does there exist anything like this for Shakespearean English?
>>25553386https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.201888
>>25553424saved
>>25552793Yeah, the works of Shakespeare.
>>25552793What about Russian, Latin and Ancient Greek for reading?
>>25553386now do Chaucer.
what does this mean? i can't make heads or tails of it.
>>25553174Falling behind this early in the semester is really bad. You need to catch up soon or you will be screwed for the class. You've already missed nearly a quarter of the assignments, and unless you can turn them in still at this point you're capped at a B at most already.
>>25553174>Englishkek, garbage>collegekek, garbagedouble-retard, saged
>>25553304>He said in EnglishNot gonna defend most colleges' literature programs but if his starts with Tennyson it can't be too bad. I'm actually kind of curious where he is, because even "retvrn" conservative academic efforts usually just use modern translations of things these days and never actually touch anything written before the 50s. That's what I've heard anyway, but who knows the reality, since both "sides" do so much mudslinging.
>>25553174I could read the first four for you for forty bucks.
>>25555659Post cashapp i got money
A brillant generation of Romanian intelectuals (Emil Cioran, Mircea Eliade etc) is only known because they moved to France (or other counries in the West) and wrote in French instead of their native Romanian. It pushed me to wonder how much language you create in matters for your success. If you write your piece in Romanian for example (and Romania is known to be a corrupt bumfuck) very few people would care even if it is translated into more popular and prestigious languges. Compare it with writing in Latin in the middle ages, French in XVIIIc. and now English. Language has a huge impact on how your ideas are received and how popular they are. That's why popular=/=good and ideas in prestigious language = ideas in minor language.
The Flemish writer Maurice Gilliams said of the Dutch writer Lodewijk van Deyssel that if he had written in French he would've been world-famous. His (van Deyssel's) impressionist prose predates the nouveau roman by half a century, for example.
You'd probably still have more success writing literary fiction in French than in English, especially if you're not a brown trans woman. The literary milieu is more important than the popularity of the language
>>25554962I shant be doing that.
>>25554767Yep. In one of his later pieces, or some biographical interview etc, Cioran did explictly state that it was clear to him, as a young man, that everything that "counts" was being written in French. So he set himself the task of learning the language in order to communicate as widely as possible his central message that... life is pointless and nothing matters. He always had a chip on his shoulder about being born Romanian, but then who doesn't.
>>25554767>It pushed me to wonder how much language you create in matters for your success.It's the most important thing, no one knows Krleza because he was from the bumfuck shithole of the world, and he can't even be translated properly because said bumfuck belonged to like 10 countries with different languages and dialects.
>humans are... LE BAD.
Hello there. I am introducing to you the work of my life, and the only thing I am dedicated to in life; which is to say I am religiously pledged to this cause and to making this happen, and because of this vow I refuse to use my time in almost anything else, such as a real job or a normal life. So, for years I have been bringing my work to many important platforms of the internet, youtubers, many kinds of platforms and peoples, but youtubers have all denied and ignored me, and I have not seen success in these platforms, because they fundamentally fail to understand The Atemporal Epic and what it is; I have also brought it to a few literature oriented people that I know irl, and to anyone I could think of, but they also just return blank stares to me and fundamentally fail to know what it is, I am talking about literature teachers, lawyers, writers, they just don't know what to do with it and ignore me. Normies, well, I don't think I need to let you know of their reactions. Even the hyper autistic like my former irl friends have refused to engage with it.So, given my desperate circumstances, I now bring it to you, not just Atemporal but the change it is meant to bring about. I am calling for permanent contacts who wish to engage seriously with the content, with me, with its ideas and for patrons and sponsors who wish to donate to me and to my undertaking of seeing Atemporal come to fruition, I ask for money because I am in a pretty tight conundrum irl now.I am just telling you that the world is trying its hardest to stop Atemporal from being a thing, from the fandom powers of the internet to irl high positions in literature and the like, so I come to find voices in my favor here.My gmail is timelessss.0004@gmail.com, for those who wish to follow me in my endeavor.Vaccine: My work is holy, its characters are too, so while I am bringing it to you, 4chan, I am fundamentally letting you know that Atemporal is metaphysically incapable of being desecrated by 4chan's known lustful impulses, and the usual lies it has carried out against many fandoms and stories to see these evil desires come about in an inferior and false version of reality, that being fan fic and porn, Atemporal is a work you won't be able to poison or coopt, so don't even try, because you will be burned. Seriously.So to these bad actors, Atemporal is not for you.But to anyone who wishes to follow Atemporal for the truth in it contained, you're welcome.Obviously I don't autistically say this to anyone I tried to sell Atemporal to, obviously, I just say it to you because of the aforementioned reasons.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
