People on Y/A authors and books keep saying NOOOOO,don't EVER use wth in your writing of a novel. But says who? I feel like times are changing and OMG, teens younger people r using text lingo more and more.
There are cell phone novels and books like 'ttyl', 'ttfn', and 'l8r,g8r' by Lauren Myracle. Cell phone novels take up half of the best sellers lists in Japan, and films are being made from cell phone, text message "novels".
R people who are against txt lingo just a little old fashioned? What about freedom of expression in a novel. We can't all write the same. What about different types of writing. J.D. Salinger writes completely different than William Burroughs and Marguerite Duras. Everybody is different. So why these so-called "rules" thrown at us by different people here in books and authors? Text authors have no right to be heard, even if only a portion of their work has text lingo?
I find text lingo a little more fun lately. Nothing to do with lazy, just fun. At least to me.
Published a book called The Malady Of Death (translated from the French by Barbara Bray) in 1986.http://www.amazon.com/Malady-Death-Marguerite-Duras/dp/0802130364/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1245816027&sr=1-1
But the book is only 60 pages long???? I checked it out of the library. My question is how can an adult book of 60 pages find publication. I know many children's books of that length get published but is there some minimum length for adult non fiction material? Or do publishers not care if they think the story can sell at 60 pages?
The 1984 book, The Lover, by Marguerite Duras is said to be 148 pages but the one I bought (I have several different copies, versions) is 115 pages, fattened up with a lot of spaces and larger print font.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lover_(1984_novel)
The copy I have of about 115 pages...Have you read this version?
http://www.literarymama.com/images/books/thelover3.jpg
Is such a short novella possible to have published these days?
I need the claim, or the main idea, that the author-margueriet wants to convey.
Please, please point out the quote from the text that claim your idea if you can. Thank You so much for your help and time.
"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does."
"You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly."
Sam Keen
"You may only be one person to the world, but you may also be the world to one person."
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."
Peter Ustinov
"My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it is on your plate."
Thornton Wilder
"Forgiveness is the final form of love."
Reinhold Niebuhr
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
Lao Tzu
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
Nietzsche
"You don't love a woman because she's beautiful; she is beautiful because you love her."
"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."
Thomas Mann
"A fool in love makes no sense to me. I only think you are a fool if you do not love."
"If you would be loved, love and be lovable."
Benjamin Franklin, "Poor Richard's Almanac," 1755
"A happy man marries the girl he loves; a happier man loves the girl he marries."
"Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along."
Rumi
"Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent love protects you from age."
Jeanne Moreau
"It is not so much what is on the table that matters, as what is on the chairs."
W.S. Gilbert
"Even a very small degree of hope is enough to cause the birth of love."
Stendhal
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
Chamfort
"Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat."
Joanne Woodward
"An old man who marries a young wife grows younger - but she grows older."
folk saying
"You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable."
Marguerite Duras
"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away."
Dorothy Parker
"I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life."
D. H. Lawrence
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing."
Goethe
"I have loved to the point of madness / That which is called madness / That which to me / Is the only sensible way to love."
Francoise Sagan
"We learn only from those we love."
Johann Von Eckermann
"The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: 1) To return love for hate; 2) To include the excluded; and 3) To say 'I was wrong.'"
Ernst Heinrich Haeckel
"And in the end, the love you take Is equal to the love you make."
John Lennon and Paul McCartney
I felt this novel to be engulfing and I struggled not to drown in her despair. What elements do you think she utilizes to effectively create such an environment? I know it wasn't empathy, but I can't pinpoint what it is. No, this isn't for a book report, I just love to talk book.
I am writing an essay about wasting time being a good thing. The quote I want to use is "the best way to fill time is to waste it" by Marguerite Duras. Does this sound like an appropriate quote? What do you think it means?
Thanks to anyone who contributes :)
For an english class I had to read the book The Lover by Marguerite Duras and existentialism plays a big role in that book because she is living in an "absurd world". In addition to having to write an essay about the book, I also have to write a short essay about existentialism, imperialism, and indochina. I'm just curious to know about these things.
You can read the short story here: http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/articles/061225fi_fiction
I'm curious because I want to articulate to myself what it is that I actually find fascinating about New Yorker short story fiction.
