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Rate mein stack /lit/?
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>>10016487
19, from west coast, has a writer in the family.
Is the strategy to "vomit words onto a page" valid?
I'm making unprecedented progress, but my grasp of prose has entirely atrophied. I still have dialogue and plot but my writing seems almost fanfic-tier
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bomp
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It's better than nothing.
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Get shit down and then edit it into a finely polished turd
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>contemporary art is sh-
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>>10016302
is this a book?
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I got married and can't read anymore like I used to. I feel like I'm getting dumber.
How do married anons cope with their lesser wives?
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> married anons
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Is she at least willing to indulge your fetishes, like Joyce's wife was?
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>>10016282
My gf always wants to do something. She gets so passive aggressive everytime I just want to read. Really bums me out at times.
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Jolly, Cheery, Hopeful, Optomistic Literature 2017-09-13 03:52:59 Post No.10016254
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Jolly, Cheery, Hopeful, Optomistic Literature
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I'd like to read some optimistic books. Fun, cheery, optimistic books. My preferred writing style to read is something like Melville's. Any recommendations?
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>>10016254
Start with the Greeks (comedies).
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Entry level literature 2017-09-13 03:29:26 Post No.10016193
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I've read a few books, but my reading comprehension isn't great and needs some "training". What are some nice entry level books? I've been reading the greeks and I'm liking them so far but I feel like readig something more "modern".
I'm not very bright either but my goal is to be able to understand more complicated books in the future.
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>>10016193
Try White Noise by Don Delilo
just pomo enough to get the noggin goin for a joggin without being abstruse or recherche
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>>10016197
Thanks baby.
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>read Isaac Babel, they said
>insightful and alive in the beauty of the world, they said
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I like that
t. /pol/
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>>10017036
Not sure you're the target audience desu
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I'm not allowed to read at my desk at work, but I can listen to music...so I plan to get some audiobooks. Any particular audiobooks with very famous or otherwise interesting narrators? Like the author reading his own book, for example.
Links to any suggestions would be appreciated. It's been pretty hard to find (free) audiobooks for ones I've been searching for.
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You could also use lectures
Search Great Courses lectures and look through the catalog, then you can get most of them by torrenting
Also check out Yale OCW, which is just recordings of Yale courses. A bunch of universities do this if you dig around, basically just a free Yale education
And many lectures on Youtube, search Wheaton college philosophy lectures on Youtube for example
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I torrented all my audiobooks. As long as it's professionally done, it will be good and you will like it.
That being said, if you're looking for someone famous try Lolita read by Jeremy Irons. He did a great job.
There's also a set of Edger Allan Poe stories read by a number of famous people which is also really good. The most popular story of the set is The Raven, read by Christopher Walken. It's on youtube and only like 15 minutes so you should really check it out.
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Paradise Lost has an unironically great audiobook you can find on Youtube from Sheev himself. But a fair warning if you're not going to pay attention just give up while you're ahead and read it in your own time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GINzUBvQ5nw
While browsing the other day I found not an audiobook but a dramatized version of Life and Fate with great voice acting and music. It's a depiction of the life and times of different characters in WWII derivative of Tolstoy and Chekhov. Only the first two episodes are on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45Fw70Gu2k4
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RECOMMENDATION! JACK STARK! 2017-09-13 02:20:33 Post No.10016010
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RECOMMENDATION! JACK STARK!
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Check out this writer: Jack Stark His short stories are fucking crazy!
Check out Hog's Heaven and Oscar Gold!!!!
Oscar, the (((producer))) at Dickwad Studios CA. just sat there in his office, soaking in the rays of the midday sun as they sludged through the gaps in the blinds like cheese through wire; turning the office a warm, sickly, nicotine yellow.
