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While you get no attention from publishers or dat qt in starbucks that you're too afraid to talk to, pic / linkrelated makes millions.
https://wikileaks.org/sony/docs/03_03/Mktrsch/Market%20Research/Scripts/Sausage%20Party.pdf
Tell me more about art being judged objectively.
>>7818439
Movie looks funny as fuck, basically sour grapes the post.
>>7818439
>get's
>open's
>give's
TRIGGERED
>>7818439
No one who isn't a naive child or an autist thinks art is valued by the publishing or entertainment industries. There is an objective judgement when it comes to entertainment, and that's a judgement of how profitable it's predicted to be.
Is this book good?
A friend told me the author is the Brazilian James Joyce and it got me curious.
Brazilian lit thread, I suppose.
>>7818365
When I found out it wasnt about the Canudos campaign i dropped it. But yeah its on all kinds of lists, so take that for what you will.
>>7818365
It's a fair comparison; James Joyce was a heavy influence on Guimarães Rosa writing.
It also shares a lot of similarities to Ulysses:
To read Ulysses, it's nice to have read the Odyssey before, and be familiar with Dublin's microcosm.
Analogously, it's nice to have read Faust before diving into GSV, and to be familiar with the "sertão" and its mystique.
>>7818425
I forgot to add that reading Guimarães short story book "Sagarana" is a good way of familiarizing yourself with the sertão and what it means for Guimarães Rosa.
Good luck if you're going for it, it's a tough but extremely rewarding read.
>>7818362
This is just from my journal, if you can read the scrawl. Don't try and date severely unstable suicide cases, they will string you on like each day is a pearl.
>>7818389
What does /lit/ think of the Qur'an?
I'm redpilled, so I don't know anything about it and despise it more than anything else
I've been trying to get my hands on a copy for a while now. Not really sure where to get a good print from.
I have an autographed copy from DFW. My favorite part is where Kmart knockoff Gobot Jesus fucks his underage daughter.
>It is the same in literature as in life. Wherever one goes one immediately comes upon the incorrigible mob of humanity. It exists everywhere in legions; crowding, soiling everything, like flies in summer. Hence the numberless bad books, those rank weeds of literature which extract nourishment from the corn and choke it.
>They monopolise the time, money, and attention which really belong to good books and their noble aims; they are written merely with a view to making money or procuring places. They are not only useless,...
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>what is capitalism
>>7817896
"The truth [...] is that to the dilettante the thing is the end, while to the professional as such it is the means; and only he who is directly interested in a thing, and occupies himself with it from love of it, will pursue it with entire seriousness. It is from such as these, and not from wage-earners, that the greatest things have always come."
Schopes was such a bro.
>>7817899
What? Even if a socialist government decided to distribute literature in accordance with demand, it would still be subject to the tastes of the masses. The only way is to force people to only read certain "high art", and evade demand all together. In that case the quote would make no sense.
Stop making "clever" edgy leftist comments and think before you post kiddo.
The great debate
>>7817739
both are shit.
>>7817739
Which one to use as toilet paper, you mean? I'd start with the one on the right and use the left one after running out of pages.
>>7817744
Thought that was for the trilogy?
If I wanted to, could I just go right into reading him? Give me the Stirner starter pack, /lit/.
Get some context on Hegel, Feuerbach and early communism.
>>7817505
Any specific SEP articles?
>>7817494
understand the concept of ideology, and you'll understand the concept of a spook.
Audiobooks, Yay or nay?
>>7817364
Yay - dramatizations too
only when the narrator is george guidall or a qt making orgasm sounds as she tries to do male voices i can masturbate to
>>7817364
Sometimes yay.
I'm reading The Mind-Body Problem by Churchland and he said "(TOP DOCS PROVE LIFE AFTER DEATH!!!)"
What is top docs?
>>7817356
Documents that you can only read in the afterlife. He was one of the first to discover that their existance would logically prove that an afterlife exists.
>>7817369
Where can I read more on that?
>>7817374
It's all in a top doc.
what can you do with a novella?
I do not want to self-publish.
>>7817328
take it to a novella publisher
silly!
note that DFW referred to 'Little Expressionless Animals' as a novella and it was both published in the literary magazine Paris Review but also in the collection Girl With Curious Hair.
>>7817328
You can try to get it serialized but you most likely won't get it published, especially not in one shot.
Guys, help me out please
This makes sense right?
>Independent clause, coordinating-conjunction (subordinating-conjunction) dependent clause, independent clause.
Example:
He walked, and as he smiled, he looked at the sky.
It's the "and as" that's throwing me a little.
Or would the sentence look like this (w/ a comma before the subordinating conjunction:
He walked, and, as he smiled, he looked at the sky.
>>7817092
I would rework it to be IC with conjunction, DC, DC.
He walked and, as he smiled, looked at the sky.
You need something more than a coordinating conjunction or a comma to join two indep. clauses. By sticking the conjunction before the comma and removing the second pronoun you are left with the single IC and a more syntactically correct sentence.
>>7817092
>uses technical grammar
PLEB
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Grammar is such a bummer. I really don't care as long as it works.
Though, focus up if you're writing an essay or something.
Too lazy to look at the sticky. What are some required classics for Christians--specifically Catholics?
>Catholicism
>Not posting the superior version
>>7816675
This may help you
What does /lit/ think of William Golding?
>>7816438
>write a kids' book
>kids talk about ass raping a pig with a spear
typical bong desu senpai
I really liked Lord of the flies
>>7816438
Loli rape
If he has something interesting to say, why did he go about it by being a pompous obfuscating twat?
>>7816097
so that idiots would never be able to understand it.
In the past hidden knowledge was kept secret by membership to organizations.
Now that knowledge is decentralized and omnipresent it is obfuscated such that only the initiated and worthy can understand it.
>>7816097
No dirt on the GWF
it's german
Which translations of this have you read and what did you think? I'm currently reading pic related, the Melville translation and I'm enjoying it so much that I'm getting a hardcover Mandelbaum translation also to compare them (and because I enjoyed Mandelbaum's Dante translation).
I might wank over some mature porn or find a married woman on ashley madison
>>7816089
why did you post that in this thread
I read the version in OP
I enjoyed the heck out of it and laughed a lot but it's honestly just a series of skits and blank spaces in my memory because I have no grasp on who's who in Greek & Roman myth
Translation seemed fine (though I'm no expert) and the poem itself was an enjoyable creation myth of the present day strung together by bouts of screwball comedy. would reccomend (especially if you know shit about the greeks and romans!!)
