/lit/ - Literature

>>6014608
Type B wants man booty, while type A wants dick and vagina. Obviously type B.

>>6011761
The kind that only likes the idea of being a writer so that he can convince himself he's intelligent, unique, and has some kind of purpose.

>>6014593
*twirls baton*

>>5893484
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>>5893924
Casting my votes for Heart of Darkness and Catcher in the Rye as well. Both short and beautiful.

>>5795219
I haven't read The Awakening (or anything by Chopin, really), but perhaps the book was more about critiquing men/the patriarchy and less about empowering women. To elaborate, the fact that the protagonist could only be free pursue her desires if her husband died shows how utterly powerless she is. Not only is her freedom constrained by her live husband, but her final freedom is still dependent on him in that he needs to die for it to happen. This does not call for women to hate their husbands or propagate misandry, but rather represents the female struggle in a patriarchal system. The protagonist is likely not a role model, then, but an every(wo)man.

>>5802864
I haven't read IJ yet, but from my understanding it is very dense and makes a lot of jumps. I recommend adjusting yourself to the copious citations by reading some of Wallace's essays (I loved E Unibus Pluram, and then there's A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again and the collection Consider the Lobster). You may also find it useful to first read Broom of the System, DFW's first work, which I've heard is similar to but much easier than IJ.

Why are you looking to get smart, anon? Personally, I would start with some philosophy rather than IJ. If you're able to listen to podcasts, The Partially Examined Life is great.

>>5633280
I was born in 1996 too, and I remember 9/11.

>>5622738
I read through it. There was nothing I really disagreed with. The assertion that people paid to have ideas won't produce them is a bit of a generalisation, but still true. I don't know if Asimov's proposal is an apt way to make creativity profitable for the creative, either; only for the elite chosen for such tasks, who probably do things like this enough already.

>>5551379
There are many schools of Buddhism, anon, such that there is no monolithic "Buddhism". Generally, though (from what I've seen), most schools are founded on the Four Noble Truths, which are not contingent on reincarnation.

The purpose of rising above suffering is so that life will be more enjoyable than death. Death has no suffering, so it is appealing for as long as you suffer. If you are free from suffering, however, death no longer becomes appealing in this sense.

Are you looking to religion for justification to live, anon? (Or even not to die?)

>>5348803
I love this, where'd you come up with it? Do you have the rest of the short story?

>>5335084
Given the restrictions on entrance to Heaven and the thousands of religions out there, the believer only has a slightly higher chance of going to heaven than the atheist. Also keep in mind that if the believer is wrong, then they have spent their only chance at existence in a more restricted way than the atheist.

>>5331110
The Nazi party was actually rather anti-socialist; they incorporated socialism and the labour movement into their party name to garner more votes. That's partly how they defeated the Communist party, which was dominating the polls until 1930 or so.

>>5330852
My understanding is that the boy does not literally want sex from his mother (it's before puberty and he essentially doesn't know what attraction is), but has sexual feelings in the sense that he is possessive of the mother. He "courts" her almost like an aggressive alpha male.

>>5330049
I'm fluent in French, but not fluent enough to know connotations... I can't say what's wrong with "je peux te fixer", but it seems very odd. Even the French speaker above >>5329700 thought that you were using a different definition of "fixer" than you were trying to. It is a bit of an anglicism, I suppose, to use the verb that way (though I could be incorrect).

You'll switch to sans? I think the problem with this line is that "avec" does not communicate in French what "with" does in English... What you wrote may be saying that her eyes are in the presence of no rest, or it may sound more like a list. A French speaker would probably use avoir instead.

>>5329588
I'm no French master, but it looks like there are quite a few problems with this, OP. "Je peux te fixer" is... something that a native French speaker probably wouldn't say, at least in poetry. "La peine je vois dans tes yeux" needs to be "la peine que [...]". "Tes yeux avec aucun repos" is also awkward, I think... Replace "avec aucun" with "sans" or a better synonym/combination of words.

>>5329819
Russia's communism was right-wing in many senses. Stalin, for example, did pretty much anything to keep himself in power (maintaining the status quo), and constantly referred to upholding Marxist-Leninist doctrine (refusing to let the revolution move beyond the scope of its progenitors—on par with the brand of American conservatism that idolises the founding fathers and the constitution).

>>5325994
If you're up to it, write a poem yourself. Go through which choices you made and why, and then apply the same sort of reasoning to a more professional poem.

>>5325866
A ruled notebook is good to use as a diary, brainstormer, or sudden thought/idea repository. A plain page one is good for drawing in. What are your interests though, OP? Those ground the purpose of your notebook.

>>5317329
Was this intentionally self-referential?

If either of you want specific help/examples, ask away.

>>5314139
Great prose, but the tone is a bit didactic and it reads, at some times, like a philosophy essay. I do like where you're going, though.

>>5317151
You need much more punctuation. This piece feels much longer than it is because of the lengthy and dense sentences. You could do with spacing out your descriptions, making them more easy to chew. Again though, lovely prose.

>>5325766
Also, if appropriate, you might also want to shorten "her act of cursing" to "her cursing", "her curse on", etc.

>>5325719
>And when seen from this angle, her act of cursing Sleeping Beauty—the daughter of the man who clipped her wings—is more akin retribution than mischief.

Feel free to replace "clipped" with a better synonym (I haven't seen the movie), I was just trying to decrease the word count.

>>5325617
**incredible genius.

>>5325552
Let us say that this person was a masterful singer, artist, archer, etc.—would you, could you, call that "genius"?