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Anonymous 04/16/24(Tue)20:49:09 No.5584 [Reply]

I've been overthinking this recently; why read translated fiction and poetry? What is the value in reading something that isn't in the author's own language/voice? Can poetry even truly be translated? If not, wouldn't that carry over into fiction as a whole, since sound, flow, word choice, wordplay, and cultural/linguistic implications are so important to the experience and meaning of a story? Am I just having some sort of midwit short circuit here?

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Anonymous 04/26/22(Tue)19:13:44 No.3208 [Reply]

Bros, what's some good erotica? I feel like I've been missing out.

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Anonymous 06/29/22(Wed)03:06:27 No.3444

>>3233
>>3414
>>3438
itProbablyExistsInFrench.thoseGuysAreCrazySexuallyAndHaveALongColonialHistory.

https://whatshotblog.com/classic-french-novels/

thisShitholeRecomendsAChangedNovelInFirstPlace.noIdeaIfIt'sGood.

Anonymous 07/07/22(Thu)06:51:10 No.3461

>>3441
Ebonics and english?
No, I was thinking of German and English.

Anonymous 03/19/24(Tue)03:57:22 No.5562

>>3212
Just fucking read Neuromancer

Anonymous 03/20/24(Wed)21:08:46 No.5563

https://www.reddit.com/r/stephenking/comments/797zrx/that_it_scene_everyone_who_hasnt_read_the_book/?rdt=44590

Anonymous 04/04/24(Thu)11:26:25 No.5569

>>5562
Neuromancer is one of those books that's quite overrated. Isn't trash, but it's far from really being a great book.

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Anonymous 04/22/22(Fri)22:10:41 No.3180 [Reply]

What was up with his fixation on foreheads? A Tale of Two Cities alone has like a hundred references to the foreheads various people; male and female, young and old, rich and poor. Was it a fetish?

Anonymous 05/02/22(Mon)10:13:55 No.3236

phrenology

Anonymous 02/25/24(Sun)10:31:34 No.5548

A person's forehead shows his character, status, age, and health.

Anonymous 03/13/24(Wed)00:47:29 No.5556

I have a big forehead because I'm a MED. Even Lovecraft being an angloid believed that Greeks/Romans having large foreheads were a divine sign of superior intelligence and good ethics.
BIG OLYMPIAN BROW

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My manifesto Anonymous 07/19/21(Mon)11:12:34 No.1729 [Reply]

Today I will become a woman by shoving my bloody dilation dildo down her throat until she is dead.

That is all

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Anonymous 02/02/24(Fri)07:49:01 No.5488

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>>1890
It means this.

Anonymous 02/02/24(Fri)09:14:24 No.5489

>>5488
that guy is right

Anonymous 02/03/24(Sat)14:36:28 No.5493

>>1736
>the strongest niggertoro respecter

Anonymous 02/06/24(Tue)02:07:42 No.5503

>>1736
Typical agp tranny trying to get attention, a total failed man.

Anonymous 02/24/24(Sat)19:42:26 No.5547

>>1736
Don't these people despise animes with young protagonists? Or is it okay when they jerk off to it because they tend to identify themselves as the cute little girl?

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Comedy shiptoast poetry Anonymous 12/30/23(Sat)22:40:42 No.5447 [Reply]

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Anonymous 01/19/24(Fri)05:32:32 No.5456

I'm gonna be honest dude I don't care enough to click those links and read through all that shit. Just post the good parts in this thread if you're still here.

Anonymous 02/01/24(Thu)00:53:53 No.5478

Shit thread, not even good shilling

Anonymous 02/24/24(Sat)04:08:32 No.5544

You want shiptoast poetry, there's Prussifornia by Mencius Moldbug.
https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2012/06/prussifornia/

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Anonymous 11/29/20(Sun)09:49:52 No.764 [Reply]

Where am I suppose to be able to find books? Amazon a shit, Barnes & Noble a shit, there ain't shit worth of bookstores around me. I have money and I must spend it on reading. My particular itch is for Bavarian history and non-Roman European history.

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Anonymous 02/02/24(Fri)07:29:14 No.5485

Just use little free libraries. It's what I've done. They have one in my neighbourhood. Why waste money on buying books when you can just use those? Easy peasy.

Anonymous 02/02/24(Fri)14:39:35 No.5490

>>764
I want that nip to drink my semen

Anonymous 02/07/24(Wed)10:17:36 No.5506

>>764
This is oldshit, but use Anna's Archive.

Anonymous 02/20/24(Tue)23:43:42 No.5537

>>764
I'm going to put my penis in that woman's mouth

Anonymous 02/23/24(Fri)12:32:16 No.5540

>>765
Gutenberg lately turned to some odd direction: plain catalog disappeared, only search and bullshit "book shelves". Also, very insistent "popular" suggestions everywhere.

