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When writing rhyming poetry, do great writers think of good line ending words then shape the subtleties of meaning to accomodate that word, or start with an exact meaning and then sift out appropriate words to fit it? Or something else?

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To a student he once said: "Oh, don't take that too seriously. That's something I dreamed up on a rainy Sunday afternoon."

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>a serial killer chooses his victims after how they react to him on a BBS online. He is out to prove that just because you are anonymous, dosen't mean that you're safe.

it was released in 1997, so it's not about 4chan or le anonimoose legion crap.

Are there any other good books about cyberspace and hacking in the late 80's early 90?

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Alright guys this is a small thing but I figured it'd be the place to ask. I just started to read the short story The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, and there's a phrase that's tripped me up right at the start and I can't get it out of my head. Now I feel like I may be being stupid here as I haven't slept, but still, I can't find any definition or meaning for the phrase "Bright-towered". Here's the sentence:

"With a clamor of bells that set the swallows soaring, the Festival of Summer came to the
city Omelas, bright-towered by the sea"

What would you take this to mean?

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Are there any books about Christianity (either explicit or implicit) that are set in space or in the future?

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What does lit think about this guy?

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Just submitted my first manuscript /lit/

I never thought I would say this to 4chan, but thanks to you guys I finally made it this far.

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“What is practiced as art today--be it music after Wagner or painting after Manet, Cézanne, Leible and Menzel-- is impotence and falsehood. One thing is quite certain, that today every single art-school could be shut down without art being affected in the slightest. We can learn all we wish to know about the art-clamour which a megalopolis sets up in order to forget that its art is dead form the Alexandria of the year 200. There, as here in our world-cities, we find a pursuit of illusions of artistic progress, of personal peculiarity, of "the new style," of "unsuspected possibilities," theoretical babble, pretentious fashionable artists, weight-lifters with cardboard dumb-bells--the "Literary Man" in the Poet's place, the unabashed farce of Expressionism, which the art-trade has organized as a "phase of art-history," thinking and felling and forming as industrial art. Alexandria, too, had problem-dramatists and box-office artists whom it preferred to Sophocles and painters who invented new tendencies and successfully bluffed their public. The final result is that endless industrious repetition of a stock of fixed forms which we see today in Indian Chinese and Arabian-persian art. Pictures and fabrics, verses and vessels, furniture, dramas and musical compositions--all is pattern-work. We cease to be able to date anything within centuries, let alone decades, by the language of its ornamentation. So it has been in the Last Act of all Cultures.”
- Oswald Spengler

How do you even disagree with this?

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A team of researchers did a scan of Shakespeare's tomb, and the program will be presented soon, on this date and channel:

>Saturday, 26 March at 8pm, Channel 4

I am Brazilian and do not have acess to this channel, so I ask of the brit posters: can one of you save the program and post the link on /lit/ for the rest of us to see it?

You will find all the info you need here:

http://www.channel4.com/info/press/news/secret-history-shakespeares-tomb

To the ones interested, the key findings (some of them) are these:

Key findings:
There is evidence of a mysterious and significant repair to the head end of William Shakespeare's grave, leading to Kevin Colls' theory that this localised repair was needed to correct a sinking of the floor possibly caused by a previous disturbance to the grave.
Kevin Colls believes these findings give new credence to a story published in The Argosy magazine in 1879, hitherto dismissed as fiction, which claimed that Shakespeare's skull was stolen from his shallow grave by trophy hunters in 1794.
The GPR survey found that William Shakespeare, his wife Anne Hathaway and other members of the family whose ledger (grave) stones lie beside his, were not buried in a large family vault deep underground, as has long been thought, but in shallow graves beneath the church floor. William Shakespeare's and Anne Hathaway's graves are less than a metre deep.
William Shakespeare's grave was found to be significantly longer than his short stone – extending west towards the head end, making it the same size as, and in line with, the other family graves. (Anne's grave is also longer than her stone suggests.)
The GPR also found no evidence of metal in the area of the grave, such as coffin nails. This suggests Shakespeare and his family were not buried in coffins but simply wrapped in winding sheets, or shrouds, and buried in soil.

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What's lit's opinion on Herman Hesse? My dad really likes him and he introduced me to him. After reading Demian I got really interested in literature and I think Steppenwolf is a masterpice. Thoughts?

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>tfw you finally write a book and you begin editing it, cutting out all that fat and shitty writing, making it better and better
feels so good

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I'm thinking of reading some of Žižek's works. Are they any good or will they be full of shitty jokes and anecdotes about his leftist friends and his conscription time like his speeches and lectures? Anything interesting you can recommend?

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Hey /lit/ sci-fi/space opera fan here. I just finished reading The Owner trilogy by Neal Asher and I really enjoyed it. Do you know of any other books that have that same feel to them? I've read most of Neal Asher's other stuff and enjoyed it too, but the Owner is slightly different. More of a rise to power series. Any recommendations?

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What's the worst euphemism for penis you've read?

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In your own words, what is modernism and what is postmodernism?