Oscar while present in body was elsewhere in mind; his eyes, absent the room, staring inward at the recollection of the actors and actresses he’d variously worked or slept with over the years. Inside this place Oscar smiled, overlooking the faces of all the beautiful dead celebrities walking around him in his dark place. Their heads began to fade out like a bad 80’s transition effect and in their place appeared the green heads of Washington, Lincoln, Adams, and Jefferson among others. The presidents shifted into focus and began winking suggestively at him. The heads were dollar bills now. Behind the presidents the ‘Hollywood’ sign lit up Oscar’s dark place and up there in front of those big, bold, white letters, wrapped in a threadbare loincloth, Christ hung to the cross beams of a Swastika by his bleeding hands and feet, his head bowed in reverence to the dawn.
‘God you’re all so fucking beautiful,’ thought Oscar.
He could feel his heart beating faster, the rhythm of his hand quickening as he felt that old familiar feeling about to come on; and then it did. Oscar came across his desk. The orgasm was followed by a hefty load which shot across the floor onto the opposing wall. The sticky liquid glooped a pearly trail over Marilyn Monroe’s face. She didn’t complain, however. She was used to it…
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No Jackie, I will not give yoy money.
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>>10016010
this is such obvious shilling it's painful
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What do you think of this guy /lit/? why does every history/philosophy professor hate this guy? his ideas arent too far fetched, obviously the monomyth idea isnt applicable to EVERY single culture, but its a relevant model isnt it?
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>>10015949
taking a class on him right now. Will let /lit/ know in a few months
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Campbell is brilliant in his own way and a wonderful synthesizer and popularizer who introduced millions to important ideas. Scholars don't like him because of that. Scholars are mostly retards though.
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>>10015961
shit that sounds like fun. make a thread about it in the future.
>>10015988
I agree. tho he attributes catholic dualism to a lot of cultures that dont really subscribe to that model (thats one problem ive heard most scholars have with him)
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Using a plan for a novel 2017-09-13 01:35:00 Post No.10015809
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I'm busy writing a book, but I find that every time I come back to write, I want to go off in a slightly different direction with my story. Sometimes I don't even know how to continue.
Is it worth taking the time to plan out the major events from start to end? But, doesn't this restrict you somewhat throughout your writing?
How do you keep a stable story, /lit/?
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>>10015809
Same. Just keep writing, then edit accordingly.
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>>10015924
You mean write the story with no solid plan, then edit it around a certain theme?
Not sure why I didn't think of this. Nice idea.
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>>10015809
Simple, by starting with the Greeks.
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*establishes the moral plane by which we live* 2017-09-13 12:54:57 Post No.10015659
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*establishes the moral plane by which we live*
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heh
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>that story about the three hermits
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrMOxASAmP0
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hey, is this really Tolstoy's quote...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQMvZ5nvjc8
Which books constitute the blackpill canon?
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>>10015630
I personally just read Schopenhauer. Read On Human Suffering.
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Has he always been this way? First the "vaccines gives you autism" bit, and now this? Wtf
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>>10015630
The Truman Show was a documentary
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>"We endure in beholding it a mental torture, allowing no defence or escape but the consideration that what has happened could not be otherwise; that it is a fatality which no intervention could alter. And at last we draw back from the intolerable disgust with which these sorrowful re ections threaten us, into the more agreeable environment of our individual life — the Present formed by our private aims and interests. In short we retreat into the sel shness that stands on the quiet shore, and thence enjoy in safety the distant spectacle of “wrecks confusedly hurled.”
>"Besides, it is not the interest of such sentimentalities, really to rise above those depressing emotions; and to solve the enigmas of Providence which the considerations that occasioned them, present. It is essential to their character to find a gloomy satisfaction in the empty and fruitless sublimities of that negative result."
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>>10015597
I think I managed to understand every word of this, but I'm still gonna need some context
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http://www.sophia-project.org/uploads/1/3/9/5/13955288/hegel_history.pdf
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/introduction-to-philosophy-history-by-georg-wilhelm/id901828255?mt=2
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What is "to know" according Francis Bacon?
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