Whats the deal with shakespeare "intellectuals" trying to convince everyone every single line in every single play is actually a completely retarded sexual based pun, is this some kind of psyop?
No, it's true. You've literally just been conditioned to think art was dry and humorless back then.>Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will,>And Will to boot, and Will in over-plus;>More than enough am I that vexed thee still,>To thy sweet will making addition thus.>Wilt thou, whose will is large and spacious,>Not once vouchsafe to hide my will in thine?>Shall will in others seem right gracious,>And in my will no fair acceptance shine?>The sea, all water, yet receives rain still,>And in abundance addeth to his store;>So thou, being rich in Will, add to thy Will>One will of mine, to make thy large will more.>Let no unkind, no fair beseechers kill;>Think all but one, and me in that one Will.
>>24949933Half of his plays are comedies you fucking imbecile
>>24949933It's a generational problem. Shakespeare scholars are all free-love hippy boomers.
>>24949933Yeah Shakespeare was famously averse to sexual puns.Fun fact: he also hated funny gratuitous violence!
>Villain you have blackened our mother's reputation>Knave I have blacked your momWhat did Aaron mean by this?
Best writers for increasing your vocabulary?
>>24949924Samuel Johnson
>>24949924I mean it depends if you're a child prolly dr seuss
>>24949924alexander theroux Thomas ligottithomas pynchon
>>24949939vased theroux
>>24949924Dwarf phrenology.
sansa editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdyGeneral search: http://searcherr.work/TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chaptersold: >>24922194
>>24949686Name a more based king
>>24949686Do you think GRRM runs a tube up his ass to provide additional calories or did he get that fat by strictly mouth feeding alone? Follow up question:What percentage of his brain has been replaced by fat and why is it all of it?
>>24949698Can’t imagine Osha would have wildlings ceremony with her husband, Rickon?
>>24949786Rickon will be married to the daughter of some of the Skagosi houses unfortunely
Walk with me, my sweet summer child, and hear the tale of fat pink masts jutting into sopping wet myrish swamps and black nipples brushing against silk until her cunt became the world while in the privy the princess guzzled arbor gold and shat but the more she drank the more she shat until she was shitting brown water and around her the planks of the ship groaned like a fat man taking a shit while she cursed the gods and nuncle smiled as he broke his fast on black bread, bacon burned black, and mulled wine while capon-grease dribbled down his chin and onto the boiled leather of his jerkin for she was wet with love and did she not know words are wind and dark wings bring dark words and a lannister always pays her debts and mayhaps this is nothing but a mummers farce and useless as nipples on a breastplate and the princess has been fucking lancel and moonboy for all nuncle knows and he is the blood of the dragon for the night is dark and full of terrors but where do whores go and jon snow knows nothing and near enough makes no matter so nuncle smiled and dipped the heel of his bread into clam chowder and prayed for half a hundred more heh har HODOR
How do I master the English language as an ESL? Is there a certified /lit/ guide?
>>24949958About thoughts that can be expressed in German but not in another language, and why someone who has learned German as a second language can't grasp them. (In German if need be, I read the language though not very well.)
>>24949963Look anon I appreciate your seriousness but germans are the last people you should expect an objective opinion on this. You can be C1 and they will think you're retarded.
>>24949963I don't speak German
>>24949906And Chinese is even more stripped back than English. Doesn't stop it from being one of the most complex languages out there when it comes to literature.
>>24949973Classical/Literary Chinese*Mandarin is a bitch
I haven't read a book since AI got big. Have you?
>>24947661I just finished a book bit h
>>24947661are you gay though , you don't tell you AI bedtimes stories.how else is it gonna grow up strong , if AI fails and bursts , is literally only your fault/
>>24947661Subhuman.
>>24947661there are enough good books from the last 100 years that reading any modern book, let alone an AI-authored one, is very possible and very recommended
>>24947661I'm still learning how to read
Unwilling Eldritch Horror of Slop EditionStubbed >>24943213>What is /wng/ — Web Novel General?A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction posted to websites such as: Royal Road, Webnovel, Scribblehub, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, Spacebattles, HFY, various personal author websites, and more>Why read web novels?Not for prose or tight editing or deep themes, frankly. As a whole, web novels are infamous for content sprawl and pacing issues. If you enjoy having millions of words to sink your teeth into to get to know the world and characters, though, you may be interested. Keeping up with other readers on a weekly basis to discuss the story's events unfolding is another perk, in the same way discussing an ongoing TV show might be.>Why write web novels?Ease of access & potential for Patreon earnings. Many successful authors gain an audience on their website of choice and funnel their readers into a Patreon. See graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators/writing for an idea of what some are earning.Also, once an author has earned a fanbase, transitioning into an Amazon self-publishing career is several orders of magnitude easier than starting 'dry'.>/wng/ authors.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24949823you sound bitter
Shill me on your stories. Bonus points if it's an autistic power fantasy.
