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>>9910702

>“His smile was as stiff as a frozen fish.”

>“Please don’t get up,’ she said in a voice like the stuff they use to line summer clouds with.”

>“The detective must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man.”

>“She was as cute as a washtub.”

>“The kid’s face had as much expression as a cut of round steak and was about the same color.”

>“The voice got as cool as a cafeteria dinner.”

>“I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn’t care who knew it.”

>“The corridor which led to it had a smell of old carpet and furniture oil and the drab anonymity of a thousand shabby lives.”

>"There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge."

i wasn't aware that anyone didn't know raymond chandler wrote like that

>>9910712

I was ignorant of his work. I am very pleased to have discovered that he was a natural poet. He really had a gift for linguistic fireworks.

The Bell Jar, Anna Karenina, The Stranger.

>>9911355
Thanks. I thought nobody would ever answer.

>>9910649
>>>/tv/
also the answer is Stannis you faggot

>>9910649
Tardgareons need to bend the mf knee

>>9910649
Learn about real kings, like Elessar I, pleb

>>9910597
which poets have you been reading anon

>~500 poems in word files, pages and notebooks
>about 30 of them are good

Should I publish?

Could get some input on this please?

Oh column cut like gear-
shaft stuck to roof and ground--

how you did turn the earth
and moon, and were you wound

by hands to track and keep
place your timeless shadow.

True to test you stand, in
rest--your shade by your side.

Today, vines small and thin
twist round stone and quiet.

Grass, trees, violets, and weeds
sit within you shadow

as sunlight beams to you:
Monarchs oscillate the grove--

Luna's coop in granite groove.

You, in my eyes, perfect
as is. A monolith

telling time to none which
care. And should this soft woods

be dozed, and grasses razed,
for pages stained in lampblack

that ignite the glories
of this old column's past--

these eyes would not read them.
For green round chipping stone

is all I've ever known
you to be; not of then--

Oh pillar of man, pinned
forever to the land,

stand always!, left as is.

>>9910470
tbqh my diary desu

>>9910492
i don't think you're being completely honest there desu

>>9910531
Look you are not being very fair here. Our brains work mainly subconsciously, only about three per cent of our thought is even concious. Can a man ever be honest if man doesn't even know his own mind's dephts. Helpless poor souls we are struggling against this monster of our mind. Neuron activity is over 50% subconscious, only 3 % concious. Even think of being 'honest' with that. Son of a bitch!.. i just realised.. Seemingly unnoticed my brain's subconscious was actually a monster asking for tree fifty...just read the first letters of each sentence.

take your pills, man!

>>9910428
desu I'd be more concerned that you said LARPing instead of playing.

Are your nephews adults or something, you fucking pervert?

Bump

Anyone here read Traumnovelle or dream story? It's the novella kubrick's film eyes wide shut was based on

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So THIS is the power of the MIGHTY WHITE RACE

>>9910438
damnit norm

Extremely.

No.

>>9910527
What can I do to remedy this?

>>9910367
>tumblr
at least use wordpress subhuman

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>mfw didn't get enough daily bugsposts

sounds like they haven't done their metaphysics

>>9910359
I read Last Wish and am about to finish Sword of Destiny. Bretty good so far, compelling characters and good dialogue, like you said, but not too narratively compelling (there are exceptions where everything comes together). Often seems like the word is an homage to fantasy rather than a fantasy world itself. I probably won't go on to read the novels.

The reason I bothered was because I liked the game Witcher 3 so much and wanted more of the characters, but maybe that was only so impressive because it was a video game, and video games tend to have laughably shitty writing and characterization.

>>9910377
I am looking forward to playing them. I wanted to read the books first though. Is the dialogue on par with the books?

>>9910391
It is, although because of the nature of the beast they can't indulge in the dialogue at quite the length they do in the books. There's still plenty of it, and the most interesting difference is that you have a hand in how it and the stories in general proceed, depending on your dialogue decisions (which are woven into the game much better than in, say, Mass Effect or Fallout). One thing I really like is that Geralt is not a blank canvas and you cannot do whatever you want, so all choices are within a certain range determined by his established personality/character -- and sometimes he will just react without 'consulting' you -- which makes for a unique RPG experience.

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WAIT ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?
Infinite Jest is just a pretentious rehash of a Monty Python sketch? I'm so fuCKING MAD.

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>>9910324
Slightly better photo

>mysterious bad guys

Does this prove that IJ is spookyooky genre fiction for literal first-graders?

>>9910324
>>9910352
I bet that book, whatever it is, was written in '96. The writers got a little excited 's all.

"I guess."

yeah, if you're 16.

>>9910313
Rothfuss just finish the trilogy. We all know it's going to be a disappointing over hyped mess without any actual conclusion. Just be done with it, we can't have two fat, bearded fucks with overhyped, unfinished fantasy series.

>>9910288
what kind of writing do you mean? are you talking about fiction or non-fiction?