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>Calypso offers Odysseus immortality if he will marry her
>he still says no even though he admits she is way hotter than Penelope

Why?
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>>24733397
performative clout chasing
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>>24733314
>he admits she is way hotter than Penelope
>thinking that Odysseus is telling Calypso the truth
This is why you are a sad lonely virgin
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>>24733581
Calypso was a nymph on average she had to be prettier than most mortals
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>>24733683
Plus she didn’t age
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OP wants to be choked with her own hijab when Augustus Bumplapper plows her from behind

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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

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>Thread Question:
Do protagonists that rely on cunning and cleverness make for more interesting stories than ones with innate abilities or powers?
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>>24733435
We Victrafags honor your tenacity, horsefag.
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>>24733745
We have the best girls, don't we folks?
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>>24733780
>>24733745
Apollonius is the true best girl
all other women need not apply
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>>24733438
Availability. Any any book is a hardcover book if the publisher decides it is. It doesn't cost any more to make them really.
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>>24733442
The Pastel City and A Storm of Wings
The Deep and Engine Summer
The Dying Earth and The Dragon Masters
The Book of the New Sun

Help me lit, there was book I really wanted to read I found here but forgot to put it in my reading list. It was by a currently living American author about eastern europe with a specific emphasis on not talking about the west at all and focusing on life there in isolation. I think it was set during the cold war? Please this is driving me insane.
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>>24733807
Chat gpt is great for this exact scenario, just controlV your inquiry there and you'll eventually find it after 1 or 2 promprs.
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>>24733807
I used Grok to shittily describe a story I read in a supermarket horror anthology 20 years ago and its first guess was it. Finally got to re-read that story that I couldn't remember for two decades
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>>24733807
this is one of the few things that LLMs are genuinely very good for there will be more things it's good at soon
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>>24733857
It's great as a reading companion. If I'm reading something difficult and don't fully understand what's going on I just take a picture of the page and tell it to summarize what's going on, talkign to it like an all knowing teacher, it's never been anything short of spectacular in helping me
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>>24733868
I try not to do that if I can help it. Makes me feel more distant from the book. Puzzling through Donne for the first time is one of my fondest reading memories

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This is your guy? Lmao
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LOL A SCARED CHILD IN A DYSTOPIAN HELL WORLD FEARS DEATH THIS IS HILARIOUS
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>>24733773
No it isn't. I have no idea who you're referring to or what this passage is from
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Yes
>Okay
This is pretty accurate to how people talk. Not always soliloquies or diatribes, just talking. McCarthy’s overall body of work is meant to be read aloud.

There is an undercurrent of metafictional aspects to his books that benefit from this “talking around a campfire” style. His stories are about storytelling. And you will smoothly navigate his writing once you internalize this realization.

Blood Meridian, for example: it’s a story. But the narrator’s account is incomplete: things are described, but we are not told why these descriptions are meaningful. But then the Judge appears and speaks to the reader indirectly, through his speeches toward the illiterate fools of the Glanton gang. His words are not for them: he is teaching us, the reader, how to engage with the narration.

Take another example, The Crossing: the overarching narrative of the book is that the characters within it are trying to find the narrative that weaves their world. Stories within stories, a search for meaning that inevitably leads to a search for God, and a question of God’s nature. The ex-priest declares that “rightly heard all stories are one” and his entire narration is an attempt to devise a dialectic that would accommodate a possibly evil God. His argument hinges on the role of the witness (aka the reader, aka Billy, aka all characters within the book). For anything to exist, he says, its existence has to be verified by a witness and since more things in the world exist without our knowledge than with it, there must be an ultimate witness that sees all that we cannot, so that everything may exist. His conception is that of an ignorant God and deterministic universe.

This is vindicated with how the book finishes: the Trinity test. The driving idea behind the atom bomb was Einstein's famous equation E=MC2, and the main theory behind the equation is that of special relativity. That of relative reality. The book ends with the symbol of a world that the ex-priest could not conceive of brought to reality and verified. Witness over absolute truth.

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Lit humor thread
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>lol most of current /lit/ doesnt even know who Wittgenstein is.
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>>lol most of current /lit/ doesnt even know who Wittgenstein is.
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>>24725407
>>24725416
kek
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Does /lit/ respect Alexander Jahans

