What do you all think of the 1981 BBC radio adaptation of Lord of the Rings?
>>25184073Take it to the /sffg/. Nobody wants to talk about your genreshit outside of it.
>>25184073Not familiar with that porno
>>25184073unabridged > abridged > dramatized > movies
>>25184073I don't know, I haven't heard it. What do you think about it?
>>25184363I like it.
>So shall the Son of man be THREE DAYS and THREE NIGHTS in the heart of the earth.>Destroy this temple, and in THREE DAYS I will raise it up.>After THREE DAYS I will rise again.>The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after THREE DAYS rise again.I don't get it. If Jesus died on Friday afternoon and was resurrected by Sunday morning, how is that THREE DAYS and THREE NIGHTS?
You don't actually have to respond to retards, you know..
>>25184353But Jesus never said "days and nights". He said "three days" and "three nights".
Why do Catholics cope so hard about their tradition?
>>25184331>Yeah, the three days. Not the three days and three nights.
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>around 100 years ago, Fernando Pessoa was strolling through Lisbon when he passed by a friend of his, a notorious homossexual dandy poet, who was hand in hand with a sailor. He decided to engage in friendly banter and chatised him, saying: "Mr. Botto, have you got no shame!? Doing these things on a Friday on Lent!?>the guy replied: Fernando, my friend, sailor is fish
>>25184360>t. Jaan TammZoomerspeak from spending too much time online instead of with his own people. Sailor is fish, indeed. Tragic. “Do you think people… don’t”. ESL. He doesn’t even know that’s not how a native English speaker would phrase that. Such an arrogant ESL. Sa ei saa kunagi mööda.
Ma soovin, et veedaksin vähem aega üksi internetis. Ma olen oma elu raisanud ja ma ei oska isegi korralikult inglise keelt. Ma olen väärtusetu läbikukkunud.
>>25184369The joke is that eating meat is slang for sucking dick. The response is that sailor [penis] is seafood
Ma pole selle portugallase sulest kunagi ühtegi raamatut lugenud. Mida ma oma eluga teen? Ma ei suuda oma kaasmaalastega ühendust luua, sest mul on internetist tingitud autism.
>>25184332>>25184339>>25184351>>25184369>>25184384>>25184389Spergy…
what's your favourite short story?
>>25184182Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
november 22 2013 entry in my diary desu
>>25184182Race at Morning - Faulkner
>>25184182Nevsky ProspektAli Baba and the Forty ThievesThere Are No Thieves in This Town
>>25184182Infinite Jest
Ginger Snaps edition.OLD: >>25125217
>>25183329Current 93 is the frontrunner but Swans and Throbbing Gristle get pretty close
>>25183631Joshi seethes at everyone who doesn't write weird fiction
>>25184102King has written some Lovecraftian stories though. Crouch's End and Jerusalem's Lot.
>>25184229>Crouch's End and Jerusalem's LotI knew about Jerusalem's Lot. Probably my all-time favourite weird fiction story not by Lovecraft, actually. Haven't heard of Crouch's End tho so I'll check that out.
>>25184229Doesn't Revival count too
Thoughts on That All shall be Saved?
>>25183806Way less than that>>25183912>included CatholicsBelieves in disproven Prottie lies awardMost of the shit that le Inquisition is charged with (stakes, iron maidens, swinging axes) were not used at all and were invented laterAround 3 people died a year from le ebil "Catholic executions", that's less people than die a year from the US death penalty or just criminals getting shot after doing some retarded shitMost people just got given sentences to repent or got turned to the secular courts>b-but le tortureLiterally didn't happenIt doesn't even make sense. The Catholic Inquisition's goal was to make people BELIEVE in the faith, torture and death is the last resort and meant a failure for the Inquisition, not a success. People are too retarded to think for three fucking seconds
>>25183999>Way less than thatEarliest recorded burning for heresy was in Oxford in 1222. The practice was not formally abolished until 1790, with the last recorded burning in 1789. So actually even longer than I originally said, more like 567 years. If you want to just count being burned for heresy, it would be 1222 until Edward Wightman in 1612, which is the almost 400 year figure.
>>25183999Oh ok everyone on Earth except Catholics did it, right i forgot, sorry
>>25183999People are insane. Just insane.
I am tired of the christkek rhetoric
>WE WUZ HAVIN SEX AND SHIT
>>25183614idk, just that she reminded him of Sabina
I never got past first three or so pages of this book. It just felt unbearably retarded. It felt like it's for women with single digit IQ and I remember I absolutely detested the way the writer thinks and views the world.
