>Open book
>First Person
>Close book
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>>9307557
>open book
>words
>close book
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I feel this way as well, I wish I didn't.
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>>9307557
too close for comfort anon? seriously though, your'e a dumbass
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So I want to write about a night of debauchery in South America that resulted in me developing feelings for a prostitute and rethinking gender relations(not in a nu-male way)
Should it be an essay or a short story? Who would I submit it to?
p.s. I have been published and work as an editor, so I am not some random dipshit
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>>9307526
Yeah, no one actually (((reads))) anything other than clickbait pulp articles in their facebook feeds, so no one will ever actually know what you did anyway.
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>>9307526
Wanna tell us about it? I sadly have little advice to offer.
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>>9307526
>(not in a nu-male way)
Not saying embarrassing shit like this could go a long way.
fuck rogers
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fuck rogers
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What's the scariest creature you ever read about, something so mind bendingly horrifying that if you knew it was coming you'd off yourself with a plastic fork.
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>>9307487
in my diarythe monster is myself
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AM supercomputer from I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
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skeletons
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>main character is a woman
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I really can't recollect any book I've read where this was the case.
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>poster is a frog
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>>9307471
>Book has a main character.
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>Most Artists and writers were born middle or upper class
What are some books about killing yourself because you're poor?
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>>9307452
There are exceptions, OP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angry_young_men
Also Melville was a poor sailor and Dickens's father was sent to prison for unpaid debts, while he himself worked as a laborer in a boot-blacking warehouse.
As for your request, just read Steinbeck.
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>>9307452
Joyce was dirt poor. Just become the next Joyce.
Easy.
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>>9307452
Is this actually true though?
I thought the cliche always associated with artists and writers was that many of them lived poor and weren't truly appreciated until after their deaths
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It's better than I ever could have imagined. Why aren't you reading this right now?
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meme?
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>>9307413
What were your expectations and how have they been surpassed?
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Reprint in July, get hype
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Please help me /lit/. I sperged out during class break and asked my Econ teacher (very smart lady) if she was familiar with Nick Land. She hadn't, so I talked a little bit about how capitalism is the process by which biological complexity is converted into economic capital towards the end goal of machine intelligence and transcendent humans. I used the example of a sewer system created by capitalism could be thought of as a machine enhancement of the human digestive track. She looked at me like I was insane and asked me to send her an article to back up what I was saying. Anybody know something I can send her? I don't want to be the weird kid for the rest of the semester.
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Well there it goes /lit/ I am breaking up with her. My mom kicked her out of the house for being lazy but I am breaking up with her so I can be alone and not have to bother with people. Sex is boring don't fall for the biomeme. I'm probably not that interested in sex because I'm schizo but I was at first,daily, - it was nice being the dom and tying her down to my bed I even left some burn marks on her. Her kid is gone tonight to his grandparents so he isn't going to be wailing at 1am and she is gone tomorrow. In a day I'll be able to unarrange my room and sit in silence on my rocking chair which now serves as a clothes hamper.
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ITT my diary desu
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>>9307402
Op here. Funny you mention schizo because I also mentioned capitalism and schizophrenia to my teacher.
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Is the Warhammer lore worth getting into?
Why yes, why not? Where should I start? The medieval one or 40k? Or the 30k one? Is End times part of the medieval one or is it a different period too?
Should I start by reading the books? Or by playing one of the videogames? Or one of the board games?
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I liked Honourkeeper
I would recommend it
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You're probably gonna be told to go to /sffg/ or told to fuck off because genre fiction is generally frowned upon here
I prefer 40K over Fantasy because the only Fantasy ones I read was Gotrek and Felix and it was kinda EH I found
For 40K I recommend Fifteen Hours, the Caiphus Cain books, the Helbrecht books, Eisenhorn trilogy (and to a lesser extent Ravenour) and the Preists of Mars trilogy
That's like 14 solid books for you dude
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>>9307390
Is any of those good to start with? I know basically fuck all about the Warhammer universe.
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A year ago I got hired to write speeches, reviews and letters. 0 experience or writing study. I always scored real high on aptitude tests so I guess I'm passable. I still have the job.