>>24949836it's lotgh with a dash of gundam and newtypes
>>24949944newtypes = newhalfs = trannies
>>24949947erm... nyo...
What is there even left to read after him?? Why is his prose so good?
>>24948719not surprising you would be a Freudian. The most lazy and obvious housewife-level psycho-pathologizing of artistic expression. >Why put such a scene in a book about pedophilia when everyone who reads the book already knows what will happen?Why take any artistic risks, in fact, why write any novels at all, just make sure everyone knows you're against bad things like child abuse by a strongly worded tweet or tiktok.
>>24946400doesn't the repetitive assonances and alliterations lower the quality?
>>24948729Dolls are based
>>24946400Reads like a parody.>a delicious distension of my innermost roots became a glowing tingleLMAO
>>24949493Yes, almost like it was written to be the kind of thing that character would write.>>24948729>>24948735Agreed. Literature has less to do with fun and imagination than people realize.
prev: >>24935706Erich Heckel edition
>>24949815It's not okay and it's time to stop pretending that it is okay and that they're women
>>24949815>>24949821Look, I'm gonna be honest with you, if your at a waffle house your either hung over, drunk, traveling, or your life isn't going well.
>>24949892I work on the railroad.
>>24949899So basically all of them, I'm sorry
>>24949892>Look, I'm gonna be honest with you. If you don't know the difference between your and you're, you have no business posting on /lit/.
What erotic literature has /lit/ been enjoying as of late? I quite enjoyed this one until the abrupt non-ending
>>24949136Is this real?
>>24949148porno is solitary and hallucinatory and results in depletion of zinc which could be used by neutrophils. hatespeech is group building, honesty and diligence forming, and results in vitamin taking and exercise which improves everything
>>24947634This is worse than I thought it would be. The erratic sentence structure really leans into the laziness. This reads like something a typical teenage reddit coomer could write.
>>24944529A Poeme, Evan Barkoff - Luke Bollocksson(пoэмa Ивaн Бapкoв - Лyкa Myдищeв)It's about a man-commoner with a big fair cock,In an other epoch, he would be a musician star of rock
>>24947634This is so thoroughly Japanese it even reads like a bad Japanese translation.
There is a fascinating, digressive chapter in Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris about how architecture was once the main form of expression of human thought and how the invention of the printing press put an end to this.Are there any other books about this topic? The intersection of philosophy and architecture? And was Hugo even correct?
Architecture used to mean something, post modernism destroyed it as it destroys everything though.
>>24945477My dad is an architect; I'll tell him about this.
>>24947754>>24949464We still very much do build monumental architecture, countries even waste more money than is needed for building a structure that's essentially temporary (the Olympic stadiums for an example). The thing is outside of shitty third world nations, our great architectures are no longer religious sites. For one, religion is no longer the center worldview & cultural glue for most people in the world. And second, the world is globalized now so building a religious structure will alienate many people. Instead we build monumental architecture for something more universal & inclusive to all nations like museums, sports stadiums, or theatres.In case any anons wondering what the buildings in the pic are>Louvre Pyramid>Beijing Bird's Nest>Sydney Opera House>Museum of the Future
C.S. Lewis' book made from him overview lectures on the scientific-philosphical-mythic context of medieval and Renaissance literature, The Discarded Image, does a really great job showing how the Gothic cathedral captures the medieval vision of the cosmos.
>>24949802It's really not on the same scale though. Cathedrals took generations and took up more of GDP than Cold War defense spending.
Which books should I read to best understand the argentinian soul?
>>24948859>>24948944Grazie
THE SOUTHERN PLAGUE NEEDS TO BE ERADICATED. CHILEAN AND ARGENTINIAN OBLITERATION IS THE WAY TO GO, PAL.
