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Do you read in total silence, with white noise, or with music?
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>>9093749
If we're talking about when I specifically set aside some time to read, silence. But I tend to read as much as possible throughout the day, and that means I'm often bombarded by sound while sneaking in a few pages.
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I can't read poetry and listen to music because I recite most poetry. If it is non-fiction (the majority of what I read) music, especially music not in English, is fine. Helpful, even. When I mean non-fiction, I mean unflavoured prose. Flavoured prose is a middle-ground and depends on its density.
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>>9093749
Other than the sound of my dog licking and grunting and circling his bed, mostly silence.
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New Tommy P-Funk coming this year, fellas.
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>>9093554
He ded.
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>>9093554
Liar
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>>9093554
I am still alive
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Hey /lit/, I recently visited a relative and brought a few books with me. After returning, I noticed that they have a very odd smell to them, like vinegar. His apartment was pretty humid, and had perhaps evidence of mold on the wall, making me think it might be moldy, but I'm not sure. The worst part is, the smell has spread to another one of my books, and I can't see evidence of any mold were in not for the overpowering smell.
How do I recover my books, /lit/? I don't want to throw them out because of this, has anything like this happened to anons before? Is this mold or something else? It's difficult to describe the smell outside of being vinegar-y, I haven't smelled something like this before
pic unrelated, thanks in advance
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>>9093468
GIGA DOGUU DRILL BREAKER
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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>>9093488
p-pls help
I don't want all my books to develop cancer
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Do you know those scent wax cubes at Walmart? (The small ones not the large ones) Just rub your fingers on one of the honeysuckle scented ones just enough to have a thin almost invisible layer of it on your finger (Do not use too much or it will make the pages stick together) and slide your waxing finger on every inch of every side of every page of every book you own. (Rewaxing your finger after ever half page or so) It is the only way to scent and protect your books for good.
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>tfw just found .pdfs of 'On Women' and My Twisted World on my younger brother's laptop
How do I stop him from becoming a frogman? He's very unattractive both inside and out. Is it inevitable, or can I make him read something that'll set him on the right path?
I've tried getting him to read the Bible in the past, but he won't.
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>>9093343
just beat him up a few times
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>the bible doing shit all
lol.
Anyways, the way to stop a man from becoming a bitter little virgin is a proper upbringing and socialization. Obviously you and your father are loser failures, but I suppose there's still time. Go take him out to do fun things, with more social successfully men and encourage sociable behavior. Bring women too, so he can talk to them. My first step from going from an autistic basement dweller perma-virgin to a functioning man was being invited out to go drinking by some cousins with a group of their friends when I was 19. I got drunk and had a really good time socializing with people I had never seen before, even some women.
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>>9093377
I don't think that'll solve anything
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what are some books about pigs
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>>9093274
wilbur
charlotte's web
animal farm
uh
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>>9093274
any books by a feminist lol
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Ham on Rye
>>9093293
kek'd
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>author is American
dropped
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>>9093213
no I am mad at you for saying this, grr!
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>Author didnt shart every letter through a stencil
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Is there a bigger pseud and charlatan than this cunt? 2017-02-12 12:12:27 Post No.9092879
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Is there a bigger pseud and charlatan than this cunt?
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>Allow me to explain why big government and surveillance is bad whilst simultaneously praising dictatorial leaders such as Vladimir Putin and Bashar Al-Assad and holding a 2+ hour talk on how much I praise Putin despite the fact I'm supposedly an ex-Trotskyist who hates Communism yet Putin was the ex-director of the post-collapse version of the KGB
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>>9092879
Who even listens to him? He's a non-entity
He's also incredibly ugly
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I respect the fact he actually cares about things like englands culture especially literature wise. Or so he has proclaimed. Many public figures are culturally empty. I don't really think much else about him cause i'm american and he is outside of my anglosphere.
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>>9092879
He's pretty spot on when it comes to drugs and values.
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>start brothers Karamazov
>it's pretty boring
>hundreds of pages left
>really liked notes from the underground
>thought C&p was ok the first time but gave up on it a second time after 100 pages due to boredom
Now what? Read the whole thing to gain patrician cred or stop reading because it's boring?
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>>9092544
dumb frogposter
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>>9092544
Just learn to accept that you are an irredemable pleb and always will be. We are who we are, plebs have to exist for there to be patricians.
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>>9092578
Ironic that you say that in a thread that mentions C&P
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introducing a new online literary journal for the right. 2017-02-11 10:36:57 Post No.9092522
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introducing a new online literary journal for the right.
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As inspired by the post about an upcoming print journal for nationalists, I wanted to let everyone know I just launched an online project for writers and artists on the right––The Casper Review (caspermag.com).
This was the collective effort of a small group of writers alienated by the anti-white and anti-male atmosphere of most literature and arts outlets. We sensed a need for the creation of a literary safe space for rightists, and white males of any political persuasion who would prefer not to contribute content to outlets that agitate for their social marginalization. White males are cool imo, and we're eager to share your work. We are a true meritocracy and will not disadvantage anyone in submissions so to promote "diversity."
We are looking for:
short fiction/”flash fiction”
visual art
poetry
creative non-fiction/personal esssays
arts & culture reviews
audio/video
the unclassifiable / anything compelling.
Contact details can be found in the ABOUT section. (Apparently the CONTACT button only works on certain browsers.)
Looking forward to hearing from some of you. Thanks!
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lmao this is the scond thread about alt-right startup publications in 24 hours
how many of you are there? And why do you all keep making the same threads?
