>Career professional woman finds herself in a compromising situation with someone beneath her, whom she doesn't respect>This someone caused immense damage to her daughter>The story flashes back to the damaging act>Goes into gruesome detail>Reader gets full context>Comes back to the present>Reader understands the woman's rage>Reader is invested in the woman's justice>Chapter 1 ends>Chapter 2>"She looked forward to the taste of his ass..."
>>25256096bmp
>>25257481bumpbump
>>25248798You should add a section to the book where one of the main characters was accidentally left on Mars. You should try to make the audience sympathetic to this character. You can do this by adding a small part of detail on the character and their possible return to Earth at the end of every chapter —whether the chapter previously mentioned them or not. Essentially, this forces the audience to want to continue reading through your chapters to get to the part of the person trapped on Mars.
>>25256096.ive decided to make a general. just to complete this character experment, i'll leave this thread to die, but within the construct of the thread move characters to the general. i think this could be an adjunct to the other generals regarding writing. ill be back with the next scene.
bmp. still working on it.
Post /lit/-related gadgets that you use.
>>25255675Dirty dog
>>25255653Anyone seen with that deserves to be beaten up.
>>25255653You don't use that.
>>25261123i most certainly goddamn do.
>>25259959When you close a book, this piece of steel can cut the page if you are not alert. Tiny cut, but putting effort into doing this activity is a waste of time.You can try a bookmark with a feather; it's not a bad idea.
Daily reminder that Epicurus wrote over 300 works on philosophy, natural science and ethics that are all lost.
>>25259799Humans can only have so many ideas. They are floating around fir anyone to grab a hold of.
>>25256029Didn't Porphyry say that the bible isn't Jewish in origin and nobody had any idea where it really came from?
>>25259802Ok Jung, take your pills now.
>>25260616Not an argument
>>25259799Plato had talked about this phenomenon.
Beloved fantasy author Christopher Paolini takes issue with Nolan's upcoming adaptation of The Odyssey, sc. the line>You're pining for a daddieWas it a mistake for Nolan to use Emily Wilson's translation as a starting point?
>>25261172Zulu warriors finna dab on some Greeks.
>>25261172supposedly the laestrygoniansfunny threads on /tv/ ripping the trailer apart.
>>25261172Big guys
>>25261073This is a great essay and it strikes to the heart of why Emily Wilson's translation is such filthy, filthy dogshit.>Tell me the story of a complicated manDefuses the heroic atmosphere, from the very first line, and discorages by design any reverence that the reader might have for the content, which is precisely what's on display in the Nolan film.
>>25261073I hate James Branch Cabell so fucking much. I knew his name was going to pop up sooner or later in that essay.
>there is no seduction which cannot at some point be construed as intrusion or harassment because there will always be a point when one has to expose oneself and ‘make a pass’. But, of course, seduction doesn’t involve incorrect harassment throughout. When you make a pass, you expose yourself to the Other (the potential partner), and her reaction will determine whether what you just did was harassment or a successful act of seduction.
>>25256505Sniff
>>25259569alas... I am undone
>>25257197Based thirty year old unc using the "plausible deniability" technique of "seduction"
>>25261428Almost nobody ever asks you to come over for sex if you haven't done it before, no matter obvious the real purpose of coming over is
>>25256505My favorite thing this dude ever said was "shleeeett *spitting* echht zeeersss *spit* chhhhhh marx"
I think most of us have long since grown out of Peterson, but bros, I'm going to be sad if he dies to benzos. I would probably not have read Dostoevsky, Nietzsche and Kierkegaard if it wasn't for him and became the pseud that I have today.
>>25261420I just learned Peterson had a spat with the pope three years ago lol.
>>25261420tranny false flag threadCriticize them ONCE and this is what you have to deal with every single day for the rest of eternityYou have male pattern baldness btw
>We have Chris Hedges at home, eh
Harriet Monroe EditionTalk about poems/poets you like, post your own work, and critique othersPrevious thread >>25202370
>>25260201Whenever I read his poetry I’m reminded of the smell of my great great grandfather’s house and it produces a kind of nostalgia in me.
