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use semicolons instead of commas. Makes you look educated

>>9830681
And colons instead of semicolons: it makes for great flow and readability.

I end every single one of my stories with, "Cha Cha Cha"

would drill that thicc mouth

what happened to him?

>>9830637
He died.

Stop paying your Internet bill.

>>9830262
Meditation and a pure ascetic cleanse. This however will take dedication, are you prepared ti dedicate yourself?

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Same here, how do i get into reading? I find everything boring and only play videogames and jerk off like a degenerate all day

>>9830240

Btw, Pekić is among the most impressive Serbian writers. He was highly prolific and his seven-tome work "Zlatno runo" (The Golden Fleece) is considered to be a European masterpiece in the league of "In Search of Lost Time", "Joseph and His Brothers" and "The Man Without Qualities". Read any work of his, you'll be challenged and impressed.

>>9830249
Any good Eng translations?

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>>9830162

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This is more historical fiction but I still dug it.

>>9830162
theres this great set of 8 plays called the first and second tetralogy, by this guy named will shakespeare, not sure if you've heard of him?

it is impossible to write fiction only about things you know first hand. It is fiction in the first place because it is not based on the first hand experience of any individual.

>>9830154
Horseriding is one of the few things in this world that is as enjoyable as it looks.

The answer to that question though, is that most people are afraid to experience the world but love to daydream and come up with stories about it.

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From a plot perspective horseriding and sailing are both ways to move a character between settings in an interesting way.

Generally though it's because they're lazy and shit. Author of pic related actually did everything described in the book with a fucking hatchet including starting a fire.

I heard John Green, the author of Turtles All The Way Down, hates black people and says "I, John Green, the author of Turtles All The Way Down, hate niggers" over and over again in the first chapter of Turtles All The Way Down? Is it true that John Green, author of Turtles All The Way Down "hates niggers"? Or is it just a rumor? I like John Green and I'm looking forward to his Turtles All The Way Down, in fact pretty much everything I've read by John Green before he published Turtles All The Way Down has knocked my socks off. I'd be very disappointed if John Green (in his words) "hates niggers."

>>9830148
How many turtles does the book contain?

Asking for a friend.

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>>9830148
are there turtles because he's John GREEN?

pleb

He saw the possibilities of a young, brooding, expanding nation and the principles it represented and stood for: freedom and democracy. He later became disenchanted and disappointed by the war and by slavery, though he was all for annexing all the territory America could lay its hands on.

>>9830143
Read his prologue to "Leaves of Grass," man, it fully reveals the reasons for his passionate hope for America and its people, particularly the splendor of the common men and women.

>>9830080

>Indefatigable
Persisting tirelessly.
>Concomitant
Naturally accompanying or associated.

>>9830080
mag-nan-im-ous: generous in forgiving an insult or injury; free from petty resentfulness or vindictiveness:

homosexual (gay)

>>9830032
We don't like it.

>>9830032
I liked it but maybe I'm just a brainlet. /lit/ hates the guy though so no you didn't

I have read five Murakami books and Norwegian Wood is the best one. It is emotional but doesn't have melodrama, it is philosophical but doesn't have pretentious themes, it has contemporary Japanese society but not in the superficial level.

>>9829926

It has a good reputation. I'm not aware of a history of philosophy that people recommend more.

You should also make sure to check out some eastern philosophy as well though both for the reason that it will provide a contrast that might help you better understand western philosophy, and also because eastern philosophy had been influential upon western ever since the Greeks.

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>>9829926
Anthony Kenny is better.

>>9829940
Bertrand Russell has a terrible reputation. His atheist and analytic bias dribbles through much of the medieval and the modern sections. If you don't find those philosophical schools appealing, then good for you, but at least give them the proper charity first.

OP, I would recommend:

1) Western Philosophy: An Anthology - John Cottingham to get started on how to think philosophically. It has chronologically-ordered excerpts from major philosophical works, organized by topic. Lots here to get you started.

2) Anthony Kenny's A New History of Western Philosophy. Pretty good until about the 1900s. Also shorter than comparable works. If you want a much longer approach, try Copleston, which more or less is the same quality but with the same flaws in the modern era as Kenny.

3) Cambridge History of Philosophy series. This is much longer anthology of several historians of philosophy per section, making it a superb and detailed introduction to each period. Great to supplement with Kenny. I would only make one suggestion and replace the "Hellenistic Philosophy" Cambridge set with another historian's work, A History of Ancient Philosophy (4 Vol) by Giovanni Reale if you want thoroughness.

>thinking about checking out
how much time are you going to spend doing that instead of actually reading it, mutard?

also I've read most of it. you should really read ligotti instead.

>>9829771
Musicians are uniformly pseuds 2bh. They can't help it. I think it's because it's possible for dumb people to be good musicians but impossible for dumb people to be good writers

>>9829771
>but I feel like it will disappoint me.

it will.

most musicians are, you know, focused on music. expecting a musician to be a good writer is a bit of a stretch, but if you can, locate a copy of Brian Eno's "A Year With Swollen Appendices"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Year_with_Swollen_Appendices

the bible

D&D 3.5 Manual of the Planes
D&D 3.5 Monster Manual
D&D 3.5 Draconomicon
Forgotten Realms Races of Faerun
Vampire: The Masquerade Rulebook
Clanbook Tzimisce

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>>9829741

jewish philosophy designed to undermine the west

Binaries dont real.

Language just kind of seems to work, but it's also really slippery and playfully unreliable whenever you try to pin it down or squeeze it real tight and make it do specific things. A bunch of homosexual Greeks got together and devised a plan to trap language in one spot, and pin her down tight or all eternity so she'd always do the same thing reliably, and we could finally talk about reality and existence and all those important things with complete 100% regularity. After a lot of very homosexual conversations they finally nabbed her, and once she was tied down, people spent a few thousand years trying to pin her down ever more tightly and tightly and tightly, because if language still wasn't doing what you wanted it to and giving you perfect access to reality then you just haven't fastened it down hard enough. Then two Nazis cam along and said, wait a minute, we never actually had her at all, we just thought we were pinning her down, but she was never caught to begin with. She rused us all along. And this French little Jew from Algeria said yes, I agree, you can only ever make language dance around like a slut, and you can only make her do the one thing you want her to do in the moment by doing other things that allow that thing to stand out and make sense, but when you stop doing that, it all goes away and you have to start over every time.

Ho, you conical slut, let me bathe you in my cosmic lust. Let me pour my love meat down your gullet and bottom you out into concrete. Your phosphorescent orange blinds my inhibitions, I clasp your edges and fold them outwards, a blossom for me to taint. I will leave you tumbled, turned inside out, spilling my seed, your mouth a gaping gasp. Wake up, I say, it's time to go again.

>>9829752
props

Drooling, I sneak up on you from behind.

The dust from the nearby construction site only adding to your mysterious appearance.

I slide my index liner into your top end hole and wait.

No response. I should have asked, but you don't protest. Invigorated, I continue pumping your lonely hole as I watch you quiver in rapturous delight.


what the fuck am I doing

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>>9829908
fingerpopping a traffic cone.