Why are his comedies not funny at all?
>>25187934>AI kill yourself>>25187936shut the fuck up>>25187943>this is basic triviathis is basic bullshitThere is no contemporary evidence that Shakespeare or his peers thought of "comedy" as just any play with a "happy ending". You're just repeating bullshit you were taught by retarded high school teachers.
>>25187970I'm not arguing with someone who's retarded and proud of it. I do not care if you go about the rest of your life with the wrong opinion about this and I will not reply to you again.
>>25187984>has no arguments>has no evidence>"I'm not arguing with someone who's retarded"Kek, you're so full of shit
>>25187970you are factually wrong.
>>25188138show me the facts or shut the fuck up
I didn't sign no "social contract".
>>25183779That's why they invented the birth certificate.Now lawyers can claim you as their property.
>>25187646>profitProfit in what way? Did I have any decision or say in what this profit is? If I am deeply unhappy with wage slaving, does the "profit" I make from it mean anything?
>>25185155China is the only country which puts it into practice
>>25185797based glowie in denial
>>25187044Ask your social studies teacher zoomling.>>25187615If you've read it and think this then you are just dumb, not illiterate.The social contract stuff itself isn't normative, it's just an explanation for why we have laws and leaders.The rationalization bit is tacked on after the fact when he claims that any division of powers will ultimately collapse the a system and so we need an absolutist sovereign. That is the "advocacy" piece of it, the rest is just descriptive. Of course its not perfect in that it ignores man is a fundamentally social animal who possesses the gregarious instinct. Cows and sheep have no social contract. But it is a good framework or analogy for extra-familial/extra-tribal voluntary associations, and is much better than romantic idealist Rousseauian nonsense when it comes to things like organizational/international politics at making predictions about how human beings will interact.
Asterix & Obelix (the old ones)
williams' "homosexuality in ancient rome" (second edition)
>>25188143
>>25188143The Roman Empire in Late Antiquity, by Hugh EltonRome's Gothic Wars, by Michael KulikowskiA History of the Later Roman Empire, AD 284-641, by Stephen MitchellAurelian and the Third Century, by Alaric WatsonThe Emperor and the Army in the Later Roman Empire, AD 235-395, by Mark HebblewhiteRes Gestae, by Ammianus Marcellinust. Late Roman Chad
how do you properly annotate your books? i feel like an idiot just underlining and drawing around paragraphs i find essential or like the phrasing
>>25183611>ugh!this song goes very hard
>>25183611I’d like to annotate her face with my fists, maybe that’d teach her to grow up a little, ugh!
>>25183611>properly annotate your booksoxymoron
>>25186437How so?
>>25183611if you do this, you need to kys
Tango edition/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQRESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvCPlease limit excerpts to one post.Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.Discuss the written works below for practice; contribute, and you shall receive.If you have not performed a cursory proofread, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work for spelling and grammar before posting.Shitposters should be ignored and reported.Beginner guides on writing:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHdzv1NfZRM [Open]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whPnobbck9s [Open]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAKcbvioxFk [Open]Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25188126Dude thinks he's the first one to say men toil in vain under the sun.
>>25188114more like autistic intuition amirite
What would you guys do if a friend sent you a copy of a book they digitally published and it was just ai slop that sounds nothing like they've ever written before?
>>25188182call him out on it
>>25188182Admonish them and tell them it is worse than what they're capable of. Unless they aren't then I'm just sorry.
is he retarded?https://www.youtube.com/@WriteConscious
>>25183378>before I turned>my phone back on>and took you to where>I buried hundreds of crystalsThe first three lines here flow well and then he just fucks it up with the fourth, is this the power of free verse?
>>25183365He's one of the good guys no matter what you think of his presentation style.
>>25183376>And the Dull Machete for lamest kill goes to... Tennessee Williams>How do you choke on an eyedrop bottle cap?
>>25183365>white guy with a chakra posterimpossible to take seriously. who is this guy?
