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Is it worth learning shorthand? I mean, I could libgen gregg and use an ipad/stylus combo for comfy practice
but would it be worth
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Gregg is the way to go. Is libgen down?
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>>8242143
Whenever I apply for librarian jobs they're always highly impressed I know it and want to watch.
I don't know if that's useful to know.
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It can take 700-1000 hours to learn shorthand. Are you willing to put in the effort?
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How good is literature for learning a language?
I'm sort of at a point with spanish to where immersion is all I need, any recommendations that are easy to grasp?
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>>8242079
Spanish movies with spanish subs are better because you can hear them and read them simultaneously
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>>8242079
sleep tight little pupper
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duermo tight don pupper quixote
Hello lit, I post here frequently. I usually post my short stories for criticism. Some are received really well others are shat on.
This one had received a bit of constructive criticism so I reworked a lot of it. I have made it into a google doc that anyone can comment on. Please tell me what you think.
If anyone posts any of their work to this thread I will reply after reading it. Thanks guys
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v7KK6HpDCugJ4zYt4cd3Jmh28LtfV6Knnkq_HgWgi0g/edit?usp=sharing
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Have you finished the story or does it end there?
Well, anyway, it was pretty nice. If the story ends there, then I think I didn't understand anything. Otherwise, I'm still confused because I don't know the ending
Crit mine, it's the first scene of a script of a noir short movie
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>>8241966
I personally think that the story is quite common and it could be more poetic. First of all, It doesn't provide any new or interesting characteristic to what is known as fantastic literature. I would recommend you to focus on something not as typical as the "mysterious object". Second, the narration is too physical, it would be far more better if you add some figure of speech and some rhymes. This won't make tour story more imaginative but at least it will enrich your writing.
Not bad at all, yet you could improve with little changes. Keep on writing and try to be as critical as you can with what you write
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>>8241966
Stop describing and start using the tools of the language. I dont want to read a manual of your imagination. Read a scene from your favorite book and then read your story. You could have the most logical and outrageous plot but it still is crushed by its poor telling.
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Why is it that it's so impossible to stop being such a giant piece of shit? I swear to God everyday I can point exactly the things I did that were a waste of my time, that made me a worse person, that didn't enrich me in any way, shape, or form.
I've tried several different ascetic approaches in the past to limited success, perhaps for a month maximum.
Are there any guides, books, rules, etc that you've had luck with?
I'm just sick of being a steadily mediocre person, eating chipotle, playing videogames, and jerking off.
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How old are you?
If you're 25+, it's over senpai, better luck next time
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How old are you?
If you're 15+, it's over senpai, better luck next time
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>>8241915
I'm the same. Just take the redpill and blame women, blacks, Jews, as liberals all day
Works for me
>"There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable nonconformist."
What did she mean by this?
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she was butthurt about the cool people in school who didn't like her shitty opinions. aka ressentiment.
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>>8241852
yeah that's how I interpreted it
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Is the state of poetry now the upcoming future of literature? Stagnant, dead, zero power over anything?
>inb4 pop music is poetry
>inb4 shut up pleb, nothing will change
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>>8241614
Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.
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>>8241614
Pop music can be poetry.
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>>8241614
>zero power
Art doesn't have "power" over anything.
Hi, my feminist girlfriend looked at my collection of books consisting solely of, as she put it, 'dead white males' ad urged me to expand my horizons by reading books by women, nonwhites, and even LGBT.
Now I'm really interested in doing this so please recommend me works that are as good as those written by my dead white conservative makes. I'm sure there are just plenty and it's my bigotry which has excluded them from being included in my collection thus far.
Can't wait to have my mind blown by intellectual and enlightened /lit/ who obviously know how precious and worthwhile such authors are!
Please no bigoted redpillers!!!
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how terrible must your life be to cre8 this wretched b8 m8
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What about dead white women? Are you allowed to read their works?
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>>8241600
Go back to /pol/ your on the wrong side of history. I genuinely want to learn
You fascist
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Hunter s thompson passed away today
Could a man like hunter s thompson even exist today? in this modern age?
i'd imagine he would have just ended up in prison for a long time in his 20s
especially in this very censored culture
/pol/
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>>8241330
>Hunter s thompson passed away today
Football season's long over, kid.
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So it goes.
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>>8241330
The kind of things that Mr.Hunter did at his 20s, some of which were invented by him (Gonzo periodism) have been transformed into a marketable product. Anyone can act like he did, but at the same time no one can.
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What's the deal with Saramago?
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>>8241068
He's dead, anon.
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>>8241141
What's the deal with his work? Why did he wrote like that?
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>>8241179
>Why did he wrote
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Come on, fucking educate these heathens:
>>>/fa/11472162
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I don't want to talk to 19 year old homosexuals who think real life is Matrix cosplay.
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>Philosophercore
>mostly normie haircuts
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>He is also a no-joke, for-real Stalinist, which in 2016 is a little like being a flat-earther.
>I thought he was more about the leninist-trotsky variant
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>Ideals slowly dissolving as I lose faith in my country and fellow man
Books for this feel?
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Ideals don't exist per se, they're the condition of possibility for material repetition.
So they don't dissolve either.
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Anything that has to do with a passive twat.
Nothing comes to mind...
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>>8240937
Anything written by Trump'll fix you up, sonny.
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What books make you proud to be an American, anon? What is the great American classic? American author general too I guess.
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I'm looking forward to England becoming the greatest nation on Earth.
I hope what success America has had is somewhat an inspiration for them.
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>>8240856
Faulkner is the GOAT no questions asked
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What's the best book you've ever read?
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>>8240464
Seizure Of Power by Czeslaw Milosz
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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.
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Probably Gravity's Rainbow or Middlemarch. Maybe Mason & Dixon or The Age of Innocence. To the Lighthouse would be close with those too.
You don't get to opt out of postmodernity. We're living it. McDonald's is part of it. Sprawl is part of it. The way we use the Internet is part of it. The only way to "kill" it is to destroy capitalism itself, and I'm not sure any of you would be all that jazzed about those prospects. So stop whining.
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>>8239700
>destroy capitalism
>would not be jazzed up about it
You're not making any sense, comrade.
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>>8239705
speaking to the class traitors among us, tovarisch
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>>8239700
Even as a non-communist I agree. No one can afford the vast mass of products that capitalism offers us anyway. I haven't bought anything in the past 2 years that isn't food, besides a few T-Shirts and some books.
Limited consumption is possible and it kills the globalists.
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ITT: Boring novels you forced yourself to read to "fit in"
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I just wanted to say I've read it. The chapters that actually advanced the plot were very interesting, though. I think it could be a much better book if the informative chapters about whaling were cut out.
The prose was also way too thick for my taste.
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>>8239466
>I think it could be a much better book if the informative chapters about whaling were cut out.
those are called abridged versions anon, there are a lot of them
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You didn't read it