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>>7694025
Well, creativity does not necessarily mean good culture, it just means creative, I guess you could call it outside of the box thinking. However, what is successful and considered good is a function of the current society. Think for yourself what you enjoy or not, listen to other people because they may be right about what is quality and what is shit for a reason you had not thought of, but ultimately it is you who makes that decision of what you like.

>>7694025
creativity is the cumulative awareness of abstract form, convention and artistic tropes. For some people this awareness is so great that their capacity for creation is not merely informed by the aforementioned factors, but actively surpasses or overwhelms their aesthetic potential to say something which has been left as-yet unsaid within the limits of conformity.

Of course, this definition is very specific to literary or artistic mediums only - though it appears to me that creativity in other fields would operate under the same analogous principles.

Back way around it, but I believe if you convert books to text with calibre you can search the directory for specific words via normal windows search. I know it works for .csv

>>7694005
in unix you can use the command line:
find -type f | xargs grep -n "text to search"

>>7694005
double click on the book in the calibre list, it'll open up a virtual book reader, then just ctrl+f, then search whatever text you're looking for.

Platitudinous but talented.

hippy sentimentality with a false veneer of ancient wisdom

>>7694633
do you evaluate the veneer of all works of fiction in that manner? or just popular ones

>>7693969
Op was a meme author (he just didn't know it), and had no discernible talent. He was shitposting, and is literally genre tier fiction. clearly a juvenile author.

Just keep writing and you'll find more moments like it. If you are dead set on writing then orient everything in your life around creating those moments. Your mood, your living, people around you: everything.

But just remember that in a year, or a month, or maybe even in just a couple days what you wrote will look like shit, and it's not because you've become better. It's because you can never be your own reader.

>>7693975
dude I don't even care, I just want the positivity to continue. That's the hardest part of writing, staying positive. Even if it's really shit, you can make it good if you work hard enough at editing it.

>>7693902
As I understand it should only "resonate".

>>7693902
ergfjhwerkjg

>>7693902
not if youre nihilist

>>7693901
the internet

>>7693941
I failed so i came to the real internet

gawain and the green knight will be in any anthology of early of english literature. i have two that have it-norton's and anderson/buckler.

>>7693886
Steinbeck was a meme author, and had no discernible talent. He was shitposting, and is literally genre tier fiction. clearly a juvenile author.

It isn't a retelling of genesis.
I was a moralistic hamfisted retelling of Cain and Abel story.

A fun read, but not challenging at all.

No.

Matrim is the only interesting character among the 100k other

>>7693880
book 1 and 2 were good at best

it got bad after that.

No.

>>7693797
William Blake was a meme author, and had no discernible talent. He was shitposting, and is literally genre tier fiction. clearly a juvenile author.

>>7693797
Blake was definitely great. I largely agree with your sentiments regarding Christianity. I can't help but shake my head, for example, at people trying to read Flannery O'Connor who have no knowledge of Catholicism. But they're tomorrow's literary writers. :(

"The Lamb"/counterpart to the first post

Little Lamb who made thee
Dost thou know who made thee
Gave thee life & bid thee feed.
By the stream & o’er the mead;
Gave thee clothing of delight,
Softest clothing wooly bright;
Gave thee such a tender voice,
Making all the vales rejoice!
Little Lamb who made thee
Dost thou know who made thee

Little Lamb I’ll tell thee,
Little Lamb I’ll tell thee!
He is called by thy name,
For he calls himself a Lamb:
He is meek & he is mild,
He became a little child:
I a child & thou a lamb,
We are called by his name.
Little Lamb God bless thee.
Little Lamb God bless thee.

Worth reading for beta males

>>7693783
If you think anything written by Robert Greene is good/helpful/interesting, please tell me you have a plan to kill yourself in the near future.

>>7693794
What is your criticism with his work?

Do androids?
Neuromancer

>>7693777
also supertoys play all summer long

>>7693777
"Gib mony pleas"

Sunshine Sketches of a little town

Fifth business

Handmaiden s tale

sticky

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>>7693757
this nigga here

reddit: the novel

never read it in high school, tried to pick it up in college but by then it was too late to ignore the obvious flaws. seems like a really good book to get people into literature though. actually, in my experience it's more like "read this one book then claim to enjoy literature", but whatever, better than nothing I guess.

>>7693751
Vonnegut was a meme author, and had no discernible talent. He was shitposting, and is literally genre tier fiction. clearly a juvenile author.

>>7693750
She fails to argue that Lesbianism is not Freudian/Lacanian.

Not that it is necessarily but her arguments are weak.

Otherwise it's overly-reliant on Sartre's bogus philosophy (literally a DUDE FREEDOM LMAO interpretation of Heidegger - very bad, but even Beauvoir decided to defend him after Heidegger wrecked his shit).

She has some interesting things to say of literature but it's mostly a tract that she wrote but didn't believe in because she lived the complete opposite.

Just read about her accusations of rape.

Hourly reminder that Simone was a predator who sexually assaulted and pimped out her female students and then wrote about the odor of their nether regions in her diary

>>7693764
Is that to say she argues that free will exists and men use it to knowingly oppress women in some capacity?

>>7693705
>his other stuff
is usually better than Myth.
>the works of other existentialists
better than those.
>the works of other existentialists
top kek, you can't really expect anyone to do a comparative study of existentialism vs 80 other schools.

But on that matter: exis had a lot of appeal because it fit the post-WWII atheist zeitgeist a huge lot. It's also accessible philosophy and it was the #1 school for that part of the XX century mostly because of these two reasons.

>>7693725
my copypaste fucked up, third meme arrow was obv meant to be 'other schools'.

>>7693725
cool. do you have any recommendations for classic work that you think fits today's zeitgeist?