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What are some great modern retellings of classical mythology? Things in the vein of Ulysses.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canongate_Myth_Series
they are not "great," but they are there
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>>7827746
Some people like this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diH8TXZKfuQ
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>>7827746
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony is great.
>tfw drunk existential crisis wherein I realize the inherent limits of words as a medium and begin to worry that not working in more "advanced" mediums like videogames or whatever or whatever is inherently pseudointellectual
prove to me that man idiot /lit/.
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I mean... It's never too late to change your path.
Words are pretty cool, anon. Don't give up on 'em so quick.
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>>7827720
Read Laszlo Krasznahorkai.
OR learn programming and video game design AND continue writing. IT might be just the thing you need to give you a new angle on your work and fall back in love with writing.
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>>7827727
fuck man idk.when I was an edgy 16 year old I thought videogames were the entertainment future or ehatever. Now that I'm ab edgy 18 year oldi have far more emotionally invested in books, but even though I'm more aware of how limited other forms are by their nature I still worry lit has peaked as a form with e.g. Joyce.
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/lit/ writes a poem. I start.
Fuck me, as a man i want a dick
A big dong right un my big anus
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You would think I have one very long and thick
but I must admit to my own plainness
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>>7827678
'please no, corn father'
Okay just starting Hamlet and I'm having trouble understanding the point of the dead king's ghost around Act 1 scene 3. Can you help me anolize it? I feel like how the ghost's describing his murder is very important but I just can't place it.
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If this for an assignment you failed with "anolize". Since I'm the neighborhood lobster seller, it's spelt analyze, as in anal beads. I did not read hamplanet.
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>>7827639
Very important in what sense?
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I fucking hate being forced to write. Especially when you have no inspiration to and you have to force out a quality paper...fuck intro to communications
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>>7827627
If you only write when you have inspiration you will never be a good writer.
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this is why you have to choose your courses wisely
choose good courses, and even boring assignments will still be engaging because they're about a topic you like.
i usually procrastinate on everything, but once i get a few pages into it i'm just steamrolling thru
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>>7829067
>good writer
kek. someone never read nietzsche.
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Why are we plagued by ignorance?
All the answers seem to be there.
But they fall onto deaf ears.
And the sound of truth is lost in the noise of darkness.
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What are the answers op?
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>>7827569
That all is not what it seems to be. That we are a young prince in Egypt, long way from home.
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>>7827583
That's a great movie
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should i read Breakfast at Tiffany's? is it good or bad or...?
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umm hello....?
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Kill yourself.
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>>7827520
Capote is the mid 20th century version of Stephen King. So...maybe?
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OK so i have a question. I'm re-reading the chronicles of Thomas Covenant and there's one sentence, which goes as follows; "He wanted to move, but he could only stand suspended, trapped, looking down the muzzle of the hurtling car."
The car is described like a gun, what technique is this?
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Hmmmmm...
Hmmmmmmmmmmm...
I believe it would be called a metaphor.
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I was thinking a metaphor, but it felt too general. A metaphor is when the author says that something IS another thing, right? Well Donaldson isn't saying that the car IS a gun, he's just implying that by describing the car as if it were a gun. I don't know, i just think there has to be something more specific.
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>>7827482
It's symbolism, ya mook.
"The car, like, symbolises death, man."
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Well, I finally read Of Mice and Men.
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ain't gonna be no more trouble
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the loony toons adaptation was better.
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Amazing book.
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"Mono no aware:(物の哀れ?), literally "the pathos of things", and also translated as "an empathy toward things", or "a sensitivity to ephemera", is a Japanese term for the awareness of impermanence (無常 mujō?), or transience of things, and both a transient gentle sadness (or wistfulness) at their passing as well as a longer, deeper gentle sadness about this state being the reality of life."
"...a “pathos” (aware) of “things” (mono), deriving from their transience. In the classic anthology of Japanese poetry from the eighth century, the Manyōshū, the feeling of aware is typically triggered by the plaintive calls of birds or other animals. It also plays a major role in the world's first novel, Murasaki Shikibu's Genji monogatari (The Tale of Genji), from the early eleventh century. The somewhat later Heike monogatari (The Tale of the Heike Clan) begins with these famous lines, which clearly show impermanence as the basis for the feeling of mono no aware:
The sound of the Gion shōja bells echoes the impermanence of all things; the color of the sōla flowers reveals the truth that the prosperous must decline. The proud do not endure, they are like a dream on a spring night; the mighty fall at last, they are as dust before the wind.
And here is Kenkō on the link between impermanence and beauty: “If man were never to fade away like the dews of Adashino, never to vanish like the smoke over Toribeyama, how things would lose their power to move us! The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty” (Keene, 7). The acceptance and celebration of impermanence goes beyond all morbidity, and enables full enjoyment of life."
Are there examples of this in modern and or contemporary literature or maybe even cinema? There are the Japanese classics that are mentioned above, as well Ozu's films, but what about more recent examples?
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>The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty” (Keene, 7). The acceptance and celebration of impermanence goes beyond all morbidity, and enables full enjoyment of life.
ayy
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>>7827418
Nah brah, don't give me this dichotomy perscriptivism.
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How do you guys decide what to read when it comes to modern literature?
They've obviously not been around long enough to become classics or sink into abject obscurity, so what criteria do you have to determine what is or isn't worth looking at?
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I don't have any set criteria. Sometimes people will recommend something to me, sometimes I'll read it by chance. Whatever. Nobody does anything that deliberately.
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I read lots of lit magazines and follow lit awards and shit. Pretty easy to find good books that way. The Sellout by Paul Beatty and Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James and H is for Hawk have all been amazing and won ton of awards
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Anyone else on /lit/ feel as though when reading philosophical literature, be it Camus, Nietzsche, Hegel, and others, that they already know 'that'. By 'that', I mean for example: in the beginning of 'Beyond Good and Evil' by Nietzche, where [he] questions value and objectivism that they felt like nothing new was being observed/learn.
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It's often times in order to lay a groundwork of philosophical concepts that are needed to build off of one another to reach the main assertion of the texts. There is an assumption of familiarity
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Yeah i gave up on reading philosophy because i found myself just saying 'i know that' aloud after every sentence and getting exhausted
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That's kinda what philosophy is, in some respects.
Taking universal, intrinsic feelings and concepts, and putting them into words so that other people can be made aware and have a greater understanding of what they already know.
It's conceitedly insightful of the human experience, to turn a phrase.
What does /lit/ think of this book? Personally, the quality exceeded expectations, especially in terms of prose. Of course I'm not talking James Joyce, William Shakespeare, or Plato here, but it was certainly better than your average YA youtuber money grab.
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>>7827242
I'm waiting for the Ashens book with 100 pictures of old food.
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>>7827242
I thought this was Smosh for a second.
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>>7827242
>tfw went into the Target book section expecting good lit
>find this amid the horrors of Mainstream YA
>actually kind of cute, consider buying it, but... I'd look ridiculous and creepy walking around Target with that in my hand.
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What books should I read if I want to learn how to write flashy and stylized fight scenes?
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Just don't.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! fan fiction tbqhfam
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Anything by lee child or vince flynn
well, they do realistic ones. you might just want to watch a jet li movie and get a thesaurus
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Is it all hype /lit/?
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first book interesting but uneven in writing/narartive/pacing; 2nd book amazing 3rd book good as well
one of the best sci fi series
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it's actually tras
it's just some autist going on about muh video game
the only interesting thing about it is that it was set in the cultural revolution, but that BARELY comes up
DO NOT RECOMMEND
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Depends on your interest in Fermi's paradox.
It's a solid scifi, can be predictable.