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ITT: Post your most experimental writings, regardless of how bad they are, and lets see if we can understand them:
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COULD LIFE BE A GROOVE THAT THE JIVE OF THOUGHT AND REALITY DANCE ON THE SAME FLOOR OF THE UNIVERSAL MEDIUM? The question stood posed with it's arms crossed of the eternal judge. We stand and ask*infinity, but we cannot not not not not answer this unsiezable partling, and the now I know, contrary to the life of the world around me. Smooth.
>>7377536
2/2
post-punctum, I choose to begin my stor(y) here after giving you a brief synopsis given the summary of the autobiography of The (despite that pre-punctum (putting that point, which from the outside, is already within the inside and put back into the outside of the thought) and thererfore. Now, I say with dreadful pride that crazy, absolutely crazy numbler of sheer sizes have put away our boastful fears away forevermore. Once thought is allowed to roam within the (certainly) bumbling forests of the metaphysical...
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>>7377536
>it's arms
D R O P P E D
Throat singing is pretty great, especially when it's followed up by a lifeless black background and a whole bunch of depressed faggots in mail crying over some shit
So I'm halfway through this and while the acting is stiff and dull as fuck, the source material seems like it would be interesting. Are the actual Dune books good?
>>7377489
Yes. So far I'm halfway through the first book and really enjoying it.
>>7377489
no its anime tier garbage.
First book is god tier
Dune Messiah, Children of Dune and Chapterhouse: Dune are great
God Emperor is ok
Heretics was piss.
why is making a living of art so fucking BS.
It's like there's no middle ground, you could become ultra rich or simply die poor.
wtf man.
>>7377434
/lit/ - literature
>>7377440
/thread
>>7377440
>implying my post context isn't about writing literature.
Recent purchases thread?
Recent purchases thread.
Pic related -- I snagged these recently at a going out of business sale.
>>7377379
2meta4me
>>7377379
well memed
>>7377379
Christ, didn't even know the guy had written more than the bottom three. Lazy bait thread though, try harder next time
where does he go wrong?
Breaking from Schopenhauer
>>7377314
Nowhere. Nietga btfo out of the church, atomism, and society as a whole.
How do I stop my writing from turning into a script? I love writing dialogue and while I'm pretty confident in the quality of my dialogue, I alwyas end up with pages looking like:
The man turned to the woman and said, "Dialogue."
"More dialogue" she replied.
"Dialogue."
"More dialogue."
"Dialogue."
"More dialogue."
"Dialogue."
"More dialogue."
"Dialogue."
"More dialogue."
"Dialogue."
"More dialogue."
Any tips...
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this is a good question
mine always becomes awkward with describing the character's actions or details during the conversation
i think honestly if you have that much dialogue to write you should maybe just let it go as it is
>>7377293
Write a story about mute people.
>>7377293
Dialogue is essentially exposition, you're telling the reader what you want him to know by having him listen in on characters talking. If possible, try to show rather than tell the reader the same information. If you're using a lot of dialogue to tell the reader that a character is wishy-washy and unable to make a decision, try instead to cut the dialogue down to a minimum and reinforce it with an action - our indecisive protagonist talking while trying to pick between two nearly identical apples, for example.
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I guess it's really more about plays rather than strictly literature, but I think Shakespeare is sufficiently literary to be suited to this board.
Anyway, the question is, do you think Shakespeare's plays ought to be performed translated into modern English? Why or why not?
My own take is that they should, because his language archaic enough to be rather difficult for a modern reader to understand without the aid of a dictionary. I also say that if Chekhov in English is still Chekhov that Shakespeare in Modern English can still be Shakespeare.
When possible it is always best to read authors in their original language. Hence why modern-English Shakespeare will always be pleb-tier.
>>7377242
>modern English began after the great vowel shift in about 1550
>Shakespeare wrote in the early 1600s
Shakespeare is in modern English
>>7377253
Do you think we ought to perform Aristophanes' plays in the original Greek?
Im about to subscribe to The Library of America. Does anybody else do this? Am I making a mistake?
Do any other publishers have good subscription services?
>>7377240
Is there anything special about Library of America books? Or are they just another one of those "neat hardcover" publishers?
>>7377240
A mistake making a mistake. Yowch. But will it undo your parents's crime?
>>7377249
Check it out m8. These aren't the signature black books that a synonymies Library of America. They are really nice hardcovers tho and you get a 3 book set for like $10 to start then get a book a month for like $25 bucks
https://www.loa.org/subscribe
How relevant is this book for today's society? I've heard that the penalization for owning lolicon content was a prime example of thoughtcrime.
It remains relevant in many ways, though Brave New World has turned out to be a more accurate depiction of the future.
Why do you ask?
>>7377259
:') ...he said repeating an argument from an idiot...
>>7377278
Care to elaborate?
For the /lit/ anons that actually do/enjoy science, is there any fundamental difference between pop science shows(like Brain Games and the like) and actually reading the books/papers and investigations?
I mean, sure, if you read you'll be able to discuss it more thoroughly i guess, but with pop science you get the basics of everything to understand something without having to delve deep into searching and shit.
>>7377115
You answered your own question, pop science is made to make the subject closer to a layman understanding, but if you want the real shit you have to read the papers.
>>7377121
Maybe i worded it wrong.
I mean, is there anything bad in just relying in pop science if you don't want to skim through thousands of pages of papers to look for the results only?
>>7377138
if you want a decent understanding of scientific topics then just read textbooks for undergrads. only once you get the general knowledge of the topic and importantly vocabulary can you begin to understand scientific papers
What do you all put in mid-chapter breaks?
⁂ master race here.
>>7377108
>mfw I don't know how to format anything other than***
>>7377127
i do this
it doesnt matter.
>not commissioning new placeholder art from a professional designer for every single text break
Jesus, fucking poors. It's fucking amateur hour out here.
Are the Harry Potter novels, dare I say it, good?
Is it an interesting piece of immersive fiction or is it just fluffy entertainment?
>>7377076
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2003/09/24/dumbing_down_american_readers/
Obligatory
>>7377085
/thread
It's not even fluffy entertainment. Millions of children were tricked into reading this product. It's entirely devoid of imagination. Looking back I'm embarrassed eleven year old me bought into it.
What are some philosophical books to help me get over my Pyrrho tier skepticism?
>>7377028
my diary, desu
>>7377028
accepting that everything is random and you have no control
The Bible senpai.
I'm a fan of tv shows like The Prisoner, Carnivale, Twin Peaks, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Serial Experiments Lain, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Haibane Renmei or The Maxx. So psychological dramas with surreal elements. What are some books similar to those?
>>7376974
Ulysses
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>>7376974
>>7376974
The Evangelion manga.
>open up the atlantic / nyt/ Washington post / guardian / new yorker
>the perils of the malaysian tie fitting industry
>puff piece on a politician
>the excesses of wall street
>the big problem on campus
>white guilt galore
>a new development in cancer research / psychology / diet research
Is this the best of journalism?
>open up /lit/
>memes
this is the best
>>7376937
I mean, you dont go into the Atlantic trying to find right leaning issues.
I prefer BBC America, Reuters, the long war journal, christian science monitor, foreign affairs and arsand torrentfreak
>>7376937
>implying White people didn't commit horrid acts in the past and still do even though people who didn't commit these acts shouldn't feel guilty for what their ancestors did
>implying Wall Street and capitalism isn't excessive and bringing itself to utter collapse
>implying the media caused this pop-sci phenomenon and not engineers and bad researchers like Dawkins, Nye, and NDT