Of the really big ones, Archive: https://archive.org/details/texts
Of course, there's some kindle "library" nonsense, but on the upside they uploaded tons of books scanned by Gaggle, so you only need URL to read them without «hurr durr please enable all our spyware to confirm you are an actual sheep».

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Anonymous 12/20/22(Tue)09:47:28 No.4147 [Reply]

Why modern readers are such subhumans? It's actually a race thing?

Anonymous 12/21/22(Wed)16:11:03 No.4149

They think that reading books automatically means they're smarter than everybody else, regardless of what books those are or how well they understand them.

Anonymous 02/02/24(Fri)07:25:45 No.5483

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>>4149
Because they are millennials of the "I hate reading because TEACHER BAD" variety. That's all it is. You nailed it with your post, and it's because deep down, they know they were dipshits back then. It's why they coined "adulting" and all their self-help books are shit like the subtle art of not giving a fuckity-fuck-fuck or whatever. It's not a race or gender thing. It's a generational thing. Millennials are literally a glorified speed bump culturally. You'll scarcely remember anything they've ever done, let alone written, by 2050. 2100? They'll be off with the Silents completely. Turns out boomers WERE right - millennials really did kill everything.

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/lit/ writes a poem post by post Anonymous 05/19/22(Thu)17:13:14 No.3329 [Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Roses are red, violets are blue

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Anonymous 06/13/23(Tue)08:20:48 No.4968

>>4760
>>4913
kys you obsessed coon

Anonymous 06/14/23(Wed)16:00:04 No.4970

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>>4968
Faggot!

Anonymous 06/14/23(Wed)16:04:43 No.4971

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>>4970
>Ramon Coon
Kys Ramon Coon

Anonymous 06/18/23(Sun)22:24:28 No.4989

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>>4970
K
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Anonymous 01/16/24(Tue)00:06:10 No.5455

I say, watching her strut in her kimono

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Tvch threads Anonymous 02/14/23(Tue)02:23:27 No.4424 [Reply]

Share the archives from old threads and the and average anon's writing mastery.

https://archive.ph/e2oNm
https://archive.ph/c91jH

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Anonymous 08/17/23(Thu)12:27:34 No.5255

https://web.archive.org/web/20210603214819/https://tvch.moe/tv/res/173085.html

Anonymous 08/17/23(Thu)20:05:00 No.5256

>>5255
all cucknime is bad, the majority of berzerk fanboys are trannies

Anonymous 09/07/23(Thu)00:32:51 No.5337

Not tvch, but is related, Nuzach sperg out with Ramon/Jbalvin posting again and spammed porn

then he visited zzzchan to share his screenshots from his "victory" over Gahoole

https://archive.ph/cdwgS

Anonymous 12/05/23(Tue)00:52:51 No.5424

https://web.archive.org/web/20230629094920/https://www.youtube.com/@myheatgoesboomboomboom1655/videos

Anonymous 07/02/24(Tue)22:04:55 No.5683

https://boards.4chan.org/lit/thread/23540300/a-question-to-esl-lit

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Psychological Depth is a Crutch Anonymous 07/13/23(Thu)04:38:02 No.5119 [Reply]

The mark of a good character is not depth. It's making them feel lifelike. Not necessarily in the sense that seem like the kind of people you see in real life, but in the sense that they feel like living creatures with their own independent thought process. Great writers can do this with only a few lines. Bad writers, on the other hand, cannot so they compensate by adding layers and layers irrelevant "depth" to make them seem lifelike when they're really not. A mustache twirling villain who ties a damsel to railroad track because he has mommy issues is no better than one who does it just because he's evil. It adds nothing to the character or the overall story in any meaningful way.

Anonymous 11/25/23(Sat)16:03:12 No.5417

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>>5119
> Great writers can do this with only a few lines. Bad writers, on the other hand, cannot so they compensate by adding layers and layers irrelevant "depth" to make them seem lifelike when they're really not.
Well, quite often it's but trendy filler or pseudo-intellectual shibboleths. See also Aragorn Never Had an Identity Crisis.
But then, much the same can be said about great many other things. No tool makes good writing on its own. It's just that whatever becomes fashionable ends up the most annoying due to repetition. Which is how things stop being fashionable, of course.

Anonymous 11/30/23(Thu)01:22:36 No.5421

This depends entirely on the story you're trying to tell and the character you're trying to portray. Stories are defined by the conflicts they portray, and the conflict of man vs self doesn't make any sense unless your character does have some depth. LOTR would not be improved by adding depth to Sauron, but Crime and Punishment would be a very confusing story if Raskolnikov didn't have layers and conflicting motivations.

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