/lit/ - Literature

heh... i cant wait for the epic MEMEs to roll in!!

I firmly believe this is the funniest reply in the history of /lit/

>>8808332

>>8808332
Fuck, I'll be the memer.

>>8808426
FUCK why did I laugh so hard as I did to that

>>8808426
> audible laughter

>>8808858
kek

>>8808426
im gonna write the shota version of lolita

>>8808869
You mean the /ss/ version, yes?
If so, you have my full approval.

>>8808883
/ss/ is trash
gay shota is the only acceptable shota

>>8808897
I take it you started with the Greeks?

>>8808918
not yet actually
I just know that the shota is the pinnacle of human beauty

waiting for Katie

>>8808858
Lmao

i really like this screencap

>>8808952
kek

>>8808994
pls no

>>8808922
>I just know
You don't even know bro!

>>8809001
Holy shit one of my posts got screencapped.

I feel like I've been published.

Only I have no money and everyone is mocking me.

>>8809048
It's inconceivable to my mind that anything more beautiful than a 12 year old boy exists

>>8808367
This is gold

>>8809045

>>8808426
I remember that thread

>>8808367
I don't ge it... can someone explain?

wow, who knew reddit could be this epic?!?!??!??!!

>>8809095
I JACKED TO DICTIONARY WORDS TOO

>>8809099
Holy..... I want more.....

>>8809077
Not funny out of context

>>8809100
haha

>>8809095
I did that, too. Whoa.

>>8808332
>>8808430

>>8809119
What did he mean by resubmitting his application?

Also autism

>>8809123

fckin done

>>8809217
Hitting on more women.

>>8809814

>thinks he's a genius for discovering conspicuous consumption
>fairly pathetic example anyway

>>8808503
Jesus I hadn't laughed so much in a long time
11/10

>>8809881
>tfw I want a PhD in philosophy

I'm planning to do a master next year.
No debt because free college here, but no job either, and I shouldn't be leeching my parents at my age (I'll be 25 next year).

>>8809094
It's a witty play on words, the word 'jest' in english means 'to joke'.
Q. Which is better - Infinite Jest or The Holy Bible
1st poster answers 'Infinite Jest - obviously'
2nd poster disagreeing with this decides to insinuate the first poster made a tipo by replying
>'Surely you bible'
as opposed to it's real meaning
>'Surely you jest'

>>8809814
it's always nice seeing old threads I was a part of.

>>8809880
I had to look up what "inflation tf" was. I'm proud of that.

>>8808426
IS THERE??

>>8810347
There's a particular adaptation of Animal Farm I hear.

>>8808858
Unironically really makes me think, this is one the most important posts on /lit/

>>8808858
Had a real giggle at this, m8.

>that time /sffg/ caught a B-list fantasy author shilling himself

>>8809814
This explains so much about my coffee habits

>>8810595
That filename in the screencap got me. It's details like that that makes for some quality shitposting.

>>8808869
>>8808897
>>8808922
didn't Mann already beat you to it

>>8809912
u mad sis?

>>8810686
fuuuuark i remember when i decided to do this lmao

>>8808332
I declare that this is gay

>>8809095
>tfw I used to look up the Polish or German versions of the articles for 'feet', 'foot whipping' or 'foot roasting' or whatever on Wikipedia and translate them through Google and fap while imagining cute continental boys thinking and writing about tortures applied to the feet and how they'd react to it

>tfw actually remember some of these threads
Feels good

>>8810078
That belt footnote gets me every fucking time.

>>8809055
This post is proof that this is actually reddit. Edit a hi mom you idiot.

>>8810099
You guys know that boys/girls state is a scam right?

>>8808503
>>8808818
>>8808858
>>8809085
>>8809881
>>8810525
>>8810595
kek

>>8809814
>NEEDED
>f**king
>feminist platitudes
wow, he actually typed out this tl;dr post going after college aged women for drinking one of the most widely consumed beverages worldwide. it's almost as if it is inconceivable to this user that people would drink coffee because it tastes good (and cafeteria coffee is generally terrible). this is actually good cringe desu.

>>8810818
why do you feel good about this?

