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Gen. 1:1
"In the beginning there was nothing; everything, if you counted God."

Call me God.

Waking up to a loud crash rarely means something good is happening. It’s never “CRASH! Only one enemy remained!” or “CRASH! Two if you counted God!”.

>>9266455
looks like someone's upset

It's self evident that the proclaimed analysis of literature consists of an incoherent analytical framework, making unfalsifiable claims, and monopolising the alleged ability to do this through social structures such as citation circle jerks and domination of certain government grants.

Art came first and then the academics / analysers come along to lecture the birds how to fly. Formalism and jargon makes anything look intellectual to idiots.

Literature and art in general are not special. They are the same stuff as everything else. But art tells you, offensively, because it has to, that it is sublime or points toward the sublime, since, ordinarilly, people dont think of a birds as forms of the sublime. So J.A Baker comes along, says: Look, faggot, a bird!

I've been rereading some of his work after quite a few years, and his writing tends to be a lot more exhausting than I remember. At the Mountains of Madness used to be a favorite of mine, but upon reading it again I just wanted him to get the fuck on with it and stop reminding me of the "aeon-dead" plateaus and quit with the infodump that takes up roughly 25% of the story. As far as prose goes, I'm definitely of the opinion that some of his predecessors and contemporaries like M.R. James, Blackwood, and Machen were far superior. HP really shines in the actual content of his stories and how utterly bizarre and "outside" the concepts are. It's at least rewarding in that respect if you can get through the dusty writing and I still think he deserves the important place he's been given in the development of horror fiction.

I really, really liked Rats In The Walls.
The way it progressed and the insanity of it is great

>As far as prose goes, I'm definitely of the opinion that some of his predecessors and contemporaries like M.R. James, Blackwood, and Machen were far superior. HP really shines in the actual content of his stories and how utterly bizarre and "outside" the concepts are.
I agree with you entirely. Lovecraft is one of those writers whose imagery and style is so unique and variegated that you can often forgive his flaws as storyteller (repetitive and stilted diction, irritating predilection for an epistolary format, "naively rational" characters ripped from M.R. James who all sound and think the same, excessive attention to miscellaneous detail) simply on the basis of his incredible images and descriptions. His plots are rarely anything more than a vehicle to bring you to a mood and situation, but when he's at his best that combination can trigger a sincere sense of horrified awe, which basically like pulling off a literary hole-in-one as far as I'm concerned. Mountains is a terribly executed story about a fascinating idea, but Colour Out of Space is kind of a minor masterpiece.

>>9266369
>Why didn't anyone tell me OP's a faggot?
State your proofs, shitbird.

>>9266369
I was ecstatic when I discovered that. He's so redpilled. He probably would have posted on pol if he was alive today.

>>9266369
>German intellectual before 1945
>Not anti-Semitic
Even intellectuals who had Jewish backgrounds (like Marx and Wittgenstein) were anti-Semitic.

>>9266338
I learned to RP before I was even a teenager. It was fun. It was set in the DBZ universe and some people used actual characters from the canon so in a way it was fanfiction, though I never controlled canon characters. It was a lot of fun, dealing with power levels helped improve my mental capabilities with math, and of course the RPing itself very much helped my writing as a kid. Multiple paragraphs per post, lots of detail, and sometimes even introducing conflicting emotions. That said, I'd probably cringe hard to see some of those posts from nearly a decade and a half ago...

I wrote this maybe 4 years ago, must've been 17 or 18:

http://pastebin.com/mLtPWKR6

It's the only piece of fan-fiction I've ever written and I'm glad I never tried it again

Not really. The only story I ever really created was about a war between Cats and Dogs in space

*masturbates furiously*

>>9266340
Alexander was so pretty, Diogenes probably actually did afterwards

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"disagree with me huh"
*marches you through the desert with no water*

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pls help me

>>9266169
Return it.

Nah, avoid any kind of political literature written since the invention of the radio

No Exit - Sartre

>>9266077
Thank you for the suggestion!

ubik philip k dick

>>9265987
Your mother and I got physical last night if you know what I mean.

>>9265987
yes and no. it is both and neither and both or neither as well as both neither and not both neither.

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LOLnope.

a fucking shit!
come on! it's feminist propaganda. if only you get fat enough you will magically transform into something beautiful

>dropped

Waiting for the movie adaptation
>reading
What are you a nerd?

i would refuse and say i like my anonymity

>>9265949
Unfortunately they've already published my name on their website. I am thinking of refusing to share a photograph of myself (I don't have any photos of myself from the past five years at least) but I don't want to risk losing the cash prize, which is fairly large.

>>9265958
>I don't have any photos of myself from the past five years at least

What the fuck

>>9265808
I'm Greek if it suits you

>>9265818
Half the letters are the same, mate, and the rest we know from math.

i started learning russian, and got as far as discovering that the cursive "T" looks like a lower-case "m", and i said "fuck that" and bailed.

Eбaть этo

>>9265714
That means you DO understand him. It was precisely Derrida's intention.

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>>9265730
Really?? Hmmm... Well, thanks anon

>>9265730
What dafuq does that even mean??? Hnnng

>>9265652
the cock that can be sucked is not the true cock

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>>9265653
a feminine penis is the softest thing yet it can penetrate the hardest most muscular boipucci

this shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness

>>9265653
>forever a chaser

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Ride the Tiger my brother

>>9265625
Aside from the obvious recommendation of getting help and talking about your problems, I would say read Siddhartha. It's a story about a lost man's spiritual journey, and it's really helpful to read if you grapple with personal philosophy and finding meaning in yourself.
Hope things get better for you, anon. Please don't fight it alone.