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>"Anon...do you understand a single word in the book you've been reading?"
My dad just asked my this question. What should I tell him?
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>>7369214
understanding is such a bourgeois concept
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They all make sense individually, it's when you put them together that things get real
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>>7369217This.And blow cigarette smoke out yr nostrils.
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ITT: We post and depict paintings.
>The Fountain of Love, by François Boucher.
Boucher was a master painter, and his most revered scenes are those of the quaint countryside, depicting idyllic pastoral scenes and classical themes. His depictions in the pastoral genre excluded the harsh realities of live, and brought the beauty of the countryside into the homes of aristocratic society. The Fountain of Love is such an image. It was first designed as an image for a tapestry in 1748, and was one in a set of six images depicting Noble Pastorales. Originally, tapestries were woven directly over the paintings, and later, they were cut up into sections to be sold separately. Fortunately this one was spared such a fate, and it is now in the collection of The Getty Center of Los Angeles.
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The Original Turducken
Look closely at this roasting ox and you’ll notice small animal heads protruding from its sides. Explanation is in order.
The year is 1530. Coronation ceremonies are being held for the Holy Roman Emperor in Bologna, Italy. A daylong procession in the streets culminates in a feast sponsored by the city senate. Red and white wine flows from the mouths of gilt lions mounted on columns adorned with the Roman imperial double-headed eagle and the emperor’s motto, “plus ultra” (further beyond), referring to his power and the extent of his realm.
While the imperial party dines indoors, baskets of bread are thrown to the common people eating and drinking in the streets.
Fine, but what about that creepy roast? An enormous roasted ox was stuffed with fowl, suckling pigs, lambs, and hares, shown here. Call it the original oxducken…but it’s the same weird idea.
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>>7369166
>mfw about to go sit in front of a few Boucher works at a museum nearby and read
Prettiest colors I've ever seen painted.
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Christmas Present Suggestions Thread
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Let's help each other find good Christmas books for our family and friends, /lit/!
Post some short info about each person you're looking to find book(s) for, like age, gender, interests, and reading habits. If you're not an anglo make sure to post what country you're from, in case there are other /lit/erati from the same country who have native language suggestions.
Post some requests, and give suggestions for others, to make the whole thing turn round.
I'll start. Need to find gifts for:
-Mum, age 60. A bit of a hippie and believes in homeopathy etc, always reading books on alternative medicine and the latest trendy diets etc. She's fairly well-read and has good taste, though, so I'd like to find something that's actually good.
-My best childhood friend (we've grown apart, though), age 22, likes fantasy, Warhammer, LARP, video games, etc, but still very physically active, prefers audiobooks over reading so that he can paint figurines simultaneously. Starting to become pretty conservative, so I'm thinking I'd find something intellectual and encouraging on that end.
-His sister, ~25, avid reader with pretty good taste in books. Jane Austen fan (of course) and studies historical tailoring (mainly Victorian).
-Her boyfriend from New Zealand, age ~25, extremely historically interested (especially 17th-19th centuries and WW2, and with a focus on military history) and does a lot of re-enacting, but doesn't seem to read all that much (I gave him some books last year but I'm not sure if he's actually read them), so maybe something with more illustrations than text. Quite conservative.
-Their parents, kinda liberal and not too well-read (they read a lot of stupid get-rich-quick-books and the latest trendy quack medicine stuff mainly), in their fifties. These are the hardest ones, as I've not thought of a single good book for either of them yet.
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>>7369163
For your mother, get Janeway's Immunobiology.
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>>7369170
Hm, interesting suggestion, but she's actually studied medicine and I'm not sure if she'd read it even if she ought to...
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George Eliot for the sister
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hello /lit/ i want to get into aesthetics and art. is pic related a good place to start?
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>go to an art gallery
>stare at painting
>concentrate.. ask it questions in your mind
>keep staring at it
>a portal will open
>walk into it
>you've just walked into hell
>stay there you fag
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bump becuese i want to know as well
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>>7369052
You might also be interested in Roger Scruton
>BAD PROSE ALERT.
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>>7368969
>Starting with a long borin prologue that's nothing but infodump.
Tolkien knew exactly what kind of audience he was aiming for.
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What do you mean by bad prose in this instance?