This is a post about literature and a work of literature, it is fair that it is posted in this board. Let me tell you, people think that it's just a silly creative project, a silly exercise in imagination, I'd like to think there's more to it, and when I say people I mean the hyper autistic, I thought that once I showed it to the autistic they'd get it, but they don't. So I suppose I am at a loss here with whom to show Atemporal to, where to show it, where to sell it, where to have it become a thing. Let me tell you that I've even been to esoteric means to see what to do with it or where to show it, but naturally I just get vague answers.So maybe I'd like /lit/'s insight.I've been told to make a videogame about it, but I know 0 things about making games or music or pixel art, I am just a writer, so that would take too long in my opinion, I am also trying to make an animation for it, and I can do it, but the art is too sophisticated so it also takes a long time.What I am good at is writing, that I can do in a flash, and it's what I have been at, but as it turns out nobody likes to read without pictures or boobs or games or flashy colors, and since I told you my life situation is tight, right now I am on borrowed time so I am mostly interested first in finding patrons and then I'll focus on the skills necessary to make it something bigger, I guess.I am not looking for help here to get my own job done, I am not, that burden belongs to me, I am just looking for understanding and potentially funding. I am looking for friends, company, whom I can get to business with; I mean, all I want to talk about is Atemporal now, but no one I have brought it up to wants to talk about it with me and I just have to fake being friends, I have to fake this or that and put up with stuff just to expect being handed a moment for my work, and I am done with that. I'd rather relate to people who're interested in what I am interested in, and skip the fakeness.Even then I will not share authorship of it with anyone, I will not credit anyone else for it, the whole thing is mine, just saying as to not create expectations in anyone.I hope I have been likeable to you guys, I hope I have not been hostile, I'm just going off because I am tired of the disappointments I have faced. I am saying I want to stop having in my life people who do not care about this that I am, and welcome other people.
It's his only good book.
Freedom is better. The way he uses Chip to weigh in on everything that was topical in the 90s is kind of sad.
I enjoyed Freedom as well but I liked this better
>>25556273I liked it more as well but Freedom is better in every way other than my own enjoyment.
>>25556278cucked mindset
>>25556279It is cucked to not engage in self delusion?
Bought a copy of picrel recently. What should I expect? Also can we get a discussion going about neo-Nazi-inspired science-fiction in general?
>>25552635>>25554982All me and I'm a mixed-race transgender queen of spades who loves Big Black Cock.
>>25552632There are some works dealing with namely an alternate history future of Nazi victory, such as the (antifascist, feminist) novel Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin (under the penname Murray Constantine) and The Sound of His Horn by John William Wall (under his pseudonym Sarban). I haven't read both works but you can find them from various shadow libraries and other, less illicit, websites.
>>25554982Shalom JIDF agent #666!
>>25555840>>25556251>The NSA defenders are back from a rough day of shooting Lebanese
>>25552666no the fuck they aren't. post a single passage that is worthwhile.
How will they ruin this?Obviously Cathy is going to be the main character and Lee will have sex with her.
It can't be worse than the first movie which removes the crazy bitch plot entirely so it's just a by the numbers drama
>giant library of babel larger than the entire universe by an absurd amount>furnished with beds, a bathroom, and a food kiosk that let's you order anything that can be considered food>have to find your life's history in written form and submit it to leave>no one in this story finds the obvious loopholeIf you can order anything that is remotely considered food why nit just order and edible duplicate of the book you need to leave? The pages made from edible rice paper and food safe dye as ink. If somehow that doesn't count and it needs to be *the* book and not a duplicate then you would still be able to get information on where the book is in the library as the shelf location should accompany the duplicate.
>>25553710okay so after seeing this thread I went and finished this bookwhat the hell, it's not even close to finished. none of the cool parts I was anticipating ever happened. I thought there would be timeskips across vast spans and distances, it could have been epic. It barely even delved into the interesting conceptual stuff that borges put in the original story, like how languages diverged on different floors after a certain amount of time, and how the symbols in the books themselves could mean anything in any language. This could have had interesting implications for what the book of his life's story would end up being. I love the part in borges story where it says man could have been the work of some malevolent demiurges, but the perfect library could only be the work of God. I hoped it would finally culminate in some cathartic moment where he places the book in the slot, but it didn't even elaborate on why everyone in the library was english speaking and white.I was hoping for a sequence where there's a realization that given the vast scale of the library and the time spent within it, they all the humans would inevitably lose each other. Eventually so much time would pass that the initial group would disperse and they would never find each other again. But the author never thought of this.Honestly I think the author just didn't understand the story that deeply. They are a coward with an incomplete story. https://youtu.be/RbCerMBxUFMHere is a cool short that does the "deep time" stuff, I was hoping the author would do something like this but better.I'm sad.
It's crap. There. Brevity.
/lit/ takes retard to a level that seems like it should be incompatible with life, and yet it thrives in its own retarded way.
