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How much can I expect to learn? So far it seems to offer more than /lit/.
it you don't know the basics yet then sure.
everything offers more than /lit/ you should just be here for the joyposting
Books women will never understand.
None
>>7672533
>>7672571
>Bronte
>Woolf
>Homer
>not women
Is anybody here surrounded on a daily basis by highly "successful" people?
How do the aspiring writers among you cope with the slow, obscure ambition to get published while people your age are achieving shit?
I work in the same building as people who have attended the top fee-paying schools, the top colleges and are now succeeding in their chosen field and surrounding themselves with people who are doing the same. I feel so inferior and retarded for dedicating myself to writing. It's gotten to the point where I don't even try and talk to girls...
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what do you do? what does your company do? are you in a bitch role at a successful company? leverage the brand name of the company to do something m8.
>>7676296
Fuck, this is so relevant. I went to an elite American university and this eats me every day. People like my writing, and I think it's going somewhere, but fuck me if it doesn't feel bad to be friends with people pulling down solid six figures straight out of school for gruntwork consulting and finance jobs while I'm still saying, "I think it's going somewhere."
>>7676302
Bitch role is difficult to define in my context but yes I'd say I am. There's a girl (not a colleague) here who attended a top college and so on and I feel too pathetic to approach her. I feel too old to be saying shit like "I'm trying to achieve X" because I feel I should have something to show for my time on earth so far. I don't want anything to do with my company or the "brand name", I'm just working on a novel.
You read them? Do you like them? Have you got any rec?
I'm reading Deleuze's Cinema 1: The Movement Image and Pasolini's Heretical Empiricism, which is only partly about cinema but hey, PPP's good anyway.
Deleuze's book is beautifully written and constructed, but I don't think I can give an opinion on his subject matter yet - at the very least is fascinating and unlike any other idea of cinema, at best it may be a grimoire for a true cinema of life. Can't really comment on Heretical Empiricism as I've picked it up today,...
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>>7674783Is that movie actually worth reading? Appreciate the band but never really got myself to watching the actual film.
>>7674828It's decent - unintentionally funny, beautifully shot. If you want a better movie about Japanese biker gangs / rebel culture read Burst City, directed by Sogo Ishii
>>7674847neat, thanks
If humanity is so small and insignificant in comparison to the wider existence, then why is art, such as literature, considered significant at all?
>a careful edited record of a person's ideas and stories lives on after our pitifully short lived
Why do you think the epic of Gilgamesh is so bittersweet?
Because it transcends time.
>>7674662
What if art doesn't survive our existence?
Are there any Muslims on here that have read the Study Quran?
If so, are you a Sunni or a Shiite? Is there a side that the SQ leans more towards?
>>7674387
>dat editor
>iran
>chaired iranian school of philosophy
>father shia scholar
>he is shia scholar
obviously it favors shia
but here's the kicker, shiite muslims are the ones who dont routinely behead children in the name of allah ackbar. they're actually pretty cool dudes. sunnis are the devil worshipping shit eaters of the muslim world...
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>>7674415
Thanks anon.
Do you think that the translation would be greatly different from say, one that's edited by a Sunni Muslim?
>>7674415
So you're saying this edition is more likely to go for a politically correct interpretation?
Who is your favorite literary character?
>>7673241
Indubitably the main character ofmy diary t bh
>>7673248
Really? I hate that fucking faggot.
Good ol Humbert Humbert
Which books would you like to see adapted to film?
The Stranger or Journey to the End of the Night would be nice, I think.
Why do people want to see movie adaptations to begin with? What could it possibly add?
I understand if the movie departs from the source material to do something really different, like some do. But if the idea is just to capture the essence of the book.. why not just read the book.
>>7665742
It's just another way to experience something nice, kind of like looking at both a painting and a photograph of the same subject or listening to a poem being recited and reading it.
>>7665742
I guess some books can make a lot of money as movies
Like Jurassic Park.
