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Will this fucking cunt harden up?

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What are some novels or short stories that involve people digging holes and living underground? Since as long as I can remember I've had this literary fetish. I will also accept people shrinking themselves to live in crazy small places. Don't tell me I'm the only one who wants shit like this.

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wanna feel comfy with others? come hangout and share your creative stuff

https://discord.gg/2Qp69eZ

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>Evan Dara is an American postmodern novelist. In 1995, his first novel, The Lost Scrapbook, won the 12th Annual FC2 Illinois State University National Fiction Competition judged by William T. Vollmann.

>The manuscript was originally brought to the publisher's attention by novelist Richard Powers, who described how he received it:

>“Several kilos of transatlantic, boat-rate typescript arrived on my stoop without prior warning of contents, and I’ve been grateful ever since. Dara shows how a novel can be experimental, yet moral, rule breaking but emotional, and post-humanist while still remaining deeply human. This scrapbook builds in stretches until the whole police blotter cum family album lies open in aerial view. Monumental, unforgiving, cunning and heartfelt, it lets no one off the hook, least of all the reader.

>"This first novel resembles the ambitious debuts of McElroy (A Smuggler's Bible) and Pynchon (V), but author Evan Dara pushes the bar back upward toward Recognitions-height.

>However, he has responded on separate occasions about the influence of William Gaddis on his style. In an indirect reply to a query from the critic Tom LeClair—in which he confirmed that he uses a pseudonym—Dara denied having read either The Recognitions or J R.[2] In 2014, the critic Steven Moore followed up on this question:

>“Asked about Gaddis’s possible influence, Dara told me that while working on The Lost Scrapbook he head that J R was a novel in dialogue and checked it out from The American Library in Paris: ‘Took the novel home, plunked it open, tapped it shut — didn’t want the influence’ (email January 19, 2014).”

>As opposed to other reclusive American writers such as J.D. Salinger, Thomas Pynchon, and Harper Lee, nothing is known about Dara's background or the reasons why he writes under a pseudonym. And unlike the pseudonymous Elena Ferrante, Dara has never given an interview or commented on his books.

Is he /ourguy?/

We're reading Evan Dara's The Lost Scrapbook on the /lit/ Discord. Join us and get in on the next big meme.

https://discord.gg/krcRqbz

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Does /lit/ buy 'nice' editions of books they like?
Besides Easton Press, Franklin Library and Folio Society are there any other Publishers that regularly produce nice editions?

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Which writer had the most sad life?
For me this guy here. Others might have had worse living conditions but poor Franz was a mess psychologically

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What comes after postmodernism?

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So whenever Bible contradicts reality, christians say "It was a metaphor". How do they know? Is there lists of literal and metaphorical passages compiled by different churches.

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>had two years to write thesis
>procrastinated and only have one month left

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pls /lit/ tell me how to get into philosophy.

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>> There is metaphysical truth, but it is irrelevant of good or bad and only pertains to the true nature of Being
>> Modern technology's obsession with quantification makes it extremely dangerous to mankind
>> Technology isn't inherently bad, we just need to prioritize the search for metaphysical truth
>> Practically all western philosophy only obscures the truth instead of accepting and working towards it
>> Heavy influence by eastern philosophy

Rene Guenon and Martin Heidegger seem to have so much in common, but nobody ever talks about them together. They're pretty opposed to one another in their ways of life and how they formed their ideas, but their philosophies have a lot of overlap.

Thoughts?

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I'll start

>Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

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Post your Goodreads profile url, make friends, and stay motivated to continue studying.

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Can we ban lizardposting and bugsposting?

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So just finished the Tao Te Ching.
Being a taoist is just basically being a smug bastard? Did i get it right?