or what the fuck are you supposed to do lit?
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>tfw to strong to read
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>tfw too intelligent to enjoy literature
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>tfw dumb enough to enjoy and believe everything I read uncritically
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>>8403624
he probably read more than you
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so i most associate post-modernism with literature, but what films would you say are post modern?
im thinking at least synecdoche, new york and the truman show at least
is literature the most post-modern medium?
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
Rapture Adrenaline
Cabin in the Woods / Resolution
Most of Ben Russell's documentaries
Behemoth
Thousands of others, these are just a few I can name off the top of my head.
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>>8403619
cheers, thats a nice starter pack
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>>8403619
im checking out this guy russell's stuff, what aspects are pm?
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Epic Poems on Audiobook 2016-08-16 12:19:20 Post No.8403608
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Can /lit/ recommend any good audiobook/youtube recordings of the great epic poems? I'd like to find great versions of Gilgamesh, Homer, Virgil, Beowulf etc, ideally performed (not just "read") by an excellent storyteller. I really want to get a feeling for what it might have been like to experience these stories the way the ancients would have: by a masterful storyteller.
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I know that there's a reading of the Odyssey by Ian McKellan that's pretty comfy. I don't recall if he also did the Illiad.
The reading of Beowulf by Seamus Heaney (I think it's also on youtube though not sure) was also quite good.
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>>8403608
Thanks, bro. Mckellen's version of the Odyssey is on youtube as well, quite comfy sounding. That's exactly was I was looking for.
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Is every book worth of your time? 2016-08-16 12:17:53 Post No.8403606
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Is every book worth of your time?
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Ok, before you guys jump on my throath the points of this thread is to see some arguments, the pic is just to gather some attention and is also related to this thread.
So, is there such a thing as "a book that doesn't deserve to be read"? Or reading anything is aways better than read nothing?
In my opinion, and probably this will be the case for the vast majority of this board, I think life is too short to waste time on bad books, but how do you face an arguments like:
>"how can you know the book/author is bad if you never read it?"
how do you respond withouth a fallacy? Like saying "I don't need to prove hemlock to know it is poisonous"
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Time is limited, quality over quantity.
That said, if you're going to shit-talk a book you should have read it. It's one thing to say "I didn't think the book was worth reading." and another to go "That book is shit. The author is trash. I know because I read it on /lit/."
As for responding to that question, you probably shouldn't put yourself in the position. Why are you having an argument about the quality of a book you haven't read? The best rebuttal you have is the truth - "I only know what I've heard from opinions I trust." (and I presume you trust them if you're parroting their opinions).
I think every book deserves being given a chance, even if that chance is limited to reading a synopsis to determine whether it's up your alley. Nothing should be completely dismissed out of hand because someone told you it sucked.
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OP is a fag
lol corn
here's the attention your pic gathers, hope you're happy
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>>8403606
Schopenhauer quote here
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Out of these books, which should I read next? http://www.strawpoll.me/11004708 2016-08-16 12:02:25 Post No.8403590
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Out of these books, which should I read next? http://www.strawpoll.me/11004708
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Less Than Zero
No Longer Human
Lolita
Journey to the End of the Night
Neuromancer
East of Eden
Wuthering Heights
Steppenwolfe
Maldoror
Slaughterhouse Five
Coin Locker Babies
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Nadja
Junky
The Journal of Albion Moonlight
Confessions of a Mask
Moragavine
The Blind Owl
Brave New world
Hebdomeros
Babylon by Rene Crevel
Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel
Vote here http://www.strawpoll.me/11004708
Or if there's something that's not on here which you think is better than all of them, which is a mind fucky Serial Experiments Lain type surreal mind expanding fiction for people who want to really subvert their own consciousness, leave the name of it down below :)
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How do you honestly self bump this thread.
How can you really manage to tell yourself that this thread is worth anyone's fucking time.
I underestimate how lonely you people are. Do you come here to discuss books, or throw bookly words around but really just validate each other???
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>>8403799
lmao. I'm looking for a new book to read. I've tried reading nausea, notes from underground, and the passion according to g h, but those were too difficult. So I am trying to find a new book to read all the way through lmao omg dude seriously I am in such a horny mood this morning.
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>>8403836
Nausea is kind of hard to get through, I almost gave up on it after about 100 pages. I later picked it up again and finished reading it and I'm glad I did, it definitely gets better and there are some lines and thoughts in there which will stick with you
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Travelling is the normie equivalent to reading. A cheap attempt at gaining more social / cultural capital and portraying more worthiness and cultural understanding and open mindedness and intelligence than other less-instagram-curating people.
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Such is life in a neo-liberal corporatist society that values consumption more than production.
