Is she wrong about anything?
>>24923081Modern fanfics are basically the modern equivalent of erotic lit, and it’s not just women who write them either. Men also write fap-fics, but the difference is that they just publish them on Deviantart rather than actually getting them printed by presses.
>>24921231Which is?
>>24921970That's not very funny
>>24922814The noise these guys make
>>24921215>be me>become tribe storyteller because I have good memory and a way with words>relay the epics of eld and stories of gods and mortals to the young audience>make an adjustment here and there to make the story better or the message clearer>as did my teacher and his teacher, and as will my student and his student>I even added one local story to my telling from hen I visited a village across the sea, my greatest work>...>a hundred generations in the future, some moron that can't even recite an hour from memory says that the original telling is the only one that matters and anyone who makes their own additions is a degenerate to be stoned
Oh yeah, that exists.
>>24923742Why not? I loved The Pale King. I even think it's appropriately complete in its incompleteness. It's hard to find a book like it.I genuinely feel literature and /lit/ both died with DFW.
>>24923679Its a great book. It had me slightly levitating above my seat the entire time I binged through its endless footnotes
>>24923679Fine, I'll reread it. I was tossing up between The Pale King and Phineas Poe.
>>24924114Die /lit/ even exist when DFW died?
>>24924802Imagine what an event it would have been if it had (or what it was if it did).
>>24924771I still don't understand why the government spazzes over that kind of shit. A modern housewife knows how to make mustard gas by combining two specific cleaners, and that's literally a WMD, but if you google something by accident a light at Langley goes off.
>>24924773It's because the bar for entry is quite low, anyone with sufficient ill intent a few weeks can set up the means to produce very volatile explosives. They usually blow themselves and maybe a few houses on their block up in the process, but if that knowledge were to become common place and especially how to store these in relatively stable conditions, people could be walking around with thermobaric explosives that do real damage to infrastructure and/or buildings.
>>24924773>A modern housewife knows how to make mustard gas by combining two specific cleaners, and that's literally a WMDNo, you can't make mustard gas by mixing household chemicals. The things that can come out in minuscule quantities from mixing household cleaning agents are chlorine gas and chloramine gas. They are both hazardous chemicals, and there were (very ineffective) attempts to use chlorine as one of the first chemical warfare agents, but neither are listed in the CWC. It would be possible, but extremely hard for you to kill anyone by using those - basically no advantage over just trying to stab as many people as you can. Now, explosives are much more effective, hence procurement of chemical precursors (typically industrial fertilizers) and distribution of technical instructions for processing those precursors into explosives being highly monitored in every fucking country on Earth.
>>24924778>but if that knowledge were to become common placeNah, knowledge alone is not enough, precursors are necessary, and lots of them - and they are tightly controlled. >thermobaric explosives Brother you are schizoposting. Thermobaric explosives have extremely high manufacturing requirements.
Any banned books not about the jews?
What books does he read?
>>24923226that broad next to him is scared-wet
>>24922619Diarrhea of a wimpy kid
>>24922619He saw a tiktok video about Dostoevsky with that one russian song playing in the background and now his whole humour is superficial jokes about crime and punishment he probably got from skimming through the Wikipedia page
>woman takes pics of men >socially acceptable >man takes pics of women >socially unacceptable, liable of legal ripercussions
>>24924634Men can also criticize other men for being performative, though. You know many of these guys exist and they are objectively cringe. Women aren’t always wrong and I actually am glad that some at least are capable of recognizing it and calling it out. The alternative would be that they lap it up without thinking.
Why is Moby Dick famous and not The Sea Wolf when the Sea Wolf is a better nautical novel by every metric? It's "deeper", the stakes are higher, the characters are more interesting
Moby-Dick is a philosophical novel. It uses the nautical novel format as an excuse to talk about philosophy, just like Pierre uses the sentimental novel format.
Moby Dick has great prose and is funny. Is Larsen more compelling than Ahab? I don't necessarily think so, but it's apples to oranges, Ahab is a classical tragic hero overcome by anger that makes him violate the natural order (hubris), and he talks in Shakespearean ways. Larsen is not a tragic hero, he's an unsentimental but introspective villain
Talk about poems/poets you like, post your own work, and critique others.
>>24923072Those weren't naturally iambic in rhythms either, plenty of good contemporary prose will drop an iambic pentameter sentence now and then.
>>24924087They weren't purely iambic but had a stronger tendency towards iambicity than English now.On that topic, I do believe that we tend to start with Trochees (or at least headless Iambs) when we speak. I don't know if this was true back then as our earliest recordings only go back to around the dawn of the 20th century
>>24924432Blank verse with a lot of first-syllable elision feels pretty natural for me to write in, even in less elevated language. Somebody wrote a blank verse play in 1965, the language doesn't sound off to me.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogan%27s_Goat
Your heart strikes sharper,flames of life stirring under your ribs,each beat a drum calling you forward,the rhythm of running carving your fate.
The weight of the unsaid Bends my world;I am as the elevatorThat can only go Sideways.Nothing that feet can'tReach on their own.But the terrain of my mindIs not firmNor welcoming.So I sit with myselfIdle fingers waitingFor the price of time toGo down.I dream, not oftenComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>mfw the surface is non-euclidean
Is it true that he mogs Japanese horror? I've seen that greentext.
