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Lets make him eat poop to see if he likes it hhahahahah

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>>9567018

It definitely won't be hard to do. He's not a literal recluse. He has family and friends and posts on /lit/. It's just that plebs don't care about "finding" him and those who love him are too respectful.

This the best anyone's got other than those yearbook and navy photos, and Pynchon yelled at the photographer who took it.

Alright pynch we can do this the easy way or the hard way. The hard way has us tracking you down like shia LaBeoufs flag. The hard gets covered by news outlets and is plastered all over social media. So yeah people will hear about it and know where to come find you. The easy way has you telling us where to go and we show up nicely and quietly. Your move.

No, it's bland, unoriginal stuff. Read Henry James or Jane Austen.

>woman
>good author
lmao

Greatest woman author, contender for greatest prose stylist of all time.

To The Lighthouse
The Waves
Orlando

in any order

Yes, a lot of good authors had a hard life because of their environment or/and because of their mental illness, both things can lead to drug addictions; but, at some point in their lifes, they found literature, and they put all their time and effort into it, and they wrote in a crude, and excellent narrative. The majority of todays authors suck because now a lot of people have a good life, and they don´t put all their effort in their "writing" (John Green, Stephanie Meyer, and the list goes on); of course, there are exceptions, and I really congratulate those exceptions (which are few, but those had the good old fashioned authors as their role models, which is great)

No, writing and art are just professions where you can still be productive with such problems.

Doesn't hurt, being completely sane and straight edge makes you terribly conventional.

Writing is also an arena in which being a suicidal mentally diseased drug addict is really not as much as a hindrance as it would be in other fields.

Chu Feng is my husbando

>>9565888
Trips of truth

>>9565888
He may be your husbando but he might also be everyone's husbando anon.

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Has different translations and editions for you to choose from. Enjoy.

you're awesom man thanks

>>9565227
This, but more exclusively British columbia culture and history.

Canada is shit, why would you even bother trying to learn about it?

>>9565271
>Stable, prosperous, left-of-centre society with great international scores for healthcare, education etc. and ample natural resources

What's not to love fampai?

Female warriors ruin books

Any good books with female warriors?

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More GRRM procastinating.

>>9564912
The Crimson Queen by Alec Hutson has one. The thing that really cemented her as a "Good" female warrior is a discussion she has with the main character, where she's berating him for doing something reckless and stupid. When he asks if she would have run away, she confidently and proudly declares "I run away more often than I fight".

That kind of thing makes me appreciate a character a whole lot more. Maybe it's different for others, but I liked it.

Cormac McCarthy. Blood meridian is a gnostic tragedy.

>>9563638
I am surprised how A guy as atheist as borges can know so much about religions and gods

Can someone define Gnostic for me? Especially in regards to literature?

>>9563554
>Martin Heidegger (the second Heidegger)
>Julius Evola (!)
>Giovanni Gentile
>Johann Fichte
>Friedrich Nietzsche
>Plato
>Aristotle

I just read you said science ficion, but fuck off you're getting this list anyway
All scifi writers are libshits anyway

>>9563575
Well, not really what I was looking for, and I'm already familiar with the work of those people, but thanks anyways.

>All scifi writers are libshits anyway
Not wrong, but there are a few exceptions. Robert Heinlein comes to mind, as an example.

>>9563601
What I do is I side with the bad guys, and rejoice in the unbiased descriptions of society or the temporary success of the evil ones

>>9563363
Karl Marx

>>9563363
Adam Smith

>>9563363
ITT: Marxist tries to get into philosophy without realizing that Marx IS philosophy

Primo Levi

primo levi
chaim potok
isaac babel
philip roth
kafka

>>9562343
The Old Testament
The Golem

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>>9562229

i assume youre going to be staying in hostels. dont bring more than two books, and expect to lose them. hostels usually have libraries where other travelers have left books, so theres always something to read.

I don't know much about India and books on the subject, but two authors from my country (Italy) wrote about it:

https://www.amazon.com/Scent-India-Pier-Paolo-Pasolini/dp/1477643427

https://www.amazon.com/Merry-Go-Round-Tiziano-Terzani-Felix-Bolling/dp/9350297159/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1495934721&sr=1-3&keywords=tiziano+terzani

Pasolini is a literary master, but I'd suggest you to check out Tiziano Terzani in particular. I traveled as a backpacker around SEA last year, and a lot of guys I met were reading his books, which surprised me quite a bit.

great thread op

Underwhelming read im, I don't really understand all the fuss people make about it

Huxley also, from what I read, ripped a lot of the ideas off from a Russian novel. Been a while since I read it, but I enjoyed it back when, though I was more of a 1984 person.

"A Tale of Two Cities?"

Wherefore we fail to recognise them.

Great thy gain if thou learnest;

Yep, it sure is a major book. Just look at the way people use social media. Have a look at our celebrity culture or the way people date.

p much

>>9555549

dude wrote like 400 pages about how undersexed he is lmao