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This wasn't even funny the first time it was posted

that's the joke tho
2deep4u

>Naked Lunch
>nobody eating in the nude

It had nothing to do with progressivism...

I doubt you even read the fucking book. That, or you're a shit reader.

>>9044707
Try reading the book next time. Normally that helps.

>>9044707
Please drink cyanide, fag

Tolstoy's "What Is Art?" is a mixed bag. If you already know what art is, you're going to wonder what all the fuss is about. But if you're new to art, and you're wondering just what the heck it is, Tolstoy's primer on the subject won't steer you wrong.

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>>9044674

>>9046087
Why is the answer above the question?

>>9044633
Because no one here has

A) the talent
B) the motivation
C) the connections

it's that nobody that got published wants to be knowingly connected with lit in any way...

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>Is that book you´re reading good?
>It's Beyond Good and Evil.

Yeah man, I've read it. The rape scene with Charlie and the hooker at the beginning is the finest thing Eric ever wrote. Orwell is often called out by "liberal" critics today for "homophobia," but his style of opposition to "nancy boys" and "poofters" is still a thing today among working class englishmen. There's no malice in it, it's more like an exhortation to manliness.

>>9044625
>There's no malice in it
There's a fair amount of malice in it.

But it's not "these are bad people who should be dealt with" malice, no. Not usually.

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>>9044583
LMFOA what the actual fuck was he thinking with that "facial hair"?

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>>9044506
Yes

Ted Chiang.

>>9044508
So good

I hope this is bait
If not you really, sincerely have autism

>>post delusional fib about own intelligence on /lit/ >>mention names of two writers in post
>they'll surely believe me and sympathize!

>>9044476
What's autistic about my post?

>>9044495
Projection?

The schism between the dreams of baby boomers and the dreams of millennials. Except make it a metaphor.

A gay trans black Jew fighting against whitey and his patriarchal machine. Except make it a metaphor.

>>9044424
Something Hollywood can option on a small budget. Something that housewives will want to tell each other about.

Update Romeo and Juliet, except make the families hate each other over their opposing USA political views. Their mutual hatred ends up getting the kids killed. It's a metaphor.

Update Moby Dick, but make it about the modern crude oil business. The hunt for the white whale becomes the hunt for an elephant oil field. The obsessed wildcatter dies in the end by getting crushed by falling rig debris when he finally taps the gusher he's been hunting for. It's a metaphor.

Update As I Lay Dying, but make Addie a rich white WASP, and her super-rich family's travails trying to get her back to be buried with a ballast stone from the Mayflower in Plymouth, MA. It's a metaphor.

>not reading it in its original language
sure is pleb here

>>9044362
Read it in Urdu if you will, just participate in the discussion.

Yay!

>>9044285
Anyone?

>>9044285
How did you write this? What were you... Tell me about the process, the motivation. What does it do?

>>9045329
I was reading on a little up on Pyrhonnism and was thinking if it was possible to suspend judgement in order to avoid lying. I kind of felt there was a link there to our modern culture, where information has become so permeated and cheap we've almost lost sense of reality. So I wanted to write a tragedy where a man tries to avoid a culture incapable of truth, but he's so poisoned by it (really if I had more words, I'd extend the sickness thing) that it's futile, so he kills himself as a final remedy for honesty. I like bits of it, I hate other parts, but my real motivation was if I could actually put a tragic character into a thought experiment.

It was a really limiting project, but I enjoyed it and I'd be curious to hear about other anon's attempts with this sort of thing.

Does the piece fall flat to you? I think plot is a major weakness of mine, which is why I'm finding flash fiction both rewarding and difficult.

does this look like fucking reddit to you

>>9044230
since when the fuck does lit not have recommendation threads?

>>9044229
Just watch Cowboy Bebop again. I did.

Rundown on these guys?

>>9044090
bogda

>>9044094
bogdanov

>>9044064

Never. I did realize that all of book X is a troll designed to dupe retards who haven't yet gotten the fucking message of the Socratic method into believing an idea that is not only retarded, but flagrantly in contradiction with the rest of Plato's thought.

The tripartite critique of mimesis falls apart under minimal scrutiny.

>>9044064

When did you realize the irony that Plato's dialogues are artfully constructed pieces of literature?

>>9044064
When did you realize that plato was a meme philosopher that only pretentious pseudo intellectuals like? No one even seriously reads plato anymore. Go back to /his/ fgt.

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I didn't believe that the Greeks weren't white until I saw how dumb the presocratics were

Is that a picture with boyfriend and her husband both?

>>9045310
Underrated post.

St Augustine's Confessions

>>9043740
Rimbaud, Vollman, Henry Miller, John Ashbery.

>>9043740
Hebdomeros