>>24924448>mfw the surface is non-euclideanmfw when the acute angle behaves as obtuse
>mfew the smelly smell that smells smelly
>>24924448>mfw people don't realise non-euclidean just means that the object isn't perfectly smooth when you zoom in close enough>mfw an axe is noneuclidean because it has sharp points and creases in it
>guys it was really scary>so scary i can't even begin to describe it to you>just imagine something REALLY scary>the old one was even scarier than that>yes i know im a writer and im literally supposed to describe things to you but uhhhh it was SO SCARY that i went insane
Ralph bros or Jack gang?
>>24923015>this group of white childrenThey are bri'ish bro
>>24923025People do fucked up things sometimes. Every artist has faults and its stupid to try and nit pick details of an artists personal life to try and discredit them.
inb4 people try saying Jack, 90% of you are Piggy,
>>24923964Piggy is based
>we stuck the pigs head on a spike and named him>The Lord of the Fliescome the fuck on
What is the oldest book you've read that really disturbed youI just finished reading Matthew Lewis' The Monk and was surprised by how brutal it still is after over two centuries
>>24919376There’s so published work more disturbing than that pancake family creepypasta.
>>24923576yo maupassant wrote some weird short stories holy shit thats awesome thanks man i never knew that
SOMEBODY TRANSLATE THIS INTO ENGLISH RIGHT NOW
>>24920184>The Black Spider by Jeremias GotthelfI second this story. It was great.
>>24924060Maupassant most famous weird story is "The Horla", which famously influenced Lovecraft and his idea of cosmic horror. He called it his (Maupassant's) masterpiece, although he also praised some of his other short stories, like “Who Knows?”, “The Spectre”, “He?”, “The Diary of a Madman”, “The White Wolf”, and “On the River”.>>24924092There's only a few stories translated to English and also collected in an anthology (a lot of them got translated individually but never collected). Check out Fantasmagoriana: Tales of the Dead if you want to read some of them in English. It is a big shame though that there still isn't a direct translation of all seven original books, that would be sick to read.
How does one ground the existence and value of guilt outside of theology?
>>24924349only way i can think of would be produce a transcendental deduction of Guilt
God, philosophy is fucking gay
>>24924497filtered
>>24924499Gladly.
>>24924349Evolution. Hurting tribe is dysgenic..
How would you rate the writing in Elden Ring
>>24880560I've started and beaten the game since this thread began 19 days ago, WTF have you anons been doing?
>>24898186The series has fallen so low. If Demons' Souls was made today, Garl Vinland wouldn't say "Dearest Astraea... I have failed you" and die in shame, he would ask for forgiveness and get full healed and gigabuffed in a cutscene.
>>24898186biggest hacks in video game storytelling history since kojima
Why is this shit allowed to last 19 days
>>24908836Fallout games are cuckcore though
I showed this post about atheism to Grok and it said it was correct. I dont think anyone here could refuse it if even a being of pure logic could not.
>>24924652TRVTH NVKE
>>24924652>insulated in their uroboric masturbatory fantasies within the infantile uterine environment of their piss jug filled room that reeks of prehistoric seminal strata going to the primordial adolescent spurts,stopped reading here. too tryhard
>i asked AIOpinion discarded
>>24924565It's not really a good argument. It's fallacious really because motivations of the speaker are not relevant to whether something is true or false. I give you props for the post though because it baited me to read and reply.
>go to 4chan>get AI
Who is the smarter and more insightful /lit/ intellectual?
>>24920179I miss Quentin so bad. Before he went full schizo and got disowned by his family for blowing a hobo on video he was a genuinely funny avant garde entertainer. Would date his sister/10
>>24924293Didn't he join 09A? People were saying that's what made him schizo.
>>24920179(You), OP
>>24924306No I don't think he did, he also didn't blow that guy and I doubt he got disowned. Anon probably is one of those lying discord users
>>24924830Quentin is the type of guy who'll spaz out epic style for his online friends but is at his best behavior when mum's in the room. Just as tired and predictable as Card, really.
How is he received outside the anglosphere?
>>24924308It's a excerpt from a character that finds a way to shit on any piece of art. But also Raphael says his account of creation has been rendered in terms Adam will understand.
Voltaire was such a bitch. Paradise Lost was the best of all possible poems.
paradise lost is about secret societies.
>>24920061Italian here, I'm surprised at all the people in this thread who say that they didn't know him prior to browsing the board. I started getting into him when I was 12 or 13, but that's probably because I'm a sperg
>>24924532>Paradise Lost was the best of all possible poems.?
>read table of contents before starting book>chapter name spoils a critical event in the story
>>24919914i never understood why a writer would have a table of contentsits not a fucking reference text book. there is no need to skip ahead or find any specific chapter quickly and out of order.its retarded
>>24924647Usually when I check a table if contents it is to see how many pages are left in the current chapter.
>>24924386NTA but that happened to me recently with Jude the Obscure. It's an Oxford critical edition so it's somewhat understandable, but it isn't as if the story is so universally recognised to where it isn't a spoiler. It didn't spoil everything that happens, thankfully.
>>24924386>>24924726I was reading The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas and the blurb on the back spoiled a major plot point that happens in the last quarter of the book. Great.I own an old copy of Crime and Punishment which has something like "...with the help of the whore Sonya he realizes that he must turn himself in and face the punishment for his crimes..." on the back of it.I guess maybe with C&P you can assume people know what happens, but still.
>>24919914to what end would you read blurbs or ToC?
