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Does this seem "Professional" enough?
"Good morning, I am Noah Blum for FOX Charllote and Today's top story is the crash of two Air Force jets just east of Morganton."
The screen changed to several scenes of a crater with debris and emergency vehicles around it.
"Last night around 1 AM, two F-15 Eagles from Seymore Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro plummetted from the sky, one landed in a large horse pasture, killing two animals, and the other landed in one of Morganton's parks, which was abandoned at the time. Early reports are saying that both aircraft crashed about two minutes apart from each other,The Air Force released an official statement, stating that both pilots safely ejected from the fighters after losing control while performing training maneuvers near the Burke County city."
The show cut to a woman with a microphone held in her face. "We where asleep when all we heard was this loud explosion and the ground shook." The interviewee said. "I ran outside to see and I could only see this fire burning in the park and you could hear stuff falling from the sky. My first thought was 'Oh my god terrorists have set off a car bomb.'"
The video returned to the anchor in the newsroom. "Other eye witnesses report that they saw the aircraft still in the air and firing weapons. The Air Force reaffirms us that the planes were not armed and it was only a training exercise. The FAA tells us that the Air Force is responsible for conducting a thorough investigation of the accident but no commercial flights can expect interruptions in the area. We'll be bringing you more from this story as it becomes available so stay tuned to FOX Morning News, Charlotte."
>>7850262
t. cuck
>>7850262
It's too professional, and not showy enough, especially not for daytime news, and *especially* not for FOX.
>>7850733
How would you say it could be improved. I want it to sound right but not be horribly long.
Descartes didn't distinguish between humans and
machines or organic world and inorganic world.
When his daughter died at the age of five,
he found a doll that looked just like her.
He named her Francine and doted on her.
God damn it, someone comment!
is this supposed to be a poem or something? go fuck yourself dude
>>7851267
La la la, can\t hear you
talk to me about this guy /lit/, you've probably never heard of him though... is he a good writer? Faulkner ranked him as his #1 contemporary. Does he deserve that distinction or was Faulkner just drunk?
I'm a big fan of Thomas Wolfe. He was very well-known at the time as an intense, serious maximalist writer of roman-a-clef (i.e. thinly-veiled biographical) novels.
I suggest starting with "Look Homeward, Angel" and then reading "You Can't Go Home Again" and "Of Time and the River" if you like that.
For short stories I'd read "From Death to Morning" which is pretty neat.
He was one of the main influences on Jack Kerouac's writing and Wolfe himself published a book about his travel's west (can't remember the name but I've read it) and the style does resemble Kerouac's later writing to a degree in its lengthy sentences, emotional intensity, articulation of thoughts in a way that requires several adjectives to be employed, and a sort of obsession with articulating something until there's nothing left to articulate. Hemingway disliked his writing very much and accused him of being a self-obsessed amateur who couldn't express himself in an intelligent, terse manner.
lol more like gene wolfe
Can anyone recommend any 19th Century Romantic 'Phantasmagoria' novellas/prose poetry like Undine, Carmilla, Gaspard de la Nuit?
>>7849802
I think you will enjoy.
Ludwig Tieck
ETA Hoffmann?
DUDE COCKS LMAO
what has this board become
He was a pedophile.
So /lit/ was it real or all in her head?
>>7848841
reddit: the author
It was real. I don't know exactly what the organization does apart from deliver mail but it was real
>>7848841
What if it was all just an elaborate joke?
What books do you lie about reading? I've lied about having read
- The Bible
- Ulysses
- Mason & Dixon
- Infinite Jest
- Symposium
- The New York Times in the morning (I just listen to NPR)
- All of Plato's dialogues
- Paradise Lost
- Don Quixote
- Gravity's Rainbow
And some more that I can't remember right now. I've never been called out either
cause no one gives a shit
kill yoruself
i don't even read i just come here to shitpost
my knowledge on literature comes from /lit/ memes
>>7848733
>he hasn't read the Bible
You're really missing out on a lot of references. Oh wait, you don't read anyways, never mind.
Don't you guys think we should come up with an updated version of pic related.
"no"
No reason, nothing worthwhile has been published since that was made, no changes are needed.
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Ok, I'm starting research on the ideological gap and division of the Left, but I really don't know where to start.
Recommend me books on Politics.
pic completely unrelated
>>7848156
zizek
Servile State by Hilaire Belloc and A Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A Hayek. Both deal with the divide between classic liberalism and socialism, both of which are left ideologies.
>>7849673
Ok, thanks. I have this huge backlog of social sciences because I'm a stem major.
Just ordered this. How fucked am I? Any good resources online that anon would be kind enough to recommend?
(I have an undergrad phil degree so I'm not a complete novice.)
>>7846569
Are you saying you spent 4 years studying philosophy and never bothered to read this book?
Not too bad. Do you have access to a uni library? I've always found that works akin to "Reading Through Hegel" or "Beginner's Guide to Hegel" at the library have been infinitely better than their choppy online counterparts.
>>7846625
>Do you have access to a uni library?
No, unfortunately.
ITT: authors' own favourites that nobody cares about.
Any good?
why don't you read it and find out
>>7846260
I doubt Melville would call Pierre his favorite. He implied that it would be better than Moby-Dick ("Leviathan is not the biggest fish;—I have heard of Krakens"), but after his publishers screwed him he went into full self-destruct mode and added a lot of stuff that sometimes feels out of place (e.g. In the middle if the book, he suddenly makes a character a writer so he can channel his frustration). In my opinion, this just makes the book that much more unique and interesting... especially if you have a copy of the full text and the edited "kraken edition" to compare it with.
When read in the context of his biography, Pierre is a great read. It feels very modernist in some places, is full of hilarious gothic satire (either intentional or not), and you can't beat Melville's prose. On top of that, you have lots of melodramatic dialogue and mother-son and brother-sister incest.
It's a weird book worth looking into.
>>7846343
Yeah okay that sounds ni-
>Melville's prose and mother-son and brother-sister incest.
This is how the backlog grows: along with the penis.
Heidegger literally spent his life looking after his wifes son (that wasn't his, she cheated on him with an Arab immigrant)
Doesn't this kind of nullify his entire argument.
Rationally speaking why would you willingly follow someones opinion who lives this kind of lifestyle.
>>7844924
and if that didn't turn you off him then check this out
he was literally a manlet cuck
short Nazi cuck
>>7844926
What does that picture even insinuate?
What are some good pieces of literature about conquerin depression, affirming life, reclaiming the will to live from doubt and guilty self-pity?
>>7844191
Confessions by St Augustine
>>7844191
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
On The Road by Jack Kerouac.
Anything by Karen Blixen (Isaac Dinesen).
>>7844191
Check out some Buddhist stuff.
Is /lit/ hyped for the American Gods tv series?
>>7851102
Is your mother so loose that you can fit a small car in her asshole?
Hell yeah! I have been a Gaiman fan for ages and this is right up my alley
> go on /his/
>read & post about history, philosophy, and religion
>go on /lit/
>read and post about books
This is a most comfy arrangement.
>go on /his/
>shitpost about history, philosophy, and religion
>go on /lit/
>shitpost about books
It really is.
>>7851051
philosophy is allowed here too
>>7851051
>go to /his/
>have to wade through a sea of 'who would win a fight between a samurai and a legionnaire' and 'why did Hitler start a 2 front war' threads
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