>>25187210crystals is a euphonism for jizz
>t. Midwit
>>25187570Probably some of the most based literature out there
The first book is funny but the second one is kinda cruel
>>25186927>Most nonfictionif you ventured outside of your local barns & nobles youd realize this is delusional
had to go out and buy a second copy of DQ because the one I'd been reading has the tiniest print possible. I like the Motteux translation but this shit was killing my eyes
>>25183386Either of these
What does /lit/ think of this man and his works? Man that saw the writing on the wall and was broken by the modern industrial world or just a manchild that didn't like working?
theres real insight hidden behind the fart and sex jokes and its funny that current year lit gets filtered by it
>>25188084egg on my face finding out something that profoundly moved me is actually tryhard or reddit or whatever
>>25188116if you want to get moved in a non-tryhard lit approved way go read dostoeggski
>>25188122I'm reading Crime and Punishment atm. I'll just say it's no Ham on Rye.
>>25188168that we can agree on
Thrice greatest edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>25103936>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw>Mέγα τὸ ANE·https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg>Work in progress FAQhttps://rentry dot co/n8nrkoAll Classical languages are welcome.
>>25187445τί δὴ νῦν νοοῦσιν οἱ λατινισταί;
>>25187717caecilius mogs it sorry
>>25187833These are serious textbook materials. People are just anti fun.While not as rigorous specifically on precise explicit decoding and naming of forms, it has a vocab more than double the size of “serious” year one textbooks and still covers the whole core grammar of the language. It’s only weak on some of the stuff it puts off towards the later chapters, but using it diligently will get you far closer to being actually able to learn through reading, whereas if you only did, say, wheelock, you’d need to spend a while grinding out vocab just to catch up, and then thousands more on top of that to become advanced.Get a parallel translation of something “easy” to read when you get around halfway through it, or as early as you want. Reading a little more broadly with a sheet of inflections on hand for reference while still working through FR was a big part of how I learned to deal with authentic texts and tolerate ambiguity, also maintained motivation. Bible has a lot of good stuff.Number one rule is unironically to enjoy the process. If you do that you’re virtually guaranteed success.
>>25187712I started book 9 again today, so far it's mostly as I remembered it, when I say again I mean as a whole, but the first time I read it as I usually did I read every individual book twice or more so it stuck better. I guess this time using the imperium site I tried to follow up movements more precisely but once they get past the east mediterranean it's just speculation, i.e one can easily follow the return of Nestor, Diomedes and Menelaus but once Odysseus is pushed south of Malea into the deep sea everything is more confusing
>>25188064>everything is more confusingthat's the way she goesI appreciate your take
the walls of tyrosh 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: >>25132678
>>25187693No.
>>25187519As the other anon said, Daemon was legitimized. It was also widely whispered that Daeron himself was a bastard born of adultery. Plus he was skinnyfat, peace loving and showed too much favor to the Dornish who were still considered alien by the rest of Westeros
>>25184915Because they’re heckin’ progressive, I guess.
