/lit/ - Literature

>>17652928
>more broadly, is there any literature that captures action, war, and fighting more effectively than a visual medium?
The biggest weakness of literature is anything having to do with precise actions. Trying to describe it is both tedious and not very productive on top of that. This is where it loses out to film, but can much better approximate film's strength of gratifying action through the use of illustrations. However, because it doesn't need to always have an image in use and time is not really a factor, it can extendedly narrate things like ideas much better than film could, because film must always have something happening on screen and it is severely limited for time to devote to waxing philosophical.

>TL;DR
Books sacrifice action and imagery and ease of consumption for exposition. Film sacrifices exposition for action and imagery and passive receptivity.

Film is dynamic. Text and images are static. Graphics only mitigate and slightly compensate for textual inferiority in depicting action, not solve it (the problem of mere imagery on the other hand is better resolved).

It is an inherent handicap to the medium that there is absolutely nothing that a pure writer can do to alleviate.

>>16472193
>Monotheistic civilizations have not built a single thing on their own

>monotheistic civilization relied on philosophy, arts, and skills built by polytheistic civilizations.

prove me wrong cunts

>>14313491
>he reads thread topics instead of just posting irrelevant frog images
the audacity of these pseuds

>>13907970
Frog posting is better then your shit tier drivel

>>13805265
Yes it does you obsessive drinker of a milk sostitute beverage invented in Asia.

>>13795944
it dosent mean anything, i literally put a bunch of randomly generated hegelian words together to see how many psueds i could bait out. Its nowhere in the text.

>As we finish our coffee I ask Taleb, who lives with his wife and two children in New York, whether he has any family in Lebanon. His face lights up. “Do you want to see a picture of my house?” he asks, as he reaches into his bag to retrieve his laptop.

>He shows me some beautiful shots of Mount Lebanon and his home village of Amioun. “Sixteen out of 16 of my great-great grandparents are buried here. And this is where I am going to be buried,” he says pointing to a church. “I can see it from my window.” I was going to ask whether his heritage was important to him. But the answer seems obvious now.

>but he bred an amerimutt

>well on his way to graduating with a degree
>sad about it
fuck off

>>11108132
>implying 9/11 did not radically change politics, government, media, industry, and the public

>>10929068
shutup stupid frogposters, team creme is supreme

>friends
I don't think so, buddy

>>9658390
almost done with Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

>>8985531
how's it feel to orbit some chick for 2 years while she will throw herself at the first sight of chad?

stop giving her so much fucking attention, take a hold of yourself, why do you care about every little detail of her life?
Take a step back and cut her off for a while, she is taking you for granted

>>8817795
>>8817795
>Why do you care so much? It's a non issue.
Are you honestly retarded? The only reason Peterson took this stance was because of a law in Canada that would be very open to exploitation, it's breadth of interpretation was extremely wide that totally arbitrary enforcement for the sake of protecting people's feeling was a legitimate possibility. How is this a non issue? You would be a criminal or lose your job just for exercising free speech. And it isn't happening in a vacuum either, this is a system issue, it's a mentality that has utterly permeated the minds of 20 somethings and brutally exploits and maladjusts them.

>>8782821

>Le devil's avocado

>Be /fit/
>Read Sun and Steel for fitness tips
>Get a load of stupid philosophical/aesthetic shit

I ended up tearing the book in half.