Any opera fans out there? Have any of you ever thought about writing a work for the stage? I'm a lone wolf composer with no talent for writing whatsoever. Also discuss opera
>>7683222
>I'm a lone wolf composer with no talent for writing whatsoever
Know that feel, man. Started writing for orchestra and chamber ensembles because my Libretti always sucked.
Oh well, I can still write Lieder, I guess.
>>7683232
Oh, and I guess I like Wagner's libretti. I know that they're memes at this point but Wagner just managed to create an amazing equilibrium between poetry and music.
>>7683222
Aren't you where you're meant to be? Composer writes the piece, poet writes the libretto.
This book seems very convoluted. Am I just stupid?
I didn't like the way it was written either. I couldn't finish it. Someone needs to give these authors length limits when they're trying to express like four ideas.
camus a shit
>>7685085
It's absurd to act as if the fact that "nothing matters" is somehow the only thing that matters.
Since /lit/ seems to be possessed by nothing but trending memes, as an oldfag, I was wondering if any newfags have any thoughts on the following texts. Have you even read them, or, at least, heard of them? Opinions?
>>7684921
I've read neither, but as an educator am interested by Goodman.
He's quoted here and there in Teaching as a Subversive Activity, but the authors disagree with what I take to be his radical anarchism.
I saw "Growing Up Absurd" as a prop in the 1989 movie Slacker - that's it.
do you ever think that maybe this board should be less ironic and meme-focused? it seems exceedingly rare to see an actually interesting comment on literature.
Not just /lit/, the entirety of 4chan.
Irony on 4chan isn't even funny to me anymore, it's lazy as fuck and borderline shitposting, but there are people who pride themselves on shitposting, god knows why.
It doesn't matter, you're not going to change this board, or the site. If you're not enjoying it anymore, you might as well just leave.
>>7686330
oh I wasn't trying to change anything I was just curious what people thought
Hey there /lit/
I did read the sticky but I'm still not sure where to start. If there's any flowchart or...?
Start with The Story of Philosophy - Bryan Maggee
Then read chronologically, read the main works of the main guys, and specialise further into the guys that interest you (example: if you're interested in Plato, read his complete works and read extra commentaries etc, rather than just reading a few dialogues and moving on).
Use these as supplements to your learning: IEP, SEP, Cambridge Companions, Google Scholar
Use these publishers: Hackett, Cambridge, Oxford
>>7685394
This is pretty helpful thanks.
>>7685394
>Then read chronologically
Have fun being done in 50 years
>YA historical fiction
yay or nay?
>>7683875
>YA ever
Just read actual literature.
It's "yea", not "yay", you illiterate fuck. God, this board is full of morons.
>>7685497
>implying you can't say yay to something
someone didn't have a childhood
Religion is the opiate of the masses, but in this case opiates are the religion of the masses. What does /lit/ think about 'Brave New World'? I personally see the theme of the government administering Soma in this book very similar to pharmaceutical companies pushing opiates and Benzodiazapinez so frequently today. Any thoughts?
>>7682260
>I personally see the theme of the government administering Soma in this book very similar to pharmaceutical companies pushing opiates and Benzodiazapinez so frequently today.
They're completely different
I really loved that book. I remember somewhere in the hospital scene there was a line like "All the girls and boys got balloons and lollipops on death day." It was shit like that that made the book so great- morals and values are much more relative than most people know.
...And to answer your question, yeah.
>>7682281
They are different, but how can you not see the paralles?
any tips for music to listen to while writing?
pic unrelated
bumping with interesting photographs
>>7674239
don't bump threads here
fuck off
I am searching a new book to read. I want to read a philosophy book.Do you have any recommendations?
Timaeus
Trying to start this but I'm having difficulty with the prologue
I don't know shit about baseball. Is it a big theme of the novel?
>>7686144
Just learn. It's really not very complicated to know how baseball works.
>>7686144
The prologue is the only part of the book that deals with the mechanics of baseball, so yes and no in that baseball is a recurring theme but you don't necessarily need to know baseball to *get* the rest of the novel.
That being said baseball is pretty easy to understand. Children play it.
It doesn't matter much whether you understand the intro or not.
It's pretty boring, though, despite some people hailing it as great. I never understood that. Good book, though, lots of interesting bits in it.
Friendly reminder that had Lermontov not died so young he would have surpassed all other Russian writers and would be considered the best of the lot.
eh. maybe. doubtful.
One could say, he could have been a hero of his time.
>“I am not capable of true friendship. One of the two friends is always the slave of the other, although, often, neither of the two admits this to himself.”
Who /slavemaster/ here?
What's your opinion on this meme writer
>>7685939
>meme writer
knock it the hell off
>>7685979
Make meme
Lideralee who
was he a madman or a misunderstood genius?
Misunderstood madman desu.
Every single person who claims to understand him is a fraud.
He transcended the madman / genius dichotomy desu
Alright /lit/ I've put it off long enough but I'm finally gonna dive into this Prussian fuckboy's work tonight and I need some advice. What's the correct order to read his work in and what's the quickest way to read them?
>>7683556
you say things like fuckboy and you want to quickly read Kant, just give up now
>>7683556
>quickly
if you wanna rush through a philosopher you shouldn't even read him you cunt
>>7683556
>Judging someone based off a two sentence long post on a Balinese finger painting forum
I've read all the major enlightenment philosophers before him already. Maybe you could stop being a condescending fuck and be productive.
Best translations for the Iliad and Odyssey?
chapman desu
>>7682887
What do you think it is about Chapman's translations that are valuable?
>>7682874
self bumpity
