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Sorry if this is a dumb question but... How do these long and short syllables in Latin and Greek hexametre work? Are the long ones supposed to be pronounced more slowly or what?
>>7672221
LMAO WHAT ARE YOU EVEN TALKING ABOUT?
HEXAMETRE?? did u spell that right?? haha
There are languages which do not have vowel length; which do not give a fuck about vowels and have shit ton of consonants instead. Why do you speak? If you are a native to English or German I'd ask you to fuck off and stop trolling us since your language does have this shit as well.
>>7672243
I'm a Slav and what the fuck are you talking about? I just want to know how the Romans pronounced Virgil's verses and what's the difference between a long and a short syllable.
Can I be an upcoming poet fag and dump my emo poems?
Just another star, just a flaming ball of light
The one that warms us all doesn’t interest me
Luna, you propel my soulless night
Your white light just sets me free
During the new moon I’ve lost my way
Seeing you brings me comfort, brings me glee
Sometimes you watch me in the day
But your smile’s not all I see
You’re my morphine, my cocaine
The gates to my soul, you’re the key
You’ll see me suffer, see my pain
But never will you pay my fee
How I long to be with...
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Oh sweet sundrop, golden yellow
Tanned brown, and orange mellow
Beauty of light, but light of fire
Oh sweet sundrop, of my desire
Be you heaven, or Be you hell?
“That is something I won’t tell
Young boy fallen to my spell.”
Oh sweet sundrop, as you fall
ever graceful the the light cast from a height so tall
Oh sweet sundrop, your ringing plop
For your nectar, will I stop?
“For my sweetness just a drop?
When I splash, your tongue’s to mop
You’ll find my heart, shatter your spell
But never damned, that I fell.”
In my ecstasy...
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Work on ye rhymes
>>7672110
10/10
Why should books be considered as anything other than entertainment? Why am I supposed to take half assed half hidden philosophy in books seriously?
Kill yourself hedonist
>>7672066
>Why should books be considered as anything other than entertainment?
Because they can be more?
Between a book that's entertaining and a book that's entertaining but also thought-provoking, why would you choose the former?
The more likely to please you event called Super Bowl is about to start, why don't you go watch with your likewise stupid friends and leave this board? Saged and reported.
Who is the more pleb writer of them all? Not worst, more pleb
this doesn't answer your question, but i just read On Writing by him and it was the worst thing i've ever read. what a smug, anti-intellectual moron.
>>7671926
Dean Koontz
>>7671926
King isn't too bad, there's SFF, YA, and those women who write stories about their cats being kings that are more pleb.
Books with good representations of narcotic use?
Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks is the most unbiased and realistic portrayal of narcotic use ever put to paper.
>>7671902
choose...
>>7671902
Junky by Burroughs was supposed to be pretty accurate and based on his actual experiences of being a filthy smack addict.
>>7671907
ayy lmao
I actually had to read that shit in high school as part of this one elective class. Shit was ridiculous. We even watched the movie where William Shatner plays her dad.
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Books on the food industry. Looking for more invasive investigations if not academic in nature.
be more specific
>>7671844
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
>>7671844
animal liberation by cuck Singer
Which book would it be best to start with?
>>7671655
He is probably the worst sf author I've ever read and trash is where I'd start with him.
>>7671655
I have no idea who he is but why is he wearing chris-chan's shirt?
>>7671799
I heard he won a bunch of awards and was well respected. Who would you recommend for modern SF?
Hey /lit/, what are some good books to read to soothe the pain of having you heart broken?
>>7671611
don't let worthless roastwhores get you down, then you're an inferior male.
women are indistinguishable objects made solely to deposit your cum into. They're barely human. They don't think as profoundly and deeply about the world and our existential, ethical, and spiritual situation as men like me and you. They're simply inferior.
They aren't as ontologically inscribed into the world as us. What you need to realize is that what you're "loving" is basically...
