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the thinking mans thinking man
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I know nothing about this man, but I saw him on a roundtable and he was such a huge simpleminded faggot
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stop publicly shaming people
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>>9388850
guess you're not a thinking man then
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Where does /lit/ stand on the oxford comma?
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This question is retarded as fuck. It's always been the second since the dawn of times. Fuck Oxford degenerates.
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>>9388522
Should be mandatory to prevent ambiguity.
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I like when proles see a thing and go
>Haha! I get it! I get the thing! I'll remake it, by swapping other things into it, and I'll be doing a thing too!
>Orange you glad I didn't say.. PINEAPPLE? Haha! Now I'm the Top prole!
Fucking gas whoever made this image. This is the death of humanity happening in real time. You see a fucking thing and you like it and your disgusting mass brain goes "uMMM I DO IT TOO NOW?" instead of "a unique creation! I'll uniquely create things too now!"
YOU DON'T JUST FUCKING DO THJE EXACT SAME THING WITH A DIFFERENT HAT
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This is the most beautiful work of art that my soul has been able to witness.
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>>9388360
Boy the outdoors that show up in the captcha are better than that.
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>>9388360
>reading non-whites
>thinking you have a soul if you're not white
back to plebbit, kid. This place is for REAL men
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>>9388360
How? I'm reading it now and I'm not really enjoying it. I suppose that it may be easier to interpret if you are of the author's culture.
What does the snake imagery represent? Regrowth?
So was Yozo a sociopath or what?
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>>9388289
Yeah, something like that
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>>9388289
No, he was just inadequately socialized.
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>>9388289
This novel only really makes sense in the context of japanese society.
It's radical in Japanese lit because it demonstrates what it is like to be outside of Japanese social conventions, to be unable to inhabit the living for others, pulling your own, the whole Japanese ethos, while also creating a character who just sort of ... ends up there. It isn't the result of choice. He's not even flaunting the norms, being a womanizer or whatever. He slips out of humanity.
The point isn't what causes him to do that. It's that nothing seems to. In the west this isn't really that unusual because we're used to having fuckups, heretics, etc.
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>Your nationality
>Top 3 authors from your country
Me:
>German
>Rilke, Kafka, Brothers Grimm
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>Rilke
>Kafka
>German
Geiler Köder, brudi.
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>scottish
I can't think of a Scottish author who isn't patchy in their brilliance.
I like George McKay brown at the moment
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>Kafka
>Rilke
>Goethe
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Conciliator edition
Fantasy
Selected:
>https://i.imgur.com/r688cPe.jpg
General:
>https://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg
Flowchart:
>https://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg
Science Fiction
Selected:
>https://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/IBs9KE8.jpg
General:
>https://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg
Previous Thread:
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Which science fiction book or short story conveys loneliness-while-exploring-space well?
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first ssfhc vegan btw
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>interested in purchasing and reading the redwall books again
>go online
>New covers
Nope
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>>9387725
Why would they change those old ones? They were fucking perfect.
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What is esstential...socialist(?)....reading?
The world is turning to shit and the left has been hijacked by identity politics and rich kids playing revolutionist.
I want to know more about socialism and it's roots, and what a workable system looks like. I also want to know what exactly neoliberalism is, since it's apparently something that has disguised itself as left wing or something.
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Probably start by reading Marx's 'The Communist Manifesto'.
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start with 'wage labour and capital' and 'critique of the gotha programme'
>>9387431
the manifesto is shit, stop recommending it
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DESU.
Manifesto is pure rhetoric. Dated rhetoric, too.
