Daily reminder to learn a new language
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>>8030080
Daily reminder that everything you do is meaningless and the only meaning in everything is the meaning given to it. The absurdity of life is that we can give meaning to meaningless tasks thus finding for ourselves something worth living for.
>>8030080
Working on Portuguese, which will allow me to acquire Italian and Spanish.
>>8030088
> I'll just ironically believe I'm not worthless
no one succeeds in doing this
Lonliness in the solispsism of the 21st century.
>>8029920
Poster, your thread is meaningless! In truth, it is anti-meaning - people worked hard on structuring the primordial chaos of human though and you just came and increased the entropy. Poster, explain yourself, because your action doesn't work within my picture of the universe, why someone would post something like this, for what purpose, or even absence of purpose. Otherwise delete this threa, I beg of you, it is unfathomably aweful, like if you wake up in your apartment and there is shit on the carpet.
>>8029944
THIS ISN'T YOUR FUCKING APARTMENT YOU NIGGER
>>8029920
>for keeps
What about reincarnation?
I'm currently slugging it through the Iliad and it's pretty shit so far. I'm on book XIV and it's difficult to keep up with all the names. The action seems to be for actions sake and I'm getting tired of it. I am enjoying the parts with the gods fucking around doing shit but that hasn't happened in a while.
I'm just trying to 'start with the greeks' and be a good boy. I'm a pleb who knows no better. Is reading The Iliad all the way through as important as the 4chan /lit/ guides say? Should I slug it through to reap the benefit later on or pass on over to the Odyssey?
I'm not sure if it's the best idea to read The Iliad when you're a pleb, you might want to look into things that are easier to read so you can get started, then graduate on to more difficult works.
>>8029902
>ywn be the coolest kid in her trailer park and knock her up at 15
Why even live?
>>8029910
It can't hurt. If you're going to quit reading because the Illiad was too tough you might as well quit already.
Grinding through it isn't a feat of patricianhood either. I suggest reading it lightly on the first go and then coming back to it later with/for other books.
It helps to be surrounded by greek culture when reading about it: read some theater or other texts.
Write a passage about the girl in pic (my ex). Could be positive or negative I don't care
>>8029884
she succ me (BURR!)
she cannot fuck me
guwop got the glock 9 banging
guess that bitch wasn't lucky
It was in elementary when she told me that she loved me. We're in the tenth grade and I'm waiting for her to finish her cheerleading practice to finish. The door swings open and her eyes are locked to Chad, her hand on his naval. He looked at me, he wasn't interested in her, almost saying "I don't care about this whore", and ignoring every word she says to him.
She sees me and her eyes became dull. "Let's go". She slings her duffel bag to me like I'm a chaffeur. Well, I am her chaffeur. I had to drive her the other night to her girl's night out knowing full well she's going to get her holes filled.
I don't care anymore, I just want an excuse to end it.
ONCE I WAS 7 YEARS OLD
what's the best edition of this?
Everyman
>>8029799
That one's fine, but it's translated from the Middle English, which isn't too hard to learn quickly so if you're up to it you can find the Everyman paperback.
>>8029799
folio society
/r/ing cool medieval lit.
Realistic, light reading. no canon shit pls
>no canon shit pls
I would recommend some works, but you're ignorant.
What are you even asking for
>light reading
I don't know how to tell you this, Anon, but nothing in Medieval literature really constitutes 'light' reading. Medieval literature is extraordinarily dense and allusive.
Abstract writing thread
Write anything no matter if its understandable
Got memed hard by this spook.
also
>Got memed hard by this spook.
What did I mean by this?
>>8030773
damn...
OP is a jerk. He fell and it hurt.
Would you do one? Have you done an MFA, what do think?
>>8029680
People have told me to only do one if its fully or almost fully funded. But if you've just got money to blow (James Franco), then go ahead. If it's something you love, and assuming it won't wreck your life financially, go for it OP.
>>8029697
Yeah, financing school seems to be the biggest burden out of everything, sadly.
I hear they're useless.
Searching through the Kindle store - hundreds of self-published nonsensical drivel.
On any writing competition page - somebody boasting they have the next James Bond in broken English.
