>ITT: Describe your love life with a literary quotation:
"First as tragedy, second as farce." - Karl Marx
"That's pretty frickin' spooky, nigger!" - Max Stirner.
>>7838870
'Normies get out REEEEEE' -My Diary, tb h
'A Man apart from society must be either a beast or a god' -Aristotle
What does /lit/ think of Tao Lin's poetry?
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>>7838854
Pretty bad.
>>7838854
never read him, but I assume that his prose must be decent because I don't know how else that would be published
worthless
In your opinion, what's the most powerful rhetorical device of all?
smug anime image
Powerful in what sense?
parable
Is there a book that imagines what day to day life would be like in Plato's republic?
Plato's Republic
>>7838726
this
it may seem pedantic, but do you really want a book whose entire premise is laid out what it would be like to live in plato's republic? or would u rather think about it yourself. come on senpai desk
Brave new world
To all my mexlits out there, I'd like to translate a book from English to Spanish, and I'm the only one qualified to do so. I don't know anyone who could help me publish it, where can I start?
If I were to start eating a baby, I probably wouldn't start in the middle of his fucking chest. Put down your stick and eat a hand or something.
>>7838659
Tomo and Porrua :^)
>>7838668
¿Qué tan difícil es?
Does learning another language help you become a better writer? Or is it just helpful if you want to be a more "literary" person by reading the original? I wonder because both Nabokov and Joyce happen to be polyglots and it seems like a lot of writers happen to know second languages? Is it just a reflection of a higher verbal IQ or does it actually help in some oblique way?
To clarify, I meant better writer in your first language only -- So in other words do second/third languages carry over to your first language?
probably. i think about language differently and my writing has improved since learning japanese
>>7838657
You don't truly know your native language until you become multilingual.
Do you think he legitimately just pulls these obscure words out of his ass, or does he go through his writing with a thesaurus for the lulz? I liked the novel overall but his word choice was fucking unbearable, it was like he was deliberately picking the most archaic and obscure synonym he could possibly find for any and every given adjective. A couple of words I couldn't even find in the OED, god knows if he just invented them or if they're borrowed from Middle English or what. What the fuck was he thinking?
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I dunno. I don't read commies.
Puissant is not obscure. You'll have to do better than that.
>>7838645
It sure as hell is. I knew what it meant before reading the book, but it's awkward seeing it multiple times on a page when "powerful" or "magical" or even some sensory description of how it felt oh so PUISSANT would be better. But no, fuck you, reader.
I'm googling around because I'm asspained, somebody compiled a list for another of his novels:
>eructation
>sciolist
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>Nietzsche thought that Goethe, the author and creator of the original / quintessential literary pathetic Beta Male, was an ubermensch
Nietzsche was just joking right? He did realize that Werner was just Goethe writing about himself, right?
>>7838526
start with the greeks
nietzsche didn't even think he himself was an oobermench
>>7838526
At least his character arch is beta to alpha, which is admirable.
Is it bad that this is my favorite book and ive read it 14 times?
>>7838493
... We're all God's children.
>>7838493
yes
if the movie is anything to go by
Absolutely the worst book I've ever read. If you're older than the age of 12 you should be ashamed of yourself.
Does /lit/ use a specific writing handbook?
If so, which one?
>>7838449
The cheap-o Moleskine knockoffs work great since the paper is usually rougher and I write with cheap shitty biros.
>>7838458
i think OP is asking what style guide we use, not what kind of paper you buy.
chicago style or off yourself immediately
I got a Leuchtturm 1917, but I realized that it's too nice to creatively fuck around with. Get something that looks like shit and costs a dollar. You won't be afraid to sully something pretty that way.
bow before me
no, gimme your milk money
>>7838401
bowing is a spook
>>7838407
he doesn't have milk money. just steal the wallpaper.
besides reddit, are there any human-generated general knowledge pools to query for new books to read?
>>7838395
your looking at it friendo :^)
>>7838395
>besides reddit
stopped reading there
What does /lit/ think of this poem I've written?
>inb4 OP is a shit poet
>inb4 OP's poem is gay
>if it IS gay, why is it gay
Share your poems too, and critique others'.
FUCK YOU
>>7838368
calm down bic boy I'm sorry.
>being this mad
>>7838360
Don't you need to know how to read to be able to write?
ITT Post an image and or write about an image posted.
the last one was pretty popular--let's keep it going.
>>7838306
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>>7838313
Was Nikolai Rostov gay for Alexander?
>>7838241
>tfw a My Little Pony fanfiction is longer than your magnum opus
Being the writer of War & Peace must be suffering.
>>7838249
which fan fic are you talking about?
>>7838249
>he thinks War and Peace is his magnum opus, let alone good
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