How do I become well versed with the words?Is there a guide or book that can teach me the basic and things I need to work on in general?
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1. Don't be a retard. 2. Finish your education. 3. Read some.
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>>8158942
1.How can I tell?
2.What if I finished it already and can't go to uni right now?
3.Read what?
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>>8158945
1.If you have to ask...
2. Community College
3. A dictionary
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Hey /lit/
So I submitted the first three chapters of a book I haven't completed to a publishing house and they said they liked it and asked me to send the rest. In the time it took for them to get back to me I've managed to write around 50% of the total book minus editing.
I'm working a full-time job and I'm struggling to write because of it. Would it be retarded, in your opinion, to quit this job and finish the book?
I'm not expecting to make much if any money from it so it's not that I think it'll solve all my problems. But publishing a book is literally the only ambition I have at this point in my life, and my job sucks anyway.
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>>8158887
What's your job?
If it's a shit job you can replace, quit.
If it's a job you like at a company you like, stay or take an extended leave of absence.
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>>8158895
It's basically data entry but with a job title and in the type of company which makes it sounds pretty interesting or complex.
I don't think I can take an extended leave of absence since it's a very small company (like 12 staff) and it's growing very rapidly. I don't enjoy my job at all however. I have applied for a bunch of other jobs and had two interview requests, one of which I attended last year and failed to get. But overall my life is so pathetic that I have very little to lose.
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Yeah. It would be foolish in my opinion. How are you going to support yourself?
My mom is a published author and her royalties equate to less than minimum wage. She works part time at a "real" job to support her writing.
If I were you I would get a better job if at all possible, one that doesn't drain so much of your energy and gives you more time to write. Either that or figure out some kind of NEET lifestyle.
Publishing a book is amazing btw, congratulations.
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What is /lit/'s opinion on The Cantos? How difficult is it, anyways? I heard it's something like the final boss of poetry, so I was thinking of reading it for some mad brain gains and also because I heard it's quite good.
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>I heard it's something like the final boss of poetry,
yeah, don't bother
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>>8158832
If you have to ask, they will be too difficult for you.
There are no brain gains if you read through something you don't understand.
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>>8158838
thanks for the post
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Does this book even have a plot?
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>ploting for read
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yes? it's not exactly hard to follow either
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What does Eastern philosophy have that Western philosophy doesn't?
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>>8158718
Feel-good hubris.
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>>8158727
Excuse me?
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>>8158718
>What does Eastern Philosophy have that Western Philosophy doesn't?
Drivel.
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Hi guys, need some help for my A2 comparative essay about two books I've never read. So far I wanted to pick '1984' and 'Brave New World' but I thought that this is a bit cliche, and wanted to challenge myself. Thus, I looked into 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man', and 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' and before picking these two I wanted to know to what extent I could compare these two novels - themes, movement, period, author etc.
I appreciate any help you could provide (hopefully spoiler-free if possible).
Also feel free to give further suggestions on two novels that go well with each other.
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If you really want to challenge yourself you should read the two and make the comparisons yourself. You might find that there are very few comparisons whatsoever and that they're difficult to find, but that's the challenge.
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>>8158578
I understand where you're coming from but I simply want reassurance to make sure that I'm not wasting my time (on this task ONLY as both are on my reading list) on novels that just do not go together.
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>>8158606
Finding that they don't have anything in common is a comparison itself
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So I constantly see comments about Frankenstein specifically with people calling the monster Frankenstein, and someone says "Knowledge is knowing Frankenstein isn't the monster, Wisdom is knowing Frankenstein is the real monster."
I always read this and get confused. What exactly makes Victor a monster? He just seems like a scientist who made some really bad choices and runs away from his mistakes. That doesn't sound like a monster. That sounds like a human. I mean if he Victor is a monster, aren't most people monsters?
They don't know how to react to certain situations, so they escape it?
Not only that, but every time he didn't stop the monster he came to a logical conclusion why to not do it. He could have built the monster a bride, but he feared that it wouldn't like the monster and he had created two monsters, that seems logic to me.
So don't be so quick to call him a monster for what he has done, because we all are monsters just as much as he is for our past mistakes.
What is your take on this? Am I just thinking nonsense or are you a monster too?
