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Longcat ... is long.
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Cock mongler
He mongles your cock
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Giru ... gamesh.
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>>9233995
How?
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Horror fiction general /hfg/ 2017-03-13 09:45:08 Post No.9233795
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Horror fiction general /hfg/
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Hey, I thought It'd be cool to have a general for horror fiction since I've seen some threads about some authors lately. Weird and Gothic fiction is welcome too.
Pic related is a chart a threw together pretty quickly.
So then:
>Currently reading
>Want to read
>Favorite book?
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Here's a imgur link to the chart:
http://imgur.com/a/LEKv0
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Crosspost from /x/
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Horror and Mystery belongs in /SFFG/ with all the other genre fiction.
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Y'all got any pro-American books?
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>pro-American
>books
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>>9233744
but the best American books are all about how America is fucking terrible
>The Great Gatsby
>The Grapes of Wrath
>The Jungle
>The Scarlet Letter
>every novel about racism ever
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Strange book recommendations? 2017-03-13 08:54:42 Post No.9233603
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Strange book recommendations?
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Not looking for outright weird fiction, just books that are odd and bizarre, fiction and nonfiction included.
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Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
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Codex Seraphinianus
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Liebling's The Honest Rainmaker, the Satyricon, Doughty's Arabia Deserta, Maeterlinck's book on bees, the Life of Benvenuto Cellini, E.T.A Hoffmann's The Golden Pot, Baudrillard's The Petfect Crime, Alain's The Gods, A.R. Ammon's Garbage (great), W.C. Williams In the American Grain (prose), Diderot's Rameau's Nephew, Sloterdijk's mammoth trio Bubbles, Globes, Foam ... to name a few--
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How many of these have you read?
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It always makes me laugh to see that you guys included Cormac McCarthy in the top 10
Get some actual fucking taste you boring, plastic white faggots
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>>9233207
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I don't read books
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Anacap publishers wanted to sell more Ayn Rand and came up with this old lady.
Remember, according to Emma Goldman, you shouldn't vote.
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true anarchists don't use the internet. hardcore anarchists don't use language, because it's an authoritarian construct that limits the mind to the terms of their playing field.
REAL anarchists sit in a pile of their own feces and scream incoherently.
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Voting is an endorsement of your subjugation.
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>ancap publishers
What? She endorses communism in the first essay.
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Why haven't you read the greatest living author of all time, Joseph Mcelroy?
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Night Soul was alright.
My library doesn't have any other of his works tho
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I can only get Smuggler's Bible, W&M and The Letter Left To Me. Which do I read first lads?
Both Smugglers Bible and W&M sound great and i canny decide.
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>>9232852
Smugglers bible. Women and men calls upon things a few things laid out in his previous novels so I would save that for later.
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Strange things you found on used books 2017-03-13 05:57:52 Post No.9232792
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Strange things you found on used books
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What weird things have you found inside used books?
Also if anyone knows whatever language this is care to translate? I found it on a spanish version if The Odyssey
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It's a rail ticket from Brussels airport to city. How fucking retarded do you have to be to need a translation to get that?
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>>9232792
Where are you from? Where did you buy this?
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>>9232817
Second hand bookstore. Im from Spain.
Thanks for the info other anon. What the fuck is a Brussels rail ticket doing in a Spanish Odyssey?