>>8809217
i think he means just insisting strongly. It ties in with his being more "aggressively" social imo

>>8810037
what is it? can't find anything

>>8809095
I did something similar, but for the sounds of certain words. I would silently articulate their phonemes while jerking off.
>tfw you still get a chub for certain words, no matter how commonplace they are

>>8810850
>implying seeing something you were a part of referenced doesn't feel good
It's like I'm almost important. I'm in the know. I was there! I have no real life.

>>8808897
>/ss/ is trash

Opinion discarded

>>8808858
i will never truly GET this one, it's formulated so awkwardly.

>>8811039
That's the beauty of it.

>>8811042
that's what i always suspected.

>>8810478
I was here for this shitfest at least.

>>8808858
>showering after to talking to a black person
das rite

>>8811039
There are three different ways to understand his "That's why you read Plato."
1.
>You are not an intellectual, so you read Plato to become one.

2.
>Surely you are an intellectual, after all you read Plato.

3.
>Since you are not an intellectual, you think reading Plato is of merit.

>>8809881
>I only play Pharaoh (1999)

>>8811213
But if I'm on the subway reading Plato (or anything) and a black guy asks me if I'm an intellectual, what can I say to prevent me getting BTFO?

>>8809095
When I was younger I used to look up dirty latin words in the Stowasser (german latin dictionary) and masturbated to them.

I think that is a normal thing to do.

>>8811238
I did this too but I did it in the English and French dictionaries.

Somehow knowing that the adult world cared to classify multiple words for cunt and lesbian was quite an adventure for my 8 year old self in my parents' bathroom.

>>8811237
You can't. You have to admit that you know nothing. The black man on the submarine is the Socratic method itself.

>>8811255

>>8811266

>>8809028
kek
this is great

>>8811213

Autism.

>>8809077
I remember that thread.
>>8809110
The context was that OP opened a harry potter odf and searched "stretch my legs" and only got like 10 results or something, this post with a picture of Harold Bloom in which he looks disappointed.

>>8811267
>Don't make me destroy you
Saw it from a mile away.

>>8811333
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wdkcO99ZPc

>>8808949
>brave new cunt

>>8808332
Anyobody got the schoppen-hopper picture? Like
> this grasshopper avoids the other ones

Anyone have the guy who went off on how forests couldn't be wild and Dante had never seen a forest in his life?

>>8811478
>he values contemporary shitposts
too soon

quality content coming through

anyone have the guy who was talking about Benjy from The Sound and the Fury, but ended up calling Faulkner a retard on accident?

I also have a request aswell. There was that anon that used references to his own unpublished novels in everyday conversations. One particular one to a man who woke up one morning and found out that a door knob had grown on his forehead.

>>8811965
Gotchu f-a-m

>>8808332

>>8808426
Travels with Charley by Steinbeck

>>8808367
Wow I remember this

>>8810003
Not funny to me though.

>>8812099
Oh, now I get it.

>>8812099
No wonder, you had to have the joke explained to you

It's funny to people who can think through things a little bit

>>8811267
>haa-haa it was all a pop-culture reference, not even a joke

>>8811237
You ask him what is the nature of being an intellectual.

>>8811649
Calling shotgun on Keats

>>8808883
>>8808869
>>8808897
>>8808922

>always think shota is a weird fetish
>begin to read the Aeneid
>Venus describes Dido getting drunk and caressing and kissing Ascanius in her lap.
>confused, do the math in my head, he was only a few old when Troy fell seven years earlier.
>Imagine making out with a Carthaginian queen when I was like 11.
>Begin to get aroused
I didn't really need another fetish but OK.

>author of like ten classic copypastas
>only here once

Why live

>>8812418
Why don't you just want to fuck Dido like a normal person?
She's blonde by the way, for some reason.

>>8812471
Why wouldn't she be blonde?

>>8812471
>Why don't you just want to fuck Dido like a normal person?
I do though. This desire doesn't mean that I didn't imagine sitting on her lap like Ascanius though.

>She's blonde by the way
even better.

frankly amazed that this hasn't been posted yet...

>>8812673
>'This guy.' he said. 'Woo.'
Cute.

>>8812474
Because she's supposed to be a Semite?
>>8812528
How do you imagine Dido?

>>8812743
>Because she's supposed to be a Semite?
All the jews I know are blonde tho

t. other

>>8810830
Why is everyone so obsessed with reddit? Every board has been obsessed with its reddit counterpart since 2009ish.

