/lit/ - Literature

>>3777025
Wow, she's so hipster.

If you seek alliterations you must be writing a children's book. Natural rhythm is best.

It can be beautiful and it can be overdone and god-fucking-awful.

From writing workshops I found that the people who did it well didn't try to squeeze it in. It apparently just came naturally, and I believe them.

>>3777025
Are you from Scandinavia? I find myself doing this all the time.

>>3777037
Do you know of any good examples of it being done well?

>>3777040
I am not, my Aryan brother.

I want to clean that girls feet with my tongue and have her indifferently acknowledge how clean they are afterwards

>Being young
>Use fancy words
>People don't understand and you have to repeat
>This happens all the time
>Stop doing it

>>3777051
I can't think of any off the top of my head other than Nabokov seemed to do it well in most places.

I'll check later to see if I still have any drafts by some of the "good" writers in my workshops.

>>3777051
>>3777101
I acquired my taste for alliterations from Kierkegaard, especially from the first part of Either/Or. Highly recommended.

>>3777124
... But weren't his works originally written in Danish?
How does that even work

>>3777051
>Do you know of any good examples of it being done well?
TIP OF THE TONGUE TAKING A TRIP

I think it depends on the narrative voice an author is trying to create. For example, in something like southern literature/Mark Twain-ish stuff, it's great and conveys a sense of tall tales to me.

In some huge baroque piece it would probably come across as insanity or shit writing to me.

>>3777025

>Read Shakespeare.
>Observe how and when he alliterates.
>Mimic in your own prose.

I don't really care enough to look up a specific example right now, but (like iambic meter and rhymes) Shakespeare used alliteration in very specific cases to bring certain speeches and certain lines within those speeches to the audience's attention.

Authors focus on this crap when they have nothing to say.

Reading war memoirs: these guys don't have any time or effort to waste on baby shit like that.

Get real.

If you can't get beyond how words sound and are still amazed that they can make somewhat funny sound patterns, stay a baby.

>>3777227
>I am a tasteless pleb

>>3777134
Ah, I got mistaken alliterations with anaphoras.

But Kierkegaard is a God-tier stylist nevertheless. Reading his prose lyricism will only do you well.

>>3777227
Because war memoirs are always high on literary merit.

also
>they don't have any effort to waste

The irony .. you're killing me anon.

>>3777231

>proud to recognise similar sounds

You're a champ, boss.

>>3777227

who reads war memoirs except historians and edgy young armchair commandos?

>>3777267

Epic retort, champ.

>no, really, go suck a dick

>>3777299
You suck a dick you fucking prick and have a sip with your lip, your queer is in gear.

Sorry just practicing..

Dante spoke against these "successions of effeminate adjectives"; abusing the alliteration often results (in prose) in a heavy, almost precious style, something most writers would try to avoid. I don't write prose myself, but if I were to do so, I would rarely use the alliteration, except where an interesting effect, either of rhythm or "percussion" could be created.

>>3777299

As if your argument "hurrr-durrr real aruthors dont fuk wit all this" is worthy of anymore effort. Are you going to threaten to fight me next?

Now fuck off back to /k/ and discuss the stylistic qualities of Zero Dark Thirty and other ghost-written drivel while polishing some slavshit scrapheap your mom bought you for christmas you shit-for-brains chump

>>3777299
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo

>i throw books i haven't read to the floor and i take a photo
>an old man pays me to throw his books to the floor and to pose sexay while reading random page

>i throw books i haven't read to the floor and i take a photo
>an old man pays me to throw his books to the floor and to pose sexy while reading random page

>>3777360
It's taking a fetish and extrapolating it to an unbelievable degree. Hardly anyone has the mental capacity to tear through a vast multitude of books in a day, but one that does should be deemed as a literary sponge, something that most of us could appreciate I think. Add to the fact that this fantasized person is also a stunning female, and you've got an image in your head of sheer beauty.

tl;dr: These images aren't supposed to come off as realistic, but as wondrous fantasy.

>>3777025
"In the beginning was Buri,
and Buri begat Bor,
and Bor begat the Aesir,
Who were We, Willi, and Wotan
wise was Wotan,
wise in war,
Crafty and cruel,
the Gallows God,
one -eyed wanderer
upon the earth and above it.
And Wotan he two sons begot:
Loki Lyesmith,
Baldur's bane,
of Mischief made,
and Thunor..."

If you're writing stuff like this, fine. If you're just inserting it into prose, it's damnably distracting, confounding comprehension, and undoing understanding, as inept exection, mars musical melodies and harms harmonious harping.

>>3777025
>>3777360
>>3777380

>Yes, I'm a GIRL, and I READ: I'm a girl-reader, don't hit on me silly boys. No I won't read your favourite poem; no, I won't critique your essay on Renaissance French drama, but I will alloy you to make me a sandwich ;)

>>3777400
This, I guess. The tricks of writing good prose are different from the tricks of writing good verses, even when in both cases you strive for some kind of fluid and pleasant wording.

Forgot one

>>3777423
>GRRM
Fucking dropped.

>>3777410
I will alloy no sandwiches for anyone; man or woman.

>>3777423
>Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
>Falling Up
>Zombie Survival Guide
ew, it's like fapping to a high schooler

>>3777262
>not appreciating the melody of language

How real can you be my good sir?

All these girls are plebs.

>>3777025
>Girls with glasses

Not even once.

>>3777447
What's wrong with girls who wear glasses?

>>3777444
>look guys I'm on the last page so I must have read the rest!

>>3777444
To be fair, she's almost certainly reading Penelope, the only chapter I would think Monroe would closely identify with.

>>3777344
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-yeZpLIVwo

>>3777625
>you have to closely identify with something in order to read it
You're embarrassing yourself.

>>3777423
>George Carlin

You know what...that's okay.

>>3777632
>You're not more likely to read prose that you identify with.
>By extension: pre-teen girls like Twilight because of its narrative depth and wacky side characters and not the cypher that blunders her way throughout the book.

>>3777025
What a hint of a snatch.. I bet she's got the tightest pussy going.

>>3777641
>By extension: You only read fiction that entails the protagonist being depressed and posting his idiotic opinions on the internet
You're slightly more likely to read a novel you identify with, depending on your personality type; assuming someone reading a book just skipped through everything to a certain chapter because she's a woman is retarded, and you're just solidifying your stupidity.

can females even read

>>3777649
I never implied anything like that. What I said was her reading at that chapter might imply more than "she wants to look intellectual." Maybe she's shown reading it because it is significant to her.

Do you enjoy acting a cunt in real life, too?

>>3777400
Wodehouse also does it well, so I guess we've got the two poles.

>>3777602
girl with glasses spotted

>>3777025
This picture is stupid, I feel mad.

thanks for ruining my evening with book cuties.
i feel awful, be careful where you just throw those things around

>>3777602
>>3777447
>>3777802

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.