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>>8158556
>reading women
You don't belong here.
Also, it's liberal trash
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>>8158556
>made some really bad choices
more than that, he transgresses nature, hence the reference in the book to the albatross, like in rime of the ancient mariner
and he aborts the lady monster right in front of the 1st monster, pretty sick m8
ultimately he has a duty to the creature he creates, which he does not fulfil
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>>8158556
He lets some poor maid get hanged just because explaing about the monster would be awkward
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why does it seem as if most authors were assholes / unlikeable in person?
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You could probably chalk it up to the typically reclusive, introverted tendencies of creative people.
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>>8158079
Only pseuds that want to justify being unlikeable assholes claim that those traits go hand in hand together
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>>8158081
They do though, it's just that being an unlikeable asshole doesn't make you creative on its own.
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A lot of writers when they create characters they like to choose a face of a real person (most likely a celebrity) to be a lookalike of their character.
Do any of you do this? And if you do please link a site with some spare (lesser known) faces.
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>>8157977
Yes. For years I have planned and designed the medieval fantasy world of my magnum opus, and I have sort of a personal wiki in Google Drive, with each character having his/her own document with all the relevant information and a picture. Some are famous people, like Paul Bettany and Christian Bale for two kings, but some I've found simply by writing something like 'bald middle-aged man' in Google images.
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It's fine if you do this after the book is written, but settling on a definite appearance for a character before it's written is no bueno. Unless you're just in this for the world building. Names and faces are of secondary importance to things like 1) actually getting your shit written and 2) narrative, plot, or whatever devices you'll be using.
Don't get distracted, OP
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Terry Pratchett said he imagined Captain Vimes looking like Niam Leeson.
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What does /lit/ think of these editions?
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pleb magnets
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>>8157751
any particular reason why?
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>>8157759
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECcVYk7BXhE
How many physical books do you own right now?
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>>8157742
1,225.
I've got three more coming in the mail in a couple of hours.
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>>8157742
one bookshelf of fiction and another of textbooks at my house.
another three bookshelves worth of fiction boxed up at my mom's boyfriends house.
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~100 books
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I feel like this place needs a thread to discuss theatre.
>what plays have you read/reading/want to read
Currently reading Angels in America (part 1). Surrealism is always a fickle thing; trying to imagine how the characters move without seeing the play prior to reading it is left to the imagination (which I have non)
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>>8157676
Hitler and the Nazi party considered surrealism degenerate art.
If you want to be redpilled, you have to stop with that sort of subversive shit
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>>8157682
Ahaha, being a stormfag is not the same of being redpilled. Being redpilled in the arts means that you can differentiate self-congratulatory,rehearsed lies masquerading as art and real art. From the sounds of it you don't know either.
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>>8157689
There are some pretty obvious links from psychoanalysis and Freud (Jew "science" and a Jew respectively) to surrealism.
Educate yourself, sheep
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So, how many of you have actually read "the ego and his own"
and what is your honest opinion about it?
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>>8157604
I'm a redpilled white supremacist National Socialist who thinks the most important things in life are the traditional family, race-purity, and nationalism.
He didn't spook me one bit.
He has become a meme because it serves the cultural marxist globalist agenda.
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>>8157604
I have.
It seems flawless logic to me, but I'm suspicious by the fact that not many people seem to agree with him.
The book forms a nice whole outlined by the first three pages. It's a "must read" of philosophy, even if you disagree.
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>>8157604
funny pic
"Woman is a violent and uncontrolled animal... If you allow them to achieve complete equality with men, do you think they will be easier to live with? Not at all. Once they have achieved equality, they will be your masters..... All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, yet our women rule us." - Cato The Elder (around 195BC ; Rome)
Best books about this based patrician?
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>>8157508
/lit/ is a mostly liberal board. All for the liberation of womyn. Needless to say you aren't getting recommendations.
>CAREFUL WITH THE EDGE FAMOUS ANCIENT SENATUR AND HISTORIAN XDDXD!!1!1!
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>>8157508
he kill hisself
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>>8157962
No he didn't
In what books do I find what cannot be expressed?
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troll'd
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Tractatus
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No, serious. Could not find appropriate picture and unicycle frog already taken so posted inappropriate picture