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this is our homr until we get our own board
>inb4 >>>/lgbt/
what are you favourite plays?
>>7597246
i wrote one a week ago in which 4chan was composed of a group of dogs, each board with its own personality based on the posts in their threads, and they all lived in a large home together, there was a lot of fucking going on. it didnt turn out well.
>>7597257
post it if you're raw
Personal recommendations for getting into theatre? I listened to The death of a salesman and I think that's the first time I've been moved. After that I read the Seagull and I felt so sorry for Irina
ITT we make covers for books
Finished Moby Dick today and just made this cover
You need to spend less time here.
>>7597230
dammit I'm going to replace my covers in calibre with one I've made whenever I finish a book
much better than taking notes
OP you're a genuis
here's an inherent vice film poster I made august 16 2014
I felt bad when I realized that I haven't read a book outside of school requirements for about 10 years, so I went to the bookstore. Which one of these should I start my journey with?
>>7597192
Ready Player One
>>7597192
the greek.
>>7597192
why did you cover that book up
let's r8 each others taste in philosophers
>>7596541
template
I'll answer for 75% of /lit/...Camus
>>7596549
good thing he's not on the list a?
I've read over 50 books and as a seasoned veteran all I have to say is... I quit.
Nothing will ever surpass The Brothers Karamazov.
This is the pinnacle of art in its purest form.
>50 books
Are you insinuating that that is a high number of books to have read?
>>7595392
>read P&V translation
*long sigh*
What the fuck happened that made the quality of this board drop so far?
I've been getting into Plato recently, and reading Phaedrus I came across this passage:
"For there is no light of justice or temperance or any of the higher ideas which are precious to souls in the earthly copies of them: they are seen through a glass dimly; and there are few who, going to the images, behold in them the realities, and these only with difficulty."
It immediately reminded me of the famous Paul 1 Corinthians 13:12:
"12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know...
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Or maybe the experience of the Absolute is similar across cultures and religions
Considering Paul was an intellectual immersed in the Greco-Roman world at a time when Platonism was very popular and accessible, I don't think it would be surprising if it was taken from Plato. He definitely wouldn't be unique among early Christians in being influenced by Platonic philosophy.
>>7592355
Yeah, that was the option d), forgot to mention that. But still there's the dilemma with the absolutely same phrase being used.
Share your contrarian literary opinions
Long books are never as good as short books by the same author.
nothing wrong with massive sprawling quoted dialogue
>>7584692
Gass is the best prose writer since Joyce.
What are some publishing companies that are motivated more by art and its integrity as opposed to money? Any?
Independent record labels seem to be able to survive while also believing in what they support. I'm curious if there are equivalencies in the literature world.
(Preferably publishers that publish new stuff; maybe even a little experimental, avant-garde work?)
Eraserhead Press
New Directions
Are there any good editions or guides to Paradise Lost that have a lot of footnotes or explain certain references in detail?
Yes
every 11th grade high school English class
get off 4chan and do your homework
>>7600589
Dude, I'm not even in high school, I just want to read Paradise Lost and have a decent grasp on the references so I understand things better.
How unfinished is it?
Do you think plot was particularly unimportant to this piece?
Dave said that "the idea of plot interests [him]" and described The Pale King as "a series of setups for things to happen, but nothing actually happens".
The only way he could publish an "unfinished" novel was to commit sudoku. It actually is finished.
>>7600558
>le white college male literature meme
very unfinished
at the time of reading it, kinda. but upon reflection no.
i interpreted it as:he intentionally wrote a boring book about the topic of boredom.
we don't all get to have these super interesting jobs, some of us are gonna be stuck doing shitty boring ass jobs. and that's what he made me feel i was reading about.
now of course times have changed and computers and shit mostly do this stuff but there are still boring jobs out there.
anyway i mostly liked the stories that took place outside of the "main" plot.
like the section...
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>he hasn't read Menexenus
Why not anon? It's Plato's best dialogue.
Cratylus is better
Have you read any good books or essays on education? I'm interested in education reform, coming from the Western world in which our education system (and entire socio-political hierarchy) is completely doomed if it keeps going in the same direction.
>>7599514
no, no good books in the german education system.
Pedagogy of the oppressed
>>7599514
John Taylor Gatto
look into him OP
Just... gross.
that is the point fuccboi
>>7599506
If you didn't relate with this book, minus perhaps the womanizing bits, you don't belong here.
Not that depressing desu
Hey, /lit/. I need your opinion on a thought.
So I'm currently going through Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun, and, other than having the time of my life, I can't stop noticing the obvious Borgean influences the book has. It feels like it plays perfectly just what made Borges so great, from the prose, to the plot developments and their presentation, to how imaginative Wolfe's world building is, down to the development of the protagonist and how it makes the reader think about it, it's as if someone had took Borge's great devices and weaved...
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>>7598762
>gene Wolfe
>having a modicum of talent to incorporate Borgesean motifs in his work
Genrefags please go
That is a wonderful post, OP: the best I've seen here in a long while. I'm glad there are some on /lit/ who still enjoy reading books.
Personally, I doubt I could pontificate very coherently about Borges' influence on Wolfe, since I started with the latter and am only now starting to trawl the Argentine heresiarch's oeuvre. I will say, however, that this sentiment:
>So tell me /lit/, is what makes a writer truly great... what they lack? Is it the fact that their work is, so to say, incomplete, that makes people think of...
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>>7598782
I can tell you studied law....what an utterly boring platitudes that say absolutely nothing of interest.
I'm an educator in America. I know English, and I'm in the process of learning Spanish to communicate with students, but I really don't like the language very much.
Recommend me books that will show me the good side of the language.
I'm fairly proficient, I'm a second year student at a nearby university where I'm being sponsored to get a degree in the language, but it's been purely out of a feeling of obligation.
I need the practice of active reading in the language anyway.
>>7598176
Final del Juego - Julio Cortazar
Pedro Páramo - Juan Rulfo
>>7598176
La vida es sueño-Calderon de la barca
Jose Rizal: Noli Me Tangere