>>25554683Oh noes, it ruins whole book and everything else happened in it. Why they didnt figure it out sooner? Whyyyyy?!
>>25554823this stuff >>25554739 ruins the book. the book didn't deliver on its own premise
>You dumb bitch how dare you have a better life than me? I am a delusional retard and I will kill you now>NOOO WHY DID I DO IT IM SUCH A RETARD AACK >Gets raped in a gulagIs Rasolnikov a metaphor for russia? It encapsulates their mindset perfectly up to the present day
>>25555383this nigga will never be happy
>>25548579Seeing as how the Rus government published an entire manifesto about how they already took over Ukraine on the first day of the invasion which they had to delete afterwards when the Kiev zerg rush failed, as well as the fact that a large number of Russian soldiers were captured with parade uniforms in their packs suggests to me that the Russian government really did expect to get a quick victory.
>>25546474how does this encapsulate present day russia
>>25555604The way your pic is written is so cringe. That dude is mentally retarded.
>>25555608Their tendency to lash out is carefully manipulated by Americans to keep russians in endless war that drains the country while theyre killing other RussiansThe fact that russians gloat by saying they won because they made their lives and the lives of their neighbors worse is a testament to how good of a goy they are
any romantasy worth reading?
I don't understand why /lit/ gets so upset at "romantasy". It's nowhere near as big in the real world as Internet bubbles would lead you to think, and aside from the admittedly awful name there's nothing egregiously terrible about it. Most of these books are just rebranded YA and fantasy genre novels which have been around for decades.
>>25554951you know whyjust a bunch of losers who hate women
>>25531867Yeah but it's so long. They said the same thing about Count of Monty Python and I couldn't get through it either. Maybe I'll keep grinding on lower word-count books before I'm high enough level for the Don
>>25530692You think about random girls on the street being on youtube and having simps?
is reading romantasy good if you want to learn how to appeal to their sexual desires?
I know Muslims want everyone to pray in Arabic but is it ok if i do my prayers in English when I pray to hashem? Will I die under Jewish law?Tell me if this is the wrong board, as far as I know there isn't a judaic studies board.
>>25555565Your post is 0% correct . “My heart in the East” is a Jewish poem about a longing to return and it predates the Magna Carta.
>>25555584You seem to be in denial of an uncomfortable reality.
>>25555680What?
>>25555109No
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What's the most interesting concept you've ever read about?
>>25556162Dependent-origination. One of those ideas that's extraordinarily simple to understand, but has wild, astonishing, far-reaching consequences if followed intently and seriously
>>25556162Sex!
Probably the Theory of the Forms. Blew my mind when I read the Republic for the first time.
>>25556162the idea that there are aspects of myself that are computable and aspects that are not computable>supports the idea that we have a mind, spirit, and a body from the truth which is salvation by choice of belief in Jesus Christs name per the kjv bible
>What is /phil/ Philosophy General?A general for readers, students, and armchair thinkers interested in philosophy, whether it be Western, Eastern, analytic, continental, ancient, contemporary. We discuss primary texts, secondary literature, online lectures, podcasts.>Why read philosophy?Politics, science, psychology, etc. all began with or were inspired by someone who thought philosophically. Basically, if you are interested in just about anything, philosophy will help you better understand that subject. Because it is at the foundation of every conceptual institution made or discovered by humans, it is in the underbelly of human experience, and so it is worth taking seriously.>Why study philosophy formally?Surprisingly versatile and undervalued. Phil majors consistently score among the highest on the LSAT, GRE, and GMAT. Strong pipeline into law, policy, ethics consulting, AI alignment, and academia.The server: https://discord.gg/uPvkn8Tcf6/phil/ guide: https://www.scribd.com/document/324425214/Lit-Philosophy-Project-1-2
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>>25544529What do you mean? There a tons.
>>25555207Hegel is the meme, anon.
I wanted to try writing at minimum a 100 page story, maybe longer. My first effort, so obviously it'll be cringe and in need of much improvement when I read it back or show it to others, but I realize I have zero ideas for what's actually going to happen. If you had this problem, how did you get over it?
>>25550415Plot is what happens when the main character observes the protagonist's interests collide with the antagonist's. You don't create plot first, you create all the building blocks for the plot first and then you see what happens when all of those blocks interact with one another.
>>25552228NTA but i've been in the exact same boat for a long time and, well, how am i supposed to deal with that?
>>25550415First, read the Art of Dramatic Writing by Lagos Egri. Then, find the premise of your plot; and you'll only know what I mean by that when you've read the book.
>>25552385>general creativity advice is likely to get stolen from people wanting to bypass general creativity
>>25550415>places>events>personsIf you have 2/3 of any, you can get the third. Why things happen can't be any one of them in isolation unless it's the denouement.
