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What do you think of this concept for a short play:
A farce about four players performing three plays from the career of a fictional playwright. The three plays vary in style and show the progression of the playwright's life.
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anything can be good.
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>>7676622
Is what I have now good?
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>>7677020
No.
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Currently reading pic related. Comfiest book ever.
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How so?
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>>7677706
It's a garden party.
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>>7678783
after they run away from death and moral chaos.
the stories themselves are rather trite.
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Good fences make good neighbors 2016-02-08 20:52:07 Post No.7676105
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Good fences make good neighbors
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Does this passage from a Robert Frost story accurately describe New Englanders?
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>>7676105
No idea, but I do know that walls or fences work really well in forcing tenants of large areas of land to get along together.
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>>7676105
Never been to New England but I'll take Bob's word for it.
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>>7676105
I've felt, recently, this passage best describes the dictionary entry for neighbors.
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Do I need to have read The Iliad first in order to read The Odyssey or can I read it on its own?
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Kindof, but you can get away by having some general knowledge of the events. Just skim wikipedia, and remember the Horse wasn't actually in the Iliad.
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>>7676094
The Horse wasn't in the Iliad? I wasn't aware.
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>>7676086
You can read it on its own but you should read the Iliad anyway
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What are the best publishing houses ? Are more expensive editions such as those offered by Folio worth buying ?
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>>7676069
Random house Vintage books have nice covers.
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>>7676069
Folio has some good stuff, but mostly their books are riddled with god-awful illustrations
That said, their edition of Grapes of Wrath is wonderful, though they don't seem to sell it anymore
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I have a pronunciation question for UK anons.
Do people normally use this pronunciation?
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gap#English
Because the vowel quality I'm hearing is much more like:
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gap#Polish
(Deep-throated frogginess aside)
Because when I think about a really toffee-nosed accent, "gap" sounds more like "ghep" than like the UK pronunciation above. I can hardly tell the difference between the Polish "gap" and the RP "gap," but the toff RP "gap" sounds very distinct. Is this distinction dying out? Or do toffs just use a longer vowel?
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>>7675985
(Overall point is the pronunciation of the /ae/ vowel, not just the word gap.)
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Gap rhymes with
Nap, bap, lap, yap, cap, sap, tap, rap, map, zap
It does not rhyme with pep, rep,
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Nah nobody says gep in England
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What would one gain if they tried to read through Bloom's Western canon without a good base in critical reading*?? Does something like this develop naturally or would it just be a huge waste of time?
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To Bloom it is less waste of time than the books he considers a waste of time since it is an art form and to him the elite art form. It is the artfulness of it that makes it wasteful, so those that are not artful are worthless.
Simply, you gain an appreciation for the art.
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>>7675970
What do you plan on doing, read a book on critical reading?
How would you read it properly and get anything out of it if you are unable to read it critically?
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>>7676182
I don't know. I think it was a stupid question
I just worry about my reading comprehension, I started reading books three years ago
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What are some quotes/verse that every cultivated English speaker knows ?
I was thinking of things such as simple as "nevermore" in The Raven.
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it was the worst of times, it was the best of times, ...
i am become death
to be or not to be
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Arse full of farts
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>>7675955
Do you think the archangel Gabriel
thinks anything the less of me, because I promptly and
respectfully obey that old hunks in that particular instance?
Who ain’t a slave? Tell me that
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ITT: Good poetry
I am not my grandmother or my mother
Although they are flowing into me
Into me, I am not them
And I will not take this beating
Beating down like the rain
Beating down like the rain
Without a sound
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>>7675882
you start
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>>7675882
Kinda lame tbqhwyf. I would post some but I am not a poet. Come up with something that really has something to say instead of something you'd find superimposed over black and white pictures of windows on instagram
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>>7675882
I Love (You), Savannah.
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How would you feel if a major Hollywood studio picked up all the rights to your favorite author's books, then said they intended to make them into a "cinematic universe"?
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>>7675880
I'd be kinda sorry for them. Shit's crazy, it'll be a second Dune.
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i'd prob go check out the movies when they come out
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Anyone read this?
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what is it about?
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>>7677204
I just bought it because it was cheap and the cover (not that one) looked cool. The back says it's sci fi about someone getting assassinated and his psyche shattered and his only hope is somene he knows who can use a machine he built that can reassemble his consciousness. Or something.
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>>7675856
Is that Marvin Minsky the AI researcher? I had no idea he wrote sci-fi. Or was he just a consultant?
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Life of Pi author Yann Martel heads to Mountains of Portugal: Summary 2016-02-08 19:47:54 Post No.7675840
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Life of Pi author Yann Martel heads to Mountains of Portugal: Summary
http://theprimeversion.com/books-life-after-pi-tenuous-tales-from-a-portuguese-village/
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>implying /lit/ reads living authors
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>>7675907
This anon is right, if I can't ironically compare the author's untimely death with the teeming life in his writing I know that what I'm reading is pleb trash
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>>7675840
Am I the only person on /lit/ who really likes Yann Martel's books?
Why are you wasting your time on a Somalian clean water image board instead of reading literature?
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Because I don't read
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I have two eyes retard
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>>7675868
Two eyes retard is what they'd call you if you wore an eyepatch and a monocle
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How fast can /lit/ type??
http://10fastfingers.com/typing-test/english
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yay
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nothin personel, kids.
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Dubliners discussion - Spoilers 2016-02-08 19:25:12 Post No.7675728
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I just finished The Dead (and the rest of Dubliners too). I found Gabriel Conroy quite relatable, and this bothers me –because isn't Joyce trying to show Michael as the only truly good character? Everyone else is caught up in the past, where as Michael is afraid to die for the strength of his love in the present.
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>>7675728
Joyce didn't want to portray characters as good or evil. In any case, Michael Furey was the only truly passionate character, but look where that left him.
In any case, if you feel you related too much with Gabriel Conroy, and you dont like that, then you should figure out why that is so and fix it.protip: don't be a snob
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>In reference to a passage in the Books of Samuel which refers to a saying about the blind and the lame, Rashi quotes a midrash which argues that the Jebusites had two statues in their city, with their mouths containing the words of the covenant between The Jebusite King and Abraham; one figure, depicting a blind person, represented his son Isaac, and the other, depicting a lame person, representing his grandson, Jacob.
'Michael Fury' is perhaps somewhat comparable to David at this time?