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Post Art, recommend books based on that art.
What would you consider essential utilitarian literature?
>utilitarian
>>7843273
Fate/stay night
>>7843273
pic related
Anyone else have the feeling after reading John Fante that other authors write overcomplicated? Or is it just that I prefer a barebones writing style? Or is it just that I am pleb?
You're grasping in the dark due to your inexperience regarding stylistics.
>>7843261
Read Proust.
>Wake up, Finnegan
What did he mean by this?
>>7843088
Either read it while you're drunk or read it while imagining you're an Irish drunk. You still won't understand it, but it makes it more fun at least.
>>7843088
Whiskey, the Water of Life, resurrecting.
Which translation of Ovid's Metamorphosis is best suited to a first time reader?
I like Ted Hughes' translation. It's not a complete translation though.
I just finished it, and had a pretty good time with the A.D. Melville translation -- the only annoying bit was endnotes rather than footnotes (but they tended to have pretty good stuff in them, e.g. explanations of brilliant wordplay that cannot be translated)
other than that, I'm pretty sure the Mandelbaum is highly acclaimed, and he did a good job with Dante too. He'd have been my go-to if I didn't like the Melville excerpt I read so much
I'd recommend the Melville too. He manages to keep it somewhat poetic but still readable
I'm in college right now and I'm more of a math guy than a Language Arts/English one.
I want to ask how to get good at writing essays, everything I write is so cringe-worthy, gay and stupid.
I don't read so much on my free time so that might be why.
I know in art you usually imitate the artists or photos to get gud, is it the same with writing? Do I just need to copy down some sections of a good book or essay and will the rest come naturally?
>>7842899
>I don't read so much
>that might be why.
you are a genius, no need to learn how to write
tackle your papers like equations
structure them befor putting them into prose
make sure every paragraph and sentence has a purpose in
Post comfy philosophers, lads.
eastern champion coming through
8. The Art of Life
Yen-Ping-Chung asked Kuan-Yi-Wu as to cherishing life.
Kuan-Yi-Wu replied: “It suffices to give it its free course, neither checking nor obstructing it.”
Yen-Ping-Chung said: “And as to details?”
Kuan-Yi-Wu replied: “Allow the ear to hear what it likes, the eye to see what it likes, the nose to smell what it likes, the mouth to say what it likes, the body to enjoy the comforts it likes to have, and the mind to do what it likes.
“Now what the ear likes to hear is music, and the prohibition of it is what I call...
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>>7842645
Seneca
"Disaster is Virtue's opportunity. Justly may those be termed unhappy who are dulled by an excess of good fortune, who rest, as it were, in dead calm upon a quiet sea; whatever happens will come to them as a change."
why cant humans face facts straight in the face but need to make stories about it? is it to cope with their feeling of impotency about them?
>>7842419
complete conjecture but i think its just how we process information
we think in events along a timescale, and we describe events and objects in a certain context, describing the details needed for understanding the events occurring with the objects, then describing what they do, then saying why it might matter. exposition, conflict, resolution.
"me and oog were out west from here, hunting for mammoth. while we were there, we were attacked by a leopard, and it appeared to come from the north. do not...
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>>7842419
telling stories is how we practice for real life
it lets us consider emotions, think about what we would do in certain situations etc
Let's build a writing class.
>Read 1 poem (memorize it), 1 essay, 1 short story every day/night.
>Write 1 short story (finish it) a week.
What else?
>>7842184
Don't tell me what to do, fucking faggot
WRITE A PULP NOVEL A DAY
>read
>write
>read more
>repeat
the end
I saw this article from the AV club posted on facebook and kind of got triggered. Why do people pretend that Dune is deep or complex? It's really not more complex than Star Wars or Lord of the Rings at all, thematically or plot-wise yet this nigger and popular opinion seems to claim so
>For all that the book is in terms of its influence and acclaim, Dune has the plot structure density of a supermassive black hole. Yes, Star Wars tells a better visual story (for the most part), but taking into account the kind of detailed, non-cursory perspective...
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Atlas Shrugged
> Star Wars tells a better visual story
>Muh genre fiction sucks
This is a spook.
What do I need to learn to become a very persuasive writer?
How to write persuasively.
>>7841658
Rhetoric.
ITT: Book Collections
hey /lit/, don't think I've ever seen a thread like this before and I think you guys would have fun with it.
my uni is hosting a contest for book collecting next year with a cash prize hopefully large enough to justify the creation of a collection in the first place, but my current bookcase is pretty random, basically just /lit/core and similar. I'm willing to lay down a good amount of money to start a collection from scratch, but am also pretty scarce on ideas (was considering doing one about the infrarealists, Bolano's...
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>>7841631
do bootleg copies of things or censored East German novels
>>7841631
I collect anything I can get my hands on. My area has a place that without fail, every weekend, exclusively sells 1 dollar books, no matter the subject or text
that's how I got copies of Pynchon, Bolano, Plato, Woolf, to more obscure shit like Juan Goytisolo
in particular I focus on collecting surrealist and modernist novels.
Lately i've been grabbing up and really interested in Christian theology. Anselm, Augustine, etc. Of course I've got the more popular guys and am yet to snag...
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What is /lit/ think of it?
gurdjeiff is like an insufferable hippy but from like before hippies were a thing
Started it but got burnt out. Remember sort of enjoying it though. Been meaning to come back to it for ages.
Pretty useless post really.
Which book has your favorite written dialogue of all time?
Pic related has been one of my favorite books for a long while, every time I read it I am so engrossed and excited by Griffin's electrifying, passionate monologues that I'm practically glued to pages that I've already read countless times. There's such a fiery rythym and contentious passion in his monologues as he's explaining to Kemp how he came to be invisible. It's entrancing.
I can't contribute. But that book is very good.
Haven't read that since third grade. Guess it's time to read it again.
Can you write a better haiku?
http:/en.rocketnews24.com/2016/03/20/winning-poems-from-otaku-haiku-contest-are-hilarious-but-also-hit-way-too-close-to-home/
a post, my waifu
a pose lascivious and lewd
"delete this!", I cry
>>7841063
8/10