I CAN'T STOP CHEATINGI CAN'TI CAN'TI JUST CAN'TI... CAN'T!Okay, yes I can.
>Russians are... INCEL CHUDS! They are... SEXUALLY REPRESSED! Yeah, that will show them...
>>25183672you have to appreciate it from the point of view of craft
why did he betray the German people? >In 1942, he wrote in his diary that he was ashamed to be a German soldier after seeing Jewish children in Paris forced to wear the Star of David.he even wrote jewish propaganda in his "diaries", mentioning various alleged atrocities the german army committed throughout ww2 i thought this guy was supposed to be based, but he was a full on jewish race traitor. why do people here push this loser so hard?
>>25182606No, those retards can stay, but you have to go back.
>>25183943We saw what racism did in the 19th century, be it in India or Africa and it never came to industrialized death camps.
>>25183754Their metaphysics were occult. They had a metaphysical principle, and it was insane. Curious how that insanity and ineptitude benefited the State of Israel in the decades to follow. Don’t think the Jewish games Over. Kikes have their way out to the Ukraine and other countries in the meantime while Israel gets destroyed. The dialectic of communism, and Zionism, is “solved” through a one world government technocracy based in a triumphant or rebuilt Israel.
>>25182751>niggerlicious
Good morning saar
Was it really a tragedy? Honestly this most be the most hilarious play I've read from Shakespeare. The characters aren't even some noble figures like in most of their plays, they're just retarded kids discovering love. Why isn't this considered among the problem plays?. It felt more like a comedy desu
>>25183876I do get teenagers fall crazily in love and feel like the world is over when their first love doesn't work. I've been there, idiot. I don't see how thats something admirable. You do not look back to that age and think "Wow, I was such a noble guy", you laugh your ass off at yourself
>>25183676If you had a a crazy adolescent love you'd get it I guess.Antony and Cleopatra utterly mogs btw. Shakes best love play by far.
>>25183880>I do get teenagers fall crazily in love and feel like the world is over when their first love doesn't workWe both know you didn't apply that knowledge to the play before I pointed it out to you, anon. >I don't see how thats something admirableThe admirable element is that their relationship with one another overrides existing animosity between their families. Love allows them to set aside a vendetta.>You do not look back to that age and think "Wow, I was such a noble guy" If it was someone dating someone from a family they were at war with you would. Also, people die on the highway every day and it isn't a big deal. If a couple of teenagers die, even if they were joyriding, their school will hold an assembly and there will be memorials in the community.
>>25183868>It had nothing to do with their family differencesIt's in the prologue, retard:Two households, both alike in dignity,In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.From forth the fatal loins of these two foesA pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;Whose misadventured piteous overthrowsDo with their death bury their parents' strife.The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,And the continuance of their parents' rage,Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
King Lear and Hamlet are also loaded with jokes. Shakespeare was depicting young teenagers, so of course he depicting the silliness of their age which is what makes more plausible and more tragic. Shakespeare also uses comedy to prevent his audience from getting desensitized to tension by releasing it so he can come back to it laterProblem plays don't end with every character being killed.
Chinese literature recs? Looking for something from the past 50 years
>>25184247Mo YanYu HuaYan LiankeCan XueHa JinGe Fei
>>25184247I read the wandering earth novella and I enjoyed it.
>>25184276r u newfag?
Why does it seem that all anyone on this board wants to write now is either fantasyslop or sci-fislop?I have seen some decently skilled writers throwing themselves away writing the most derivative, infantile, autistic, Royal-Road-coded shit imaginable:>Narrowing his eyes at the approaching hoard of T’zendians, Klayden clenched his fist and summoned forth a burning shadow spear…Just stop! Is this all because you’ve watched a small handful of fat guys be moderately successful producing this gutter oil? Why can’t you write something real? Do you have no real life experience to draw from?Just downright right peculiar, thas’ all.
>>25181706>comfy>world mythologyngmi
>>25181062>I have seen some decently skilled writers throwing themselves away writing the most derivative, infantile, autistic, Royal-Road-coded shit imaginable:Name 1
>>25183394Me
>>25181188>why would I drink vintage wine when I have grape juice
>>25181062>Do you have no real life experience to draw from?No, I don't.
I'm at a point in my life where I think I have a pretty good idea of what most people are like if I spend enough time with them, even if they aren't open about it. Except rich people, especially rich women. They're completely opaque, I can never know what they truly think or whether they really believe what they're saying. There's some non-rich people who also do that to me, but *all* rich people do it. It's like being unreadable is the essential skill to get there.I also recently heard of the "novel of manners" genre, is there something like that for the modern west?
