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4927807 No.4927807[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

Do you guys ever stop jerking off to prose and talk about the stories?

>> No.4927808

>>4927807

The prose is the story. There is no separation.

>> No.4927814

>>4927808
>muh form content unity
people still believe in this shit?

>> No.4927816

>>4927808
english professor pls go

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>>4927814
>people still believe in this shit?

Form is emptiness and emptiness is form.

I bet you haven't even transcended time or space yet, pleb

>> No.4927820

What direction do you want this thread to go?

Come you can be open and just say it

>> No.4927839

I think it's funny that people's lives are so boring that they need stories.

>> No.4927841

>>4927807
i usually use both prose and video in my fap sessions

>> No.4927843

i try to but all these guys just wont listen

>> No.4927848

>>4927839
But you'll never experience a tenth of the excitement, joy, terror, despair and general depths of the human condition contained in stories. It's almost impossible in this day and age. So why don't you just go die, bitch nigga.

>> No.4927854

>>4927843
You'd think a literature board would be interested in the story being told, and not the word choice and grammar.

>> No.4927861

God told Jesus stuff and Jesus told us stuff and we killed him and now he loves us.

>> No.4927872

If you want narrative watch sports.

>> No.4927875

>>4927839
>implying your own life is exciting

But who the fuck am I kidding. This is a troll post. To OP: I've seen much less prose-posts than I have seen plot-posted. Granted, we see very little of either on /lit/. The problem is that talking about plot has very little discussion-value, and talking about prose requires the person to have read the item in question very recently. The only thing you can talk about with a group of people who may have read the novel years earlier is theme and characters. You'd be better off starting a book club if plot discussion is what you're looking for

>> No.4927879

>>4927839
I think it's funny how people have noses. It's like a fucking triangle in the midle of your face.

>> No.4929947

>>4927875
kek. Plot discussions are infinitely better than prose ones. "the prose was brettty gud" doesn't constitute as worthwhile discussions and that's the level of commentary people have on the prose.

>> No.4929957

I've read some amazing stories written in pleb prose.

I've read some incredibly dull stories written with amazing prose.

I liked some, disliked others.

Just read what you enjoy, it doesnt need to become a part of who you are.

I dont know where this 'I enjoy James Joyce, you enjoy Charmaine Harris, and therefore am superior" mindset comes from.

If you'd written Ulysses, then maybe...

>> No.4930441

>>4929947

there is no story/plot without prose.
the prose is the presentation and execution of the plot.

Two writers can write the same plot and come out with totally different books.

Imagine: Dan Brown plagiarizing the plot of Blood Meridian. Guess what is produced? A steaming pile of shit.

plot and prose are intertwined forever.

>> No.4932644

The prose comes from the depth and shaping of the plot. So by discussing the prose you discuss the formation of the plot. By discussing the plot you discuss how the prose is shown.

>> No.4932648

>>4927807
>try talking about the story
>put that shit in spoilers
>this board

>> No.4932659

>>4927807
That's Daniel faraday

>> No.4932768

>>4932659
The plot is the Constant.
The prose is the Variable.

>> No.4932809

Ideas > Prose > Characters > Story

If the story presents no ideas, and is not written in good prose, then I would be better off spending the time on other medias.

>> No.4932998

>>4927814
>implying telling a story with different prose doesn't make it another story

lelkek

>> No.4933010

>>4929957
this, for all time.

>> No.4933015

>>4927839
You're retarded, it's entertainment.

Fuck that line of reasoning is stupid.

>> No.4935197

once, there was an old irish man who mastrubrated on the beach while watching the teenage gril,

>> No.4935228

Nope. I even do it with film. I get more enjoyment out of form than out of narrative.

>> No.4935229

>>4933015
You're wrong. Literature should accomplish what only literature can. If it doesn't, what's the point?

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>>4935229
>should
According to whom? You?