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>>9230199
Because writing being a "skill" is a lie sold by fraudsters. All you need to be is intelligent and write in the spirit

>>9230213
Why would fraudsters exist in this regard?

>>9230225
Creative writing degrees can cost a shit ton of money

my diary desu

>>9230132
The Constitution of the United States of America.

>>9230132
All of them. Any sort of reading is dangerous to the elites. They have a vested interest in keeping the population stupid and brown (hence rap music)

>>9230128

10/10 poem

good taste

>>9230128
Oread

BY H. D.

Whirl up, sea—
whirl your pointed pines,
splash your great pines
on our rocks,
hurl your green over us,
cover us with your pools of fir.

this or Prufrock or WCW's Pink Locust

Someone posted this in the last thread and i loved it:

>I Looked for Life and Did a Shadow See
>ByJames Galvin

Some little splinter
Of shadow purls
And weals down
The slewed stone
Chapel steps,
Slinks along
The riverrock wall
And disappears
Into the light.
Now ropy, riffled,
Now owlish, sere,
It smolders back
To sight beneath
A dwarfish, brindled tree
That chimes and sifts
And resurrects
In something’s sweet
And lethal breath.
This little shadow
Seems to know
(How can it know?
How can it not?)
Just when to flinch
Just where to loop and sag
And skitter down,
Just what to squirrel
And what to squander till
The light it lacks
Bleeds it back
And finds
My sleeping dark-haired girl —
O personal,
Impersonal,
Continual thrall —
And hammocks blue
In the hollows of her eyes.

Ligotti.

Thomas Ligotti basically brought cosmic horror to its logical conclusion. Stories like "the sect of the idiot" and "nethescurial" read like lost Lovecraft masterpieces. Though arguably Ligotti is a much better stylist, since his literary influences aren't horror writers per se but more along the lines of Bruno Schulz and Thomas Bernhard.

Probably, H.P Lovecraft is unique, his terror is unique
But the terror is vast. M.R James is a great writer, Lovecraft appreciated James's work.
And there are the masters of terror.
But Lovecraft is still unique

>>9229990
An interesting thought, I think if anything the max might be a suicide note.

I do all my talking in a Malysian master-potters workshop that specializes in criticism of other potter's inferior techniques, so I doubt it.

And sadly everyone I knew that's commited suicide didn't have the decency to tape trash bags on the walls, much less leave a note.

Being a navy sub fag, I'll literally do anything important with my life unless my boat would get to end the world. My luck I would be asleep anyways. So influencing someone else enough for them to write about me, highly doubt it.

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Your life has to be worth documenting

What would i write in it? 'I shitposted on 4chan today'

>>9229315
I have.

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Post it then...
Some of us aren't brainlets enough to do telepathic reading of your story.

>>9229298
Nobody will likely know me or ever care about what I write; but if I work this into something with flesh and blood and finish my writing, then remember I showed you my awful first draft of part of my timeline
>-20 GCY: After many years of peace, the Legions grew weary. "What is there to do, when we do not bleed? Are we to die of Time, not Spear? What honor is there in peace?" And there was discontent amongst the warriors. Chief among them, a black-haired man Handal. He declared "Alexandros is weak! Look at Us! We are the reason He is strong!" And many agreed. "Handal is right, Alexandros is the Fraud-King!" And they planned treason. Handal's band declared separation from the Alexandros Legion and independence from Custom and Law, swarming and capturing the coastal town of Nedlis, raping, killing, destroying many bloodlines. A high violation of the orders of war that kept farmers fed and warriors paid in full; the Order that ensured the survival of all. The cities were angry with Alexandros, blaming him, and decrying his ideals as the reason for this weakness.
>-19 GCY: Alexandros is beset by assassins while travelling to recruit reinforcements to his depleted Legion. His guards fled the veterans of wars innumerable, leaving him and Menius to fight on their own. Menius fights like a lion, cleaving two men a stroke, sending them to the Black woods. Alexandros whooped, the prowess of his heir was apparent to all. And Menius whooped, for their future was assured by Fate. And then Menius fell. Alexandros hastened to his heir, revealing his wounds. Only a single strike had landed on the boy, except this strike delivered a most vile poison: Wyrmblood. And Alexandros lamented, for their future.
>-19 GCY: Gaius Alexandros, blind with anger and lust for revenge, forgoes reinforcements and marches on Nedlis with his only remaining soldiers; the aged Wolves, barely a thousand heads, even fewer honed in combat. Handal recieved this news and rejoiced, marching to meet Alexandros with all his Deserter Legions, sure in their battle-tested men and bronze platemail. Men of Alexandros, outnumbered tens to one, feared no fate. None deserted, and all whooped before joining the field.

Don't plagarize me

>>9229283
Sure thing Mr. Lizard.

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This one as well.

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And finally this one. Anyone know these three publishing company logos?

>>9229010
Fischer

America was successful.

>>9228799
Because how exactly is a banal, anti-intellectual curriculum harmful when 'success' (eh) is indicated by economical factors and people of economy aren't related to intellectualism at all?

(((They))) pump all their resources into American order of mind control so that their power is spread properly. This drivel makes it even easier.

We are really just teetering and hanging on the coattails of our predecessors.
We are losing grip and will soon slip from our predecessors coat and fall flat on our faces.
This will be when a wave of reactionary classicism will rise, it will be neat to experience.

is that really stirner?

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>>9228332
yes, thats the real him, his real name wasnt actually stirner and was commonly mistook to look like this

i just didnt want to use the engel's drawing of him as the edgy /leftypol/ and reddit kids ruined it

>>9228341
He looks like an ubermensch desu

>>9226059
what lecture you listening too?

>>9226194
>>9226194
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U9WMftV40c

specifically the part when he talks about the hyperreal. it just made me think about how facebook/twitter/instagram etc are the hyperreal because they are "more real than real," as mr. roderick puts it. they are better than real life which is why the couple was looking at their phones instead of interacting with each other directly.

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>tfw you see a retarded /pol/ack looking at Norman Rockwell paintings and not recognising them for the American propaganda they were/are but accepting them as some glamourised model of the past that never was and then you vote for Donald Trump to make something great again yet never existed in the first place and like his campaign was fully built on lies and immense exaggeration whilst controlling the small but of truth and twisting it

>>9225650
what dissonance are you referring to friendo?

the only dissonance for me are the anime-eyes on nietzsche in that pic

neetchee was not anti-christian desu

Has anyone here seen Coherence? I'm watching it now.
Also, I need entry level physics books.

I wish my best friend wasn't dead so I could talk to him. He was the only one that ever made me feel better about myself. Now I've put the walls back up and fell back into my old self. Regressing back into my shell isn't necessarily bad, but I feel like im just a ghost in my own life wading through nebulous experiences, touched with anxiety here and there. I don't feel like I have adrive to do anything anymore, I just want to sleep for a long long time, and maybe wake up when everything and everyone has blown over. Maybe never, but that's just the depression talking I suppose.

>>9221017

I really want some solo time to play in a jumping castle right now.

Nice try, malware.

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>tfw vocablet
I'm still young, I have time to learn more words, right?

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>>9215298
check your white collar privilege

>>9234572

Ovid's Metamorphoses should be on that list.

>>9234572
Montaigne's Essays, a must

Hamlet would be essential, better still the complete works of Shakespeare since that counts as one book.