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>really, really enjoy writing
>don't know what to write about
What gives?
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Write about how you dont know what to wirte about :|
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Read more.
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Do more stuff.
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Are there typically major differences between the Penguin "Modern" Classics and the Penguin "20th Century" Classics editions of a book?
The one I've bought (pic related) is from the latter, but it was published in the same year as the "Modern" Classics edition.
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>>7887872
what an unfortunate cover
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>>7887915
>being this pleb
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>>7887915
I would chuckle if the cover were the only difference between the editions.
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>charles fucking walker
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my gf is giving me this for my birthday
what can I expect lads
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>>7887849
a pretty apt and ubiquitous description of college life
a lot of existential angst
it's a quick read too, it's pretty easy to get into
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>>7887814
What did you like about that creep?
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Do you like elves /lit/?
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i am angry
angry about elves
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It depends on the mythos.
In general elves are described as endlessly beautiful whether man or woman, fair, knowledgeable, and blessed (or cursed, depending on the mythos) with long lifespans.
I like elves because they are very good subjects for homosex.
I want to fuck that old man.
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not really, they are a lot more plot/lore-fluff than orcs, dwarves or otherkins
they are staple but their descriptions imprisons them, the type-cast ethnicity of fantasy world
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Tell us about your bookstore. What do you like about it? What do you wish was different? Do you ever meet qt's there? How much money has this establishment taken from you over the years?
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Harvard coop or Raven used books. Only person I've met at the coop was some dude that recounted the first page and a half of Finnegans Wake by memory and asked me for my phone number. Even if I sucked dick I would've shut him down.
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>>7887743
I don't have a bookstore near me
every book I own is from ebay..
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The Word in Montreal.
I like it's stock, I just wish it was larger. Haven't met anyone there, it's always very quiet and has a sort of Black Books atmosphere so it isn't really conducive for hitting on anyone. I haven't spent too much there since I didn't know if I'd be staying in the city or not, but now that I know I'm going to be here for at least a couple years all bets are off.
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Post your 4x4 square.
>Can't beat reality and true history.
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>American poolitics
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>>7887729
Are you fishing for pictures of le hat man for your folder?
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Convince me that this is good
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It's a big fat meme and requires you to read everything that came before it and more
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Now you listen here, The Cantos of Ezra Pound is good. It's good. And if you don't think so, everyone's gonna think you're a real dumbass. You want that? Didn't think so.
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It is. Trust me.
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Which word do hack critics use the most?
>numinous
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>deeply felt
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>the fact that
>so many books
>still name the Beatles
And so on.
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>hack
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Why is Lovecraft's phraseology (and that of his predecessors and heir-apparents) so cyclopeanly easy to mimic? In fact, is there a proper guide like you would have for journo phrases?
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Even video games do it now-a-days.
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>>7887676
Fuck that's annoying. There's nothing more cringeworthy than when level-headed anglos try to be ominous. It's like your math teacher telling a scary story.
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>>7887773
You prefer Angloboos like HPL>?
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What is the most /lit/ modern language to learn, aside from English? What language opens up the most literature worth reading?
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>>7887541
German, Russian, or French
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>>7887541
French probably.
Then Spanish.
I'd recommend the portuguese language for it has some pearls that are worth looking into.
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>>7887541
Latin and Ancient Greek
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I fucking hate 19th century literature. Black and white morals, dumb ass frame narratives and main characters on the periphery of the action, proto-metafictional junk like the pretense that someone is writing a diary or blanking out street or character names with -----, everyone overreacting to everything and being melodramatic, man what a shit century.
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>>7887467
desu i never read anything pre-1900
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>>7887467
SHIT MY EYES ARE ON FIRE FROM THIS HOT TAKE
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>>7887467
That's a pretty sweeping generalization anon, a century is a pretty long time.
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best version V. to read?
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The kind that comes with ink on paper. What the fuck question is that?
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>>7887463
Seriously. OP, never ask this question again about a work originally published in English.
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>>7887460
the one that is cheapest at your local non-chain bookstore.
fucking morons
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Hello /lit/,
I'm a student at University and I am taking a playwriting class. Every week we are supposed to read a play from the master list of playwrites (pic related), and write what is more or less a book report about the play.
This week, however, the professor has asked us to photocopy a specific two sequential pages of the text and explain line-by-line how each line adds something to the text as a whole.
Can /lit/ recommend me a play by one of these authors? Specifically one you think could fit the additional requirement of line-by-line analysis.
Thanks!
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>no shakespeare
>no elizabethan/jacobean playwrights
????
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Take it to the homework board
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>>7887356
Beckett would be perfect for this exercise, as he packs so much into every line.
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I looked at two versions of Madame Bovary at a book store and they were totally different. French isn't all that different from English so I know at least one of them must be taking considerable liberties. What's the best English translation to read, and how much of a difference does it make which one I go with?
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Madame Bovary kills herself at the end.
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>>7887351
The best by far is the Francis Steegmuller translation.
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>>7887360
That depends on which translation you read.
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I know to start with the Greeks.
If I want to read Finnegans Wake, what all do I need to read between the Greeks and Finnegans Wake?
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the western canon
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>>7887290
Everything. It would quicker to list what you don't need.