Anyone else like this faggot?
He's great to read right before bed.
I don't really know but I like the fact that the English town where he lives awarded him with some kind of excellence in citizenship award for picking up trash on his daily walks. No one there had any idea who he was.
Your favourite quotes on writing?
no so much a quote but a cliche. "writers write."
hannah arendt on meaning: "It is true that storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it, that it brings about consent and reconciliation with things as they really are, and that we may even trust it to contain eventually by implication that last word which we expect from the Day of Judgment”.
suit the action to the word, the word to the action. idk shakespeare probably
Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. - Franz Kafka
He'll be fine.R-right?
Ellison has an absurd memepotential but /lit/ is to pleb for him
>>7572689
More like he's too pleb for us, bitch.
>>7572704
Haha
What are some books that can help me get hyped for WWIII?
>>7572189
i hear "the road" by cormac McCarthy is a fairly uplifting take on it.
Alas, Babylon if you want to go old school duck and cover mode...
>>7572189
Spencer, Parable of the Sower
Revelation of St. John
suggest a good blog for /lit/ to read
I'll start ... www.lancemanion.com
Your turn.
>>7572167
>advertising is against the rules
Enjoy your ban
>>7572167
The central idea behind this shitty comic has been rehashed so many times. We fucking get it; shaving makes people look younger - stop redrawing comics that point it out.
>>7572167
I'm not giving your shit blog page views. Reported to FBI.
Am I a plebe if, after three-and-a-half books, I don't fully appreciate Nabakov's prose style and prefer stuff like Hemmmingway?
Currently reading Ada. I don't dislike, but I'm not in love. The only Nabakov I've read that I've also loved has been The Eye (and that one wasn't originally written in English).
after several years to mull over it, I prefer Hemingway's style of prose over Nabakov's?
What are the other two you read? And, if applicable, in Russian or in English?
>>7572147
Lolita and Pale Fire, both in English. I liked Lolita but wouldn't put it in my favorites. Pale File was dense and I was reading it amidst the chaos of visiting family at home and I feel I need to read it again.
It's called having a preference.
Rid yourself of this non-existent pleb and patrician dichotomy and just enjoy reading literature. Maybe your appreciation of Nabakov will come in time, maybe it won't. It doesn't matter, Hemingway is still good. Even if he wasn't, it doesn't matter.
Where would you say is the best place to start with Lispector? Been interested in her a lot lately.
I found her to be really tough to read, even with portuguese being my native language. Obvious choices are "A hora da estrela", "A Paixão segundo G.H.".
>>7572120
it's a woman??
into the trash!!!!
>>7572311
She's really great, anon.
>Find textbook on Lulu.com at a discount
>"Hmm, maybe I should buy it..."
>Find coupon for extra 30% today only
>Today is almost over
>OH SHI- OH SHI- BUY BUY
>Choose cheapest shipping option in haste
>euphoric.jpg
>next day read the fine print
>"By choosing basic shipping you have no tracker and if your item is lost in the mail you will not be refunded"
>shipping estimated at 4-8 business day
>9th business day now
How fucked am I?
I used to buy books on Amazon in bulk, sometimes just enought to get free shipping, until I got tired of the erratic ship and delivery dates. Now I just pay for the shipping regardless of whether or not I need it as soon as possible. Besides, I mostly buy used books now so I have to pay for the shipping anyway.
Is it any good?
the first two are great
after that it declines a bit imo, but still worth to read
>>7571941
Well then, I'll give it a read.
>>7571939
Yep its good. The first one is interesting because each character is supposed to represent a sub genre of science fiction. Great example of a cool concept executed very well.
>91
>still writing music
Im sure hell be fine
Don't you dare, he's barely even a mene yet
>>7571934
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>>7571934
Pls no
Do you ever feel like you're just always working off intuition?
yeh all the time
>>7571888
You mean in writing? Yeah. I'm trying to write my first novel(la), and what I'm finding about my writing process is that, I'll go in with all of these thoughts, plans, ideas, and then just write about stuff that comes up through associations.
It doesn't help that I have some weird kind of autism where I hear the words more like a musical composition, so when I'm thinking of what will come next I'll consider what I want it to sound like, what the progress or resolution should be. Editing's easy: everything's on the chopping block, only a few precious words or clauses should be saved from a paragraph.
I'm stupid in a complicated way.
>>7571942
That's why I choose poetry over prose. I end up talking in terms of sound so it seems logical.
Were this a real conversation I'd probably do it in this manner
Writing in these odd lines
Because
It sounds right in my head
>tfw i've read lots of books but have had a bad memory and no english lit education after 16 (went full stemtard)
>tfw i can barely describe most books ive read
>>7571887
Mods plz delete this, it's a trump thread in disguise.
Read then.
>>7571887
Well first of all you need to read more. Second of all you need to improve your reading ability. Take an easy book and read it. After each chapter read a summary online and try to see what they are pulling out of the novel. This is roughly what you should be pulling out of the text in terms of plot.
After you finish the novel read some short cliffnotes analyses and look at what themes they are getting out the the text. Compare them to your own thoughts.
Ask yourself while reading... What is this novel about? What is the author trying to tell me by writing this story? What are some universal themes in the book? What things have touched you throughout the novel?
will i be more scrutinized and/or derided (perhaps even dismissed) if i satirize and mock leftist politics rather than skewering right-wing views in my work?
No, just don't be a fag about it
I'm pretty sure if you had to ask this question you're going to have problems with that though
you will be dismissed but your politics will have little to no part in it. like >>7571916 said.
I'm looking for some ancient and medieval history charts. I've recently read Herodotus "The Histories" and his side stories were fascinating to me. Doesn't have to be western history!
>reading TPK
>DFW literally has footnotes for his footnotes
How deep does the rabbit hole go?
Hah, junior here's having trouble with TPK's footnotes! Just wait till you get to HoL kiddie.
>>7571714
HoL?
>>7571709
Its not that hard, if you didn't give up within the first 100 pages it should be easy to finish