Also capturing the essence of a book sounds like a hard task for a director. Would earn them braggin rights
ITT: Times someone has made you look a right pleb, on account of something you were reading/purchasing.
Other anons judge whether the comment/reaction received was justified.
I was at a Sunday market, looking through a killer stall of books (mostly modern lit)
I decided to buy Blood Meridian, and a couple of low-key meme books.
The stall owner looks through my purchases, praising my selections, genuinely impressed, when he comes to the Cormac McCarthy...
>outstanding choice right here, anon, but the question is, are you ready for it?
>a-a-about as ready as I'll ever be [awkward-but-knowing laughing]
>which of his other books have you...
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>>7653516
Almost the exact same thing happened when I purchased Finnigans Wake from a bookstore in Brunswick, when I had only read Portrait.
Feelsbad man, but 2bh, people should really read the back catalog before even purchasing the respective Magnum Opera.
>tfw too dumb to read Ulysses
I really want to read the entirety of this. When I understand it, its amazing. But every 3rd sentence or so goes over my head and I have to look up the readers guide, which I hate doing.
How do I solve this? I mean what can I read and learn about to help me understand or prepare me for the language and references in Ulysses?
Please don't bully
>>7675456
Read the entirety of the western canon and familiarize yourself with every philosopher from the Pre-Socratics to Wittgenstein
>>7675456
>I want to fight the elite 4 but I only have a level 14 Pikachu and a Zubat I accidentally caught.
>>7675466
Luckily I've taken several philosophy classes and have a basic understanding of all the major philosophers throughout history.
As far as western canon goes, any specific reccomendations?
>tfw won't ever make it to an Ivy League uni
How should I reconcile with the fact that there are things which I can never even dream of achieving? How should I feel when there are batch mates of mine who get through an Ivy League like it's cake and I'm supposed to feel happy for them when it's actually killing me inside?
It's killing me, /lit/. What should I read to make me feel better?
if you can't become talented by studying independently, you don't deserve an elite lib arts education
frankly, no one deserves that level of education and it turns everyone there into incubated pissbabies; much worse than any group of people who actually read and participate in culture independently and know their shit
especially considering all of the curriculum available to look over
I fucking love Trevor. Rock on OP
>if you can't become talented by studying independently, you don't deserve an elite lib arts education
I think I'm moderately smart and most of what I've learnt is through independent study, which is what pisses me off when I see people around me getting through unis which I know I won't ever get through.
It fucking hurts man.
why do i keep hearing shit about harrypotter when that shit ended 10 years ago almost
>>7672859
Lots of peoples' taste doesn't change much after high school.
>>7672859
What's happening is part of a phenomenon I wrote about a couple of years ago when I was asked to comment on Rowling. I went to the Yale University bookstore and bought and read a copy of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." I suffered a great deal in the process. The writing was dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs." I began marking on the back of an envelope...
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>>7672859
You hang out with children or adults with the minds of children
post minor questions here because apparently the smartest board on 4chan can't keep track of more than four active threads at a time
here's my question: why is this board so smug?
>>7669355
>smartest board
Your virginity is showing
>>7669617
>normalfags dropping the board's IQ
Like clockwork
Thoughts on Neil Gaiman?
I like his writing a lot, though sometimes I feel it's hard to get into originally. Overall he has a great sense of imagination and the ability to describe things of a fantastical nature pretty effortlessly, with that sort of fairytale atmosphere that really draw you in.
I only wish he had a more engaging story to show to people who aren't quite as interested in fantasy to get them into his writing.
>>7666344
He gave us the Sandman, and for that he's automatically forgiven of any mistakes he can make.
>>7666351
he also wrote an excellent issue of Hellblazer
i've read none of his other work
>>7666351
>tfw 12 year old me getting weird boners at the diner mind-control scene
th-thanks neil
What is the worst thing about his writing?
He is so ugly.
I just want to slap his fucking face.
Hate him
Chewed up cheerios soaked in cum
>>7660733
That 5% of all threads on corporate /lit/ are about it.
