/lit/ - Literature

Uno un poco largo
http://pastebin.com/qmu519yC
y un intento de micro relato, que no es para nada lo mío
http://pastebin.com/6ZbKyvhT

en algún punto del día hago la ronda y les leo las cosas

Argentina.
Also, don't you want us to name our favorite living author from out country or something?
In my case is Abelardo Castillo, criminally untranslated around the world.

AOTD has some good points but that comparison is overly simplistic. People in BNW aren't controled by entertainment, they are masterfully exploited to get the best capitalist results, it's a critique of what would later be called biopower and a metaphor of how poor people end up living around factories where their sons will be born with birth defects and have poor alimentation making it harder to grow properly, while rich people have better conditions and are by design meant to be a superior class. In a sense it's the utopy England was aiming for at the time. Meanwhile 1984 isn't entirely about repression, the MC is put through a psychotheatre to destroy his ego. Probably many others went through the same, it's a narrative you are made to play into that creates a desire to revel just so they can scuash it.
Both are pretty different books and usually dumbed down so HS kids can feel smart reading them.

Also, some other post reminded me this, if anything you should read The Society of the Spectacle.

That's some weird thinking. At the begining of the 20th century there barely were any european intelectuals who weren't at the very least well read in marxism and our current way of seeing history is a direct result of his work. Similarly, you had intelectuals who though that only mongols could hold culture.
There is no correlation between being what is considered an intelectual and having certain views, it's always tied to a context.

do they check the internet to see if you plagarized? you might want to post it in a pastebin and then link us that.

>>7524635
>>7524635
It wasn't that much being reactionary, but finding things to fight for or against. For example when he ran for sheriff, it was a crazy adventure in which at the end he actually hoped to get elected and do shit. But when you can barely walk, have no editorial support and lost most connections after a pathetic middle age crisis; it's hard to find shit to experience. He should had become friends with burroughs at the very least.

I like knitting. It requieres a minimal level of concentration, just enough to lock down your body.

If something seems pointless to point out just don't. People can uderstand elipses without help. If you mentione breakfast, or sunlight, or waking up or anything related to the morning in your paragraph people will know it's probably the next morning.

>>7280824
Eh! Vos sos el nabocock castellano de esos hilos de /ñ/, no? Leí esa primer página como cuatro veces, decime que ya estás más avanzado con eso.

He has great concepts but his general story structure rarely plays them well. The worst case is The Man in the Castle, where the idea is wasted because he couldn't sit down and imagine how Japan would had been without 20 years of ocupation and barely gave any time to nazi Europe making the whole thing pointless. But it's always better than adaptations where they take away most of his concepts and just leave the bare skelleton, the first time I read Do Androids the constant medication to regulate emotions seemed like such an interesting and theme that I couldn't imagine why they took it out.

Is this Heidegger? I just looked over it but the interest in Heraclitus, experience, rejecting modern humanism.

Still, it would be an earlier text since he wrote much more interesting things about aesthetics.

there is nothing wrong with the scientific method. science as a whole includes many things that don't really follow it because they can't (neurology for example, you can't really experiment on someone's brain to test your theories) and it has been used to prove things that go against its own principles (usually social applications).
You could also see some issues in how science is considered the closing answer to everything when most scientists will tell you that new information can always come to light and change what we though was right. Following current science as some sort of end all is unscientific, meaning it's not an issue with science but how it's presented by the figures in power.

i know it's a touchy subject, but consider climate change. The 97% of "scientist agree" is an insulting commentary. 97% of people in the field that have studied the current models agree that they are as good as they can be with out current information, that's a very different statement that doesn't reel people the same way so they simplify it and imply that astronomers and biologist agree on a topic outside of their field, or that all people studying climate agree on something that they aren't currently studying, or that science is about democratic decisions instead of justified results. Not dissing or defending it, it's just an example of how science is abused in unscientific ways.

>>6501472
you have to use ethanol, there is no other way.

>>6468518
Nunca me pude enganchar con Marquez. Entiendo que tiene que ver con que lo primero que leí fue Crónica de un Naufrago y con que mi vieja lo detesta y critica siempre que puede.
Me sigue pareciendo que tiene mucho más crédito del que merece (es de los cinco autores de habla hispana más conocidos, y no es realmente ni de los cincuenta mejores; sencillamente es demasiada competencia para que quede tan bien parado) pero me gustaría darle una chance. ¿Qué me recomendás entendiendo que voy a entrarle con un poco de aprehensión?

I'll submit it to one obscure plagiarist watch sight upon also submitting it to you. I'll do it for $50 and have it done within four hours.

Spin the wheel, raggedy man.

Why do you want to tell that story if you don't particularly care about it? Why do you feel you need a story? Why that one?
If you don't like narrating don't do it, if you feel you need narration search for someone who actually likes it. When you don't really care about a subject it shows and there are thousands of guys willing to work for free in projects and shit if they sort of trust you.

You write like a teen. I hope you are, and succeed with this and get some track early in your career.

based nick drake

Have you consider that you might find an audience that enjoys that? Or is it really cringy explanations that read like elementary school homework?
Try reading Conan or just some Howard in general and see if you connect with that. Early 1900's british writers liked to just let go describing a fantasy world as if it were a travel diary.

I really like the New Yorker's Fiction Podcast. A published author reads a classic short story by some great author, then they discuss it with the fiction editor of the magazine. That way you hear about two authors you might like, get to taste a bit of them and learn a bit about analyzing parts of a work.

>>6347323
I don't know why you're pushing my pics with communist simbology. I'm cool with it, I didn't make the originals and I don't have strong feelings about the communist block. But try to move above the most dumb threads, okay? cool.

>>6334447
If you have anything to share I'd like to read it

>>6290467
I'd add Jodorowsky to that. They share the same audience.

>>6164182
because the best posters are enjoying summer

>>6037147
(not that anon)
Still, it should include what time. During the late 1800 it was all the rage to write about the beauty of strength and dedicate songs to Napoleon, it faded away until the 1950's and maybe the futurists were the only ones still touching the subject through the beauty of war. But even then the academic circles were much more focused on the justification of art outside of a religious setting and into some universal truth to write too much about particular aesthetic experiences. The idea of multiple aesthetics working simultaneously wasn't really discussed until, and I know you guys hate this, post-modernists.