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>>9115877
holy fucking shit! Who, tell me, in his right mind wouldn't wish to get bumped by her asshole on his face?

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Anyone?

brap

>anti-natalism
This brings me back two years ago when this shit was popular on here. Even when everyone was an atheist this shit was retarded man.

>>9115883
>two years ago
In 2015? Nah broham, you're remembering 2012/13. That shit was almost half a decade ago.

I want to impregnate her.

>Murakami

This man in my country, he is nothing.

>>9115762
I'm more of an Ikuta man myself but I applaud your attempt at shilling for your oshimen on /lit/ of all places.

I know Ishiguro said that most writers will write their defining and best work at around 30 years old or before. I think its a question of the exhaustibility of revelation. Writers are writing about themselves and their internal relation or distance to the world, even if they're using incredibly far out plots all the electricity that makes it run is from their own internal friction. Some people get too comfortable, complacent, or they've just unloaded such a huge reserve of their own angst and capacity for revelation that they don't have anything left to write with. They've closed the distance between themselves and the world or identified their view of the world too closely so their writings come off as almost ripoffs of their old stuff. What makes great art is tension and friction, youth is full of that, but its rarer in old age.

>>9115738
makes sense thanks

The first things that a writer creates are based on ideas they have been thinking about their entire life. The very first works suffer from being unable to communicate those ideas clearly, and the very late works suffer from depleting their idea reservoir.

>>9115320
I don't have any insight into Nabokov's 'formative moments' re his literary outlook, but I have this link, with Nabokov offering some rather pithy/acerbic appraisals of his contemporaries (and predecessors):

http://wmjas.wikidot.com/nabokov-s-recommendations

>>9115352
I have read these, and his lecture on Kafka's The Metamorphosis. These are what led me to my curiousity.

I'm interested in his aversion to the concept of 'big ideas' e.g. blanket terms like Existentialism or Realism or Romanticism & focusing more on the merit of the work as a standalone aesthetic.

Nabokov's deal is that he appraises other literary works by standards that aren't really applicable, leading him to deductions that are often negative but occasionally illuminating in truly inventive ways. For instance when teaching Ulysses he placed a huge emphasis on geographic relationships with an almost pedantic approach to tracking the setting of each scene. I also recommend his lecture on The Metamorphosis. If you want to learn more I direct you to his book "Strong Opinions". Overall Nabokov saw a potential for literary aesthetics and formal invention that he pursued doggedly in his own work, and used as a criterion when judging the work of others.

>>9115160
lol why didnt you make this thread about how dumb women are?

see you're pic, they think cologne (the perfume) is the same as colon (the organ) pmsl. Schopenhauer was right

>>9115160
>Alright, /lit/, let's say that you had a great philosophical idea that NO ONE had ever heard of before, but unfortunately for you, you weren't in academia.

What's your idea, anon?

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>>9115178
Can't say ;)

But this is still a serious thread, and I'd like a serious response to my question. Who would you contact?

NIGGER

>>9115102
Can someone give me a quick rundown on this guy?

>>9115135
Reads a lot. Likes Vonnegut. Is a scientist or something.

I read it, I prefered The Unconsoled.

>>9114940
Just checked out the blurb, looks super interesting.
What's with the acclaim about Never Let Me Go, if you read it? I feel like I might be missing something about it, nothing about it seemed to affect me at all.

>>9114947
its the most normie one. also had a movie.

Definitive Ishiguro Power Ranking:

>Canonical masterpiece tier
The Unconsoled - S

>Beloved classic tier
The Remains of the Day - A+
The Buried Giant - A+

>Delightful intro tier
Cellists - A
Crooner - B

>Flawed but touching tier
Never Let Me Go - B+
>Novel experimentation tier
A Pale View of Hills - B
>Traditionally proficient tier
Artist of the Floating World - B-

>Flawed experimentation tier
When We Were Orphans - C
Nocturne - C
Come Rain or Come Shine - C-
Malvern Hills - C-

Warrior series
Redwall
Series of Unfortunate Events
Flowers for Algernon
The Mouse and the Motorcycle
Boxcar Children
Harry Potter, each one as the came out

Pretty typical desu

someone else has read those young detective series written by Alfred Hitchcock?

>>9114767

Terry Pratchett - at one time I was the youngest member of the Discworld fanclub that you'd sign up for by writing to the address at the back of the book.

Couldn't read him now though.

Um, maybe read his book?

O wait no you must start with the Sumerians first otherwise you don't understand who he is responding to

Try reading his books.

either/or is accessible even to P L E B s like you t b h

Dude he's a FUCKING RACIST

I'd say that he's probably one of the very few horror authors to understand mankind's relationship with the Unknown, how fundamental it is and how incredibly hard (and madness inducing) being a true "rational, logical thinker" is. Also, I don't mind his writing style too much even though people on here like to shit on it.

>>9113614
Yes, he is a great writer.

>>9113475
Maybe study something that isn't shit?

My papers include hyper-detailed descriptions including how many characters are allowed, whether blanks and dots count towards characters, etc. and our papers cannot be too short, only too long because no one would try to get away with less than the maximum.

>submit paper two pages under requirement
>still get an A

Quality over quantity my friends

>>9113475
>uni doesn't have a required set format for all papers

Word size 12
1.5 spacing
Times New Roman
Oxford referencing

like everything today, it's been absorbed by ideology
nowadays art is very political, personally I blame mass media for it

if it really bothers you senpai just pretend to be demiqueer or whatever they want to hear

Poetry is just random words from thesaurus on a few lines

Please explain the worth of poetry in a literate society, I don't understand it

>>9112396
>all of that fedora brigade defending harris
Why did I scroll down? Why is superiority painful?

>>9112407
Is there a bigger hack than this cunt?

The day he is forgotten like Hitchens is the day I shall rejoice.

>>9112396
He completely and logically refuted the point raised.

>odd nerdrum
That just so happens to be the name of my character on old-school runescape :)

>>9112401
If it's a joke, it's a really good one. If it's real ... just wow.

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