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How can we know if we truly have Free Will?
>>7740064
Same way we can know if we truly have oranges.You can't, enjoy your eternal angst spiral
We don't know but we can choose to believe in the things that has to do with FW and the various interpretations of deterministic compatibility
>>7740109
mmkay
So /lit/ I have a question for you all how did books change your life or rather what book changed your life? Reading has made me feel a certain happiness and has filled the void I have been feeling in my life since my early teens. Mine was "Stoner" by John Williams
Anthem by Rand. I read it at a time when I was searching desperately for a purpose for life, and it gave me one. Even if you don't like Rand's later works, or have heard a lot of hate for her, I would recommend Anthem.
Should I read Stoner? You guys always recomend it but don't really say why.
>>7740014
Just fucking read it.
Who the fuck names their kid "Hero"?
>>7739941
an Alexandrian
>>7739941
cris marlow
>>7739941
A black person.
>the one where Bugs Meany calls Al "Algernon", thus proving he's met him
>>7739936
>one instance of subtlety
>encyclopedia brown is high literature
this is the kind of rhetoric that's allowing John Green to be required reading for high school seniors
How do I write vignettes?
I have to write 2 300 word vignettes, but they are fucking stupid
Think of a story with a beginning, middle and end then write a scene that would fit somewhere in the middle dropping hints about what might have happened before and what could happen after.
Post your favorite short story collection, everything goes.
![9780141182452[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Mv47FQO.jpg "9780141182452[1].jpg")
It's a little more than a short story collection, but not quite a novel yet
Does anyone know if this gets better? I really liked The Sheltering Sky but the first few stories in this are... wew.
Can somebody recommend a good essay about valuing things in film/literature other than didacticism? I'd especially like something that talks about being immersed in an /aesthetic feeling/ or some shit like that.
I've already read Nabokov's nerd rant that's included in my edition of Lolita.
thanks
>>7739839
hmm
pic related maybe
Do public schools teach anything useful about literature and rhetoric?
>>7739831
No. In Ameriga, rhetoric is under strict educational and media blackout.
>>7739831
Only that most people are willingly stupid
Take an AP lit class if you want 20% rhetoric and 80% cramming for a load of essays that mean nothing
This is my introduction paragraph. If it sounds like shit its because im an 18 year old junior that's never written anything in my life, and I am also too retarded to be good with words.
If I was asked to make a list of things that make me happy, it would be near endless. To name a few enjoyable things I experience daily would include, taking a warm shower in the morning, putting on some refreshing clean clothes, feeling the sun and the wind on the way to the bus,looking forward to lunch, hearing the last bell ring, and finally jumping into bed as soon as I get...
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If I was asked to make a list of things that make me happy it would be near endless. Naming a few enjoyable things I experience daily would include: taking a warm shower in the morning, putting on some refreshing clean clothes, feeling the sun and the wind on the way to the bus, looking forward to lunch, hearing the last bell ring, and finally jumping into bed as soon as I get home. Yet Sometimes I'll take these things for granted, I become desensitized to the gigantic list of minuscule things that usually make me happy. I lose would the effort to continue my usual daily...
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>>7739821
thanks man, you're the best. Thats way more help than I expected.
>>7739821
Any thoughts on the content of it?
What is the greatest short story collection ever?
Doubliners.
[Spoiler]check em [/spoiler]
>>7739755
check'd
>>7739755
noice
What books will help me understand the development of the English language?
1. Canterbury Tales
2. King James Bible
3. Book of Common Prayer
4. The Faerie Queene
5. Shakespeare
...? What else? Some non-fiction perhaps?
sir gawain and the green knight
Beowulf
The Seafarer and Caedmon's hymn
>>7739739
What you have is good so far, though it's missing some contemporary to show you where the language is now. Throw some john green in there (if recommend his seminal class The Fault in Our Stars) and you're all set , bud.
would /lit/ be interested in working on a collection of short stories? legitimate short stories, not lol so randum shit packed with memes.
please respond
I might be. Would there be a central theme to the collection?
>>7739727
So you could compile them and do a pathetic attempt to make money of other peoples work because you're too lazy to write?
I think I'm going to pass thank you very much.
When will rap lyrics be recognized as modern poetry?
Not talking about "fuck bitches get money" (even though I do think that has a deeper philosophical meaning), but rap lyrics in general about life, issues, politics, love, etc.
Be open-minded.
It's called slam poetry, and it'll never be legitimate.
If it's "legitimate," then it has to be open to criticism. And slam poetry is just awful. It could never stand it.
Being open-minded doesn't mean finding contrived meaning in things that have no other meaning than what they say.
When greentexting is recognized as modern prose
All verse that is English and sustained--that is to say longer than a few flourishes--and rhyming past Middle English (which rhymes much more organically and doesn't sound like limericks), is awful, just awful. If you prefer translations of the Iliad like Pope over someone like Rodney Merrill or Lattimore, it's because you have a short attention span and need rhymes to continually amuse you.
And yes, they're all shit compared to the original Greek. But Pope is shit compared to the other two.
I didn't read your post because you sound like a faggot wannabe poet.
I think you're trying too hard.
>>7739740
I'm not a poet neither have I ever written poetry
>>7739790
But you're a tripfaggot
hey /lit/ i am a /b/tard and /pol/ack, I will not lie i have a presentation on the early 20th century. I was wondering if there is a book or a writer during this period that would be interesting and academically tested. Basically a book or author that tryhards bring up during literature discussions. I am a stem major so i am not knowledgeable on this topic and think that /lit/ might have some great ideas.
>ib4 how do 14 year olds keep on finding 4chan
please take rare pepe as payment
These retards are just going to tell you to start with the Greeks or suggest Joyce. Ignore them and look up best novels of the 20th century and find something that sounds interesting.
>>7739689
I just want something that is little more out there if that makes any sense
>>7739694
You're not going to find it here.