Las Malvinas son y serán Inglaterra boludos
>>24949628en el futuro será de china. y porqué eso? porque los ingleses van a perder su guerra con china y perder su territorio en todos lados
de mas esta decir que si permitis que lo que dice una manga de pajeros en 4chan afecte como ves y entendes tu realidad politica, no sos mas que un boludo util
A good metric for a genuine writer is: can i read his works on the toilet? If so, congratulations, you managed to find an author that's engaging enough to be fluently read in a low focus environment without issues. If not, well you just found a trendy name for fake intellectuals to prance about.
>>24948107the bathroom is a quiet white place suitable for meditation
>>24948275That this place is high quality entertainment? Despite telling us the contrary, you're lurking this place for years if not decades.
>>24948107I use Adorno for toilet paper.
>>24948415Fair enough
>>24948107As a child I would read on the toilet until my legs went numb, good books too usually. I remember reading book one of a farewell to arms in one sitting on the toilet and just laying down in my room for hours afterwards. My parents stopped buying me good books around age 10 at the advice of a school teacher that was annoyed with me reading in class. I think I'm still not over it.
Do Tolkiendrones realize that fantasy existed before Lord of the Rings and that it suffered greatly from Big Fat Fantasy and other sloppy derivatives that grew like viruses from Tolkien's wen? https://voca.ro/1Rwc7lMX0hfT
>>24948171>worldbuilding is something tolkien introducedLoad of shit, he was just very autistic about it.
>>24939820>Is Named China>Is A Communist>Mieville>Bald As Moby
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>>24949835You thought that was clever, didn't you? You unwashed manbaby.
>>24939820I'm writing a “Futuristic existential dystopian meta-epic with elements of philosophical science fiction, apocalyptic fiction, post-apocalyptic societal reconstruction, spacefaring coming-of-age, and speculative political thriller". Y'all need to stop reading genreslop and blaming other people when it's boring and derivative lol
If, according to Gnosticism, the material world was created by an ignorant or malevolent Demiurge, why did the higher, benevolent source of reality allow such a being or such a world to come into existence? This idea seems to relocate the problem of evil to a meta-level rather than resolving it.
>>24949807The Monad allows the Demiurge's reality to exist because the Monad wants his grandchild (and his offspring) to return back home of their own free will. By allowing Sophia to create the Demiurge in the first place, the Monad could experience imperfection and the cycle of life. To dwell within the Pleroma is to thrive within Heaven-Nirvana, but what is the point of experiencing Oneness (non-birth and non-death) if you've never earned it? It's like being on top of Mount Everest when you were already born.Consider what the Buddha spoke about existence being equivalent to living in a burning house. To realize/understand Nirvana, one must just simply step outside.>The Demiurge came from the forest with wood and nails and made a house to live in. He stays inside his burning house because he is afraid of many things: his mortality, hashing things out with Sophia, and humbling himself. He fears returning back to the woods and what it means for him. He believes connecting himself with others is equivalent to Ego Death.
>>24949807Bro PLEASE I am begging you read more about the things you are talking about. The problem of evil?!? In GNOSTICISM? They literally claimed that the entire cosmos is evil and ruled by evil gods, there is no 'problem of evil' because in their view the evil is rooted in the design of the universe itself.You are also misunderstanding how divinity actually functions in Gnosticism. The high god doesn't actually do stuff, it's like the Neoplatonist 'Intellect' that creates the world of forms, but it has no power or control over the material world. Basically it's Platonism for retarded incels who hate the world.
>>24949807Gnosticism is a form of substance pluralism and thus is false.
It's a heresy created by Satan or those under demonic influence, don't expect it to make sense. Also, the is no one Gnostic myth or Scriptures, we have a bunch of different surviving texts. So it doesn't really make sense together. Aside from the Demiurge mythos and the edgy stuff in the Apocryphon of John and the Hypostasis of the Archons a lot of the stuff people are attracted to in Gnosticism is actually more coherently and deeply handled in orthodox Patristic works it seems to me. I don't know if it's that people tend to associate Christianity exclusively with modern Anglophone Protestantism, but there is this weird push to sell orthodox (or mostly orthodox) figures as le ebin gnostics, so that Eriugena is inappropriately slapped with the label, and Origen too, or the other Origenists or Eckhart, etc.
>>24949910Satan does not exist and neither does God. Jesus did not rise from the dead and he's never coming back.
>Moby-Dick;
>or, The Whale
>The Anatomy of Melancholy:) >What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up:D
>>24949066>Whale, I guess that's the story of my moby-dick!