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Wittgenstein on Shakespeare 2017-03-13 05:57:48 Post No.9232791
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Wittgenstein on Shakespeare
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>Shakespeare, one might say, displays the dance of human passions. For this reason he has to be objective, otherwise he would not so much display the dance of human passions--as perhaps talk about it. But he shows us them in a dance, not naturalistically. (I got this idea from Paul Engelmann.) MS 162b 61r: 1939-1940
>It is remarkable how hard we find it to believe something the truth of which we do not see for ourselves. If e.g. I hear expressions of admiration for Shakespeare made by the distinguished men of several centuries, I can never rid myself of a suspicion that praising him has been a matter of convention, even though I have to tell myself that this is not the case. I need the authority of a Milton to be really convinced. In his case I take it for granted that he was incorruptible.--But of course I don't mean to deny by this that an enormous amount of praise has been & still is lavished on Shakespeare without understanding & for specious reasons by a thousand professors of literature. MS 131 46: 15.8.1946
>Shakespeare's similes are, in the ordinary sense, bad. So if they are nevertheless good--& I don't know whether they are or not--they must be a law to themselves. Perhaps e.g. their ring makes them convincing & gives them truth. It might be the case that with S. the essential thing is his effortlessness, his arbitrariness, so that if you are to be able really to admire him, you just have to accept him as he is in the way you accept nature, a piece of scenery e.g. If I am right about this, that would mean that the style of his whole work, I mean, of his complete works†a is in this case what is essential, & provides the justification. That I do not understand him could then be explained by the fact that I cannot read him with ease. Not, that is, as one views a splendid piece of scenery. MS 131 163:31.8.1946
>Shakespeare & the dream. A dream is all wrong, absurd, composite, & yet completely right: in this strange concoction it makes an impression. Why? I don't know. And if Shakespeare is great, as he is said to be, then we must be able to say of him: Everything is wrong, things aren't like that--& is all the same completely right according to a law of its own. It could be put like this too: If Shakespeare is great, then he can be so only in the whole corpus of his plays, which create their own language & world. So he is completely unrealistic. (Like the dream.) MS 168 1r: January 1949
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>I do not think that Shakespeare can be set alongside any other poet. Was he perhaps a creator of language rather than a poet? I could only stare in wonder at Shakespeare; never do anything with him. I am deeply suspicious of most of Shakespeare's admirers. I think the trouble is that, in western culture at least, he stands alone, & so, one can only place him by placing him wrongly. It is not as though S. portrayed human types well & were in that respect true to life. He is not true to life. But he has such a supple hand & such individual brush strokes. [[sic , ?]] that each one of his characters looks significant, worth looking at. "Beethoven's great heart"--no one could say "Shakespeare's great heart". 'The supple hand that created new natural forms of language' would seem to me nearer the mark. The poet cannot really say of himself "I sing as the bird sings"--but perhaps S. could have said it of himself. MS 173 35r: 12.4.1950 or later
>I do not think Shakespeare could have reflected on the 'lot of the poet'. Neither could he regard himself as a prophet or teacher of humanity. People regard him with amazement almost as a spectacle of nature. They do not have the feeling that this brings them into contact with a great human being. Rather with a phenomenon. I think that, in order to enjoy a poet, you have to like the culture to which he belongs as well. If you are indifferent to this or repelled by it, your admiration cools off.†bMS 173 75v: 1950
>The reason I cannot understand Shakespeare is that I want to find symmetry in all this asymmetry. It seems to me as though his pieces are, as it were, enormous sketches, not paintings; as though they were dashed off by someone who could permit himself anything, so to speak. And I understand how someone may admire this & call it supreme art, but I don't like it.--So I can understand someone who stands before those pieces speechless; but someone who admires him as one admires Beethoven, say, seems to me to misunderstand Shakespeare. MS 174 5r: 24.4.1950 or later
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Strange post.
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SIX WORD STORY THREAD. 2017-03-13 05:42:04 Post No.9232738
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Mutant wolverine meets clone, fights evil.
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I fucked your mothers nasty pussy-hole.
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>>9232738
Original poster: happened to be faggot.
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In the dead of night, transmissions stopped
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Where do I start with feminist and queer theory?
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>>>/lgbt/
But frankly please don't.
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>read Burke
>read Wollstonecraft
>go to bookstore
>take copy of Butler books
>place them in store's toilet
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Does reading literature make us better people? Or is it dependent on the nature of the reader?
>“The people who ran the concentration camps probably knew Goethe and Schiller by heart.”
>In one of the conversations with his daughter Stalin mentioned Dostoyevsky as an example of a deep psychologist. It is known that since his youth Stalin was reading Dostoevsky with great interest. While reading "The Brothers Karamazov", Stalin has made a lot highlights and notes in the margins.
>By his own admission, Hitler was not a big fan of novels, though he once ranked Gulliver's Travels, Robinson Crusoe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Don Quixote (he had a special affection for the edition illustrated by Gustave Doré) among the world's greatest works of literature.
How would one argue against this? Or did they just have shit taste?
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Those are a few cases in which the answer is no. But in general I believe that literature makes anyone 'better people' -more thoughtful and selfaware and more 'moral' as a consequence.. but I have no proof
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>better people
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/sffg/ - science fiction and fantasy general 2017-03-13 01:45:19 Post No.9231981
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/sffg/ - science fiction and fantasy general
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starship troopers edition
Fantasy
Selected:
>https://i.imgur.com/r688cPe.jpg
General:
>https://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg
Flowchart:
>https://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg
Science Fiction
Selected:
>https://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/IBs9KE8.jpg
General:
>https://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg
NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
>https://i.imgur.com/IJxTQBL.jpg
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>>9231981
what's some good /sff/ books withbread
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>>9231989
My good sir have you heard of Redwall?
