/lit/ - Literature

>>23133249
>If the demiurge hated me so fucking much why did he create me?
you answered the question

>>22918222
So the money is in mass serialised slop for retards? Man, that's grim news dude. I guess it makes sense though when you look at the tags on the top viewed stuff. Superheroes, anti-hero leads and reddit shit like that. I'm sure I could punt a bunch of shit like that out but it would hurt my soul.

>>22355335
Il ne sais pas parler français :(
Il ne pourra jamais lire Pagnol ou Mistral :'-(
Soit fort anon.

>>21011233
>be GRRM
>multi millionaire
>keep working?

>>20642824
So my generation loved atheism, and this place was full of Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens shills.

Goddamn when is this place going to move on from edgy teens loving communism

There's a literal voice in my head. It's separate from the stream of my thoughts. All it does is suggest that I take random small actions, like getting up and using the bathroom at a specific time, or berate me for 10-30 minutes, particularly if I mess up at work or in a social setting. I'm not sure what to do about it.

Are thoughts linear or does language make it seem that way? from my perspective it seems that thoughts without language are just sensations which are points in time. You wouldn't describe a sensation as being linear? When you conceive of a concept without language would you describe it as linear?

>>17164950
In 2009, an amateur video artist studying in the UK uploaded a video onto YouTube of a recent piece he had completed. After many reports and complaints, the video was taken down. The piece allegedly begins with a lingering shot of a foggy meadow that some believe to be located in Ireland. The only sound throughout this shot is a light hissing and what sounds like muffled, unintelligible speech. The camera starts zooming in on a white shape in the field. After several tedious minutes, the shape reveals itself to be an albino deer. A close-up shot of its eyes suddenly appears, showing signs of infection and possibly the beginning stages of blindness with them.

The following shot is a scene of the deer staring at a vanity mirror for about a minute. After this, the piece takes a turn for the bizarre with the deer in the reflection moving in dissonance with the "real one". Zooming in, the camera focuses on the deer in the reflection, which has begun to move about in an unnatural and grotesque fashion as if something was molding it like a piece of clay. As these unnerving contortions continue, the camera zooms out, showing a shot of the "real" deer lying on the ground. People have described the deer as looking "strangely at peace."

The shot goes on for roughly two minutes, the reflection is still twisting and gesticulating but the mirror itself seems to be growing darker. The deer lying on the ground then starts to excrete a dark fluid from under its tail, suggesting that a "birth" is about to occur. The tar-like substance continues to bubble and seep out of the deer and onto the ground. This is the point where many people claim to have stopped watching it.

Some accounts vary on what happens next, but many describe a scene where a stillborn, humanoid infant is birthed from the deer covered in the dark, tar-like sludge that makes it hard to describe exactly what it looks like. Some have claimed it was a model of a "human-animal hybrid" put together by the artist for the sake of this film. A blurry close-up shot of the hybrid's face is seen for a few seconds before it cuts back to the mirror, now broken, within the same field from the beginning. Black and white stock footage of an audience applauding is shown in slow motion, and then the film ends with a five minute shot of a black screen accompanied by unintelligible murmuring slowly fading in volume.

Many say that the film can no longer be found online, while others say that the audio track is sometimes circulated around file-sharing programs like BitTorrent. There are even some who claim to have attained the film itself through such means. Occasionally, screenshots surface on image boards and other such sites but the film itself has hardly been seen since its initial debut.

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How do you even write a story? I got all the major plot points in my head but I can't connect them. I have an extremely hard time filling up the blank moment that are supposed to lead up to the climax.

>>11157056
Wasn't Madame Dacier translating Homer like 300 years ago? Has the Western world gone mad??

>>11059151
>tfw she's an established writer and you haven't even gotten a short story published.

>Translator's note
>Afterword

Is anyone here mortified by writing? I'm not talking about the writer's block, the hopelessness of the blank page, but pure fear of begging to write. I tend to think about it all day, flesh out the themes in my mind, the first sentences, but when I finally get home and have a chance to get to it I freeze

>>9859272

This is so low effort its actually kind of funny

Kill yourself