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>tfw unable to tell if prose is good or bad
i just read things and like them, i have no fucking idea whether the writing is good or not
it feels good to be a pleb desu
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I just finished pic related
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Does anyone want to discuss it? I loved the rebel and the grand-inquisitor and i found the trial part quite enjoyable as well, loved the build up to the speech by Ippolit and Fetjoekovitsj. The last chapter had me tear up.
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>>7368963
Wow? :')
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>>7368966
This.
What is it? Get it out of here.
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Anyone has a pdf of the version shown by OP? I want to read it but said version isn't commonly available in my country.
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Hey /lit/. I'm writing an essay on American imperialism and it's consequences and i would appreciate if you could recommend me some literature on the topic.
>pic related
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umm gore vidal?
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>>7368905
Will look into it, thanks for the contribution!!
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>tfw sophomore and I have had to write roughly 500 3- to 6-page papers on white imperialism
>tfw if I could go back in time I would stop slavery just so that today I would be able to maybe learn about other stuff that has happened in history
don't worry, OP, you will get plenty of practice. also, /lit/ is not your homework board.
>>>/hm/
whats that word that means two people have run away with each other to live their lives together away from everyone else whom they used to know? cant fucking remember
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Iranian-Homosexuality.
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>>7368805
race mixing
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>>7368805
Elope?
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Is Aesthetic Relativism not only the cancer killing quality literature, but quality art in general?
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>>7368468
Yep.
We've destroyed God, nation, our characters, our genders, our families, our communities and even beauty itself. There is nothing to do but wait to be swallowed up by Hades itself.
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>>7368471
>beauty itself
go to bed plato
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>>7368468
>Aesthetics aren't relative
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Why some many science fiction writers are also fantasy writers?
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>>7368440
>some many
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>>7368440
Because they're the same thing
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>>7368440
Because both of those genres are written mainly for kids who play Magic and draw on rice paper in Barnes & Noble.
Could someone explain me what is the point of this play, what is it even about? I'm having kind of a hard time understanding it.
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>>7368368
I feel like I could explain it to you, but whats the point?
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um it's pretty self explanatory
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>>7368384
You mean because we are going to die anyway? If my humble request for your explanation is not enough, please do not do that.
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I'm trying to get back into reading and had a question. Do you guys imagine people you know as characters in the book? I could never do that.
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shameful self bump
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i've never done that
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Fuck no
I'm trying to write a screenplay set in 1712 in rural Britain. I have a basic plot outline and a strong thematic and character foundation but it demands this specific setting that I know precious little about. What tips do you have for writing a setting you are not an expert in, and on researching something like this?
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It's actually the easiest thing in the world, you only make use of the setting when you need to or when it'll help the action in someway. But otherwise just completely forget that it's set in a different time period. In novels from the 18th century the thing that interests is the relatable human interactions and ideas, not the details of whatever they used to shit in.
If you really want to you can research like a motherfucker and go all out, I think the go to example for this is The Name Of The Rose.
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>>7368173
historical movies are usually lot more expensive i doubt anyone would make such movie without some fanbase behind it or smth
your better off making thread on /his/ than here
>What tips do you have for writing a setting you are not an expert in,
dont do it
write about something you are expert in-common sense desu
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Hey guys, let's find the worst state poet laureate.
My submission is Cyntia Huntington from New Hampshire, good luck finding a worse one
Excerpt from "meds":
3.
I must elude pain
float past clarity
pain in the brain
slammed down like a housefly.
It’s a big dodge.
Fly on a stovetop
sizzle and ash pop.
This is illusion,
mental confusion
born in the synapse.
What can be undone
down to the last gasp.
It’s a hodgepodge.
If you kill pain
you will become pain;
pain does not feel pain,
no nerves in the brain.
It’s a mind-fuck.
It’s just your bad luck.
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>>7368108
bump for intrefast
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this is really good. Can't you see the matrix analogies?
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>>7368108
so America needs to find 50 new poets to honour every few years ?
of course most of them are gonna be shit
Requesting some recommendations for core mysticism writings, esoteric if possible.
Thanks in advance.
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Found this ( http://www.pdfarchive.info/pdf/S/Sc/Scholem_Gershom_Gerhard_-_On_the_kabbalah_and_its_symbolism.pdf ) if anyone is interested in some light Gravity's Raimbow prerequisite reading.
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Literally all Continental Philosophy
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Jung, Crowley, Mckenna, Bataille, Klossowski