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Indubitably preposterous

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>>9145730
Hemingway was the man.

>>9145730
California?

>>9145604

Because a lot of users here are pretentious posturing showoffs.

Also because most of his books are not that good.

But he's a good guy that knows a lot about the craft, knows how to make lots of money, and isn't a technically terrible writer.

>>9145641
You ever read any of his books?

>>9145651

Yeah. Some of them were fun. Some of them were lame.

What's the big deal? You can't go into every book with the same literary mindset. You can't go into a fucking Ray Harryhausen movie with the expectations and a mindset of a Tarkovsky movie.

You know books can be for fun and entertainment too right?

However I have to say I never read any of his large books like The Stand. I don't want a 4 hour ray harryhausen movie.

>>9145489
Is that Cliff from Cliff's Notes?

>>9145489
No Cliff we won't change our mind just because you read Pynchon

>>9145489
Fuck off, Cliff.

>>9144180
The end of philosophy is to make philosophy irrelevant. To move on, so to speak. So no, to answer this specific critique, he was not a hack.

>>9144180
every philosopher believes they have ended philosophy

he wasnt a hack, he opened western philosophy to the academic study of being. its a large topic in philosophy but not the end of it

also did he really claim to end philosophy? iirc he characterized his work more as "thinking" and as a point of beginning rather than ending, am i wrong

Mamma mia is a my least favorite thing in existence

>>9144120
the cat represents pussy

>>9144120
>when you're memed by some conservative reading list and find out you're actually retarded and can't handle actual literature

I haven't read it.
Based on the title I'm guessing it's about getting drunk on a Mexican beach with Satan.

>>9144026
Genius

>>9144026
One thing that Graham Harman says about Freud, that I completely agree with, is that the guy could really WRITE. I mean, the theory, the totalizing thought and whatnot he came up with, sure, but he was also a great writer.

>>9144041
He won several awards for his writing

>how to become a writer
Have you tried writing something?

>>9143894
>Alright, folks. I've decided to start writing seriously, but where should I start?

Probably by writing something other than stupid 4chan posts.

>>9143902
what if you wrote a whole book in the style of 4chan shitposting

that could be a best seller gimmick right there.

I already told you, the cat doesn't like anal.

>>9143629
Idle vulgarity is a poor excuse for a non-sequitur. It's the furthest thing from clever or funny.

I'm not exactly a Kafka expert, but from what little I've read of him and the text itself, I'd guess an examination of how accumulated experiences narrow one's worldview, providing some relief from an open and complex world where everything is uncertain but at the same time constricting the individual's choices both consciously and unconsciously, with the cat both highlighting that by noting the existence of other options beyond those the mouse perceives and mocking it by immediately making the whole matter moot. Not certain what that futility is meant to represent, though. Could be a suggestion that one only really understands how they're hemmed in at the end of their life and have the benefit or hindsight, or maybe it's more misanthropic, suggesting that whilst your foibles are externally visible, people are more inclined to exploit them than to address them constructively.

The only confusing part was the chemistry.

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>>9143021
"I am smart"

Not especially, just long, and annoying in places.

>>9142840
>british """"""""""""""authors"""""""""""""""

Who?

>>9142854
I'm in the same boat literally fucking who

>>9142246
What conflict are you alluding to?

As in just which one do people prefer and also which one provides a more accurate/likely dystopia

When I first read 1984, it was fiction. Now that Trump is president, it's becomed non-fiction...

>>9142242
try LSD, you fucking square

>>9142248
I'd rather not, considering I suffer from extremely paranoid thoughts on a daily basis, and lose my shit even on weed.

>>9142242
>is it always going to be cringey to attempt to depict drug use that you've never personally encountered

Not "always". But with LSD, yes it always will be. Just take LSD or don't talk about. Even if you take LSD I think you'll find you won't want to write about it.

1st person narrator is revealed as a caracter who was a very small part of diegesis

>>9142186
Once upon a time...

>>9142186
Oh. And 'they lived happily ever after.'

>>9141321
Who hasnt stuck their dick in a dogs mouth or played with their pussy?

Most 13-15 year olds do this, and I doubt much has changed.

>>9141329
Here's a trick that helped me as a sex-deprived teenager:

>take your dog into a room when your parents are out
>go to kitchen
>get peanut butter
>go to room where dog is
>smear peanut butter all over your dick and balls
>proceed to suck your dog's dick

>Interestingly, he called all his dogs the same name...Atma,[and nicknamed them Butz] the hindu word for the universal soul from which all universal souls arise.

>>9141093
because poetry is for fags

>>9141097
wow got me :^)

>>9141112
Maybe I won't, but AIDS will