tell me about your favorite poet.
Bukowski, specifically because he was shit. Unapologetic shit. But he wrote on.
>>7567661
After Shakespeare, Robert Browning is the best at writing dramatic monologues.
>>7567676
"Evelyn Hope" is such an erotic poem
Hey guys, recommend me some really good books ever
The fault in our stars senpai
>>7567571
The best one ever:
Schopenhauer's On Women
Infinite Jest
What philosophy can help me out of post-modernist solitude, confusion and despair?
Nietzsche
Christopher Lasch
The Last Psychiatrist
Post modernism
I wrote all night. What do you guys think of my opening?
It began like a fever dream. Objects would seemingly move on their own and appear in the oddest of locations. My first discovery was the television remote deposited unceremoniously into the kitchen toaster. On more than one occasion I found assorted fruit tumbling about in the washing machine, bed sheets hung from the ceiling fan, and pillows in the refrigerator. It continued slowly, new objects found suspiciously out of place, and then with unnerving frequency. Even my own school lunch wasn’t secure, and imagine the look on the other kids’ faces when I produced a slightly worn tennis shoe from the brown paper sack in place of a sandwich. That’s when I knew it was her.
My mother had been lead off by the nurses, and I was relegated to the waiting room, sat beneath the quiet hum of the fluorescent lights with my hands in my lap. At twelve years old I wasn’t considered mature enough to handle what they would tell her in her hospital room. But I knew. They would tell her what I had always known—that I was losing her. Not in a physical sense, she wasn’t dying, but she was leaving none the less. Her mind was slipping.
Several people sat morose in the plastic chairs of the waiting room, punctuating the silence with an occasional hacking cough. It had a stillness only a hospital could, damaged people waiting for acknowledgment of their pain, if not a cure. It was granted only by a woman infrequently swinging open a door and confirming that they indeed did exist by reading their name from a clipboard. It was always spoken with a dulness.
It continued on like that for what seemed like an hour, watching each person pass silently through the door and the nurse close it behind them. There were no windows in the waiting room, and I couldn’t decipher how late it was. We had arrived by an ambulance just after I got home from school that afternoon. I found her sprawled across the kitchen floor, broken glass and a bit of blood dotted across the linoleum. Along with her mind she had lost her balance.
The wooden door, a small window near its center, again swung open. But instead of a nurse, a man appeared. He was tan, and not dressed like a doctor, but wearing a pressed blue suit with a thin black tie.
You have a few typos. The opening is okay, I guess. I would proceed to page 2, if that's what you're looking for.
I like it senpai but then again I like David Mitchell's novels so I have no taste
>dat cliffhanger
Oh just post more, you tease you
>80 pages. How hard could it be?
>>7567223
>hasn't read Conrad
/out/
>>7567230
>the joke
>your head
>>7567230
Back to reddit
>have to write an 800 word statement for my university application
>deadline is in 5 days
kill me
800 word?
Whats it about?
Maybe I can help. I know how hard it is to get over the hump of writing good about yourself.
>>7567203
Write about your massive anxiety and inability w.r.t. writing a mere 800 words and relate it to how they would want you as a pupil.
Sage.
1] In the case where X is an increasingly larger number
1.1] >have to write an X^-1 _____ for my _____
>due in X^2 days
kill me / help me /lit/
Pack it up boys
What are some good 'Nam books?
Tim O'brien wrote a good collection of stories. one of them 'how to tell a true war story' is pretty dank, wrote an essay about it last semester at uni
Why /lit/ thinks that anything popular is bad?
What is the psychology behind this snobbism?
>>7567163
I don't want to seem like a pleb on an anonymous message board made for Chinese cartoon porn.
Classics are popular and are well liked here boyo
I think your question is more of why YA and genre shit is considered bad
>>7567163
they don't
also
>>>/r/4chan
Hey guys, where do you get free ebooks ?
libgen
sticky
Project Gutenberg
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35261648
How fast do you read and how many books per year?
