In a recent study published by John Hopkins University students were asked to write a translation of the first few paragraphs of Bleak House in clear, modern English. They were given dictionaries, access to the Internet, and as much time as they needed. Despite this, 49 of the 85 students failed to do so. Sentence after sentence, they could not grasp what Dickens was saying; i.e., they were incapable of figuring out who or what a sentence was talking about, did not understand the imagery or metaphors, could not translate long or complex sentences into shorter, simpler ones, and could not identify the main ideas being described. As such, the researchers deemed this group to be "problematic readers"
>>24785425That's the part that gets me, they could've looked up anything they didn't understand, but chose not to because they believed they understood it well enough. This makes them the worst kind of moron.>>24786805it'll probably be archived by then rip
>>24781402That's not what Chancery courts did. They dealt with equity matters before the equitable jurisdiction was absorbed into the normal court system. Trusts, injunctions, specific performance, etc.
>>24781386bleak house is so fucking kino
>>24786904bump
Dinosaurs aren’t real. I lost interest after reading that part
Tropical Beach EditionFAQ:>What is worldbuilding?Worldbuilding is the process of creating entire fictional worlds from scratch, all while considering the logistics of these worlds to make them as believable as possible. Worldbuilding asks questions about the setting of a world, and then answers them, often in great detail. Most people use it as a means of creating a setting or the scenery for a story.>"Isn't there a Worldbuilding general in >>>/tg/ already?"Yes, there is. However, that general is focused on the creation of fictional worlds for the intended purpose of playing TTRPG campaigns. Here you can discuss worldbuilding projects that are not meant to be used for a roleplaying setting, but for novels, videogames, or any other kind of creative project.>"Can I discuss the setting of my campaign here, though?"If you want to, but it would probably be better to discuss it on >>>/tg/ . We don't allow the discussion of TTRPG mechanics, however. If you want to discuss stats or which D&D edition is best, this is not the place.>"Can I talk about an existing fictional setting that is not mine?"Yes, of course you can!>"Does worldbuilding need to be about fantasy and elves?"Worldbuilding, as already stated above, and contrary to what many believe, does not inherently imply blatantly copying Tolkien. In fact, there are many science-fiction setting out there, and even entire alternative history settings which do not possess supernatural elements at all. Any kind of science fiction book has an implied setting at least, which involves a certain degree of worldbuilding put into it.Old Thread: >>24667235
So we can also post stories here? Will you guys actually read?
>>24748733Hello /wbg/, I'd like to know how the fuck a cultivation or litRPG setting is supposed to function. Pretty much most of the time you'll read about it the world is just an excuse for the protagonist to kill shit and level up but I wanna think up something that makes sense. How does a society in a world where you can apparently infinitely grow until you reach godhood if you're HIM work? What's the main motivation for people having kids in such a world?(Other than just the usual lust)
>>24756931The US only nuked two Japanese cities and that was enough. What would justify nuking half of Germany and where did the US find the capacity to build so many bombs so quickly? Why did Hitler chose to allow himself to be captured rather than committing suicide?
>>24751690I know exactly who you’re talking about so some of his art work. I’m also writing a Bronze Age setting for this game I’m developing, but it’s more low fantasy pulpy shit.
>>24788196Go to /wng/ for that
>OH BOOHOOO!>I'M RICH AND HANDSOME AND GET LAID A LOT>I'M GOING TO GET ADDICTED TO DRUGS GOING TO TRY TO KILL MYSELF SEVERAL TIMESWhat the fuck was this faggots problem?
- I never could think of prostitutes as human beings or even as women. They seemed more like imbeciles or lunatics. But in their arms I felt absolute security. I could sleep soundly. It was pathetic how utterly devoid of greed they really were. And perhaps because they felt for me something like an affinity for their kind, these prostitutes always showed me a natural friendliness which never became oppressive. Friendliness with no ulterior motive, friendliness stripped of high-pressure salesmanship, for someone who might never come again. Some nights I saw these imbecile, lunatic prostitutes with the halo of Mary.