>>8811218
It's a good game, anon.

>>8813134
eh

>>8809132
Agreed, absolute bullshit

>>8809814
This is hilarious but one of the fucking stupidest theories I've ever read

>>8813134

>Not owning a signed copy of the Bible.

Some people never learn

>>8809100
Who is this about?

>>8810016

I remember that one, I told anon he was stupid for spending $1,800 a year on lattes and he flipped out.

>>8809132
Slam poetry is a contest. You have limited amount of time to come up with the best text you can.

Comparing it to poetry is plain dumb.

Those ''slam'' poetry shit on youtube are simply shitty poetry.

>>8813132

Have you ever played Caesar 3? That's the game that taught me to hate plebs.

>>8813327
I used to play Children of the Nile, which is really chill because you can zoom in on individual ladies weaving baskets and shit. Even when they rebel against me I just feel kind of bad for them. They're working hard and shit. But they don't realize how difficult it is to plan where all the amenities need to be. By the time I've addressed their annoyance about the lack of beads, it's two months later and they're pissed off about cloth.

>>8813294
Johnathon Franzen my man

>>8809863
The Classic

>>8811251
kek

>>8811649
good stuff

>>8811213
I think its quite clearly the third one. The 'That's why you read Plato' is a direct response to 'I am not really an intellectual'.

>>8809009
and then he elected a creationist for education...

>>8811649
This is the problem I have with my life. I want to learn so many things (guitar, writing short stories, line drawing, web programming, etc.) yet I always fail maintaining all of these habits. Should I just pick one?

I suppose it'd be better than live a life as a swiss army knife.

>>8811221
Brilliant.

>>8809085
I actually didn't find it funny this time. This time when reading it again I actually got sad. This is the norm of the internet (world) now. You try to be a nice person and you want to do something special with your hobbies and morons hurt your feelings just for the lulz. The comment that she had been preyed upon on real life and how the two comments reminded her of that actually made me extra sad this time. Because the guys who made the comment are probably nice guys when they are outside of 4chan, but as soon as the log on? Then you gotta do everything for the lulz! It's like... autism that activates when you enter the flock.

I'm currently dating a bookworm-girl, maybe that's why I have extra empathy for this stuff now.

>>8811649
>Nabokov (who does not compare with the older craftsmen...)

>>8810478
I remember this thread. God that was a helluva week

>>8813499
I'm the original writer of that post and I've had the exact same problem. It was written for a specific context (because an anon wanted to know how improve their prose I think) but it could probably apply beyond that. As I see it, the only way of truly practicing the kind of dedication you need to master a field or a skill is to obliterate the egotistical reason you have for doing so.

When I first got into the frame of mind you describe, being blown from one area of interest to another without ever settling, my reasons were purely egotistical. I wanted to be a jack of all trades, so that I'd be admirable to people and appear to be some kind of genius. What I've learned is that this is never enough to convince you to spend two hours every night reading Shakespeare for the rest of your life. It might do so for a couple of days, maybe a week, but it isn't enough to change your life's structure.

At the end of the day, that's what my post was about: saying that all the truly great masters of their craft (whether it be painting, writing, music etc) could spend huge amounts of time dedicated to their art, because they weren't motivated by the same things as the modern creator. They used their work as a medium of, for lack of a better word, worship, and the result of this was a complete selflessness in their training. Maybe that's a little idealistic, but broadly I think it's historically true. If it wasn't God, it was Nature. It's late where I am and I can't quite express the reasons for the change, but around the 20th century, egotism becomes inseparable from the personality of the artist. What I was arguing for was a substitution of the objects of worship of the past, with idols, artists you respect and adore.

But that doesn't mean you have to shut yourself off from everything else. I read widely, and pretty attentively, but when it comes to the poet I chose as the one I was going to dedicate myself to, my engagement with him is completely different. I never read his work on the fly, on public transport or any time I might be distracted. I make a time, and I sit and close off all my devices, and I read a couple of poems. And it's almost like meditation, the objective is to push away all intrusive thoughts and concentrate just on the work and the presence of the artist who made it in the words themselves. Of course, just as in meditation, thoughts do intrude and there's a progression to be made once you start doing this. It isn't easy from the very beginning.

