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have you ever read a book 100 times
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>>9871486
My Diary, Desu.
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>>9871486
No, but I burped so hard once that a little pee came out.
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>>9871486
>17 comments
well worth it I'd say
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what are the ideal reading experiences in which to partake of various authors?
examples:
carver -> 50's style living room, whiskey, cigarettes
murakami -> weed, jazz music, plate of spaghetti
knausgaard -> beer, the clash playing on the radio, rye bread, browser open to a picture of a cute nordic girl
borges -> a cold empty hexagonal space
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I think (borges - in an ancient library high in psilocybin) sounds much more appropriate
also i see burroughs' Naked Lunch sitting on the floor, a book i abandoned. Id say the appropriate experience for reading is that you're a gay junky pedophile
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>>9871455
>carver
>50s
dude what? Carver is definitely fake wood paneling and general gaudy late 70s/early 80s furnishings from budget department stores. linoleum. bright orange, nauseating washed out green carpets. and of course dull mustard yellow plastic ash trays that haven't been emptied and are just stuffed with cigarettes.
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>>9871726
damn this makes his stories even cooler. guess i know what i'm rereading tonight.
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Here is the start of a book I'll never finish. Would you read moar or should I go fuck myself? 2017-08-10 03:16:52 Post No.9871438
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Here is the start of a book I'll never finish. Would you read moar or should I go fuck myself?
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The once highly respected man became an insignificant version of his former self. People from far and close were baffled how this man, who was awarded great admiration by his peers and strangers, came to be this poverty stricken creature that now stood before them. No one actually bothered to ask him of his self imposed reasons, but rather, looked on at this assumed train wreck, this apparent madman, and cast forth their aspersions.
One day, while the man was in town; a girl with sweet lips and daring eyes tapped on his shoulder and spoke these words, words that will later lead to a response that changed her life.
“My dear, it’s scarcely my business to ask, but I do not wish to hold any prejudice against you. I will not stand back and gawk as all the others have done. So you see, it’s not a matter of mere curiosity, it's a matter of must, a matter of pure meaning. I am sorry, my dear sir, I am now blabbering, but I ask in great haste, if not only to stop all this calamity and restore a sense of restfulness, but to learn and understand.”
She paused momentarily, and then pursued with her abrupt question
“what has happened to you? what has become of you?”
Startled at first, the man grew a slight smile and his eyes began to look a little less sad
“I did not like myself, I began to grow fond of death far more than I enjoyed my own company, and that scared me. You see, while I had the admiration from all these people, I did not admire myself. I have never been a man of education, so I did not understand what was going on in my mind when I all of a sudden became morose. Everything I thought that mattered in this world became false, seemingly overnight. I stripped myself of my former identity. I parted with my past on the search of a true awakening, a true purpose. For the first time in my life I started to dress comfortably and read books. I watched the sunset a little longer, I laughed a little harder, and I embraced my innumerable amount of thoughts and emotions that I had locked away for all these years. I felt truly alive for the first time in my life, that is, until all these people started to clamour and made me feel like a madman, but I can assure you of one thing, my darling, it is they who are mad. It is they who are lost. I may look like a man of destitute to them, but it is they who are poor. They lack knowledge and they lack craft.”
The man looked around and noticed the city was starting to get busy and was filling up with noise.
“I must leave now, i’m sorry if I seem evasive, but I never come out here for too long. It is not good for me. I write poetry and I must return to my words. To all these people, I may not exist in their world anymore. but I will tell you one last thing, my darling, I am a very happy man in mine.”
As he started to depart, the girl was trying to gather her thoughts and understand what she had just heard
“Wait!” she shouted, watching him walk away.
“Can I please come with you?”
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It's overly wordy for a beginning passage and doesn't have anything that's going to really hold a reader's attention long term.
There isn't much presented rather than a verbose poet being mistaken for a madman in about 10 times the amount of words that would be needed to eloquently express the idea. His monologue also isn't something that would do well at the beginning of a written work because the reader does not have enough atttachment or investment in the character to read and identify with what he's expressing, so it just comes off as pretentious.
I'm not saying it's poorly written, just not enticing enough to prompt further interest in reading.
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I liked it. The amount of words and how he spoke worked with his character,I was able to get a pretty good sense of who he is. I would keep reading. I'm curious to see what happens next.
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>>9871438
The opening line is clunky.
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What are your favourites by him?
>Tragedy: Macbeth/Antony and Cleopatra
>Comedy: Two Gentlemen of Verona
>History: Henry V
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>>9871118
>Othello\Lear
>As you like it
>Richard ii
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>Macbeth
>Twelfth Night
>Richard ii
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>King Lear
>As You Like It
>Henry V
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How come life is so objectively terrible
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Because we are finite
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black people
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>>9870897
Somewhat novel numbers and I kill myself
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Are we allowed to talk about the horrendous stranglehold of ethnic nepotism in the publishing industry here?
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>>9870847
I agree, it's dominated by (((old white men)))
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Wild DIVERSITY appeared!