I'm definitely pretty shit if we're being real. Artists draw nudes and copy the masters to get better, what do writers do?
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>>9307342
Write more, basically. Copy great writers you admire. Do it more.
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>>9307342
>Artists draw nudes and copy the masters to get better, what do writers do?
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>>9307342
Write a lot of nudes. Duh.
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Is Mein Kampf actually worth the read? My school had it in its library but I've never given a thought about reading it.
>Pic related
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>>9307331
How come nobody translates the title?
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>>9307334
It sounds more sinister in German, like every other cluster of words.
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Only if it's a first edition in German. Everything else has been edited to hell and back.
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Is anyone else suffering constantly due to an absence of any simple and flawless philosophy of how to act during every moment, while considering all time frames? I can cope with not knowing about God or life after death. But feeling guilty about all my actions and hyper analysing everything is plaguing me. I analyse both my actions and the psychology of my actions, so I am double cucked.
Shall I read one book at a time or multiple books and why? If it's one, then I may get bored and remember it less. The time between starting and finishing it will be less compared to the other case so I may remember it less in the long term. Or maybe focusing on one book will help me remember it more. But maybe I'll have to force myself to read through boredom at times...
Shall I go to the gym tomorrow and then do those chores I've been putting off? Or go to the gym later and make sure I do the chores first so I don't avoid them all day? But this is like admitting I have no willpower. But maybe I do have willpower at the time and choose not to do the chores...
I could go on you get the picture. Infinite variables and I want to optimise for everything. And there are infinite bullshit artists telling you to optimise for variable X even while they break their own stupid rules all the time.
And of course I know there is no answer. But I can't act like there's no answer, I may as well roll dice to make every decision. But maybe if...
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>>9307277
>2017
>falling for the prescriptive philosophy meme
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>>9307277
My mind works in similar ways to yours OP. We're all going to make it.
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>>9307277
How about you get a narrative to give your life context. Then set out a goal.
But that was said in broad terms. You need friends and somebody who can pull your strings. At least for a while.
I became an avid reader like three months ago and I can't stop. I stopped watching tv and I don't spend much time on 4chan anymore.
Here's how I did it.
-Remember the average person reads like zero books a year. If you read 5 pages a day, you are 5 pages above the average person
-Don't force yourself to read. Commit to read 5 pages a day. I swear after three days you'll feel like reading more and after a month or so you should be reading 50-100 pages a day for pleasure
-Read various books at the same time. When I grab a difficult book or one that makes me sleepy I grab another and switch. This should refresh your head. Keep them thematically different. I read economics and fiction.
-It isn't a race. Reading slowly won't make you sleepy that fast. Try to acknowledge what books are for you to read fast and which aren't.
-Buy the physical copies. When you get the books from your own money you'll feel the need to read them to avoid the feel of wasting your money.
-Start with books highly discussed here so you feel motivated to discuss.
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holy...
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>>9307175
>look mom I posted it again
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>>9307175
>It isn't a race
Nice meme you fuckin booknoob
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My learned brethren, I have just finished this volume. Please, let us discussifize its contents in a hearty and agreeable manner.
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>>9307139
*non ad hominem response
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bold and brash
belongs in the trash
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>Hey guys let's discuss this meme that two people here tops have read.
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More works like Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?
That was a beautiful poem. I'm craving more like it
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>>9307118
Sadly a solecism in its class. A great poem.
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Beowulf, the illiad, the song of Roland. There's lots of poems and stories that deal with heroes and warfare. That was their thing back then. As far as beautiful poetry, I'm clueless. The beauty of language is lost on me.
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>>9307191
It's the way the poem and story merge in GK-- there's really nothing at all like it in its time-period, or even. It's both dead-on and wonderfully strange.
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If you somehow published a novel and it became a renowned masterpiece, would you rather it be praised for its beautiful and masterful prose or for its thought-provoking themes?
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>>9307034
ideally, my masterpiece would be reviled and hated for it's inhuman obscenity. Not merely dismissed, but actively suppressed and destroyed by all people of good will.
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>>9307034
don't care as long as it makes me rich
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>>9307058
Got to your dungeon De Sade