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Hello friends,
I have recently completed a short story of just under 2,000 words. I have revised and drafted it several times.
I believe this is essentially as far as I can take the story alone.
Would anyone be willing to read it and offer thoughts/criticisms/suggestions? I would appreciate that very much.
Thank you in advance for any responses.
http://pastebin.com/raw/4RdR2GDq
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Among the bustle of holiday shoppers, there was one other still figure. An old man was watching the tree too. He looked one hundred years old. His face was as gnarled and grooved as the bark of the tree. Water came out of his eyes, meandering down the ancient lines on his face and dripping off his chin.
“Are you alright, sir?” I asked. “Why are you crying?”
Stopped reading right here. Every single thought you included is duplicated. The lonely figure: twice. He's old: twice. He's crying: twice.
Less is more.
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>>7812926
He looked one hundred years old
sounds like elementary school writing tbqh
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>>7812783
Rework everything up to the man talking, rest is good desu
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Whats a good book of poetry to pick up and start reading, and learning poetry.
Sincerely, a fag
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How did this bitch afford fake tits at her age
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>>7812767
Her daddys of course
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Holy shit
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What happened to the /lit/ Philosophy Guide? 2016-03-15 01:25:37 Post No.7812737
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What happened to the /lit/ Philosophy Guide?
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So for oldfags here, is this project dead now? I haven't heard anything about it in quite some time. I didn't participate in it either, so I have no idea what happened. Ever since /his/ came to be, I haven't heard anything about it. Sorry if the question sounds stupid but I've been away from the board for awhile.
>pic unrelated
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>>7812737
I'm stupid, here's the link too.
https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/pub
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Someone post ALL of the 11 philosophy charts.
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>>7814775
>>7814776
lol which one of you guys bumped right after the other one?
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What does /lit/ think of Edward Snowden?
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he's got an attractive gf
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Pretty awesome guy. Basically showed the US how the government is sniffing their information, all of it, every single time you send and receive data. And this is a good chunk of our federal budget is going towards... baka. We could fund colleges with that, but, no, they've got to stick by their flimsy data mining and collecting procedures to somehow ward off the threat of terrorism.
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>>7812734
of what our federal budget is going towards*
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Hey /lit/, whenever I'm on a long car ride, and someone else is driving, I try to read. I don't usually get carsick, or even motion sick, but reading makes me feel awful after about 20 minutes. I'm always upset because the back seat of a car for 2 hours would be such a great time to read. Is there any solution to this? Do any of you anons share my pain?
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>>7812643
i feel this pain
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Try audiobooks desu
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i used to. try swallowing some dramamine?
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Sup /lit/.
This is sorta unrelated, but I didn't know where to post it, so here it is:
I have a really hard time expressing myself through writing. I'm in my senior year of high school, and I've never gotten an A on a written assignment, essay or pretty much anything that requires writing skills. I re-read my mails multiple times before sending them. I'm pretty much incapable of writing stories or anything original. Now, you probably think I'm some sort of an autist, but I have no problem communicating with people verbally. My teachers tell me to read more and practice, but the sad thing is that I do read a lot (~2 books per week) and I practice few times a week, yet I still can't get a decent grade on a fucking high school assignment.
For example, few weeks ago we were writing an essay about "Waiting for Godot." This is one of my favourite plays, I understood it very well and read it multiple times. But when I tried to actually write about it, I just couldn't. I ended up writing a really shallow, meaningless summary of that play and got a C.
What's wrong with me, /lit/? How do I overcome this? Are there any good writing exercises or something like that? Should I just write more until I somehow get better?
Also, I apologize in advance for any grammatical errors that you may find, English is not my first language.
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I can't understand a word of this. What are you trying to say?
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>>7812675
I'm saying that I can't write for shit, and asking if there's a way to improve my writing.
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>>7812683
youre righting is fine. If You are that worryed about it , i would recommend keeping a journal or something. articulate your thoughts through wring at all possible times. pratcie makes perfcet
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"On Working White Liberals" - Maya Angelou
I don’t ask the Foreign Legion
Or anyone to win my freedom
Or to fight my battle better than I can,
Though there’s one thing that I cry for
I believe enough to die for
That is every man’s responsibility to man.
I’m afraid they’ll have to prove first
That they’ll watch the Black man move first
Then follow him with faith to kingdom come.
This rocky road is not paved for us,
So, I’ll believe in Liberals’ aid for us
When I see a white man load a Black man’s gun.
What did she mean by this?
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>I don’t ask the Foreign Legion
>Or anyone to win my freedom
>Or to fight my battle better than I can,
Ok you can be a slave again fuck you.
