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lets go lads
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>>8323650
be harsh first time
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>>8323655
oops
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What books does your cute, sensitive, artistic girlfriend read /lit/?
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>>8323328
Women are worthless and can't appreciate art because they are borderline braindead.
They are worthless whores and anyone who claims they have an artistic gf on here is a feminist posing as a man
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>>8323328
Don't talk to me about women. I wish I could be done with the lot of them. Most of all the one I bound myself to in matrimonial servitude.
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>you are a celebrity
>they approach you for a literacy propaganda poster
What do you select for the photoshoot?
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Ficciones
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The Genesis and Structure of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
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I want to think better and understand people/life better etc, etc, so I went with the meme and am starting with the greeks. I just finished pic related. Breddy gud. What now?
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>>8322363
start with the greeks
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>>8322363
also,
>reading university copy
>no markups until book 7, which starts with the allegory of the cave
>stars and underlining everywhere in first couple pages
>written in the margin: "Blinded by the truth/reality. We trust the media now more than what we see with our own eyes."
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>he didn't start with the Epic of Gilgamesh
HAW HAW
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The Winds of Winter speculation 2016-07-25 14:07:56 Post No.8319526
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The Winds of Winter speculation
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What plotlines and arcs are you most looking forward to?
Any theories you picked up on reading the earlier books that you think will play out in the next book?
Have you been reading the released sample chapters?
Where do you think characters will end up by the end of the book? Who do you think is going to die before it ends?
When do you think the book will finally be released?
Also, general ASOIAF discussion for those of you on /lit/ who don't mind genre fiction.
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I dont think most people on /lit/ are serious about hating Genre fiction. But whenever they say something about GOT being shit, they're right. Do yourself a favor and stop eating shit.
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>>8319563
No, it very much is a meme.
/lit/'s hate stems from:
>the series being made popular from the shitty show
>GRRM's lacking prose form
>Claiming that the story is entirely ripped off history and other books
I can vaguely understand the first argument in a contrarian kind of way, sort of understand the second if that is truly important to you in the books you read, but the third argument is a false one. GRRM has taken lots of inspiration from history, of course. It's the love child of historical fiction and high fantasy after all. But the parallels are never one-to-one matchups- he takes inspiration and plays with it, and takes his own version of it to keep things interesting and new.
The things ASOIAF readers like are the story, the worldbuilding, and the depth of the characters. Things like mysteries, intrigue, histories and lore, the occult and magic, commentary on things like war, feudalism, justice, the right to rule, feminism, vengeance and violence, family relationships, love and duty, amongst other things are also interesting and compelling in the story.
It's a simple question of whether that's for you or not. To ASOIAF fans, it is. To a lot of /lit/, it isn't. I don't mind that, of course, I'm only concerned for those who fell for the meme instead of actually having an independent thought of their own.
Besides, ASOIAF is not GOT.
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>>8319526
I am mostly curious about Val, Littlefinger and Euron. The Pink letter reveal should be a lot better than in the series too I bet.
Hopefully he releases it by the end of the year.
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Greentext the plot of your new novel 2016-07-24 23:22:59 Post No.8317454
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Greentext the plot of your new novel
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It's not like it's going anywhere anyway
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>plot
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>>8317454
>a man goes on a walk
>suddenly a storm breaks out and lightning strikes down right in front of him
>a future version of himself steps out of the smoke
>RICK IF YOU WANT TO LIVE REMEMBER SEPT 5 1877
>future rick disappears
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>>8317471
Sounds a bit too cliche to be honest family.
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Recommendations:
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/r688cPe.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg/
Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg/
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg/
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ugh what a shitty genre
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Any other books except BotNS in which people refer to space rockets as towers or in which obvious space vessels are considered normal buildings?
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>>8316771
>>Sci-Fi
>No Lord of Light
Dude c'mon. You put Zelazny's Amber Cronicles in your fantasy list but miss his best sci-fi?
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write what's on your mind
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The opening riff from the song "Ride On Shooting Star" by Japanese alternative rock group The Pillows.
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>>8312108
what's on your mind
:^)
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>>8312108
Getting married was a mistake. I should have lived out my passions first. Now I'm tied down with responsibilities to another person. I have spooked myself and I can't take it back without destroying the life of another.
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What books are you plebs reading?
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Your diary desu
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>>8312000
Awful choice.
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>>8311989
Portrait
Loving Joyce's style so far.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V8Ub4XU-61aQ6xE2kzgrai3kpp5ffknnudPg-CG6XeQ/edit
its been 2 years since we started TLOTIAT and 1 year since we started Hypersphere, lets go for a hat trick. i wrote a terrible placeholder intro to get people started.
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Fairly good so far
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What kind of material would be preferred?
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Is this really us? Come on! We’re wave riders.
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So what happened to the 'Melancholy of the defective pixel' guy?
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Has he posted recently?
I know who you're talking about, I remember him posting like one or maybe even two years ago now.
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>>8327852
I have no idea.
Took a little break from both writing and /lit/ itself, came back here and realized that I haven't heard about him nor e.g. Kolsti for ages.
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What were your favourite books you remember reading as a kid? 2016-07-27 17:47:25 Post No.8327802
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What were your favourite books you remember reading as a kid?
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Aside from Harry Potter mine are probably either Holes or The Indian in the Cupboard.
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>>8327802
Holes was awesome as a kid. I probably read it 5 or 6 times.
