/lit/ - Literature

>>22196967
I suppose you could have what looks like a prototype of something, showing that someone was trying to make something and could not. You could also use metafiction to deliberately reference things but I think that might be too easy to do. I think unless you story involves time travel, most anachronisms like that will come off as mistakes.
There are also times when people who read old books, say the History of Mr Polly by HG Wells, and notice that characters are predicting WWI over 15 years before it started. It's important to not that back the, the political sentiment around Europe after the the treaty of Berlin was that it was inevitable. I think it's interesting to point out that readers in the future may not understand some of the details in your story and might even see them as prophetic and not even noticed that they were common sentiment or potentially anachronisms.
It's also possible if you are writing about the future, people will criticize less advanced tech. Say for example your character uses a phone in the 22nd century. It may have some new features, but readers might get upset the characters don't have cooler tech, and I have seen readers get really angry about this. Even though a lot of technology we use is not the most up to date thing available, people that read scifi are more likely to get annoyed by technology not being at the standards they expect. I think my point was in that case is that technology is always going to disappoint us somehow. But retrofit style tech is also really cool and I think there's a place for it in scifi.

>>21897675
Yes. And this one too.

>>21649791
>>21650843
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Ronald Reagan
U.S. Grant and Sherman,
St. Augustine
de Sade

Those guys come to mind as late bloomers.

>going over margin notes I made in Paradise Lost
>get to end of Book V. line 877

>O alienate from God, O spirit accurs'd,
>Forsaken of all good; I see thy fall
>Determin'd, and thy hapless crew involv'd
>In this perfidious fraud, contagion spread
>Both of thy crime and punishment.

Am I thinking too hard or was the dream at the end of C&P about the plague on men a reference to this?

I love how Cervantes dealt with Avellaneda's fake part two.

>>20351969
>Cervantes teaches you cannot believe everything that is written down, nothing is absolute source of truth because it's just recollection, translation etc
many are still learning this the hard way. The average person is engaging more than ever with the written word via the internet but many clearly do not have the facilities to discern the credibility of what they read; hence fake news. Quixote as the modernday /pol/ keyboard warior

I can't read this book. It's fun and I end up laughing every time I give it a chance, but once I put it down for the day, I can't convince myself to pick it up again. Simple comedic adventure isn't enough to keep me interested, I guess. Am I really missing out?

>>19597062
I got a promotion in my day job, my writing has improved (in my opinion) and I now consistently read on a daily basis. I think it's been alright.
>>19597982
I'd go with 50 year old man, it's interesting to deal with a character that has a long past and reasons he acts the way he does. So long as you don't have some backstory moment to explain every little thing it could be nice. I think kid that's not really a kid is tiring too.

Please go back

>>19276611
I read it in like a year. Took a break between part I and part II though. And sometimes I read an entire different book between chapters. It's not difficult but there's not really any accumulative story in it or anything to look forward to. So you get what you read moment by moment. Its definitely a great book, I doubt there's any relevant topic left untouched, there's history, ethics, theology, religion, poetry, myth, love, etc, etc. Also it's very easy to read things in more than one way, there's a quote from Nabokov that says that Cervantes was cruel, and seen from a modern perspective (don't know if it was this way in the past) it has some truth to it. All in all I'd say it is exhausting but rewarding.

>>19248943
>In reality a lot of books are trash and many are actually evil and should be thoroughly rooted out and destroyed.
t. curate rifling through a nobleman’s things without his consent

Is there a way to write and keep going? Every time I start writing I get a few pages in and then the shittiness of everything I've written hits me. I can't bear to even look at it and I end up deleting it.

>>19060551
Better version

>>19000822
>read 50 pages in 2 hours
>read for 2 hours a day
>finish in 18 days
the average american spends 6 hours watching tv, so this is a very reasonable goal

Based Don Quijote; always in the top 5

>>18907077

>>18874346
>START WITH THE GREEKS
Start with the Assyrians retard and this is the first and last söyjak i ever saved

Does anybody have any more of these?

1/2

>>18796785
>Don Quixote

>>18767445
>>18767711
crisp

>>18711929
Cervantes is a hack

A true stoic wouldn't care what this fag thinks. I certainly don't. I'm worrying about me not what some dead mentally ill faggot thinks. What's equally embarrassing is the people that literally just regurgitate everything N says. Where's that based Schopenhauer quote about fags who read too much and get their philosophy from others are cucks that don't think for themselves. That's everyone ITT.

>>18654131
>Lol okay Seneca (this could be misplaced. I don't waste time on phil., but I heard that Seneca had some importance to the stoic movement hence the joke. Crucify me I guess)

Telling such a bad joke and then proceeding to explain it is the cringiest thing for you to do

>>18647266
I've never read non fiction or philosophy so I can't make informative posts. I only shitpost and lurk outside of threads on classics and the western canon.