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>“The truth is you already know what it's like. You already know the difference between the size and speed of everything that flashes through you and the tiny inadequate bit of it all you can ever let anyone know. As though inside you is this enormous room full of what seems like everything in the whole universe at one time or another and yet the only parts that get out have to somehow squeeze out through one of those tiny keyholes you see under the knob in older doors. As if we are all trying to see each other through these tiny keyholes. But it does have a knob, the door can open. But not in the way you think...The truth is you've already heard this. That this is what it's like. That it's what makes room for the universes inside you, all the endless inbent fractals of connection and symphonies of different voices, the infinities you can never show another soul. And you think it makes you a fraud, the tiny fraction anyone else ever sees? Of course you're a fraud, of course what people see is never you. And of course you know this, and of course you try to manage what part they see if you know it's only a part. Who wouldn't? It's called free will, Sherlock. But at the same time it's why it feels so good to break down and cry in front of others, or to laugh, or speak in tongues, or chant in Bengali--it's not English anymore, it's not getting squeezed through any hole. So cry all you want, I won't tell anybody.”
Holy...I want more.
How does he do it /lit/?
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>>9387158
kek'd. John green truly is the prodigie of DFW. The stylistic similarity is very apparent.
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>>9387158
I like that. What book is it from?
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>>9387165
Good Old Neon by the one and only DFW
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itt:
we record our voices reading poetry over vaporwave music.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0gY68FoyaT6
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This is fucking retarded and requires too much effort
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>>9386703
You sound like the biggest faggot ever.
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>>9386707
all it takes is vocaroo and youtube and a poem.
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Thoughts on Charles Bukowski?
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No.
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>>9386497
my gf just read Post Office and said it was hilarious...
I'll probably read it next but I've been reading the same book for almost a year...
>tfw your gf is more lit than you
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>>9386497
He's a comfy, easy read. If you want to greatly amplify the "outcast with angst" experience you got from Catcher in the Rye, then he's for you.
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AMA
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>here's my offer that I'm gonna rob and set you back in debt for many years
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What's it like knowing you're going to waste 36,000 on an education you could have gotten at the public library?
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>>9376936
OP here, more like here's my offer that I'm not going to meet in the first place
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Which books will help with comedy timing and general sense of humour?
I am now "that guy" in my workplace because I keep getting comedy wrong. Just last week my coworkers were talking and one of them said "I wish we could go home early today, even though I know I'd fall asleep as soon as I got home". I loudly said (from across the room) "oh the iiiirony!" and they all sort of craned their necks over the computer screens between us and fake-laughed since they couldn't tell if I was talking to them. Another time recently a girl at my workplace asked what I was doing for the weekend and I jokingly replied "I'd tell you but then you'd have to kill me" and I only realized later on like a sudden flash that I'd had the saying wrong. Felt like such a doofus. My mom says I'm a funny guy but that's only because I often do this fake seizure thing where I drop to the ground at random and start frothing at the mouth and jerking all over the place. I mean it is funny. I am a funny person. But I can't do that sort of thing at work. I wore face paint to work last halloween as a joke but my boss took me aside and asked me (in a nice way) to go remove it in the bathroom.
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please delete this, I shouldn't have read it
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>>9392578
Humor is situational. If you don't get it now, you probably won't get it later.
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>>9392578
The Art of Witty Banter:
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Witty-Banter-Interesting-Captivatin/dp/1540552632/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1492446362&sr=1-1&keywords=the+art+of+witty+banter
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Who hurt him?
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papa
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>>9391821
kant
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>>9391821
life
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Hey /lit/, I'm starting writing a complex scenario for a film, with the same style of european directors of modernity - you know: Godard, Tarkovsky, Bresson, etc,.
Any advise?
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Don't write it in English, ESL-kun.
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>>9391887
It was not planned to be, but how did you figure out I'm ESL?
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Who is going to film it
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Is the internet an actualised version of what hegel called geist (spirit/mind)?
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I don't think the internet is representative of real life.
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>>9391657
But isn't 'spirit' the necessarily 'unreal' (letters, numbers, laws, equations..) upon which the living in axiomatic fashion 'base' real life for the purpose of wresting finer spirit, or knowledge?
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>>9391785
Are you trolling or trying to make sense out of nothing