>decide to reinstall Reddit and check out the poetry sub>it's all free verse retardation with no rhythm or meter and it's about virtue signalling topics let's have a poetry general. post your own or your favorites.
>>22544362If you want to be sold, then yes, by all means make something entertaining and simple. If you want to make something that will most deeply resonate with the highest largest number of people across multiple ages (or at least until the language dies out or so radically changes it transforms into something else), then you need form; you need meter; you need Craft and you need Art.It's just not optional; I don't know what to tell you. No, you don't have to make allusions to Greek legend. No, you don't have to use "thy" or "thine" or "hither" or "thither". You can use plain modern diction if you like, or can even swear if you like. But the basics of linear meter and stanzaic form have been unchanged since Middle English and will continue to be unchanged until English ceases to be English.Look at Hamilton, for example:I’m in the cabinet. I am complicit inWatching him grabbin’ at power and kiss itIf Washington isn’t gon’ listenTo disciplined dissidents, this is the difference:This kid is out!Fifteen dactyls followed by two iambs. Not a beat out of place. Falling rhythm to parallel bemoaning and bitching, rising rhythm to parallel action and conviction.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Partly I was tricked into thisI had my life but wanted hisBut every day I thank the LordThat I didn't fall for discord
>>22544480Why write this, when the book of Job did it like a zillion years ago a zillion times better?? I dont understand it! I don't understand. I DON't understand.Like im trying to make it right, like the FIRST line, which is a dooozy, and I just keep hearing"There was a man, in the land of Uz; whose name was Job, and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil."THAT's a first stanza.
>>22545638The devil played a trick on me:He tricked the one, the two and three.Through the apple of my eye, you'll see;The Lord hath played a trick on thee.
>>22544821Beady eyes, anglo lies,muffled in their women's cries.from there I would go to 'not a stone is left to stand," which is fine and very masonic you free mason you, and then the rest sucks and i would go "the anglos's face sweeps 'cross the land."you're writing this from the perspective of a mason, who does NOT see (does not see-nazi; lol) man, as a fallen Angel 'anglo, ang-lo, aim-low' but as the rising ape. But I will warn you, its confusing muddled and stupid, like free masonry. because, like, i dont really see the low angel. I just see Tubal-Caïn. Its a poem about Caïn, Lamech, and Tubal-Caïn, to me. So IM not tricked by it. Its not scary, and Im not scared of it, and like, you should be scared of Tubal-Caïn.
When I sat down at my lecture today I spotted a very fat and ugly lad quickly put a book in his bag. His teeth were gnarly—yellow, misshapen, with wide gaps. His tiny framed glasses were greasy and unclean. Just from his physiognomy I deduced what he was reading and engaged him with glee.>What book are you reading?He hesitated with worry, as if to plea.>’Tis a fantasy book, I swear to thee!>What’s the title, you putrid swine?>Mistborn.>Ah, Brandon Sanderson!Before I could flurry him with insults and berate him for his poor taste his beady eyes widened with disbelief. A smile formed on his porky face and his cheeks went red with joy… The simpleton had mistaken me for a fellow fan! I hadn’t the heart to tell him the truth. Now, when I pass him by, he nods his head as a sign of respect.
>>22538610He's very active on reddit lmao, they love him there>>22538676Writing is very much mediocre, but his fans are insufferable and act like his books are god's gifts to mankind. You can ask for any variety of fiction, and some dumbass is gonna reccomend him. It is truly surreal
>>22545422>>22540560Like others said, he's great at worldbuilding and magic systems, his character work is fine/functional from what I have heard but not great. He and other hard fantasy writers are lot like the old school hard sci fi writers like Clarke and Niven (and their successors like Andy Weir), its not character work where their strengths lie but the intricate worlds they design. There are hard sci fi writers that can write great characters (Alistair Reynolds,Greg Egan and Peter Watts for instance) what are the hard fantasy parallels though?>>22539029>>22539117At least Jordan left extensive notes and thus allowed Sanderson to compentently finish off the books, unlike the post-Frank Dune books that are shitty cashgrabs and contradict his work.
