/lit/ - Literature

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>>21786318
post it

Look

Uh

Yeah

I don’t mean to be rude

But I think you’re a chud

Glasses slipping down hooter

Clenched buttcheeks no future

You hear incel’s “a jest!”

But I gotta confess

That you’re a double whammy

Can’t pass for man or funny

Calling black folks the n-word

When you’re a nerd with a jap sword

You laugh at Indians who poo

But there’s no loo in your root

‘Celerating the downfall

To sell bussy for camphor

Hating women call ‘em roasties

But your own mom’s sandwich’s toasted

Going to church praising Jesus

Did he die for such a genetard?

Claiming to be sperg-au-tistic

Never tested cringier than tik

Tok, what is that, a joke? Hail Mary?

Talks IQ but solves no query

Furiously’s hitting keyboard

>iphone poster

>hurr durr memeflag

Seethes, copes, dilates to no avail

Pisses poops farts sharts to heavens

Hitler saw him from his saucer

Said to do 360 JA! SCHNELL!!!

Now he’s on his bed sad, crying,

Claims his dick’s out for Harambe

“That’s just like my favorite drama”

Little chud thinks he’s Constanza

Have you guys ever worked in modern copywriting or content marketing? It's a pretty soulless way to write but you can earn a decent wage from it.

Having faith in God is important not because of any religious aspect of it, but because it adds to your psychological toolbox an important device: the ever-present reference of someone perceiving your existence. A reference point for an active perception of your own conscience.
Across large fields and territories of text, to the same point different devices were described with the same intention: the state of awareness in buddhism, the "spectator" in popular mysticism (e.g. Tolle), and Plato supposedly called the second perceiver 'daimonion'.
The feeling of faith is the easiest and ever-present moment to achieve it. The noble aspect of faith, backed up by the tomes of surviving religious literature and its ethical purity, elevates the state to a constant reminder of the non-destructive values and ideals.

I might find a flaw a few hours later and discard the theory; posting this largely because I wrote the post a subconscious diary note

>>19983177
I did some googling and I see that he has a Instagram. I'm like 80% sure he is some kind of government psyop.

What are the differences between censored / uncensored?
And why the fuck is it never mentioned anywhere (neither on the cover nor on the descriptions inside)? Notice how it's far more unethical than whatever gay stuff that was removed in the first place.

>>19548739
No, you remove it if the whole comes out as written poorly. Advancing the plot is not the only way to make a story interesting. Maybe the story is about how this guy being super strong is actually a problem for him. Maybe the story is just a story written for fun where the super strong guy keeps subverting your expectations. Write what you like, anon, don't follow stupid rules on how to sell stories and trust your intuition for what is cool.

Why is everyone so brainwashed these days? Why is it that sounding and being perceived as righteous is worth more than actually being right? How did it come to this virtue signaling dilemma I find myself stuck in, unable to escape without the gift of anonymity on a forum for incels and losers? This world of ours seems so fake.

Modernity just shits out pozzed book after another, all with FEMALE! main characters, unacceptable.

if you read Bakker you are left winged and an AnCom libertardian

Traditional anons read Sanderson for Christian morals and traditions

>>19178648
In the 16th ce, especially under Elizabeth, or the English Renaissance, there was a nationalistic phase during which the the upper classes (nobility) commissioned translators to take the best from Antiquity and render it into English, in order to democratize that knowledge and boost the literary prestige of English, by emulating Latin and ancient Greek works.
As a result, certain structures, word formations, and phrases, like the infamous "not only...but also" from Cicero, "non solum...sed etiam," made their way into English and became a staple. Moreover, the nobles and gentry were thoroughly educated in the classics so they would've had in mind those patterns anyway while writing in their native language.
Like the Italians, as demonstrated by the holy Trinity of Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, had done, and noted and copied by Chaucer, the English sought to make their vulgar language capable of expressing high thoughts in a "stately" manner.

There was an excellent preposition in a review for a book I haven’t read, that the sum of material reality is zero and that we write things for there to be more net gain as to the worth of this universe. Think it was the late Nabokov.
I agree with this.
Every person carries a universe inside their head, for they can only see the universe they perceive. The universe is not inside their head, but an individual perception of it is.
The world of fiction is the only world where souls can connect directly.