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>>9870847
Someone here did a lot of research on the staff at the New Yorker et al. and posted it here the other day ... and was promptly shut down. Was that you OP? Are you working on an infograph with that information?
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i'm bored as fuck
so i made a haiku thread.
post your haikus, fags.
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>>9870764
I really don't know
Because I've never asked
Ther fuck is a haiku?
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>>9870778
weeb poem with three
verses, a syllable count
of five-seven-five.
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smelly, rich, and dark
wafting foul odor permeates
in dutch oven love
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Is there value in reading the ego and it's own entirely? Or is valuing ideas a spook
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>>9870742
that is a cute stirner
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>>9870742
>Or is valuing ideas a spook
See the great thing about reading his books is that it will clear up a lot of misconceptions like the above whilst also giving a unique and entertaining criticism of liberalism and socialism
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Stirner is essential reading for anyone who wants to be smug and smart.
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Finding Literary Agent for Weird Fiction 2017-08-10 12:03:54 Post No.9870726
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Finding Literary Agent for Weird Fiction
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Hey... I've been suffering a lot trying to find a literary agent for a collection of short stories I've written in the weird fiction genre. I've spent copious time editing them, and every publisher or literary agent I've come across has been too busy to read my works for consideration. Does anyone have any advice on how I can find a literary agent who will sit down and actually read my damn works? Thanks.
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>>9870726
You can't get published as a white male today. Only SJWs
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>>9870733
Yeah, it's something I've noticed. I feel Iranians/Persians are considered White, btw, since I've made that clear in most of my emails.
Maybe if I say I'm trans?
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>>9870759
yeah then you'll get a $100K contract probably, whereas a man who wrote the same would be publically humiliated. Soon we will be put in jail for trying to write
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Has anyone read Atlas Shrugged?
Is it worth the very long read? What was the main point(s) you came away with that enriched your life?
Thanks for mature responses.
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>>9870650
better than fucking leftist SJWs thats for sure. I respect capitalism, and I don't respect multiculturalism
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theoretically, this board could have been an amazing little niche to spend one's time discussing one's interest with like-minded anons and memeing about others' shit taste.
the state of /lit/ makes me sad.
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>>9870701
It's the vile leftists who make everything about race and gender shit. Another reminder never to let women and nonwhites have rights
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English Major = Critical Theory + SJW activism Major in American universities? 2017-08-09 11:27:17 Post No.9870581
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English Major = Critical Theory + SJW activism Major in American universities?
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Going to a state university right now and I'm finding this meme to be true. Classics and Philosophy seem like a patrician choice.
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>>9870581
This thread is now about redpilled beliefs.
In an ideal world women and nonwhites wouldn't be allowed entry to a higher learning institution, because their minds are inferior to that of white men. Soon philosophy and the classics will be replaced by gender non binary training and classes on how white women should breed with black men to eradicate the white race
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>>9870595
shoo shoo
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What book will make me less lazy
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>>9870498
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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Getting off your ass helps
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I'd like to read something that could change my life in this way too.
How can I stop being a procrastinator?
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Working on a post apocalyptic dark fantasy. Could I get some feedback /lit/? 2017-08-09 10:51:05 Post No.9870414
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Working on a post apocalyptic dark fantasy. Could I get some feedback /lit/?
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Work in progress
>Plot is set in our world
>Eldritch abominations appear. Due to being from another dimension, their very presence here distorts the fabric of reality. That alongside the fact that they just destroy things (being eldritch abominations), the world begins to end.
>Their appearance also explains the existence of magic, since magic is essentially the distortion of nature at your own will.
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>Despite there being action scenes, they are not the focus of the story. The main focus is on characterization, character development, themes, and plot progression first, world building second, and action distant third.
>Not YA. Think of any YA cliché you can. This does not include them, don't worry. I hate the genre as much as you do.
>Despite having a protagonist, there are three rotating stories, each with one narrator offering their own unique perspective on the world and situations they face, with some characters exiting their stories and entering others. They all happen at the same time. They all intersect by the climax.
That's it for now. Thoughts?
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Also, if it's not too much to ask, I'd appreciate it if all replies elaborated on your opinions. I need to take this advice as much as I can.
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How familiar are you with the work of H. P. Lovecraft? (you are I think)
I would recommend the setting to resemble his (The Old Ones and this stuff). The lore of his universe was folded out by a lot of writers and just slightly refering to something that many people know, just a little, will make it more interesting imo
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is this a good way to open a story?
i think its deep.
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It's really good but I think it'd be better if you changed "Knock, knock" to "Knock knock, give me your money RIGHT now"
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>>9870312
Whoa...
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its a story about how an ignorant bigot see's the failure of capitalism and starts coming around to the holy truth that is socialism
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wtf
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>>9870231
wtf I hate Satan now
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Great book. Don't take it literally. It's required that you read the Book of Daniel before this as it draws heavily on its imagery.
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Daily reminder that this book was written by a near-illiterate.