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Im looking back at some of my writings from years passed. Do you ever get the feeling that you are actually not a bad writer? Ive changed so much in my time, but somewhere my words new and old share the same sentiment.
Do we ever really change? I seem to always have the same ideals.
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>>9269883
>Do we ever really change? I seem to always have the same ideals.
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>>9269909
I only write. I dont read much.
Would you laugh if i said i was a philosopher. One day, people will read what i have written; those crazy bastards. Who reads another mans ramblings?
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>>9270039
the only thing i'd laugh at was the idea of a philosopher not reading much.
but if you don't read much, there's no wonder your ideals stay the same.
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>want to be a writer
>not really like writing
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>>9269831
then why would you want to be a writer
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>>9269833
i dont want peoples to forget about me, i want my name in google
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>>9269846
Then go around and rape people's dogs. Or be a serial killer demapping people in microwaves - your name could be JOI.
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>Go to uni library
>Tell myself "No more Pynchon, just take out a normal book"
>Leave library with Vineland and Mason and Dixon in my backpack
Why cant I read anything else anymore?
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I can't read anything normal since I finished Ulysses and it sucks because I wasnt that well read before going into it and now all classics seem phony to me
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>>9269928
read Proust
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>>9269928
Read Tristram Shandy and FW
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Who will win the next Nobel for literature and why? 2017-03-20 11:24:16 Post No.9269727
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Who will win the next Nobel for literature and why?
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>>9269727
my lil bro wrote some sick rhymes in his diary, maybe he'll get it
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I thought this was a new album, then I got to a line I could finally read.
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Somebody consensual whose ideas don't go against Nordic socdem ideals.
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how do i get better at writing college essays?
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>>9269689
be more intelligent
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>>9269689
he's pointing at you
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>>9269689
Write essays for people who will read them in 500 years from now
If any sort of creativity is involved it will help you
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>I trained him to assist myself run the event.
>I trained him to assist me run the event.
which is correct? the second seems intuitive, but shouldn't it be reflexive?
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I'd say "I trained him to assist me in running the event" just to be safe but the latter if I had to pick.
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I trained him to assist me in running the event.
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I'd say "I trained him to assist myself in training him to assist me to run the event"
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Non-meme Russian literature?
Please don't be retarded and recommend Dosto or Tolsto or Bulgoko.
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Pushkin Gogol Ostrovsky Turgenev.
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Dostoevsky is good. so is tolstoy.
after your done with them you might look into bulgokov if you're still into that kinda thing
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Quiet flows the don
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Just finished reading, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"
I really enjoyed it. Does anybody know any similair books that I would enjoy since I liked that? I've bought more Philip K. Dick books (Man in the High Castle and Ubik)
Lemme know.
Thanks
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>>9269539
Might not be helpful but when I read this I was also reading Ballard at the time.
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>>9269658
Ballard the author? What books would you recommend?
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>>9269681
Yep. He dealt with futurism in a different way but I enjoyed reading it. Personal favourites are Crash, Atrocity Exhibition, High Rise, Drowned World. Like I said, it's different from what you read last but you might like it.
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>A soul's a sort of fifth wheel to a wagon
What did he mean by this?
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Just as a wagon can do without a fifth wheel, a man can do without a soul.
Next.
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>>9269431
What do you mean by this?
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Funny that the next line is
>"What are you jabbering about, shipmate?" said I.
Melville asked "What did he mean by this?" even before you did.
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What does /lit/ think of Goethe?
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talentless hack
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>ywn read Nietszche, Schiller and Goethe in the original German
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GOAT
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Looking for something in Spanish to read on my 20 minute train ride every day. Something short and not incredibly dense but also not mindless genre fiction either.
Pic related, tried reading ficciones and couldn't take it all in.
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>>9269191
invention of morel
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BUILD
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Bécquer
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Where would be a good place to start with poetry? I read a little bit of yeats poems today. They were alright, very rhymy. I like how they're not all retarded poems about religion or whatever. I really like maldorer. Where should I start if I want to be well poemed?
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>>9269127
also interested - are there books about how to read poems? like bloom saying to memorize them and whatnot
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maybe http://eclipsearchive.org/authors.html ?
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Paradise Loss
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in a review of middle c, this guy is mentioned in the same sentence as gass and pynchon. is he good? if so, what's worth reading?
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>>9269121
Gass and Pynchon are shit
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It's fucking John Barth. Fuck off, holy shit mate. By the context you have given and a cursory look at his novels should have brought you around this time to starting his novel about pirate rape, not sitting there waiting for me to type out a reply to tell you that you should have figured out for yourself, that if you like gass and pynchon and the pomostuds of yesteryear, you should probably start reading about pirate rape (the Sot-Weed Factor).
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>>9269149
you okay?
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>see Gass memes constantly on here
>decide to pick up one of his books
>its full of naked ladies, fart and piss jokes, no real plot at all, purple prose as fuck
>finally get to this page
Was this all a joke? Is Gass a purposefully bad writer that people meme so they get to this page?
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im too redpilled for gass
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looks like I'll never be reading gass now
thakns for the warning op
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>>9268949
You've been Gass'd
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So I just read Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, from the garden of forking paths, part one. I don't get it. It's rather complicated too, a lot of details. It's just some guys trying to find a place called uqbar which they can't seem to find in an encyclopedia, except another edition of an encyclopedia mentions it. I don't get it...
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No they're not looking for the place, one found it mentioned in an encyclopedia but not in its regular edition, but that's just the hook of the story
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>>9268940
You can read it as a thought experiment attacking the coherence of Berkeleyan idealism, or an endorsement of its explanatory attractiveness.
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>>9268940
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius is Borges's is a thought experiment. He uses the setting of a man reading encyclopedic entries on Tlön, Uqbar as a means to explore metaphysical and philosophical hypotheticals.
Are you reading Labyrinths? Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius is the first short story in the collection. If you keep reading, you'll see that each story is exploring a theme of a kind of labyrinthine complexity. In Tlön, Uqbar it is metaphysical and cultural complexity - in The Garden of Forking Paths it is time, in the Lottery of Babylon it is chance, and so on.
I'm unfamiliar with Berkeley's philosophy, but this anon >>9269086 may be correct.