/lit/ - Literature

>>7555955
iktf
I lurk /a/ but it's all so banal, I can't write more than two sentences about anything or they'll ignore it. No one cares about expansive analysis of structure, rhythm or visual themes. That and every single show ends up being the same. It's fun for a quick shit, but I couldn't lurk permanently. Then, /lgbt/, of course, but there's a point complaining and relationships gets repetitive.

I really want to have a good /lit/, but we'll have to wait till april for the undergrads to come and compensate a little bit the shitposting.

Well... Moby Dick is a book, it doesn't have flashi sequences or heart racing montage or music cues or things like that. You get it, you sit for a while and you read. Maybe on the sun or in a quiet place in your house. You can drink or smoke, it's all cool because it's your expereince. Eventually you finish it and through the following months certain scenes or concepts will come back to you and you'll reconsider what you though about it.

>>7532646
I'm sorry marxist hibari, but original flavor will take her exit on her own terms

My dad told me that's an obligation, you're showing them why you thought of them when looking at that book and it makes that book unique for them. Then he stopped doing it with the books he gave me. Good times.

>>6722750
thanks but it's really nothing too original.

>>6722751
I'm sorry no one ever fought to protect your smile, but that generalization is completely baseless.

>>6682296
I wish we could add it to the body of dank-modernism (danmo for shorts)

>>6682301
We need more leg threads a la /g/.

>>6519806
it's a very complex construction. the basic idea is that they are femanons that are just as crazy as your regular robot but hide it and are attractive enough to make it work. they abuse their parents with a system of points based on good behaving that is rigged in their favor because their parents are weak (occasionally 4channers themselves). You can see small details of pent up rage in the broken walls and carpets and lack of higiene in menstruation marks or used tampons.
They use their female superiority to make robots happy and then abuse and/or kill them (otherwise it's implied that it would get crazy in a very bad way with the broken stuf and so on), following the yandere archetype that hasn't been properly fleshed out by Japan yet.
In some pictures you can see the authors expanding in how the character plays her strenghts (>>6519797's mega mil shirt and wheelchair) while in others the focus is on the parental abuse (like OP's) but the secret filth aspect will remain subtle and universal.
A secondary item that I particularly love is the inspirational phrase pointing to the camera (and/or screen). While it tends to be a reflection of how girls behave in social media there are some cases in which the author takes time to think something that sounds supperficially generic while implying pretty nasty things. Double readings of the elements are a pretty common theme in this pictures and while characterized by that kind of lines you can related it to the whole work. I believe it carries the moral message that you should always pay attention to things to seem too good to be true and it shows that even when playing the role of the sick and useless piece of shit robots still retain a strong moral fiber.

>>6387403
>>6387407
>asshole hivemind

Anyone calling Godard postmodern is an idiot. Postmodernism started in the late 70's and Godard is, if anything, a result of the 30's vanguards which were in every sense modernists. His interests in communism is also something that no post-modernist could have since it's a defense of a metanarrative. Late sad Godard is your regular modernist who failed to understand the failure of his thinking and assumes the world is just shit because the great goal never arrived. Pleas stop throwing around postmodernism as a catch all term.

>>6367408
Chris Marker is a genius, Sans Soleil made me love documentary footage. He has three different films that use the same clip of a chilean revolt during Pinochet's time with three different contexts, I had seen two and only noticed it when I read it somewhere else.

>>6367420
If you think it was randomness you're compeltely missing the point. He wasn't postmodern in any sense either, he was quite the modernist.
The nouvelle vague was very influential to film history from the japanese new wave to the first attempts of brazilian cinema. And Godrad was the posterboy of that.
You should hate his fanbase and you are free to dislike some or all of his films. But he was quite honest in what he did and he's directly connected to what film has achieved.

>>6367433
When he has good actors his films are okay, when he tries to do something outside of his confort zone you can see how bad he was directing people. Check Fighting Elegy if you don't believe me.

I'm not backpedaling, it's clear I don't find him too appealing or standing out among others. He only got big because of PR reasons, just like Wakamatsu among the pinku eiga people.

"he uses distinctive techniques" is a lousy argument, he doesn't. At least I think so, you should expand this if you want me to consider that argument.

>>6367472
You mean the 3D one? I mentioned it earlier in the thread. It's okay, it has that "I used to care about politicis too before I saw how shit all is" jaded rich left wing discourse that's so popular in Europe right now. The message is insultingly direct all the time, the first half has some attempts at story telling but it's quickly forgotten.
The 3D part is interesting but not really exploited, just 3 or 5 scenes differ from standar 3D. Gaspar Noe should take a few notes and try his hand at it, that would be great.

>>6367487
>Tarkovsky (If you like cinematography more than directing
I'm wondering what you take for directing. Tarkovsky was really present in every aspect of the film, from casting and props to the edition. His films, if anything, have a huge directorial presence, more than the usual.

>>6367518
Oh, sorry. I was sincerely wondering if time had helped it that much.
It really feels like a subpar Jarmusch film to me, but Broken Flowers comming out the same year might have influenced me a lot. The times, the acting, the way each space is shown, it keeps bringing me back to a mixture of him and fashion magazine adds.

>>6344626
>when your ugly and too openly gay professor is so impressed with your essay he invites you to his house for a special screening of his work
>when you know people who go there are a mixture of horrible stereotypes, connections and people wanting to get connections
>when you know he manhandles students in class pretending to be doing an example
>when you know people who reduce themselves to get an article in a newspaper
>when you're too prideful to do it and then complain in /lit/ how academia is hard to get in

>>6305517
Well, I really connected with Dazzle

>>6289218
Didn't you send me the first half of the first book?
If you keep working on something that's impossible to publish for practical reasons you're just wasting time.
Still, sure, practice as much as you want, that's great.

>>5914749
Symbolism doesn't make something poetry.

>>5887520
vidja and movies are just as close as marble status and chess boards. Meanwhile the aspects of painting don't relate to sculpture and viceversa.

>>5887508
I would love if there were genres of art divided by method of creation and sexual message and materials. It would have a name made out of two greek words that don't relate to it at all but sound cool.

>>5877652
Usually when you fear being perceived a certain way it's because you know you feel that way. If you accept that you feel a bit inadequate with the topic and you're open about it people will respect your opinions and comment on them with a mind as open as possible.

>girl talks in detail about Rimbaud and german fiction wirters and expects me to say something insightful at some point
I can only make people expect too much of me

>>5664192
I used to read really few stuff and pretend to be above it (I still see it around, people having to read a single chapter of a book for a class and getting mad about it and feeling superior to the author).
After being in /lit/ I started a steady book and a half per month besides college stuff, I really wanted to read so much shit. On one hand I want to have the basic /lit/core stuff to get the jokes and be part of the group (as long as I care about the book) and on the other I keep seeing small discussions that bring up interesting points and I want to know more about it (usually phil threads).
But I can't spend less than two or three hours a day here, and that takes out a lot of reading time.

>>5640942
Argentina, because I'm there!

But no, the states is probably the place to be if you're from there. 20's Paris is only iconic because there were writers from the US migrating there and yanking it up, forty years later they had probably their stronger world impact and it barely matches the 20's in the popular mind around the world. It's a hell of a shitstorm, but if you can ride it the US can take you to the top.

>>5635737
I'd probably sleep with you if you whispered that to my ear.