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What do you do to invoke the Muses before you write?
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>>8260326
masturbate furiously.
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>>8260335
Every time?
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i tell her my name isn't Hockenberry and could she please go bother someone else.
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Is stately meant as an adjective or an adverb? It's fucking killing me
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It's an adjective, OP. Are you not a native speaker?
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>>8261488
Are you?
Prefer it as adverb, but can't imagine the "stately, plump" adjective contrast isn't intended.
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Books that literally scared you. 2016-07-09 19:55:41 Post No.8259821
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Books that literally scared you.
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As if the Devil himself inhabited the pages.
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This one started my realization that there were both good and evil in the world. I was 9 when I first read it.
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House of Leaves. There is a part where the lights go out in the book. When I read it the power went off in my house. Had to tell myself, "only a coincidence"...
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Hahahaha I can relate to that. I also talked myself into believing that if I just did not open Bulgakov's book then the Devil could not get me. LOL
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Serious question:
How should I refer to a woman's genitals in a short story I'm writing?
"Vagina" sounds too clinical. "Cunt" too crude. "Froo froo" sounds fucking gay.
Any advices?
Any authors write about cunt using an acceptable vernacular?
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Moist towelette or love cave
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>>8259771
i wouldnt use any direct epithets desu. just say "inside her" or whatever depending on the context
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pussy or cunt
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So, I just bought this. Is it as good as I'm hoping? What are some of your opinions on it? What is some other epic poetry that might be good?
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>>8259262
No idea.
Don't have any.
Paradise Lost.
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>>8259280
Paradise Lost was fun, but I was underwhelmed, since I had read Inferno right before, I did like Satan's machines though.
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It's far better.
It's amazing.
Orlando Furioso and The Liberation of Jerusalem.
Why do philosophers still constantly talk about Freud when his work is outdated/dismissed in the field of psychology?
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>>8258988
Because psychologists are the best people to psychoanalyze.
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>>8259002
But psychoanalysis is today considered, essentially, pseudoscience.
Literally noone but philosophers talk about it still. Psychology has moved on.
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>>8258988
Psychoanalysis treats phenomena that are inaccessible to the scientific method.
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What languages do you speak? Was learning them worth your effort?
My mother tongue is Russian, I'm learning English now. What language should I learn next and why?
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>>8258945
>What languages do you speak?
English, French, German reasonably well, bits and piece in other languages
>Was learning them worth your effort?
not really. i tend to communicate mostly in grunts and snarls
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>>8258945
Interslavic
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What are the best economics books to read and study to understand it at a doctorate level?
Are these good choices? Any recommendations?
>Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
>Das Kapital - Karl Marx
>Capital asset pricing model - William Sharpe
>Theory of Games and Economic Behavior - Von Neumann
>Progress and Poverty - Henry George
>Principles of Political Economy and Taxation - Ricardo
>Principles of Economics - Marshall
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I mean sure, read all the classical books for the sake of it - but when it comes to actually understanding modern economics you need to read things straight from the press.
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>>8258876
the best way to understand economics at a doctoral level is to do a doctorate in economics, you stupid shit
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>>8259028
Have fun with your student debt retard. All the information is online.
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Best opening lines?
>“I am an invisible man.”
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>>8258875
>In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing
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>>8258875
>"My name is Ishmael"
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>It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
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So Nick Land really DOES browse 4chan...
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4chan is blocked in China
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yeah
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>implying memes don't leave 4chan
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Did Hamlet even want to be king?
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no, he just missed his dad
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>>8246584
As naive as this sounds, I think this is correct
I don't really think there's enough evidence in the text to give the argument much credence. Sure, we're all aware that he'd inherit, but he'd inherit anyway if he let Claudius live.
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Anyone who can recommend my some books about cinematography?
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I meant to type me, instead of my.
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>>8264059
i may be able to help - what exactly are you trying to learn?
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how does /lit/ establish a sense of place in its writing? i've been reading a lot of faulkner and hemingway, two writers with a great sense of place in my mind, to see how they set up their locations, but I can't quite pin it down. it seems the mind does most of the work, but how do you know when you have given the reader enough to run with?
i am writing a story with a similar atmosphere in mind to the film 'gummo'. i think of how the camera simply captures these worlds, but the writer must selectively chose the important parts to hammer a world into the reader's brain without going overboard. there is such a specific sense of place in real life, can one ever translate this to the page? or is it best to let place arise organically from your writing, even if it goes against what you have in mind? it's a very abstract concept, place, even in real life let alone representing it in writing. but what are your tips?
if i want to write a run down american suburb is it best i visit one? live in one? i admit, i do not "know" this world. can one only really represent a world they know deeply?
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You will inevitably come off as fake and forcing it if you're trying to write a regionality you have not experienced.
It's little touches that ring true. Broad strokes and attempts at atmosphere blow past that.
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>>8264056
this is what i worry, but what if it serves only backdrop? i suppose then the response is if it's only backdrop it's non-essential to begin with.
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and what about a lack of place?
how much must one establish 'place' when writing a story or novel? is it too stuffy and introverted to describe only the characters' immediate surroundings?
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you often hear an artist asked why they chose their medium - the characteristics of what they wanted to communicate or express that lent themselves to the use of whichever medium they chose. what sorts of ideas do you think are best expressed by prose, poetry music, movies, sculpture, painting, etc.? or do you think all ideas, if conceived of correctly, are best communicated through writing?
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>>8264007
Film
Films is the greatest medium
With a great budget and talented crew, a film will always outdo all other forms of art because film can be a combination of all other forms of art.
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>>8264027
that brings up the idea of efficiency, and whether or not an idea needs to hit a certain threshold in order to merit the resources needed to make a movie.
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>>8264007
bump - humor me with a discussion /lit/, i just popped a vicodin and will have to go to dinner with my gf soon
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Where to start with him?
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>>8263949
>reading dead white males
pleb
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>>8263949
the trash
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>>8263949
Latter Day Pamphlets