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>>9857535

Tolstoy survives translation very well. Just read whatever.

>>9857540
Okay I just bought the penguin version because it was the cheapest. You should know though if I find your statement to be untrue I will put a curse on you.

>>9857535
Just buy the one with the nicest cover, then girls will think you're smart

...bump?

How to make friends and influence people - Dale Carnegie

You can find pdfs online.

>>9857519

The art of the deal

>>9857431
Ah, there he is.
That motherfucker.
What a tool.

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>>9857431

For a contemporary of theirs, please study the work of Timothy Dexter.

declaration of independence
us constitution

Yes. Who is he?

>>9857363
He has that shitty asian male haircut. Not worth reading.

I'm convinced he just strings words together with no regard for what they mean

>>9857344
>reading as a child

I wasn't a gay

These illustrated non-fiction books on the mythologies

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>>9857375
Thanks for your contribution, idiot. Having you around really makes /lit/ a better place.

>>9857313
Rupi got caught plagiarizing lmoa looks like she decided to copy the practices of Rilke

>>9857313
Judging by how poorly written your post is, it's a good thing that you have not tried to write something.

>>9857323
judging by how poorly written your face is everyone hates you.

無

>>9857303
Zhuangzi was far more sincere and delved deeper into Daoism. Laozi is basically just Dao-lite for governing bodies.

>>9857300
Miller is someone who admire for what he tried to do then what he actually did. Lynch and Beckett come to mind. I can't really "get into" their works but I appreciate what they tried to do, and even some of their ideas are interesting if you can slog through it. Overall, reads what gives you an erection. No more no less. There is no required reading. There is just you. I wave as you disappear into imaginary oblivion, like a birthday balloon going home to gods last birthday party

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>>9857367

Good luck with your future endeavours!

There is truth to the claim that sometimes a bad writer can be closer to greatness than a good writer, because the bad writer may just be slightly off in all the areas he or she needs to be great in, while the good writer is merely solid in all areas, but never comes close to greatness in any area. This, however, is not the case with Henry Miller. He is a bad writer because he is virtually void of any writing talent. Let’s go down the checklist: Imagery- no. Narrative ability- no. Characterization- no. Depth- no. Insight- no. Dialogue- no. Poesy- no. Wit- no. I could go on, but you get the general drift. Instead, Miller was one of the earliest examples of a talentless badass who made a name for himself on reputation alone. Yes, he may have been well read, but I couldn’t write worth a lick. In this regard he was a prosaic Ezra Pound, save the talent, or an early Beatnik, sans the bongos. One might say he was America’s Parisian Rimbaud, except that there were glimmers of talent in that overhyped scatologist. Miller has nothing but books larded with banality, dullness, and the overuse of curse words. And, no, he does not use them creatively in the way, say, 1999’s South Park feature film did.
I read both of Miller's Tropics books on back-to-back days, and there really is not much to either. Imagine Pound writing fiction on a bad day at the asylum. Of course, I recall once having a conversation at a pizzeria with a drunken bisexual wannabe writer about the books, which I’d only glanced at at the time, and he raved over their brilliance. Why? Because talentless wannabe writers love to promote and ejaculate over material that any other talentless hack could have written. I don’t doubt that hack I knew could have equaled Miller’s garbage. But, the fact is that neither should have been published. Even the banal and lazy ravings of Postmodernists have more to offer than mere bilge. Not much more, but some. The out that defenders of such garbage- the forebear of execrable pissings like James Frey’s Oprah-endorsed A Million Little Pieces- never rely on the actual work to defend it. No one ever points to gorgeous prose, wonderful moments, talk stolen from reality, for the obvious reason that there are no such things to recommend in the work. Instead, they haul out canards about ‘truth’, ‘honesty’, ‘pain’, and the like. And, being banned never helps create demand. As overrated as I think the later works of Joyce are- Ulysses and Finnegans Wake- both are more deserving of study than this bilge. Even Jack Kerouac’s droning On The Road is a masterpiece by comparison to these two utter pieces of nothingness.

It can either be a longer process or somewhat sudden

A lot of people become "atheists" because they're edgelords. It's just another variant of FUCK YOU DAD. It's inherently childish and reactionary.
Then when they mature they realize that they are a part of society whether they like it or not and therefore they can either choose to be a functioning member of society or an eternal basement dweller.
So most people want to have meaningful lives so they choose to be a part of society and then they discover humility and realize that there is a lot that they don't understand and that they are a small part of something much greater and then they leave atheism behind. This is the way in which the maturation process is linked with abandoning atheism.

>>9857267
*tips mitre*

>>9857233
man's best friend, senpai

if i die before i wake, feed jake.

A dog is loyal in a way no human can.

its a post modern epic tale taking from the Hero Journey.
But is about fucking ronald reagan

A series of books that's essentially a generational story; about a world gaining, losing and rediscovering its purpose.

I find myself continually working on what is essentially the "last" in the series, but the others are no less important. They're all seperated by at least some hundreds of years with one exception. Science Fantasy.

>>9857224
Like anyone here actually had a novel published.

>>9857208
my favs are pistol grip shotguns. you?

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>>9857213
Once I have some money, I'd prefer to own a higher grade meme.

>>9857225
that's uh... kinda gross. how about something with a barrel that doesn't look like a mid-range vibrator?

if i ever bought a gun it'd be a 1887 flip cock rifle.

how did wallace meet his untimely end again?

>>9857183
If you typed this into Google instead of /lit/, you would have had your answer instantly. He hanged himself.

>>9857168
What kind of answer do you expect? Don't ask stupid questions!

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>>9857138
Got merriam webster and DEX (Romanian dic) on my phone. That's about it.

>>9857138
Adolf V. Streng, Latinalais-suomalainen sanakirja [Latin-Finnish]
Liddell & Scott, Greek-English Lexicon [ancient Greek]
Λεξιkό της νεοελληνιkής γλώσσας [monolingual modern Greek]
Γ. Μπαμπινιώτης, Λεξιkό της νέας ελληνιkής γλώσσας [monolingual modern Greek]

Internet provides all the other dictionaries I need.

I wouldn't be asking here if I didn't need to. I don't understand any of the online definitions. Can someone break it down for me?

>the whole has a reality of its own, independent of the parts

Think of it as your body. It's made of cells, each with their own business.
But you're more than just a bunch of cells working together. So much that a cell doesn't define you, neither don't all your cells.
You're entirely something else.

>>9857171
What's the gestalt here? Would it be your body being an entity of its own despite being composed of all those individual cells?