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

i got ideas but its too difficult and when i do the small daily stuff i peter out and forget

i just wanna talk about my story but its too big
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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?
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Quick game: Help an anon with quick literature tips.

Let's go, let's make this board more alive and helpful to anons. Depending in your reply I'll be buying some books from these authors.

Is William Faulkner really good or not? Should I buy his stuff? Does he deserve a Nobel?

Is Ivan Gontcharóv good?

Is Le Rouge et le Noir by Stendhal overrated?

Is 11/22/63 by Stephen King "good" by his standards? I need to be an americanmutt boomer to enjoy it?

Are Ken Follett and Robert Musil pretentious shit for midwits?

Is Mark Twain underrated?

Is Haruki Murakami really the best Japanese modern writer or just the one by beloved by westerns?

Is Marguerite Yourcenar single handed destroying MED culture?

Is The Savage Detectives by Robert Musil really good or another overrated trash only because the writer is left-winger?
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Thoughts on Yukio Mishima?
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My manifesto

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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Innocents, Immortals, and Amoral Gods by Harry Dehrian

It is here bros. The novel by the Harry.
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Comedy shiptoast poetry

Read my deranged SHIT have yourself a hearty kek or two, my friends ;')
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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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Post your most contrarian opinions

>Virgil is shallow and phony compared to Homer
>Roman literature in general is shallow and phony compared to Greek literature
>the French chivalric romances and chanson de gestes pale in comparison to the German ripoffs
>the Decameron sucks
>the Canterbury Tales are even worse
>the "picaresque novel" is the worst is the worst thing to ever come out of Spain
>The Faerie Queene is a much better "English Renaissance Epic" than Paradise Lost
>all of Shakespeare's early comedies are awful
>Amadis of Gaul is better than Don Quixote
>Moliere is neither amusing nor insightful
>the 18th century was the dark ages of Western literature
>Voltaire is the most overrated writer in the history of Western civilization
>nobody cares about the literary merits of Jane Austin's novels, they only read them because they were written by a woman and have women protagonists
>Percy Blyth Shelly was a worse poet than Mary Shelly was an author (bad!)
>Walter Scott was better than William Makepeace Thackeray, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot combined
>James Fenimore Cooper was a better writer than Mark Twain in nearly every sense
>William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Virginia Wolfe, and John Steinbeck were hacks
>genre fiction is the only fiction from the 20th century worth reading
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>He'll never write a book about pro-wrestlers going back in time and having to save King Arthur with Hell in a Cell.
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I know normalfags are plebs, but… damn.
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Why modern readers are such subhumans? It's actually a race thing?
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The Bored Housewife Question

>most bookstores that aren't one of the big chains are ran by bored housewives who treat their store as a hobby for their circle of friends; if you're not part of this circle and go into one of these stores, they become suspicious and look at you like you shouldn't be there
>most community theaters are ran by bored housewives who only want to put on terrible plays their kids can star in
>most book clubs are 90% bored housewives who only want to read novels about other bored housewives
>most online book communities are made up of bored housewives who just parrot wikipedia articles since they don't actually read anything other than books about other bored housewives
>most literary journals, be they short story journals, poetry journals or anything else, are controlled by bored housewives who only publish rubbish about "personal feelings"
>most libraries are ran by bored housewives; being a librarian isn't even a paying job anymore since there are so many bored housewives willing to do it for free
>most novels, even YA novels, now are written by and for bored housewives
>the only genres that haven't been completely taken over by bored housewives are thrillers, fantasy and science fiction and the latter two come closer to being lost everyday
>most poetry these days is written by and for bored housewives, which is a big part of why so much poetry sucks nowadays
>epic poetry, once the most respected of all literary genres in the West, is completely dead because it's too inherently masculine
What are we going to do about this?
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/lit/ writes a poem post by post

Roses are red, violets are blue
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Thoughts?

I've been enjoying it so far. Very sincere and witty analysis of WWI Europe and Western Democratic society.
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What are some premium /lit/ channels?
I want things only intellectuals would get
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Tvch threads

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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Psychological Depth is a Crutch

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.
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Is listening to an audiobook ever an acceptable substitute for reading the real thing?

pic unrelated.
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Sci-fi, Fantasy, and Genre Fiction

"Literature"? What are you, gay? We'll have none of that nonsense in this thread. Come and talk about stories about cool things for men.
>nuuuuh, but my poetry
I will literally beat you up.

What are your favourite books? Who are your favourite writers? What are you reading now? What do you plan on reading, but have not yet gotten around to?
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Excite me

I m bored. Give me prompts.
Tens or hundreds.

Inspire me.

Pls

Tx

Tutorials
Listos
Whatever
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The retard-savant Autphag

I happen to be the fucker but in the wake of economic-collapse induced isolation; it should ought to be in the real, and 2021-IQ-tested VIQ227 analysis, aught; have too formalizedly-in-set an extraneous-third-personage going on to properly direct as a personally phrased inquiry.

The description pretty much sets (a self-written synopsis) an intellectual pre-lude the bugger's internal thought processes.

Also, as an example of his only recently interesting conversational discourse with a member of channed elites, the operator of the new location 789chan lolcows on alogs.space's new equivalent:

_https://nopaste.net/Wc7SiZFtd9_________

Check logfile.

He has previous works in White Nationalism which have since disappeared for hosts.

He was once reputed in it, before transitioning to primordial pre-feminism of the Jucheist flavour, disguised as first-feminism of the Soviet flavour.

Only Travis Westphall (the host of the file) would have the lack of intellect to believe this, however. A literally-diagnosed (at state-federal levels as opposed to the prison local authority cooked up garbage of Autphag's latest deets as a psychopathic retard of the 35th verbal percentile) 35th verbal percentile mental fraud although faithful connoisseur of his insights and deepest of outsider-intellectual insights.

He was originally a frequenter of the now-dead 789chan and alogs.space seems to have a samefag very much akin him; although, his consideration of it as diagnostically fair, even psychopaths have the coincidental trait of being unstly-themselves to that of, y'know, their central, core, psychotypical persona, so why rob of him that Borderline Personality Disorderedly advanced right, or Schizotypally advanced right?

