No one actually reads this for fun, right? I read the first page and I literally felt like I wanted to fall asleep right there on the spot. I'm not even being hyperbolic, that's literally how I felt.
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>>8090549
>having fun whilst knowing you shall never satiate the Will as long as you desire fun
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Why someone want to read this trash?
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>>8090558
idk, you'd have to know it's trash first in order to not want to read it.
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I'm currently reading this. What did you think of it? Did you like it? Do you prefer modern literature or something older?
There's this little dilemma for me. I've learned English as second language and Dracula is really difficult to read. There are tons of old words (I'm pretty sure there must be noun for words that are no longer used because new words have replaced those old words), thus I sometimes find it hard to understand some sentenced. And I don't know which words should I remember to use in my daily vocabulary.
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>>8090321
I love the journal/diaryentry format. Any spooky supernatural story should be written like that.
Actually better than Lovecrafts first hand account rehash because you know that author survives to the end. But the journal entries could have been collected at a later date, and so you don't know who can die and live.
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>>8090321
>there must be noun for words that are no longer used because new words have replaced those old words
archaism
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>>8090321
A lot of archaic words are used, yes. But you don't need to use them in daily use. It would make you sound pretentious.
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>spend hours working on four pages of writing
>read it over once done
>it's all shit
>take a deep breath and start editing, reminding myself that all first drafts are shit
>take hours to edit carefully
>re-read what I have now
>it's still shit
It keeps happening
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>>8088579
Post it.
Maybe its not as bad as you think.
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>>8088579
don't edit a first draft as you go. The 4 page edits are infuriating because you are evaluating in a vacuum with no larger text/story to base your edits on.
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How long does it take you to read a book, anon?
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About a month
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>>8087611
Can you give an example of a book? I'm interested in the number of words. I'd also like to know what your reading sessions are like.
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About a year.
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Why is cyberpunk so boring and biopunk so interesting? Biopunk can have a do-over of a whole shitty zombie genre and make it good.
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>>8085694
What's the other one?
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dem childbearing hips
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Who's side does /lit/ take ?
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In a choice between the two, Bakunin.
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>>8081585
I take a third choice, because I love Freedom and hate statism
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>>8081585
Neither.
LAST READ
>AMERIKA - KAFKA
>THE FEMALE QUIXOTE - LENNOX
>UNDER THE VOLCANO - LOWRY
CURRENTLY READING
>THE GOSHAWK - WHITE
>CAPITAL - PIKETTY
NEXT READING
>DEATH OF NAPOLEAN - RYCKMANS
>ON CINEMA - DELEUZE
>AS A MAN GROWS OLDER - SVEVO
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>>THE FEMALE QUIXOTE - LENNOX
srs
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>>8077127
what's the issue
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>>8077130
it's a quixote-like parody of 18th century romance novels, are you a fancier of romance novels?
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Vol. 1 - The Three Theban Plays by Sophocles
>Previous Thread
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>Upcoming dates
23/05/16 - "Three Theban Plays" by Sophocles
01/06/16 - Voting day
02/06/16 - Results and rollover period
06/06/16 - "Three Theban Plays" finished
>How do I bookclub?
Find the book at the top of this post, read it, and discuss. Bookclubs are a place for expanding and sharing your knowledge. Use this opportunity to ask questions, and discuss the things you liked and did not like about the story.
>Archives
http://pastebin.com/HTu8Nf5d
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I also found this for those looking for a text
https://archive.org/details/playsofsophocles00sophiala
The Three Theban Plays in this collection are:
Antigone
Oedipus Tyrannus
Oedipus Coloneus
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>results and rollover period
Why? Just let the voting last until we finish the current book, giving everyone time enough to vote, and then we'll just continue with the book that's been selected. I agree on the rest thou
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I give it 24 hours before this whimsical idea dies a cursed death.
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General Critique Thread 2016-05-22 02:46:55 Post No.8068617
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The man—or in some cases, child—who is impaired either physically, mentally, or both, has the luxury of lowered standards in whatever he endeavors to achieve. The ears of his audience become deaf to flat notes while the eyes of his parents become blind to crooked lines and warped symmetry. Nets don’t hang as high and are left wide open. The outcome of what the impaired manages to accomplish is an afterthought—mere appearance of exertion is considered sufficient, even praiseworthy.
