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Isn't it quite scary how the "dystopian" future in Fahrenheit 451 doesn't seem all that dystopian in our current year. Ray Bradbury talks about women having 3 husbands, 10 abortions meanwhile having no regret, or remorse at all, as if that would be so strange, but to us it isn't. To us it is a common phenomenon . Also how ideas are silenced and how political correctness has taken over the world where any form of criticism or opposing thought is banned. Not to be political or anything but the world in Fahrenheit 451 seems like a world where liberal establishment are taking us to.
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>>8324908
Tell me how "political correctness" has taken over the world when 70% of the United States (I'm assuming that you're just an upset, privileged 15 year old) sees it as a problem.
Also, what the fuck is the deal with the term "political correctness?" Do you realize that there are other words for it? Inoffensive, sensitive, considerate, etc
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>>8325066
>70% of the United States
Yea, no. Maybe on 4chan but not in the mass public eye.
almost all radio hosts, tv news broadcasts and newspaper editorials are beyond politically correct to the point where a lot of the media outlets in Europe weren't even reporting the name of the shooter in Orlando, The internet is the only refuge we still currently have for free speech and it seems like it is the next target for silencing. Even more so after all these bannings by twitter recently.
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>>8325104
>all these bannings by twitter recently.
Oh my god, how tragic
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Do you read audially or visually?
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Dialectically.
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Ethnically
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braille
Is 4chan a literary medium?
Discuss.
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I like a girl with a great big ass
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Australia is in overdrive.
Hahaha analytics btfo
Anglos btfo hahahaha
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>>8324891
Fake quote. This is just a modified version of a diffrent fake quote that was about how voters are stupid and that they would believe anything
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analytics dont get enough shit desu. Continentals are too busy with actual relevant philosophy i guess
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>>8324902
Wow, nothing gets past this guy!
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someone on /lit/ said that the literature board on reddit (/r/literature) wasn't too bad so I'm here to lodge an informal complaint
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>>8324889
They probably meant 'it isn't too bad compared with r/books'.
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>>8324889
How do you feel about /r/writing?
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“His verbal poetic texture is the greatest the world has ever known, and immensely superior to the structure of his plays as plays. It is the metaphor that is the thing, not the play.”
Nabokov
“Shakespeare seems to have regarded his own perspective as being as unreliable as anyone else's, and less suppressed his own ego than "vanished" it, clearing the way for an apparently infinite capacity for human empathy. There is no one – saint, monster, sage or fool – that he couldn't ventriloquise; but to do so he had to remove himself wholly from the picture. This strikes me as a psychological miracle.”
Don Paterson
What do you guys think of those opinions?
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I agree 100% with the nabokov quote.
The second one I don't know.
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>>8325017
>I agree 100% with the nabokov quote.
me too
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>>8324886
These are exactly the two things that make Shakespeare the greatest writer of all time.
Either one alone would be enough to make him a great writer. The combination of the two is almost a miracle.
However, between the two things it is his verbal ability that is the most impressive: I have never seen anything like it.
>get to the exciting part of a book
>don't read it again for another few days
Does anyone else just bask in the tense feeling?
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I get up, walk around, maybe listen to some music and get back to it between a few minutes and a few hours later. I also do this for films, which makes it hard to them with other people. Probably autism.
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No as I don't read books with plots.
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>reading Pynchon
>not relaxing
>not sitting down to read it
>not reading at a brisk pace
>getting caught up on all the characters, references, and themes
>taking him seriously
>not taking him seriously
>not re-reading
http://www.wikihow.com/Read-a-Thomas-Pynchon-Novel
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>start with AtD >MD should only be read by diehard fans
Mfw I have no face
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i'm halfway through Gravity's Rainbow and haven't read any of his other work yet, so i'm by no means a Pynchon expert, but i agree. i didn't really start to enjoy it until i just said "fuck it" and read the damn thing; yeah i don't get a lot of the references, but i get some of them, and when i started i assumed it was 100% "serious" so i read it like so, until i realized there's loads of clever jokes throughout. and around part 3 i decided to go back and re-read the first 50 pages or so and it was that much clearer. i look forward to re-reading the whole thing after i finish honestly
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>>8325146
That's been edited at least
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Write something funny, off the cuff /lit/
Humor critique thread:
Remember you're anonymous, no one gives a shit what you say, so just attempt it. Even if it's shit.
I'll go first
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>>8324839
>I'll go first
>Doesn't say anything
I guess we were all doomed from the start
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M&D editions - I feel cheated on with mine 2016-07-26 21:10:34 Post No.8324805
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M&D editions - I feel cheated on with mine
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I'll post my edition in the following post:
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WTF is the deal with this edition? I ordered a paperback edition online, hoping to get a big book like I've seen around in other threads, but I got this shit instead. Super fragile, bad paper, upper margins nonexistent.
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>>8324814
inside
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>>8324818
Seems fine to me.
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Does Endymion not hold up? I'm halfway through Hyperion's second part and don't know if I should pick it up after. I've only ever seen Endymion referred to negatively on /lit/, but without reasons given as to why it's bad.
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>>8324804
It's a pretty good cologne, if I'm being honest. Great for Sundays.
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>>8324804
Why does everyone praise Hyperion so much? Of all the sci-fi books consistently recommended, this one was painful to plow through.
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>>8324837
I'm liking it well enough. During the first book, starting with the most interesting backstory and following with two of the least interesting was a bit of a bore, but all the bits of revelation near the end were satisfying. If you want painful, read New Sun.
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Do you give up on books you're disliking? Even when they're Western canon books that people will accuse you of being a pleb for not reading?
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Ya.
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>>8324794
I'm in the middle of A Tale of Two Cities and I want to blow my brains out but I'm going to finish it because of that fearful reverence we all share for "the canon"
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>>8324794
>continuing something you hate just to show off
ISHIGGYDIGGY
I've dropped three books i hated. Two i still own cus they're old, nice books and one is a Dostoyevsky.
Read what you enjoy OP
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>Spent a month reading Faulkner, McCarthy, and The Elements of Style
>Now 90% of the books I read have bloated prose and I can't enjoy them
Rec me some writing with strong, succinct prose.
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>>8324772
>Yeand and and and and and andCarthy
>"strong" or "succinct"
Get fucked, corncobber.
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Try any Hemmingway.
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Look up minimalist writers. Raymond Carver is a good one, I'd recommend Fires for a good selection of his work.
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Feedback thread
http://pastebin.com/UbZHnQMa
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what do you guys think about this writer? Please share your personal opinions about his books and story line. I'm pretty much enjoying every book of him.
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Dude, Daniel Radcliffe got old.
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Does that guy look like danie radcliff retard?