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my diary desu

>>9403823
Moby Dick

arguably, the third policeman

>>9403772
>Violently awakening to a thundering clash seldom indicates that Fortune is smiling down upon you. It’s never “CRASH! Mom made pancakes!” or “CRASH! We decided to adopt a Golden Retriever!”
lul

It's very...plain. Now check MY new novel's beginning.

>The

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>>9403772

Because I want to.

>>9403693
Alcibiades' boipuss tbph

>>9403693
Because through it I learn how all deep questions that have bothered people are like linguisti cconfusions man :^)

like bring words back to their ordinary contexrts of usage man lmao like how are there even metaphyscs haha

My advice:
Drink a cup of sleeping pills and wine and masturbate until you stop breathing.

>>9403642
Maybe later, anon. Literature won't desecrate itself.

OP the bar for erotic novels is set so low that it really doesnt matter
please see:

https://www.amazon.com/Ravaged-Leprechaun-Peter-Greene-ebook/dp/B00QJ1YAE6

which you can read in its entirety here:

https://www.docdroid.net/tj3y/ravagedbytheleprechaun11.pdf.html

>>9403586
read wittgenstein's on certainty. you're at least half the problem.

Logic and reason are void absent a logical and reasonable audience.

>>9403594
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Certainty
>its main theme being that there are some things which must be exempt from doubt in order for human practices to be possible

this is very very interesting.

Wasn't he some kind of incarnation of a death god? What was his soldier name again, Weissman? I honestly forget what his problem was.

>>9403557
Being a homo.

Who sent the serpent dream? What else did it say? Was Slothrop a nigger? WHO THE FUCK IS THE KENOSHA KID?

>>9403534
Nice video op but you should work on your posture.

I'm disgusted that fags such as you browse my board, please leave immiedietly.

Take some notice from some true genius such as this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlfnY9TNa5g

>>9404356
i fucking hate youtube man, shit is actually worse than 4chan somehow

>>9403525
Start with NEUROMANCER

>implying homeric prose translations aren't best

Starting with the Greeks is for getting a good understanding of the history of Literature and philosophy in general.

If you just want to read a little as a fun hobby just pick something you enjoy and get cracking.

>>9403451
I just got a $500 gig ghostwriting some erotica for some slob online

>>9403451
I think for ghostwriting they probably expect some unemployed NEET looking to churn out something in his free time and not really care about how much he makes. Which is basically what you are doing. So.

>>9403451
I thought the whole point of GW is to make money. Hence why they get paid like 50K. Since in some cases you can't even put that stuff on your resume.

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You read more. And no, I'm not joking. Broaden your perspectives.

>>9403434
try to imagine you are not the least flawed human to have lived. that often works.

most people believe what they do (including you) because they learnt that shit and it seemed reasonable given what they had to learn.

it's "obvious" to people now that people once thought the world flat.

just like it was "obvious" to the ancient mathematicians that you could plot the circumference of the globe and chart the movements and orbits of the planets using math, and both of those were slightly wrong.

though maybe the people who worked out the circumference of the globe before jesus became a thing were arguably slightly less wrong than the people who believe history led to them in a constant upward tick of knowledge, both are still wrong.

the dead mathematicians get less salty about it these days, but they too probably would have been salty bastards about you questioning them. at least as much as people who now believe humans thought the world was flat will get salty about people in the past not being as ignorant as their ass would like to think.

try to work out why they might think that beyond "they're a dick" because everyone's a fucking dick and that does nothing to work out how they came to any particular conclusion at all. they probably learnt something different and working out how that is somewhat right and somewhat wrong and how it became plausible is much more fruitful than trying to work out The Truth. there is no fucking truth, there's just random guesses and things that are fashionable or less fashionable guesses. we're never going to fully crack The Truth, and if we could, i'm reasonably sure we wouldn't fucking want to.

>>9403467
I like your post anon, ty.

" I will do a flip, and I'm not a faggot! "

>>9403428
I see this was posted on /r9k/. Look at the comments. Fucking hell.

>>9403428
Lettuce Dog is top tier

This has been debated for thousands of years. So yes, you can, but its equally valid to critique art purely as a matter of aesthetics. I would argue both forms are useful, and it is basically impossible to only engage in an either/or approach.

did you just read Dorian Gray for the first time?

>>9403383
If art would tread on 'moral grounds,' or even requires those 'moral grounds' to make some point, then yes. Should art be given a free pass? No.
The best art eludes policing. Or comes loaded with protective counterarguments.

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>>9403177
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo.

>>9403184
I'd also like to edit this into something better.
>It was more than the excitement of rebelling against a lifetime of stern warnings from his mother that he better, "never bring no pinche weda white girl home." It was the electricity that sparked from her pasture green eyes and the visible hot flush of blood that gushed to her cheeks whenever he touched her soft skin or leaned in for just a breath of her fragrant blonde blonde hair. In all honesty since labor day weekend; and those long, hot summer evenings camping by the river with Heather Roberto hadn't thought of home at all.

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>>9403166
why's it always gotta be a competition maaaaan

You'd have a harder time proving to me your sincere.

>>9403182
I think Pincone even saw that his work was very similar to, and owed a lot to, Barth's. When Pynchon published TSWF he sent Barth an autographed copy with the inscription: "To John Barth: Been there, done that.'

>>9403130
Where are the blankets?
The pillows?
The warm beverage?

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>>9403130
Contributin'

>>9403151
Right? It's like people don't know what makes a library comfy.

You also really need a fireplace if you want maximum comfort. Along with a mahogany desk to read/write on.