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The 19th century was the greatest ever for literature. Prove me wrong.
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>>9283008
>Prove me wrong.
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>>9283008
because victorian prose is a fucking chore to read
good poetry though
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Everyone knows that.
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>hey anon what are you reading
>i'm reading a book called Stoner by John Williams
>reading a book called Stoner? Is it about weed lol? Look everyone anon is reading a book about weed! Ahahahahaha!
>don't even care to ask what its about
>everyone ends up asking me whether if it is about weed
Why are people such immature morons /lit/? Most of them are 18/19 now, they should have grown up by now.
>inb4 you have shit literature taste OP
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>And he knew that was it for him, that he'd hit rock bottom, a failure, a loser, a burnout. What had started out as an innocent way to relieve streas after school had become a horrible addiction. He went in the bathroom and examined his pale weary face in the mirror. "Stoner," he pronounced.
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>reading in public
>speaking to people who interrupt you reading in public
>being at all embarrassed by the misunderstandings of a terminal plebian
You know how I know you're underaged?
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>>9283019
>tfw 18 and someone calls you underaged
It's supposed to be a compliment, isn't it? To be called younger than you are.
Thanks anon. You made my day.
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Is morality subjective?
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No, but it is subjunctive.
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it's subjuctivejunction
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No, it is relative.
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I had asked a week back for feedback for the same piece. Anyone willing to give feedback?
http://hasitpbhatt.blogspot.com/2017/03/god-made-human-because.html
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>>9282807
fucking godawful, and here's why.
>Well, this isn't the first time these questions have surrounded me.
Could you write a more meaningless sentence in a more stilted way?
>Since childhood, I've been asked what did I want to be when I grew up.
Shit grammar draws attention away from what's being said. Also gives away the fact that you don't have the intrinsic grasp on language that you need to be a writer.
>With time, the answers have changed with an average frequency thrice a year.
Thrice? Are you fucking kidding me here? Could you be more pretentious?
>I always thought that once you enter adulthood, you'll know what you want to be.
Fuck this, I'm out
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>>9282872
This post has convinced me not to read it.
OP, you know that comic that's like "welcome to /lit/," and has the guy asking for book recs and the other guy jumping in and yelling "Finnegan's Wake"? Remember the guy in the background asking people to critique his short story about being a NEET with no gf? That's the level of writing this is. That's you. The subject is different, maybe, the quality the same.
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>>9282807
>making an image macro with no idea of the meaning of the image
yeah, nah, not gonna read your trash
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What is the best E-reader to buy right now? I'm looking at the Kindle Paper white and it looks almost like actual paper and less strenuous for my eyes.
I tend to read pdf's quite a bit as well, can you rent library books with them?
Also which one is easiest to sail ships with and make people walk the plank with?
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>>9282799
kobo glo hd without a doubt
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>>9282799
I have a Kindle paper white, its awesome. But rent library book? I belive it's not possible. I usually read my pdf's books from univesity, and it's works well, Mobi files are the most recommended to read on kindle. in my opinion it worths, i don't know if it's the best one, by the way.
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>>9282805
I've got a Kobo Aura HD myself. Really happy with it.
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The most /lit/ questions 2017-03-23 08:31:27 Post No.9282763
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What are the most /lit/ questions to ask a pleb like me in order to seem clever?
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What is a question?
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What is justice?
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What is love?
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I read books to distract myself and to have fun.
I don't think the majority here does this.
Why do you read books?
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Reading is actually the only activity during which I'm not distracted desu
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To gain ultimate knowledge, duh.
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Fiction: For beautiful prose, plot, and for interesting poetic structures and schemes.
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Story of the Eye / Bataille General 2017-03-23 08:14:24 Post No.9282695
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Story of the Eye / Bataille General
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just read this and don't know what to think
what do you guys think
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milk is for the pussy
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>>9282695
I fapped to fetishes I never knew I had before with this book
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really hot piss scenes
plus it contains one of the greatest phrases in all of literature: "a brutal onslaught of cunts and cocks"
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Why do women pretend to read Jane Austen?