So my advice would be this: Feel free to pursue all of the interests you want to. I certainly do. But unless you have just that one person--if music is your passion, your favorite musician; if literature, favorite writer--with whom your artistic relationship is just that little different, that little more dedicated than to the rest, then finding the motivation to dedicate enough time to become good, truly good at something, is profoundly difficult.

>>8813606
Screencapping and making my desktop background, thanks anon.

I've actually numbed myself quite a bit so it's hard to know what I enjoy; I am going to continue my slow improvement until I find something I do truly "love", whatever that means.

I definitely have always had troubles wanting to make things out of my interest instead of just consume, a byproduct of consoles and such I'm sad to say.

>>8813617
No problem at all. It's good to know my autistic shitposting has actually had an effect on someone. Sadly, it's something most of us will have to deal with at some point, the repercussions of living in the digital age. If it's not, as you say, consoles, then it's the internet in general.

Good luck anon. I hope you find what you're looking for

>>8809009
Well this is by far my favorite post in years.

>>8813606
Hey, you, fucko, don't sleep yet!
Why doesn't Nabby Kovs compare!

>>8813606 thanks for this post

>>8810833
Care to elaborate? Know a couple of hotshots in my class that went

>>8813684
Nabokov? Oh he's just a hack.

Kidding. But the original post was in a thread about good prose and in my experience, the people who treat uncle Vlad as some kind of prose-god have only read Lolita. They usually underrate him for what, to my mind, he really excelled at which was structure. I've never read a novel as perfectly strucutured as Pale Fire, but I found the prose fairly unexceptional. I was just anticipating someone bringing him up as a counter-example to say 20th century prose artists are just as dedicated as thsoe of the past.

It does at the end of the day come down to opinion. But all the candidates for greatest prose artist of the latter half of the 20th century suffer the same problem of saturating their prose with a kind of affectedness and self-conciousness. Even the ones who could possibly compete with the classics in terms of sheer prose ability, forfeit the competition by endlessly preening themselves for presentation. Again, this is a very subjective point, but the Pynchonian sentence for example, to me (again, another writer I admire in many respects) seems hopelessly tortured.

My opinion of Nabokov has always been that, had he been born maybe a hundred years earlier, he might have been my favourite writer. His talent was immensely wasted on his epoch.

And fuck you anon. I was literally in bed ready to get a good night's sleep until you guilted me into defending my autism.

>>8813517
I never found it funny desu

>>8813559

this shit is honestly hilarious if read out loud.

>>8813836
Ok. Sorry for rousing you.
Sleep tight

>>8809123
Is the joke here that the LoA was full of retarded shit, or am I missing an allusion to a collection of works meant to be represented by this greentext writer's version of the LoA?

>>8813951
The joke is that he expected LOA to be full of lost culture but it's just an archive of whatever papers they found laying around.

>>8813944
Thanks anon. You too

>>8808332
>virgin
he was married though

>>8809001
>you will never nervously stroll past the archbishop of the anti-technology, post-nuclear-holocaust inquisition with a well-worn copy of Infinite Jest in the hidden pocket on the inside of your pant leg
Truly we all missed the /lit/ life by being born too early.

>>8813606
I don't know why everyone loves this post and your other post so much. I originally argued against your post in the screencap in that same thread and I still think you're guy.

>>8808918
Lol

>>8809026
Really good except the last paragraph desu. Thanks for posting

>>8811649
>>8813606

I don't understand, why is it necessary to focus on one artist? You seem to be saying that they will function as the thing to worship through art, but why not just pick God or nature like that artist presumably did?

>>8808367
Spat milk out onto my keyboard thanks

>>8809814
Kek all that autism

>>8809851
>people make fun of niggers for liking fried chicken and watermelon
>not realizing those are both god tier poor food
>they still eat at mcdonald's instead of popeyes
>mfw

>>8809875
gave me quite the chuckle!

>>8814023
doesnt mean he boinked

>>8812347
Underrated

>>8814678
is this me

>>8814518
>not realizing those are both god tier poor food
>>they still eat at mcdonald's instead of popeyes
"im a rich nigga but i still eat church's"
- gucci mane

>>8814447
>someone got paid to write this

>>8814460
this is profound

>>8808367
>orignal meme post by a phoneposter
>first two posts are a samefag setting up his own shitty joke (and is probably the OP too)
>it's a perfect represantation of a redditor's humor
Wew.