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>>7671623
Dworkinposter 2: This Time I'm Menstruating
The book of Job
Stuff written by writers like Pynchon and Diaz. Lots of references in them, and most of them obscure. I love those things. When you recognise some really obscure reference, and are AHHHH.
What do you think?
Books like Gravity's Rainbow and ATD are chock full of references. I mean, you need to so much to understand them. Not so much Pynchon's other books, especially his lite books.
I find them annoying.
They just strike me as a quirky, gimmicky, inside-joke sort of thing. I like when they come out in spite of themselves. That's all.
>>7671560
References in literature are like references in comedy: utter shit by themselves. Novice (and not so new) writers usually drop pointless references here and there, thinking the reader will be either amazed by their knowledge or confused because he didn't "get it".
In the proper context can be made to work, just like Ulysses is build on upon the greek myth and establishing a parallelism in order to show what should be obvious to everyone but we're not aware (like a sort of episteme, in which we...
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What books do I have to read to begin to hate the bourgeoisie as much as this man does?
>>7671147
Jerry Seinfeld - Seinlanguage
>hating the bourgeoisie
>by being a famous comedian/writer
Ok
>>7671147
Become a millionaire
Feel free to add to my list.
>Reading the top 100 meme books
>Feel inadequete
>Becoming immune to feeling inadequete
>Able to spell Nietzsche without checking google.
Very short, just wanted to get the ball rolling.
Created first daveposting thread
I want to into Dave's ear incomprehensible words and noises
>Feeling inadequate after having become immune
How i stop my prose from being pretentious and smug?
You don't, you keep writing like that to provoke those who read your works and come to criticise by saying: blablabla pseudo-intellectual blabla you think you know it all blabla rhetorics blablabla who the hell you think you are blaaaablaaa pretentious and clichè blabla.
Laugh at their own stupidity.
The prose reflects the author. YOU need to stop being so pretentious and smug.
If they can detect it you are still pretentious.
You can do it to such a point that it just blends.
That is true mastery.
>vietnam book
>it ain't me lyrics are included
>>7670887
why is he shooting the ground?
>>7670893
to show the chinks it's his soil
>>7670887
The song is called "Fortunate Son," not "It Ain't Me."
Does anyone believe in free will? If so how would it work, obviously in a completely material world it doesn't make sense but even in a spiritual world view I fail to see how it would work. Surely to have a will you need to have a personality, identity or set of values in order for the decision not to be random and if you have one of the above then then the means by which you excercise your free will is set before you come to making any decision. Right? RIGHT?!
>>7670885
The "illusion" of free will is subjectively indistinguishable from the reality of free will, so it's a false distinction. Checkmate, determinists.
>>7670885
>obviously in a completely material world it doesn't make sense but even in a spiritual world view I fail to see how it would work
The word "spiritual" has too much religious baggage to be used in this context. Try dualist or idealist instead.
>Surely to have a will you need to have a personality, identity or set of values in order for the decision not to be random
Not really. There just needs to be consciousness.
>the...
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>>7671089
>Not really. There just needs to be consciousness.
No, there has to be a will, that is different to a conciousness, a conciousness can be entirely responsive.
>I don't see how that follows.
If you have an personality or set of values then those, being set before the decision is made, make the decision. I think a will must be made up of preferences so it even if decision making exists outside of the material world it is still determined...
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>Wife and I "make it" financially
>Have huge range of new job options, pick one that has consistantly been listed as a top 10 best school system in the state based on test score, AP scores, and other less important rubrics(Murrica)
>Sit down with my coffee this morning and wander over to their hs site to see if the school district has early childhood education foreign language courses available
>See their English Book Curriculum
English...
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>>7670640
The senior English options are particularly reprehensible
are you sending your children soonish? because they change their books quite often
>>7670653
naw they are just in kindergarten, but the I cant imagine the level of literature will rise in 10 years.
