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>>9231019
Lovecraft

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>No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us...

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>>9231019

Never read it.
No intention of reading it.
I'm guessing it's shit.

IQ170 here. Don't read it. Trust me.

I'm reading it now. I nearly end the first book. It is very comfy

>>9230923
The Very Hungry Caterpillar looks pretty good

>>9230923
my wife likes #20
my 2 year old son likes #26
that's about it from that list...

>>9230892
Yes, in that they are a group of secret spies seeking out those that would join them so they may then be rehabilitated

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nothing exists, baby. nothing.

also, they were all robots but they didn't know it.

>>9230892
Who gives a shit, keep it in the sci fi general pleb

be naked. make the irony of your "truth" part of your voice.

>>9230858

But how?? Who can write like this?

>>9230868
knausgård

>>9230844
detox for a while
as in, stop writing for a few months

>>9230857
It's not like I write on even a weekly basis

>>9230880

>It's not like I write on even a weekly basis

That's why you got worse at writing. It's a skill you need to maintain and nurture.

>>9230813
Only if it makes you a person pleasurable to be around with.

There is no point to anything.
Being cultured is a substitute for actually having experiences.

What is that old saying?
"The man who did heroin and died at 25 lived more than the man who did nothing and died at 80"
A shitty saying, but something similar to that.

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Better in a hedonistic way? No, not necessarily.

It's more about keeping certain aspects of culture around. It's tradition and ritual and the subtle pleasures that come with doing things that aren't as instantly gratifying as jerking off, watching anime, or posting on facebook.

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I don't have any Greek to start with

>>9230799
>>9230811

greeks are not white

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Disgusting.

Rights are imaginary, especially the right to own a business.

>60 pages of monologue
How did she get away with it?

SOCIALISM REEEEEEEEE: the book.
The funniest part is how the history of the soviet union proved her to be correct

>>9230649
Do your own book report

it was aight

>>9230649
I read it when I was 10. I thought it was awesome. I just reread it to my daughter. She is 6. She thought it was sad. I thought it was heavy handed.

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>>9230545

Pic related is good.

inb4 the angry /pol/ proselytizers.

Hogg, by Samuel R Delany

>>9230538
The Magus is one example that comes to mind. Author revised it to make some things more apparent, and easier to understand, and made the book worse.

>>9230538
Mary Shelley
Whitman

>>9230538
Woah I never seen this rare DFW before

>>9230431

Whose pure ideology was closest to a livable truth?
I think it should be obvious

Idealism and Pessimism are both delusional

>>9230431
Only about women

idk, Oman's literature is the best of the world imho

It's on a goodreads entry with his name on it and I still can't settle on whether it's fake

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>When you read Harry Turtledove, but mistake the American Civil War for the Russian Civil War

Really made me cogitate

>>9230203
Stop memeing and do something productive with your life, you complacent precocious young boy.

>>9230207
>>9230205
the master never seeks to make a good post
thus every post he makes is good