The description even denies his autism (very much to Travis' elocution style); it's synoptically official, or even, as feudalists would say, "written".
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Based Zoomer destroyed Stephen King

Meanwhile y'all millennials and gen X praise him like a God lol
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how to write things without plot hole? like since things are written from say beginning to end,
how is it so that when you expand it, things dont be wrong, or, cross each others

one thing i figured is that, keeping amounts, like character will have consistent "value" of color or shape, or, points, and keeping this makes it right….but it still dont feel quite right, like itll still, plot hole somehow.
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Piracing E-books

Piracing E-books

does anyone have any recommendations of sites to get a great variety of books for free? Let's share it!

https://libgen.is/


https://z-lib.io/

[link removed]/
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How to write maybe uh
Light novels that ll sell for maybe 6 digits.
Or even comics/mangas, regularly good enough at least 5 digit every release and such…?
Whats the guideline to maximize the appeal
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I m bored so i d like some clue on making illustratoons that ll sell maybe some 6 digit traffics or klout

Not prompts but directions. Tutorials and such. The kind that sells as novel covers and such

Like how to finish this image high quality or such
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In the last two months I read at least one book from these authors

Larry McMurtry
Isaac Asimov
Robin Hobb
Stephen King
Brandon Sanderson
Robert Jordan
Patrick Rothfuss
William Faulkner
Cormac McCarthy
Robert Heinlein
Arthur C. Clarke
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Jorge Luis Borges
James Joyce
William S. Burroughs
Erico Verissimo
Clive Barker
Iêvgueni Zamiátin
Stanislaw Lem
Fiódor Dostoiévski
Liev Tolstói
Walter M. Miller Jr.
Iain M. Banks
Franz Kafka
Philip K. Dick
C.S Lewis
William Gibson
Ayn Rand
Daniel Dofoé
Dan Simmons
Andy Weir
Ted Chiang
C.J Tudor
Agatha Christie
Strugatsky
Virginia Woolf
Ken Follett
Michael Moorcock
Bernard Cornwell
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Algernon Blackwood
Arthur Machen
Graciliano Ramos
Lars Kepler
Neal Stephenson
Michael Crichton
Iain Reid
Haruki Murakami
Bret Easton Ellis
Mario Puzo
Nicholas Pileggi
H.P Lovecraft
Robert H. Howard
Edgar Allan Poe

What about you, incel? Not reading? Just fapping and watching Hollywood crap? Hah! Plebs.
YWNBAW
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Michael Crichton

I never read any of his works, but recently I decided to search more about his books, since left-wingers are constantly attacking him and calling him a "chud".
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Whats good story technically?

A million dollar best seller perhaps. Like how does each pages collectively adds up to the sales number
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Modern Conan clones.

Are there any? I've read a bunch of the classic Conan clones, but is there anything from the last ten or twenty years?
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How does stories or fict quantify to 6 digit traffics? How does the market measure and then promote and attract such number of sales of a piece of story content?
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Cormac McCarthy has passed away.

"He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die."
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ITT: recommend cool books that you find

Written in the middle of the 19th century, Debit and Credit (AKA Soll und Haben) by Gustav Freytag is a very interesting work. It was one of the most popular and critically acclaimed German novels ever written until 1945. Supposedly wealthy German fathers would buy it as a gift for their sons when they reached adulthood because of it's encapsulation of Prussian middleclass values. The reason it fell out of favor after WWII is because of it's negative portrayals of Jews and Poles, although not all Jews and Poles in the novel are villains. The main story is about a young German businessman who gets caught up in a struggle between a declining Silesian aristocratic family and Jewish moneylenders.
All the social and political aspects aside, it's just a well written novel. It strikes a unique balance between romanticism and realism which makes it very enjoyable to read if you like old literature.
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REST IN PEACE THEODORE JOHN KACZYNSKI, AUTHOR OF "Industrial Society and Its Future" AND SIXTEEN OTHER BELLETRISTIC EXPLOSIVE-EPISTOLATIONS o7
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Recommend me some essential /hitlercore/
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The ending of Don Quixote is weird, isn't it? He comes to his senses just before he dies, but no one is happy about it. In fact, they seem to be more bothered by it than they are by the fact that he's dying. The last chapter has this uneasy feeling throughout it, like the last episode of that Dinosaurs show when the snow starts falling at the end. There's a sense that this isn't right. I wonder if, despite what the Spanish critics seem say, the romantics were right when they said the book is really about the struggle between the passions and ideals of the individual vs. the wicked constraints of the world. I mean, if Cervantes was just trying to attack fantastical stories and the people who read and write them, why was his very next novel, The Travails of Persiles and Sigismunda, which he began writing at the exact same time as Don Quixote, a fantastical story played straight? That would make him a hypocrite. Am I just coping by reading too much into the book because I like fantastical stories and I don't want to admit that I'm being mocked?
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Books on how to talk

I know this sounds retarded but I need books on how to talk with flow and to speak in an organized manner. Whenever I talk I either side track or I either talk about something and then I blank out and can't remember about what I'm talking about since my mind is already thinking about something else or I'm thinking too much on the words to use. How do you fix this, I need to learn how to speak like a normal person.
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Comic Books

Where do I start with Archie comics?
What are the essential issues?
Which ones are canon and non-canon?
What are the arcs to skip?
Is there any reason to read this stuff besides masturbating to Betty and Veronica?
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Piracy Thread

Where do you find pdf/epubs/etc. of books online? I only know of archive.org, gutenberg.org, b-ok.org and libgen.is. Are there any others?
Also, discuss books about pirates and anything related to them.
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What did he mean by this?

Well?
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--YOU ARE NOW ENTERING THE LIBRARY OF /LIT/TYKINO--

WELCOME TO /LIT/, HOME TO LONG-LOST TOME TOTIPOTENTS N DOGEARRED DONG-DUST DOMESDAY-DUMPSTERED MICK FOLEY VOTIVE VOYEVODIN

GENERAL BOARD RULES:

1. Global rules relating to illegal/board-jeopardizing content are enforced.
2. Slander/libel Dwayne "Wanton Waylaid Bercesure-Jobber Names" "The Rock" Johnson at ur own peril.
3. As much as possible keep discussion related to literature or its creation/critique. Philosophy threads should preferably pertain to a direct written source (this definition's flexible in anticipation of wat ppl like 2 use these boards 4), branching out accordingly. /lit/ boards regularly serve as catch-awls for "social science" discussion, which suffices in moderation but doesn't excuse eschewing conversation about the board's chosen topic + its baseline medium (writtan + reedan).
4. Poasts awn this board are occasionally harvested foar submissions ean2 the board magazine, THE /LIT/TYZEN'S FEUILLETON (collective issues interred herein: https://mega.nz/folder/vh5ilKLZ#6AuBFAfWUYlBdr_ob1j5KQ) - if you do not desire your poasts 2 evur find their waie ean2 the feuilleton, please note in the subject phield oar body "NF". Submit werks 2 [email protected] eef 1 soe desires.

