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>There are two kinds of people in this world
>>8158888
No
No
No
No
>people who don't understand binary
Hello /lit/, medfag here. I've been growing tired of studying Medicine from a purely biological and statistical standpoint, so I decided to get into philosophy because it might help me view Medicine from a different standpoint.
I decided to start with Kant. I read the first 50 pages of this and gave up because I didn't understand it very well. Any advice on what to do to understand it better?
>>8158767
>starting with Kant
You went do and done did goof'd
>>8158767
greeks
>>8158793
lol
Guys, I'm really interested in writing my own comics and graphic novels, but I feel like I'm a pretty mediocre writer. I'd like to be able to at least write some good short stories before I tackle my own comics.
What are some essential resources for beginning writers?
Articles, books, videos, blogs, exercises; anything helps, really.
>>8158747
Read good shit if you want to write good shit. Reading A Game of Thrones is like sitting around eating ice cream all day and expecting to get buff.
read Dubliners to see someone conquer short stories in real-time.
Read Ovid's metamorphoses for sick references and the mastery of segueing
write stuff and get someone who has read more than you read it and hurt your feelings
don't let go of the hurt
let it consume you
congratulations you'll be able to write serviceably
>>8158747
If you want to write comics, Scott McCloud's instructional comic series are absolutely essential. Bendis' Words for Pictures vis very helpful as well.
Understanding short story structure is obviously important and there are many comic anthologies you could search through. Image's Island Magazine is a good one.
I write comic scripts as a pasttime and I love it, even if I bang my head against the wall over it.
Just read this and thought it was absolutely beautiful. Read it, /lit/.
>nyrb
Yeah, it's probably good.
ok
Come on, give us some more details. You bothered to make a thread but can't be arsed to write one sentence about why you liked it or how it's special?
What are some alternative universe world books with completely different laws of physics that actually matter and are explained deeply?Also I'm open for "strange" and avant-garde books in general so feel free to post books like that too.
>>8158703
Why?
>>8158691
I'm not a /lit/ regular by any means but this is one of my favorite books
The fuck did I just read?
I actually liked the plot. What's your critic?
>>8158677
The last desperate gasp of a man on his way straight to Hell for conspiring against the divinely ordained holy monarchy of Russia.
>mfw when Ilya rapes the maid
Posteen sus textos hijos mÃos.
You need to go back.
Justo ahora estoy trabajando en el primer borrador de un relato corto. Si vuelves a hacer un hilo asà en un par de semanas igual lo posteo.
Are there any good analogies/stories about a larger group either having to take responsibility or reject the actions of something it created (radical islam.)
>Muslims overwhelmingly say that homosexual behavior is morally wrong, including three-quarters or more in 33 of the 36 countries where the question was asked
>Only in three countries do as many as one-in-ten Muslims say that homosexuality is morally acceptable: Uganda (12%), Mozambique (11%) and Bangladesh (10%).
http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-morality/
Well played OP, a storm of shitposting is on its way.
>>8158624
>Uganda (12%)
Surprising, though there aren't sp many muslims there I guess.
Is there such a thing as objective quality in books or is it all subjective? Is Twilight a better book than Moby Dick because more people like it?
Who determines good taste and how?
>>8158530
The objective quality is not in the books but exists in the community of readers.
>>8158530
McDonald's is the best restaurant.
>>8158543
that sounds like the opposite of objective quality
Do any of you had parents who pressure you to be a writer?
I am Brazilian. Our family loves football/soccer/futebol or however you call it. Brazil used to be a very good nation on this sport but recently, we lose 7-1 to Germany and lose to Peru.
Now, my parents are pressuring me. They say I must become a great author, and in the English language- all because they wish for Brazil to be good at something and believe it will be writing that we become good at, and that I must lead. I always tell them I am writing stories when I shitpost so I think they believe this means I am a strong writer. My father has spent the last few hours forcing me to create ideas for novels and then analysing them- he is throwing them all away. I have come up with 4 ideas so far
1. A novel in the future where all records of Brazil losing 7-1 has been removed by the Brazilian thought police. However an archaeologist finds the records and must deliver them to the public
2. A childrens book about a penguin who loses his fish catching contest 7-1 and is abandoned by his family
3. A choose your own faith novel, where you are a brazilian and can choose whether to kill yourself after a football match or bully your son into a hard life
4. A book about Vampires
Can anyone share this experience?
Does anyone have ideas for novels to make him fuck off?
>>8158527
Just say that they should not worry: I will save the honor of our nation in the years to come.
>>8158527
Pretty good m8, 8/10
>>8158527
Incafag pls leave
Tell me about your reading habits, anon?
>>8158510
Keats and Yeats are on your side
~grabs book~
...but Wilde is on mine...
~teleports away~
>>8158798
what does that even mean? i've always wondered
>>8158510
I hate Morrissey so fucking much
Why is Gravity's Rainbow more celebrated than V.?
It is better
neither is celebrated because bucktooth nigface is a shithouse writer who deserves eternity in hell for his awful contributions to the earth
I'm currently memeing myself. Just finished V. two days ago, read Crying of Lot 49 today, and Grav's Bow is my next purchase.
In what order does /lit/ prefer these three works?
>Foucault's complete body of work
What did he mean by this?
>>8158449
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRNRV5iucSU
>reading foucault
>keep forgetting he's not an author, he's really a discursivity popsicle
>every time i re-remember what i am always knowing, i hear paglia whisper "turrrrgid" in my ear
>freak out
>erase foucault's ""name"" on every book i own
>make up fake names for all of them
>attribute some of them to real authors
>several were "written" (as "we" say) by roald dahl
>one of them was now written by a meta-collective of borgesian porous intersubjectivities from the future
>it's not enough
>rip out all the dates of original publishing from all the books i own
>have to destabilize every oeuvre
>only read continuously interpollated digital hypertexts while under the influence of ketamine
>have mental breakdown
>revolutionize general semantics by communicating only in grunts and gesticulations
>finally contacted by what is epistemically determined to signify "itself" (for itself, always in a series, at the intersection of THREE different kinds of grids[!]) as "the estate of Michel Foucault"
>allowed entry into his inner sanctum of unpublished works
>merge with the anti-oeuvre, the oeuvre which is displaced by the published oeuvre and which finds its "place" in "no-place"
>start sucking penises in states of quantum indeterminacy
>collapse the waveform
>universe is destroyed
>universe never even existed
>you never even read this post
>it was written by Michel Foucault
or was it?
he meant to say that (his) faggotry and all other social misbehaviors are not an individual pathology coming from the sun but are socially produced and maintained.
Is Ossian less of a masterpiece because of its forged origins?
>>8158403
No.
>>8158435
How come you never see anyone talk about it, then?
People used to place it with Homer, and Shakespeare.
>>8158455
People used to give heroin to children too.
How come /lit/ never talks about this book? It's one of the best novels of the past centuries?
>>8158358
this is b8 right?
if not- it's because it's written by a black woman and those two words put together cause the sweaty mutants that populate this site to both rage impotently and masturbate furiously
>>8158358
Because it's the obvious choice for pseuds and /lit/ rightly recognizes Song of Solomon as her true masterpiece.
>>8158358
>author is non-white
>author is non-male
Yeah, they don't belong here.
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