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It's like a poor imitation of Gormenghast.
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Dunno what boring rear end sentences you guys like to read
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Jul 12, 2018 23:41
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Ones that can be spoken aloud
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Jul 12, 2018 23:47
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It's an epic poem beloved by T. S. Eliot, you swine.
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Jul 13, 2018 02:21
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I didn't say it was bad, just hard to read. TS Eliot on the other hand is easy to read, just hard to interpret.
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Jul 13, 2018 02:43
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i haven't read In Parenthesis but I have read Jones' Anathemata, and i thought it veered into some of the worst of the modernists' excesses
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Jul 13, 2018 03:13
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Sham bam bamina! posted:It's an epic poem beloved by T. S. Eliot, you swine. Wow if t s eliot liked it it must be good and thats why we all still love and read obscure symbolist frenchman number 87
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Jul 13, 2018 03:44
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more like the wasteman
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Jul 13, 2018 04:00
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The love song of j alfred prufrock Sex any girl nah that's not me
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CestMoi posted:Wow if t s eliot liked it it must be good and thats why we all still love and read obscure symbolist frenchman number 87
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Jul 13, 2018 04:58
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CestMoi posted:Wow if t s eliot liked it it must be good and thats why we all still love and read obscure symbolist frenchman number 87 I do love obscure frenchmen, but only the ones that ts eliot didn't like.
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Jul 13, 2018 05:48
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yurtcradled posted:Vividness of a book seems to be the mean vividness of its individual words. But the word-level vividness ratings are all jacked up. "Faeces" doesn't even register (you can see it lacks a rating the most vivid passage from Blood of Sanguinus (61.07% vivid)), while "malformed," which relies entirely on context for specificity, gets a flat "9.0 - Strongly Vivid." I hate "vivid" language in the sense they mean, I hate seeing too many adjectives and overly lush descriptions of things that don't matter, or the author didn't reflect on why it should matter. I immediately think of that Kiran Desai sentence that I hate, to wit: "He fingered the kindling gingerly for fear of the community of scorpions living, loving, reproducing in the pile". That's the best example of terrible normie writing that I've come across. People who want to deal with literature using algorithms and computers belong in prison.
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Jul 13, 2018 10:11
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I'm just hoping that this supersedes all literary criticism so I don't have to see people making fun of my favourite fantasy books anymore
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Jul 13, 2018 12:00
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Shibawanko posted:People who want to deal with literature using algorithms and computers belong in prison.
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Jul 13, 2018 14:52
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Overly wordy purple prose is good because a computer told me so boop boop- man who wrote harrowing memoir about being mildly inconvenienced on a boat
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Jul 13, 2018 15:06
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Overly wordy purple prose is good because a computer told me so boop boop- man who wrote harrowing memoir about being mildly inconvenienced on a boat If you're prefer the reverse, a harrowing tale of being lost at sea in the very few words, I'd recommend Cove by Cynan Jones.
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Jul 13, 2018 15:24
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Shibawanko posted:People who want to deal with literature using algorithms and computers belong in prison. there's some cool stuff about it. calvino talked about it a lot. but also calvino did parody literally this exact thing everyone's making fun of in if on a winter's night.
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Jul 13, 2018 15:33
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The only procedurally written texts I'm interested in are those contained in the hexagonal library of practically-infinite size.
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Jul 13, 2018 15:36
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Ben Nevis posted:If you're prefer the reverse, a harrowing tale of being lost at sea in the very few words, I'd recommend Cove by Cynan Jones. I dont Btw, pro tier reading tip Buy deck of cards for a dollar and have 52 bookmarks
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Jul 13, 2018 15:51
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*crouches vividly*
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Jul 13, 2018 16:19
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Just finished The Radiance of The King by by Camara Laye which I enjoyed immensely. I know nothing about French West African lit - what works should I go for next?Mel Mudkiper posted:Btw, pro tier reading tip 
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Jul 13, 2018 16:40
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just rip out the pages you already read so you can open up the cover to where you left off
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Jul 13, 2018 17:26
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Staple read pages together imo, like a reverse uncut book
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Jul 13, 2018 17:36
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Binder clip
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Jul 13, 2018 17:42
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I dont You're just trying to make the next game of 52 pickup even more cruel
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Jul 13, 2018 17:45
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jagstag posted:just rip out the pages you already read so you can open up the cover to where you left off The first time I saw someone doing this it was on a bus and I was completely horrified. The second time, it was me 
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Heath posted:gently caress this and gently caress whoever wrote it Wow, small minded much? Actually, dude, it's Mother loving Vivid Literature.
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i actually spent about a week learning R (the language that most of these book-analyzing things are written in) and Stylo, a script that attempts to determine authorship via 'stylometric analysis'. in theory, you feed it, say, three texts, and it tells you that texts 1 and 3 share a common author while text 2 has a different author. in practice, it told me that Herman Melville wrote Pudd'nhead Wilson.
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chernobyl kinsman posted:i actually spent about a week learning R (the language that most of these book-analyzing things are written in) and Stylo, a script that attempts to determine authorship via 'stylometric analysis'. in theory, you feed it, say, three texts, and it tells you that texts 1 and 3 share a common author while text 2 has a different author. in practice, it told me that Herman Melville wrote Pudd'nhead Wilson. Seems like machines don't learn very well at all
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Jul 13, 2018 19:30
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there's a at least 100% chance that guy on the last page thinks 'cellar door' is a beautiful phrase
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Jul 13, 2018 20:15
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corpus analysis toolkits can actually be pretty cool for literary analysis but attempting to use them prescriptively in any way is delusional
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Jul 13, 2018 20:39
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Once I add a few more pungent's and a couple feathery's, my oeuvre will clearly hit the vividness I'm going for.
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Jul 13, 2018 21:05
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Giles Goat Boy purports to be written by a computer and it's kind of a nonsensical mess that your brain has to constantly edit so good job with that one Barth.
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Lex Neville posted:corpus analysis toolkits can actually be pretty cool for literary analysis but attempting to use them prescriptively in any way is delusional franco moretti said that corpus analytics and other dh methods can promote “prosthetic reading” where we augment our human capabilities or failings to do things we could not ordinarily do (like look for patterns of lexical similarities among corpora that are much too large for one person to read even at a superficial level) but that they should not take the place of close reading or criticism. but then he was outed for being a sexual predator so gently caress him
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Sleng Teng posted:Just finished The Radiance of The King by by Camara Laye which I enjoyed immensely. I know nothing about French West African lit - what works should I go for next? It's totally different from Laye but you might try reading Bound to Violence by Yambo Ouologuem, which is a really wild book.
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Jul 14, 2018 02:30
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hey mel if you liked Blackwater you owe it to yourself to read The Elementals
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Jul 14, 2018 07:13
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i finished petals of blood and now i’m reading submission by houellebecq. acadamia being a pool of poo poo is a running theme in both.
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Jul 14, 2018 19:59
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I searched Petals of Blood and Google gave me the right author but the book preview it associated is an entirely different book that I suspect was Google translated from Lithuanian or something https://books.google.com/books/about/Petals_Of_Blood.html?id=KQGvCQAAQBAJ
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Jul 14, 2018 20:57
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I accidentally bought a Perez-Reverte novel thinking it was Vila-Matas 
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relax, it doesn't matter which book you buy if you're illiterate.
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