This serves as a haberdasherized nu hoam ov duh /lit/erary loam for collective /lit/izens blasted to the four winds after the 'kunpocalypse. Preservation and perseverance provides the utmoast value in prestige-emptied pallet-towns lyk our parochial neck ov duh wouds, so pick your patois and commit to poastean-novelly pashtunwali - or simply enjoie the livean archives, thrivean n growean b4 ur eyes.

/lit/ will inevitably remain a slow board, so post appropriately & enjoy your stay.
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Anytipswritingagoodplottoyourfiction(howto)
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You are working on your feuilleton submission, right Anon? You'll never get your art hoe gf without amateur artistic pursuits like this.
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Let's write a second novel post by post

On the table there sat…
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death

Hello, I request books, documents, greentexts, or commentary that would provide inspiration for how to properly prepare for death.

My mistakes are many.
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How to come up with a cohesive story every week like jumps or some section in chicken soup? Like logical and cohesive.

I can imagine character but the story is just something else.
Especially not knowing if it is correct or not.
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How do you plan story? I got like premise, characters gonna do this and that, the gwneral idea of the scene… but i actually dont know
WHAT should be happening.

Like if theyre gonna put out fire, they d use water but where does that water should be from? A well nearby? What if no well is present? Then it ll be a scene of failing to put fire.

But if theres water and they re still panicking, it d look kinda wrong.

It s just the whole thing
From the logic to realism.

How do you solve this.
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FEUILLETON V: THE V.I.E.W.

> Selburose crystal-spindels sleighin' rugose, gosling-down-gowned snow-mounds az far az TVCHANAHEIM's board-ur-lined horizon.
> A sun blotted moon-joshings, mist-wwwISPs bloqqin' accessed crane-panes 2 stain-tame the frigid, fallin streets aotsyde.
> Gelid wind gyring a ghost-town's skids no hypergolics cud goliath-grouse 2 lift off.

> Nine months abscondid priyore, that bottul ov mien parasailed outwards 2 absail daon begnęith duh depths undertowean /lit/topolis' wharf 'n weft. And with the hearths runnin' awn empty, tempestuous temptings fenning lemmings ovahr clyffsyde edgeans, and feds 'n sheyullz aplenty deck-dockean' errie hawl 'n vault 'n nook 'n krannie, awl looks lawst 2 a DNS-probed void…until, sqwintean ean2 the offset distance, one remembohr's one's insistence towards becomean the fewchour, and, az eye smile 'n solemnlee bind 2 dew, bears absolewt trewest witness 2…


…THE V.I.E.W. PROPUR.

A QHOIYEAR'D PARALLAX'D-QUINTUPLETS THROUGHWAIE OV INTQUISITIONZ QUESTED PERSONAGES AND RE-QUISITIONS GEAS'D RE-DOLE-LENSES AWAIT THIS LAGNIAPPE-EDITION'S PATIENT RECIPIENTS. THE DAIYMO/RUSTY SPATULA, GAHOOLE, SIR WEASEL'UM THE BRAVE, EL JEFE JEFF, AND MUSCISES AWL COME 2 A BOYILL UNDAHR THE FEUILLETON FRONTEND'S S'COPACETIC-DE-MAGNIFIQUE. RECIPES, RONDEAUS, AND RECITITAPHS TAP EAN2 THE TERROR OF THE TVCHANAHEIMIAN UNDERWHIRL'D AZ ONE PRIVATE EYE REYCES AGAINST HIS TEXT-EAN-TIME 2 PIECE 2GETHUR: WHO ORCHESTR8S THE CAHAL CORRALEAN AWL REVIEWS OV "THE DOOR WAS" EAN2 A FORM FIT TO DRIVE ANY MAYUN 2 MADNISS?!

PLUS: JORDAN PERAUGIE renews his fisticuff'd dalliances, amidst "happy ending"'s alliance, against limerence's mer-rood denudean, /LIT/ WRITES A NOVEL: PART 2!, AND ALFRED KINNING RETVRNS WITH A TALE SO TOWERING YET OHRDURED, EXHILIRATION-AZ-KABIN-FEVER PHINDS EETCELPH SIRIUSLEE FEE-NIX'D!


ALL IN AWL, AOHR GAUL'S DECKED JOLLY, HOLLY HECKLES TREACLE-FECKLESS-METTLE HOLY AWN US AWL, AND -YOU- KEEP EET AWL AFLOAT W/ UR INVOCATION OV BOARD INTURRIST - SOE FRUM US @ DUH FWELLIETON, DANKA-DANKA-SCHIENE 4 THE SHEEN U ACCEDE AND BREATHE EAN2 THIS ESTEEMED PRAWJICHT 2 BEQUEATH ITS BEATING HART. <3

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HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS, /LIT/OPIANS OV /LIT/ FIRE, FRATERNITY AND CHEER %^D
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Run many at once like urasawa/i hate eye-slam

Just impossible.


Impossibleeeeeee. The plot is a messs.
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FEUILLETON 4: POST-HOLIDUPS EDITION

> <ZIPPO CLINKS SHUUT, PLUME-ROKE STOKES ASTEROCINANTE TWINKLE-EMBURRS NYX'D ABUV>

>"Every daie, an X-mas celebration. Errie daie, a bus-clip clatturs public, keied rite 2 a skippur's scawllywagered maul.

>The outsiders call our boonie-boon, noodie-noob exhumed bloomin' onion heirloom ovvuh digital hoam '/tv/chanaheim'…and /lit/opolis, eets lacrimative crownin' bulb az stowed-awaie centurpiece.
>But as I fastened the cork awn the bottul, airtight, n punt eets plight 4 the sea's kun-surn, I knew awl set sail ean paradise 4 duh turn towardz duh DUP'd…for sewn enuff…"

ISSUE 4…FLOATS ASHORE.

100 MINUS 8 E-LEAFIN'S PERISCOPTIC, CYTOTAWKZIKULLY ASYMPTOMATIC PAGES. The HEEM GODS have once moar awoken - AND YEARN FOR BLOOD. A Federation-sanctioned "e-grill resistant" ration ov STAR TREK BUT RACIST HOLO-KINO. JORDAN PERAUGIE howulz, channullean hoagie-hornswaggull-HAWGS, 'bout a prominent NACRE-B4-NARCOS MOGGEE. THE FIRST JUNETEENTH MID-ROLL IN HISS-TO-RAHY TO CORRECTLY EMPLOY DUH EPIGENETIC DESIGNATOR NIGGER. And dat's just T O S T A R T !

