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How do you negroids do it. How do you actually sit down and work. I have many times but I average like 2000 words per week when I know I could be spewing out a hell of a lot more
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The trick is a period of intense thought, followed by a period of leisure and/or sleep, followed by a period of writing
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Is it imperative to understand the whole of a piece of writing, or is the gist of it sufficient? I have trouble reading the classics because I'm not used to the style of language they're written in. I feel very stupid when I can't comprehend what I'm reading. Is there any way I can get better at understanding difficult prose?
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>Is it imperative to understand the whole of a piece of writing, or is the gist of it sufficient?
You're a free reader, you set up your expectations and try to meet them. If at that moment you feel you can't grasp the whole thing, so be it. You know you'll get better with sufficient effort.
>I feel very stupid when I can't comprehend what I'm reading
Happens to everyone, and it is a good thing. If it doesn't happen, it means you're not challenging yourself.
>Is there any way I can get better at understanding difficult prose?
Keep at it, you'll get better. Maybe pick shorter old books, so you don't get too bored, but just keep at it, that is the only way to get better.
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>>9842945
>it means you're not challenging yourself.
Irrelevant. He's not competing in a test of who can read the most convoluted prose.
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>>9842951
He seems to want to be able to read more classical pieces. It means he at least is competing with himself...
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>Hadji Murat is the greatest story of all time.
Why does this guy always have to be so contrarian. It wasn't even Tolstoy's best short story/novella. That would be Father Sergius.
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FS though beautiful wd be an even more contrarian selection as relatively speaking very little actually happens. Since all the shorts are extremely good it's probably best to leave this a matter of taste. I'd choose one of the longer shorter works, Cossacks or Family Happiness. Of the smaller Master and Man.
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Do people only like this fella because he thought Marx was full of it?
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>>9842704
>thought
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>>9842704
No, he doesn't even mention marx.
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>>9842704
I quit philosophy after reading Kant, desu, except Nietzsche for the memes
Note: I was reading philosophy in chronological order up till Kant. Fucking Germanic autists. Everything after him was just gazing into the depths of one's navel whilst circle-jerking the corpses of your predecessors until you die and become one of them, to be jerked by your successors in turn. Well, that and intense, meaningless, pointless autism.
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>"There's nothing left to write about. Everything has been done. All people want to read is feel-good stories about black trannies."
>"anon, why don't you try writing about people whose stories aren't told in a style you approve of?
>"lol I don't write about shitskin traps"
And yet you idiots wonder why you're unpublished and nobody likes you.
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hey /lit/ what are some music recommendations to play while listening to music? Post some stuff you're into, something that won't be too much of a distraction, something soft and soothing to read muh books.
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lmao how do you play music while you're listening to music
Is there actually any music like this? Whenever I listen to music while reading I always become restless. I find reading more fun and immersive if I imagine the sounds that are in the book anyway.
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>>9842597
you don't listen to like piano? or white noise, nothing with lyrics, just instruments like a guitar playing or flutes and stuff like that.
So I bought a book from an estate sale and this one seems to have a signature on it... is this someone famous or is this just some other guy?
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>>9842091
It's the name of the guy who bought it in Dec 41
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>>9842102
Oh what a shame. I though it would've been worth something
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>>9842091
Barack Obama
Does Folk Literature have merit? What's your favorite piece?
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>>9842084
What do you mean by folk literature exactly? Can you name any examples?
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>>9842361
Daredevils of Sassoun, Kutadgu bilig, general folklore
ya know
Redpill me on books about dinosaurs please. Either fiction or non fiction are welcome.
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>>9842000
>dinosaurs
>non-fiction
pick one
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>>9842288
in this instance the 'fp' is the 'bp'
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What are some books about men or women with intractable insomnia (apart from Fight Club).
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Insomnia.
bugs.. easy on the lsd
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>>9842052
Shut the fuck up. die.
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>>9842052
You are an insect
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What is the literary equivalent of this image?
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Certain parts of Ulysses. Not even memeing.
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I still don't quite understand what feet puffing is but such is my way
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Is he good? Better as president or as writer?
Has anyone here actually read his work?
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What kind of name is that? What is he, some kind of vampire?
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>>9841914
a czech one
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I read the power of the powerless. Its good. The basic gist of it is you have you be prepared to be a martyr in order to end totalitarianism
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i am the 4th dimension of aspect reality for me and collin speer drove through the gates on this day with rythm unbeknownst to either but harmony for he is friend a fried end much like eye and we are we so this is that and this is decreed collin speer drive thy might into the ground of your grounds and be one with your earths and formations as well as continued continuity with physical concepts on how to keep this progressing with no harm to come to you or your loved ones for you are of free mind to do what you which for you are light and you and your flames no nothing but light you truly speer of collin is blessed with nothing more than an ambition to live with any and all and that is why we have coordinates never for need or use unrespective to my conscious or yours at the and this is how we un did all this with help from others and help from friendship for none stopped us and we came in sync my friend harmony and rythm for when fate locks our gate appears and we walked in with no doubts only truth no matter how garbled cause you care for nothing but what i do peace and unity and u will truly take all time and understanding to do so in your heart of hearts minds of mind you are this and i am that and we are one and more will come and i will be only with one as shall you cleansed of any deamon or temptress ever to try and cross either perspective path for we are all holy of nature in this and we are primed warriors awakend take this message shape it and make others see this in the most subtle but lowed ways :) we are what we are and we need be nothing more for you do not speak in tounges you only show truths and what could be truths from your loving heart conscious
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>IT'S JUST A PRANK BRO: the book
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>>9841754
>doubting a word of this true history
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Is this actually a good book or just commercial fodder?
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The movie is good, just watch it instead.
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Both the book and movie are Holohoax horseshit, avoid them at all costs.
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>What have you got there Herr Steiner?
>oh it's just Schindler's List
>Is it any good?
srsly Keneally