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Names
How do you come up with good names. I have a character atm that I essentially want to call Mrs. plot device (I'm Meta) but I can't just call her Mrs. plot device (I'm not that Meta/bold/a tard) but I can't think of a clever way of obfuscating the meaning. I can't just call her Mrs plot device in latin or something. How do other writers/ you come up with significant names that aren't completely on the nose?
It just works
trying to come up with a name that has a meaning will always be on the nose. just give them a name.
>>7669148
Mrs. Sue
>part first
>>7669133
>couldn't find a Yoda image
>ooh maybe Pepe as Yoda
>that would've been amusing
>chapters are in Roman numerals
>each chapter is 300+ pages long
Does anyone take any non-Christian, non-traditionalist post-postmodernist movement seriously?
Literally the only place you can go after postmodernism is backwards. Or, not strictly backwards, but any movement beyond postmodernism has to involve a recovery of the wisdom of the past, the wisdom that both postmodernism and modernism thought was useless. There is no moving 'beyond' postmodernism without that. Postmodernism by its very fundamental nature leaves no room for anything wholly new to come after it. To go any further, we first have to go back. This is...
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no shit pisslord, after the enlightenment came romantacism...history goes in cycles
Secular humanism is legit.
>>7669122
Gnostic Futurist Individualism soon.
The categorical dismissal of the most-read genre in the world reveals ignorance, not intellectual superiority.
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/soapbox/article/67802-it-s-not-the-sex
>>7668953
>most-read
>genre
>soapbox
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anna karenina?
Gimme two good ones
"To hell with damnation"
Something I recently thought up.
I really liked it and wondered if anyone else had thought of it, I googled it and found that some fucking indie shit had it already. What happens when this 'username taken' thing happens to everyone? As we all know, humanity hasn't been around very long and pretty soon all the thoughts will have been thunked, (if you were in the future) how would you stay original? Be you an author, artist, or even an admirer of them all, how would you cope with the inevitable blending of us all into gray muck and how will you fight it? Or will you give up and die as another like a dog?
>>7668943
If you honestly believe that "all the thoughts will be "thunked"" then you either have a ridiculously narrow view of what constitutes thought or an Icarusian attitude towards collective human memory.
We will forget everything* much sooner than we will know it.
*everything = a categorical function of all compossible thought
This isn't even taking into account the fact that you are living a completely unique life. Nobody in the history of everything has ever experienced exactly...
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>>7668985
I'm not talking about literal thoughts, that's ridiculous to think they'll blend. We as humans like to keep track of things, and of all the things we've recorded most of what we publish will remain. What I'm saying is, how will anyone, say, write a new book (etc.).
"What's your book about?"
"A man who was kidnapped by a psychotic musician who trains the man to play the piano for him."
"Oh, you mean like 'The Music Through the Boards'?"
"Fuck"
>>7669022
All language (books included) is nothing but a constellation of "literal thoughts"
I recently got in to philosophy and started reading The Republic. We find Socrates and others discussing the question "What is justice?"
What is /lit/'s definition of justice?
as for me, my definition would be something like this: Justice protects those who act with good intentions and punish those who act with bad intentions
Your definition sucks because everyone acts thinking they have good intentions. Everyone is the hero of their own story. Even the guy murdering his wife for cheating on him thinks he's justified and doing good.
>>7668877
Justice is socialized power, it goes beyond the needs of the individual in favor of the needs of society.
It doesn't have any metaphysical justification, but exists because a society with Justice has a competitive advantage over a society with Anarchy. There is no "good and evil," there is only reality, and structures that sustain and out compete other structures.
It is the advantage of the stronger.
Hello! I'm new to /lit/ and since I recently started treatment for a disability that has discouraged me from reading for several years, I'd like to start my journey into the world of literature. I looked through the sticky, naturally, but what I'm looking for is very specific and I'm not sure where to start.
Could anyone recommend me some Spanish language literature that's relatively simple? I've been studying Spanish for six years and feel I'm competent enough to complete a novel, but I worry that if there's a too much wordplay...
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>>7668785
Los detectives salvajes
Platero y yo
Pedro Paramo
La vida es sueño
Ficciones is a nice book of hort stories. By Borges. He might have some unknown words for you but if you read with a dictionary eveythings gonna be aite.
Cien años de Soledad is a very popular novel. You can also check some of his short stories.
Anybody here read The Monkey Wrench Gang?
Funniest book I've read in a long time
And other Edward Abbey books I guees
/lit/, have you ever fallen in love with a fictional character? I'm excluding any sort of 'graphic novel' because I would think it would be easier to feel affection for a character who's physical attributes you know already.
Have you ever MASTURBATED to a fictional character before?
>pic related but I won't shame you
PKD's dark-haired crazy women always appealed to me. Juliana from MitHC is probably my favorite.
also, I masturbated toLolitawhen I was a teen.
>>7668693
If you have time to watch a terrible film about a writer who invents a fictional character and falls in love with her, watch Ruby Sparks.
>>7668735
I've watched that movie about three times already anon, I love it. That scene where he shows her he can control her, damn. Was intense broski.
Hello! I dont know if this is the correct board to ask about these things
(if thats the case let me know and i will delete this post if i am able )
I read this book when i was a teenager about a socially awkward kid that has too go with his grandmother to the amazon, she is a reporter for national geographic or something along those lines(they are doing a report about amazons version of the abominable snowman, they travel by boat with a group of people, along the way he befriends a girl around her age and further into the book they get lost from the group. A indigenous...
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>>7668633
Trash
>>7668633
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj9Gsq8zTZ0
>>7668920
I liked it when he said The Fountainhead was one of his favorite movie's because of how funny he found it
According to a few online tests I'm around 340-360, however, [s]I don't read many novels[/s]
Do you suffer with comprehension? I can read words fast but I have to re-read paragraphs because I lose focus and stop paying attention.
20 pages every half hour maybe. More if its a difficult book. If I am not understanding it I will keep rereading until I do
>>7668616
I think I'm generally at 30 pages an hour for fiction and faster for non fiction unless it's something complex like maths. Currently reading Moby Dick in English (not my first language) and I think I'm going at about half my usual speed.
>>7668697
Well, have fun reading!
Hello, /lit/, I was curious upon a term that I have heard before that refers to science-fiction. It refers to dense living, or people living in huge mega structures/mega buildings away from nature. I thought it the word was 'arciform' or something that starts with 'arc-'; however, I am not so sure.. I tried google and everything and I can't seem to find the term..
>>7668613
Arcology. The term was originally invented by Paolo Soleri. Since complex systems and ecologies turned out to be a lot harder than people in the 1980s expected, they never quite turned out.
Just finished this -- what does /lit/ think?
personally i really enjoyed it, really got into the musical scenes, and dean is an absolute madman
I liked parts of it but was sick of them by the end. Particularly Dean.
Liked the bit about the Mexican girl. The hitched ride with the Okies who never stopped and the visit down to old Bull Lee or whatever he called Burroughs. Also liked that wife murdering junkie pedo Burroughs tried to warn Kerouac that Dean/Cassady was of low moral character.
>>7668648
Definitely did drag on a bit, but I thought the final trip down to mexico was one of the highlights, especially the whorehouse
What other beat-era novels are worth reading?
>>7668589
Didn't particularly enjoy it in high school until an older (Prankster) friend of mine remarked how miserable Neal was during the whole thing and thereafter. Since then I somewhat appreciate the work.
ITT: Novels where the Authors were tripping balls throughout
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