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>>9941755

You forgot cocaine.

>>9941759
and the generally shit taste of the reading public

He's only famous cause he writes a million books every year and a hack is right two times a day.

There's pretty obviously some source of quotes due to commonalities in the synoptics outside of known texts.

I've just seen a picture related to it and some guy just mentioned it, so I'm sure it's real.

Can I get a quick rundown on what the hell the Q Gospel is and why you are skeptical

>>9941749
>2. It's non-identitarian. I don't want blacks talking about being black. I want blacks talking about being human, like Machado de Assis did. The characters can be black, of course, but this should not be the main aspect of their lives.
Why not? If your goal is to immerse yourself in non-white culture wouldn't it be valuable to have some perspective on what being black for instance is like according to the author?

>>9941749
>Middle-Eastern
I read one recently called The Corpse Exhibition and Other Stories of Iraq, which deals with that country and its most recent war through horror stories. It's mostly realistic death and tragedy from the perspective of Iraqi characters, but some have an ambiguous possibility of something supernatural going on (like one about someone who might be a Djinn, or might just be a mad old man who lives in a well). Don't know if you'd consider that "identitarian" or not, since it's about the experience of a specific place and time, but it's pretty short.

And of course there's always the 1001 Arabian Nights.

>>9941767
Yes, but the problem is that those things tend to turn writing into shit. I can easily stand Congolese nationalism or anything of the short. Black pride, however, will very easily degenerate into self-pity, specially in America.

I'd rather just read a black man or an Indian talking about life in his or her country as it's actually lived by common people, and common people don't have the time to espouse early 21st century left-wing identity politics.

>>9933935
>Do you feel like a failure
Nah. I might not be as literate or gifted as a writer but I sure as hell look a whole lot cooler.

One of my all time favorite authors though.

>>9933935
I really like Eco. I picked up Island of the Day Before a while ago but haven't gotten around to it yet. Anyone have thoughts on that work in particular?

>>9934149
Unfortunately this is one of Eco's work that I haven't read yet. But it should be good, I can't picture this guy writing something bad.

>>9933915
He means that the hero follows and acts in accordance with logos (beauty, truth, logics, emotion, order, knowledge) regardless of personal costs. It's a pretty christian thing to think. But ironically also reminiscent of Socrates's death, or Odin hanging himself from a tree to gain insight.

>>9933961
Oh, and the being abroad part is about living it up to it, street cred, being good not for fame's sake.

>>9933970
Let me wrap my head around this.

"He declares that abroad" = Acting out ideals, not simply paying lip-service to ideals?

As in, Socrates owes everything to Athens and will do anything to serve it, even if it means letting Athens put him to death. Action to back up ideals, even if it leads to your detriment?

>>9933840
About what?

>>9933858
Existence

>>9933858
da joos

>>9933801
>Has anyone else ever written something that even comes close?

Most of the people who are discussed here on a daily basis

>>9933816
jk rowling and george martin?

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Gotta love Gogol

>This Church, like a chaste virgin, has alone been preserved from apostolic times in its original, immaculate purity; this Church, which with its profound dogmas and small external rituals has, as it were, been brought down from the heavens to the Russian people, is alone able to undo all the knots of doubt and answer all our questions…And yet we do not know about this Church! We have not yet brought this Church, which was created so that we might live, into our lives! Only one kind of propaganda is possible for us—our own lives. We must defend our Church with our lives, for she is life; and we must proclaim her truth by the fragrance of our souls.

do you have eyeballs?

Read out loud
Read slowly
Read several times

you don't READ poetry jeez.

Try fanfiction

>>9933568
I sure hope you're not implying that's a good cover for anyone over 12

>pick one
why?

>>/his/

>>9933565
They study different things retard

>>9933557
>Step one open your internet browser
>Step two look for "Mein Kampf pdf" on Google
>Step three buy the fucking book you jew

Sure & make my ancestors roll in their graves for spending my coins on Nazi literature ... excellent suggestions!

>>9933557
This can't be fucking real. Are you having troubles finding a book that is in public domain? And so what you being a jew and wanting to read Mein Kampf? What are you? 10?

become addicted to alcohol, and maxline your depression so that it reaches absurd, art levels.

In fragmented and run on sentences
Horrible format
Disorganized drafts
And very illegibly
In aphorisms or very slow progress.

>>9933528
>>9933534
This is pretty good advice desu

>>9933500
it's the only way to go

Can't go wrong with Chandler. The Maltese Falcon is a pretty good book as well. Black Wings Have My Baby is in my to-read pile which is such a bitching title. The Friends of Eddie Coyle was fabulous, but that's more in the vein of gangster fiction. The movie based on the book is A+.

>>9933476
I didn't like the movie of the maltese falcon t.bh.
But I'll check out Chandler thanks anon.

>>9933470
>>9933476
>Can't go wrong with Chandler.
The correct answer is Dashiel Hammet