Are hard/defined magic systems inherently retarded?“What foul sorcery is this?”“Um, ackchyually, the enemy identifies as a Wizard, so it would be ‘What WIZARDRY is this’, you bigot. Respect their profession.”“What the fuck. It’s evil and heretical and demonic and I don’t like it. Therefore witchcraft.”“Ackchyually, a Witch is a female Warlock who makes Pacts with-““Please shut up…”Sounds like pretentiously semantic crap, the kind of crap that trannies and leftists resort to.Bitch, it’s magic, it’s not supposed to be hard understood, it is something to describe, not to define. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>22545702based post
Yeah, Branderson should be so upset with how he's viewed....
Kafkaesque
>>22542818Retardation. The true meaning of Kafkaesque is to follow reason to the extreme and see how absurd the reason is to begin with. He doesn't do unreality. His true precursors are Walser and Kleist.
>>22541803Proustian
>>22545229Based schnauzer.
>>22541803>niggerlicious
>Schooenhauerian
>society ruled by women since its inception >queens constantly backstab each other and treat their underlings like shit>still in the stone ageWhat did the author mean by this?
>>22544837What do you think the cover artists thinks about painting the same shit over and over and still getting paid for it
>>22545161Not really. It has surprisingly mature themes and tackles them somewhat well, but you can save book 11 to 14
but if i were to ask you why is fucking sucks so much?
>>22545273Huh?
>>22545439He is asking about your mom I believe anon
Post the hardest to parse Mccarthy sentence you know.
>>22544963reads like someone describing their rectal hemorrhage suddenly started talking
>>22544988Filtered pleb
>>22544963>The horse raced past the barn fell.
>>22544963the worst is the judge talking about judging people.It's so bad it came out ambiguous. Whole thread on it a while ago.
>>22545559Clarity is not the Judge's point. Or rather it's his point only ironically.
What did Kim Stanley Robinson mean by this?
>>22545489I read this book and subvocalized John's dialogue in JFK's voice and Frank's dialogue as a Fishburne/Wong style voice. I didn't finish Green Mars. I am planning to revisit the trilogy and read them all together.They are fearful about the mayhem the life-extension treatment could cause and how the global elite will exploit it to create a brutal population control scheme and world regime. Robinson is an ancom iirc.
>>22545693Benedict Wong from Prey 2017
>read half a book this whole yearI was reading 70 books a year just 3 years ago, what the fuck happened.
>>22544482stop scrolling on your phone. stop making 4chan threads. just simply read book
I actively post in tv, v and lit every day despite not playing a single game, not watching a single movie and not reading a single book this year
>>22544618I've had it in February and still can't concentrate like I could before. Does it ever stop?
>>22545104base
>>22545067That's the thing. We can't
>“Somebody must have slandered Joseph K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.”
>>22545039The actual joke is 'both dead'You botched it.
>>22544466the full extent of the humor is lost in translation though. the german "verleumdet" (translated as "slandered") literally means wrongly accusing someone of, specifically, a crime, whereas slander includes anything that might damage somebody's reputation, even if not illegal. so in the original german the first sentence is strictly tautological reasoning
cough qu'est-ce que
>>22545586Fa-fa-fa-fa, fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa, better run, run, run, run, run, run, run away
The Castle is slightly more kafkaesque.
I lied and faked being a literal retard to get on disability and get an extra of 300 eur more a month so i can buy more books
>>22545329first R ain't no neutral double down
I'm getting a fat paycheck and I'll be buying tons of books.
>>22545266>not being Celine-pilled and literally becoming a doctorngmi
>>22545571based and bookmaxxingpilled
>>22545240good on you, you have nothing to be ashamed of.
So im reading madame Bovary. Only around 60 pages in and just finished part 1Wtf? I think my brother married someone like this. This Emma person strikes me as someone who lives in some fantasy world and has delusions of what life is like. And even if she gets it, it's then onto the next thing or event.My brother's wife is literally like this and now after getting everything she wanted over the years is now wanted a divorce lmao. What sort of mental illness is this?Bros, fr fr, he careful who you marry and especially have kids with (my brother has 3). This type of woman can and will destroy your life AND your kids. Nothing will ever be enough. Even kids to these sort of women is just a prop, once they get them, they will just be bored of them and want to have minimal to do with them besides having them around to keep getting child support
>>22544132>And they all turned out old virgins, so he must've done something right.Bruh the ending of The Leopard was absolutely not a happy or desirable one.