- "I feel so unhappy." I am sure that this one phrase whispered to me would arouse my sympathy more than the longest, most painstaking account of a woman's life. It amazes and astonishes me that I have never once heard a woman make this simple statement. This woman did not say, "I feel so unhappy" in so many words, but something like a silent current of misery an inch wide flowed over the surface of her body. When I lay next to her my body was enveloped in her current, which mingled with my own harsher current of gloom like a "withered leaf settling to rest on the stones at the bottom of a pool." I had freed myself from fear and uneasiness. It was entirely different from the feeling of being able to sleep soundly which I had experienced in the arms of those idiot-prostitutes (for one thing, the prostitutes were cheerful); the night I spent with that criminal's wife was for me a night of liberation and happiness. (The use of so bold a word, affirmatively,' without hesitation, will not, I imagine, recur in these notebooks.) But it lasted only one night. In the morning, when I woke and got out of bed, I was again the shallow poseur of a clown. The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness. I was impatient to leave her while things still stood the same, before I got wounded, and I spread my usual smokescreen of farce.
- I got up from the snowbank with the thought: I ought to get the proper kind of medicine without delay. I went into a pharmacy nearby. The proprietress and I exchanged looks as I entered; for that instant her eyes popped and she held her head lifted, as if caught in the light of a flash bulb. She stood ramrod stiff. But in her wide-open eyes there was no trace of alarm or dislike; her look spoke of longing, almost of the seeking for salvation. I thought, "She must be unhappy too. Unhappy people are sensitive to the unhappiness of others."Not until then did I happen to notice that she stood with difficulty, supporting herself on crutches. I suppressed a desire to run up beside her, but I could not take my eyes from her face. I felt tears starting, and saw then the tears brimming from her big eyes.- This time I confessed with a smile to the woman what my physical condition was. In humble tones I asked her advice."You'll have to give up drinking."We were like blood relatives.
>>24778946Life is everyone's problem
>>24778957>you don't understand, i'm too much of a chad to have struggles :(>im NO LONGER HUMAN
I just bought my first book, a hardcover edition of Dracula. What am I supposed to do with it? I get read it, but, how often am I supposed to read it and pull it out to refer to certain passages, out of research, or to prove an argument? What is the typical usecase for the average book?
>>24788483I am already regretting this chaps. Am I just going to have this giant book with me forever? I am starting to feel extremely helpless.
>>24788486Just use a kindle ereader
>>24788486You read it and then you buy some more books and read them and you reread them sometimes and it doesn't get any easier anon
>>24788486topkek
Why has fantasy never had a literary masterpiece?
>>24783354I like this answer
>>24783338The Gormenghast trilogy is in Bloom's Western Canon, it's the closest thing to literary fantasy that you'll get.>>24784715Someone beat me to it.
>>24788344I'm referring to most people recommending stopping around book 4.>Funnily enough I still think its his best work.That might be true, but Sanderson doesn't truly understand the source material he's working from. The most glaring and hotly debated example is the way he reads Egwene's viewpoint chapters, colored by her conviction of her own superiority above practically all others, and interprets that as actual evidence of her superiority. So you've got this character whose career has been failing straight to the top in record time, who then magically becomes everyone's favorite person and an inspiration to everyone that meets her over the course of half a book.
>>24788445>most people recommending stopping around book 4.They must be trolling 5 and 6 are excellent.>Sanderson doesn't truly understand the source material he's working from. 100% agree. Wheel of Time is incredibly complex, even a turbo fanboy like Sanderson couldn't do a perfect job.Further evidenced by the fact that everyone from the Two Rivers Rand, Mat, Perrin, Egwene and Nynaeve were meant to meet up in RJ's notes, but Sanderson couldn't make it happen and axed it. I wish the slog never happened, so RJ could've finished it himself desu. Its so unfair he died before he could complete it.
What's the appeal?
>>24788513faggot, it's a comedy
>>24788513PseudMaxxingRedditory, I see.
People like it, or at least, get some comfort from it because simply waiting can be applied to anything big or small when it comes to life.>>24788513Beckett would call you a fag btw
>>24788566I would tell him no u
>>24788271Why is waiting for Gal Gadot? She's not even leng.
Books on why 1993 stuck out as a particularly odd year in culture?
>>24785487'twasn't, so whomst've a book?
>>24788568I have watched most of it, and am interested but can't help but feel some of it reads like bad fictional writing. Also the dreadful Indian mispronouncing Kerouac and calling him Hunter S. Tthhhhh-ompson, how has he been presumably speaking and reading English his whole life but has never encountered the name Thompson. Would he call him Thhhh-om Yorke? Anyway, nice to find a fellow millenium-baby. I am from Reading but been living up north since I moved here for Uni.
