/lit/ - Literature

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>>8991481
Practice makes perfect.

Why believe in either reincarnation or everlasting existence? What evidence, religious or otherwise, is there?

>>4506862
you know if you misread the reaction and she didn't really mean anything by accepting and has no real, specific intention of making a beanie for you and then you give her this short story, you're going to force that obligation on to her

you're in a mexican standoff
the rules are vague
who shoots first is the more annoying person
unless both shoot at the same time then you're both wonderful
and if you don't shoot you're both perfectly nuetral
maybe this should be your story op
this prisoner's dilemma emmarite

>>4469715
>1. the guy in the video doesn't actually say why it's bad
"first of all, you write a screenplay without conflict or crisis, you'll bore your audience to tears"
>2. >taking advice on writing from a Hollywood film (when it's doubtful whether Kaufman even agrees with it)
he doesn't but he ends up being forced into it due to failure
just sayan

Notepad

>>4317840
>>4317896
>>4317898

Well golly, I only switched from scripts to prose like a week ago, my ego's gonna eat well tonight.

Don't have any other stuff handy to show at the moment though.

I hate Jane Austen's writing, I think Sylvia Plath is dreadful and infantile, and I think Ayn Rand is artistically and intellectually bankrupt. Am I a misogynist? Is it okay to say I just don't like female authors/ Can you recommend me some good female written /lit/erature to change my mind?

>>3319898
My dad read me and my brother The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Then he took us to see the The Fellowship of the Ring when it came out
>8 years old
>THE WORLD IS CHANGED
>mfw

>>2799643
Do keep in mind that it's a gift, so you weren't planning on reading it. Hence the shame deflection is of greater, intersubjective importance.

>>2799646
I don't understand your use of greentext. Is this a conversation?

>>2799655
hypothetical real life sitch 2deep4him?

Anyway, OP, do read the Proust; in translation, the original, doesn't matter. If you're not that well informed about the work, do some research, it's necessary if you want to enjoy it.

Why the inb4 kindle? Because you're scanning the books? There are ways to post-process your pdfs (even when you did not apply OCR) to go with it, so you should reconsider. I still print (some articles)/ buy (some books) academic reading tho, because I need an overview of how the text is structured + making notes is admittedly more convenient.

>>2618234
That's a perfect scan (it's not yours i guess), and I still can't believe you're really reading it off your screen. Your eyes, do they bleed much?

And what about a separate list for your notes? If you insist on reading on your laptop, why not just alt-tab to your text editor? You sound like a tool asking for such advice... Its probably the inb4 i can't get my head around (unless it's the moneys, but still).

>>2489920
Every animal has to be seeking something, otherwise it's no different than lying down and dying. What people seek can be knowledge, serving others through charity work or just getting by at a paycheck-to-paycheck wage. Whatever they're satisfied with. If we weren't seeking anything we would have died out as a species probably. Maybe it's comparable to a pig sniffing through the dirt for a few truffles but the other option is more sad, I think.