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>>9241388
Best reading investment I've made was buying an e-ink reader then paying visits to libgen. So much money and apartment space saved. Don't listen to the "muh book smell" regressivists.

>>9241388
I have a kindle and its great, prefer it to paper books, don't know about Kobos in particular but I recommend e-readers to anyone

It's objectively better but for me to read for hours on end, maybe even just an hour, it has to be a physical copy. We should just forget about this e reader vs book argument. People enjoy reading on different things and this literature itself is what matters. Say whatever you want but half of you fuckers haven't read a book in 2 months and wouldn't recognise a decent line of prose if it hit you in the face, so fuck off.

that anime sucked man. It was so pretentious I couldn't even get through the first episdoe

>>9241521
Im sorry ur dum

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>>9241521

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I'm not exactly a researcher, but I'm attending university and currently a course where we are practicing on making our own research. My field is really practical, so I didn't really think this would happen but... researching an interesting matter is really fulfilling and fun.

I live in a country where we get paid for studying. Makes easier to roleplay a real researcher.

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>>9241336
I'd rather kill myself.
Actually I'd rather kill myself in general, this life is not worth living anymore.

I'd love to do it, but I'm not cut out for an academic environment.

Notepad

Notepad++

Emacs

tru

>>9241231
There is something about Blood Meridian that seems to kindle and encourage nothing but the loftiest level of discussion on this board.

Where are all these contrarian opinions coming from? /lit/ heralded McCarthy as the best writer alive alongside Pynchon, and over the last year or so it's turned to threads like these

>>9241228
Your prof is retarded

>>9241232

I'm going to have the cunt fired. It's bad enough that I'm being taught by retards. My professor is a poet and clearly has no business with prose.

>>9241228
Your Prof sounds like one of those 14 year old 'grammar nazis ' that don't actually understand the appropriate terms on which types of grammar are used. Your extract reads fine.

>>9241067
>lock yourself in a library for 20 years
>read virtually everything that you can read about the subject you're writing about
>on top of that have another guy who is reading everything you're reading and more who you can debate and write essays with
>on top of that take part in a group of extremely brilliant philosophers (such as the Young Hegelians) who will debate and proofread your ideas

This is basically what Marx did.

>>9241067
amen brother

>>9241067
Reminder Engels used dialectics to accurately predict WW1

>“. . . No war is any longer possible for Prussia-Germany except a world war and a world war indeed of an extent and violence hitherto undreamt of. Eight to ten millions of soldiers will massacre one another and in doing so devour the whole of Eurepe until they have stripped it barer than any swarm of locusts has ever done. The devastations of the Thirty Years’ War compressed into three or four years, and spread over the whole Continent; famine, pestilence, general demoralisation both of the armies and of the mass of the people produced by acute distress; hopeless confusion of our artificial machinery in trade, industry and credit, ending in general bankruptcy; collapse of the old states and their traditional state wisdom to such an extent that crowns will roll by dozens on the pavement and there will be no body to pick them up; absolute impossibility of foreseeing how it will all end and who will come out of the struggle as victor; only one result is absolutely certain: general exhaustion and the establishment of the conditions for the ultimate victory of the working class.

>“This is the prospect when the system of mutual outbidding in armaments, taken to the final extreme, at last bears its inevitable fruits. This, my lords, princes and statesmen, is where in your wisdom you have brought old Europe. And when nothing more remains to you but to open the last great war dance—that will suit us all right (uns kann es recht sein ). The war may perhaps push us temporarily into the background, may wrench from us many a position already conquered. But when you have unfettered forces which you will then no longer be able again to control, things may go as they will: at the end of the tragedy you will be ruined and the victory of the proletariat will either be already achieved or at any rate (doch ) inevitable.

“London, December 15, 1887

Frederick Engels”

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It depends on the story. If you're writing something historical or that has a lot of moving pieces, you better be working on structure, research, pacing, etc.

>>9241046
Everyone writes differently. Some work better with planning, some don't, and it depends on the genre like >>9241057 says.
It's impossible to make a broad statement about this. The writer will know if what they're doing is procrastination or not.

>>9241057

Agreed. But what did you mean by 'moving pieces'? I want to be a better writer, so knowing this distinction will help me.

amassing wealth, influence and arms

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>>9240977
lift weights, shitpost, read books, mountaineer explore, network with other likeminded people build things go to church
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na4GYyJwYjQ

>>9241206

What's this current obsession with hitting the gym? Shitloads of people my age all go to this box filled with stuff to pick up and do the most boring mechanic routines in order to achieve... what?
Abs? A "hawt bodayy" for girls to like? When you see /fit/fags talk it shouldn't be about that because then "you're 'that' guy". So apparantly it's for the homoerotic displays or some self-transcending value you can easily achieve through meditation.

Which is the most important example of riding the tiger you missed in that whole dumbfuck list, you somatic dolt.

implying this isn't

>>9240974
Pretentious humanities/arts majors are not that hard to find IRL, if one lives in or near a city.

>>9240983
Are we all just pseuds circling the drain of truth?

This isn't very funny.

>>9240897
Here's a pic I got of Pynchon.

>>9240908
Mind if I save it?

>>9240860
Zizek

>>9240874
I should get around to reading him tbqh, but I'd have to start with Lacan and Hegel first and that just seems so bothersome :(

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i'd recommend Emil Cioran

now you know you're funnier than he is

>Why is this book considered a masterpiece?
Excellent kek. A candidate for >>9240760

>>9240809
Is not, is just considered a masterpiece by the unwashed masses that haven't read anything on their lives.
Is the capeshit of books.

>>9240809
because standards in sci-fi are shockingly low.

>>9240788
email Doris, she'd know.

>>9240810
although come to think of it she might be dead.

>>9240820
Top kek she died in 2013. I haven't read the book, I'm just trying to help my friend that's failing a class over this book.

>>9240760
Watching nichijou.

>>9240760
got stoned and started laughing at my own laughs. got stuck in a feedback loop for about 20 minutes

>>9240784
Do you have any other symptoms of budding schizophrenia? I would stop smoking if this happened to me.