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Hi /lit/, fa/tg/uy here. Developing a character who's basically sherlock holmes for a cthulu - style game, and having trouble picking traits. Basically I need to know what quirks/personality traits are most important to replicate in my character to be truest to him. So, if we list all of his traits, e.g. plays violin to help him think, knowledgeable in the occult, chemistry, tobacco, footprints, toxicology, manic-depressive, self-medicates with cocaine, poor social interaction, etc. and then picked 5 good traits and 5 bad traits to best represent him, what would you say they are?
>>7392034
We can all agree that from a literary standpoint the symposium is far and away Plato's best, right?
Head over to the /youngadult/ board.
After reading this I don't know what to believe anymore
I haven't got around to this. Never convenient to pick up. This book is the one I have been most interested in from Volly, try to elaborate a bit my lad.
>>7391962
Excellent thread
>>7392019
The book is a criticism of mans expansion of technology in relation to natures reaction of said expansion. The characters are all metaphors for this exponentially changing human race and the creations of things such as electricity and themes of industrialism. The war with nature (bugs) provides a view into the fight nature couldn't put up in the real world. Honestly after reading it I don't know whether to continue living my life or locking up in a cabin in the woods and living off the land.
>he texts with perfect grammar and punctuation
>>7391931
ebin thread my man
bleed much?
that actually legitimately bothers me. some people pull it off naturally but with most assholes the affectation is palpable.
same thing w caps
http://www.strawpoll.me/6103411
Overrated. Like Japanese films, it LOOKS like a novel but there's really no content. It's pure imitation of American or European models without anything inside, like a replicant out of Philip K Dick.
>>7391938
>there's really no content
gb2reddit
your presence makes the board infinitely shittieri dont even like murakami
>>7391938
Yep, I feel the same way about Roth, Delillo, Pynchon, McCarthy, Faulkner, Fitzgerald and their like. Shitty science fiction by Dick is all I read.
Can you guys recommend some good "literary" twitter accounts?
THREAD HIJACK.
Do any of you /lit/ guys know of any decent-as-far-as-TV-series go TV series?
>>7391803
fuck you autistic chinaman
>>7391803
There aren't any.
>try to kill postmodernism
>only make it stronger
explain?
Is this about irony vs. sincerity?
All text from him (not too many I know) kinda sound "very nice", good message, but when I know some guy was (also?) all about fucking young chicks doubt about all intentions creep up my mind I stop believing.
That's why we need Camille "no appetite for deconstruction" Paglia.
>>7391785
He couldn't attain sincerity, so he anheroed. After his death he became a meme. Literally turning into the embodiment of everything he loathed. Way to get btfo
>considers himself patrician
>doesn't even speak fluent French
>he polluted his knowledge of English, the logical conclusion to language, with some disgusting Continental babble
>learn French
>cultivate beautiful enunciated Parisian accent
>love reading aloud or subvocalising while reading texts because the language is so beautiful
>finally meet actual Frenchmen
>all sound like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3sOlpoQYNo
pas du tout, on a une langue moche et moribonde.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
A BOAT, beneath a sunny sky
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July—
Children three that nestle near,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Pleased a simple tale to hear—
Long has paled that sunny sky;
Echoes fade and memories die;
Autumn frosts have slain July.
Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
Alice moving under skies
Never seen by waking eyes.
Children yet, the tale to hear,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Lovingly shall nestle near.
In a Wonderland they lie,
Dreaming as the days go by,
Dreaming as the...
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>>7391695
Just read this article about how many people misread that poem
http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/09/11/the-most-misread-poem-in-america/
>>7391731
fuck off back to reddit
post a short story that has the same title as a poem
this is a pretty shit literature board
John Ashbery is a cunt.
>>7391625
Some anon out there thinks he knows who I am because I said my ex looked like that girl in another thread.
Hit me up, anon.
Was Marx right to turn Hegel on his head? What do you all think of dialectics? Are you an idealist or materialist? Will we ever reach a final synthesis or is that contradictory to the nature of dialectics?
hegel, get down from there.
>>7391601
Yes, Hegel is full of bullshit anyway.
>>7391601
Wouldn't final synthesis be infinite stability? Like a nice big hard rock?
Have Fiction books significantly changed your mindset/lifestyle? If so, which ones and why?
Is there even a reason to read fiction besides killing time? For example, how would a book like Moby Dick change you when it's about whaling(which you most likely don't participate in.)?
>>7391466
Hey, that's my neighborhood. Strange seeing that on here.
>>7391466
DEJA VU
>>7391466
>Have Fiction books significantly changed your mindset/lifestyle?
No.
What's your opinion on people who read books like this? Scumbags right?
Most people are chill
>>7391460
Who?
I would not like to have a conversation with somebody who unironically enjoys football. It is one of the worst things to happen to our working class. I hate it and it should be banned.
Just a few days left.
Are you hopelessly behind, or coming close to your wordcount goal?
Pic was unrelated, I'm at 15K.
I've made tighter deadlines, but those were important.
Don't even give a shit to be honest family.
For 4 years now I have written maybe 4 pages and then given up. Guess I'm just trash
Post books that are fun/funny.
>inb4 define fun
I'm not in the mood today, just finished an essay for Uni and want to curl up in bed with a Paige Turnah.
Anything by Christopher Moore.
Fool and Lamb are particularly good.
>>7391411
Cheers.
>>7391418
Have fun. Both made me laugh out loud.
Are we allowed to have a thread for questions that don't deserve their own thread?
What word processor or text editor do you guys use?
microsoft word
What is the Evangelion of literature?
Currently deciding what college I will go to and I know I will go in undecided, but my question is there anything to do beyond trying as many new things as possible to figure out what I will do with my life or just put my head down and try to grind for a job that can pay well and hope for the best? Essentially, should I try to work a probably unfulfilling job and try to read books on the side (I personally don't think that would happen) or go into a field related to philosophy or literature and ride the struggle bus for the rest of my life? I don't see any market or job upswing.
