Has any good work of art ever come from happiness or any other general good feeling? I cannot think of a single example.
>>7503462
People want to hold on to happiness when they have it.
Plenty do. Don't fall for the romantic sad artist meme.
>>7503468
Examples?
ITT: God tier villains in fiction.
>>7498816
Who's he? He's a big guy.
>>7499110
For you
>tfw I was a child throughout elementary school to high school my parents used to beat me unless I read 75 pages a day
>>7505902
Parenting done right.
My English teacher (I'm Brazilian) was forced to translate French booos by her father. She knows French really well.
I only got the discipline to read 50+ pages after starting using the pomodoro technique. So I envy you.
>white people trying to outlaw spanking
How many words do you have, /lit/?
Currently at 17,919
0
1,000
1500. Just started writing on a whim the other day. It's pretty fun.
Any appreciators of Tolstoy? I've inherited a copy of his portable by Penguin classics, I'm curious as to what the significance of his work is? I enjoy it though; could you make a recommendation for something similar in nature?
What're you doing reading garbage op? I suggest you pick up twilight by Stephenie Meyer; it is very good and I think everyone should read it
>>7505786
His work is remarkable for dozens of things that are all demonstrated better than I could ever describe them.
He had a masterful grasp of human psychology, was incredibly knowledgeable about contemporary society and politics, was plugged in to the scientific and philosophical currents of his day, managed to encapsulate an entire culture (from the Emperor to the poorest serf) into his writings and this is just off the top of my head.
Personally he alsoconverted me to Christianity
Do yourself a favour and just dive in to one of the comfiest, smartest and most enjoyable reads you'll ever have. The man is a joy to read and his longest works are more palatable than 99% of other books.
>>7505825
I like the part where they get shitfaced and fight each other.
Just got a $30 Barnes and Noble gift card, any good recommendations. I'll pretty much read anything, really interested in new age, psychology, and Buddhist literature. Anything along those lines would be very great, but anything else is fine too!
>>7505648
>really interested in new age
haha
Anyway, I guess you should buy The Great Gatsby and 1984 :)
>>7505654
I still need to read 1984, I'll probably buy it.
Can we start one of these next (not this) weekend? The first three books can be The Big Sleep, The Postman Always Rings Twice, and The Talented Mr. Ripley.
What books would you guys like?
you can try, but it'll fade to nothing within a week.
>>7505526
True, the Big Sleep isn't really that good either. I mean I guess if you're into that sorta thing it is but it didnt really have me in suspense.
>>7505600
There are plenty of thrillers, but I wouldn't read Chandler for plot or tension, I read him for the prose and the humor. I mean, The Big Lebowski is more comedic, but otherwise it's a pretty good adaption of Marlowe.
This is better than The Stranger.
How is the dudes mindset in the stranger conducive to everyday life, I mean I get he's all existential etc but wtf is the point in possessing that mindswt
>>7505450
Agreed. Moving on.
this was garbage
Who is your favorite author and meme?
Im Dannydingdong and i like pepe
>>7505327
Hey guys come join the fun lit chat on tinychat!
Take a while to connect so let it sit on the connect page!
>>7505327
DESU my favorite pepe is
>>7505330
Hey man whats the link?!
I'm in hysterics right now
>>7505316
are there any niggers that could write without their accent except for dialogue? I'm pretty curious since I want to read one.
>>7505332
Ralph Ellison
>>7505341
tnx
>book doesn't have any dialogue
>book only has dialogue
> Book has only monologue, main character has multiple personalities
>book self-destructs after reading
Since I've found myself with nothing else to do this Christmas Day, I thought I would storytime the entirety of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Not only is it one of the masterpieces of Middle English poetry, but it takes place during Christmastime, so I thought it would be appropriate. The translation is by A.S. Kline, because that is the one that I could find public domain on the internet.
Most brits are nodding off till morn senpai
>>7504647
FITT i
>Soon as the siege and assault had ceased at Troy,
>the burg broken and burnt to brands and ashes,
>the traitor who trammels of treason there wrought
>was tried for his treachery, the foulest on earth.
