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What would a ridiculously luciferian character drink?
Bud light lime
And what about a ridiculously messianic character?
ridiculous?
>blood*
>tears*
>cobra venom
*bonus points for baby/child or virgin maiden
Post your favorite book
honorable mention
Is Philip K. Dick's novels -- particularly Ubik and A Scanner Darkly -- worth getting?
>>7694231
are* im retarded
The
>I bought this book but never got around to reading it
thread
resurrection - tolstoy
infinite jest - dfw
the plague - camus
>buy interesting books
>never get around to reading them
>put them on your bookshelf anyway
I am become fraud, destroyer of wallet.
>>7694246
Everybody does this when enthusiastic about books, just try to mellow it down to your reading habit...
http://strawpoll.me/6808266
>>7694118
Nabokov was a postmodernist.
>>7694118
Closed the tab when I saw Brecht's name. Fuckin' hack. Also, you left out some of the most bets modernist writers, you fucking pleb.
Hey, I did a survey too 2 days ago (central European time)
Bookshelf general
How does /lit/ organize their bookshelves?
If you've made your own by hand, what did you do?
Bro,
Get a life
>>7694102
Excellent reply
>>7690689 check the catalog before making duplicate threads
How do you define creativity? Does something have to be valuable to be creative or just original? How do we determine something's value or interest such that we can deem it truly creative?
>>7694025
Well, creativity does not necessarily mean good culture, it just means creative, I guess you could call it outside of the box thinking. However, what is successful and considered good is a function of the current society. Think for yourself what you enjoy or not, listen to other people because they may be right about what is quality and what is shit for a reason you had not thought of, but ultimately it is you who makes that decision of what you like.
>>7694025
creativity is the cumulative awareness of abstract form, convention and artistic tropes. For some people this awareness is so great that their capacity for creation is not merely informed by the aforementioned factors, but actively surpasses or overwhelms their aesthetic potential to say something which has been left as-yet unsaid within the limits of conformity.
Of course, this definition is very specific to literary or artistic mediums only - though it appears to me that creativity in other fields would operate...
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Is there a plugin for calibre to search inside books?
Back way around it, but I believe if you convert books to text with calibre you can search the directory for specific words via normal windows search. I know it works for .csv
>>7694005
in unix you can use the command line:
find -type f | xargs grep -n "text to search"
>>7694005
double click on the book in the calibre list, it'll open up a virtual book reader, then just ctrl+f, then search whatever text you're looking for.
What are you thoughts on Kahlil Gibran /lit/?
Platitudinous but talented.
hippy sentimentality with a false veneer of ancient wisdom
>>7694633
do you evaluate the veneer of all works of fiction in that manner? or just popular ones
>tfw you are in the zone while writing and everything is fucking brilliant
anyone get there? How do you sustain this?
>>7693969
Op was a meme author (he just didn't know it), and had no discernible talent. He was shitposting, and is literally genre tier fiction. clearly a juvenile author.
Just keep writing and you'll find more moments like it. If you are dead set on writing then orient everything in your life around creating those moments. Your mood, your living, people around you: everything.
But just remember that in a year, or a month, or maybe even in just a couple days what you wrote will look like shit, and it's not because you've become better. It's because you can never be your own reader.
>>7693975
dude I don't even care, I just want the positivity to continue. That's the hardest part of writing, staying positive. Even if it's really shit, you can make it good if you work hard enough at editing it.
Should a poem be coherent?
>>7693902
As I understand it should only "resonate".
>>7693902
ergfjhwerkjg
>>7693902
not if youre nihilist
Does anybody know of any book(s) that might contain any or all of these?
-Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
-Sir Gawain and the Carlse of Carlisle
-The Knightly Tale of Gologras and Gawain
>>7693901
the internet
>>7693941
I failed so i came to the real internet
gawain and the green knight will be in any anthology of early of english literature. i have two that have it-norton's and anderson/buckler.
If this was a retelling of genesis, what was Adam's fall? What was the original sin? The stolen money from his father, maybe? Adam actually seems to be one of the only completely innocent characters in the book. He never undergoes a fall at all.
>>7693886
Steinbeck was a meme author, and had no discernible talent. He was shitposting, and is literally genre tier fiction. clearly a juvenile author.
It isn't a retelling of genesis.
I was a moralistic hamfisted retelling of Cain and Abel story.
A fun read, but not challenging at all.
So is it worth actually reading 14 volumes and 4,000,000+ words of this shit?
No.
Matrim is the only interesting character among the 100k other
>>7693880
book 1 and 2 were good at best
it got bad after that.
No.
Let us all take a moment to appreciate the genius of William Blake.
Does anyone else regret the death of Christianity as the great spiritual influence on western art? I think we are still waiting for a reaction to the enormous vacuum it left and to future generations we will be a cultural dark age at the death of a great tradition.
>inb4 the future is Islam
It would honestly be an improvement on modern art and reactionary politics
>>7693797
William Blake was a meme author, and had no discernible talent. He was shitposting, and is literally genre tier fiction. clearly a juvenile author.
>>7693797
Blake was definitely great. I largely agree with your sentiments regarding Christianity. I can't help but shake my head, for example, at people trying to read Flannery O'Connor who have no knowledge of Catholicism. But they're tomorrow's literary writers. :(
"The Lamb"/counterpart to the first post
Little Lamb who made thee
Dost thou know who made thee
Gave thee life & bid thee feed.
By the stream & o’er the mead;
Gave thee clothing of delight,
Softest clothing wooly bright;
Gave thee such a tender voice,
Making all the vales rejoice!
Little Lamb who made thee
Dost thou know who made thee
Little Lamb I’ll tell thee,
Little Lamb I’ll tell thee!
He is called by thy name,
For he calls himself a Lamb:
He is meek & he is mild,
He became...
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What is the consensus?
Worth reading for beta males
>>7693783
If you think anything written by Robert Greene is good/helpful/interesting, please tell me you have a plan to kill yourself in the near future.
>>7693794
What is your criticism with his work?