PLUS, AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH THE JUICE-MAN HEEMCELPH, DRUNKEN SURFER! HARAM DIZ, YA FAG-GHETS! AND ENJOIE ANUDDUR GOE OV THE HOLIDAY SEASON, /LIT/TILY ESTIVATION-LEAVENED!

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EMAIL FOR SUBMISSIONS: [email protected]
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/LIT/ty club season 3 and onwards bound

B.O. OP EDIT: VIEW THE /LIT/PENDIUM HERE - https://mega.nz/folder/ThhnnayI#T30OHb3sHifcmVzLlnkYZg

Today begins a new chapter into the /lit/club. I made a fateful mistake by choosing the subject for the first nomination (Book Published 2 Years Ago) because of those bastards at the FBI. There are different resources vying for the vacancy filled by such a great site and I found one called

annas-archive.org which indexes a bunch of shadow sites.

Anyways without more stalling tactics. I present the list for this season and the nomination: World of Wonders
https://annas-archive.org/md5/fce03919d0c018a1334ff83aa0790a7e

Thank you everyone as usual and I look forward to your tastes.

ANIMAL PLANET is the next theme, books centered around animal characters and their environment.
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FanFiction or Archive of Our Own?

Former fanfiction writer here. I'm not sure what's the general consensus about fanfics or fan fictions here specifically, but I'm gonna ask anyway.

Which is better? Fanfiction dot net or Archive of Our Own? I know that there are differences such as AO3 allows scenes for mature audiences, while FF doesn't allow these kinds of scenes. That's all I know about differences between these two sites.
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Looking for ideas to write. Something that makes money basically.
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I want to practice writing prose fiction. Describe a scene you want to see and, as long as it's not too gay, I'll try to write it out eventually….
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Looking for some… nice lyrical literatures. Comedics maybe. Or just ironic.
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Baby im feeling better

Suggest me some nice classic titles to read with alot of nice lines
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Suggest me some smart book to read that makes you smart
Or dumb book thst makes you smart
Or whatever
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Guess my story

And win a sketch of that scene
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History books

These are some history books I've been reading lately.

The Story of Civilization Part 11: The Age of Napoleon. I'm usually not a fan of Will Durant but this is book provides a good synopsis of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era in France. Those parts of the book make a nice little companion piece to David Chandler's "Campaigns of Napoleon". The book spreads itself too thing, though, by trying to cover every facet of Western Civilization during that period. For example, there's an entire chapter dedicated to Beethoven and several more just about poets and philosophers of the time. It's just too much to tackle in a meaningful way in just a single volume. Even the three-volume Encyclopedia of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars failed to do that. Interestingly, neither that work or this has a section about Edmund Burke. There are offhand mentions made here and there (usually portraying him as the embodiment of stuffy English opposition to the revolutionaries) but no serious examination of him like there is about the other significant English philosophers of his day. This is especially surprising from Durant given his fascination with the history of philosophy.

The Italian Wars 1494-1559. This is the book I could find covering what was essentially the first modern European conflict. It does a decent job of giving a rundown of the events without doing that gay pop-history thing of trying to be like a novel. Personally I would have liked a little more focus on the military aspect over the political but I realize that's just my own autism.

Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suliman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe. This covers roughly the same period as the Italian Wars but focuses on the lives of the titular four rulers who dominated Europe in the first half of the 16th century. Most of the figures it discusses, outside of those four, are portrayed in a rather one-dimensional way. It reminded me of the documentaries the History Channel used to air before it became all about pawnshops and aliens. Overall, it's okay I guess.

China Condensed Absolute shit. It reads like a summery of a Wikipedia article but without citing any sources and even more fabrications. It presents highly contested theories (like the Huns being the same people as the Xiongnu) and legends as facts. It's also very biased; it glorifies China as much as it can while also pushing modern leftist ideas whenever possible. For example, there's a part where it suggest that a certain female usurper was only unpopular because of "male chauvinism". I'd recommend it as a book for small children if it wasn't full of so much bullshit.

China: A Macro History. This is a much better book on the history of China. The author was an officer in the Chinese Nationalist army so it's impossible for it to be unbiased regarding more modern Chinese history but there is much more of an effort to be objective than in the previous book. This book gives a sketch of Chinese history from the bronze age up to the 1990's about as well as any single volume work can.

What history books have you been reading? You are reading history books instead of watching cuckime, right? You do know that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it, don't you?
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How to check literaturely if your story doesnt make sense

Are you just correct by default
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Writing somewhat realistic story but afraid of it being too fantastical… some fictional element but otherwise a realism of sorts… how do make sure the story isnt going wrong/no loop holes?
The setup is of present time so it might be easier to spot wrong things than scifi or fantasy
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How to write cohesive texts in story

I got al the plots and premises (sort of) and now just worrying microscopic things but not typos.. just maybe action by action things and maybe statwmwnt by statemwnts so theyre "correct"
What is to be done?

Mathemathical check is complicated af so naturally we settle on logic statements maybe like "i am therefore i think" of sorts

Owait it s the other way
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blogs

What blogs do you niggers read?
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How to make

Amazing PLOt
GREAT STORY
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What do you do to get 600k regular readers. Like how do you make sure it has "qualities" these people wants.
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Why did the mariner shoot the albatross?
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Requesting You Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins.
Also Self Improvement Books thread.
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Now that the dust has settled...

https://www.miserytourism.com/dimension-tripper/

What did we all think of Dimension Tripper?
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The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings / The Silmarillion

Use this thread to discuss anything related to J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium.
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Was it really a pleasure for them to read my poetry or are they just being polite? Even if they don't publish it, the idea that someone else read it and liked it makes me happy but I get the feeling they didn't really like it.
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>looking into how to get poems published
>find a list of literary journals who publish new poets
>these are some of the poems of the most recent issue of the first one listed
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Warhammer 40K Horus Heresy

What was the name of that one faggot author that everyone hates?
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tell me.. NOW!!

hi.. im very new to reading and also understanding and processing words. but i really loveed the unbearable lightness of being. i came here to ask if that's a valid opinion or if i should kms please be kind and sweet <3
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Trying to write like harry potter, stan lee

how do you generate such long enough material to be so succesful enough everyweek and still have it, be cohesive of sorts?

basically any tool, method, ways or guide to maintain cohesiveness in stories????
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What are some Western fantasy, science fiction, or other books that are written like anime? I've heard The Wheel of Time and The Black Company novels are a lot like anime. Is that true?
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most things you ask, happens after (You) die.

are there rules to good title and good character name?
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What did he mean by this?
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looking for a significant meaning number of seventeen

something that has 17 in it
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>Dear all,

>Thank you for your submission to Passage Prize. Unfortunately your work of fiction has not been selected as a finalist for this year's prize. On final count, we received over 400 stories, but could only select a handful for final consideration. Undoubtedly, many of you receiving this email submitted work that is worthy of recognition but did not end up on the shortlist for whatever reason.


