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It's been awhile since I've listened to/read this, but I don't think he ever makes that contention. He certainly focuses on the higher education liberal arts thing because it's an address at a liberal arts college.

>>7359932
However, in a general sense, I do enjoy and agree with this speech.

I don't think he's saying that it's the only place you can learn it, just that that's the reason you should go.

It would be like saying the reason to go to a grocery store is to buy groceries. There are other things you can do there, but the most efficient use of your time in the grocery store is to buy groceries. If you don't want groceries your time would be better spent elsewhere.

It seems like Hemingway addresses this criticism by suggesting that if we portray characters doing things rather than trying to describe how they feel, the reader will be able to understand how they feel through sheer empathetic brain-power rather than through the conveyance of words.

>>7359854
i guess maybe if we see an author trying to describe the state of another human being's mind as sincerely and accurately as he can, as doomed an attempt as it is, the same principle would apply?

Show, don't tell, in a nutshell.

Why? What's it to you?

>>7359813
I haven't read it anon

>>7359820
OP here, probably around 20~25 days, but I am brazilian and my book is english so took a bit more. Also, pretent to come back at it in the future to actually study all the references and all.

Can /lit/ clear something up for me, my English teacher told me Shakespeare plagiarized everything he 'wrote'.

>>7359807
Your English teacher is retarded.

>tfw screaming "What a piece of work is a man!" monologue alone out the window into a storm

>>7359723
infinite jest

>>7359728
>IJ
>redpill
It's like some people post IJ in every thread no matter the theme.

Incase you're being serious:
IJ isn't even reactionary. It isn't even political.

It's a social commentary.

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>>7359723
pic related. So redpilled even Hitler couldn't handle it.

Are you Gorm?

What's a form? Ha

Gorm

>>7359573
>edgar poe

OH MY GOD

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>>7359573
>We all should know that the best english poet of the last 200 years is Edgar Poe. But who's the second best? I think Rudyard Kipling.

I appreciate what you are doing OP. The people on this board only appreciate poetry which they can post with a picture of an androgynous girl attached. I do not like Poe so much, but Kipling is great. Anybody who wants to be a writer can learn a lot from him, if you want to just get a gf through reading (most of /lit/) then don't bother.

I would put forward Hopkins as the best poet of the last 200 years. His voice is unique and the music of his poetry is perfectly matched to everything he describes.

>tfw first discovered The Leaden Echo and The Golden Echo.

How'd you like the book? Was it worth the daily threads?

Yes. I bought a copy of that book you were after when we finally found it.

Have you finished your translation?

i like it, you might like it. maybe not idk idc

Girls find it attractive

>>7359491
>i like to read
>what do you like to do in your free time?

these are actual things i say to actual people. if they also like reading i will ask about the last book they read, favorite books and go from there. if they don't read i don't push it on them

>look ma i did it again xd

>>7359361
I don't know about comedy, but this post is definitely a joke.

your diary, to be honest family

>>7359290
>Robert Shearman (also credited as Rob Shearman; born 10 February 1970 near London, England) is an English television, radio, stage play and short story writer. He is known for his work for Doctor Who
yeah i dont think so

>>7359290
Dunno man, sounds like its gonna be whiny babies whining like babies.

>>7359290
>>7359297
>Doctor Who
no thanks

>tfw there are people on this site so autistic that this story might actually be real

You killed a fish just to shitpost on /lit/. I am proud.

>>7359270
That is clearly drawn so the thread is actually reddit-tier

>reading PDFs

>>7359148
Why would you ever want a PDF? An epub is the superior format and even then it should convert perfectly to PDF.

>>7359148
read the sticky you fucking idiot

>>7358927
one of my favorite books ever, if not the favorite. i would say, as would most others, that it's his "best" but really all of his works are worth reading imo having read them all. that said, this is an excellent place to start. if you read it and really like, you should do one of two things; if you like the political aspects, work backwards in his body of work. if you like the more literary/interpersonal/philosophical of whatever parts, work forwards. either way you will do no wrong. his non-fiction is also extremely thought-provoking, and short at that.

tldr; just read it!

>>7358927
the book of laughter and forgetting was the only kundera book I really enjoyed. immortality was also kind of weak for me. but I have friends with good tastes who enjoy all of his stuff. I dunno.

>>7359032
Same

It's probably my favorite book--I think it's his best. That's only what I've heard though--the only other thing I've read of his was Testaments Betrayed which made me pretty sad (although I wish I read more of his novels since he references them a lot).