>>8247603
>What did he mean by this?

what do you mean by this?

This thread is about a skit on an Eminem record, and it will remain on the literature board until it dies naturally in ten hours.

>>8247619
rap is poetry + music. i determine this thread to be completely on-topic

don't trust everything you read

>>8247600
What did you think about his theory of ideas/forms, theory of recollection, and his ideas about the qualities of the soul?

>>8247600
he gives like 3 or 4 arguments for it

>>8247598
that's just a rhetorical question

first example is ok except it doesn't need the second question mark (after "ask")
second example is just missing a question mark
third example is not phrased as a question, it's just a statement

>>8247604

thanks

>>8247598
>you may ask
This is a statement. The "conditional element" you find in a question is in the "may," so a question mark would be redundant. The "How?" part is okay, because you're stating they may ask.

Also, some sentences take the form of a question that don't need question marks if they aren't interrogative.

For instance, "Who gives a shit," is only interrogative if you are legit asking who gives a shit. Most of time...
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>>8247577
I guess that one and "The postmodern condition" by Lyotard.

Sounds more like a critique of it.

>>8247583
Is it? Makes sense, I haven't read it, but it was never presented to me as such.

>>8247581
Which one should I start with?

come on fellas

>>8247516
Communication, my friend. All people, introverted or extroverted, have a need for communication and books give us exactly the essential things, without all the banal small talk, which all intelligent people crave. I often think that I get so much pleasure from reading, poetry especially, because it makes me feel less alone. Whenever I see someone having a thought that I once had myself or describes what I am feeling I immediately feel life is less impossible to live because someone else has found a way to do it in...
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>>8247586
Nah that was a solid answer.

I agree. I'm more into the older stuff too because I already feel connected enough to people around me its almost overwhelming.

>>8247464
I'm from Ireland famalam there's no point

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>>8248628
True

>>8247434
what if the characters are giant pixel clouds that repeatedly scream "boobaloo!" for no reason throughout the entire novel and someone finds themselves not relating to that

>>8247439
Then both the author and those readers are plebeian.

Comments like that can help if you know what to look for and how to ask questions

The layman can definitely sense when story is lacking "energy" to keep itself moving forward, which is why it can be callled stuff like "bland", "uninspired" etc. but dont expect them to be able to tell you why in explicit detail, just take the feedback and test it against your own knowledge of how your story works

>Humanity was the most disappointing thing since my son. I mean, how much could you possibly fuck up the entire world as representation? And while my son eventually hanged himself in the bathroom of the gas station, the unfortunate reality of humanity is that it will persist on being.

>>8247412
>You might be saying, life can't be that bad. After all it's the only thing we got, riight? Well yeah, except for a little idea called the princanthemum individuaricearoni.

related - are there any youtube channels as good as rlm? doesnt have to be about film, just overall quality

Is it true that you could fly

y r u gay sage

>>8247390
What's even bad about harming stupid animals?

Define 'literary' and 'literary merit'

you sure you're just looking for decent stories?

>>8247316

McCarthy writes the best westerns.

>>8247316
Kazuo Ishiguro has written 'literary' fantasy (The Buried Giant) and sci-fi (Never Let Me Go).

From the other angle, Gene Wolfe is generally cited as a genre author good enough to be considered literary.

I have a few books that I've dropped. Mostly it's related to a novel my mom suggested to me.

I'm not really enthusiast about Sookie Stackhosue mysteries since she gave me a later entry.

She enthused a bit about a male character being like a giant puppy, but I got creeped out by the character and the actor's voice in my head acting these lines.

I don't have a sense of moral obligation to finish the novel. And unless I have an advanced reader copy, I don't see a need to finish it.

I've only stopped reading one novel, and that was Juliette.

I was about 150 pages in and never felt bad at all about dropping it.

>>8247285
We read Go Ask Alice back in this one high school class. It was good for an unintended laugh or two because of how sensational and moralizing it was. The "twist" ending was so sloppy that it elicited a chuckle or two as well.

>>8247197
>Plath wrote Ariel in October

>>8247197
>He was heavily in debt and addicted to gambling and saw the semi-autobiographical novella as a good way to help him pay off his debts.

I'm sure that helped

"Its fear that gives men wings"

>>8247199
Except Plath is shit.

Perpetual Joshing

the holy bible

>>8247170
Men Among The Ruins - Julius Evola

You've convinced me, I'll write my novel in Esperanto

This is true but "sensibility" is hardly a static thing. The first Brits to inhabit America were Puritans, Quakers, and other strange folks who were just as different in sensibility before they crossed the Atlantic. The 17th and 18th centuries were as decisive in the shaping of the British identity as the American one. A lot happened on both sides of the ocean.

B-but to be fair to Anglo-Saxons; the Jewish, which Americans are in sensibility, are equally bad

>>8247093
Metamorphoses

>>8247093
odyssey

>>8247093
Aeneid