>>25260941Larkin is absolutely the /lit/ poet.Complains about wageslavingComplains about not getting anyCompains about there not being any decent porn on TV after he went to all the trouble of buying oneComplains about niggers and commies ruining his countryComplains about getting oldRhymes and scansActually good
Got a couple of pieces here that I wrote just for funsies. I’m too much of a bitch to share my serious stuff. Shout out to the anon shitting up this thread with his whining. Just keep writing, bucko. You’ll eventually put out something that won’t make us cringe.1/2A rush of pure euphoria hitWhen I pushed flush inside youFeeling every ripple of your tight slitWhen I licked your pretty feetWhich on my tongue felt so realI knew the shape was soon completeWatching your mouth moan agapeDesperately pumping you wanting moreI finally began to stir and wakeFrom fucking you raw on my floorComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Looking at the camel shaped candyHating itIt still doesn't melt.Mr. You Don't Want to Know, tell meif the sac cries.When was the time for fingeringthe violin inside.My woman woke up the same as yesterdayJust ironing crusty panties andsaying no to proposals.The new part comes from China in a month or two.
>>25260079I posted an actual poem here a while ago. Though, come to think of it, it was a shitpost which made fun of poetry, so you may have a point.
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Guys, if I worked really hard and practised every day, could I hate women as much as our man Arthur did?
>>25261303For having the same opinion as 80% of 4chan?
>>25261455They aren't retarded.
>>25260333Marx seems to most approachable.
>>25261303That would be the British actually.
Just finished this version of the Iliad.It was very enjoyable and although challenging, I could understand it very well, and it is indeed beautifully written.I want to read the Odyssey next, and would like to venture into another translation, any recommended if I liked this one from Fagles?
>>25260843When I was looking into translators, my impression of Fagles was pretty writing, but tries too hard at the cost of directness. I went with Lattimore for a good balance between plain and poetic. Very safe and solid choice, supposedly more true to the original too.
>FitzgeraldSing in me, Muse, and through me tell the storyof that man skilled in all ways of contending,the wanderer, harried for years on end,after he plundered the strongholdon the proud height of Troy.He saw the townlandsand learned the minds of many distant men,and weathered many bitter nights and daysin his deep heart at sea, while he fought onlyto save his life, to bring his shipmates home.But not by will nor valor could he save them,for their own recklessness destroyed them all—children and fools, they killed and feasted onthe cattle of Lord Hêlios, the Sun,Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25260928>MandelbaumMuse, tell me of the man of many wiles,the man who wandered many paths of exileafter he sacked Troy’s sacred citadel.He saw the cities—mapped the minds—of many;and on the sea, his spirit suffered everyadversity—to keep his life intact,to bring his comrades back. In that last task,he will was firm and fast, and yet he failed:he could not save his comrades. Fools, they foiledthemselves: they ate the oxen of the Sun,the herd of Hélios Hypérion;the lord of light requited their transgression—he took away the day of their return.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25260843Just read Fagles again. I actually think his Odyssey his better than his Iliad. If you decide to revisit Homer someday (which you should), go for Lattimore first, and then a more poetic approach like any of the ones from the anon above except Wilson
>>25260928>>25260929Some parts I like about Fitzgerald more and some Lattimore more, both have some turns of phrase I don't quite like, but they're clearly the two best.
>long as fuck names for characters, places, concepts etc (had to write them down to memorize them)>weird non-flowing sentences>lots of poetry-ish sounding sentencesIt seems like the author literally translated ancient chinese slang into modern day english, its just difficult for me to read. Anybody else experience this?
I want to give this an actual try, so I wish someone takes it on themselves to retranslate and edit it properly, because from what little I read, the writing is pure garbage. Same with other popular translated webnovels.
What I like about Webnovels is that in a way they represent the un-edited version of the story. Novels usually skip a few steps in between that needs to be filled in by the reader but Webnovels go ahead and fill in most of the blanks. It makes the experiance richer, personally speaking. All the details and thoughts added in gives a flavor.That is to say I don't mind the length of RI, and the payoff is tremendous. Fate arc is especially where this shines. I still haven't seen any other story that hits as hard about going against Fate as this one.>>25258573Regarding Translations, there are multiple versions initially, but go through the starting bunch and it gets better. And you get used to the style as well
>>25256285No they don’t trust me, there’s no possible ‘perfect’ or ‘good’ translation of Chinese literature. I’m Chinese, I can read both and you lose all context of poetry in the translated version where 90% of the text barely glosses over the real meaning. You also don’t know the cultural context.