>This prize came on quickly, leaving little time for new work to be written. We will be announcing the second prize later in the summer. I invite you all to submit again when the time comes.


>I hope you are not discouraged. And I thank you for the many wonderful hours reading your work.


>Sincerely,


>Lomez
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Filtered by Melville

54 chapters done. I don't think I can handle the archaic english and passage-tier sentences and boring whaling facts anymore. Should I stick with the book, skip to the last dozen chapters where the action begins or just drop it?
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stu;pidest thing a litterature can do

othetr than racism, nsfw, and offensive personal stuff
what can a literature do that decrease its sales and basically makes it read very dumbly and uninteresting?
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Are things really as bad as they seem for aspiring authors? It seems like the only people who read new works of fiction are children and middle-aged women, and they only read books written put out by major publishers. I heard to get your stuff published by one of them you have to either already have some kind of following or you have to ghostwrite for someone else for awhile, and even then they'll force you to fill your story with pozz.
There's always self-publishing but does anyone read self-published works of serious fiction? There are so many other self-published books flooding the market that the chances of someone even coming across your book, let alone reading it, seem very slim.
I know getting into writing to make money is silly but what's the point of putting your work out there in the first place if no one is going to read it?
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P. J. O'Rourke died

F
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Writer's Block

At what point does it stop being a block and end up defining who you are? What if I'm no longer a writer, and just a guy…
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good interesting character names?

Trying to choose interesting character names…mostly original but also fun.. think of pokemon, mickey mouse. the kind of names that improves your writing.
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Other than harry potter what stories made like at least 600grand a year?

wait..Harry potter made that much basically, right?
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see you dead

since you need to consistently deliver quality to earn X amount, how would you translate X to say the required value to produce? It's fair to say this right, since people(or a demographic) do look for a certain value and not any less, not brainless of a buyer?

Would there be a rough sketch for production/editing to maintain?
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Post your preferred reading music.
Vidrel I sometimes use for nonfiction
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i got like 17 types of literature i want to develop regularly
and maybe multiply them by 10

what should this 10 be if 17 stands for titles so i have like, enough content quota/memes to gain traction from idk
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how to plan out good story?
i got like characters designed and the premise but i dunno how to make like, arcs and chapters like jojo or harry potter's books by books…

basicaly coming up withthe plotlines ..
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what makes good plot in block buster and best seller paperbacks?
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if

if you have to have like, do a literature that will win million readers and sales, how would you do it? how much materials and in what way will you attract all those potential readers…?
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>Uh, anon, why do you have a book written by the Unabomber on your shelf? You know that guy is a murderer don't you?
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EBL 41: Jean Baudrillard "Simulacra and Simulation"

IT'S UP
Are literary discussions /lit/ty?
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Vampire Hunter D

Anyone here read these? They're novels and not actually manga. I heard it's pretty good high fantasy. Also what's the best way to get a book collection going? Do you guys ever find good cheap shit at thrift stores or something?
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Ashley Biden Diary

This is the worst handwriting I've seen in my life.
https://archive.org/details/ashley-biden-diary
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writing a long series are risky, isnt it?

obviously? what are profittable things that writers can do anyway?
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learning to write

something like james patterson, jk rowling, agatha christie, stephen king…
what makes their writing good?
how do you "learn" to write that good?

what do you do/assure so your book sells? connection to reader and stuff, what exactly make your book"connects" with them then?
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deciding characters power,affinity and numbers?

so im trying to write a book
the subject theme is decided, so does their overall design
but im not sure how many should i design, what power do they have, their affinities and relationships

and how many should be involved?
trying to make this all "cohesive"
any idea? to know each of their power or "properties", relatisonships or affinity yo each others, and the..amounts?

what should i refer to?
thanks
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Writefag Thread

Post your works, anons
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Daily Planner

I have created this Daily Planner to organize my time. Feel free to download it & print a copy off. I hope you find it useful.

Juice!

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help

how would you design characters for 1000 chapters of one piece, pokemon anime or asterisk comic or harry potters?
do you write the story first or do you design characters first? which one which?
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Looking for

Looking for free writing online so I can read and analyze how it's done. Looking for action and fight scenes and horror. Links to short stories or segments would be nice. Free stuff. Thanks guys, enjoy the holiday weekend.
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can someone explain ta me, say if you write storis like harry potter, twilight, james patterson whatever and stuffs like that

how would u plan the storis, design the characters and the set
to,say …create the content itself? what do you base you, top grossing material of? especially your designs… how do you choose so that it is good or cohesive, logical, and no continuity error or retcons at least
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coming up with good story

any tips on choosing the story to write thatll profit? i know you should follow trend and whatnot but if i were trace it then it ll be copying, while if i make it original it may not be better so how do i make informed choices on the things i should put in?
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when do you retcons? was there retcons in literatures?
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I posted this on /dunk/ and someone said to post it here instead

There once was an amerimutt
Who had a stinky poopy butt
And when he tried to drink his tea
It smelled like really nasty pee!
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Will reading Culture of Critique by Kevin MacDonald help me better understand the world?
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Books about self progression and success
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The Holy Bible

Anybody read this for the sake of analyzing the narrative structures or the takeaways that have shaped society?
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howtowrite

i have ending defined and im so creeped out by the idea that the writing will suck logicLly and completely throw me off and everyone else
what do i do

i have plot points defined but the texts…dialogue and things happening inbetween that will lead to those plot points "logically"… i cant seem to solve them by just simple Q and A? i just dont know how to simplify it lol
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What are some books that reflect the culture of Imageboards? Besides Notes from Underground
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Jean Baudrillard

Can somebody please explain hyperreality to me?
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A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind

bu Goodson Stephen Mitford

Has anyone read it? Is it /lit/ty kino?
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What's the best edition for The Silmarillion and The Hobbit? I'd rather avoid compilations since they'll probably include The Lord of the Rings and I already have it.
Thank you.
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Does reading make you smarter?
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What are some good audiobooks I can download from Audiobookbay?
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I am uncultured swine...

