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I have really shit tier handwriting and my signature looks like a ten year old's first attempt at signing their name in cursive. How do i improve this? Any guides to doing so?
not op, but i need to know the answer to this too
>>7451918
I wrote out a shipping label at the post office yesterday and I was so embarrassed of my handwriting. Kill me.
>>7451918
>he didn't learn cursive in school
Filthy dumb working class scum.
What do you do for a living while you work on that book, /lit/?
Live on the earnings of my previous one.
>>7451663
Burglar.
I'm writing an essay based on the following Mark Twain quote:
"There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages."
I need a bit of original research, so I'm asking 4chan: what is originality to you, particularly in terms of ideas, but also in general.
Did you try the homework board first before begging /lit/?
sounds a tad hegelian lol
I would argue that Twain's distinction between a 'new idea' and a synthesis of 'a lot of the old ideas' is disingenuous-- that is precisely what a new idea *is*, and there is no merit to disregarding the concept of a "new idea" when you've got a perfect working definition already.
i.e twain refutes himself
![Gilbert_Chesterton[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/itVgTQf.jpg "Gilbert_Chesterton[1].jpg")
What does /lit/ think of Chesterton?
>>7451597
dumb af
>>7451597
My mother like Father Brown. He's like a shittier version of Agatha Christie, 2bh
>>7451597
I liked The Man Who was Sunday although I don't really understand what it was supposed to be about.
Do you think it's difficult to live the life of a literary genius?
Regardless of whether you like him or not, just imagine what must be going through his head based on what he puts down on his pages. It must be unending and maddening. Look at that cheeky grin for fuck's sake - he knows something we don't know.
must be fun
>>7451558
kek.
He looks totally normal and adjusted.
I don't know what it's like to be a literary genius, but I guess having really debilitating mental illnesses helps?
>tfw BPD
>tfw schizoaffective
>tfw major clinical depression
>been in a psych ward 3 times
am i gonna make it /lit/
I became an avid reader like fifteen months ago and I can't stop. I stopped watching tv and I don't spend much time spamming my message on 4chan anymore.
Here's how I did it.
-Remember the average person reads like zero books a year. If you read 5 pages a day, you are 5 pages above the average person
-Don't force yourself to read. Commit to read 5 pages a day. I swear after three days you'll feel like reading more and after a month or so you should be reading 50-100 pages a day for pleasure
-Read various books at the same...
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>>7451440
I became an avid pastaposter like fifteen months ago and I can't stop. I stopped watching tv and I spend as much time spamming this message on 4chan.
Here's how I did it.
-Remember the average person posts like zero copypastas a day. If you post 5 pasta threads a day, you are 5 pasta threads above the average person.
-Don't force yourself to urinate or defecate in the bathroom. Commit to wearing a diaper and using a piss jug so you can spend more time pastaposting. I swear after...
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>>7451440
thanks doc.
>>7451440
This helps a lot, thanks.
Hey /lit/, can we talk about short stories?
What are some of your favorites? Who are your favorite short story authors? Why do you like them? Why do you dislike them? et cetera...
The Portrait by Gogol
Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Dostoevsky
(still reading borges but probably the immortal)
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether by Poe
Waldo or and he built a crooked house by heinlein.
there were a few in vonnegut's welcome to the monkey house but it's been so long i can't remember.
For sale: baby shoes, never worn by [disputed]
I remember being down in the rec room in Angela Mead’s basement on the couch and having her let me get my hand up her blouse and not even really feeling the soft aliveness or whatever of her breast because all I was doing was thinking, ‘Now I’m the guy that Mead let get to second with her.’ Later that seemed so sad. This was in middle school. She was a very big-hearted, quiet, self-contained, thoughtful girl—she’s a veterinarian now, with her own practice—and I never even really saw her, I couldn’t see anything except who I might be in her eyes, this cheerleader...
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Does anyone else get the impression that DFW would have been way less of a miserable cunt if he spent some time traveling the world, or ventured out into the wilderness occasionally?
>>7451365
>traveling and nature makes you a better person
that's right goyim, buy a plane ticket to a famous national park today!
>>7451374
> National Parks are the only way to enjoy nature
He should of worked a physical job, no pencil pusher can enjoy a cruise.
>it's just a clandestine mailing company
Oh, h-how exciting ...
>It's just some worms that like cinnamon
Like 6 books.
uhh, are you retarded? waste may be
tristero isn't
isn't it also a little odd a clandestine mailing company is necessary to begin with?
also
>exciting
read some ian fleming faggot. there's more than enough intrigue in the book to make the tristero system an interesting plot, yet at the same time it's all very tongue in cheek and obviously aware of its own absurdity. why are you reading pynchon if you're that much of a close-minded stick in the mud?
why are you reading period? please just stop...
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>>7451378
Pinecone detected
Just finished East of Eden and I really liked it. Definitely my favourite of Steinbeck so far. Great scenery, memorable characters (Samuel and Lee) and I can't help but think about it.
What are your thoughts/opinions it?
Olive's chapter was delightful. Lee helps me to see my own tribulations somewhat more objectively, or at least try to. Kate is a train wreck that I couldn't look away from, even after the cuteness has been sapped out of her. Aron's a sweetheart, Cal's a glimmer of hope in a drama that plays itself out again and again. But everyone's got a bit of both brothers about them, I think. Samuel's character reminds me to appreciate those few friends who won't just tell me what they think I want to hear. It's wisely written, I liked it far better...
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Now where's all the patricians who've supposedly read this?
>>7451338
This was my slut ex gf's favorite book. I encourage you to burn it.
How do you read thinkers that you fundamentally disagree with, with an open mind, as if you hadn't read that which put you in your current intellectual position?
For example, I'm trying to read Marx right now, but I read other economic thinkers like Mises before, and can't get over how wrong he is. Can I discard their critiques from my mind somehow, so as to give Marx a better chance?
Marx is wrong so you're right
Try to see things in context and from their point of view. Or just don't bother with them unless you have to.
>I read other economic thinkers like Mises
Consider reading actual economists, then return to Marx.
I want to read dubliners, is this edition good or should I go with the oxford one?
The text is the same, who gives a shit if it's not translated?
Id personally skip dubliners and go straight for Ulysses or portrait (preferably Ulysses). I couldn't make it past 3 stories without wanting to snooze
>>7451211
Dubliners is important for Ulysses.
He's actually good, you faggots.
Godamn it, you pedantic assholes are always wrong.
whats your favorite work of his then?
never actually checked him out
>>7451179
The colour out of space.
The rats in the walls freaked me out.
Herbert West-Reanimator is pretty good
>but
The Dunwich Horror kicked ass
Summarise your novel/novella/short story/flash fiction's plot, /lit/
>A group of teens try to see what the afterlife holds by creating Romeo and Juliet serums; the Romeo serum kills them for 30 seconds and the Juliet revives them.
>>7451106
This is a movie called flatliners
>>7451111
Goddamn it. Ok I've got another one in the pipeline:
>A rogue cop investigates himself after files documenting suspicious group activity in the woods disaster from the precinct
>>7451130
>investigates himself
Apology for poor English. Obviously I meant he investigates by himself.
![Confederacy_of_dunces_cover[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/O9c0SpQ.jpg "Confederacy_of_dunces_cover[1].jpg")
>how funny can it really be? I bet it's all memes blown out of proportion
>read first sentence
>audibly laugh for several seconds
wew lads
If a book makes me laugh I throw it in the trash because comedy is the lowest form of expressions and any "literature" that has to make use of comedy is rubbish.
>muh valve
>>7450930
Comedy is the highest form of expression