Our expectations of such people are not diminished to protect them, but to guard ourselves. The difference between us is in degree, not category. Underestimating the impaired provides a convenient way to overestimate the distance between ourselves and them. The praise with which they are readily showered is thought of as compensation for their endless failures and innate lack of potential. But where is this praise for the average and slightly less-than-average man who also fails each day? Does he not also sweat and strain for hours upon hours? He does. Still, the average man remains unseen because he is not the best and he is not the best at being the worst.
A cognitive handicap at least offers immunity from a far more insidious and soul-eroding variety—an acute awareness of failure. How many individuals endlessly claw their way up statistical mountains in the shape of bell curves for intelligence, income, and fitness, only to tire just before the top, or to reach the peak and find that they cannot make it down the other side where excellence is promised—but never guaranteed—below? Where is their pat on the back? Where are the accolades and standing ovations for those condemned to an existence of perpetual grayness?
Do not pity the impaired. Pity yourself.
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Not bad. Whose style are you miming?
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>>8068629
Cioran
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>>8068629
I especially like copying the way the translator uses dashes. I find that for the fiction I write, it's a bit too much, but for lyrical ranting like Cioran it gives a nice cadence to all the caveats.
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How old were you when you found out that contradictions are not to be solved but are simple reminders that the mind gives us practical models to live life here and now and not objective timeless descriptions of 'the world'?
pic unrel
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I was 16 when i found out that the world in all its sheer complexities does not succumb to any kind of dogma, generalization or fundamentalism but requires an open, pragmatic and unbiased approach in every singe case.
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I was thirteen when I realized that OP was gay
Guess how I found out
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>>8093434
Go back to tumblr you cultural Marxist pomo 'all is subjective' relativist cunt
Take the redpill already
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I'm writing an essay on "The Prophet's Hair" by Salman Rushdie. Any tips?
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>>8093406
Start by reading it.
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>>8093411
I have...
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I was discouraged reading his books because apparently he's ‘anti-muslim'
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The best cortazar is a mediocre borges.
Discuss.
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nothing to discuss you're actually right
i'm surprised
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The best OP is a mediocre anon
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Even though I mostly agree, you are in no place to judge either of them until you've read them in Spanish.
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What are some books that would make me appreciate small things? I need some idyllic, comfy read.
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Emerson's On Nature
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Moby Dick
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>>8093097
"The Mezzanine" by Nicholson Baker.
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think of a good authordid you think of a woman?
didnt think so
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lmao
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>>8093073
mah nigga
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Woah that's a nice party trick anon, thanks for sharing!
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Getting into philosophy 2016-05-28 14:06:52 Post No.8092985
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Hey /lit/, I'm trying to familiarize myself with philosophy, and thought it'd be a good idea to read something that serves as an overall preview of philosophy, rather than to start right off with the pre-Socrates texts.
Which one should I read first out of pic related?
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>>8092985
Fuck, I didn't realize the pic was upside down
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>>8092985
Read the Russell book. It is partisan, but actually engages with the philosophical content of each thinker. Durant was a pop historian, and had no clue about philosophy.
The best single volume history is Kenny (2012).
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Durant is surprisingly good and very readable. I think he's a great writer. It's good for a quick overview of some major modern philosophers at least. But his coverage of pre-modern philosophers is more of a character study than a synopsis, and he peters out after Schopenhauer and Nietzsche (as much as I like Bergson). Even his coverage of the latter is kind of skewed by the lack of critical distance and benefit of hindsight. Nietzsche became a lot more important soon after Durant wrote. But still, good overview.
Russell is better to read once you already know a decent amount about philosophy, because it's basically just an autistic pedant rambling about how everyone who disagrees with him believes silly things.
The best way to think about learning philosophy, when you're just starting out, is in terms of quantity and not quality. It's way better to just read a bunch of shit than to try to nail everything down from one "perfect" book. The whole process is so jagged and uneven, there are so many threads that need to be woven into one another, that there is just no way to learn philosophy completely "cleanly." You should still try to be rigorous about it, but don't feel bad about Wikipedia'ing Nietzsche, or reading Routledge "So You're a Total Dumbass" Editions Presents: A Very Short Introduction to Nietzsche, For Total Dumbasses.