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Can /lit/ recommend academic books about life in the ancient kingdom of israel and its surroundings?
I want to understand exactly how people lived back then.
Extra points for academic books talking about the unique parts of the life in that place, comparing it to others.
I really want to know and feel what it was like living there back then. At least as much as is possible from what we know.
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>>8327687
/his/ might help you with that
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What's your favorite Arthurian book?
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the once and future king
them
le morte
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The Antidoted Fanfreluches: or, a Galimatia of extravagant Conceits found in an ancient Monument 2016-07-27 15:18:10 Post No.8327403
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Can anyone on /lit/ gloss/interpret this poem for me? I understand some but not all. Maybe together we can figure it out.
No sooner did the Cymbrians' overcomer
Pass through the air to shun the dew of summer,
But at his coming straight great tubs were fill'd,
With pure fresh butter down in showers distill'd:
Wherewith when water'd was his grandam,
Hey, Aloud he cried, Fish it, sir, I pray y';
Because his beard is almost all beray'd;
Or, that he would hold to 'm a scale, he pray'd.
To lick his slipper, some told was much better,
Than to gain pardons, and the merit greater.
In th' interim a crafty chuff approaches,
From the depth issued, where they fish for roaches;
Who said, Good sirs, some of them let us save,
The eel is here, and in this hollow cave
You'll find, if that our looks on it demur,
A great waste in the bottom of his fur.
To read this chapter when he did begin,
Nothing but a calf's horns were found therein;
I feel, quoth he, the mitre which doth hold
My head so chill, it makes my brains take cold.
Being with the perfume of a turnip warm'd,
To stay by chimney hearths himself he arm'd,
Provided that a new thill-horse they made
Of every person of a hair-brain'd head.
They talked of the bunghole of Saint Knowles,
Of Gilbathar and thousand other holes,
If they might be reduced t' a scarry stuff,
Such as might not be subject to the cough:
Since ev'ry man unseemly did it find,
To see them gaping thus at ev'ry wind:
For, if perhaps they handsomely were closed,
For pledges they to men might be exposed.
In this arrest by Hercules the raven
Was flayed at her return from Lybia haven.
Why am not I, said Minos, there invited?
Unless it be myself, not one's omitted:
And then it is their mind, I do no more
Of frogs and oysters send them any store:
In case they spare my life and prove but civil,
I give their sale of distaffs to the devil.
To quell him comes Q.B., who limping frets
At the safe pass of tricksy crackarets:
The boulter, the grand Cyclops' cousin, those
Did massacre, whilst each one wiped his nose:
Few ingles in this fallow ground are bred,
But on a tanner's mill are winnowed.
Run thither all of you, th' alarms sound clear,
You shall have more than you had the last year.
Short while thereafter was the bird of Jove
Resolved to speak, though dismal it should prove;
Yet was afraid, when he saw them in ire,
They should o'erthrow quite flat down dead th' empire.
He rather choosed the fire from heaven to steal,
To boats where were red herrings put to sale;
Than to be calm 'gainst those, who strive to brave us,
And to the Massorets' fond words enslave us.
All this at last concluded gallantly,
In spite of Ate and her hern-like thigh,
Who, sitting, saw Penthesilea ta'en,
In her old age, for a cress-selling quean.
Each one cried out, Thou filthy collier toad,
Doth it become thee to be found abroad?
Thou hast the Roman standard filch'd away,
Which they in rags of parchment did display.
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Juno was born, who, under the rainbow,
Was a-bird-catching with her duck below:
When her with such a grievous trick they plied
That she had almost been bethwacked by it.
The bargain was, that, of that throatful, she
Should of Proserpina have two eggs free;
And if that she thereafter should be found,
She to a hawthorn hill should be fast bound.
Seven months thereafter, lacking twenty-two,
He, that of old did Carthage town undo,
Did bravely midst them all himself advance,
Requiring of them his inheritance;
Although they justly made up the division,
According to the shoe-welt-law's decision,
By distributing store of brews and beef
To these poor fellows that did pen the brief.
But th' year will come, sign of a Turkish bow,
Five spindles yarn'd, and three pot-bottoms too,
Wherein of a discourteous king the dock
Shall pepper'd be under an hermit's frock.
Ah! that for one she hypocrite you must
Permit so many acres to be lost!
Cease, cease, this vizard may become another,
Withdraw yourselves unto the serpent's brother.
'Tis in times past, that he who is shall reign
With his good friends in peace now and again.
No rash nor heady prince shall then rule crave,
Each good will its arbitrement shall have;
And the joy, promised of old as doom
To the heaven's guests, shall in its beacon come.
Then shall the breeding mares, that benumb'd were,
Like royal palfreys ride triumphant there.
And this continue shall from time to time,
Till Mars be fetter'd for an unknown crime;
Then shall one come, who others will surpass,
Delightful, pleasing, matchless, full of grace.
Cheer up your hearts, approach to this repast,
All trusty friends of mine; for he's deceased,
Who would not for a world return again,
So highly shall time past be cried up then.
He who was made of wax shall lodge each member
Close by the hinges of a block of timber.
We then no more shall Master, master, whoot,
The swagger, who th' alarum bell holds out;
Could one seize on the dagger which he bears,
Heads would be free from tingling in the ears,
To baffle the whole storehouse of abuses.
And thus farewell Apollo and the Muses.