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>>24731985
hahaha

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>Tarchetius, king of the Albans, who was most lawless and cruel, was visited with a strange phantom in his house, namely, a phallus rising out of the hearth and remaining there many days. Now there was an oracle of Tethys in Tuscany, from which there was brought to Tarchetius a response that a virgin must have intercourse with this phantom, and she should bear a son most illustrious for his valour, and of surpassing good fortune and strength. Tarchetius, accordingly, told the prophecy to one of his daughters, and bade her consort with the phantom
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>>24732202
This, it was literally just a snake.
Although archimedes sun laser is x-tier
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>>24731648
>>24733001
The giant snake is known Roman propaganda trying to justify Regulus' army being wiped out at Bagradas.
(The storms which allegedly sunkone gazillion Roman ships might have been greatly exaggerated to justify sea losses as well)
Archimedes' sun laser was real, mythbusters said so.
>B...but why wasn't it used in any other battle in all of recorded history?
Because it failed duh
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>>24733022
>(The storms which allegedly sunkone gazillion Roman ships might have been greatly exaggerated to justify sea losses as well)

No they weren't. The Roman ships were built like shit using unseasoned timber and the Roman navigators were idiots because they'd never done this kind of thing before. This is why Aderhbal fucked up Pulcher so easily at Drepana - or, do you REALLY think it was because of the fucking chickens?
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Which edition of Parallel Lives should I go for?
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>>24733798
Whichever volumes you can finish since the complete parallel lives is long

tyrion stroll edition

ASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_Page
Blog: 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:vm4n1jrzsdy
General search: http://searcherr.work/
TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chapters

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>>24732691
Would Jaime go on the mission with Brienne though? Would it make sense to have 2 povs so close together?
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>>24733311
>>24733319
> Writers don’t get enough sex. If any of you want to rectify that, see me after the speech.
kek
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>>24729525
IS THERE NOT A TRUE KNIGHT AMONG YOU?!
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>>24730070
If I could ask GRRM one question its what the plots for Twice as Tuf and Tuf Landing would have been.
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>>24732676
Escape? She was allowed to leave to bring Jaime to Lady Stoneheart.
Presumably, she swore a vow to do so. And she swore her service to Lady Cat. Will she obey what honour dictates and lead her love to his death?

Xianxia Medicine Edition

Stubbed >>24725258

>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'.

>Advice for Noobs!

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>>24733771
Not bad, pretty good for a contained setting in a hostile environment and how things can spiral out of control. What's the hook?
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>>24733768
At thumbnail size it's even worse.
ZANMA
PT
Some kind weird grey blob that doesn't resolve as anything visually until you squint and realize oh, it's two characters, one of which looks ridiculous because of the pose and perspective.
ZANMA doesn't mean anything and isn't compelling on its own, so then the eye is drawn to the vertical text to figure out what the fuck is going on, and after effort the viewer gets "Puppetmaster Travelogue," which explains exactly nothing about ZANMA, which may be a name, an acronym, a title, who knows!

By this point the cover has lost all goodwill from me as someone who found it on a website or on the front of a book in a store.

You do you I'm just saying, it really turned me off.
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>>24733813
Asteroid fortress threatens planet's defense satellite, and the mc is sorting to stop it before it's too late.
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>>24733775
jej
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>>24733851
>"Sex with someone that's not my dad?"
>"Disgusting!"
>t. middle aged man reincarnated as a girl

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Its amazing how you can take the greatest literary works of all time, some taking years if not decades to write, and make them look like shitty college psychology textbooks.
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>>24720914
I like the lovecraft one with Chthulu on it.
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>>24729700
Get the stupid award sticker off of there and it’s perfect.
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>>24732642
No you
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>>24733344
Me too
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>>24732540
I read these books when I was 10 years old it was lit bro

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For me, it's
>writer allegorically implies he was molested as a child in semi autobiographical novel

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"High School Girlfriend" edition

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Please limit excerpts to one post.
Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.
Follow prompts made below and discuss written works 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.
Violent shills, relentless shill-spammers, and grounds keeping prose, should be ignored and reported.
(And maybe double-space your WIPs to allow edits if you want 'em.)

Simple guides on writing:

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>>24733130
slow reveal that it's about yeshiva students
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>>24732923
Og man, how come hyou always have such snazzy covers? Do you pay for them?
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This woman gatekeeps you from traditional publishing.
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>>24733728
And how does she do that
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>>24733837
By being cute

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I'll start

"ontological"
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>>24733696
do they exist ontologically or are they a spatial metaphor for our spatial-sensing monkey brains ? ? ?
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>>24732932
Based
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>>24733359
Just don't. I realized making myself into a woman would make me inferior so its not worth it.
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>>24733484
Funny because he never said that, midwit
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>>24732744
Somewhat misleading, a 3-4 person group of of brainstorming 130s in a research setting will outperform the vast majority of 140-160s (high as it goes) going solo, whereas you could have a hundred 90-110s working round the clock and they'd never beat a mid-high 130.
There's some sort of floor boundary at the 120ish mark where you gain access to a sort of generative and intuitive thinking the double digits simply cannot do. Its not an exact thing but neither is IQ.
The fact that the boundary does exist as a rea, thing is the reason people "feel" IQ test are legit, instead of being one of thousands of dumb MBTI/OCEAN like psychology tests no one takes seriously.