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>>25184031>most of the complex literature they read comes from people with poor backgroundsdavid was the son of a middle class shepherd, moses and daniel grew up as aristocrats, paul went to pharisee academy with gamaliel, andrew and peter were a middle class fishermen, james was the son of a carpenter, nebuchadnezzar who wrote a chapter of Dan was the son of nabopolassar who started the neo-babylonian empire, luke was a doctor,
>>25184315>yeah how many illiterates have been churned out of government indoctrination day prison Unfortunatly public schools are shit. If you went to a orivate school you will score higher on iq ect>boobies
Herehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_capital
>>25184241>do you guys know enough pop culture referencesneeds more left behind references, apparently thats the most popular books in america. mahometans are proud to have an illiterate prophet but kings are commanded to read and copy their own copy of the Torah to read. after the gutenberg Bible came erasmus Textus Receptus which allowed everyone to see the difference between jeromes mendacity and the greek text, and thomas more was trying to suppress tyndales New Testament and pamphlets until henry viii decided to join the reformation. have you read the books that englishmen died for
You have eyes but failed to see Mount Tai! EditionStubbed >>25172742>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.
>>25184076that anon and his spiritual equivalents post that sort of dismissive braindead criticism on everything and anything. if the anon does not explain (and even better demonstrate) how to do it better, then it's not advice worth listening to
>>25183910To some extent yes but it seems that an author can go too far with this. Build intrigue but not endlessly, and then dribble out the truth here and there. Maybe on a second draft go back and set up intrigue building like a chapter or two before the infodump.
>>25184078Frank Herbert barely does
>>25184098Personally, I really like lore bits as long as they are relavant.Like if X references Y in dialogue, there is nothing with the internal thougths explaining what Y is.>E.g.>"I haven't been to the city of Anonpolis, but I hear it's beautiful," Anonius Anonson said.>Anonpolis was a northern city, founded by demigod hero Janitorious being blinded by the God of Suffering. The city had risen to prominence in recent years due to refugees of the Kingdom of Raddit taking shelter within the city. The king of Anonpolis didn't just tolerate the foreigners of Radditish, but had taken a Radditish woman as his lover."It might be 1% but think details like that bring things to life.
>>25184078>Writers that don't bother to describe the surroundings at all are my greatest gripe.Writers that waste words on shit nobody cares about is my greatest gripeUnless the environment tangibly matters, you get 10 words tops. Stop wasting my time
Which hero from the three Greco-Roman epics is /lit/'s favorite? Picture of X-fags missing the point of the Iliad attached for entertainment purposes.
>>25183127>if you remember the Iliad it is foretold that Aeneas can’t die because he’s foretold to found a great kingdom after Troy fallsAh yes I remember I didnt like it that he had plot armor.
>>25183311My answer will not satisfy you but I read Javier de Echave-Sustaeta's
>>25182972How the fuck are you filtered by EoG?Do you not have a bro?
Hector isn't really honorable because Apollo made Patroclus defenseless and he struck him down.Really I just hate Apollo. Ares gets a lot of shit but Apollo is an actual prick.
>>25178878>Alexander Nietzschean Vitalistgood morning sir
Most so called "infohazards" are just knowledge about dangerous things, but nothing maddening or reality-bending or shaping in themselves. True infohazards is the kind that leaves you a gibbering madman raving at the moon, true to Lovecrafts endings in his writings.
>>25182868The best you can get with IRL infohazards are falsehoods or misleading truths. We're structured in such a way that we can smooth over any maddening information with time and further input.
>>25182868yeah but actual infohazards like that don't really exist. There are things like roko's basilisk and quantum immortality, but they are just completely nonsensical thought experiments that have no basis in reality.
>>25182868To low IQ normies most news items are an info hazard. how many people have you guys seen go crazy over the Epstein files? or Palestine? random people just setting themselves on fire as if that's gonna help anything. democracy is too much cognitive burden for most people.
The only thing that I think would be a genuine infohazard would be something you had to keep secret but ate you away inside.
>>25182868A lot of this sort of thing is unintentionally self-defeating. To accept a radically new type of truth you have to first accept that the old type is false. Once you've convinced yourself that truth, even that which is established or confirmed by your own experiences, can be doubted, you just start doing it to everything, including the new truth you were attempting to learn. You become either The Man That Doubts Everything or The Man That Believes Everything. /x/ is full of them.
