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Garrulous. adj. to describe someone who talks too bloody much.

>OP
>noun to describe an extremely camp homosexual person

Obsequious - obedient or attentive to an excessive degree

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Yes

>>9550654
>that meme

You're part of the problem it seems

No, but it's been heavily crippled by postmodernist 'le everything is equally valid and valuable' rhetoric.

I don't understand. Just write in a different authorial voice. It should sound different in your head. It's sort of like doing an accent, only ... it's about how it feels rather than just the voice.

>>9550583
My personal advice is to write for yourself first. Write to make your thoughts permanent, not to convey them to others. That comes later.
Also alcohol.

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>>9550604
>thoughts
This is gonna sound a little bad...I, uh, don't have all that many verbal thoughts, they tend to be abstract or intuitive. Most of my deep thinking happens through writing...

Fuck, that sounds even worse written down.

i liked the work by him where he does a fanfic of himself putting a dildo up his ass

as you like it
hamlet
king lear

The Taming of the Shrew

>>9550516
I'd say his acclaim more so comes from his ability to explore the "human condition" through his characters. Though religious, cultural, and political subject matter are present in spades, when Dosto gets on about something such as love or anguish is usually where the true beauty comes in his work

>>9550516
Given the western countries are heavily influenced by Christianity it is one reason. On the other hand his works show the fragility of the human mind and deep psychological writing within dialogues and characterizations are the other reasons. Even Freud praised the works of Dostoyevsky.

If you would've read from the start - meaning with his first grand novel - then you wouldn't even start this thread. How can you see the beauty of The Brothers Karamazov if you never saw his development throughout his previous novels.

Reading through Dostoyevsky's Wiki-page would help you to see how borderline-biographical some characters of his are too.

>>9550540
I was just gonna say this, Dostoevsky's characters are very often manifestations of his own faults and the exploration of them in different societies, for example the lower class college dropout, hanging around with prostitutes and people in tenement housing in Crime & Punishment, and the upper class idle society of The Idiot.

I think it's a pretty accepted thing to follow Dostoevsky chronologocially if you want a fuller and better understanding of him as an author and his progression throughout his work.

But aside from all that, yeah he's a bit mad on Christianity. Dostoevsky was even put up to a firing squad before being saved at the last minute and sent only to exile instead as a result of his protesting censorship, so he's a bit of a sensation alright

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>fingers in my colon

>shitposts on a taiwanese ship-in-a-bottle trading forum

>semicolons at all

If you're using a semicolon, chances are it would be more effective if you reworked the sentence so that it didn't require one.

James Percy
Madison St. Clare
Jesse Pickering
Natasha Ludavenko
Fergus Dodds

>>9550167
Fuck, those are actually really good. Writing those down.

Anyone else got anything?

>>9550074
Book was written by a drug addeled retard boomer, just discard it.

>>9550077
***addled

>>9550077
Pynchon here, i've never done a single drug in my entire life, except for soda.

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>>9549803
Atlas shrugged

>>9549803

I feel like I'm going crazy from horniness.
How can I make it stop.
Earlier on the sidewalk I passed a jogger girl wearing only shorts and a sports bra and I almost literally lost my mind. I went home and just broke stuff. Not out of angst just out of some wild impulse to destroy.

>>9549829

Control yourself you child.

Yes.
YES!

>>9551343
don't pollute perfection with pointless punctuation

>>9551724
I once polluted your whore of a mother's cunt with my seminal fluid.

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He hates all the people on the street in dirty everyday clothes, advertising their belief that the world arches over a pit, that death is final, that the wandering thread of his feelings leads nowhere. Correspondingly he loves the ones dressed for church: the pressed business suits of portly men give substance and respectability to his furtive sensations of the invisible, the flowers in the hats of their wives seem to begin to make it visible; and their daughters are themselves whole flowers, their bodies each a single flower, petaled in gauze and frills, a bloom of faith, so that even the plainest walk in his eyes glows with beauty, the beauty of belief.

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I'm trying to write this piece as "simply" as possible in terms of purpley prose and what not.
But also going for visual metaphors within the story itself.
Think somewhere between Hemingway and a less complex Dickens. That being said, unless you're extremely knowledgeable (and for some of them, know what happens in the rest of my story) they won't be immediately obvious (I don't think).
“I think I’m gonna puke,” he moaned, draped over the bronze railing.

Lucy grinned. “You’d better get used to it cupcake, the Arkragas isn’t a cruise liner.” She gazed over the choppy water, slitting her eyes against the rays of sunset. “You know, when I first started, I hated the trip too.” She sighed gently and paused for a moment. “I’ve always appreciated the rides back home though.” She turned to face him, and wore a pensive expression for a few seconds, before asking. “What made you want to do this kind of thing anyway?”

“I’m still searching for the answer to that myself,” he replied. He closed his eyes and let the wind surge around him. “All of my friends think I’m crazy. Even my mother told me, “Eustace, you need to let what happened go.” But. No matter how hard I try, I can’t.”

She looked away once more. “Peace of mind is the last thing you’ll find out here.” The seagulls overhead cast shadows on the ferry and silence was all they spoke.
>>9549570
I'm not sure what this is a set up for but I really enjoyed it. Something about the way it is written gives it an ethereal feel.
and not just because the setting seems to resemble heaven.
You have a very nice style of writing.
It is both elegant and simple.
And very understandable as well.
>>9549640
Not bad. I'd probably keep reading but there's an almost calculated feel to your wording which makes it feel somewhat artificial if that makes any sense.
& though I suspect you're aware of it and that it is a deliberate choice, the last sentence is somewhat unwieldy in length.
That being said the characterization of "him" is interesting and makes me want to know more.

>>9549570

I like the last line very much. "And talk" is a nice way to cap the piece. I don't like some of the adjectives in there overall. I think words like "lavish" and phrases like "twist and turn like a maze puzzle" can be tightened.

Overall, I like the direction. I think it's a good move to emphasize how grand this scene is to bring the payoff to "and talk". It makes it a sharp, human kind of scene.

define morality

>>9549497
I thinks it's immoral if the prostitute sucks at her job. I fucked this one chick and she GET THIS kept looking at her phone and checking messages. Like are you fucking serious. I'm paying for this time. I felt bad fucking her. She just didn't care. That didn't feel right desu senpaitachi

>>9549497
why don't you tell us first why you think it is immoral

Each country has its own laws

>>9549513
WTF??

I study law and am in brazil, what do you want to know?

>>9549158
This board is for right-wingers, sweety

>>9549167

>being an ideologist

get out

Can you contextualise the phrase?

>>9548806
JUST fuck my spelling up senpai

>>9548806
>how do i know if i like a book
It is as instinctive as music. You either like something or you don't. That said, like everything, the more you know about it (i.e. the more experience you have), the more you will notice small things that will influence your enjoyment of some works. But really, knowing if you like something or not is a pretty simple thing.

It's a different question than "how do I know if a book is (objectively) good" though, which requires you to have some technical knowledge or at least an informed opinion so as know why it is good or bad.

"X is good" and "I like X" are not correlated statements.