Please suggest books to read which are considered the foundation of western literature. No cuck shit.

So far I have:
Parzifal
The Divine Comedy
The Canterbury Tales
The Death of Arthur
Orlando Furioso
Jerusalem Delivered
The Faerie Queene
Paradise Lost
The Pilgrim's Progress
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/LIT/TYKINO POSTER PROJECTS REPOSITORY

Post all personal writing projects (zines/poetry collections/essays/fiction/etc.) or links to such in this thread.
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Let's say nuclear war or sunspots or whatever destroys civilization in the near future. What would be the most valuable books to trade for food and ammunition? Most would probably say hunting and survival guides but I think military books like Sun Tzu's Art of War, Maurice's Strategikon, and Clausewitz's On War would be highly desired items among the inevitable warlord class.
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im afraid the story i want to run to sell will be a massive flop… what do i do?

i ll still run it anyway
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Poetry General

What sort of poems strike you in your heart? I've never been much for words nor a writer of sorts, but I do know when words effectively touch me, and this one by Muhammad Ali is something I often find myself coming back to now and again.

The face of truth is open,
The eyes of truth are bright,
The lips of truth are ever closed,
The head of truth is upright.

The breast of truth stands forward,
The gaze of truth is straight,
Truth has neither fear nor doubt,
Truth has patience to wait.

The words of truth are touching,
The voice of truth is deep,
The law of truth is simple:
All that you sow you reap.

The soul of truth is flaming,
The heart of truth is warm,
The mind of truth is clear,
And firm through rain or storm.

Facts are but its shadows,
Truth stands above all sin;
Great be the battle in life,
Truth in the end shall win.

The image of truth is Christ,
Wisdom's message its rod;
Sign of truth is the cross,
Soul of truth is God.

Life of truth is eternal,
Immortal is its past,
Power of truth will endure,
Truth shall hold to the last.
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ONE YEAR TVCHANNIVERSARY - WHURR DOES /LIT/ GOE FRUM HURR?

Well, >we've fuqqin mayde eet lads - a whole year under suzerainty ov the KANGOGRE. Ean honor ov us treakin aot threw the moast horrifically evil/demonic interregnum 2 d8 ean moast ov human historee, eye'm sittin auwp a /lit/ty survey 2 gauge the state ov duh board n what ppl wanna c comean ovur duh horizon 2 keep it az mil/lit/-heirly grained az 1 cud wroight haom abaot.

>What threads are worth stickying/worth not out of present crop: nu feuilletons, /lit/ writes a novel, /lit/ty werks, book club? Are too many threads stickied ATM (excluding dis 1 obvs which iz temporary)?


>Where would you like to see the board go from here? Would moar board events b apropros oar a focus on cross-board interaction (maybe a collaboration w/ /art/ shud b awn the docket? /littv/ writes a script?)


>How do you feel navigating the board? Are moast thrads useful/funnie/informative? Hao's duh catalogue? (am awaer dat the stickies bump as eef normal threads - mite b abul 2 taulc 2 Gahoole baot rectifyean dat awn the backend sumhao cuz eets a lil irritatin iah)


w/o u, diz board wud b a sky-blue pigsty haiku-kuhaierarchy ov ply-malarkey. u niggas put swine amidst pearls ean duh best waie pawsibyl - so keep awn kiepin @ eet n the above-world literary BTFOs, lyk dat, will unfurl frum wats imagined ean2 reality. %^D
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…is language more universal or art or engineering?

seems like there isnt much money to be make with just language alone.
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How am I supposed to get passed the opening chapters where he shares a bed with a nigger
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Does reading make you smarter?
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Pushkin = Dumas theory

Have you ever heard of this theory, /lit/? It proposes that Aleksandr Pushkin and Alexandre Dumas were the same person. The most thorough explanation of the theory I could find was some old post on an Eastern Orthodox forum. I'm just copy-pasting it from there.

Russian theories that French author Alexandre Dumas is Alexander Pushkin

Almost all the materials I found on this topic are in Russian. Here are a few articles.

A Comparison of the Signature of Pushkin with the Signature of Dumas
http://moj-golos.livejournal.com/1035203.html

The article above notes that although dueling was severely punished by Tsar Nikolas I, the Tsar made an exception and acted mercifully toward those involved in Pushkin's fatal duel, wherein officially Pushkin was killed. The article proposes that Pushkin faked his own death and notes that Pushkin's wife did not attend the funeral, as if that was faked too. He believes that Pushkin showed up in France as "Alexander Dumas", with a new French identity.

"It's not a secret that Nikolai I created in Europe a powerful spying network. In this project were included powerful leading minds of Russia, for example spies included I.S. Turgenev (a famous author) (1818-1883) and F.I. Tyutchev (1803-1873). Acceptable work was found for A S Pushkin too, wo after Karamzin's death was solidly helped with the position of a natural historian. There was no demand in Russia for that kind of work, but that kind of "vacancy", which was not hard to create, should have appeared in France, the main political and military enemy of Russia of the time."
The writer (I think it's Nina Milova) imagines that by posing as a French history writer, "Dumas" could gain access to France's historical archives.


The writer says that Pushkin's handwritten signatures are in question as to their autheticity, and that Dumas generally left no direct signatures, only signatures copied by correspondents.

She points out similarities between the writers, like how they were both Mulattos with similar appearances and who both knew French and Russian fluently. Pushkin wrote a work, Kinzhal, about Karl Zand, whereas Alexander Dumas wrote a work called Karl-Ludwig Zand.
Puskin and Dumas:



According to the writer, Dumas liked to tell a joke that his grandfather was African and that all he had in genetic common origin with ignorant racists was a monkey. But this is joke a giveaway, because the real Dumas only had an African grandmother, but Pushkin did have an African grandfather.

Alexander Dumas' alleged father was French general Thomas Dumas, who died in 1806 and whose wife and son were soon forgotten and lived in the provinces. So their son Alexander Dumas appeared to come from nowhere back into French public life in the 1820's. But practically none of the French associates of Thomas Dumas recognized him, only one Herzog De Foie gave him legal recognition papers.

