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Has your writing ever impressed a girl, or got her to like you?
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a handful and they're tumblrinas
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>have my drug-addled, sleep-deprived, rambles impressed a girl
lol
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All the ones I show, ya.
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What the actual living FUCK was his problem? 2017-03-26 03:39:24 Post No.9293027
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What the actual living FUCK was his problem?
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>In her book Hunter: The Strange and Savage Life of Hunter S. Thompson, biographer E. Jean Carroll starts the first chapter with a detailed account of the excess of her subject. Here's what Carroll reports as a sample daily routine for the gonzo journalist (note that it begins at 3pm):
>3:00 p.m. rise
>3:05 Chivas Regal with the morning papers, Dunhills
>3:45 cocaine
>3:50 another glass of Chivas, Dunhill
>4:05 first cup of coffee, Dunhill
>4:15 cocaine
>4:16 orange juice, Dunhill
>4:30 cocaine
>4:54 cocaine
>5:05 cocaine
>5:11 coffee, Dunhills
>5:30 more ice in the Chivas
>5:45 cocaine, etc., etc.
>6:00 grass to take the edge off the day
>7:05 Woody Creek Tavern for lunch-Heineken, >two margaritas, coleslaw, a taco salad, a double order of fried onion rings, carrot cake, ice cream, a bean fritter, Dunhills, another Heineken, cocaine, and for the ride home, a snow cone (a glass of shredded ice over which is poured three or four jiggers of Chivas)
>9:00 starts snorting cocaine seriously
>10:00 drops acid
>11:00 Chartreuse, cocaine, grass
>11:30 cocaine, etc, etc.
>12:00 midnight, Hunter S. Thompson is ready to write
>12:05-6:00 a.m. Chartreuse, cocaine, grass, Chivas, coffee, Heineken, clove cigarettes, grapefruit, Dunhills, orange juice, gin, continuous pornographic movies.
>6:00 the hot tub-champagne, Dove Bars, fettuccine Alfredo
>8:00 Halcyon
>8:20 sleep
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it was a persona he put on for observers. he didn't do that when there weren't people around. he couldn't afford it, financially or physically.
he used drug addiction as a prop to sell books and seem interesting
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>>9293027
>Fettuccini Alfredo
At least the man had good taste.
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>>9293027
I love drugs and drugs love me
I love drugs and drugs love me
I love drugs and drugs love me
I love drugs and drugs love me
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My life is falling apart. Im in a slow downward spiral into an abyss so deep I never know when ill finally hit the bottom. Ptsd is ravaging my sanity and my wife might leave me. So ill do something I've never done before and share some poetry. Let me know what y'all think.
A drop of red.
Her hair; crimson, long, beautiful.
A drop of red.
Her lips; lushious, sweet, perfect.
A drop of red.
Her voice; captivating, serene, lovely.
A drop of red.
Her body; curved, sleek, elegant.
A drop of red.
Her; everything I want and everything I need, my muse.
A drop of red.
My blood; crimson, regret, guilt, pain, wrong, unending and finite
A drop of-
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STOP putting pussy on a pedestal.
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>>9292897
>Crimson
Stop it.
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what are the most important works one must read in order to understand "evil"?
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>>9292527
The Communist Manifesto. The singular most evil book in the world
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"respectively"
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Is this meme book worth reading or is it just a bunch of pop science?
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>>9292370
why nations fail is far superior
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>>9292370
Many historians and anthropologists believe Diamond plays fast and loose with history by generalizing highly complex topics to provide an ecological/geographical determinist view of human history. There is a reason historians avoid grand theories of human history: those "just so stories" don't adequately explain human history. It's true however that it is an entertaining introductory text that forces people to look at world history from a different vantage point. That being said, Diamond writes a rather oversimplified narrative that seemingly ignores the human element of history.
>Cherry-picked data while ignoring the complexity of issues
In his chapter "Lethal Gift of Livestock" on the origin of human crowd infections he picks 5 pathogens that best support his idea of domestic origins. However, when diving into the genetic and historic data, only two pathogens (maybe influenza and most likely measles) could possibly have jumped to humans through domestication. The majority were already a part of the human disease load before the origin of agriculture, domestication, and sedentary population centers. This is an example of Diamond ignoring the evidence that didn't support his theory to explain conquest via disease spread to immunologically naive Native Americas.
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Do you just browse the catalog a few minutes a day, clicking on whichever thread you come along?
Do you browse the archive?
Do you ctrl+f phrases related to your favorite book genres?
Do you ever save threads as an html file for later?
What say you?
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>save threads as an html file for later
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I read the threads and shitpost in them, for example:
>tfw 5'8
>tfw 6'2 gf
>tfw lanklets will never know this feel
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>>9292314
Explain this pic
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Is your city /lit/, anon?
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>Knoxville
Yes, very much so.
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yes
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What makes a city /lit/
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Are these guy's books worth reading if I'm not American?
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>>9292059
>Are these guy's books worth reading if I'm not American?
I don't think you should be reading anything with that grammar, friendo.
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>>9292071
Literally nothing waa wrong with my grammar
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>>9292076
>these guy's
I didn't realize that Tom Sowell had clones whom also wrote.
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Is the reason there are no great living writers under 50 years of age because no one knows where to go after postmodernism?
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Not really, no.
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>>9291980
What is the reason?
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Joyce left the bar too high you will have to give the next genius a little more time tbqh
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best stories?
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le rats in le walls niggerman XDDD
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>>9291697
Man of the Crowd was his best I think
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I really liked The Devil in the Belfry.
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>Finally start with the Greeks
>excited, but with a vague suspicion that I'm being a naif
>buy a collection of Greek poetry, the lyric poets being the basis of our knowledge of Greek culture and practically worshipped by the Greeks for centuries
>getting more hyped reading about it's influence
>book finally arrives and I read a couple pages
>Yes, the worst pestilence Zeus ever made
>is women. Even if they look to be
>a helpmeet, yet the master suffers most:
>the man who keeps a woman in his house
>never gets through a whole day in good cheer,
>nor will he soon drive Hunger from his door,
>that hostile lodger, hateful deity.
>When with his household he seems most content,
>whether by God's grace or on man's account,
>she finds some fault, and girds herself for war.
>Where there's a woman, they may not be keen
>even to welcome a visitor.
>I'll tell you, she that looks the best-behaved
>in fact is the most rotten of them all,
>for while her man gawps fondly at her, oh,
>the neighbours' merriment: another dupe!
--- Semonides, one of the greatest of the Greek canon
>"Okay, this is pretty nasty", flick through further
>Every man rolled back his skin...
> ...his tender horn...
> ...wet mound of Venus...
>Up and down she bounced like a kingfisher flapping on a jutting rock
>Like a Thracian or Phrygian drinking beer through a tube
>she sucked, stooped down, engaged too from behind.
>And his dong
>...flooded over like a Prienian
>stall-fed donkey's...
>...foam all round her mouth...
>They stooped and spurted off
>all their accumulated wantonness.
>...through the tube into the vessel.
[...]
>... a growth between the thighs...
>I won't use surgery,
>I know another sovereign remedy
>for a growth of this description
>...and severed the tendons of his middle parts.
>but the sinews of his wick are ruptured...
[...]
>I wish I had a chance of fingering
>Neoboule---
>the workman falling to his flask----and pressing >tum to tummy and thighs to thighs... as sure as >I know how to start the lovely round
>of singing
>lord Dionysus' dithyramb when the wine has
>blitzed my brains in.
--- Archilochus
What the fuck was up with these filthy perverted Greeks? They hate women, they're never full of fucking, and they're all gay!
Is THIS really the foundation of Western Culture?
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>>9291664
>gay
>hate women
>judging an ancient culture by today's standards
Anyway, Sappho is objectively the best lyric poet.
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>>9291680
Not my favourite translation:
That man to me seems equal to the gods,
the man who sits opposite you
and close by listens
to your sweet voice
5 and your enticing laughter—
that indeed has stirred up the heart in my breast.
For whenever I look at you even briefly
I can no longer say a single thing,
but my tongue is frozen in silence;
10 instantly a delicate flame runs beneath my skin;
with my eyes I see nothing;
my ears make a whirring noise.
A cold sweat covers me,
trembling seizes my body,
15 and I am greener than grass.
Lacking but little of death do I seem.
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Bitches ain't shit shit but hoes and tricks.
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Masterpiece.
Any else here like medieval literature? Medieval poetry is great and massively underrated. We have epics as good as the Iliad.
tl;dr medieval literature was great
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>>9291569
Also courtly love poetry is some good shit, full of bawdy comedy and cuckoldry too. Medieval folks didn't fuck around.
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>>9291569
It's as good as the Iliad because it is a rewriting of it in a German setting with a handful of Germanic folklore elements interpolated.
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>>9291577
Homer should have sued those German cunts
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Damn. What did highly influential and critically lauded writer Ishmael Reed mean by this?
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>>9291544
What do you think?
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>>9291544
somewhere in all those typos is the claim that white culture presented to us in the media is not what one will experience in the actual streets on a personable, granular level, and that institutions are adamantly pushing the fabrication of "Western Civilization" and it's "values", implying towards systemic whitewashing and historical revisionism.
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>>9291589
Imagine being as dull and monothematic (autistic) as this poster.
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Was it rape?
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>Go to alien planet
>all their buildings look like genitalia
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>thinking Rhaegar would rape
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wrong pic
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Should I take the leap of faith? It seems so irrational. I feel so lost. I don't know what to do. What should I read?
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We must imagine Kierkegaard as happy
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>>9291060
> It seems so irrational
That's the point, idiot.
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If it were rationally justifiable, there would be no faith involved, would there? You are not ready to make the leap of faith until you understand the limits of rationality, and the possibilities of transcending those limits. Read the Bible.