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>>9092522
I'm not white, I'm Nordic/English.
White is the absence of defining features, and identifying with whiteness is extreme cuck tier.
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>>9092561
trying to identify with anything and shitting on anything else just shows your butthurt lol
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>The episode when Dave and The Franz discuss ebonics.
> Dave: imagine that two hard-core young urban black guys are standing there talking and I, who am resoundingly and in all ways white, come up and greet them with "Yo" and address one or other as "Brother". these guys will either be offended or simply think I am out of my mind. Q. Why? I have mastered their dialect yet they refuse me admittance to they're discourse community. This makes me sad. Dave be sad. Dave be cry.
> The Franz: *rolls eyes and thinks about how he knows what's best for women.*
A weak season opener imo
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SE2EP2: Pinecone Barrons
Vollmann and old man Pynch end up deep in the woodlands of New Jersey, followed by a man they thought they had killed only hours earlier. This Russian man actually escaped from them in the woodlands while they tried to dispose of his body. They do not know he was previously in the Russian Ministry of the Interior's special forces and once killed 16 Chechen rebels single-handed. While they spend the night trying to find him, hoping he doesn't find them first, most of the action is taken up by philosophical discourse ranging from topics as broad as candlemaking, madness and creativity, the innate warlike nature of man and turn of the century austrian psychoanalysis.
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SE2EP3
DAVE HANGS HIMSELF
pynch be cry
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>>9091893
shows canceled lads
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Is literature already a dead artistic medium? 2017-02-11 05:24:37 Post No.9091394
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It seems that over the last century, television and film have been taking their toll on literature, and especially books. The last three-four decades have been especially heavy on literature, considering the rise of video games and the new budding artistic medium of virtual reality. You can tell that literature is dying or dead, because whenever a book or a book series becomes popular, it gets turned into a movie or movie series. The Hobbit, The Lord of The Rings, Harry Potter, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Fifty Shades of Gray, The Hunger Games, etc. It seems as though the only books that becomes popular or appreciated now are romance novels for lonely middle-aged women or fantasy tales for teen-age girls.
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>>9091394
>go on /v/
>are videogames dead?
>go on /tv/
>is film dead?
>go on /pol/
>is the world doomed?
>go on /lit/
>is literature dead?
Why is 4chan so nihilistic?
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>>9091394
>the common pleb doesn't engage with literature so it's DEAD FOREVER
Yeah because there was no great literature in any time when most people were illiterate amirite
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>If you have a garden and a Steam library, you have everything you need.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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given that furries throw absurds amounts of money at anything resembling furfagottry, do you think we will see a resurgence of fiction starring animal people within our lifetime? or will it remain niche forever?
btw I have no idea what the size of these rodents is supposed to be, in one page they are collecting eggs on a basket like its nothing and in the next an entire army fits on a single cart pulled by a horse.
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>>9090833
>do you think we will see a resurgence of fiction starring animal people within our lifetime?
I don't give a shit
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>>9090833
The first book is pretty inconsistent in relation to the sequels.
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>>9090833
I think you're overestimating how many furries there are and how much they can swing a market.
Then again, Zootopia.
I loved Redwall as a kid but by like twelve I was already noticing the formula.
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/SWTG/ - Start With The Greeks 2017-02-11 08:38:21 Post No.9090264
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/SWTG/ - Start With The Greeks
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Why don't you read the Greeks? You're on a literature board, after all.
The ancients authors were rich, they wanted REAL POWER with their books, not pathetic fame or money! That is why their books shine, and will keep being read and treasured for entire centuries and millennia more than yours!
If you do read them, list your favorites, last read, ..
If you don't, it's not too late to catch-up with us:
>ebooks of SWTG readings
https://mega.nz#F!tRdWHJYY!_3uUYqfzqIpRpVN2l8XNVw
After Homer we will be reading the Athenian playwrights, and then the philosophers/Plato.
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>>9090264
When are we going to get the Odyssey and supplementary Odyssey essays on the list?
Also, I seriously hope you are all taking notes.
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>>9090830
What kind of notes have you been taking?
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>>9090857
I condense down the main points of information down into some bullet points, and I then write notes on my thoughts on that information (e.g note repetition of such and such, gods again used as metaphor for nature, here again strength to take what is yours valued over modern ideas of justice) etc. etc. I sometimes don't have anything interesting to say on a topic, but writing down things helps with retention massively.
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>War is beautiful because it establishes man’s dominion over the subjugated machinery by means of gas masks, terrifying megaphones, flame throwers, and small tanks. War is beautiful because it initiates the dreamt of metallization of the human body. War is beautiful because it enriches a flowering meadow with the fiery orchids of machine guns. War is beautiful because it combines the gunfire, the cannonades, the cease fire, the scents, and the stench of putrefaction into a symphony. War is beautiful because it creates new architecture, like that of the big tanks, the geometrical formation flights, the smoke spirals from burning villages, and many others. . . . Poets and artists of 20 Futurism! . . . remember these principles of an aesthetics of war so that your struggle for a new literature and a new graphic art... maybe illumined by them!
Goddamn man, those fascists were good at writing
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>>9090083
maybe you're just not a very big reader
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>>9090105
>shitting on the futurists
>the better italian version of pound and eliot and wyndham lewis and dh lawrence
you're really poorly read or simply have no taste if you don't like at least one fascist
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>>9090111
I wouldn't say better. But sure, Marinetti wrote great manifestos (in italian of course).
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>reads Ghost in the Shell once
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>>9085101
>reads
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good thread
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>plays Deus Ex once