Do you think it is better to read faster?
>>7566990
No one gives a shit about this pseudo-science.
>>7566990
>how many books per year?
~70
>Do you think it is better to read faster?
>fiction, poetry
No. Prose.
>non-fiction
If it doesn't harm comprehension, yes..
I have estimated my speed as 250 wpm with moderate understanding. It's pretty slow for a normal /lit/ I believe. Read faster, read more books, it's that simple.
>Romance of the Three Kingdoms
>one of the Four Greatest Chinese Novels
>still no properly translated into Spanish, one of the two or three most spoken languages on Earth
Who can explain this bullshit? Why is Spanish so mistreated despite being an official language in so many countries?
Will I have to resign myself to reading an English version of this Chinese long-winded novel?
It feels like there's been a lot of Three Kingdoms threads lately. Anyway, read it however you can OP because it's baller as fuck.
>>7566979
Seriously? I haven't seen any thread regarding RoTK. Journey to the West seems to be more commonly discussed on /lit/.
Anyways, I know that there are a few spaniards and latin american posters. Has anybody been in this situation?
daily reminder
>Most Arab countries have not learned from the lessons of the past and the field of translation remains chaotic. In terms of quantity, and notwithstanding the increase in the number of translated books from 175 per year during 1970-1975 to 330, the number of books translated in the Arab world is one fifth of the number translated in Greece. The aggregate total of translated books from the Al-Ma’moon era to the present day amounts to 10,000 books - equivalent to what Spain translates in a single year (Shawki Galal, in Arabic, 1999, 87).
Did any philosophers believe in God or religion? Did this affect their philosophy? Most do not, why?
>>7566925
>Did any philosophers believe in God or religion?
>Did this affect their philosophy?
Take a wild guess.
Probably the most known one is Descartes: He reasoned God's existence, but not really convincingly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes
This is a literature board. Reading books would have answered your questions.
What lamp do you use for reading?
I did use an old family one that had three bulbs. It fell off my headboard and only 1 socket works now. Been looking for something new.
>>7566880
I don't need no mother fucking lamp to read. I use the light from the sky, and when it is dark I turn on the lights in my room. I don't have a lamp on my desk. I don't need no motherfucking lamp.
>>7566880
When you get one of those in OP's pic make sure that either
a) it's mountable to the table or
b) The base is extremely heavy.
Otherwise moving or adjusting the lamp will result in you pushing it around, which sadly happens with my cheap one.
Hey /lit/, anyone read Dan Simmons's Hyperion series? Imo it's one of the best scifi series I've read. Do you have any scifi book recommendations?
Read the first one; liked it a lot.
>>7566850
Nice. Which of the 6 stories did you find the most interesting?
>>7566826
Read it - I'll type out my thoughts on it in next post.
You should check out the next book (sadly falls off)
Some other good sci-fi I've read: Dune, Starship Troopers, The Left Hand of Darkness, Neuromancer, Snow Crash, Flowers for Algernon, Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Is actually good, it's not pleb shit as 4chan says; nor is it a visionary masterpiece as reddit says)
If you want any more details about those lemme know
I really like Johnson's dictionary, which is prescriptive. It is a bit dated, but it's such a pleasure to read.
But the main topic of this thread is: how do descriptivist dictionaries obtain their definition? Seems a bit difficult without a mass poll. I'd really like to know
Also, as an aside, is the transition to descriptivist dictionaries something almost inevitable from democracy? Johnson was a High Tory (anti-capitalist, anti-democracy), and in a way I think his book as the paragon of prescriptive dictionaries in English is almost an embodiment of that ideology. One of course he managed to work into his dictionary
His definition of Tory
>One who adheres to the ancient constitution of the state, and the apostolical hierarchy of the church of England, opposed to a Whig.
His definition of Whig
>The name of a faction.
>>7566823
This almost seems that it is bad to be white.