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>the trite american conception of intelligence and the eternal worry about mental abilities
just do what you feel like doing and don't think, you dumb kid

will this board ever grow up?

sage

>>9228044
His education was much greater than the average European/American education today. He probably read more by age 16 than you did your entire life. Reading and writing was the only thing he did.

He also had a lot of emotional intelligence which is extremely overlooked in these academic communities because it comes from real hands-on work and experience. When you're emotionally intelligent you can think more rationally and carefully. It's safe to say that by age 16 he was more emotionally intelligent than your average Ph.D student (and just as well read).

And of course he was one of the most brilliant people to ever write, he likely had a very high IQ. But many people have an IQ like his but it's the emotional intelligence that is a true differentiator.

anyone have the braaaap pasta?

>>9227955
START
WITH
THE
GREEKS

For fuck's sake, it's not a meme.

>>9227955
don't study philosophy. why would you want to?

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>studying things that have absolutely zero utility

I don't know either, killing civilians are understandable for their scalps, but a bear, no excuse!

Because thats just how it is.

>>9227937
because the bear was a metaphor for the giga nigger

Your waifu is a whore.

Natasha from War and Peace.

Fuck Anna, what shemwas horrible. What did Alexey (both of them) ever do to her?

>>9228291
Same.

Woooooooo that bitch ugly

>>9225343
So?

Southern Portugal is nothing but drunk British scum, gypsies and AIDS. Visit Sintra, run aroud Lisbon, eat on overhyped pasteis and abandon this dump for Porto and glorious North. Be prepared that everyone is incredibly slow and English situation is sad - there are about 5 people who can speak it in the whole country and 3 of them are autistic /lit/ basement dwellers. French helps a lot more. The local language is Spanish with heavy Polish accent, so maybe try that. Overall 7/10 country.

>>9225305
Seven Manifestes Dada of Tristan Tzara

>>9225305
I was required to read Burmese Days as punishment once. I don't agree with your assessment.

>>9225423
Burmese Days was a good book. Flory was a true hero

1. Reading them isn't patrishun.

2. Admitting you aren't infinitely smart philsophical intellectual and need help isn't patrishun.

3. Most of them are trash.

>>9223654
I don't hate self-help books, I hate the people that read them

>>9223672
It's spellt "patrician," anon.

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Gene Wolfe is objectively the greatest living American author.

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Donate to my charity anon

Second Gentleman Bastards book. Only a few chapters in but so far I'm enjoying it as much as the first - which is to say it's perfect for killing time, but not something I feel the need to pour through in a single sitting.

Well, so far we have Flannery O'Connor.
Saunders' only novel is fucking horrible. DFW should have written actual self-help books.

I'm content to stay at one.

>>9231172
Saunders has some pretty good short stories. Pynchon has endorsed them

>>9231178
>Pynchon has endorsed them
lol
yes, that reminder is on everything he publishes. Sometimes, himself is even on there too!

Heart of a Dog is p gud.

>>9230998
honestly it's probs just because i have the P&V translation. The second half is just monotonous and long-winded. Is the Glenny translation any better?

>>9231011
GLENNY is meant to be shithouse, apparently burgin is the route to go down. Currently reading P&V translation on Nikanor Ivanovich's dream, pretty good so far but in the back of my mind I'll always wish I had the burgin copy but can't find a copy to steal and too broke to afford to import a copy zzzzzz

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>>9230966
Start with writing the incorrect thing, something you know to be completely off-base or wacky.

sounds kinda like you dont really have an idea, just scenes.
Remember that characters represent ideas and if you know what your theme is find the inter-relation until the characters start to mingle and a plot falls out.

Getting hung up on details is your brain's way of quitting the difficult task while saying "well I tried really hard, just not my day"

If a detail isn't coming out, do what >>9230972
said, or leave it out, and move on.

If you focus so hard on the trees, you're gonna paint a bunch of trees instead of a forest. Keep moving, keep exploring how things go, and you'll probably find yourself answering a lot of those early questions you're getting stuck on.

>>9230951

What the fuck are you even talking about?

>>9230964
They don't get any love.

>>9230994
Songwriters are an embarrassment. Ghost writers can't be appreciated, nor do they deserve to be.
You can go away now.

shouldn't that be "still"

>>9230991
I haven't been in /lit/ for awhile.

Been working too much. Editing ain't as awesome as writing but stealing people's work apparently doesn't work either.

I don't know; I've never read one.

>>9230894
Then don't post in my thread you fucking faggot.

That's probably real too. Always good for a kek. I wish her daughter would come back to life and kick her in the dick. She's not even promoting a power broker in her post or anything.

>>9230753
We do have evidence of a non-extant tract from a psuedo-Homeric author of the 6th century in Greece noting how an "ashen" slave had sodomized his son and wife in Eudemus' History of Geography.

>>9230753
Herodotus wrote about BBC as well, he wrote that Ethiopians are the most beautiful men in the world.

>>9230784
He also wrote that the Ethiopians have black-colored sperm