What is it about the allure of being a writer that attracts the type of people that have absolutely no ability to believe and keep at it? They write entire novels, which is a feat in itself, whilst thinking they've written the next great masterpiece. Most people I know can barely write one hundred pages without giving up.
It confuses me to no end. It's not as if these writers are average - they are completely and utterly terrible. What is it about writing that allows the deluded to think they're incredibly talented, and attracts them to it?
Can't wait till someone writes the next James Bond.
The shitty and delusional writers honestly believe they're great. They do not possess the critical or literary capacity to understand why their writing is garbage.
Amazon just offers them a way to pay for their unwarranted vanity.
>>8029568
Writing a novel is one of the few notable things you can do by yourself (ignoring the editor role). All other forms of being famous or respected require being chosen by and being able to work well with other people -- like film for example, you can't simply go out an make a film by yourself.
I think it's not surprising that people with large egos but an inability to pass other hurdles that are usually necessary to become known/respected flock to writing novels.
Opinions on this?
Thank you
That cover reminds me of that painting Woman in Gold.
Have never heard of the book, though. What are your thoughts on it OP?
>>8029466
pretty sure that's a nipple
best Velvet Undergound song btw
>>8029489
Haven't read it yet, but looks interesting
Why is this not the official /lit/ handbook yet?
I'm about halfway through it and it basically explains a lot of this board's behavior.
delete this
>>8029458
bump
Reported for ableism.
This shit is why print media is going to die
le cherrypicked egzample
I buy physical books for pennys at second hand stores.
>>8029399
Get the special hardcover edition, OP.
http://www.twistedspoon.com/othersHC.html
Anyway, things go out of print all the time. It hasn't "killed" anything yet.
Any recs that are similar to the Twilight Books?
Specifically Midnight Sun?
(Preferably that I can find in a pdf)
yes I'm a pleb
fuck it
bump #2
Midnight Sun isn't a twilight book.
What is going on here...
>>8029871
It's a Twilight Book
but it's not a part of the series
Have you guys ever read the Shakespeare biographical adaptations in the Sandman series? I think they are some of the warmest, most tender and humane fictional portraits of the poet. My favorite is Nothing Like the Sun, by Anthony Burgess, but this one is also great, and I would like to share it with you. It starts here, whit a conversation between Will and Kit Marlowe (this chapter has only a few pages devoted to Shakespeare – pic related is one of them):
http://www.omgbeaupeep.com/comics/The_Sandman/013/10/
Then we eventually see Shakespeare and his crew in the beginning of the top stage of his carrear, with A Midsummer Night Dream:
http://www.omgbeaupeep.com/comics/The_Sandman/019/
We eventually reach the end of Shakespeare’s career (and of the Sandman’s series) with the days of old Shakespeare living in Stratford and working in The Tempest:
http://www.omgbeaupeep.com/comics/The_Sandman/075/
This last chapter is extremely moving, and it shows a William Shakespeare who has grown old and wise, but with that kind of understanding of humanity and the world that makes one melancholic and silent, rather than joyful. We see a man who treats everybody well, who lets his wife criticize and treat him like a kid, who don’t respond to the offenses of the towns people, who watch his daughter make the mistakes of thousands of young people but who knows that this is the way the world works…it is very touching. It is almost as if Shakespeare was some older incarnation of Leopold Bloom.
>>8029322
funny to see Marlowe shiting on Will on the pic, lel
>>8029322
this was great. Thanks.
I'm actually interested in reading these Shakespeare parts. Is there a way to just get the Shakespeare parts?
>hot andbsunny day
>seeing all the happy young sex having people outside
>no friends
>tonnes of free time but feel guilty for not working on stuff 24/7 (unable to enjoy anything)
Who else is unable to enjoy life?
>>8029223
You and I are in control. We must not dwell on the negative There is no logic behind it. A change of perspective is easy if you make it easy. Just understand that the way you are feeling is caused by a warped perspective.
Drugs help by providing relatively temporary blindness to it all, while allowed you to focus on something positive.
I hope anyone isn't thinking either all or nothing in terms of medicine/drugs. It's okay.
>>8029223
>>seeing all the happy young sex having people outside
public sex is a crime, call police
also -------> /r9k/