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Does anyone know this book. Please say yes. 2017-04-29 01:08:34 Post No.9440401
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Does anyone know this book. Please say yes.
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I remember some weird details about the book. The main character wife dies. He kills himself in a bank and is sent to hell. In hell each person is in a personal room where whatever thoughts they think tortures them. The man manages to escape and finds his wife.
Other details: There is a bank owner (manager not really sure) who is forced to swallow coins for eternity. Also an old man helps the guy go to hell.
> No its not Daunte's inferno
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>>9440401
Is it Dante's Inferno?
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>>9440401
What Dreams May Come???
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>>9440401
Dante's Inferno fanfiction?
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ITT: Books that truly changed your perspective on life itself.
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The Republic fundamentally altered my perception of the world.
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JK Rowlings "Harry Potter" series really made me think about a lot of topics.
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really got me thingkin
What is 2017 ? The Kant question.
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A file into which even this is being dumped.
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Also, a legal fiction.
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>>9440298
ok, the question may seem a bit fake. The famous question Kant asked was "What is the enlightenment?"
So my question could be rephrased as "what is now?", or maybe, what name will historians will give to our era?
Like, will they classify 2017 as remnants of the XXth century? (they like to give odd beginning to centuries, 1492 for the XVIth, 1815 for the XIXth, 1914 for the XXth)
what is now? what is our era?
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What is the most influential poem of the 20th century 2017-04-29 12:08:44 Post No.9440224
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What is the most influential poem of the 20th century
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Although its subjective, and it might not be one of your favorites
if there was a consensus on what the most influential poem of the 20th century, what would it be? of any language
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Unfortunately it's probably something like Howl
or The Age of Anxiety by Auden
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The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock. That poem single-handedly destroyed Romanticism and ushered in the Age of Eliot.
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>He wasnt even a very good Gatsby, never mind The Great Gatsby
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>O Hamlet!
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>"And you really could say that, indeed, this had been the story of The Brief and Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao."
Absolute shit, unbelievable.
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>And with that, dear reader, I must bring my Infinite[1] Jest to an end.
[1]: Ironically not infinite
Does anyone's world-building compare to his?
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God's
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The Holy Spirit who writes all books
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Honest opinion, is IJ worth reading why or why not?
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Memes aside, it is. There's some great, memorable scenes in there.
>Mario keeping Hal from sleeping in their dorm room
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It's ONLY worth reading the entire thing. Reading 200 pages and then quitting is worse than not trying it at all.
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Thank you anon, my 3 dollars at goodwill weren't wasted.
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Proust, Joyce and who knows how many more literary greats wanked their willy so why shouldn't I?
Is nofap a meme or will I become a lit god if I keep it up?
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>>9440106
Nofap is to stop addiction, not fapping altogether
Some people took this notion and made a culture of personality around it
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>>9440106
Fapping once a day or every two days is healthy. More than that is not, also watching any amount of porn is really bad for your psychological health.
Nofap is a meme, noporn is patrician.
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nofap is to reduce or regain self control and to stop porn
nofap + sex is nice tho
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You guys ever try literary larping? I think I'm gonna give it a shot. When I was a kid I used to play a lot of make believe. My neighbor and I constructed a pantheon of superhero-type characters whose stories we would act out in our backyards. I kind of miss that. So from here on out I am going to live my life as if I were an agent of the Nova Police from Burroughs' cut-up trilogy. I'll create justifications for my every action as somehow essential in the battle against the Nova Mob. I'd also like to incorporate Miskatonic university from the Lovecraft mythos; perhaps I'll be a wandering lecturer. Hopefully once it reaches a certain point it will no longer be larping but for all intents and purposes my reality.
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woah... I was having some very similar thoughts actually. After reading "Lemurian Time War" in the CCRU archive, about Hyperstition and William Burrough's purported anachronistic writing of a book about Lemurs written a century earlier, I was considering exploring the concept of Hyperstition by re-reading Naked Lunch, not as a novel, but as if it was a missive sent directly to me.
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I larp as the protagonist of my diary desu
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I haven't read that essay, but I have taken some major interest in Land recently. I think he's had a significant influence on this decision; after all, he seems to have made an academic career out of literary larping. I'll have to check this essay out. Looks like I'll be seeing you out in the field, fellow agent.
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How old is Marcel is vol. 2 lads?
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Pleb board
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wat
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The narrator mate, how old is he when he starts visiting swann's house ? And goes to a brothel with bergotte?
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How hard is writing stories? I starting reading more about 2~3 years ago in my spare time as a hobby and I am feeling really interested in writing, but I feel that it's a skill too difficult to adquire as a person who started to read books late in life (23 years) and has a very demanding job (i am an electric motor engineer). It's worth trying or it's really hard and I probably won't be able to make anything decent? I tried to write a short story last week and I felt really frustrated.
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>Copy random paragraphs out of different books onto index cards
>Shuffle them and use them as the base for your story
>Make all the characters real people you know
>Include lots of sex scenes and claim to be mentally disturbed
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>adquire
There's definitely a knack to storytelling but if you can make time for it and don't get too frustrated with yourself I'm sure you can produce some stuff eventually; plenty of writers had full time jobs. Plotting and pacing you'll have some idea of from watching TV and film; even if the way they apply it is usually different it's still the same principles.
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> plenty of writers had full time jobs.
Yes, but i just feel they started really young.
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>he only reads fiction
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you just about done it now, son.
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>he only posts shit
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What is behind the window?
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nobel prize for living the saddest life and writing about how beyond hope everything is
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>>9439918
who dis
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jeremy lin
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*Whom
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I just read theory of everything am I scientist now?
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Lmao what's wrong with that guy ! Is he okay?
- Susan
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What happened to him
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>>9439818
No. Science is bad, you don't want to be a scientist.
has anybody seen the film adaption of this? is it any good?
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I've been watching it for ~21 years but I may stop because it's really tiresome and none of the actors seem to give a fuck
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boo
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>>9439849
I've been watching it for ~24 years here and it just seems to be a movie about nothing. I feel like it's about to end soon.