I haven't read any of my favorite novels or seen any of my favorite films. Yet I hold entire conversations with professors about these sort of things. All I do is throw out vague notions on influence and bring up modernism frequently.
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>>7710456
why would you do this
what's the point
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>>7710568
....I don't know
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>>7710589
you should delete the thread then
i will say your profs are probably 90% sure you're full of shit but are just too polite to test you
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what's modernism all about
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History
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It's like, an ideology, or something
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What writing software do you use and what are some of the pros and cons that you face while using said software?
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WordPad
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LaTex
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Microsoft Works 2000
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What is some good /his/ literature? I'm looking for something about the crusades in particular.
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Not about the crusades, but your pic tells me you might like Salammbo.
Great historical piece by Flaubert taking place in Carthage between the two first Punic wars.
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>>7710375
Thanks.
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What do you thing of David Eddings books?
Im thinking mostly about the Belgariad and Malorian.
I really like his world building and I really need help with that in my own work if anyone could give me some help?
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>>7710336
his stories seem unoriginal,contrived and overall shit to modern people, mostly because he died before some of them were old enough to read.He has structural cohesion which is rare these days
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>>7710336
David Eddings is a meme author. literally genre tier fiction. no discernible talent.
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The Belgariad is a very comfy series, a nice fantasy read for young teenagers, and also nice to reread once you're an adult. The Malloreon, which directly follows it, is also entertaining, but it is more of the same.
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Recent purchases thread 2016-02-18 02:19:38 Post No.7710298
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Just picked these fuckers up at a book sale at my local library. Total cost: 7 bucks.
What have you guys picked up lately? Share and be judged.
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a few years ago a friend told me he was amazed that The Book Thief got published the way it did. Tried rereading it the other day and i finally get what he meant
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>>7710298
fuckface
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>Poe used to believe that the death of a beautiful woman was true beauty
>mfw I have been fapping to cute dead girls for years
>had never read Poe up until recently
>tfw I am basically a literary genius by my own influence rather than following in the foot steps of other great people
I always knew I was special. I always knew that I was better than a lot of people. I am just misunderstood. Now this finally confirms it, that I am crazy but I am also wicked smart.
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I think you're just crazy, man.
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>>7710272
yes I take that as a compliment, thanks!!!
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>>7710252
>thinks that beauty=sexual appeal
Pleb.
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>sit down to write
>literally slave over it for what feels like a long, long time
>come out with only two or three good sentences
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Be a poet desu
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>>7710242
>sit down to write
>literally sit there for a long time like most people who write books do
>don't instantly generate an award winning novel and win over my peers with the raw intellect I believe I have
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>complain on a japenese image board
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you'd probably feel better if you just killed yourself
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>praises communism
>slanders christianity
>one of the most well-known pieces of the american literature
HOW?
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actually thats a p gud question bro if i ever teach a lit class ima stump dudes with that
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Read it a year or two ago, loved it but it stagnated after awhile which I know is the point but that doesn't make me enjoy it. Don't know if I ever actually finished it but I feel like I did
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>>7710183
Because it's one of the best books in american literature
>praises communism
not true - praises aspects of it, sure, but not as a whole
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Kafka's parable in Trial
You have exactly 5 minutes to prove to me that this isnt the greatest piece of /lit/ ever
>Protip
I dont think you can but lets try
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>>7710071
I never understood that story desu. He was allowed to go in the door but he wasn't? What?
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>>7710086
This door... it was meant for me!
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>>7710071
Befoe the Law is good but Kafkas The Castle or The Metamorphosis are much better OP!
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was at the library today 2016-02-18 00:43:59 Post No.7710053
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opened up "dead souls" by gogol, there was a note taped inside written by some guy saying it was depressingly boring and that he regrets wasting his time on finishing it.
I checked it out anyway, but I'm not sure if I want to read it. Is it good? is the person that wrote the note wrong?
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He emphasized twice that he urges not to waste time on it. Can it be that bad?
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>>7710053
It's good but Gogol died before he could finish it.
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>>7710053
gogol hair triggers me.
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>tfw too stupid to read 'hard' books
Do I really need to start with the greeks to get harder books like gravity's rainbow or Ulysses ?
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Ulysses is centered around Odysseus so having read that first would greatly improve your experience with the book.
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there is no magical ladder to being able to understand books, dont waste time reading stuff youre not interested in so you'll 'acquire' the reading capability
just read the book carefully, analyze, take notes if you have to, it's not that hard
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>>7710011
>Falling for the "start with the Greeks meme"
Just read CoL49 before GR, you'll be fine. You do have to read the entirety of the western canon before attempting Ulysses though.
Does anyone like these books?
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this is a board for literature, not young adult graphic novels
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>>7709977
No.
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I have a problem with nietzsche.
It's this idea of the self-made person or individual.
I'm familiar with all of the nuances of consciousness and I understand how it is that reality is endowed with a certain objectivity by being perceived or inferred upwards to conscience, but what is this grounded in?
Really, you can't just go "cause I said so," if reality is to have meaning then it must arise from a subsistent principle of being in which all existent things partake in and thereby exist.
We all perceive reality in an objective way by means of the senses, so clearly we have to give credit where credit is due, this must come from something, if we perceive it then it must be exactly what it is and no less, so then why is it that we fail to take this into account in our intellectual formulations about the nature of reality?
The way I see it, nietzsche was only partly right regarding the ubermensch, in a confused sort of way.
What do you think?
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let you in on a strange secretWe are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.
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>>7709938
Can you explain to me the mechanism?
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>>7709963
ethos anthropos daimon
What do you guys think of copywriting as a /lit/ related job? I've delivered pizzas and taught English so that I could have the liberty to read and write without having to dedicate the majority of my time to someone else, but a copywriting course has grabbed my attention and anyone would do who needs professional advise, I've come to you guys. Anyone here done it before or know more than I do after having read two pages on it. I like the potential it holds obviously for money and to improve what seems like a different aspect of my writing, but I don't know if it's any more than a scheme to give me another certificate that costs more than what I can make from the job it 'prepares' me for.
Might as well make this a handwriting thread also.
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>>7709920
bump
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>>7709920
I have a friend that does it as only income while studying, will answer questions as good as I can.
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>>7709920
No one gives a shit