Alright /lit/ time to do something with your life!

[Anonymous No.15587728]

It's time for /lit/ to publish it's own versions of the classics. Meme covers, coupled with authentic anonymous commentaries on classical literature. The time has come, Wordsworth and Penguin won't have shit on our free pdf versions of the classics with crowd sourced commentaries from anons across the world.

Reclaim le birth right faggots.

Template incoming...

[Anonymous No.15587731]

Good idea?

[Anonymous No.15587733]

>>15587728
Template:

>AUTHOR
All caps - Arial font - Bold - size 50

>Title
Standard case - Arial font - Italic - size 36

[Anonymous No.15587741]

>>15587733
It's a png file so just drag and drop a meme behind it and change out the author and title text. Piece of cake.

[Anonymous No.15587746]

>>15587728
This is unironically a good idea, think it would work well to have a google doc with some classic text pasted in, and anyone could come and make footnotes/comments on whatever they want. Our most recent collaborative project was about a month ago now (coronameron, i edited it), and many people expressed interest in more regular collaborative works, so if more anons show interest in this thread I think we should do something of the sort.

[Anonymous No.15587769]

>>15587746
We'd probably have to vote on one book at a time, and anons would get assigned page ranges to research intensely and do commentary on. We keep an open doc of course so it can continue to be updated, but we just bum-rush a first draft once a month or something. I think that could work.

[Anonymous No.15587820]

>>15587769
The tone is definitely something we'd want to establish early on. As I see there's two ways to go about it: 1) as you said, make it a serious project with genuine research, and 2) is complete freedom in commentary. Of course this is /lit/, so anything collaborative naturally lends itself to the second. Doing the first option isn't impossible, but would require moderation throughout and a strict editing process. For either purpouse, the comment mode is what we want to be working with on google docs, as opposed to the free editing mode. This doesn't allow footnotes to be made directly, but it allows comments to be made without risk of any deletions, and they can be converted to footnotes in editing. Honestly I think that /lit/ are a bunch of illiterates, so going for serious commentary would take longer and might not get as many anons participating as not everyone here has read much classic literature, nonetheless the idea of a serious commentary by /lit/ is great one. Voting on one book at a time is a definite.

[Anonymous No.15587831]

BUMP

[Anonymous No.15587869]

>>15587728
still gotta start with the greeks doe

[Anonymous No.15587878]

tfw only frogs and wojs will be used itt

[Anonymous No.15588588]

>>15587820
>Honestly I think that /lit/ are a bunch of illiterates

Yeah me too desu, maybe we can at least get some ebin wojak and frog covers of the classics tho?

>>15587878
R..R..Right anon?

[Anonymous No.15588794]

>>15587746
Some footnotes to Phaedrus (360 BCE)
>Pindar, an ancient sportswriter
>the fuck is a plane tree
>gayyyy
>I'm not sure what he meant here

[Anonymous No.15589664]

[Anonymous No.15589676]

LOL

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[Anonymous No.15589812]

>>15587733
I’m a filthy phone poster but please accept my scuffed version of your template and a bump to the thread

[Anonymous No.15589931]

>unironic /lit/ and logo
yikes
big oofs dawg

[Anonymous No.15590006]

[Anonymous No.15590109]

bump

[Anonymous No.15590116]

>>15589664
Could also double as The Stranger - Albert Camus

[Anonymous No.15590131]

>>15587728
love it. let's start with moby dick or a set of shakespeare poems with excerpts from Joyce a la that one time pynchon visited us

[Anonymous No.15590183]

nice

[Anonymous No.15590186]

[Anonymous No.15590236]

This is a great idea but probably not on an image board where threads 404 rapidly and 60% of us talk out of our asses. Maybe a discord server would be the way to go. I would love to have something like this as a part of the board.

Not a fan of the cover design though

[Anonymous No.15590256]

>>15590183
fucking kek

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[Anonymous No.15590853]

>>15587728
I actually think this is a fucking based idea.

[Anonymous No.15590870]

>>15590183
holy fucking shit

[Anonymous No.15590937]

>>15590183

[Anonymous No.15590980]

>>15589664
Don't squish it. It looks like shit.

[Anonymous No.15590990]

>>15590183
Best one

[Anonymous No.15591002]

>>15589664
>>15590980
Here, I fixed it. It just requires a zoom in, which is way better than squishing it.

[Anonymous No.15591028]

>>15587820
>1) as you said, make it a serious project with genuine research, and 2) is complete freedom in commentary.
Why not both? Create separate projects for the same works. Complete freedom in commentary would ultimately be more interesting, since any "serious, genuine research" would probably be copying and pasting ideas from books like, for example, Notes on Blood Meridian (in the case of Blood Meridian). I reckon that almost nobody on /lit/ has access to primary sources or a real academic library where they could conduct genuine research that wasn't just reading secondary sources. Whereas complete freedom in commentary could have some hilarious results, or insights which would not meet academic standards of citation and shit.

[Anonymous No.15591074]

>>15589664
Presumably, all the texts would have to be in the public domain.

[Anonymous No.15591158]

>>15590116
kek, just get rid of the kid's gun and holden can be mersault

[Anonymous No.15591417]

>>15587728
Alright enough talk, let's get this thing started and see how it goes, I think Moby Dick is a pretty obvious starting choice, but we could do others: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16AUb2amnc7d3Q-FQ7fq8ouQUQMsiAGucpImNb5obiv8/edit?usp=sharing . Come and make comments on the bits you feel like and I'll add them in as a proper footnote while I get this flr.atted properly. Also perhaps we could write and introduction. Not OP, but just put down your email OP and I'll give you edit permission. I don't think it's best to give complete edit permission for everyone as it's not really necessary and this way we won't have to deal with delete spammers. So come write: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16AUb2amnc7d3Q-FQ7fq8ouQUQMsiAGucpImNb5obiv8/edit?usp=sharing

[Anonymous No.15591422]

>>15591074
Why? Copyright law is a spook. I can copy and paste the entire text of the Bee movie script into a pastebin and share it to other anons, or upload a torrent of it. Who's going to stop me?

[Anonymous No.15591652]

>>15591417
Formatting is a bit rough from the inital paste, but I think this has good potential as a project. Perhaps something of a smaller size and comedic tone would be more comfortable for the illiterates of /lit/ to comment on, but nonetheless I shall monitor it and format for the next 20 minutes or so before heading off to bed.

[Anonymous No.15592031]

>>15591422
It's not a spook. This project will probably be small enough to stay under the radar. But when the copyright holders want to put the hammer down, they certainly can, and in a decidedly non-spook-like fashion.

https://decrypt.co/31906/activists-rally-save-internet-archive-lawsuit-threatens

[Anonymous No.15592057]

>>15592031
What are they going to do? Take down 4chan?

[Anonymous No.15592124]

>>15587733
>Arial font

[Anonymous No.15592379]

>>15589664
>>15589700
>>15589812
>>15590006
>>15590183
>>15590186
>>15590356
>>15591002

Have some (you)'s anons.

>>15591417
Unfortunately I'm actually too busy writing commentaries on the bible at the moment to participate myself. I'm really just shit posting for the maymays desu.

[Anonymous No.15593327]