>>8814952
Describe to me very carefully how it is a redditor's humor

I have time and I'm happy to listen

>>8814956
He didnt like it so its a good try to call it reddit humour so hed seem to be right

>>8814967
Hey don't samefag me

You're probably me if you're agreeing with me

And we're probably from Reddit, right?

>>8814972
Yes I browse r/Dota2 quite a lot, hence my previous picture of a Col.Zfreek's moobs.

>>8814978
I'm more of a /r/books guy myself

>>8809028
underrated

or maybe it just reminded me of a simpler time before this board started going to shit

>>8814078
Share your argument. I don't think he's right, either.

>>8814421
The short answer is that god is dead and we all live in the city.

The longer answer is that I just don't see a modern artist ever having the relationship with god that an artist raised up believing their work was inherently an act of religious worship is able to have. Similarly, for the less sceptical ages, I think the relationship between Nature (as in the capital N abstraction, not necessarily the green stuff) and the poets of old was far less complicated than a modern relationship necessarily is. It's simply that, to my mind, it's far easier to cultivate this kind of serious devotion, on which true artistic skill can be cultivated, when presented with a concrete object, I.e that of the living author present in the text rather than abstractions that we have no contemporary framework for authentically throwing ourselves into believing.

I think the case for Nature is lost. But it might be possible for an anon with a sincere belief in God to use that as the basis for his work. Most modern religious belief, however, is a very self-concious railing against the historicial moment and thus heavily tainted with narcissism. Authentic religious belief is based on the contemplation of the presence of the divine in various holy texts, or in theatrical ceremonies which invoke this presence, not in the construction of an identity, not in following the "breadpill" reading list, so you can make the fedoras mad. But this first category of religious faith has all but died out amongst the artist class.

>>8810003
>tfw think that you didn't get the joke
>tfw you did but it's simply not funny

It's a hollow feel, as if my fervid perplexity over something grand is misplaced and facilely accepted by everyone else. I imagine this is what whoever discovered gravity must have felt like

"Big things pull smaller thing towards them! It's insane!"

"well fuck who cares"


I hate vyvanse

>>8813499
Personally I disagree with thinking of it all so immensely.

Just schedule your day, block out however much time you want to each of these interests and try and stick to it. Eventually you will pick up the far more valuable habit which is making the most of your time and achieving what we sit down to do and not procrastinating.

I'm in a similar position. I want to learn all these different things. I don't know whether 1-2 hours a day to each interest is enough, nor do I expect to become some polyglot, but what I do know is that my days are full and satisfying and I've rid myself of the terrible vice of procrastination.

>>8813606
I disagree with you but I find your arguments and insights to be eloquent and fascinating -- this is why I come to /lit/.

>>8814447
It's literally just the author taking the piss out of American (Gridiron) Football.

>>8815564
Nah, I don't think so.

Where are you seeing any parallels?

I don't get it

>>8809005
gay. kill yourself

>>8809119
I can confirm that being obnoxious is an effective strategy for getting women. A lot of male virgins hold themselves to higher standards than women would hold them to.

>>8810478
>/v/ in charge of /lit/ screencaps

>>8808367
HOLY... I want more.

>>8809065
1st is funny, rest is reddit

someone post black and decker factory

I find that pretty funny.

>>8809863
Can someone explain the humor in this one to me. All I'm seeing is lel randum autism, I seriously want to know why it keeps getting posted in these threads.

>>8816075

ur dumb m8

>>8808426
That's a cute ass sheep homie.

>>8816094
No m8, you see, in saying you lot are dumb. That shit might have been funny when I was finishing my GCSEs but I've moved onto big boy things now.

>>8816075
I have the exact same thought

It's really not clever or funny at all

>>8809055
The same would be true even if you were published.

Not quite /lit/. But it's close.

>>8810443
Anyone got that one about Stevian and his shilling of his book to kill a god?

>>8813517
>>8813850

The only "funny" part is the last comment. But it's like Frank Booth-funny, not haha-funny.