>It was Aeneas the noble and his high kin
>who then subdued provinces, lords they became,
>well-nigh of all the wealth in the Western Isles:
>forth rich Romulus to Rome rapidly came,
>with great business that burg he builds up first,
>and names it with his name, as now it has;
>Ticius to Tuscany, and townships begins;
>Langobard in Lombardy lifts up homes;
>and fared over the French flood Felix Brutus
>on many banks all broad Britain he settles
>then,
>where war and wreck and wonder
>betimes have worked within,
>and oft both bliss and blunder
>have held sway swiftly since.
>>7504664
>And when this Britain was built by this baron rich,
>bold men were bred therein, of battle beloved,
>in many a troubled time turmoil that wrought.
>More flames on this fold have fallen here oft
>than any other I know of, since that same time.
>But of all that here built, of Britain the kings,
>ever was Arthur highest, as I have heard tell.
>And so of earnest adventure I aim to show,
>that astonishes sight as some men do hold it,
>an outstanding action of Arthur’s wonders.
>If you will list to this lay but a little while,
>I’ll tell it straight, as I in town heard it,
>with tongue;
>as it was said and spoken
>in story staunch and strong,
>with linked letters loaded,
>as in this land so long.
Tolstoy's Reading List for all ages
>CHILDHOOD TO ~14
Tales from The Thousand and One Nights: The 40 Thieves, Prince Qam-al-Zaman
Pushkin’s Poems: “Napoleon”
The Little Black Hen by Pogorelsky
The story of Joseph from The Bible
The Byliny folk tales: Dobrynya Nikitich, Ilya Muromets, Alyosha Popovich
>AGE 14 TO 20
The Conquest of Mexico by William Prescott
Tales of Good and Evil by Nikolai Gogol: “Overcoat,” “The Two Ivans,” “Nevsky Prospect”
A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne
A Hero for Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
The Hapless Anton by Dmitry Grigorovich
Polinka Saks by Aleksandr Druzhinin
A Sportsman’s Notebook by Ivan Turgenev
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Die Räuber by Friedrich Schiller
Yevgeny Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Julie, or the New Heloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Gospel of Matthew: “Sermon on the Mount”
The Confessions by Jean Jacques-Rousseau
Emile: Or on Education by Jean Jacques-Rousseau
“Viy” from The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
>AGE 20 TO 35
Poems by F.T. Tyutchev
Poems by Koltsov
The Iliad / The Odyssey by Homer [translated]
Poems by Afanasy Fet
The Symposium and The Phaedo by Plato
Hermann and Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
>AGE 35 TO 50
The novels of Mrs. Henry Wood
The novels of George Eliot
The novels of Anthony Trollope
The Iliad / The Odyssey by Homer [in greek]
The Byliny
Xenophon’s Anabasis
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
>AGE 50 TO 63
Discourse on Religious Subject by Theodore Parker
Robertson’s Sermons
The Book of Genesis
Progress and Poverty by Henry George
The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach
The Complete Gospels*
Pensées by Blaise Pascal
Epictetus
Confucius and Mencius
The Lalita-Vistara: Or Memoirs Of The Early Life Of Sakya Sinha by Rajendralala Mitra
Lao-Tzu
Of coures that socialist faggot would want to indoctrinate the kids with a bunch of Rousseau LOL
>>7504466
insulting count tolstoy on christmas
sweet life you have faggot!!!!!!!!
>The Iliad / The Odyssey by Homer [translated]
lol tolstoy was a pleb
>tfw either too dumb or too ignorant to understand
>Can't understand why Bloom likes Blood Meridian and Ulysses but hates everything by DFW
:C
jus b urself
>>7504165
just B.E. Yourself!
>two craftsmen will never compete in the pursuit of their craft because they're both striving for the same ultimate perfection
Even 2000 years ago, this was just complete bullshit. Why does anyone respect this guy again?
This is a description of an *ideal* state
Try again. Start from the beginning. You've failed.
Plato's dialogues are basically an exercise in knocking down strawmen and hiding logical fallacies with rambling hypothetical stories. Him and his ilk ruined western philosophy until Descartes.
>>7503818
its not though, he uses this as evidence for his existence of forms.
