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>>9339916
I had an encounter with Thomas Pynchon in January but out of respect for him I won't go into detail.

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I met John Green on the D train this morning. He was sitting alone in the last car, reading "The Catcher in the Rye" by Salinger.

>Hi, Mr. Green. I love your work.

He thanked me for the compliment. His voice was quite raspy, and he coughed a bit, as if there were some viscous fluid lodged in his throat.

>If I may, sir, do you have any projects in the works?
>I do, yes.

He didn't seem irritated by my question, and in fact he was almost open to the conversation.

>What about? I enjoyed Looking for Alaska very much.
>Thank you. It is a novel. It is about teen refugee from Siria who likes cocks very much. He die in the end.

I was floored. I stood in silence for several seconds.

>W-w-wow, Mr. Green. I cannot wait to read it.
>Call me John, he said.

When we got to Fordham Road station he closed his book, smiled, and walked off the train into the fog of commuting bodies.

Can you believe it?

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>>9339916
I can believe it.

>>9339935
BS

They're all the same

What you get out of it

>someone will take the bait

Yes it's worth your time/money.
First book was very good, second ok and death's end was the best. He could have played around a little more in the third book imo.

Three Body Problem is breddy gutt

>>9339878
most of the first one is great both story\characters and the scifi (until the retarded 9 dimensional particles) second one is retarded and gets way to handwavy with all the wallfacer bullshit, couldn't finish it desu and theres very few books that are so bad i didnt finish them.

>>9339817
I don't get this either, what's wrong with it?
>inb4 mary sue
These two things are completely different

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>>9339817

>someone complains the dialogue isn't realistic
>some complains the characters are unlikable
>someone complains the author was a terrible person and says nothing about the actual book

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>Frozen served a political purpose: to demonstrate that a woman did not need a man to be successful. Anything written to serve a political purpose (rather than to explore and create) is propaganda, not art.
>Frozen was propaganda, pure and simple. Beauty and the Beast (the animated version) was not.

>it's another "Jordan Peterson is a fucking retard" episode

You either go to Heaven or Hell

After death you stop existing and that's it and that's fine. You won't know either way, because you've stopped existing

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>>9339818

Have you empirically observed or recall or have even seen a realm of pure bliss and unending happiness (Heaven) and its opposite?

Mental states are not realms to me but the question is does the mind persist beyond bodily death?

>PoMo
>comfy

Pick one.

>>9339692
V.

>>9339692
IV

my diary desu

On Tyranny - Xenophon, Strauss

uh, that's a really, really broad question?

what topics? what disciplines?

Google words you don't understand and note them down if you feel you can't memorize them at first blush.

Should boost your attempts anon.

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>>9339549
How long have you been practicing these things? I've been writing almost every day for two years, so far a novel, a novella, many scripts and a collection of short stories. Various drafts. Throughout each of these I have had very very minor changes, but now, 2 years/~350,000 words layer, I can look back and see quite an improvement from when I was starting out.

Pic unrelated.

>>9339575
is been a couple of weeks so far.

Looks like you haven't started with the Greeks

It's literally written in an Irish dialect, if you haven't picked that up and looked past it yet there's no hope.

>>9339533
Correct

>>9339539
No shit, that is wildly obvious. That doesn't take away from the fact that it is page after page of describing things. NO STORY

No one is going anywhere, no one is talking to anyone. Any action is vague third persom about having gone to a bar.

I have read Ulysses, THERE IS AT LEAST DIALOGUE.

There is nothing here.

anyone?

Not an expert, but for what I know Kant thought that:
1.The world we perceive (through senses) is not "the real world", which would be the noumenon (what things are when not perceived by our senses, their attributes basically --which kind of fits well with quantum physics (objects get affected by our senses because we're sending protons which shape its particles/wave)--)
So then he wonders what can we know with transcendental truth (a priori, without the senses --because they are kind of a looking-glass that doesn't present reality in itself and we cannot get rid of it--): this pure concepts are the analytical a priori truths (which nowadays I don't think they stand as something accepted), which would be concepts taken out purely from logic from an axiom that has no reliance in the empirical knowledge. But what we can know though, is that space and time are conditions understood by our body (the four dimensions) and from that I guess you could try and get out a Pure Concept (but then again, no one has come out with an axiom that nowadays would be considered a Pure Concept --Hegel would nod happily and agree with modern society--).
I'm not sure whether I've answered anything, but I wasn't sure what you were asking either to be fair.

>>9339722
thanks. trying to figure out how his theories of appearance, sensibility, intuition, judgements, understanding, etc. fit together to form his theory of mind. i think the image is attempting to do that, but doesn't really make sense to me.

>>9339379
Rubivon.

>>9339388
Thanks, this seems exactly what I am looking for. Any other suggestions from people are wanted too though.

>>9339379
Plutarch?

>>9339368
Stop spoiling the goddamn NYT crossword you fucking bastard. That's one of the few things I derive pleasure from these days

Please give me a good general crossword source. I don't want pop culture idiocy, I want /lit/ level.

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rare puzzle

Notes from underground
Behead all satans

Un Homme Qui Dort by Georges Perec

my diary desu

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>>9339357
DFW stood apart, and yet mediated. Communicating to society something as essential as water, and yet being able to do so only from a position of insulation, of disaffection.

He accepted the contrary experience, and drank, with Socrates, the deadly cup.

>>9339357
He had a retarded personality. He stalked women. He threw a coffee table at his gf. He's a fucking nut job. He hung himself. Why wouldn't he be a meme?

>>9339392
please show me your fedora collection

>>9339352
Don't bother, he was a massive dick and gloryhound.

>>9339617
I think the frenchposters on /his/ would have a better time on /lit/ desu

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>>9339352
Mémoires de Guerre
>>9339617
BEADY