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Hey, /lit/, never posted here before. Rate my poem.
"The fatale was visible to a gentleman's eye,
But the mistress was keen to subdue with lie.
With old age you grew, your assets tangible
She took off with the gold, a new age radical."
>>7723705
There's a thread for this but pretty okay desu
>>7723708
Thanks pham, didn't know there was a thread, my apologies.
>>7723705
I don't like the word tangible, but iz pretty gud desu senpai xd
>English Major
>want to be a teacher
>can't focus at all
>can't focus on readings for literature classes, have to listen to the audio book whilst reading
>addicted to 4chan and the internet
Someone please help me. How do you guys focus? I seriously think that I have ADHD or something like it because I can't focus to save my life.
>addicted to 4chan
>asks other 4chan addicts
Take your computer to some experts and have them make it unable to connect to the internet at all.
>>7723565
Oh, and I also can't focus when watching movies or even playing video games. It's terrible
>>7723565
Have you tried AMPHETAMEMES?
I want to increase my vocabulary to become better at writing, and I guess talking, for that matter. What do I read?
>>7723490
the dictionary
the thesaurus
>>7723490
Sign up for a 'Word of the Day' email.
Wake up, read it on your phone, and make it your mission to use that word by thd end of the day.
I need some help with this too.
Whenever I come across a word I don't know I look it up in the dictionary only to discover I've seen it dozens of times.
How do I fix my shit memory?
What is dialectics?
>>7723233
Thesis antithesis synthesis boi
>>7723392
>>7723233
The dialectic is the notion that, to use an example from society, there is a "thesis" (eg, black people deserve to be treated as animals), an "antithesis" (eg, black people deserve a privileged position in society).
Hegel believes society goes from one extreme ideal to another before finally reaching the "synthesis" and idea between the two (eg, black people deserve neither better nor worse treatment than other humans)
Hegel believed in a literal world spirit and that we were all,...
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The movie had potential, but ultimately fell flat. Are there any books that handle the subject matter better? Witches, the devil, 17th, 18th, 19th century setting?
Hawthorne
>>7722741
Was thinking the same thing
Young Goodman Brown
>>7722741
So you mean anything by Nathaniel Hawthorne? I'll be honest outside of YA stuff when I was growing up and the occasional classic I haven't read many books.
Best e reader lit?
>>7721615
The one you can unbrick.
>>7721615
Get a cheap tablet.
>>7721621
Battery doesn't last, and they cause eye strain because of the light.
What do you propose we do with old books? Why should we archive everything, no matter how antiquated or outdated its notions or ideology may be?
At some point, isn't is time to trim the fat?
That's just it, though, there's no need to trim the fat when storage capacity is practically infinite.
At this point, it's not worth calling it 'fat.'
>>7721387
But have you seen some of the shit we publish? Its beyond trite. Archival still requires some effort on the part of the archivist to maintain and order properly.
How do you seperate the wheat from the chaff?
We are already seeing this happen with the internet. The internet used to be filled with useful scientific information, but the trend towards social media and aggregate data is drowning out some of the more academic and intellectual archives and utilities.
Search engines have been co-opted...
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think about how much we rely on wikipedia. Do you remember how unreliable it used to be? Even with a full staff of thousands of educated volunteers, its accuracy is still of dubious quality.
Garbage in, garbage out. You're data is only as good as your source.
Opinion on a poor fag stealing a book from a Waterstone's?
there is this place in every town where you can go and take any book you want without paying for it as long as you promise to bring it back when you have finished reading it
it's called a "library"
>>7720362
Thats where I drop my books off when i finish reading them I don't keep them
and I do use the library when thy have said book I want.
I feel its ok in some kinda low level Robin Hood way.
But I'm not sure if the big bookstores are as financially stable as they seem
Can't you buy from AbeBooks? If you can't even afford ~£2-5 then I feel seriously sorry for you
Post what you're reading right now. I'll start.
>Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
>>7721246
The Stranger
Infinite Jest
Dubliners
Plus other things for class.
>>7721266
Are you re-reading The Stranger? Most people I know read it in high school during their existential phase. It's a good book, I just figured most people read it in high school.
Songs Of A Dead Dreamer at the moment.
I might start Infinite Jest today.
Do you ever read drunk?
Good or bad?
Don't really enjoy it so not unless I have to.
>>7723488
Okay I'll take your word for it then and just pass out
>>7723484
Yes, when I don't want to remember what I read
Why is Edith so terrible?
she has a mental disability. Probably bipolar
>>7723463
It's all her revenge for not getting to go to Paris when she was younger
>>7723463
She was raised that way.
How bad is your backlog? I have almost a full shelf of books I need to read. I tend to read books fairly slowly and get immersed, and I prefer to read on quiet evenings or in bed. This causes books to pile up faster than I can read them (the last three books I read were all 900ish pages). I also find deciding what to read next slows me down considerably, and I have so many trilogies/series that I want to jump in on. How do you deal with your pile of shame, and do you think you'll ever reach the bottom?
>>7723428
I've read just over half the books on my bookshelf.
I just pirate my epubs and delete them from my kcommon allusions or historical contexts, without them being worth reading in full:incommon allusions or historical contexts, without them being worth reading indle as soon as I realize I'm not going to read them in a rush of autism and shame.
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There's also Quixote that bores me to tears and I want to at the very least read the first part and drop it for a ye
Most physicals, I end up reading them anyways. And I actually only read short ones digitally for some autistic reason.
>>7723428
Robin Hobb, eh? I've had sex with her daughter and eaten a meal at her table. Husband is a judo master. They're a little conservative.
Thoughts on the first two books? I needed something to fill the void left by GRRM. I have to say I have enjoyed very much.
not literature
>>7723107
Lit hates them. I thought they were ok. First was much better than the second
>>7723115
Oh...I expected as much. Apparently only novels that you personally derive no enjoyment from are fit for discussion on /lit/; as evidenced by the response above. Very insightful it was.
Best place to find audio books for free?
I know torrent sites will have them, but I'd just like to browse a site and see what's available
the only one i've found is audiobookbay, which has an adequate selection.
Curious what /lit/ thinks about this play, because I've always been very fond of it.
It's obviously not held in as high regard as his other plays, which I can totally understand due to its lighthearted nature, but I think it has some amazing qualities. The feel of the play is just totally enchanting. Whenever I read it I can vividly imagine a magical forest, fairies and beautiful, surreal parts of nature. It's still one of my favorite ever examples of fantasy because it's magical atmosphere is second to none IMO.
>>7722754
I saw Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare in the partk in new york around 5 or 6 years ago. A racoon wondered on stage and didn't really realize that he was surrounded by humans until he was practically in the middle of the stage. He then looked up and looked really confused. Looking at the audience and then at the actors and then back at the audience over and over until he just wandered off.
It's a good play though
It it really not held in high regard? I mean just a quick look at wikipedia shows a wall of text it has over his other comedies. I'd say it's by far his most respected comedy, and has a place among his best work.
Better in text, though. I just can't laugh at actors trying too hard to be funny.
>>7722816
>Better in text, though
Like most other plays.
