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I'm sorry I forgot this man's name.
Could anyone help?
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René Ofthemaps
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I van Given da Dickus
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Rene Descartes
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/06/borges-auden-nabokov-neruda-nobel-prize-literature-1965
>Nabokov, Neruda and Borges revealed as losers of 1965 Nobel prize
>Nobel archives have been opened to reveal who was nominated for the 1965 prize for literature, a controversial year won by divisive victor Mikhail Sholokhov
who the fuck is sholokhov
>tfw you will never win the Nobel prize for literature, beating Nabokov, Neruda, and Borges
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He deserved it. People like to bitch about the nobels but the winners are always great in some way.
Also Nabokov is in no way Nobel Material. Borges possibly, but not Nabokov.
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incorrigible stupidity
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>>7592049
>the best prose ever written in the language after joyce
>not worthy of nobel
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Contemporany existencial literature 2016-01-18 18:40:17 Post No.7599529
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Contemporany existencial literature
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Names of books (narrative, poetry or theatre) with existencial topics, that have been published after 1960, and that could be placed among the classic books of that genre, being those the ones by Dostoievski, Kafka, Camus, Sartre...
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aesthetics-existentialist/#Bib
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It's there a name for this idea?
You have some text your read in some electronic form, let's say a tablet/smartphone.
At some points a simple decision check is done where you choose between the actions the character will do or stuff he'll say.
This can have small or big impacts on the story.
Does this has a name?
I remember reading somewhere the term interactive literature.
>inb4 it's just a VN
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>>7599449
Choose your adventure story? They used to be pretty common in print form some decades ago. Of course digitalization offers lot more possibilities.
Maybe you could call it non-visual visual novel :^)
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>>7599470
I guess they're the print version of my idea.
I was planing more like some kind of interactive magazine or something like that.
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http://www.clickhole.com/features/clickventure/
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What are your favorite quotes /lit/?
I'll start:
''With bare feet I trod upon thorns and flints''
-- Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi
''Now is thy mouth prevented, for death has closed it''
-- Anonymous
''He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.''
-- Luke 22:36
"Man may bleed to death through the truth that he recognizes"
-- Nietzsche
"If you have not contributed to a catastrophe, you will vanish without a trace."
-- E. M. Cioran
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Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
"To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his Gods."
-Macaulay, Lays of Ancient Rome
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Once there were lions in China
-W.S. Merwin
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rThe purpose of reading is to find woks worthy of being re-read 2016-01-18 13:12:45 Post No.7598698
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Post yours, past or future.
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I do not know what that r thinks it is doing. Please not to meme this thread with wok. Thank you.
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kafka everything
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me on the right
What did you guys think of pic related? I genuinely enjoyed this. How does this compare to Chuck Palahniuk's other work?
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Just leave.
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I enjoyed it, prefered Pygmy, lullaby, haunted and choke, but its not /lit/erary, so sage
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One of the worst. So if you liked it, you'll like the rest. Rant & Haunted are the best. Fight Club & Lullaby are also worth checking out. And obviously his nonfiction is the only /lit/ acceptable part of his works, though they've never been acknowledged here until RIGHT NOW.
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A Fire Upon the Deep/The Forge of God 2016-01-18 05:20:57 Post No.7597883
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A Fire Upon the Deep/The Forge of God
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Just finished this. Was as thoroughly impressed as I was confused. Can anyone clear up some questions i have such as:
>the nature of the powers, where they come from and where they reside. (I know they are civs. that have advanced, but what path do they take to get there [metaphorically] )
>the location and path to the transcend and what is there
>the origin of the zones
>any more info on the Countermeasure and the Blight
also I am planning on reading The Forge of God by Greg Bear next, what do you guys think of this?
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self bump
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>>7597883
doesn't look like literature
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>>7598125
Shit, sorry professor. I thought i was on 4chan not in Ivy League literature class.
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Worth a read? Don't bother? I read TGG in highschool, though it was 6.5/10.
captcha: select all images with eggs
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Can you repeat the question?
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You're not the boss of me now
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This was great. That last story, damn, it was depressing. Good but depressing.
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i got this for my mom for christmas
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>>7597385
It's worth a read. Most of the stories are really short and have a punch to them.
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Sorry, unlike his name suggests, Stephen King is no literary royalty, he's just a pleb with dirty buttocks like the rest of us. PEACE OUT NIGGA.
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Write a haiku in your native language.
Camina firme
las flamÃgeras horas,
ahora agostas.
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Is haiku a 2-syllable or a 3-syllable word?
In Japanese it's ha-i-ku. In English is it the same?
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>>7596385
2 syllabes, I think. Like in castillian.
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haikus are so gay
why does anyone like this
stupid poetry?
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What's a good plan for learning a language?
I'd like to learn Italian as my second language, and I plan on using duolingo, watching Italian video, and reading Italian books -- would this be a good plan?
Unfortunately, I am still in education, so I can't focus all my time on it -- would doing just a bit each day be enough to reach basic (as in, could understand basic dialogue/literature, knowing how to speak in a basic way) level after about a year or two?
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>complete duolingo
>use memrise for vocab (learn at least top 5000 words)
>read levelled reader books
>read comics
>read literary books
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>>7596021
This + a grammar book, works great. The problem is that you need alot of discipline to learn a language by self study
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Read italian translations of books you've already read, italian articles, italian subtitles for your tv shows, change all language settings on your apps and pc to italian, when you're wasting time on 4chan look up common words and phrases you find, try thinking in italian.
Books about learning a language are useless imo, at least when starting. You can find a lot of things on the internet, use them.
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it's really hard to make children read these days
any essential entry level books to make them even interested in reading? I have some old 150pp adventure books but they were written in 1960s and read by my dad before me
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>it's really hard to make children read these days
Not really. Kids love to read. Give them Harry Potter or The Hungry Games or anything from which a movie series they like is adapted, and they'll plow through those things like coke lines.
The only kids who don't like to read are legit ADD shits.
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>>7595989
this should do it
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>>7596013
Could you get them to read The Faerie Queene or maybe Lancelot's adventures as easily?
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Is Shrike the most creepy of all villains in all universes in the woooorld?
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The Shrike excellent in the first two books but lost his coolness as the series went on. I don't like rereading but if there's any series I've seriously considered a retread of it's this one for how much I'm sure I missed the first time around.
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Is Philosophical Investigations an existentialist work?
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No.
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>>7599094
Hamlet
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>>7599094
Wittgenstein sounds like a severely autistic engineer attempting to write poetry