>>8812811
>modern day jewry
>semite

>>8813516

This is true though.

>>8815395
Vyvanse, on Chaturbate?

>>8813901
It was great at first. Took a lot of imagination and remembering the song for the second part.
10/10 pasta

>>8810713

Cute Continentals of either gender are so slender and gracile. Just made for tortures.

>>8808869
If it's too short no one will read it

>>8811649
saved
great cap, anon.

>>8817537
,';^)

>>8808332

>>8817792
ONLY THE FRESHEST KEKS

>>8816351

you showed him lol

>>8816075
The thread it was in was started with some kind of tumblr diagram of what a reader consists of. Some shit like "8% taking pictures of new glasses" and "14% still waiting on the Hogwarts letter" or some retarded bullshit like that, so /lit/ made fun of it by writing their own statistics.

And this particular one was pretty funny because the idea of someone being so far stuck up his own ass that he would make references to his own works only to be able to talk about his unpublished Kafka knock-offs striked us like something pretentious enough that some people from /lit/ might actually do it. Or maybe not, but it's funny nevertheless, get off your high horse and take it easy.

>>8809024
START WITH THE SUMERIANS

>>8810661
>>8808897
>>8808869
>gay shota
Naked Lunch already exists.

100 Years of Solitude has /ss/ though. Loli too. And a luggage lad getting cucked and ending his miserable life.

Fucking Buendias.

>>8814427
I still think this is brilliant. The footnotes are my favorite part.

no comment...

another

>>8809119
>crouching autist style of hookup game
kek

>>8817835
clever

>>8808426
And the legends say, if you listen hard you can still hear him laughing to this day.

>>8809881

>I only play Pharaoh (1999)

So fucking underrated

>>8816558
underrated

>>8809085
I laughed so hard I almost died.

>>8811649
I like the way you write but you're being unfair to the the artists of today. Technique isnt as important as it used to be as the problems taken up by artists aren't the same as they used to be

You sound a bit nostalgic and transfixed by the Canon desu

>>8809109
underrated

>>8813944
>>8813985
i like anons wishing each other good night

>>8819719
hey anon

____faggot____

>>8819339
WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST READ!?

>>8819163
i fucking hate Camus , he wrote his books JUST like he wrote his theatrical pieces

like
this
always
separating
each
words

>>8819771
Breathed out heavily threw my nose.

>>8819843
you best get it back quickly, wouldn't want your nose to get dirty

imagine some animal finding it, what would you do?

>>8819849
I would probably have to wrestle that enemy to a standstill, befriending it over this sublime event, and spend the next two decades of my life studying its behaviour. I'd like to imagine that I would write a great journel about the whole ordeal, yet dying a poor man since print media is slowly faded out.

>>8819670
Well, I'll admit to being a huge nostalgiafag. Not just about literature by about everything.
But what would you consider to be the problems of today and why is technique less important in dealing with them.

also the anon you replied to isn't me; he just posted a cap of my post; I don't want to seem narcissistic enough to post my own ramblings in screencap threads

>>8818704
Ah finding pleb bobsburger-tier humour unfunny is me 'not taking it easy'. I'm writing this in a stoic, composed manner, not a bead of sweat on my brow, I assure you: you are a boring faggot.

>>8816860
Frank Booth was haha-funny though

>>8819934
Alright, I admit defeat. You are my superior and you win.

>>8811238
>Stowasser
>I think that is a normal thing to do.

No, it's not a normal thing to do. All the normies use Langenscheidt or Pons. You chose the truly patrician one.
I'm proud of you, Anon.

>>8819894
Not that anon, but I think the problems of today lie not in a lack of "devotion", but a in a shift in craft. It is not a lack of supply that we see today, but a lack of demand. Literature is now teetering on the brink of obsolescence.

You mention Shakespeare, do you think he would be a playwright today? More likely he'd be a film director or screenwriter. And whatever /lit/ and those whose passions are colored by nostalgia might argue, film is an art more elemental to our natures. Remember that speech is a new invention and writing even more so; visual perception is ancient, is it surprising that film and television and video games now dominate our lives to such an extent? No.

Art is the by-product of leisure, and as technology advances and if we can sustain ourselves without total self-annihilation, art will become ubiquitous. Creativity will replace mechanical precision and brute knowledge but its mediums will continue to mutate. Why do we not sing our epics anymore? Why do we not memorize our gospel?

So technique and devotion are now irrelevant. It is not that god is dead, or nature or any other thing, it is only that literature is dead. Or dying. Technique there is, and devotion too and maybe even patrons (film directors turned producers for example), but not for literature. This is an ode but also a dirge--but then, aren't they all?

>>8820016
Pons was my English dictionary, but we were never allowed to use that. Didn't really enjoy my English class anyway, so I kicked it off my timetable once I got the chance. Funny that I think about it, but I made my Abitur with focus on languages, but didn't have English all Oberstufe. Instead I had Latin and Greek.

Does anyone have the screencap of the post where a guy read Dostoyevsky's Gambler expecting it to be a high-thrills intrigue novel?

I used to have it but I can't find it anymore, it was from early 2015

>>8808332
Favorite

>>8808869
You could call it, "shota"

>>8820079
Posted two times already.

Funny that it has so many different screencaps.

>>8820099
>not "Sholita"
Nice digits though.

>>8811478
Was looking for this one too, I remember that thread.

>>8810686
The funny thing is that he's not technically wrong.

>>8819771
Good lord.

>>8809930
This made me sad and angry.

>>8809944
Are u brazilian?

>>8820206
Why?

>>8809930
Jesus I hope that was bait

>>8820025
>You mention Shakespeare, do you think he would be a playwright today? More likely he'd be a film director or screenwriter.


I don’t think so. Shakespeare’s main talent was with words, and he is constantly being overwhelmed by his own prodigious inventive capacities, modeling metaphor upon metaphor upon metaphor. His language, his style, is completely different from anything we see on films and television, where image is dominant.

Also, Shakespeare was not very gifted in plot creation. He was not gifted when it came down to imagine new stories: he usually adapted existing ones, using the bones of old plays and tales and weaving around them the sublime poetic texture that is unmatched to this day.

If someone with Shakespeare’s potential was born today this person would probably die without filling his/her potential, since there is no demand for the style of art that was important in Shakespeare’s time. Let us say, however, that the new-Shakespeare eventually found the work of the older Shakespeare and felled in love with it, and tried to emulate it, to create a new version of it today. This person would suffer a lot, because all the enormous and lonely work of achieving the same mastery of metaphor and simile and of injecting this verbal-texture into playable-drama was rarely going to be rewarded, since drama itself favors today a different approach, much more bare, simpler, poorer, a much more starving-language style.

Shakespeare was fortunate to have been borne on the time he was born. His achievement is above all an achievement of words, an achievement of sublime poetry. In today’s world, were poetry has long fallen out of grace, where day-to-day language and barren-diction is considered the preferable (see all the Hemingway school style, or the naturalistic and simple language of movies and TV dramas) someone like Shakespeare was probably not even discover his/her gift.

>>8808946
I haven't laughed this hard in a while
thank you friend

>>8820039
I thought Polina was kind of hot.

>>8820102
>Posted two times already.

He really pulled a Gregory Berrycone there.

>>8821273
Hmm, while I agree with some points (language is certainly dying), I don't necessarily agree with the conclusion that Shakespeare would have simply died in obscurity. I suppose if you just dropped him into our time, he would have, but if he grew up in our time I think his gift for metaphor could have easily been transferred to the visual medium. (I can imagine him becoming a second Kubrick).

Well, all this is unsubstantiated hypothesis anyway, and the original statement was bordering on hyperbole.

>>8819163
Only the first of the dialogue posts is funny in that cap.
The other two with all the '?!' And 'Damn it all!' Read like a bad sitcom.

I'll be saving the picture, cropping it so it only shows the first, perfect dialogue, and posting it from this point onwards whenever the opportunity comes up. Hopefully the less funny image, the one you posted, will be gradually fazed out as it falls into disuse. Thanks anyway.

>>8821734
Cant't tell if bait.

I used to have a ton but cleaned them out, I guess I can contribute

>>8821884

>>8813525
This has to be the only 4chan screencap in existence that requires a map key

>>8811251
fucking made me spill coffee fuck you

>>8809881
this one genuinely destroyed me

>>8822741
like i'm crying

>>8809930
holy fuck this is funny