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No

>>9278148
>muh philobarbarianism

>>9275977
Yes.
>>9278148
Also him.

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>Pornografia
>no explicit descriptions of fucking

>The New Annotated Oxford Bible
>it was published 16 years ago

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>The Savage Detectives
>they are actually quite mild

u used to be v

genius dude.
howd you figure that out?
you ever notice that u looks live v and that v is a symbolic representation of the way of all things, the downward merge of opposing sides/forces to a single downward point, the way of all things.
man i had no idea w was so deep, two "(you)" one for you one for me...it's like two v's man, the more refined version displaying the duality of life and it's undefinable distinction from a birds-eye view.

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>Ƿ
>wynn
>win

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there was a great story by Julio Cortazar in Harper's in the early 1980's I believe about a guy who put on a bright yellow tie, and put an ant on his tie, and paraded himself down the sidewalk infront of his neighbour's house to make him jealous.
that was great.
can't remember the name, sadly.

Mark Leyner's Car Bomb from My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist is decent.

Of course, there's Alice Munro, Ray Carver, Updike.

WHAT MEN LIVE BY

"Gift of the Magi" by O.Henry.

"The Swarm" by Bruce Sterling.

that is all.

>>9275829
Slow board, shameless self bump.

It doesn't have a name.

It's a stylistic choice of indicating dialogue. 'Quotation marks' are simply a convention, an English convention, they're not a rule.

The problem with using them comes about when you use a dash to indicate interrupted speech, a convention that is paired with quatation mark use.

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>>9275909
That's a shame.. I was hoping to read into it, maybe try my hand towards that style. It's real natural and doesn't run the risk of becoming a "and then our main hero said" type of novel.

>>9275872
~ 500

At the very least, 100

>>9275872
zero
if you can speak and write english and have the inclination to write, then have it
the publisher can decide whether your work is sellable

you're going to miss a lot regardless

>>9275936
its that hard?

Bump for interest, how hard is it compared to GR?

http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/51339192-george-dundalli

Goodreads is trash, are there alternatives out there?

>>9275809
>>9275863
>That lack of text reviews

Im kinda upset lads

Tyler can you give me your thoughts and opinions on Sickness Unto Death?

>>9275863
LibraryThing

get over yrself

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>>9275731
Pic related didn't run from his past. Keep it as a reminder.

>>9275731
Where in Europe?

>>9275669
that is some expensive shit paper

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>>9275669
We've got our own literature arriving thank you very much

I'll take 23

>>9275618
So?

>>9275739
It's a fundamental flaw in his writing.

>>9275618
>>9275618

Younger minds typically have the problem of trying to argue with everyone instead of trying to understand them. Understanding must occur prior to argument.

>>9275592
>▶
ya like whatever xDDD xPPP its not like the ego isnt the only thing that matters?!

Egoism is the REAL spook.

Stirner would make a good movie villian.

>implying I'm looking for approval

if you dont answer b you need to leave this board

>>9275574
Would you pick A or B?

The way you follow until pay day

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A struggle between doing the right thing and doing whatever it takes to win

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>>9275560
this.

>>9275517
feral idiots like this have no sense of true america. anyone who thinks we are money-hungry capitalists misunderstand the real drive, the real impulse, of which the fiscal is only an outer consequence: i mean our desire to be unburdened, once and for all, by the problem of quantity.
we are a people who have built a way of life around the most dramatic attempt mankind has met to absolve itself of the problem of waste, and live freedom from the existential yolk of "not having enough." we may take it a lil far, sure.


but i'd also say that the american way is best represented by whitman--at least in its purest, most romantic form:

all the past we leave behind, we debouch upon a newer, mightier world, varied world, fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march....Colorado men are we, from the peaks gigantic, from the great sierras and the high plateaus, from the mine and from the gully, from the hunting trail we come....From Nebraska, from Arkansas, central inland race are we, from Missouri, with the continental blood intervein’d; all the hands of comrades clasping, all the Southern, all the Northern....O to die advancing on! Are there some of us to droop and die? has the hour come? Then upon the march we fittest die, soon and sure the gap is fill’d, Pioneers! O pioneers!

>>9275498
The greats weren't great because at birth they could play. The greats were great because they played a lot.

Make the money, anon.

>>9275545
I can't even create a working plot after 18 months of planning. I don't expect to be a genius but I at least expect to have something to show for all that wasted time

>>9275550
>18months of planning vs 18mo writing
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm