/lit/ - Literature

>I do read, kike.

>>11110763
>encompass new, non-Western writers is right, but these people can't go two sentences without obnoxious
>the western canon should include non western writing

>>11081406
>14 year olds read Shakespeare. He's not that difficult

>>10760059
>I let the definitions on google searches tell me how to think

>>10630525
>I can only think in fantasy internet political dichotomys

>>10608715
>Should have gone for Socrates and Diogenes

>>10604316
>From what I can tell, none of it has been published in modern times or paid much attention to in the first place.

>>10588159
>>10588156

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>>10550208
>hehe telling 6 years of backstory in just several paragraphs is not short because I hate peterson!

>Reading either philosophy or fantasy books

>>10538547
>Ashkenazi are Levantine

>>10532409
>Not an argument.

>>10501123
I want to be a better writer. The problem is when I try to write "better", I just write pretentious garbage. Not every thing a character says needs to be profound or tie into a theme, and not every object in a scene needs a backstory, but I fall into this trap a lot anyways.

I guess I just want to be a more honest and direct writer.

>>10523577
>It’s the translation that I’ve got, so it’s the one I’d be reading