>>24788216I'm partial to Scentless Apprentice and Territorial Pissings. I like School, too. But I'm a bigger Melvins fan overall.
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>>24788578Wrong video and song zoom-zoom
Recommended reading charts. (Look here before asking for vague recs)https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb>Archive:https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg>Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg>Previous:>>24753638 (Cross-thread)>Thread Question:You are thrown into the world of the last book you read. Where are you, what are you doing and what are your plans?
I read these recently, does it still count as capeshit if it's a book?
>>24781087>paying for booksngmioceanofpdf.com
>>24787159>>24787231>>24787710thanks.>>24786984i did read Cyteen but i didn't know that older female mc was her thing. i have the Chanur omnibus sitting in my backlog so i will probably give that a shot
>>24788290Not my fault your poor.
>>24787785Anon, I like paper.
What are the five languages one must learn to enjoy literature?
>>24788433you don't need to learn anything but your native language to enjoy literature in a full and satisfying manner. you don't even have to be literate. (just look at me.) there's really no barrier to entry. however, there are a hundred lifetimes worth of things to learn to enhance your enjoyment further. i don't think i can ever answer the question, i think your choices have to revolve around a certain primary language or a certain tradition if what you're going for is the greatest heights possible. the englishman should pick five different languages from the arab man who should pick five different languages from the japanese man. it might even be worthwile to learn several dialects of your native language instead of any foreign tongues.>>24788457nta but i think knowledge of latin enhances reading in other european languages even if you don't intend to read actual latin works. >>24788484i don't think even nationalist chinese literati would claim those aren't worthy choices. pointless contrarianism.
>>24788433You only need three:EnglishMiddle EnglishOld English
>>24788506>enhances reading in other european languagesEh not really. I've dabbled somewhat with Spanish and French after learning both English and Latin and I definitely can say English helped me a lot more. Might be because my native language already has cases though. >>24788510So English and German?
I know German but I always read English /lit/ or translations. German books feel weird to me, similar to how a contemporary book would feel.
>>24788557Could you elaborate? It's the first time I hear such a sentiment, especially from a German.
>The eccentric psychology of décadence outlines the negative anthropology of mass society: Proust gives an allergic accounting of what was later done to all love. The exchange relationship, which this last partially contradicted during the bourgeois epoch, has entirely absorbed it; the last immediacy falls victim to the distance of all adversaries to all others. Love freezes from the value, which the ego ascribes to itself. Its love appears to it as a loving more, and whoever loves more, does wrong. They incur the suspicions of the beloved, and are thrown back on themselves, falling ill due to their inclination to possessive cruelty and self-destructive imagination. “The relation to the beloved,” goes a passage in Temps retrouvé, “may remain platonic out of entirely different reasons than the chastity of the woman and also not for the sake of the sensual character of love, which she inspires. Perhaps the lover is incapable, in the boundlessness of his love, of waiting for the moment of fulfillment with adequate dissimulation or indifference. He meets her incessantly, does not cease to write to her, attempts to visit her; she refuses, and he despairs. From this moment on she understands that if she only grants him her company or friendship, such a favor will appear, to someone who had already given up all hope, so great that she can spare herself the trouble of giving him any more concessions, so that she can securely wait, until he finds himself prepared, because he is incapable of going without seeing her any longer, to end the war at any price: then she can dictate the terms of the peace, whose first condition is the platonic nature of the relationship... All this the woman guesses instinctively and knows that she can afford the luxury of never giving herself to the man whose unquenchable desire she feels, if he is too well-bred to hide it from her from the very beginning.” The young male prostitute Morel is stronger than his high-flying lover. “He always retained the upper hand, by only refusing himself, and in order to refuse himself, it probably sufficed for him to know he was loved.”
>The eccentric psychology of décadence outlines the negative anthropology of mass society: Proust gives an allergic accounting of what was later done to all love. Paraphrase this in your own words, you have 1 (two) day.
17th century french seduction novel>make yourself le rare>stay ambiguous until the last moment, bitches love this>get a rich aristocratic Lady, you won't have to work again'dorno>this is soo capitalistic and manipulating>ppl used to Love each other without such capitalistic calculation. My fellow j... i mean literary intellectual Proust knew this, btw we need communism and destruction of patriarchal families (source of fascism) asap.