>>18899655
>>18900809
Oh I know. I'm one of you. Is it not better to be among your own kind, to form your own shared values and ideals? Perhaps to the people who surround us in real life, we are mentally ill; but here we are among friends. Here we have an identity that is greater than ourselves. Not just broken and malfunctioning mistakes to be swept under the rug, but part of a community.

Little community of dancing frogs. Sad frogs, happy frogs, angry frogs, having frog conversations and sharing frog thoughts.

This is important.

>>18797780
Schooling in the 18th-19th ce relied on Latin and ancient Greek to teach people their native languages' grammar via parsing and translation. If you want to learn English grammar, get Wheelock's and start memorizing grammatical jargon and do the translation exercises.
Besides that, get a simple grammar book, memorize the concepts and start labeling grammatical concepts in older texts in English, e.g. before the 20th ce when writing was held at a higher standard.
Also, make sure you learn the principle parts of verbs. An example, take the verb to sing. Its simple past form is sang and its past participle is sung. Many native speakers fumble this concept and output barbarous constructions like I had sang or I sung. To drink is another tricky one that native speakers fuck up all them.

>>18415601
Yeah, I was reading Virgil's Bucolics a few weeks ago and came across the word frondōsus. This word exists in English as frondose (fancy word for leafy). 90% of Latin words made its way into English in one way or another so knowing Latin will help a lot when reading more refined stuff from the early 20th ce and back, before writers became monolingual YA shitters.

Draft one fully completed, took me a long ass time.

I will never forget you all and everything you did for me, in all the good ways.

What always strikes me about the average fantasy book is it seems to be written by an author who is far more concerned with the story/magic system/cool factor than the quality of writing or atmosphere. Many seem to emulate their favorite author by copying races or creatures or magic instead of realizing that the style of writing and tone contribute more to a book's impact than its contents. Something like the Ranger's Apprentice books were fun to read as a kid, but I could tell they just didn't have the oomph of the hobbit or other similar, high quality, children's books.

I guess it could be fixed by having quality authors from outside the genre write original fantasy. Or punish fantasy authors every time they try to explain a magic system in too much detail.

I am reading LOTR right now, nice coincidence to all of the Tolkien mentions. I haven't read it since high school 10 or so years ago. It's better than I remember, especially since I have read the silmarillion since then. Knowing the history adds a lot to understanding the dialogue.

I've been reading some french book from the 18th ce about learning languages and I'm surprised how long the debate has been going on for, that is between the grammar method and the natural method. A few quotes/paraphrases

D. Lancelot, on Greek
>The Romans would send their sons to Athens to master Greek and to absorb, in it's entirety, the richness and delicacy. Unfortunately for us, we don't have the luxury of doing this since the Greeks no longer speak their tongue purely. We must resort to books in which we are still able to pluck fine words, noble phrases, style and majestic thoughts in their original mould.

PL Ami, on Modern Languages
>As children, we learn our native language by uniting words with concrete objects: milk, bread, water, fire dog. By the time we reach adolescence, we speak it fluently with little hesitation, without having to open a single grammar book. Naturally, grammar has it's place if one does not wish to disrespect the mother tongue or look like a blockhead to people of education, while writing anything from letters to literary work or giving orations, but for the majority, this isn't needed.

M. Rollin
>Latin should be taught with translations. That is, a student should not have to rack his brains over the nuance of a single word or grammatical point when this could be resolved instantly with a word for word translation. Let him read to his heart's content, armed with as many translations he can possibly find, so that he may fill his mind with innumerable models of pristine Latin and become well acquainted with the language as fast as possible without the delay of some pedant's fixation on syntactical subtleties.

>>17516965
I wrote a 60K word draft and got through 2/3 of the story but stopped because I was beginning to see the holes so I've gone back to start a second draft and that's where I'm stuck now.

>>17111680
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I am bad at reading fiction. I start reading a new book and can never find the interest to keep going after a few pages. I think of things that I could be doing instead like fishing, hiking, spending time with wife, or even just browsing 4chan. I always think to myself, is there anything that I’m going to gain from reading this story? And immediately lose interest after.

I have read many large fiction books in the past (moby dick, LOTR) but it’s gotten really bad these past few months.

I don’t have this issue with non-fiction because I feel like I’m gaining important knowledge from it.

What can I do to get better and more motivated for fiction?

What do you think of Rómulo Gallegos and which of his works should I start with? I remember, from reading Miguel Serrano's conversations with Herman Hesse, that Hesse liked him and how Germans at that time were reading a lot of Spanish /lit/ from both Europe and the Americas.