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>where in
>should of
>could of
>should of
>would of
Americans need to learn how to English
>>7782444
>doggy dog world
>splook, splork, shlip
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Hey /lit/, one day I want to apply for a MFA in creative writing.
Here's a poem I wrote:
Super Market
Halls laid in motely
The fabrics dyed
Tiles of white looking vomit
and racks of white plastic eyes
The sets of products so near to mirrors,
like rivers of watery mercury they scry out
in their varying colors and shines:
"Buy me."
A comely dressed crowd roams the factory
floor, milling about, buying themselves.
How far away from good enough am I?
derivative and boring. imagery is super tryhard. not good.
>>7782405
Work on syntax, imagery, originality. Try to draw from intense personal experience.
>>7782405
"Tiles of white looking vomit"
This conjures absolutely nothing in my mind. Vomit is never white, unless you just drank a ton of milk. Terrible comparison
/lit/ how does one overcome oblomovitis and ennui ? is there a way ?
>>7782387
>therapy
>actually trying to understand why you don't feel like leaving bed
>stop making dumb threads with obscure words in order to make anons insecure about their patrician status
>going to the gym and taking some Sun bathing / Vitamin D replenishment
>cease shitposting
It all works.
start with the greeks
By not caring about it. The more you try to overcome something, the more you let the thing in question control you.
For example, a person who constantly wants to be socially-accepted by society will work day in and day out to conform to his peers, making himself miserable. However, if the man stops caring altogether about whether or not he fits in, the psychological tension is alleviated.
In other words, man often makes psychology problems for himself by associating with meanings in his mind. Let go of those things and you'll no longer be troubled by them.
What arguments can you make against cartesian skepticism?
>>7782237
God is no deceiver :^)
Give her the D.
>>7782237
Makes too many assumptions to claim real knowledge.
Come up with the stupidest line of (original) poetry you can.
I start:
Gobble gobble gobble; cluck, cluck.
Cuck quakes vagina Jew
>Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow
>and we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go
>for the children, they mark, and the children they know
>the place where the sidewalk ends
wake me up
wake me up inside
(Get it guys? It is not a reference to that song)
Would Dante have wanted Virgil as his guide if he knew about his sexuality? Did he know?
>>7781946
Can we all agree that the best part of Inferno was when Dante espoused that Julius Caesar being killed was one of the worst things to befall humanity, because he represented a unified Italy under divinely orchestrated rule?
>>7781965
let's dispel this notion that Julius Caesar didn't know what he is doing. Of course he knows what he is doing.
he knew he wasnt christian but picked him anyway
>characters who keep showing up in yr fiction
Autistic fucks
>tfw don't know how to write protagonists that aren't sensitive artists
>The bonny & clyde tier couple
Ive watched them literally reincarnate from one ancient draft to another
Didn't started with the greeks, trying to go with this guy, but i feel that sometimes he is presenting stuff i could read in earlier philosophers. Should I stop this and go back?
I can understand most of the ideas he is presenting, but in some points i'm having some difficult.
>>7781627
>Didn't started with the greeks
Maybe you need to start with English first, you rotten retarded prick
>>7781633
i'm not a filthy amerifat, sorry
>>7781627
Good news anon, Hegel wrote his own History of Philosophy which covers the development of his Idea!
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/hp/hpconten.htm
It's actually pretty fucking interesting too
QTDDTOT
Am I the only one that absolutely can't focus on audio books?
>>7781596
I have to increase the playback speed or miss about 50% of the content.
Yes you are the only one in the entire world who absolutely can't focus on audio books
>>7781596
>>>/reddit/
Was Nabokov's dislike of Faulkner anything but jealousy?
Nabokov's attitude towards Faulkner seems to be one not merely of distaste but of hatred and disdain. He completely disregards him as a major Western writer. Not only does this fly in the face of the average judgment of Faulkner, it sets up a rather embarrassing contrast between Faulkner's work and Nabokov's.
In comparing the two, I think you pretty clearly and immediately see effort vs genius. Nabokov's writing is great, beautiful, evocative, alluring, but you can also see the careful...
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Nah, he just didn't like his work. Nabby's criticism isn't all that different from what you see here.
If I don't like it, it's shit. If I thought it was just ok, it's shit. If I am intimidated and afraid I don't understand, it's pretentious shit.
>>7781590
>Faulkner is the sort of genius you see Mozart depicted as in the movie "Amadeus." Effortless, tireless, undying, he seems to literally shit brilliance.
Certainly not on the level of Mozart. This also implies Mozart didn't work his ass off. How can you be this bad at watching a movie?
As I Lay Dying, The Sound & The Fury, and Absalom, Absalom! are the three works of Faulkner I've read. Will try to get around to reading Light in August as some point. People say Joe Christmas is a wondrous character.
Time to stock up on pipe tobacco and whiskey, again.
For me it's Edgar Allan Poe. Nice prose AND he helped created the modern short story. He also inspired me to write.
>>7781501
Ernest Cline. He just seems so kind and genuine. His books are always funny. /lit/ doesn't like him because they don't understand the 80s.
Nature
>>7781501
Elliot Rodger, because he is the greatest author of the 21st century
Why can't anyone adapt McCarthy well in film? Franco flopped, the Road was just okay and No Country was good but I didn't feel it was good enough.
Now they are talking about, or have been forever, about a BM movie.
No one wants to do NC 17, but that's what you need for McCarthy
>>7781340
Because you can't film prose, despite what cinematographers might say
I don't see why people like the idea of turning everything into a film. Why would you need anything more than a novel?
>>7781377
This, a lot of the appeal of the book was his strange way of describing things.
How fast does /lit/ read? Any tricks in improving that rapidness?
Thoughts on fast vs. slow? Do you think is bullshit? Go Go gO!
400k words a day
>>7781248
About 500 wpm is my average speed with decent comprehension. I can speed read but I don't find it enjoyable.
You read faster by practicing reading.
How do you measure Reading speed?
>loud neighbors
how to deal with this when pic related aint enough? i seem to need absolute silence to read... is there a way to block you mind from external stimulus?
>>7781207
actually, i might suggest over ears. those are known to cause some damage over time.
Kill em
>>7781215
ive thought of trying those but do they really make a practical difference?
>>7781224
thats too much trouble, plus new ones would arrive. i prefer to move, but you never know what kind of nig youre getting when you arrive at a new place and im looking for a permanent way to deal with it.
sometimes i wish i was deaf.
I am not sure this is the right place to post a question of such metaphysical nature, but here we go anyway:
I have been reflecting on the nature of mortality lately, and i have ran across the following conundrum: Since we, as humans, can only form a limited ammount of memories, does that mean our maximum lifespan is determined not by biological, but neurological limitations?
Let's say that, eventually, medicine manages to keep our bodies permanently healthy and protected from external harmful factors, since we will not be able to neither form new memories or...
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>>7781179
I think it would make of identity a thing in flux(which it already is if you're being strict about it) to the point where your identity is almost entirely different from one century to the next, as your old memories are replaced.
Whether you consider that pointless is down to your philosophical ideas about meaning.
>>7781179
>can only form a limited ammount of memories
ya sure about that
/sci/ might get a kick outta this, idk
