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Is reading speed important?
>>8208677
first post, correct post
>>8208676
>Is reading speed important?
Yes. For one, you must be able to get to the end of the idea before the start of the idea leaves your short term memory.
>Is reading-aloud speed important
Also yes. A listener will struggle if you're less than 2wps and above 4 wps.
>What benefit is there to reading quickly
If you're both reading _and_ understanding (rather than just skimming like a pleb) then quicker...
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>>8208698
nice false dichotomy, faggot
I'm "one of those" amateur writers who can write interesting/good/engaging short vignettes, and can pack a lot of information or action into the vignettes, but can't seem to make any one scene last for more than a page or two, tops. Trying to deliberately spread out a vignette that I write feels very forced. How do I write something longer (i.e. in the ballpark of 10-20-page chapters for a novel) that feels like it's actually meant to be that long?
Looking for specific tips or mindset shifts that have worked for you or other writers.
Also,...
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>>8208665
come up with an idea that needs it
also: post vignettes
>>8208665
>interesting/good/engaging
Yeah, buddy, how 'bout you post some of them vignettes and let us be judge of your bold claims.
And by "us" I mean probably just me, if I don't lose interest by then.
And by "judge" I mean I will insult and belittle, not just your writing, but you as a person and your (already dubious) worth as a human being.
>>8208892
Tip that fedora 2: the euphorias return
Why is Ishmael so fucking autistic?
>But will any whaleman believe these stories? No. The whale of today is as big as his ancestors in Pliny's time. And if ever I go where Pliny is, I, a whaleman (more than he was), will make bold to tell him so. Because I cannot understand how it is, that while the Egyptian mummies that were buried thousands of years before even Pliny was born, do not measure so much in their coffins as a modern Kentuckian in his socks; and while the cattle and other animals sculptured on the oldest Egyptian and Nineveh tablets, by the relative proportions in which they are drawn, just as plainly prove that the high-bred, stall-fed, prize cattle of Smithfield, not only equal, but far exceed in magnitude the fattest of Pharaoh's fat kine; in the face of all this, I will not admit that of all animals the whale alone should have degenerated.
Why does he care so much that his whales are bigger than those of some ancient scholar from 2000 years ago?
This is the chapter that convinced for certain me Ishmael is an autist. Only an autist would get so butthurt about this.
Why do you have such a stick up your ass about it?
Nerd rage over autism smells like autism to me, you mook.
Remember earlier in the book when Ishmael was talking to himself about how depictions of whales by artists and scholars are always hilariously wrong? This is that thing again.
>Books for 12 year old girls are like this
What a great time to be alive.
This is not for 12-year-olds. You are fooling us.
Is this like the chick version of puberty? Instead on materbating nonstop they write sexual fanfic especially gay fanfic?
>>8208669
Well they also masturbate with it. I mean hell, I could masturbate over that excerpt
Any patricians in /lit/ actually comprehend an ancient language?
Recommended resources etc.
Accurate Power Ranking?:
Classical Greek > Latin > Classical Arabic > Sanskrit = Syriac = Ancient Egyptian > Other
/lit/ is full of pseuds... you might get a proper response, but its mostly reddit tier fags who want you to spoonfeed them
Take this to /his/ or the other board, you'll probably get some smarter people there.
>>8208638
Thanks, friendo.
>>8208598
I know classical arabic very well, a little bit latin, and I can write in runic alphabet (turkish one) if you count.
But what I say is I would prefer existing languages to the ancient ones. On the other hand you can say, classical arabic, latin and sanskrit are still useful today. But not as much as any existing language.
Hey guys, I'm working on a project and could use a little help, could you guys list some books or book characters who struggle entering the broader world. Your help would be much appreciated
>>8208576
>>8208584
Fuck off, Tony.
>>8208576
not a book, but the movie The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser is about that.
Are prose fags worse than plot fags?
>>8208553
No. Also, most of the people you posted don't tend to do it for prose-fags, unless they're the kind that think something is good based on the sole merit of the quality of the usage of close-third.
If the prose is good they can write whatever they want, it will be good. If the plot is good, I don't think that can carry bad prose. One book with bad prose but good plot I can think of is the Dexter books, but even that got to be too much for me. And maybe even then it wasn't bad prose, just very dumbed-down.
Who is the Sam Hyde of literature?
But for real, Sam Hyde is the Sam Hyde of literature
>>8208552
any author that's ever failed
Where should I start if I want to read philosophy, /lit/?
>>8208531
start with the greeks
>>8208538
/Thread
>>8208538
Should I just dive straight in? Or will that leave me confused?
Is everything fundamentally One? Or is the universe fragmented at the Noumenal level? What would Nietzsche's answer to this question be?
I'm having trouble answering this because, conflict is such an important concept in Nietzsche, and conflict presupposes two differentiated forces fighting against each other(Weak/Reactive, Strong/Active in Nietzsche) but at the same time the doctrine of The Will To Power seems to presuppose a certain oneness to the universe, that fundamentally everything is this one Will (like Schopenhauer)
Thoughts?
>>8208508
the concept of flux presupposes differentiation, i dont think Nietsche would agree with kant and schoppy when they said there is no plurality at the noumenal level
>>8208508
bymp
>>8208524
good post
if you're really interested in identity and difference in Nietzsche, look no further than Deleuze. The will to power is the creation of difference that is not reducible to the identical. The eternal recurrence, for him, expresses precisely this: the universe is a continual productive process, but a process which continually produces only difference. It is not a whole (being), but a process (becoming). So there is only will to power, but it is not identical to itself and is not an essence,...
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Checked pic related out from the library and it looks like there's a CD with it.
Anyone have a link to this software via their university?
Thanks.
>>8208456
Alternatively: other books that do not need software to be read.
>>8208456
bump
its a shit textbook and software, it offers remedial discrete mathematics lessons. go to wikipedia and save your time. stop bumping this, this isn't a place for handouts
What was his fucking problem?
>>8208453
He was too beautiful for this world?
People like OP didn't want to be his friend and appreciate him for who he was.
Typical white middle class suburban kid.
I want to read some good books about school shooters.
Any recs?
i think my diary is a good start desu
We Need To Talk About Kevin
for the Oprah's Book Club crowd
Columbine (Dave Cullen)
for the non-fiction crowd
>>8208438
Just watch Elephant, senpai.
How does /lit/ feel about him?
why read a book by a mexican when there a plenty of great American authors?
>>8208434
I really liked 2666 and I'll probably pick up some of his other work at some point. The way that each individual scene in the novel felt realistic but the big picture felt kinda psychelic/unreal was what I enjoyed most. I don't really have much more to add since I'm a pleb.
>>8208469
Quite succinct and a good way to put it, I might steal it.
You should try The Savage Detectives as well, its really good.
So given how language seems to interact with "common knowledge", especially names for things, is it The Parliament Clock Tower or is the whole tower called Big Ben now?
IDS GALLED BIG BENIS :DDDDD
>>8208408
The clock is called Big Ben's
The tower is called St Stephen's Tower
>>8208757
>The tower is called St Stephen's Tower
The Elizabeth Tower
