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Hey lit, I'm blessed to work a chill job in which I'm free 5 out 8 hours, to do whatever I want until the shift ends. The only rule is that I'm not allowed my laptop. I'm on my phone all day, and I still want to work on my book in the meanwhile.
So my question is, what phone can I buy and which apps can I download to allow me to write while at work?
I'm already reading a book/day ad I want to just write.
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>>7888562
I think there's this rad invention called pen and paper.
You literally put a pencil or a pen to paper and just move it about.
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>>7888566
I have this quirk that I also like to edit my stuff and I'd rather not rewrite everything on my laptop every day, effectively losing a lot of time. It's all about using the time I got at work, not using the time I got at job and also using my free time to copy the stuff I did at work you feel me familia?
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iOS and Ulysses. Write in markdown and sync with mac.
2 > 1 > 3 > 4
So far the first two were the best, then 3 was pretty good, about childhood, was comfy, then 4 isn't bad, but not as good as 3.
What about 5 and 6? Are they a return to form? Or does the decline keep going? I'm still enjoying 4, but man, 1 and 2 were outstanding and it hasn't been that good since.
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5 is out in English now. It's fairly mellow and has a similar tone to 4 but I'd say it's the third best.
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>>7888547
Not out in America yet. Soon.
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Why do people think his book are so good? Reading his first book now, I don't get it
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Am I misremembering, or does this gag from The Big Lebowski happen in one of Kafka's novels, where the protagonist goes to read some important document and finds crude drawings?
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>>7888522
Now that you reminded me i actually seem to recall something like that from the trial. Don't remember the details though. Should reread and hunt for it. Already knew big lebowski is the patrician masterpiece of cinema though
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>>7888543
I'm actually thinking it was The Castle...
Whenabouts do you suppose it happens in The Trial? I
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bump?
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How did we figure out what the Western Canon is supposed to be composed of?
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>>7888399
Bloom wrote a list as a lark, it's been that way ever since.
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>>7888399
Elitism and pretentiousness.
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>>7888399
Organic unity.
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He hasn't uploaded a podcast in a while.
What do you think he is working on instead?
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American Psycho: The Musical, I guess. I've been genuinely missing him too, anon, although I'm probably the only one here who will commiserate.
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LMAO THIS GUYS NAME IS BEE..I LOVE IT
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Infinite Pest: A Rebuttal
"Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit.
It is no easy task to understand unfamiliar blood; I hate the reading idlers.
He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers—and spirit itself will stink.
Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it even becometh populace.
He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart."
Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. On Reading and Writing.
Discuss.
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There's not much to discuss, I think it's pretty self explanatory. Basically, lazy, friendless shut-ins who do nothing but read in their life have nothing valuable to say and aren't interesting.
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>>7889037
Then doesnt that invalidate everything Nietzsche said?
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>>7889057
Not quite. He was personal friends with Wagner and stayed at his home pretty often. He traveled Europe, and planned to enlist in the military but couldn't because of his health. He suffered irregular physical ailments most of his life.
He also said that his most valuable thoughts came to him while he was outside, traveling or taking a walk, with one of his first recorded writings ever being a letter where he was hiking in the mountains and had to take shelter at some old person's hut when a thunderstorm began.
He did read a lot, obviously, but he had enough practical / worldly sense to realize how damaging bookworm shut-ins are to the world.
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Now that the dust has settled and so on. . .
What were the best passages?
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>>7888331
You tell me.
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>>7888331
I liked the page that just has
>black "people"
printed in massive text.
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mine desu
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/lit/, I'm trying to do research for a book exploring the arbitrary, short, and somewhat hellish of human existance and I need help. I want to look into the lives of people or groups who have had what one would imagine to be extremely confusing and nightmarish lives. Examples would be the Roman practice of exposure, leaving newborns in the wilderness to die. I imagine that to be a particularly terrifying and short existance
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>a book exploring the arbitrary, short, and somewhat hellish of human existance
No, I can't think of any literature about that. Sorry.
Pic unrelated.
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>>7888328
In your situation I would, perhaps, worry less about research and focus on getting your spell-checker to catch misspellings like "existance".
Let me guess. You're going to write this on your iPhone.
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The man with a shattered world.
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You like to read, right, /lit/?
Why didn't you get a Great Books/Great Texts/Liberal Arts undergrad degree?
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>Great Books/Great Texts degree
What the fuck do you mean?
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I fell for the STEM meme. Was NEET for a year and a half after graduating. Just got a job in a totally unrelated but decent field. Can't wait to have money to(pay back my loans)spend!
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>>7888259
Because I can still read all those on my own, but a Bachelors of Science in Mathematics looks way better on a resume.
What's objectively the best dictionary to use when reading a book?
inb4 kindle or any dictionary apps
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The fucking internet you nincompoop.
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What's wrong with good ol' Merriam Webster?
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>Moliere
>A great writer
holy fuck pick one, look at pic related, it's cartoon-villain tier.
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>doesn't like Moliere
confirmed for soulless fraud
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>>7888115
its funny in the way johnny test is funny
did you even read this passage?
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>>7888108
Molière is all about spectacle and fun. Not psychology. You don't understand him.
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any books that portray Islam as the rational and peaceful ideology that it really is?
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>>7888014
lol
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>>7888014
Lets believe all this crazy shit a batshit insane person said after he had a hallucination inside a cave.
Lets also kill everyone who doesn't believe him.
Rational.
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>>7888014
Not even the Koran, buddy
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Just picked this up, enjoying it so far. Thoughts on it or the series as a whole?
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>>7888005
The name is of this board is /lit/. For literature. Not books. Literature. Take a hike plebian.
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>>7888005
Is the dilf on the cover the main character?
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you might have a better time on r/books, people on /lit/ either don't read that stuff, or are just cunts as evidenced
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Does Niven ever get any better than the first half of Bordered in Black? I've read at least two other collections of his not featuring this story and none of them are as dark or evocative. I find his "Known Space" universe kind of intrusive and his other stories only barely tugging themselves along by the premise.
If none of his other stories manage the same dark sci-fi, cosmically spooky feel, which is the kind of kick I'm on, any recommendations for ones that do? I've read Blindsight, which was interesting but brittle, I'm struggling through Echopraxia, and I've read a dozen other books that only partially fit the theme (Rendezvous with Rama, 2001 novelization, Up the Walls of the World, etc).
I was thinking of checking out Call of the Black River and Revelation Space eventually, but was wondering if anybody has more prescient recs.
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I'm gonna bump this once with some cosmic imagery and then leave it, I'll deal alright wallowing.
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>>7888003
i've never heard of a Niven story called Bordered in Black. his wikipedia entry doesn't mention it.
i gave up on him after the appalling mess that was The Mote Around Murcheson's Eye. too many minor characters.
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>>7888003
>if anybody has more prescient recs.
... you do know what that word means, right?
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>Can't read anything without seeing unexplored sexual tension between male characters who clearly aren't gay
>Sit there thinking of how you could manipulate said characters into fucking somehow
>Hatefucking, if they don't like each other
What's the male equivalent of a "fujoshi"? I think I am one.
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>>7887925
Its called fundashi, mishima.
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>>7887925
You are a degenerate