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>>7812593
>responsibility to man
textbook spook
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I think she means how welfare destroyed the black middle class and working class in the USA.
It pretty much destroyed the nuclear family.
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what are the best vietnam war books? fiction, poetry, non-fiction, etc.
so far I have
Meditations in Green - Stephen Wright
Dispatches - Michael Herr
The Things They Carried - Tim O' Brien
Dien Cai Dau - Yusef Komunyakaa
Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Soldiers - Terry Wallace
I'm thinking of teaching a class on the vietnam war and was wondering if you would recommend anything more.
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In Pharaoh's Army-Tobias Wolff
you're welcome
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>>7812560
oh this sounds wonderful
I should specify it would be Literature of the Vietnam War*
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>>7812558
The Quiet American
Where is all the great literature of the 21st century? The second decade is in its waning half and yet there is nothing comparable to the doorstoppers of the early 20th century. When did writing become kill?
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All of culture has become a garbage dump
People have to focus on paying their next rent instead of their self-development
I blame neoliberalism, the toilet of ideologies
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>>7812548
That's because publishers only publish shit that they think can sell to the mainstream masses. There are good books being written, but they are all in the underground/indie world. Bizzaro fiction is still coming on strong.
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>>7812548
>there is nothing comparable to the doorstoppers of the early 20th century
Fuck doorstopper novels tbhfam
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Rate this list of Fiction books I plan on reading in the future:
1984
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Atlas Shrugged
Brave New World
The Caves of Steel (followed by sequels: The Naked Sun and The Robots of Dawn)
Catch-22
Confederacy of dunces
Diary of Anne Frank (uncensored version)
Don Quixote
Fahrenheit 451
Fountainhead
Gates of Fire
Heart of Darkness
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the galaxy
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Man who was Thursday
The Moon is A Harsh Mistress
The Name of the Rose
Something Wicked Comes This Way
The Sound and the Fury
Tom Clancy’s main series
WE
Who censored Rodger Rabbit?
After I've read all of the above:
The Aeneid
The Canterbury tales
The Divine Comedy
Dune
Gravity's Rainbow
Ulysses
War and Peace
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>>7812473
Is there anything I'm missing? What are your suggestions, /lit/?
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>>7812473
2/10. You would be better off not reading at all.
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Sorry Catholicism and Orthodoxy, but Goethe blows everyone out of the water.
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Anyone here feel as though thy have any sort of purpose/meaning/direction to their life?
If so, how's that? And what books to read for this?
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A book likely won't give you that. I've found mine with age and experience. How old are you man?
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>>7812480
23. A book won't give it I know but maybe a pointer or a new perspective to change the baseline feeling a bit
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I thought I had found God last time I read VALIS, if that helps, but I had been up for a few days and altitude was involved.
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>If Islam means submission to God,
We all live and die in Islam.
What did Goethe mean by this?
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>>7812429
he meant that he didn't know what the fuck islam was
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>>7812436
Islam is submission to God though
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#NotAllMuslims
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What do you call these words that sounds like something else when you say them
for example
"Knee gore" sounds like niggor
Any more examples?
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homonym
niggard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_%22niggardly%22
i hate niggards.
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>>7812394
how about
"high" sounds like hi
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>>7812398
you fucking niggard..
Hey /lit/ I'm struggling with how I should answer this question, and was hoping to get some of your thoughts on what you think it's asking for. It's for a 5000 word essay.
'Was the American Revolution really a revolution? Discuss in relations to the theories of Arendt and ----'
I've started to plan the essay around the consequences of the revolution, and evaluating the impact of it. But I think I'm reading the question wrong.
Am I right in thinking it's more of a discussion of what constitutes a revolution and discussing what features of the American Revolution fit in with the definition?
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talk to your professor. if you meet with them most will practically write your paper for you.
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>>7812399
Got about 3 days to write it
Of course I've left it to the last minute.
I've got most of it planned it's just how to structure it, first time writing an essay of this size.
And you're right, they more or less do
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discuss it in relation to carl schmitt's theory of the exception
Reading: outdoors or indoors?
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>>7812333
My hammock is ideal, but I do get vertigo sometimes.
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>>7812333
>outdoors
Are you a dirty animal?
stupid weeb
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I love reading outside in my parents back yard, except for one problem. There is a large swimming pool that attracts all sorts of biting, stinging, and buzzing insects. In the months when all those little fucks finally die it's too rainy and cold to read outside. Are there any hot /out/ tips for getting rid of wasps? I keep bugging my parents to get one of those electric traps but they just laugh and basically call me a pussy.