Accurate?
Who's that fat fuck in chaotic evil?
>>7321171
>good and evil exist
Lol
ITT: Times you've cried over literature.
>“Oh! you are too good,” said Matilda. “But weep not for me, my mother! I am going where sorrow never dwells.”
;_;
>I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers
>Could not, with all their quantity of love,
>Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her?
>'Swounds, show me what thou'lt do:
>Woo't weep? woo't fight? woo't fast? woo't tear >thyself?
>Woo't drink up eisel? eat a crocodile?
>I'll do't. Dost thou come here to whine?
>To outface me with leaping in her grave?
>Be buried quick with her, and so will I:
>And, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw
>Millions of acres on us, till our ground,
>Singeing his pate against the burning zone,
>Make Ossa like a wart! Nay, an thou'lt mouth,
>I'll rant as well as thou.
>>7321122
My nigga. We're reading Hamlet in college and I choke up every time I read that or see it in a production.
"I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath, and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth."
How long does it take you to read a 300-page book?
I am a non-native speaker of English and would like to know what reading speed I should aim for to be able to enjoy literature in English.
Don't aim for reading speed, especially if you're an English learner.
Speedreading is a myth.
Aim to look up every word you don't know and to actually finish books while comprehending them. Read one book at a time.
>>7321101
This is the only answer. Speed will come as you read more. You will enjoy a book no matter what speed you're reading it at.
Who do you think is the ultimate /lit/ songwriter?
>>7321026
It can't be anyone but Leonard Cohen, he actually is a poet with moderate acclaim
It's Pouya.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6haE-gmZOc
Heart of Darkness thread?
Heart of Darkness thread.
My dark is heartness senapi
>>7321024
what are conrads best works?
I still can't believe English wasn't Conrad's first language.
>Maugham
>Wallace
>Roth
>Diaz
All great writers of prose. It's bad how many bad writers of prose we have. Look at King or Murakami. Fucking disgraceful.
>Wallace
>Diaz
Nice b8
>>7320920
Soren Kierkegaard in Danish is better than sex.
>>7320925
Why are they bait? Wallace is considered to have some of the best prose ever, and Diaz is considered good. Do you even read?
Which one? I've read high castle and ubik
>>7320864
The new print run hasn't gotten to it
Clerk: hey which dick book you
Him: just fuck me up with his whole oeuvre
What are your favorite short stories from Borges? I haven't read them all yet but I really enjoyed these:
The Circular Ruins
The Writing of the God
The Book of Sand
The Garden of Forking Paths
>>7320843
Borges is a hack.
>>7320843
ditto for Ruins an Forking Paths
The Secret Miracle
Pierre menard
>>7320843
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
Pierre Menard
Garden of Forking Paths
House of Asterion
Three Versions of Judas
Borges and I
The South
Among others.
ITT: Paradoxes
Post your favorite paradoxes, I'll start:
The Stability Paradox
1. The more stable something is, the less energy is needed to destabilize it
2. An infinite amount of stability would require precisely zero energy to destabilize
Conclusion: stability is inherently unstable
neat.
I like the one about Achilles and the tortoise. you can add 1/2+1/4+1/8+1/16+1/32 ad infinitum and never reach the number 1
>>7320788
It does equal one though.
That picture isn't a paradox. Pinocchio's nose grows if he's telling a lie, but his statement that "My nose will grow now!" is speculation and has yet to be confirmed, i.e. it's reliant upon the effects of that statement as to whether or not he's telling a lie; prior to that, he doesn't know if it's a lie or truth.
ITT: we recommend each other books based off of things we like other than books, movies, or tv shows #2
>Art pop (Stereolab, Doopees, etc.)
>Bosch
>Banter
>Card games
>Noise shows (not crazy about albums, but I love going to sets, a very cathartic, hypnotic feeling)
>Dance
>Studying philosophic and artistic movements
>Snow, and how it decorates landscapes
>Pho
>Sushi
>Character studies
>>7320754
Murakami
>>7320754
The Broken Lands
>>7320754
Spring Snow if you haven't read it yet
>Krautrock
>Overcast weather
>Programming
>Snowboarding
>Homemade soup
>Running
>Walking
>Electronic music
>Thrift shopping
>Sushi
>Drumming
>Bossa Nova
>Winter
>Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leonids they were called. God, how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens.
How do I wrote prose like this?
I've often heard it described as biblical. What exactly is biblical about it?
It's biblical because only Americans are dumb enough to like it
>>7320714
be a huge fan of paperback best-sellers, a handful of retail classics and esteemed literary talents like Orson Scott Card. Pipe in a loose reference system (include the tarot, some basic mythologies, &c) and a story that teases allegory into a word processor. Market as your 'darkest' work yet and wait for the paycheck and the call from Oprah
>>7320714
I'm guessing it's Biblical because it reminds Americans of Genesis or something, the whole opening line is about something coming into existence.
How did you choose your pen name?
>>7320626
Nickname-Surname Initial-Middle Name
So if my name were Robert Peter Tamblin it would become Bobby T Peters
>>7320634
Nice system.
It's an anagram of my full name.
anyone here have attention deficit disorder and find it hard to maintain focus while reading?
I don't know if I do or not. I use all these little tricks to stay focused, like tapping my foot, playing a guitar (unplugged), walking around, etc. Ever since I was little I've always read books during the sermons at church in order to quiet that crazy part of my brain. Just having two things going works pretty well.
There's also just a flat out discipline sort of thing. I don't want to be medicated, because I see what people are like off their meds. You have to be more disciplined than your average person.
>>7320518
Yeah, I'm not diagnosed, but I'm pretty sure I have it, and I've always had trouble staying focused while reading except with the most absolutely gripping material.
Try listening to white noise through earphones. Simplynoise.com works well enough. It really soothes my brain and helps me get into the reading groove.
How are the Bond books?
Extremely problematic from what I've heard.
dung-dung-dung-dung-dung dung-dung-dung dung-dung-dung-dung-dung dung-dung-dung dung-dung-dung-dung-dung dung-dung-dung
DUNG-DUN DUNG-DUNG-DUNG dung-dung dung-dung-dung
Bad. Real bad.
Lately I've been unable to stop a thought popping into my head whilst reading fiction: 'this never really happened so it doesn't matter'. Now, I know that this is a stupid thing to think for a variety of reasons, but no matter how irrational I try to convince myself it is, it just keeps happening, and when it does it takes all enjoyment out of reading the book until it recedes back from the forefront of my thoughts.
Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a thought pattern I can follow to rid myself of this nagging feeling?
Prove that anything in the past 'really happened' B)
>>7320474
Yeah, this sort of epistemological nihilism is the path I tried to take me out of the thought but it doesn't seem to work. I don't know what else to do, my silly fucking brain is ruining fiction for me!
>>7320474
you're just going to end convincing him that nothing matters at all