/lit/ - Literature

>>23185067
>>23185073
when you are quoting in a sentence, it's better to adjust a word in the quote so that the subject and verb agree and it matches the tenses of your sentence. any change a publisher adds to or replaces in the original is within [ ]

ross had said in the clip:
>Andrew had hit me up. He said: ‘Hey, I’m going to be leaving Romania soon and probably never coming back. If you want to come over and do a week of long streams and content before I leave, I think it’ll be big.’
they changed "coming" to "come"
leaving it as-is, like:
>The influencer read Tate's messages and his plans to 'leave Romania' and 'never coming back'
is wrong, because the forms of the verbs (leave & coming) do not match, which makes it awkward to read

on a similar note, if a publisher wants to mark that they reproduced a quote exactly (despite poor spelling or an incorrect use of a word), they would put [sic] after the questionable word or phrase

>>22808856
tell us about your favorite assassination

>>22769976
>the publisher was accountable for what he printed
To whom, against what standard?

Why is there so much superfluous text? I don't necessarily mean conversational text or online information, I mean labels and shit. The can of beans I'm eating practically has a whole book written on it. If I drive down a road there are words all over the place. Every piece of paper I get ahold of has a ton of meaningless words in the margin. Everywhere I look there's text. Are there any books about this autistic drive to put words on everything?

>She saw spears sink into writhing black bodies, spilling red. She saw clubs swing and descend with brutal force on kinky heads.

Why isn't Robert E Howard essential /lit/core?

>I buy directly from the publishers to support the author

>thotheless

>>20953512
once again, which poster are you? i simply wish to address the correct poster.
i shall disregard any uncharitable adhoms to engage with you in good faith

>>20126168
>gas all frogposters
What does this gas consist of?

>>20043005
How do you guys think Freud would analyze this dream?

Started reading the Thebaid yesterday and I was filtered more by the mythology than the actual Latin.
During the first 6 lines in which Oedpius curses his bloodline and gives the reason why, by going to the beginning of his family's curse, so I spent like an hour reading up on the backstory and following the rabbit hole to different areas. I will now unload my autism:

Agenor, Graece Ἀγήνωρ, filius Neptuni et rex Phoeniciae fuit. Cum Iuppiter Europam, filiam suam, raperet, Agenor filios suos, ex quibus unum fuit Cadmus, eam invenire iussit sed hoc facere non poterunt; mortalis enim voluntatem Iovis pervertere numquam potest. Qua de causa, Cadmus iussum patris non iam exsecutus est at, necandum draconem divinum Martis, novum regnum condidit: Thebae. Sed, pro dolor! hoc factum, Mars Cadmum proles suos maledixit! Nunc, maleficentia in sanguine suo incoluit et mala fortuna super Thebas regnabit.

Genealogia
Agenor -> Cadmus -> Polydorus -> Labdacus -> Laius -> Oedipus -> Polynices, Eteocles, Antigone, and Ismene

>look up Latin word for coffee
>find nothing
>realize that they obviously didn't even have coffee back then
impressive that they were able to accomplish so much without it.

>>19541023
Yeah I don’t know whether u were right or wrong I just didn’t like your tone

>>19513516
have you tried being more intelligent

found the 3rd world tranny thread

anything worth reading is originally written in English

>recommending me a board for my recommendations
This thread belongs in >>>/r/

>>19001944
Perhaps the OP could be a series of book-finding resources and tips, from the easiest ones (libgen, zlib, archive, gutenberg etc.) to more specific libraries. Anons could contribute with things like mega links, or we could make a pastebin of relevant libraries for book-finding.
/pdfs/ has a request thread and an online libraries thread, but they are highly centered in politics and have less traffic than /lit/ does. We can try to make the general based on these.
Also, a name is important. /bfg/ - book finding general is a possibility.

>>18537555
I simply did not read the second epilogue

Why is it so hard to find live performances of Ancient Greek tragedies at theaters?

How do you find obscure books?

>>17005276
Sounds like something the last man would say

>start with the Greeks
Do I have to?

>>16851324
What's in that jug?

>quit masturbating and talking to women
>double and sometimes even triple how much i read in a day
hmmmm very interesting