>>24788452You realize that to a significant extend the human race has stopped reproducing?> destruction of patriarchal families (source of fascism) asapWhatever. The above quote is actually critical of women. I'm not sure why I bother to come here anymore. You all just have stupid axes to grind. Probably, now I will stop
>>24788519goodwe hang adornolets like youkeep moving, lil ahasverus
>>24788063I have been studying Adorno for the past 2 years. He is the greatest philosopher of the 20th.Ironic how he was condemned and swiftly disregarded on the basis of a supposed resigned and purely theoretical stance, given that he never shied away from polemic and deeply engaged with the main philosophical currents like existentialism and positivism. I'm french and he was almost unknown here up until 15 years ago, with only a fraction of his work translated. His works are undergoing translation ever since.>>24788519I visit this place once a month, if not less. I used to be a regular. Don't bother with this cesspit.
What does /lit/ think of the poem The Charge of the Light Brigade by Lord Tennyson?
I love it, people might talk down on it for being a simple rhyming tale with no deeper analysis really available (apart from the fact that it bluntly called out that one of the officers fucked it) but I find a beauty and truthfulness in its stark, plain descriptions and language. >Plunged in the battery smoke, right through the line they broke, Cossack and Russian reeling from the sabre strokeKino
>>24788213Chivalrous. Makes my eyes slightly moist every time I read it aloud, but fills me with anger too, for as usual, the officer corps bungled, and now the ordinary soldiers have to bear the brunt of someone else’s flawed decision making.
>>24788560Their's not to reason why,Their's not to make reply,Their's but to do and die.
Have you ever marathoned a very big book in a very short amount of time?
>>24779155I can read 150-200 pages an hour so every book is completed in a short amount of time
>>24786352we are not talking about manga and comic books here bud
I read Crime and Punishment in 2 days beginning on my 17 birthday accompanied by two bottles of wine in my bedroom. That's about 300 pages per day which must be my all time record.
>>24785226You can judge it all you want, but it's incredibly effective if you want to burn through a book quickly.I was up to just over a page a minute, probably faster after averaging out due to the half-pages from the beginning and end of each chapter.
>>24786768NTA, interesting... I might have to try this.
Why do we never mention the library and always talk about pirating? It's like a legal form of pirating and you can watch cool movies too with Kanopy.It it a psyop to destroy trust in communities and make posters scared to leave the house?
my library is awesome they have events and it's a smaller branch so not crowded and they have free books two times a year when they clear the donation and old books and they have machines you can rent
I go to the library about every 4 weeks, I take 3-5 books out each time. Most of the time I just browse but sometimes I'll request a book from a different library in my city and pick it up at my local.
i went to a sold-out Michael Ondaatje reading at the Vancouver Public Library system's Central Library and the quality of the attendees bolstered my faith in society
i worked doing research for some time for a well-known professor at McGill University.Had the run of their 13 libraries (12 million items), and though the pay was not brilliant, but I loved it.Later spent time in the Canadian Centre for Architecture library, which was great in a different way.
>>24784142There are billions available for free on the internet, you don't have to go into an ugly building with stupid rules where someone recently pissed in the corner anyway just to read for free.
Why doesn’t he just muster the jungian spirit of hating trans people to will himself back into shape?
>>24788291Israel won.
>>24787647No, tranny hatred has been used in labs to fertilize and grow plants, it's so healthyTry again, filthy tranny freak of natureGo to Gaza and get thrown off a building
>>24787647HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA holy shit no way, the “clean yer room” guy has chronic mold disease HAHAHAHAHAHAHA that’s amazing.Eternal fucking suffering to him and his lmfao.
>>24787647Imagine dying because of mold
What's the cutoff point before the Dune books start being bad?
>>24783609I can kind of justify it in terms of contrasting the Bene Gesserit with the Honoured Matres. Sex as a tool for developing someone's abilities vs. as a means of diminishing them by binding them to someone else's will. There's quite a bit of that in the Dune series; the same basic tool being having wildly different results. Paul's prescience trapping mankind in a future that ends with their extinction vs. Leto's golden path. The folk religion of the Fremen being a source of strength vs. the Imperial Priesthood's undermining of that strength. Paul being created by Jessica's love for his father, and being destroyed by his love for Chani.
>>24783179Read 1&2 and don't bother with the rest. 3 and especially 6 are jarringly bad.>t.read all 6
>>24787421Why would you feel the need to justify it? /ss/ is always justified in and of itself.
>>24783179The second one is the last one worth reading. The ending is shit though, Paul should of been assassinated.
I want to have sex with her.