>>25258655I don't care about poetry. I guess RI English version is better than the original in Chinese.
>>25194386>>25235474>>25258583Best place to read this/best translation of it? Never read a chinese webnovel or anything xianxia
Kys bakker fag and screencap nigPrevious: >>25246401>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
>>25261500>>25261500Goodreads only recently added an official did not finish shelf, after intense pressure and over a decade later. Other sites have it. This is the case for everything though. It's also a matter of semantics. Many people also do a lot at once and drop it without saying that. They claim they'll get back to it someday, but never do.As for not finishing series, here's a few examples from Goodreads ratings.Dune: 1.6mDune Messiah: 421k Only 25% read the next book.Red Rising: 865kGolden Son: 534k Too Like The Lightning: 16kSeven Surrenders: 7kComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25261589Anon you are replying to a 15yo that dont even have a top 5 books cause he hasnt read 5
>>25261295Watching BSG (and LOST) with /tv/ was a fun time. Shame about their endings.
>>25261611Let's not give up on the youth so easily.
>>25261456>the idea that Books generally being more inclined to leaning on an ending to make a host of prior assumptions framed as facts coherent.That is not at all the case and it is utterly bizarre thing to say. What have you been reading that makes you think this is a default feature of literally ALL books? By your own confession you have not read anything but a handful of YA books. This is like picking up roblox and going "okay so basically all video games are about building stuff" or something.
If you can have any /lit/-related wish granted, what would it be?
>>25260655brown hands typed this post
>>25261089cope
>>25260731I don't think so>>25261089Lolno>>25261105Lmao yeah it might be the bad posture. I dislike how they're dressed too. >>25261091No
>>25255887I'd write books with the popularity of Harry Potter, the literary merit of Moby Dick and I'd use them as a tool to push my bigoted views onto the world.
>>25255887That Roscellinus said "actually, Nominalism is retarded! I'm going to burn everything on the subject". Or maybe Ockham said "woah if my preconditions are granted causality can't be grounded in anything! Maybe there's a problem in that. Fuck, I'm going to stop right now and burn my shit." That or Augsburg went the other direction entirely.
Han Kang. Ever heard of her? Is she worth the hype or just a pretty face?
>>25258636She does write in Korean retard, the translator handles the English
>>25258636this is perhaps the highest point this board will ever reach
>>25246933I don't even give a fuck about herDid hundreds of articles about her pop up in your feed, anon?
>>25251879>>25246983he is a yellow fever fagasian women are so ugly
>>25261412I don't find her particularly attractive either, but she does have a very heart-warming smile, knowing she writes about brutal massacres and still has such a soft heart is big respect where I come from.
the scenic scenes of lys 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: >>25216234
>>25260641It can’t die for that very reason. It’s a containment thread and always has been.
>>25261403I thought the /tv/ threads were the containment threads
>>25260641Winds is not coming out as long as Martin is alive. After his death they'll get someone to ghost write it. This is pure cope. 15 years are more than enough time to finish a book thrice over
>>25258448A relationship with 2 women would be hard to manage.
>>25261442>After his death they'll get someone to ghost write itI don't think they'll exactly ghost write it, they'll just take the 1200 completed mansucript pages and get Elio and Linda or the Expanse guys to edit and publish it. Dream might get ghost written though.
POST AND DISCUSS LIFE AFFIRMING PHILOSOPHERS AND THEIR WORKNO CHRISTKEKS ALLOWED
>>25252096My favorite life affirming philosopher is Jesus Christ of Nazareth >Jesus answered, and said to him: Amen, amen I say to thee, unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
>>25253991Nietzsche affirms the key tenet of neoconservatism - that might makes right - thoever
I like neetch but I also like hegel
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>>25260248>He can't readJust stick to your Kissinger, dear.