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Female warriors ruin books with the sole exception of the female warrior in the Last Sacrifice.
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>show a normie around my muh shelves
>wow, I didn't know you read so much!
>have you read all of these?
>"u-uh"
>what about this one?
>"...not yet."
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Haha :)
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Thats what you get for being a poser and not reading all your books and trying to understand them before buying more.
The only excuse I can see for not doing this is if you own a book that requires another book to understand that you don't own.
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>grocery store has this $1 table of charity books
>find infinite jest with the nice original JEST cover
>score of the century
>im about to scan it and woman's supervisor comes by and says oh that should be more
>they agree on $5
>i put the book in my bag slightly annoyed
>woman says, "even if only get through a few pages thats still infinity"
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Searched through the catalogue for a critique thread. Found nothing.
Standard fare; post something, rate something. I'll rate something in the morning, or maybe before bed, see you then.
Lights throb as painfully as the sun’s midday rays. Strobe lights cover the room in alternating shades of white whilst dark lights split the darkness into highlights of intense slashes of white, a paradox, so white. I walk in, the colour blue. People don’t often see me, the colour blue, in these clubs; blue is so close to black and white that I’m almost a mix; I’m taken for granted. I find a honey straight away because my muscles bulge through my size-too-small v-neck tee; it’s easy, too easy, always this easy. She rubs her buttocks against my crotch, causing me to pop one, but I suppress it enough for her to not notice. If I hadn’t she might’ve screamed indignantly, another paradox, but I need to keep my symptom hidden from these every-dayers. I can’t be noticed. A colour with feet is a scary sight, or if not that still mind-shattering, confusing. So, I let her arouse me and I suppress. I do this because I like the halting of the blessed release; my cock throbs enjoyably. Yes, colours have cocks, at least this one does.
This girl is a fraction my age; I am as old as the universe. This child asks me: “What yo’ name?”
“Blue.”
“Drew?”
“Yeah.”
She shuts up, thankfully, and keeps grinding on me. The song is something electronic and tribal; not blue, very upbeat. Blue is the colour of rain in people’s head; blue is the sound of crying, the taste of funerals.
“And your name?”
“I see my friend over there. See ya.”
And she leaves. This happens a lot. I don’t often get laid, and when I do I always slink away before dawn, get some food and wait for the train. Always. Like this for a long time, a loose screw in the machine, fucking up the machinations of a world without err. I am Blue, and alone.
The loose girl leaves and in front of me begins grinding on another lone man. This makes it harder for me to suppress my erection, but in this dark building it is not important to devote too much mindspace to hiding a blatant boner. I keep it down enough to find a different girl with more issues and less self-esteem. They might claim they’re sufficient; free of problems and doing this lifestyle because they like it, but underneath there is blue. Parent problems; a loser boyfriend; a dead relative, friend; some issues from childhood manifesting in this hopeless, dreamless lifestyle.
Maybe they only feel like this around me. The lights blare on, unaware of me, or anyone in this room. And on we dance and flirt, and exist. And I am Blue, in this room where everyone is running away from me; Blue in a room I can only exist in.
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I wake up with an aching body though I am but 22 winters old. I'm not horny, but I still masturbate and read meaningless shit on my phone for an hour until I can finally muster the strength to rise from my crusty bed. I stumble to the battle station, put on some right-wing podcast. It's not very interesting, but it's better than listening to the humming of my broken refrigerator. It's already half past nine, I'm behind schedule. I need to eat so I can lift so I can get home so I can go to work. The brownish batch of protein slop on the kitchen counter doesn't look very appetizing, but looks can be deceiving. I eat, have a cup of coffee and put a bag of snus under my lip. I still feel like a zombie, barely awake and with sore joints, but I really need to leave now. I hope I don't see any Afghans on the way to the gym, that always ruins my good mood.
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i really feel like I can relate to this
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I don't really like the way this is written. There's something too casual and fractured about they way it flows. That may be intentional in relaying something about the narrator to us, but it's slightly juvenile and lacks rhythm and poetry. It's also hard to know what to make of it out of context. Hopefully that doesn't dishearten you too much, keep on writing!
Here's an extract from my newest work:
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Emo stopped being cool roughly 12 years ago pham