>you will never find a timemachine so you can save the library of Alexandria
why would you want to save military blue prints?
Why would you want to save tax records?
caesar didn't mean to ._.
you need to built the docks further from the library with a tunnel for the books to go to the library so we don't lose incoming books to stealthy sailors. or i guess you could have built the library further from the docks and a tunnel to it, but you can work that out when you get there
Dictionaries are wonderful things. As are search engines.
>>7678834
What I'm actually trying to ask is whether it actually means what this video says it means:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqovm-Io2D0
I searched it myself and couldn't find anything, but I also doubt they'd just steal the word and pretend it means something it doesn't.
That's actually quite interesting.
It seems that the guy behind the video, a graphic designer called John Koenig, has actually made a project out of coining new words to describe emotional states. He's the guy who made the video, and his project is called 'The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows'.
http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/
It seems pretty good. So no, he's not 'stealing' the word - it's his invention - although it does have a solid Greek etymology, which is always nice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachesis_(mythology)
Whether that counts as 'real' in your sense is a matter of opinion. Google just gave me 28,800 hits for it, so that's pretty good currency. Whether it will eventually enter an official lexicon like the OED would depend on how much it is used and where. Lots of general usage helps, but a bestselling author, a prestige publication or a pop star could do a lot to help the situation. The OED actually added 'bootylicious' not too long ago pretty much because of Beyoncé.
http://www.personal.psu.edu/ejp10/blogs/thinking/2008/04/how-bootylicious-got-into-the.html
A bit of googling has also revealed that this exact question has previously featured on both reddit and tumblr. So I'd get out of here if I were you, anon, before the /lit/ wolves smell your blood and start gathering...
:-) Cheers.
Starting Nietzsche, what first?
>>7678826
The Birth of Tragedy
The Greeks
>>7678831
after that "thus spoke zarathustra"
What do think about this play lit?
my high school did a production of it, I played the doctor, it was a pretty sweet fuckin play
It's nonsensical.
it's alright, I enjoyed it. Had to read it and was tested about it during my Abitur.
What to do if you write yourself into a corner?
>>7678808
Write yourself out of it. Duh.
Or just leave it unfinished and say it's open to interpretation or something.
Kill off protagonist and switch the main POV.Guess it depends on what kind of corner you wrote yourself into.
>>7678808
I usually refer back to my notes/outline/planning and see which direction I intended to take it and probably take a few steps back in my writing to help achieve that.
Or if the new direction I'm going in is better than my outline (imo) then I'll have to reconsider the outline and consider the possibilities the new direction might take me in.
If your planning/notes are thorough though, you shouldn't necessarily be stuck in a corner or caught off guard by writer's block or anything like that (of course, it might still happen, but a thorough outline is half of the hardest job in writing).
Who here has read "The Moviegoer" by Walker Percy?
What should I be "getting" from this book?
>>7678793
I have. I enjoyed the prose style. It's a story about existential despair punctuated with moments of absurdist humor. Walker Percy was a well known Catholic writer, but the Catholic themes aren't very overt here. Great book, actually.
>>7678925
I've marathoned 36 pages so far and all that's happened is guy jumps from point to point while describing his walk to his aunt's house. He's now watching a parade and his cousin or whatever is asking him to be part of his krewe. It's pretty much a yawnfest so far. I might just sparknotes the rest so I can mark it as "Read" on goodreads.
It's a really boring book. Probably the most hamfisted way of trying to present Kierkegaard.
Hi /lit/
What are some good American novels that take place or were written in the 19th century? I really enjoy novels that capture the style and life of people living in the mid-late 1800s, like Huck Finn or "adventure" stories like that.
I want to get more into reading. All my friends have been for some time and have made me self conscious about the fact that I don't read as much as them. To be fair I stopped reading in my personal time because I've been buried in uni readings the past 4 years, but now I've graduated.
>>7678692
MOBY-DICK
>>7678692
Blood Meridian
red badge of courage
Are there any philosophical texts or books otherwise that deal with the conflict of individual happiness versus the happiness of the state.