>>22544239>I think she just likes the idea or aesthetic of something than the actual thingYeah. That's how it is with almost everything, not only women suffer from this, as you (probably) fantasize having a girlfriend yet in that fantasy ignore the unpleasant parts of being in a relationship. >inb4 But I don't fantasize about it because I know the realities of having a relationshipAnd this is exactly my next point: men acknowledge their fantasies are just that, fantasies, mostly embellished by the fact they've never experienced them. Women often lack this insight which is why they want to fulfill their fsntasies whenever and however possible
>>22544112>decadent of vile species>Anna Kareninawomen don't like you because your reading comprehension skills are subpar
>>22545183Yes it's bleak, but still the best case scenario once one has daughters
>>22545292Anna decides to cheat because muh love and muh bored, even though she's an aristocrat and has a child already. Should have known better.
Is there a memoir or fictional book, of man well into adulthood renouncing formulaic bourgeois life, going on trips to exotic places, exploring city and town, living bachelor's dream, learning local dialect and wandering under the city night sky then escaping to next destination before he becomes too settled down?
>>22543681>i-it's not laughable!!! They just don't geddit!!!Cope
>>22543904post body
>>22539692For anyone interested, BAP's literal zionist grifter project has been exposed. BAM is a larp grift because whites are bred to be niggercattle and eat it up. His goal is to decrease antisemitism:>>22536532>>22537153>>22537910>>22540722
>>22545533fuggin bazed
>>22539692Gravity's Rainbow
>>22540275The book tries to discredit traditional masculinity by beating down the husband who provides for his wife, while some trust fund kiddie alcoholic spends his father's fortune trying to bang this wife by hoping that someone will bring her to him on a silver platter. All of this is told through the lens of the most bland and uninteresting character ever written. The only good part was after they ran over that broad and that was the last few pages of the book.I liked that Gatsby got clipped.
>>22545008>ends up wanting to argue semantics like I predicted >"you are dumb for calling me out though"Fuck off midwit. You have nothing of value to add. You are as predictable as a house tour.
>>22545450I'm not arguing semantics you imbecile. You are reading things into a post that are simply not there and acting like you think you are some idiot savant when you are not a savant of any kind. Go back to jacking off to pictures of your fat mother Jesus f Christ.
>>22540275It just illustrates that there is a difference between the impression a person creates outside of themselves, and what's actually going on in their reality.Some stories don't have meanings or morals as such, they just depict a thing.
>>22540495Actually the autistic phenotype is probably the most suited to enjoying an author like Proust in the Current Year.
Have (You) taken the /fitlit/ pill?
>/fit/ trying to make their hobby out to be some intellectual pursuit to compensate for the lack of reading they did growing up because they viewed it as a gay feminine activity
>>22544977>t. /litfit/
I'm trying to swallow it.
I'm trying. I'm sitting at a 325lb Zercher squat but I'm struggling with Baumgarten's metaphysics and realizing just how far I have to go to understand Hegel. My bench is also stuck at 205lbs and I can't figure out why.
>>22543461Yeah I used to be. Now I am a collapsed mess after a back injury. I have lost all my will to read and crawl through books and am often in pain when exercising. Use to be a 3000IQ martial arts monster though.
Is it possible to draw some connection between Kant as the driving force behind the birth of current analytic philosophy through the centuries as a mixture between historicism, neo-kantianism, 19th century's hermeneutics, logical positivism, reaching the philosophy of language of Wittgenstein as far as Quine?
Frege completes nothing, prove me wrong. Nietzsche is a fucking repairman.
>>22544622Are you saying that Nietzsche completes Kant?Nietzsche as an anti-positivist neo-kantian?
>>22544692I'm saying he completes the entire history of that World. By correcting your impression while you read. Frege is the initiator to Quine imo. They are called Historical Unities.
>>22544699Thank you. So Nietzsche completes the german idealism refuting it? The entire thing is a circle?On Frege to Quine. What is Historical Unities?
>>22545578Plato-PlotinusAugustine-Abelard (kind of a guess desu)Bacon-Duns ScotusDescartes-LeibnizKant-Nietzsche (ultimate, concluding in Marx AND Schoppy was the failure)~Husserl-Derrida (extended one, can probably be broken down or tied to other things)~Frege-Rorty (same as above)roughly, I'm not an expert.
He was just trolling. He didn't mean it.
>>22545548>It was just a life affirming prank bro
Blegh :P
>>22545548No his philosophy was relevant during his lifetime. Times were different back then.
>>22545588Is it not relevant now?
>>22545595If you want to study the historical ideas of the time.
