/lit/ - Literature

Requisite

I know, WTF.

Thomas Hart Benton

>>1478414

lol at multiple typo fails... past my bedtime.

Theist here,

In defense of Hitchens, even though his book god is not GREAT, is hardly the definitive case against God of theism, he has not been a coward and avoided conformation with theists of repute and stature.

Knee jerk reaction to Hitchens is as silly as some of his subjective feelings about God being passed as argument. Hitchens is not Dawkins, he does not hide. It is not his fault that orators or equal skill as he do not currently exist on the theist side of the bench (though there are writers who could best him, I am still waiting for Hitchens and NT Wright to smack down). Paul of Tarsus, Justin Martyr, GK Chesterton, and CS Lewis are all dead; Hitchens should not be blamed for not taking on the best.

Oh yea, I almost forgot, "FUCK CANCER."

That is all.

Ayn Rand was not a libertarian.

However, I doubt she literally wanted to see people blow up buildings. She did think that giving somebody something for nothing lessened their human worth. I have not read the book, and because I am was not a fan of Shrugged, probably won't, but I am not surprised by your synopsis.

You seem like the kind of guy who reads Voyage of the Dawn Treader and thinks that CS Lewis advocated suicide. Linear thinking is linear.

I said earlier that NeverEnding Story was my favorite book, so it should also be my favorite fantasy novel... I really want to say The Hobbit though.

His arguments against God are not very good. However, this should not detract from his overwhelming qualities as a journalist, a writer, and a person.

If his death does come too soon because of this terrible cancer, I pray that he pass painlessly. While he would not respect me for asking, I would also hope that he know God as friend and a Lord, the former for its own sake and the latter for salvation of the soul.

Tough one. Right now it is The NeverEnding Story by Michael Ende, everything a fairy tale/fantasy should be. Though at the time, reading the Deerslayer by James Feminore Cooper hit me like a ton of bricks. Chingachgook = total badass.

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>>1474700

Uh, that ain't anything like Tolkien... very much a typical fantasy plot. Tolkien's plot is not all that original either. The brilliance of his books are in the painstaking detail and love that goes into every part of the world he creates as well as characters we identify with, not an original plot. The Hobbit is a point A to point be quest with a pot of gold at the end, you cannot get more simple than that. The Fellowship of the Ring is a redo of the Hobbit until they reach Balin's tomb.

JRR Tolkien's books could be accused of going through the George MacDonald plot generator.

>>1473559

Well, his mom evidently did more than suck dick.

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Thank you.

>>1474599

If you get three people sign up you get your gift card free... I am not OP.

Actually, I tend to parenthesis with commas a bit too often. I frequently write flashbacks in italics. When a character is writing in the story, I offset his thoughts regarding that which he is recollecting in brackets.

Characters in my stories often make incorrect or flawed popular references or mix fictional statements with real ones. For example, a character generally familiar with the Midwest will talk about the characters from Lake Wobegon as if they were real, or from Wisconsin.

Most people would not recognize this, but those who know me personally recognize many of the scenarios are based on my childhood memories or dreams I obsess about and scenes often take place somewhere I have recently visited with me using the geography of that area for my scene.

Yea, I misspell a lot and my grammar is terrible.

>>1471139

Sounds like hentai.

>>1472675

Well played good sir!

Writing for its own sake is fun, publishing for its own sake should not be. I think.

If an author makes their work difficult it should be for a purpose, to stimulate the reader in some way.

If the purpose of your story is better served through simplicity then I see no shame in making it comprehensible to the average joe.

This is not recent and this is not negative. Progressive culture has bread sentiments which are extremely closed minded and naive. Anarchism for example, a self contradictory worldview. Hipsterism, while indie rock is were it is at presently, there is a lot of silliness coming from the art house left about what art actually is. Just look at your average indie rock music video. The incomprehensible or absurd is often mistaken for beauty.

Gentlemen of the right, such as I, love to poke fun of the arrogance, naivety, and contradiction of the cultural and political left while being themselves fully immersed in culture. We even like to cite authors of the right who are superior than your vain, whiny, pretentious lefty authors. GK Chesterton, JRR Tolkien, and CS Lewis > gentlemen of the literary left.

Julian Assange is the poster boy for naivety, pettiness, and is a pseudo supporter for the 1st amendment (not even sure he understands what it is).

He apparently thinks that using information offered up willingly (even if foolishly) is inferior to private information taken through spying. My facebook information that I submit to the public will not get me killed or risk the well being of millions as sensitive foreign policy matters do not rest on its secrecy.

So yea, I am an idiot.

Meant to put this in kindlewall thread.

also, also escher

Also Escher

MC Escher

I am reading through it now. The prose is excellent. I picked up fairly quickly that this is a book were plot is of secondary importance if not completely unimportant.

The book feels dreamlike, but I have learned that I only should be reading it while fully awake. My habit of reading myself to sleep does not do this book justice.