/lit/ - Literature

>>1884816
Luckily I don't base my views on what Stephen King says, but thanks for picking apart my admittedly weak analogy. I stand by my opinion that simply writing for long periods a day doesn't make you a good writer. It may accelerate whatever you're doing, but simply writing a lot won't make you a good writer.

What the hell is a "good writer" anyway? And furthermore Mr. Smarty King, maybe being a good writer is different from doing good writing.
Obviously I disagree. Writing for a lot of time every day might help you form whatever talent you have, but it's only accelerating talent/style, not making it.
I'm tone deaf, but if I sang all day would I be a good singer? Not a chance in hell.

I've got a lot of this, could keep going...all sorts of stuff

I have no emotional or intellectual response to this. I feel nothing about it whatsoever.

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Philadelphia
The Master And Margarita
Michail Bulgakov
Bob Dylan
Isaac Hayes Live At The Sahara Tahoe
The Wizard Of Oz
Twin Peaks
Defender
Reeses Peanut Butter Cups
Coffee
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Qua qua qua I really like Beckett but only in measured doses qua qua "Texts For Nothing" is enjoyable, though maybe that's not the right word for it qua qua qua

The Running Man short story by Stephen King?

>>1875478
Admittedly I haven't read any McLuhan, but does he mostly address television? I think in some cases the medium is the message, especially "blockbuster" movies...and I suppose some people write so they can be "a published author", but for the most part I don't think authors intend the cover and blurbs to be their message. If it gets out of their hand once a publishers picks it up they lose that control, though.

>>1875448
Since I digitize books for a living (I actually manage a team of people who are digitizing medieval, renaissance and other manuscripts and rare books) and I work in a library, there's always a lot of talk about this.
It's just the next step, as the printing press was a step and actually increased literacy and appreciation for literature. I've listened to a lof of blowhard elitists talk about the death of the book, and I don't hesitate to call them fetishists who are in love with the container and completely mistake it for the contents. The books themselves are only the vessels for ideas and stories, and those vessels have always changed. A lot of early manuscripts will last a long time, considering the quality of their paper. It's anything in the past 100 years or so thats going to crumble, that high acid pulp stuff full of glued bindings.
We back everything up to gold archival dvd's and put them in waterproof, special binders. Aside from networks and external hard drives that can be grabbed and take out of the building.

Here's a photo I took a few minutes ago in the library I work in. See all that empty space? Well, there used to be books there. They're all being taken away and burned Ok, no not burned. But msot of them are going into
LONG. TERM. STORAGE.
Some are going to another library, some are going to come back (sure), and others are destined to be put into giant crates and forklifted onto tall shelves in a giant warehouse.
Why? The Relentless March of Progress. Why leave a book on a shelf that hasn't been opened in nearly 30 years?
Oh I could go on and on, but I'm too busy digitizing books to type an essay about it.

I anagrammed the last part of it and got

Hog Go Hop Monk

>metaphysical totality
>epistemic perspective
>meta-lingual concerns

Now THAT stuff is funny! I know funny and THAT is funny. Good stuff....

To further expound upon the idea of being "made" to laugh...we can talk about what a smile actually is. When a primate is threatened, he/she bares her teeth. It's a defensive position, baring teeth, (Grrr, see my teeth I'm gonna bite you!)....and it's theorized that this is the reason we make a smile when another person or a situation "makes" us laugh. We're demonstrating our submission to the concept by baring our teeth in defense. I'm sure there are other places on the internet that could explain this more clearly.

I've always been interested in the phrase "it MADE me laugh", or even more so "You MADE me laugh", it seems so involuntary, which I guess it is, but it's just a strange way of phrasing it.