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tourist = pleb
flaneur = patrician
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>A cheap attempt
>cheap
Traveling isn't fucking cheap.
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Who /writerabroad/ here?
Anybody else here used airbnb to find a cheap apartment to rent and write in for a few months?
I'm currently packing my bags to go live in Fontgombault, France for six months in order to focus on completing my first novel.
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>>8403523
How much do you pay for it
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>>8403607
I pay 200 euros a month (225 dollars) including most utilities (I wanted faster internet which cost me 15 euros more. Groceries are cheap and there are so many elderly people here growing vegetables and fruit that I often get stuff left on my doorstep. It's a great life, honestly. Pretty distant from any major town and that feeling when no girlfriend, but other than that I spend my time cycling around, reading and writing.
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>>8403627
That's quite cheap, but how do you support yourself for such a long vacation.
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>Like, EW! Just because Im in a library doesnt mean I want to talk to someone!
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>S-sorry. People on the internet told me the library is a good place to make friends with similar interests... I-I'll go now.
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>>8403520
>*reading twitter on phones*
>Anon did WHAT? WHAT A CREEP TEEHEE!!!
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who talks in a library anyway? I go there to either
1: loan books
2: study in peace and quiet
both are ruined when people come talk to me
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Where was her right
Where was he wrong
Thoughts and criticism
better alternatives?
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>>8403473
shit haiku mate
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>>8403478
applies to the 20 miss us texts i got last night desu
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As with most pseudo-intellectuals they are only right by coincidence and wrong by default.
Did Plato write any homoerotica besides Charmides?
"Chaerephon called me and said: What do you think of him, Socrates? Has
he not a beautiful face? Most beautiful, I said. But you would think nothing of his face, he replied, if you could see his
naked form: he is absolutely perfect. And to this they all agreed.
[...]
He came as he was bidden, and sat down between Critias and me. Great
amusement was occasioned by every one pushing with might and main at
his neighbour in order to make a place for him next to themselves, until at
the two ends of the row one had to get up and the other was rolled over
sideways. Now my friend, was beginning to feel awkward; former bold belief
in my powers of conversing with him had vanished. And when Critias told
him that I was the person who had the cure, he looked at me in such an
indescribable manner, and was just going to ask a question. And at that
moment all the people in the palaestra crowded about us, and, O rare! I
caught a sight of the inwards of his garment, and took the flame. Then I
could no longer contain myself. I thought how well Cydias understood the
nature of love, when, in speaking of a fair youth, he warns some one "not to
bring the fawn in the sight of the lion to be devoured by him," for I felt that
I had been overcome by a sort of wild-beast appetite. But I controlled
myself, and when he asked me if I knew the cure of the headache, I
answered, but with an effort, that I did know."
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>>8403466
Symposium is probably the closest
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>>8403466
Lysis is pretty gay.
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>>8403466
Lysis is pretty fucking gayand pedophiliac
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Who /poverty/ here?
Anybody else here living in poverty in order to have the time and focus to write your novel?
Feels amazing
It's the same life lived by Raymond Carver, William S. Burroughs, Steinbeck, the list goes on.
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Not yet, but I'll be moving from the nice suburb I went to Junior High and High School in and down back to the shit part of town I grew up in. Basically Detroit but in the desert and with spics instead of niggers. Have to do it for economic reasons, as money is tough working a commission job.
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Moving to Paris in February for 4 months to live on a shoestring budget and read and write as much as I can. Pretty excited desu senpai
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>feels amazing
Fuck you
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Daily reminder Alexander Pope was 4'6" (1.37m) tall
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>>8403408
Still got more pussy than you ever will. Funny how that works.
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>>8403410
not hating i'm not a guy myself
i'm just saying it's amazing
he was such a little guy
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*not a big guy
also Keats was 5'0"
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What are some good scifi books that focus primarily on humanity's first steps in interstellar travel, colonization and discovering the unknown in a time where space flight is still dangerous? I.e. not some high-flying space opera bullshit.
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>>8403391
Lem's stories about Pilot Pirx.
also, >>>/sfg/
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Foundation Trilogy.
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>>8403504
That's not like what OP wants at all.
How does /lit/ deal with words you don't know? And before you say hurdur the dictionary, I ask this in broader sense. Do you keep a list then check them? Do you try to deduct the meaning from the context? Or do you go plain ol' ignorance is bliss style?
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I usually just try to deduct the meaning from the context, but it's a bad habit since it doesn't really expand one's vocabulary. That said, some words just stick in your mind long enough to look them up.
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>>8403374
I immediately pick up my phone and look it up, then continue reading.
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>mfw have an e-reader
>mfw I can mark words and instantly get an oxford dictionary definiton of it.
plebs