For example, Japanese society would see suicide as honorable, although good for society (since it encourages people to work hard and have the state as a whole prosper), I don't think this was a good framework for an individual to try and catch up with, especially after their economy tanked.
Meritocracies in general seem to aid the collective more than they aid the individual.
I understand how crude my descriptions sound which is why I look for suggestions on this matter.
Exclude Leviathan from your suggestions.
Yukio Mishima
Who is really mad since start reading books regullary? I hate everyone for constant noise they are making
>>7678456
When I'm reading I don't hear anything at all.
>>7678496
>When i'm reading I only hear the sound of my own mental voice praising me for being such a smart boy
I hear the classical music I play
...and want to be productive?
Productive as in write own shit?
Yes.
>>7678432
Reading is productive, retard
>>7678438
not completely...
let's talk meme-less.
I read CL49, liked a lot, and currently I am in the second section of GR.
What's after that? Slow Learner? Inherent Vice?
haha le quirky no photographs recluse man
>>7678394
OP, finish Gravity's Rainbow first and see what you think of it. Sometimes people need a long break from Pynchon after GR.
If you're ready to dive right in but want something easier (easier in comparison to his other works), then try Inherent Vice.
If you want to try more of his chunky releases, try V. and then tackle Mason & Dixon which many consider his best work.
Slow Learner is often seen as one to skip because it's not Pynchon at his best but when he was just starting out as a writer. It's not dreadful or anything like that and it might serve as an interesting insight into how his work gradually progressed into what it is renowned as today, but other than that, it's not essential Pynchon reading. It's worth seeking out if you have a burning passion for the man's work though.
Hope this helps, anon. Big fan of Pynchon myself and I think it's a shame now that he's seen as a meme on here by people who haven't attempted his work.
>>7678865
good. i'll see in a couple+ weeks then.
Hey, /lit/, are there any good books where the obvious villain is the protagonist, and wins? I recently read Cask of Amontillado, and thought,"what if a book had the complexity of The Count of Monte Cristo, mixed with the general perspective of Cask of Amont?"
I'm tired of the hero winning so often. It's so droll.
>>7678383
>I'm tired of the hero winning so often
I don't remember the last book that I read with a hero and a villian...
>>7678383
>droll
youkeepusingthatword.jpg
Sounds like you need antiheroes. White Tiger might be what you're after. Also Oskar in the Tin Drum does some nasty shit.
Well I'm reading all of Lady Snowblood and Yuki is a nasty person. She makes a butler rape the daughter of his master, and later on kills a sick nobleman's daughter by having so much sex with her she dehydrates and dies.
What does /lit/ think of Tom Clancy?
Hunt for Red October is a great thriller. Everything else is fucking shit.
Highest paid author of the 90s.
Why?
I read "Red Storm Rising" while locked away in a mental ward and loved every fucking page.
I tried a few of his other works (Red Rabbit, Clear and Present Danger, The something in the Kremlin) and they were all overbloated and over cliched.
I think he had amazing technical knowledge and possessed an admirable passion for his work. But at the other end, I don't care for any of his characters.
>>7678270
>Highest paid author of the 90s
Because he consistently released work, he was well known as the dominant figure within his specific war thriller niche and his books regularly sold. I guess this should qualify Stephan King too, but eh.
>genre fiction
should I just write as much as I can and hope something good rises out of it?
What are you, a woman?
Write, take a break, write, take a break, perform checks whether it's any good, fix errors or stupid shit, rinse and repeat.
That's what I do.
Luck is for gamblers.
Pick up a book on technique, learn your shit and hone what you naturally have. Recommending John Gardner's Art of Fiction and Lajos Egri's Art of Dramatic Writing
Hey /lit/, what are the best translations for the following
>Crime and Punishment
>The Brothers Karamazov
>Notes from Underground
>War and Peace
>>7678160
Russian.
wondering why you posted a pic of philip k dick there
>>7678160
>Crime and Punishment
McDuff
>The Brothers Karamazov
Avsey
>Notes from Underground
P&V
>War and Peace
Briggs
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