The writer said she always racked his brains trying to see why the writer Dumas was so mean to the female character Miledy. He depicted her so badly and tortured her to death. The writer proposes that this was because of Pushkin's own mistreatment by his own wife, Natalya Goncharova. Like Atos falling in love with Miledy when she was 16, Pushkin fell in love with Goncharova when she was that age. Both Goncharova and Miledy remarried once. Miledy remarried in 1844, when Dumas wrote The Three Musketeers (1844-1845).

Nina Milova in her interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets, Pushkin lived after his duel and wrote under the pseudonym Dumas, says that she decided that he faked his death when she learned that his relatives were absent from his funeral. His father learned about the funeral two weeks after it.
http://www.mk.ru/social/2015/03/31/pushkin-vyzhil-posle-dueli-i-pisal-pod-psevdonimom-dyuma.html

Milova says that the doctors couldn't find the cause of death, nor find the fatal bullet. She says that the Russian nobility loved to travel to Western Europe for vacations, but she thinks it's strange that officially Pushkin never left Russia. Supposedly it was because he was considered an enemy of the state, but Milova says that this is not true, as archives show that he was an official of the Foreign Ministry. She thinks that his exile in the 1820's was a cover for his trips abroad, as "Dumas" first made a public appearance in Paris at that time (1822), after years in obscurity as a child. Meanwhile, she says that Pushkin's time in exile in 1822-1823 is a black hole in his own biography. She says that Pushkin's faking his own death would be a way to get out of his massive debts in Russia.

She proposes that in the novel The Count of Monte Cristo, "Dumas"/Pushkin intends to suggest that D'Antes was unfairly condemned for killing Pushkin. In real life Pushkin's French brother-in-law D'Antes was charged with killing Pushkin in a duel and was briefly imprisoned. In reality, D'Antes helped Pushkin escape to France. Meanwhile, in Dumas' novel, the protagonist "Edmond Dantes" escapes from unjust judgment and takes on a new identity as the Count of Monte Cristo.

When at one point Dumas dedicated a chapter to Pushkin, Milova interprets this as Dumas/Pushkin dedicating literature to himself in reality. Further, she notes that Dumas was a translator of Pushkin works into Russian, despite the fact that Dumas officially first went to Russia only in about 1858, ie. when Dumas was already over 60 years old. Dumas had a major interest in Russia, writing novels about the Decembrists and Caucasus. How could he get so fluent in Russian and and knowledgeable about Russia if he only went there first in his old age?

Another post in the thread mentioned that it was very common for members of the Russian upper class to speak French but very rare for a Frenchman to speak Russian. What are your thoughts on this theory? Is it possible or just another case of Slavs trying to LARP as Frenchmen?
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Audiobooks

Does anybody here know a good place where I can download audiobooks for free?
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Where did 8ch/lit/ go?
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>be me
>trying to get into the Matter of France
>pick up Bullfinch's Age of Charlemagne
>quickly pick out one of the paladins as the most interesting one
>could be the king of England right now, chooses to fight for Charlemagne instead
>not good at fighting, but is more persistant, loyal, and good than the other paladins
>coolest adventures of all the paladins, rode a hippogriff to the Garden of Eden and took a flying chariot from there to the Moon
>it's Astolfo
>can't read about him without thinking of that cuckime trap that's always getting spammed here
>mfw
FUCK CUCKIME AND FUCK WEEBCUCKS
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Ghost stories

'tis (still) the Season, and that means ghost stories are in order. Any of you fine anons enjoying classic English ghost stories every Christmas as well?
M. R. James was a Biblical scholar and author, considered the master of the English ghost story. All his ghost stories are available here: https://thin-ghost.org/collections/show/2
His first collection of ghost stories: https://archive.org/details/thinghostothers00jameiala (sepia) & https://archive.org/details/athinghostandot00jamegoog (b&w)
A Podcast to the Curious began covering all of James' ghost stories, and has since gone on to cover ghost stories in the Jamesian vein: http://www.mrjamespodcast.com/

E. F. Benson was a contemporary of James, and, like James he attended King's College, Cambridge and was a member of the Pitt Club. Benson came from a great literary family and published numerous books, including several collections of ghost spook stories, which are available here: https://web.archive.org/web/20180320201227/https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/benson/ef/
Spook Stories by E. F. Benson: https://archive.org/details/spookstories00bensuoft
The Sanctuary by E. F. Benson (Online Text): http://archive.vn/uOzlf / https://web.archive.org/web/20190610063130/http://www.steve-calvert.co.uk/public-domain-texts/e-f-benson-the-sanctuary.html
Free readings of E. F. Bensons stories can be found here: https://corvidae.co.uk/benson/

R. H. Malden was a lifelong friend of James and published a collection of nine ghost stories in the Jamesian vein, titled Nine Ghosts in 1943. There are some nods and references to James' ghost stories, though one can easily enjoy them on their own, Malden's stories are perhaps the closest to James own antiquarian ghost stories.
Nine Ghosts: http://archive.vn/TaR0I / http://web.archive.org/web/20181226113218/http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605461h.html
Article on R. H. Malden (1879-1951) by Roger Johnson from Ghosts & Scholars 9: http://archive.vn/wZwK / https://web.archive.org/web/20191101173806/http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~pardos/ArchiveMalden.html

H. R. Wakefield is considered the last great English ghost story writer, and wrote several collections of ghost stories in the Jamesian vein. Sadly most of his stories are not yet in the Public Domain. A fine old radio drama of his ghost story Ghost Hunt can be found here: http://www.relicradio.com/otr/2011/02/h292-ghost-hunt-by-suspense/ - this story was also adapted by EC Comics as Television Terror! in 1950 in The Haunt of Fear #17 (3), though without giving Wakefield credit. Like James he has an interesting story about a villanous Jew, and in the current year he has been accused of both racism and misogyny.
Strayers from Sheol by H. R. Wakefield: https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20200923
The Seventeenth Hole at Duncaster by H. R. Wakefield: https://archive.org/details/Twilight_Zone_v04n04_1984-10_noads/page/n49/mode/2up
H. R. Wakefield: The Last of His Breed: https://archive.org/details/Twilight_Zone_v04n04_1984-10_noads/page/n55/mode/2up

M. P. Dare published only one collection of ghost stories, all featuring a duo of Sherlock Holmes/Dr Watson style bachelor scholars encountering ghostly going ons because of their antiquarian interests. Still reading through this colelction at the moment, and while they lack the punch of James' stories, they have all been a lot of fun so far, blending the comfy antiquarian bachelor life with ghostly shenanigans.
Unholy Relics and Other Uncanny Tales by M. P. Dare: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.186437/mode/2up
The Haunted Library: M. P. Dare ~ Antiquary, Writer… and Book Thief: https://archive.vn/eVNXs / http://web.archive.org/web/20201102040510/https://hauntedlibraryblog.blogspot.com/2014/10/m-p-dare-antiquary-writer-and-book-thief.html
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Father Christmas

by Raymond Briggs
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Reading is for fags in fact of course.
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Ladies and Gentlemen I welcome you to the first /lit/ty club thread. We will be accepting nominations and then whatever is nominated is put through a randomizer and selected.
A FEW RULES
1. You must provide a torrent or link to your selected text
2. The beginning of each month is a longer format and lasts throughout the month
3. It's good to have a little epitaph as to why you selected this book.

