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WHY THE FUCK DO WE READ
WHY DO WE PROCESS WORDS
WHY DO WE CRAVE THE FINITE BUT THE WORLD HAS PROVEN IT'S ANYTHING BUT
WHY WHY WHY???????
Start with the Greeks.
>>7872920
>WHY DO WE CRAVE THE FINITE BUT THE WORLD HAS PROVEN IT'S ANYTHING BUT
because you touch yourself at night
Is Don Quixote hard to read?
What are they gonna make me read /lit/?
>Intro to women's lit
>British authors after 1800
>American authors after 1900
>Intro to metaphysics
I'm 25. Haven't been to school in 4 years and just enrolled for fall 2016.
start with the greeks
Good luck finding time for leisure reading
Ready Player One
Pls recommend some good books/series set in medieval Europe
>>7872754
Faerie Queene
>>7872754
Hamlet
Does /lit/ read picture books?
>>7872714
only if Dore is illustrating them
>>7872718
Or Blakes illustrations for his poetry
I bought this for my nephew. He likes it.
Non native speaker here, which one is the correct term?
>for each tree we determined the percentage of bad apples per total apples
>for each tree we determined the percentage of bad apples of total apples
Those two of's in a row sound so retarded. And per feels kinda wrong. I apologize for even asking. But please reply.
pic more or less related
Total apples is implied.
>for each tree we determined the percentage of bad apples.
Could use proportion instead of percentage too.
per total apples is implied so you can say
>for each tree we determined the percentage of bad apples
first is technically correct but makes you sound mentally impaired
second is wrong
write: the ratio of bad apples to good apples
now delete your thread please
What did Danforth see?
>>7872616
ure mom
>>7873398
fookin ell
same thing she saw.
Are we allowed to discuss plays here? If so what does /lit/ think of vagina monologues? Has it every showed at your uni and I)is it even funny?
>Inb4 muh feminism /pol/fags
I've heard quite a few feminists have problems with it too.
>>7872578
You can discuss plays.
Vagina monologues is vulgar and not funny (watched about 5 minutes before walking out)
>>7872578
ever * is it*
Shoot sorry for the typos. I really shouldn't be on 4chan with my shitty phone.
>>7872588
Oh ok. Just asking since my friend asked me if I wanted to see it with her. Will probably skip if it's crude humor to the point of not even being funny. Also I heard there was controversial rape thing with two lesions or something.
> "In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn't."
Is she right?
Are there any 20th-21st century lyricists that could stand alongside Eliot and Shakespeare?
>>7872229
>more enlightened
she just NEEDS to take the brown pill
IMO the greatest poets of our age have taken to music. Nevermind and Highway 61 Revisited are achievements in language and storytelling that truly stand their own against the works of older wordsmiths like Pound or Whitman
Kurt Cobain:
Come as you are, as you were
As I want you to be
As a friend, as a friend
As an old enemy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vabnZ9-ex7o
Bob Dylan:
Oh God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son"
Abe says, "Man, you must be puttin' me on"
God say, "No." Abe say, "What ?"
God...
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>>7872229
I think they are just playing a different game. Lyrics have a different aesthetic context than poetry does.
Things like delivery and complementary instrumentation put different demands and liberties onto the musician than they do the poet.
On the one hand, I would say that it gives the musician the opportunity to be more experimental and bend and break the rules in ways that poets can't because they don't have that extra context to fall back on. On the other hand it has the potential to foster laziness and produce the ridiculous amount of shitty songs that exist.
Also it is more focused on the visceralness of what is produced that repetition becomes acceptable in a way that doesn't work with poetry.
What are the most dynamic, fluid, yet accurate English translations of Dostoevsky lit? Particularly for Notes from Underground, The Brothers Karamazov, and Crime and Punishment.
pic unrelated
Richard Pevear and Lara Volokhonsky have recently translated Karamazov, Notes and Crime and Punishment. I enjoyed all three and they come in nice editions.
learn russian
prove me wrong or tell me what you liked/disliked about this book
mason and Dixon
>cuz goodreads score
>>7872177
>disliked
The spy stuff is horrid. Good thing that he eventually gave up Le Carre.
All that shlemmshpiel on Benny was just as boring as the character itself.
op here: honestly this book really wasn't that great
Dear /lit/
its my first time posting here and its kind of a big thing
i need your advice on how to write a novice-lever fantasy book
now, for the last week i was worldbuilding with the help of /tg/ on some occasions, and its allmost finished and ready to start writing.
Now, i would appreciate if you could name any beginner mistakes i should avoid,
or just to give me some general tips to help me with the writing
i trust your experience and thank you in advance
>>7872073
>novice lever
Here's a pretty basic "class 1" lever you can start with.
>>7872085
thank you, i will study it all day untill i can move the earth with it
>>7872073
Don't feel the need to include stock fantasy themes because 'elves are fantasy, you gotta have elves!'
Don't feel the need to try subverting themes for the sake of subversion either.
Don't write in overly formal olde-tymey style just because you're in a faux-medieval settingjust DO it
What is Edgar Allen Poe's best story?
the famous ones are all good. fun lesser known ones are
a predicament - or the scythe of time
the angel of the odd
some words with a mummy
poe was actually quite humorous in a lot of his stuff
Loss of Breath desu senpai
Ligeia is my personal favourite.
I'm looking for books about travel and exploration.
Climbing mountains, traversing thick jungles, plains or deserts. Just the beauty of nature, the mysticism of the unknown and contact with strange people and places.
I'm mostly looking for stuff that doesn't make me want to kill myself and lose all faith in humanity, but something realistic is fine too.
Hard mode: female protagonist
Heart of Darkness is on my list although it does fall on the kill myself side of the spectrum.
non-hard-mode answer: The Snow Leopard by Peter Mathiassen
Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
I am new to the authoring business. I've written myself a novel and I have the intent to seek publishing because of how satisfied I am.
But I have been devoting some absurd faith to my editor. I am afraid he will copy and paste my text, write his name on it and then publish it himself for a quick buck.
If he doesn't do it, the publication agent might try. Or my beta readers.
The question I have is if that is even feasible. Can people steal your manuscript? What are measures you can do to stop it? How can I send a query (including the three example...
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Have you written a crime-murder mystery trashley?
>>7871824
Please answer my question.
>>7871819
Editors and agents definitely won't
beta readers might but probably won't
O rem ridiculam, Cato, et iocosam,
dignamque auribus et tuo cachinno!
ride quidquid amas, Cato, Catullum:
res est ridicula et nimis iocosa.
deprendi modo pupulum puellae
trusantem; hunc ego, si placet Dionae,
pro telo rigida mea cecidi.
What are you enjoying in latin, /lit/?
Le pedicabo faec
38 latin stories accompaniment book for wheelock's latin. using it to refresh myself. haven't read latin works in a good long while.
Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis