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>>9282660
Their simply inferior to us as white men.
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>>9282660
why do men find reading so difficult that they think anyone but them would need to lie about having read something?
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>>9282660
>tfw females take her writing literally
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Who won this debate?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We7DyKWw61I
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I don't think it was possible for Hitchens to lose a debate t.b.h.
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>>9282640
Not literature.
Fuck off, or make this about women or nonwhite inferiority to the white man
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>>9282640
>2008
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So, I just got this for my b-day. What I'm I in for? It's my first Hollaback book.
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>>9282511willem?
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>>9282573
Dafoe
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>>9282511
Masturbation, sex, decadence, time jumps, alienation, and science
He's doing an ask me anything on /r/IAma at 7 pm EST
What's the best way to trigger him?
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>>9282484
Same way Sam Harris did, pointing out how his Jungian archtype bullshit has zero epistemological or even hermeneutic validity
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Tell him responsable is lame and that nihilism doens't mean lack of meaning and that he needs to sort himself out. Then start posting snuff pepes.
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Ask him about the frog as an archetype
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I am interested in Buddhism as a philosophy, not a religion*. I think that following many of its lessons one can certainly live a better life.
However, I have some questions, some uncertainties that are quite disturbing to me (and forgive me if they are stupid, but I am quite new to all of this):
>To eliminate desire one must desire to do so, so how is it possible to do it? Let me put in another way: to achieve enlightenment one has to eliminate desire (or craving), but you only follow the path to enlightenment by wanting to do so, with the desire to do so. In this view, you have to practice every day with a series of goals in mind, with the desire to achieve such goals - and that for quite a while - before you achieve enlightenment. So all the time you reach for the complete end of craving your are filled with the desire to end it. Isn’t that a paradox?
>I like to write and one of the main goals of my life is to become better as writer, little by little, day by day. I practice this art and I honestly want (I desire) to get better, to achieve more mastery. Can I achieve more profound states of wisdom (maybe even enlightenment after many years, who knows) and still keep striving each day to become a better writer? The process of writing, to me, is not always pleasurable, and many times I feel great discomfort while trying to polish up my drafts or when trying to imagine new things out of nothing. Is great-wisdom/enlightenment possible when one has this artistic-drive in ones life?
* I see Buddhism as Ethics, as one possible answer to the question "What is the best way for people to live?", and any supernatural rant piled up upon the oldest lessons are trash in my eyes. The older the texts, the simpler and down-to-earth they seem to be.
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You want to desire things that will end all desires. so yes you have to have an initial desire to end suffering. It's not paradoxical, it's practical. Without desires there would not be an initial path.
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>>9282586
google "paradox of desire" for info on the first one, the answer to the second one is obviously no.
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Honor the ballsack
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>>9282502
You're a genius.
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Pupienus (Latin: Marcus Clodius Pupienus Maximus Augustus;[1] born c. 165/170[2] – 29 July 238), also known as Pupienus Maximus, was Roman Emperor with Balbinus for three months in 238, during the Year of the Six Emperors. The sources for this period are scant, and thus knowledge of the emperor is limited. In most contemporary texts Pupienus is referred by his cognomen "Maximus" rather than by his second nomen (family name) Pupienus.
http://www.pronouncenames.com/pronounce/pupienus
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Great writing schedule, or greatest writing schedule?
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Is Lonesome Dove lit?
Halfway through and I like it.
Other /lit/ recos for westerns?
Inb4 McCarthy, already done with all his books
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Hombre by Elmore Leonard is pretty well written
Warlock by Oakley Hall
True Grit
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dead man's walk by mcmurtry is good, too. gus and woodrow when they're younger.
i didn't like comanche moon, but that's a relatively uncommon opinion.
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Is he the type of writer where his books would make a better film?