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Yes, but don't try to discuss it here, waste of time.

>>9325197
If you want to justify why the state can kill people just fucking say it, or better yet do it without saying it, don't write 8 gorillion words in several volumes about it. We get it, you're a totalitarian.

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>>9325197

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Story of a NEET. You might find it funny, especially if you've read pic related

https://williamguppyblog.wordpress.com/2017/03/31/first-blog-post/

Will hang around and critique anyone who critiques

>>9322319
Pretty decent prose but why would you want to rewrite Conspiracy in a contemporary England? It's good enough that I'll read the whole of "One" but I'm not going to return or recommend it to anyone.

I kick a can. It flies across the street and hits a parked car’s side. I stride down the street with hurried steps.

Anger is still in me. It swells up, fills up my mind, and flows out. I feel hot streams of anger reaching up to my head. As if anger were fuel, my strides quicken.

In front of the toy store, I hesitate. Withered ivy vines climb across the sign board that read, "Trom’s Toys." It’s a miserable store on the first floor of an old brick building flanked by brick buildings. I can’t make out the interior behind the dirty floor-to-ceiling glass.

I take deep breaths. Cold air fills my chest. Wind hits my face. My heartbeat calms down. I step forward.

I check my reflection in the glass. A pale boy with a grim look on his face looks back at me. I take a deep breath. Cold air sends shivers across my body. I close my eyes. I force a smile on my face. I open my eyes. There is still a hint of sadness on my face. I manipulate my facial muscles until all signs of my inner turmoil disappear from my face. I push open the door and walk in.

Smell of cheap perfume assails my nostrils. It is reminiscent of barbie dolls. The store is shabby and gaudy. Fake gravel covers the concrete floor. All three walls hide behind tall shelves. The shelves are filled with dolls, robots, and all kinds of toys.

“Hi. Can I help you?”

I turn and see a short-haired man with brown skin. He has a thick mustache. He is looking at me suspiciously. I infuse my voice with fake joy.

“Yes. I need some balloons.”

“How many?”

“Uh, about Eighty?”

The man disappears under the counter. I hear metallic clinkings.

“Mixed colors?” He asks.

“Yes.”

The man emerges with a keychain. He unlocks the steel door behind him and disappears into it. He comes back with balloon bags in his hand. He puts them on the counter and enter numbers in his cash machine.

“Fifteen dollars.”

“Uh.” I murmur.

The man looks at me and adds. “You need something else?”

“Yes. I need something to…” My voice trails off.

“Pumps?”

“Yeah. Kinda.”

The man’s eyebrows draw together.

“I need helium.” I say.

“Helium, for the balloons.” The man says.

I nod.

The man stays silent. The look on his face slowly changes from confusion to suspicion. Or at least I think so. I meet the man’s gaze, trying to hide my emotions, as if any emotion is left in me.

“You mean helium tanks.” The man says.

“Yup.”

“I have them. How many do you need?”

“I need two.”

The man does the calculation, counting his fingers and mouthing silent numbers. “Yeah. Two should be enough.”

“Yup.”

The man disappears once again behind the steel door. He comes back with two helium tank boxes on top of one another. He asks. “Do you want them delivered?” Kids printed on their surface smile at me.

“No. I can take them myself.”

“Then that should be, one-thirty.”

I hand him two hundred-dollar bills.

>>9345201
>its another lanklet cope thread because he has anxiety and a small dick
simply ebik

by little people he means midgets who had huge heads short limbs and long adomen

>>9345201
You don't seem to take into consideration the year he was alive.

t. manlet

>cliche (/ˈkliːʃeJ/ or /klJˈʃeJ/) is an expression, idea, or element of an artistic work which has become overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect
What a shit thread.

>>9345071
It's now shit because of your retarded post, thanks dude!

It wasn't written for Blade Runner, the actor improvised it.

Professors

part time workers in a comfy job

Wealthy non-autistic neets.

>>9344895
ah, blood meridian, monsieur? that novel is the sark and chaparral of literature, the filament whereon rode the remuda of highbrow, corraled out of some destitute hacienda upon the arroya, quirting and splurting with main and with pyrolatrous coagulate of lobated grandiloquence. our eyes rode over the pages, monsieur, of that slatribed azotea like argonauts of suttee, juzgados of swole, bights and systoles of walleyed and tyrolean and carbolic and tectite and scurvid and querent and creosote and scapular malpais and shellalagh. we scalped, monsieur, the gantlet of its esker and led our naked bodies into the rebozos of its mennonite and siliceous fauna, wallowing in the jasper and the carnelian like archimandrites, teamsters, combers of cassinette scoria, centroids of holothurian chancre, with pizzles of enfiladed indigo panic grass in the saltbush of our vigas, true commodores of the written page, rebuses, monsieur, we were the mygale spiders too and the devonian and debouched pulque that settled on the frizzen studebakers, listening the wolves howling in the desert while we saw the judge rise out of a thicket of corbelled arches, whinstone, cairn, cholla, lemurs, femurs, leantos, moonblanched nacre, uncottered fistulas of groaning osnaburg and kelp, isomers of fluepipe and halms awap of griddle, guisado, pelancillo.

>>9344897
This is literal gibberish, for anyone who's just wondering if they simply lack the vocabulary.

>>9344907
I'm really stoned and actually felt like a retard until the end of the first line and realized it was nonsense.

Eats spicy goodness

Like a boss

>>9344865
Global cooling
Kek

>fat goon nerds with frog avatars

>>9344535
Because BNW was shit and noone wants to be reminded of its existence

>>9344541
Fuck you.

1984 was more propaganda/psyops based

because things that are fictional will always be better than real life

>>9344539
The best books are based on the authors' own lives or people they knew or stories they heard.

/lit/ constantly regurgitates what can be considered the literature "canon" which is fiction based.

their is no equivalent canon for non-fiction and /lit/ can't think for itself

Grorious Nippon > China > Korea > who cares

>>9344261
Russia is in Asia
so therefore, Russian lit

>>9344278
And anything else?

this shit isn't literature

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>>9344258
it sure as hell are, never speak to me or my son ever again.

>>9344213
Custom languages can cause cringe if they are too otherworldly imo, but the most important thing is for them to be consistent throughout that language/locale. If different names shift too much the immersion will break and it will feel too unrealistic.

I prefer more organic languages, functional can also break the immersion and make you associate it with the wrong things (could be powerful if done the right way though - but that might be hard as all readers might associate things differently)

If I wright I usually come to points where I rename things back and forth, it's suffering

>>9344258
What do you mean? If you write a story, how do you name the locations? Shire, Mount Doom..?

It very much is literature.

It's about three pages long and of no interest beyond the gimmick.

>>9344086
so yes?

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I wonder if anyone actually gets off to these.

The Greeks were the first white supremacists, and you're on 4Chan.

You're also the ones listening to them without any critical engagement of your own, so I'm not sure what you expect.

>>9344011
I really like the Greeks and you should to.

No, it's a meme invented by Joycefags who were not able to understand Ulysses because they didn't even know about the Odissey. If you're European and you went to school you don't need to reread the Greeks.

>>9343981
If you pay for it, it devalues it.

>>9343989
I mean, if you want the most annoying pedantic version of it I guess you're right.

>>9343989
Yeah, but you don't pay for it in Europe.

You're thinking of Shannara, there, pal.

>>9343721
but people can fly in ASoIaF

just ask Robin

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why didn't they just take a train to mordor?