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Is anyone else convinced that this MUST have been a collaboration? It's head and shoulders above anything else he's done
Pretty funny post.
Read Pericles, that was a collaboration. You can see he is so different that he decimates the other playwright
>>7634887
>one of the best plays
>mustah behn culaburaton
>shakespeare was hacku
go back to /x/
>Tolkien wrote whole encyclopedias of backstory that don't show up in Lord of the Rings, but you can feel the reality of his fictional world in every word. Its presence is known and comes through in the story.
I always hear this from nerds. So they feel this need to "world build" before even coming up with a plot. It strikes me as idiotic. Do you think you'd really be able to tell between someone who went through the mental masturbation of world building versus someone who made it up as he went along (but put in the effort...
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you're retarded OP
>>7634288
I bet you dont know why you dont have any friends.
>>7634288
>Do you think you'd really be able to tell between someone who went through the mental masturbation of world building versus someone who made it up as he went along
In a fantasy universe, yeah. The world building is literally the only thing that Lord of the Rings has going for it.
What essential books should one read in a life time? I'm talking the essentials -- a novel that leaves a mark on the reader. Make a list /lit/ for me, so I can add these to my bookshelf.
Moby-Dick
>>7622525
both Brothers Karamazov, and the Count of Monte Cristo made a huge mark on me.
FrankensteinYour bookshelf you in theory reflect the things you like
Your taste in theory should be matured through the consumption of aesthetics
So that should someone see your book shelf they would, if they are a reader, know what you find interesting
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Is time fungible?
I would assume yes, since each and every unit of time is identical and mutually interchangeable; however, unlike currency and other tangible commodities (which is fungible), time does not circulate within a closed system.
Perhaps a better question: is circulability essential for a commodity to be fungible?
>perhaps a better question
I don't see how these questions end up being similar.
Shit thread either way, take your freshman prompts to /b/.
>>7635412
That board was finally added? I'll go there, I guess.
>>7635413
If circulability is essential for a commodity to be fungible, then time is not fungible because it does not circulate. If circulability is not essential for a commodity to be fungible, then time can be fungible because its lack of circulability does not affect whether it is fungibility.
Would it be fair to characterize this man as "Kurt Reddegut"?
If you want to find out, say that out loud to someone outside of 4chan. They'll stare at you and assume you have autism as you snort with laughter then have trouble catching your breath.
>>7635302
hey reddit
>>7635309
Hey r9k. Are you still pissed off that normies appropriated the pepe meme?
I really want to read it, but I fear this edition (the one amazon US sells) will be too big or the font will be too small to read or both. Which editions you have and where do you think should I search?
it's fine. the text is a little small but in a 1000 page book you want that so that it's not 20 pounds. adequate margins if you want to take notes or whatever
>>7635251
we got another one
>>7635251
>getting meme'd into reading trash for white upper middle class 19 y.o. college freshmen
lel
Is she right?
>>7634511
Of course she isn't.
>>7634511
Yes, but for wrong reasons.
>>7634511
>hetrosexist
no
This worth reading?
>>7634145
I want to know too, because i read another book from the publisher and oh god the translation was awful.
>>7634173
Harmony?
>>7634183All you need is kill
I also want to read Harmony and Battle Royale.
How do I make myself write more daily? It seems to me that 500 words is the maximum I can manage. I don't really have time for multiple sittings, and if I manage to write 500 words a day in one sitting (and most days I have to make myself do it), I feel creatively spent for the day.
What do? Pic unrelated.
>>7634078
>Excellence is an art won by training and habituation
>>7634090
Are you saying I should just make myself write more?
>>7634104
No, I'm telling you to build a wall. Literally go out into your garden, pick a spot, get some bricks and get building.
You can't call yourself a man until you've built a wall
Who else here doesn't have English as their primary language? How do you people read English literature? And if you happen to come across a word which you don't understand, what do you do?
I'll be reading pic related, and I tried to read a few pages, but vocabulury is out of my reach. How do you suggest I should read it? Should I use a dictionary?
>>7633450
never use a dictionary, it's Haram.
I mostly disregard the word and guess it's meaning from context. If that doesn't seem possible and the word relevant, I go to
www.dict.cc
for a quick fix
>/lit/'s sudden collective hatred for all of our classic memes occurs at the exact same time as the post-Hypersphere reddit influx
>no one bats an eye
We truly lost, lads.
i havent been here in months why do we hate the memes now
I say let it burn. I'd rather the plebs be visible than have people who pretend to like Pynchon/Joyce but can't speak a single intelligent word about them.
One day this board's gonna go, no sense trying to cling to the past.
So /lit/, I need to make a quick short story and I'm going through a hard case of writer's block. Can anyone thow any quick ideas at me.
A man places items of increasing size in his rectum while contemplating the recent death of his estranged grandmother.
A man posts on a website asking the frequenters for ideas, after he dismisses them all in humorous fashion we begin to gain insight into the man and perhaps into self-worth in general.fuck off. You can write about anything. How does anyone ever run out of ideas?
You know, that's what scares me about the prospect of university. Most of the time, they will have you read more than 10 complete body of work in under a semester and will ask for no less than 10-15pages of good work, and 3-5 pages for poems.
My tip to you, op, is to take a step back and put ALL of your efforts into reading great classical work, like Racine or Baudelaire if you're a frenchfag. And also write every day, no matter what it may be. Make a schedule if it pleases you: ah! Today is monday? Then poems it will be. Essay thursday? Sure why not.
Doing...
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Hello, /lit/, I'm at the library. I can take 3 books to take home with me. I want you guys to pick them up. Here's what I like.
Dostoyevski, Lermontov.
Kerouac, Easton Ellis.
Marquez, Borges, Fuentes.
zorba the greek
Some Garcia Marquez short stories maybe?
>>7635026
Here you go, anything by: William S. Burroughs, Milorad Pavic, Julio Cortázar.
Are there any books that are clear knock offs of other successful books.
pic related
Harry Potter is a pretty clear knockoff ofWarhammer 40,000.
Dune is a clear-cut ripoff of Star Wars.
The Aeneid.
90% of fanfiction id absolute cancer, I think few here will dispute that. But I'm curious about the episodic format that most fanfiction is told in.
how would /lit/ go about making that work?
pic unrelated
You do know that many great novels were published serially, right?
I suppose I would write one book and then my publisher would tell me if it had cash cow potential and then I would write many.
episodic storytelling is one of the oldest forms of narrative senpai