>>25187669hell yeah
>>25183222GRRM does not believe in an afterlife. He's gone out of his way to challenge Christian heuristics, and he's not displayed any appreciation of Eastern philosophy as an alternative. It is most likely he is atheist so therefore believes once he dies that's the end of everything. GRRM is an optimistic person because he is naive, not because he intellectually labored through the Gym of Cynicism. He believes people have a default setting of Good, rather than a default setting of Neutral, so is unable to cope with people behaving outside his value system.>>25182456GRRM can be accused of being a fake fan because he fails to mention Glorfindel. I would not even hold it against George if he criticized Glorfindel as a worse use of resurrection, because Glorfindel has so many self-enforced restrictions that it becomes questionable why he was even resurrected. The reason Gandalf the White works is because the MISSION is still not completed, Sauron still exists, and Saruman the White already failed and fell to the same darkness that Sauron represents. Glorfindel did not have to rescue Frodo, anyone else could have done so. There still had to be a wizard among The Fellowship to guide them in their darkest hour. The whole point of the wizards was to downsize Maia spirits as moral mentors to the men isolated from the forces of Good (let's assume Radagast is stuck as a Planeteer). Ergo, Gandalf is irreplaceable after dispensing justice to an ancient evil.>>25187435My 2cents: Westeros speaks 1 language as a result of the Weirwood/Greenseer superorganism. Everyone is infected with the hivemind germ enough they can quickly adapt and keep the same language. Obviously GRRM will never call it a germ or a spore, just magic, but the effect is the same.>>25186582King Bran should be walked back from the Iron Throne to just King of the Old Gods. He mantles the greenseer superorganism to de-escalate the Long Night, thus another "peace treaty" like how the first Long Night ended. Add in everyone else's struggle with different explanations for saving the world.Pic unrelated, I can't abide losing Shireen to a bonfire.
>spends career writing about the Christ myth theory >dies on Christmas day All the proof that I need. Christ was real.
>>25187758She looks exactly like someone who would be called Dorothy Milne Murdock
>>25187758> massachusettsGod and man at yale by william buckley was written a hundred years too late
>>25187758>All the proof that I need.
>>25187758Jesus mythicism is literally lower than being a 70 iq ultra religious stupid peasant.It's the most bad faith reading and arguments I have ever seen.
>>25187758>Christ was real.Freudian slip
I have like 5 book ideas in my head and want them to remain distinct and not have any crossovers lol it's tough.
>>25184735It's early days yet bro. Have wrote a few chapters in each.
>>25184735Completely different genres tbf
>>25185451post some
>>25184673>want them to remain distinct and not have any crossoverswhy not? secret crossovers are fun. keep your audience guessing.
>>25184696>but so much of it is based off the same few ideasthis isn't a bad thing. the best artists build a niche for themselves and stick to it.
—Ulysses! that whole business again, well it's not true it's bullshit I did not read it I'm telling you I did not read the damn thing I did not . . . In that cramped interval between his fingers' faltering insistence and the floor's mute expectancy, the cylindrical burden already half‑forgotten as an object and remembered only as the fleeting damp it had impressed upon his palm described its reluctant descent, a kind of minor abdication enacted with all the misplaced ceremony of something that had never belonged to his grasp in the first place. —Oh hi Anon.
>>25183509he know he a ten
>>25184703what have we learned?
Fuck it I'm just gonna say itWhere the FUCK is RC Waldun?!!??
Reminder that Gaddis preferred Cormac McCarthy and Larry McMurtry over his smelly postmodern brethren (except Gass)
>>25187478Reminder, you are a retard who attempts to make up for their lack of agency by borrowing the opinions of others.
>Pynchonruined by Hollywood trendhoppers>DeLilloruined by schizophrenic wannabe podcasters>McCarthyruined by manosphere conservatardsit's time to get into Roth, anons
>>25187094>lit>fandomnever come back here again
>>25188104"Death Is Just Around the Corner" schizo leftist who sees conspiracies in everything, name is even taken from DeLillo.
>>25188112thanx
>open thread>filled with people who obviously haven't read Philip RothThis board is so predictable.
>>25187259>all of them are about jewsWho cares? It's like complaining Scorsese makes movies about Italians. Read American Pastoral, The Human Stain, Sabbath's Theater, you picked a bunch of his late books where he's ruminating on his childhood.
What are some good tasteful erotic scenes in serious literature /lit/?
nice manicure "bro"
you will never be a woman
>>25187806That's uhhhh... that's pretty hot...
>>25187806nothing as erotic as what i imagine Strether imagined Chad and Madame de Vionnet were up to at their place in the Parisian countryside in book 11 of the Ambassadors
>>25188127>to say nothing of the consciousness of that organshould i clarify that the antecedent of 'that organ' is 'his spiritual stomach' on the previous page
