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If you needed to describe poetically your native language, how would you do it? If you wanted to express your love for your native idiom, how would you say it?
Also, do you guys know any poems or inspired passages of writers speaking about their own native language?
I was thinking, for example, how one would describe Italian or Latin in a poetic and metaphorical way.
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>>8203838
these quotes by camille paglia on the subject of the english language come to mind:
“What fascinated me about English was what I later recognized as its hybrid etymology: blunt Anglo-Saxon concreteness, sleek Norman French urbanity, and polysyllabic Greco-Roman abstraction. The clash of these elements, as competitive as Italian dialects, is invigorating, richly entertaining, and often funny, as it is to Shakespeare, who gets tremendous effects out of their interplay. The dazzling multiplicity of sounds and word choices in English makes it brilliantly suited to be a language of poetry."
"The English language was created by poets, a five-hundred year enterprise of emotion and metaphor, the richest dialogue in world literature."
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>>8203838
I wrote this about Brazilian Portuguese some days ago:
Portuguese, a joyful and fleet-footed
Idiom, where the words are dancing girls,
Clapping their hands and entwining their bodies
In a sunny morning, under skies of wheat:
A language bounces like the conversation of birds
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>>8204085
>A language bounces
A language that bounces
How do I better focus my attention while reading? I enjoy the books I've read, but I have such a difficult time sitting down and finishing a book. I feel like I've been ruined by the internet. Reading requires that I shut myself off from everything else. I'm usually very good at this when watching films, but I struggle to do so with books. It's so much harder to focus my attention. Any pointers to becoming a better reader?
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there is no way
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Get dumdum pills (xr amphetamines) to help your dumdum brain
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Nice cat.
Other than mild autism, I have a problem, /lit/. I love reading but every time I get a few pages into a book, I start getting super sleepy and just pass out. What the fuck do I do my fellow negros?
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>>8203716
drink coffee while reading.
or take an adderall
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>>8203716
why don't you just keep reading once you wake up lmao
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Just keep trying. Start with things you find more interesting. I had this issue when I was in high school and the first part of college, but it's gotten considerably better since i graduated and started reading exclusively things that I *want* to read, rather than feel obligated to read.
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What is book equivalent of swimming?
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Fight Club
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the swimmer
the waves
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the sea john banville
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What went right?
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>>8203461
He had good influences - Lafferty, Wolfe, Alan Moore, etc.
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He had some works, like Sandman and American Gods, that at the time felt like something unique and wholly different from other fantasy or graphic novels of the time. The world of Sandman was a pretty interesting one, I'll give him that. Unfortunately he's exhausted all of his great ideas and now writes really dull shit.
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the money. the money went right.
What are some good secondhand bookshops in Melbourne?
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Sybers Bookshop obviously to start with, Chapel St opposite Windsor Station.
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Schlegel's shoulder.
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>Melbourne
kill yourself
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Hey /lit/, I've been considering going to law school after I graduate in December but I'm having second thoughts, so I'll work for a couple years in the meantime. I wouldnt mind making some money in finance. FOREX sounds appealing but I don't know much about it. Any reading that you could recommend? I'm only aware of the Soros reflexivity book and I need to look somewhat knowledgeable for interviews if I go ahead with this.
I was looking through wall street oasis and they all seem to be more concerned about what types of ties or watches will impress their bosses.
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>>8203334
>Oh yeah, I have a question about business, I'll go ask it on a literature board.
OP, there are book adaptations of minecraft lets plays, that doesn't mean they should be discussed here.
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/biz/ is filled with teenage entrepreneurs. People discuss economics on this board all the time.
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>>8203352
>after I graduate in December
>I wouldnt mind making some money in finance.
You're a teenage entrepreneur.
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Something /lit/-related is grinding my gears, so I'll went here.
I'm attending a short story workshop in Slovakia. It's all nice and cool with an exception of a task we have gottten today. We're supposed to continue an already started story(which is fine) about a Slovak visiting Turkey(still fine), buying a stolen iPad there (still ok), unlocking it (oh gosh. ok-ish. Let's say he has some top-tier hacker as a freind) and figuring out a woman on the tablet background is also a Slovak woman with a scarf around her head and an Arab next to her.
I mean - WHAT ARE THE FUCKING CHANCES? Buying an iPad? Fine. Hacking it? Ok, maybe? It belongs to the same small, irrelevant as fuck language group as main character?! What the actual fuck?
How lame is this plot, /lit/?
Also I bet everyone is writing she is saving Kurds/joining ISIS. I fucking bet.
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>>8203321
ummmm.....
get some real problems
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>>8203321
>I'll went here.
Didn't understand a single word.
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>>8203321
jus be absurd dude
Is it as hard as they say, /lit/?
I think it's a bit dumb for so many people to sing Kant's praises in regards to Western Philosophy, yet never to have read his work or studied his philosophy.
I plan to do just that.
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>>8203254
I think Schopenhauer said that so long as you haven't read Kant, you are confined to intellectual infancy.
So you should probably give it a shot.
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Is there any necessary prior reading for Kant?
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>Is it as hard as they say, /lit/?
No, Kant just couldn't write for shit.
You'll probably have to labour over paragraphs, and even whole pages at a time, to find the kernel of whatever he was trying to say within.
Nor is this a minor undertaking. You don't just say, "I'll spend a week on Kant and his philosophy." Realistically you need weeks/months and, as any serious student of philosophy knows, philosophy is a lifelong pursuit.
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I'm looking for a novel or novella which is like lifting intellectual weights. I don't want to waste my time reading just so I can get some shallow story. I want to be intellectually ripped as fuck.
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Then don't read novels, read a text book.
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>>8203157
FW, pussy.
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>>8203157
read the most difficult book in a language you don't know, without any aid aside from a small tourist translation phrasebook.
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Are there any /lit approved books on anthropology, any charts or recommendations?
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That one about the others is good
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>>8203122
Pardon?
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ITT Good books about fighting
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Conor McGregor is Captain Ahab and Nate Diaz is Moby Dick.
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>>8202963
>Conor McGregor is Captain Ahab and Nate Diaz is Moby Dick.
LOL
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>>8202959
THAT'S MY PUSSY by Jonathan "War Machine" Koppenhaver
ITT: Non-erotic novels that explicitly portray sexual
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>>8202954
I meant to say sexual acts
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>>8202954
coin locker babies
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haven't read any murakami besides NW but that lez sex scene with the 13yo was... interesting
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Recommend me some children's books, /lit/, preferably the ones with top-tier heroines like Anne Shirley or Sara Crewe.
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Atlas Shrugged
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Das Kapital
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CS lewis, gk chesterton, rudyard kipling, roald dahl and Enid blyton are enjoyable.
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If I read this, will I become a meme?
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It would be extremely painful.
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That tingling on the side of your neck is your body preparing itself as you consider reading it. You won't regret it.
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It's a mainstream novel about gen x detatchment, depression, drug abuse, escapism through entertainment, addiction, and family.
It follows an adult narrative, a teen narrative, and a political terrorism narrative.
It's written in conversational prose full of "like"s, American colloquialism, and the odd big dictionary word shoved in to be quirky.
It's a pretty quick and easy read (2-4 weeks at 1/2 hours a day) and it's a bestseller.
If any of this interests you, you can read it for the time it'd take to read 2 or 3 shorter books, you will probably at least partially enjoy yourself and maybe learn something or feel changed.
I'll let you decide if reading solid middlebrow popular literary fiction makes you a ""meme"".