This month's theme is Tragedy. It can be any length, any time period, any author.

My first nom. is 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane
>4.48 Psychosis sees the ultimate narrowing of Sarah Kane's focus in her work. The struggle of the self to remain intact has moved in her work from civil war, into the family, into the couple, into the individual, and finally into the theatre of phychosis: the mind itself. This play was written in 1999 shortly before the playwright took her own life at age 28.

Source:
http://rlmalvin.angelfire.com/KaneSarah448Psychosis.pdf

If anyone has a good site for ebooks let me know, shit is hard to find
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How many years of reading experience do I need to take on this bad boy?
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I want to read Philip Sidney's Arcadia. Should I read the complete Old Arcadia, the unfinished New Arcadia or the Frankenstein composite version his sister made?
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STATE OF THE /LIT/UNION AND ANNOUNCEMENT OV /LIT/TYZEN'S FEUILLETON

Alright folks everyone here's probably seen/heard/read about tribulations Gahoole's gone through so I figured now's as good a time as any to thingify up and quorum as to the future of the board.

/lit/'s activity has stabilized to a level that's quite preferable for BO like myself (p. quiet moast ov time, long stretches between replies, general solid contributive effort and poast quality overall as consequence) and the only thing I would personally like to change about that is curating literary werks frum board populace to distribute accordingly to masses/uninitiated/non-littified lachrymose lackolytes ov smellin wat the rock's cookin.

This is why I am announcing the launch of the /LIT/TYZEN'S FEUILLETON - a conglomerated selection ov /lit/ty submissions and quality poasts frum the board published every 4 months ean stripped down, minimalist format focusean awn text transmitted, gnawt impetuousness acquitted by niftiness oar committed 2 obsequious butterbawlean ov present day curator (aka ur cicisbeo BO, mie %^> )

Potential (perpetuity'd) pieces for the /LIT/TYZEN'S FEUILLETON include:

- Excerpts from current standing of the "/lit/ writes a novel thread"
- Excerpts from any recent progress on a /lit/ board project
- Board defining poasts or threads, transcribed in their entirety/includean relevant image poastings
- Anything you desire to transmit to [email protected] that passes behe/lit/ty /lit/muster test

The plan is to have a larger, free-wheeling document snapshotting poastings/contributions @ the time of inception as opposed 2 focused sifting for "literary" logorrhea value OR holistic proprietorship of literary media proffered 2 public - feel free to submit werks u would submit 2 other places or have submitted before.

If anyone has requests/complaints/critiques about the board/the mag/etc., poast'm here. More information will be coming sewn about deadlines for first issue but eye'd want it aot there by January 2021 @ latest.
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BILLY AND THE CLOWN -Public Literary Analysis

Billy And The Clown is an overlooked work of legitimate historic merit. During the live narration debut of this work MDE's Sam Hyde proclaimed it to be a long studied legend of uncertain origin, intended to be featured in what turned out to be the groups first and only print publication which for various reasons in this instance shall remain unnamed. Neither of these assertions turned out to be true.

Billy And The Clown is an overlooked work of legitimate historic merit. During the live narration debut of this work MDE's Sam Hyde proclaimed it to be a long studied legend of uncertain origin, intended to be featured in what turned out to be the groups first and only print publication which for various reasons in this instance shall remain unnamed. Neither of these assertions turned out to be true.

Today overshadowed by the tragedy/memes/comeuppance visited on the creative minds behind Billy And The Clown, the work has become widely disregarded, if known at all, by academia and the culture at large. This is an injustice to both the the wider public and to the post-ironic modern bildungsroman, crypto-genius genre-bending cultural satire, and performative monologue itself, that is Billy And The Clown. Not only is the work extremely complex thematically and comedically, but the manner in which it captures and brings to life an element of experience known to many that may be wholly unique to the modern psyche is singular in nature. In a way the story of Billy And The Clown is the story of all of us, and therefore possibly one of contemporary literature's (if not greatest, and if not good,) only modern great American novels.

This is something that has to be done. Thus here proposed is the beginning of a public work: The Literary Analysis of Billy And The Clown.

For those interested and therefore intending to review the work again, or perhaps unfamiliar with the work entirely, I've found a re-upload of the original event in it's entirety (stranger's channel). I recommend this version over the more widely available abridged videos as the periodic ~13 minute intervals of Hyde's coughing, snorting, shouting at his computer and surroundings, or simply leaving the desk and room the camera is stationed in for multiple indeterminate periods of time, as well as the presumably unchoreographed musical interlude dancing to the entirety of 'Clubbed To Death' by Rob Dougan are as much an integral part of the full experience as any other.

It would also be pragmatic for any interested parties to download the videos in their entirety while they remain available online, since the song 'Clubbed To Death' is copy-written and full unabridged versions have frequently been removed in the past as a result.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOi2uLXhsps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIp8E0CVlmM

This project is no small endeavor and I intend to begin with some general research followed by a full breakdown of the text in it's entirety if any interest is shown. Please feel free to participate openly and freely post any thoughts, work, or information you feel is pertinent and you can expect responses and progress reports forthwith. If no interest is shown I will instead update at regular intervals of every few weeks/days.

This may not be something any of us are necessarily qualified to do, but again it is something that needs to be done, and it may be up to us to do it.
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What's /lit/'s board mascot?
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recommend me some of those books that smart people read. I want to be able to say things about smart subjects, and pretend I know what i'm talking about.
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I'm currently reading Pandora's Lab. Slightly pozzed, especially the opening but a brilliant read. Would recommend.

What are y'all reading?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33146881-pandora-s-lab
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ITT: post retarded book reviews you've come across. Not just ones that express retarded opinions but also ones that are written like something a read would say.
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I have never read books in my life. Where do I start?
All those curriculum books I read in school are long forgotten so they don't count.