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Why do exquisite sounds, such as 'vile',
often refer to negative concepts in English?
You will have to give more examples but by my reckoning it is likely because "exquisite" is the intrinsic property of non-common usage, negative concepts causes them to sound "exotic".
vial
It's how they're pronounced -- vile, for instance, has a certain phlegm behind it. I'm no expert, of course. There's definitely books on the subject.
"I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the oil is threatened, then you turn on the television and they tell you where the country is, what the language is, how to pronounce the names of the leaders, what the religion is all about...The whole world takes an interest int his curious way Americans educate themselves."
>>7615630
DeLillo had a real obsession with american life and how that relates internationally. Its easy to see why someone like Franzen would idolize him.
>>7615630
Why does this look this it came from a VHS copy of a movie from the late 80s?
>>7616360
it's from the early 90s you pleb
Best snow reading go
>>7615586
>I will never have a winter with 4 months of snow to read with a coffee
why live?
>>7615586
Mason & Dixon. Anything by Tolstoy but specifically War & Peace and the short story Master and Man.
t. Canadian
>>7615596
My back yard rn. Virginia. We usually don't get very much snow. It's actually been a warm winter so far.
I can't find any info on this. I know Martini did it, but I cant find any books it was in. Google was a nogo
>>7615218
I didn't know anyone else appreciated Alberto Martini's work. I just recently picked up a collection of his ex-libris at an auction. The attached is an illustration for one of poe's books.
Ask away - I live down the road from his place in Oderzo, Italia.
>>7615796
Any chance you know which book that illustration is in?
>>7617185
Tales of Mystery and Horror by A. Poe.1908
How did you get started? Why do you read?
I'm going to start:
My grandpa was an avid reader. Every time he came home I amazed myself watching him read. I knew that if I looked out the window, there he was. Legs crossed, book in hand and always the same expressionless, severe look on his face, for hours on end. He could recite entire paragraphs and that left me speechless as a little kid.
There was a room in my grandpa's house, a thousand kilometers from home. It was the book's room. There I could enter and pick whatever caught my attention, and...
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>>7614186
>Sorry for my disgusting, basic English. Not my first language.
>writes better than most amerifags
Fucking eurofaggots, man
>>7614223
Well that's encouraging. I don't write a lot and I'm going to start practicing my English. Oh, and I'm from Argentina.
>>7614186
i'd always been somewhat a reader. a few years ago i got sick of /mu/, so i decided to try some other boards. i found the same idiocy and herd think on all the other boards, but /lit/ sort of stood out. so i started reading to keep up with the bants. now i'm taking a master's in english with plans for a phd, have a published a short story, and plan to be a prof.
Are there any texts which would improve my argumentative skills?
I'm really terrible at arguing/debating, probably couldn't even convince someone that the sky appears blue
Bumpu desu
>>7609516
Greeks. Off the top of my mind, Rhetorics by Aristotle and more tangentially and in application, Apology by Plato.
>>7609516
is that ceit's sister?
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What are some of your favorite books from before 1950?
>implying I have ever read anything published after 1950
>>7618540
threads right up your alley then
What is the point of this question?
Any one whose favorite work had not yet been written by 1950 is either a very eccentric lover of the later cantos of Pound or quite simply stupid.
I want to write short stories that connect in a subtle way. Are there any collections of works that do this. I can only think of H.P lovecraft and friends. King does that with his work but thats on a grander scale.
>>7618518
Borges
Gene Wolfe
Phillip K. Dick
Joyce does it. From what I understand it's somewhat subtle
Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson was purty good and subtle.
So I just finished this earlier, and I thought it was a pretty fantastic novel. So I want to know /lit:
What's your favorite sci-fi novel?
What's the first sci-fi novel you read?
Anything that you have been wanting to read?
Sci Fi a shit, speculative fiction is where it's at.
>>7618457
Sci-fi is speculative fiction bruh. Fantasy is the shit, but something about space and time and the evolution of humankind through advances in technology has always made my dick wet. So tell me. Why is sci-fi "a shit" to you?
What are some good books for book clubs?
short ones, is the sad truth.
My book club read "good old neon" by dfw last week to great success
What have you guys been reading lately?
I just finished A Supposedly Fun Thing. I'm starting on The Kingdom of God Is Within You and Guns, Germs and Steel.
I finished When Breath Becomes Air
Complete shit. Pretentious rich Indian doctor dies and writes an Oprah-tier book about his death.
Also i'm looking for Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire as an epub if anyone has it.
Best way to read Moby Dick? Recommended editions for people with no background knowledge of the time period, or whale anatomy?
>>7618343
Just fucking read it from start to finish
>>7618353
Really? I feel like that's a great way to get lost. You wouldn't get through the first chapter without at least a few annotations.
>>7618431
Either bait or retard
Are there any examples of books or stories where the protagonist is sort of kept in the dark? Like their motivations, their name, they sort of exist as a mystery within the story? I'm writing something where the main character's purpose isn't defined at all and I'd like to know whether I'm breaking a cardinal rule of fiction.
Pic unrelated, but it's my dog
Nice dog (bumping for curiosity).
>>7618305
Book of the New Sun.
Also curious...
Can you tell us anything else about your story, OP, or are you still in early stages?
The Road and another book whose title eludes me didn't give their main characters names, so they are just "man", "son", etc. I enjoyed these aspects because I didn't need their names to become close to them.
I have always thought the concept interesting, and I like that you're going even further.
Is there an all-knowing narrator, or is the MC the narrator? There has to be a word for that, but it doesn't come to me.
Are there any good books on how to not write like a retard?
Let me explain. I have trouble expressing my thoughts in a succint and eloquent manner. I own and study from books on prose, and study how my favorite authors write, but I havr trouble even expressing myself in a decent way during my day to day life. I'll often read something that someone else wrote and marvel at how much simpler their wording is, and how it gets the idea across easier.
I own Strunk and White, Sin and Syntax, books on Shakespeare's writing, etx, but none of them target the...
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>>7618157
You don't need to read a book about writing.
First just let the ideas come out as 'retard' and 'loose' as possible, just throw them all out there without any consideration for the reader, merely just to try and get as much of the idea out as possible.
Then, edit the hell out of it.
Write it so a child can understand it. I know sometimes I am blinded by my ego so I follow that advice.
>>7618162
This. I think the problem is that we view books as spontaneous products of an author's genius, when in reality they've been carefully pruned and edited and cut to perfection.
It's the same way with movies. There are so many cringe-worthy parts of the script that get cut, sequences filmed that never make it into the final product, and scenes that are refilmed dozens of times after adjusting minutiae you will never notice.
ITT: Post your favorite book/author from your country
Isn't he like one of three?
>>7618135
Borges tbqh
