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You will never read:
>Margites
>Cyprias
>Aethiopis
>Little Illiad
>Illupersis
>Nostoi
>Telegony
Why even live?
Tons of great greek tragedians have a scant amount of extant work too. Feels bad.
>>8030921
I will find them
>>8030974
I-is that a promise, anon?
>mom asks me to take out the frags
>tell her I'm not bound by slave morality
Am I doing it right?
>>8030821
I meant to say "trash"
>>8030821
Go back to /r9k/
>>8030821
No you are being a disrespectful asshole to the woman who brought you into this world.
Take out the trash you underage faggot.
I bought this since in my third world country buying a book is expensive as fuck (minimun u$25) I bought this Kindle. Anyone else has it? Do you recommend a page to download books or a program to convert PDFs to Kindle archives?
>>8030651
>3rd world country
>buys kindle instead of a cheap chinese ebook
good goy
Calibre can convert pretty much anything to kindle format.
and you can get almost any book ever onhttp://gen.lib.rus.ec/foreignfiction/
>>8030658
link me to a chink ebook reader with e ink, go ahead.
What shithole do you live OP? argentina?
>tfw act 2 problems
if you got act 2 problems you in this thread
I dont know what it is but I think I might have it.
Im definitely having some sort of problems.
>>8030637
>act--no-act dichotomy
>not finishing in one act
>not using arc system
You failed.
If by act 2 you mean my life then yeah.
Does anyone know of any good writings that draw parallels between the archetypal figure of the young girl who becomes lost in the wild woods and undergoes an allegorical coming of age journey, figures like Red Riding Hood or Alice and the mythological archetype of Persephone? I remember reading something about this subject in a thread here once and now I suddenly have found interest.
>>8030406
sounds as a bs
persie was raped (kidnapped and forcedly (or 'forcedly', not sure if she minded) married) by hades, now, we can assume the big bad wolf as a hades-like figure (poor thing, he was eviscerated for simply wanting to marry red riding hood), but if we take the books about alice, they have no ominous male figure whatsoever, the main villains there are females - the queen of hearts and the red queen (btw it makes the books sexist and misogynist but it's a different matter...)
>>8030486
you're not even good at this
>>8030486
>Women are simply inferior. They're like children mentally and hence can't come of age. They need a strong authoritarian disciplinary man to keep them in place.
h-hawt
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Daily reminder to learn a new language
Tutti i giorni finché ti piace
>>8030080
Daily reminder that everything you do is meaningless and the only meaning in everything is the meaning given to it. The absurdity of life is that we can give meaning to meaningless tasks thus finding for ourselves something worth living for.
>>8030080
Working on Portuguese, which will allow me to acquire Italian and Spanish.
>>8030088
> I'll just ironically believe I'm not worthless
no one succeeds in doing this
Lonliness in the solispsism of the 21st century.
>>8029920
Poster, your thread is meaningless! In truth, it is anti-meaning - people worked hard on structuring the primordial chaos of human though and you just came and increased the entropy. Poster, explain yourself, because your action doesn't work within my picture of the universe, why someone would post something like this, for what purpose, or even absence of purpose. Otherwise delete this threa, I beg of you, it is unfathomably aweful, like if you wake up in your apartment and there is shit on the carpet.
>>8029944
THIS ISN'T YOUR FUCKING APARTMENT YOU NIGGER
>>8029920
>for keeps
What about reincarnation?
I'm currently slugging it through the Iliad and it's pretty shit so far. I'm on book XIV and it's difficult to keep up with all the names. The action seems to be for actions sake and I'm getting tired of it. I am enjoying the parts with the gods fucking around doing shit but that hasn't happened in a while.
I'm just trying to 'start with the greeks' and be a good boy. I'm a pleb who knows no better. Is reading The Iliad all the way through as important as the 4chan /lit/ guides say? Should I slug it through to reap the...
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I'm not sure if it's the best idea to read The Iliad when you're a pleb, you might want to look into things that are easier to read so you can get started, then graduate on to more difficult works.
>>8029902
>ywn be the coolest kid in her trailer park and knock her up at 15
Why even live?
>>8029910
It can't hurt. If you're going to quit reading because the Illiad was too tough you might as well quit already.
Grinding through it isn't a feat of patricianhood either. I suggest reading it lightly on the first go and then coming back to it later with/for other books.
It helps to be surrounded by greek culture when reading about it: read some theater or other texts.
Write a passage about the girl in pic (my ex). Could be positive or negative I don't care
>>8029884
she succ me (BURR!)
she cannot fuck me
guwop got the glock 9 banging
guess that bitch wasn't lucky
It was in elementary when she told me that she loved me. We're in the tenth grade and I'm waiting for her to finish her cheerleading practice to finish. The door swings open and her eyes are locked to Chad, her hand on his naval. He looked at me, he wasn't interested in her, almost saying "I don't care about this whore", and ignoring every word she says to him.
She sees me and her eyes became dull. "Let's go". She slings her duffel bag to me like I'm a chaffeur. Well, I am her chaffeur. I had to drive her the other night...
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ONCE I WAS 7 YEARS OLD
what's the best edition of this?
Everyman
>>8029799
That one's fine, but it's translated from the Middle English, which isn't too hard to learn quickly so if you're up to it you can find the Everyman paperback.
>>8029799
folio society
/r/ing cool medieval lit.
Realistic, light reading. no canon shit pls
>no canon shit pls
I would recommend some works, but you're ignorant.
What are you even asking for
>light reading
I don't know how to tell you this, Anon, but nothing in Medieval literature really constitutes 'light' reading. Medieval literature is extraordinarily dense and allusive.
Abstract writing thread
Write anything no matter if its understandable
Got memed hard by this spook.
also
>Got memed hard by this spook.
What did I mean by this?
>>8030773
damn...
OP is a jerk. He fell and it hurt.
Would you do one? Have you done an MFA, what do think?
>>8029680
People have told me to only do one if its fully or almost fully funded. But if you've just got money to blow (James Franco), then go ahead. If it's something you love, and assuming it won't wreck your life financially, go for it OP.
>>8029697
Yeah, financing school seems to be the biggest burden out of everything, sadly.
I hear they're useless.
Searching through the Kindle store - hundreds of self-published nonsensical drivel.
On any writing competition page - somebody boasting they have the next James Bond in broken English.
What is it about the allure of being a writer that attracts the type of people that have absolutely no ability to believe and keep at it? They write entire novels, which is a feat in itself, whilst thinking they've written the next great masterpiece. Most people I know can barely write one hundred pages without giving up.
It confuses me to no end. It's not as if...
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Can't wait till someone writes the next James Bond.
The shitty and delusional writers honestly believe they're great. They do not possess the critical or literary capacity to understand why their writing is garbage.
Amazon just offers them a way to pay for their unwarranted vanity.
>>8029568
Writing a novel is one of the few notable things you can do by yourself (ignoring the editor role). All other forms of being famous or respected require being chosen by and being able to work well with other people -- like film for example, you can't simply go out an make a film by yourself.
I think it's not surprising that people with large egos but an inability to pass other hurdles that are usually necessary to become known/respected flock to writing novels.
Opinions on this?
Thank you
That cover reminds me of that painting Woman in Gold.
Have never heard of the book, though. What are your thoughts on it OP?
>>8029466
pretty sure that's a nipple
best Velvet Undergound song btw
>>8029489
Haven't read it yet, but looks interesting