Has a book ever made a lasting impression on you?
Meaning you still think about that book even years after?
If so, which book is it and why?
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East of Eden. Came to me while I struggling with a ton of guilt and familial shit. I never cry when reading or watching movies but this book actually made me feel something genuine. It's a Cain and Abel story about seizing control of your life and breaking the cycle of dysfunction in a family, but it's also so much more than that. I would recommend it a thousand times over
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>>24733816
Yes, too many.
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>>24733816
Those are the books I keep, I would guess I am getting up around four or five hundred.

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Voltaire drank 50 cups of coffee a day, and wrote prolifically. Balzac drank 50 cups of coffee a day and wrote prolifically.

What is your excuse?
>the publishing industry is rigged
everything has always been rigged. GET OVER IT
>lit departments are all left leaning
what are YOU going to do about it?
>I have to go to my job
So did Bukowski. So did Celine. So did Faulkner. GET OVER IT
>I don't have a job
Neither did Cormac. Neither did DeLillo. GET OVER IT

Until you start drinking 50 CUPS OF COFFEE A DAY, you are not allowed to make excuses, not here, not in real life, not even to yourself in your own mind

if you're not drinking 50 CUPS OF COFFEE A DAY, you are clearly not willing to DO WHAT IT TAKES

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>>24731667
You have to be making this up. This is beyond disgusting.
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>>24731612
jeets LEAVE
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>>24732344

Alex Jahans/the Farshnuke is also a prolific coffee addict. Does /lit/ know of him..?
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>>24726413
Is it gay if I just pound caffeine pills all day. I feel like you can in some sense call yourself a contemporary version/evolution. Unemployed part is still the same tho.
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>>24726469
NTA. I can only agree (on a pure theoretic will of mine) that 50 cups a day is healthy (not sure what is meant by "very") if you work up to it over the course of like a year or two. 50 (within a day's being awake; not all at once) on minimal tolerance will probably send you to a hopsital or something of within that sort of a bad time if you are young.

Once you are able to "handle" it, assuming tolerance scales to those levels (hence the theoretic will; I'm aware of faggots who did 15, at most 20, a day for months at minimum), you are now experiencing "healthy"-ness by means of not having a bad time and having antioxidants and perhaps a better mental state (perhaps dependant upon what you do IRL from the caffeine you injest) and maybe thus lowered stress and all that dogshit.

But you are technically straining the organ that handles piss/liquids/detoxification/chemicals. That might have some long-term consequences, but it is merely a risk profile that is difficult to say as to what it would mean for the judgement on the totality of "healthy"-ness of 50-cups of coffee a day.

You are also "straining" or "influencing" other parts of your body in certain caffeine-oriented directions/pathways. Merely another thing to consider, albeit a bit of a meme statement.

Then the classical idea is that it strains your heart. While this idea is like the piss organ one in the sense that it's about long-term stress/strain on something in an unclear manner that is more of a risk profile, this one seems better studied in general, but if not, at least I am more confident in my feelings about it. If tolerance scales as my theoretic-faggot-will thinks it does, then a worse case would be that the heart influence would likely be similar as people with weak tolerance on a relatively-to-them-stronger dose, and thus you are increasing your risk factor technically more than is currently studied on long-term normie caffeine drinkers, but probably not by much. The risk factor on normie long-time caffeine drinkers, afaik, is neglgible or beneifical or something like that -- yet those are wide-sweeping notions on health. It is all so highly dependent that I would be better off using my intellectual prowess on collecting goon-pmvs than even begining to consider diagnostics.

Hence, test your free will out, you will likely be fine, but really as the prose is suggesting, it's just intuitive that you will likely have a bit higher "risk" of "health" problems. I don't know if that constitutes enough of a statement to say it wouldn't be "healthy." I suppose it's healthy to exist, I suppose it's healthy to get calories, I suppose it's healthy to have a nice state of mind, I suppose it's unhealthy to be in excess of calories, I suppose it's unhealthy to be in excess of fluids, I suppose this and that. A pure confluence of factors of which are themselves on a tricky indiscrete scale, with the specific confluence that applies and even the resulting application unclear.

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>>24731019
Jack Vance's dying earth books
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>>24732679
Candide, Voltaire.
>>24732605
Caenis, Ovid.
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>>24730964
fucking nigger italians, look at them, barbaric. Bugs cover their table, animals sit on their bench, the man is eating his bread off the table, no manners. All while judging the viewer. Now look at the good northern euros in the back, well kempt, no bugs or animals near them. Probably discussing some new philosophy they created or a new scientific innovation. They arent shoving food in their mouths like the three little pigs, instead they are fasting like wise men. Anyway, read Goethe's "Italian travels".


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