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Is it even possible to write an interesting female character?
is it even possible to make a good thread on 4chan
>interesting
>female
Only if you're female or Tolstoy
![A-good-idea[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/0G8v3EU.png "A-good-idea[1].png")
Where do you get all your good ideas for writing?
Homer, Shakes, and Milton.
My own life desu
>>7457912
Couldn't tell you even if I tried. I'd be observing something and thoughts will couple and birth an ill-formed idea which I then spend a few weeks chipping away at.
I want to have a better understanding of Gnosticism before I read Vails. What should I read?
Barnstone, Willis; Meyer, Marvin (2003). The Gnostic Bible. Shambhala Books. p.880. ISBN1-57062-242-6.
Barnstone, Willis; Meyer, Marvin (2010). Essential Gnostic Scriptures. Shambhala Books. p.271. ISBN978-1590309254.
Also the Wikipedia page.
>>7457825
Thanks!
>>7457834
Give this a lesson as well my man; an In Our Time podcast on Gnosticism: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s4rhz.
Is don Quixote happy or miserable?
Is he a hero or not?
As a person who found Don Quixote a boring and tedious read can someone help me with these questions?
You don't deserve answers.
>>7457723
why? are you against explanations?
>>7457710
Why do you care? You are clearly a moron and will derive no use from having your inquiry answered.
What's the most interesting book about science you've ever read?
>>7457641
>>7457641
This one because it shows that technology will make utopia possible.
Whose of yous English teachers told them that they have talent for writing? Mine did.
Mine did but was retard :<
He read my short story aloud to the class : )
It was about a cannibal after a global nuclear war.
>be me
>eighth grade (we're 12)
>have to write story about pirates
>teacher decides to read some
>first few always a bit noisy, kids fooling around, no mentions
>mine gets read
>everyone is dead silent, gazing at the teacher
>misreads a word, I correct him
>whole class in awe that I wrote...
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can anyone recommend a good anthology of short stories?
i'm talking the classic here, like "the most dangerous game", "the lottery", "the monkeys paws".
i guess you can say they kind of have a macabre feel but i think most short stories are like that. just trying to find a nice one stop shop to put on my kindle. thanks!
pic unrelated
>>7457538
I just finished reading this and it was the shit
>>7457570
Do you have epub?
>>7457538
pic related, it was in my uncles cabin and was probably the first book of horror stories I ever encountered, the cabin burned down and the book was lost. But it has some really great stories in it.
Also, even though it is encroaching on meme territory, Borges Collected Fictions and the Complete Lovecraft are a must.
>>7457570
http://www62.zippyshare.com/v/10910851/file.html
NM got it off mobilism.
Its an rar but i scanned and opened, epub and mobi versions included
>>7457516
How was JPS a dick?
>>7457579
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/09/26/stand-by-your-man
![Gilbert_Chesterton[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/3W9h4bT.jpg "Gilbert_Chesterton[1].jpg")
How can i deal with the fact that almost all thinkers that i admire and feel inclined to believe are incredible harsh on vegetarianism in an ignorant sense? I can't help but doubt and disregard they other opinions by seeing their ignorance.
Pic related.
>being this dismayed that the quintessential fat englishman has strong opinions about food
>>7457241
Reconcile via the fact that this specific issue is:
A) Not at all their area of expertise/reason they are known or respected.
B) extremely fucking dated. Realize that, thanks to select bible lines, some of these people grew up in eras where it is generally held as fact that animals don't even feel real pain.
in short, don't ask your dentist for legal advice.
>>7457241
Reconcile via the fact that this specific issue is:
A) Not at all their area of expertise/reason they are known or respected.
B) extremely fucking dated. Realize that, thanks to select bible lines, some of these people grew up in eras where it is generally held as fact that animals don't even feel real pain.
in short, I don't ask my dentist for legal advice.
(Or in your case: don't give a shit that my dentist thinks I have grounds to sue.)
I realize this might stretch the definition of "literature" a bit, but:
I want to brush up my chess game. I know how the pieces move, but beyond that my expertise is sparse. Could anyone recommend a book for someone at my level?
>>7457065
At your level, you should focus on tactics and simply playing.
Tactics alone can get you to 1500 FIDE level.
I can't recall any good beginner strategy books but a google search would no doubt help you.
Silman's The Amateur's Mind and Irving Chernev's Logical Chess are the two I see recommended for beginner's most often
Silman's analyses amateur games and the mistakes in thinking that come with them
Chernev analyses renowned pro games point by point explaining why certain moves were made at certain times, and how they're based around an overall strategy
play me on lichess
http://lichess.org/MlKQfCms
How do Stirners' "spooks" differ from Zizek's "pure ideology"?
They include a wider range of things, but the concept is very simillar.
Ideology in the Marxist sense is opposed to class consciousness, it's a fake form of consciousness. Spooks don't have such antithesis afaik.
>>7457777
cheers blud. have a jco macro.
Can we talk about Notes from Underground?
The narrator seemed to embody, as a caricature, some of Dostoevsky's own opinions. His spite, though a recurring negative theme in Dostoevsky's work, also embodies Dostoevsky's rejection of the herd instinct. I think what struck me most of all is that the narrator's rejection of reason and so on, in favor of existential affirmation, seemed to basis for Dostoevsky's Christian faith.
>>7456596
I really liked it. I read it at a point in my life when I was lonely and it helped me to understand what I was feeling. That said, I think it's great regardless of whether you relate to the underground man or not.
>>7456658
I think the Underground Man gives existentialism from both perspectives. On one hand, his affirmation in the face of reason is very Christian. On the other, it bears a lot of similarity to the freethinker in hell the Devil tells Ivan about in The Brothers Karamazov.
It's another one of Dostoyevsky's strawmen. Don't read to far into him; he's a hack.
![milan-kundera-2-la-guia-de-lengua[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/y0yEEkx.jpg "milan-kundera-2-la-guia-de-lengua[1].jpg")
What is your take on Milan Kundera? I've had him on my backlog for quite some time and will probably get through some of his work in the next couple weeks.
I have most of his published works, is there one you'd suggest I start on?
For me, "The unbearable lightness of being" and "The book of laughter and forgetting" were the best. I really like him, though I found his very last book to be a disappointment
Don't like him, especially his fiction, essays are somewhat fine. Too much of mentoring in his books, too much of showing of how he can write (see all that shit about 'how is Immortality book which you can't summarize').
Also dislike his attitude towards translation of his books and towards early stuff he wrote in czech etc.
Seems like an arrogant prick.
>>7457573
>his attitude towards translation of his books
What's his attitude.
>English not having a pronoun and verb form for 'you' plural
Pig disgusting.
How am I supposed to communicate that I'm talking about you as a collective and not you personally? Fucking shit glorified french/norman with Germanic grammar language. Fuck 1066.
>>7456486
You could use yetfw greek class doesn't know ye is plural
>>7456486
>Youse
>Y'all
>>7456486
>mfw my Norman ancestors probably raped OP's ancestors and ruled over them for hundreds of years
>the truth is somewhere in between
WOW. THAT IS DEEP. I AM OVER-FUCKING WHELMED. GET THIS MAN A JUNIOR G-MAN BADGE... /LIT/, YOU WASTE MY TIME, YOU BRING ME OUT HERE TO LISTEN TO THIS
>>7456447
I-If it was so simple, w-why didn't you think of it first?
>implying
>>7457011
>implying
