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What are some novels I can read on the philosophy that the "mask" you wear is more important than the truth that's inside, because your mask is what has an affect on the world and the way people see you? What is this type of philosophy called? I asked because I recently completed the videogame "Majora's Mask," and that was a heavy theme in it, so I want to do more research on it.
>>8219628
Selfish by Kim Kardashian.
>>8219628
Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
It was only written in 1949 too. Pretty recent novel.
>>8219632
What could I possibly learn from this?
Hey /lit/ I got my third bookcase today, what do you think?
I'm glad I have an e-reader.
>>8219085
>only third
top pleb
>>8219096
How many do you have?
What are your thoughts on short story lengths? I'm currently editing a piece of mine which, when all done and dusted, will be around 10,000 words. I think this is fine and it's as long as it needs to be but I'm wondering what others think as 10,000 seems to be the upper limit for a lot of journals and such.
> Thoughts on the "long story".
P.S it's a Wallacian, symphonic, urban-tragedy, but if you can believe it is also actually rather good.
>>8218701
10,000 words will probably hit about 20 pages or so. That's a good size for a short story.
The upper cap for a short story should be "I can read this in one sitting." That's ultimately why you're writing a short story and not a novella or a novel. 20 pages is well within that.
The lower bound is a bit tricky. If you can make a meaningful story in a few pages, you have quite the talent for terseness.
If I didn't know the author beforehand I'd say it should be 6-7 pages minimum.
>>8218743
I find I work in 2500, 5000, and 10,000 categories.
>>8218701
>it is also actually rather good
A Hollywood producer has just approached you to write and direct a $200 million adaptation of Finnegans Wake. How do you proceed?
>>8218619
laugh at the desire for wealth and masturbate in front him
>>8218619
fart in his general direction
>>8218619
Read Finnegans Wake, probably.
Claim your literary waifu! :3
She's mine, nobody else can have her.
dibs
You're not a hypocrite, right?
>Your philsophy / philsophical school
>How you live by it
>>8217684
>memes
>avid 4channer
>hurr durr i need an identity, let's use other's philosophy as a fashion accessory
fuck off twat
There are worse things to be than a hypocrite
Was he secretly the GOAT?
>secretly
anon there is nothing secret about it
He was the best friend of modernism, without him the movement wouldn't have been as good/successful as it was. He wasn't the best writer though. Good, but not the best.
>when academics try to write poetry
Anybody else starting with the Greeks here?
I have started reading "A brief history of ancient Greece" and it's been a lot of fun thus far.
How's your progress of reading the Greeks going?
You don't want to be a pseudo, right?
>>8216964
How many of you fagots actually read the Greeks?
You fell for the meme, op.
On book 3 of the Republic, been really enjoying it so far....
Haven't gone into reading a lot of history or poetry, etc. (Childhood was filled with self interest for Greece so I read a lot of shit when I was younger and have a general idea of its history)
have Odyssey and Iliad on the way... (reading order a bit fucked I know, but again, I have a gist of what happens in both stories..)
>>8217000
Why aren't you following the flowchart?
>tfw addicted to reading and broadening my intellect
ok
>>8216707
Better than being addicted to heroin I guess.
>>8216707
Could be worse, lad.
Sometimes it can get a bit overwhelming though, I suggest making time for doing nothing and maybe some meditation.
Otherwise it's like perpetually eating without ever taking a shit.
If I upload my 500k word memoir to wikipedia despite having achieved nothing that would otherwise warrant such a page / article being created, are the moderators likely to ban me or remove the page?
It's taken me a very long time to write and the entire text is filled with hyperlinks to things like songs mentioned, photographs of myself, and so on. I don't want to waste my time here.
Thank you.
Did your plan to disseminate it via pizza deliverymen not work?
Are you insane? Of course it will be removed
Didn't see one up, so here goes:
Poetry Critique Thread!
Submit your poems for review and critique others' poems in a giant orgy of complex verbiage and butthurt.
OP here, starting it off with a couple of mine.
>>8214794
>>8214798
recent purchases.
hate/rate/masterbate
Almost all of these just arrived today. Feels Goodman.
>>8214405
I really enjoyed The Left Hand of Darkness. I hope you like it too, OP.
Post your top ten favorite books that are not on this chart
I will record the information and make a chart on it
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nobody has read that many books
>>8211927
1. The Master of Go
2. Little, Big
3. The Summer Book
4. The Blind Owl
5. The Once and Future King
6. The Street of Crocodiles
7. Kornel Esti
8. King Lear
9. Middlemarch (really surprised this wasn't in the OP)
10. In Watermelon Sugar
1. The Tunnel
2. The Public Burning
3. JR
4. The Lime Twig
5. The Death of Virgil
6. Under the Volcano
7. Lookout Cartridge
8. Double or Nothing
9. The Great Fire of London
10. In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
So what is the point of him finishing the books any more?
Who will want to wander through thousands of pages of description of food, nipples and endless meanderings like Quentyn or Aegon when they can just watch the show and get to the point in a much more streamlined story? Particularly that all the main plot twists will be in the open after the show and Martin is one of those writers that without the plot twists you lose 90% of the reason to keep going through all the bad writing.
Why should he even bother finishing those books?
Because I like literature and reading?
>>8211685
Season 6 had basically NOTHING happen. The show did a really good job of feeding the normie masses filler and making it seem substantial, but they didn't give us anything new really and discounting developments which are fundamentally at odds with the plot present in the book.
Nice try faggot, I can't wait to read WoW and am so glad I didn't get spoilered by HBO's shitshow.
>>8211685
he's lazy as fuck and his central themes havent changed much: war is horrible and the old times were pretty fucked up
that being said I can't stand emilia clarke's acting , so I haven't watched GOT since mid season 4, and probabbly wont catch up on GOT until the novels come out
unless he dies before ADOS comes out desu
Worst book covers thread
>>8210848
>Portrait of As A The Artist Young James Man Joyce
Nothing wrong there.
