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another milk and honey thread

I don't recognize the meaning of the phrase "pop yo' pussy".

all you femanons
pop yo' roastie
like this
shake your """booties"""

don't stop
don't miss

>>9825568
yea

>>9825568
ye

Somtimes. I know its common for many writers to have "modes" where they produce more than they read and vice versa.

It's all about making it burst

Dare I ask what it's about?

>>9825635
it's about a man that fucks babies

>>9825337
read aloud. go read some old poetry and read it aloud. i developed a rhythm when i read the divine comedy as a lad in jail with gusts of amphetamine at my back. as now i write to you a jarring and stupid mess of advice. just remind yourself of the voice! the source of our communication, greeks were victims of the oral tradition, right? who wants to be frumpy musty bloom broom sweeping pages like the shockwave from the western cannon? read aloud read aloud, practice practice, repetition is practice, even if it's the wrong method, something always sticks, adjusts, we're still clay when free association takes up the wire.

>>9825337
>after I used spreader

What is spreader, pls?

>>9825385
Was with you up until the last sentence

>>9825288
elementary is pretty good

>>9825288
I haven't read any non-Doyle renditions, so unfortunately I don't have a /lit/ answer. But as far as filmed versions go, the Granada TV show with Jeremy Brett is fantastic. Best filmed Holmes I can think of.

>>9825529
>Granada TV show with Jeremy Brett is fantastic
Jeremy Brett is the quintessential Holmes. He really is amazing as Holmes, but how is Watson? I forget how they portrayed him, but shows back then had this weird thing about portraying Watson as this dumpy retard for some reason.

>>9825166
fuck off faggot. literature isn't good in little self-help faggy quotes. it's about the work as a whole. fuck any fag who posts in this thread

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>>9825166
>“Do you know, I am filled with a strange uplift; I feel as if all time were echoing through me, as though all powers were mine. I know truth, divine good from evil, right from wrong. My vision is clear and far. I could almost believe in God. But,” and his voice changed and the light went out of his face,—“what is this condition in which I find myself? this joy of living? this exultation of life? this inspiration, I may well call it? It is what comes when there is nothing wrong with one’s digestion, when his stomach is in trim and his appetite has an edge, and all goes well. It is the bribe for living, the champagne of the blood, the effervescence of the ferment—that makes some men think holy thoughts, and other men to see God or to create him when they cannot see him. That is all, the drunkenness of life, the stirring and crawling of the yeast, the babbling of the life that is insane with consciousness that it is alive. And—bah! To-morrow I shall pay for it as the drunkard pays. And I shall know that I must die, at sea most likely, cease crawling of myself to be all a-crawl with the corruption of the sea; to be fed upon, to be carrion, to yield up all the strength and movement of my muscles that it may become strength and movement in fin and scale and the guts of fishes. Bah! And bah! again. The champagne is already flat. The sparkle and bubble has gone out and it is a tasteless drink.”

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>>9825166
>fuck any fag who posts in this thread

because you joined in and then it wasn't cool anymore

>>9825168
I NEVER MEMED HIM FAGGOT

>>9825162
He's kind of a national treasure in my country so I try to stay away from his influence. He's for normies around here.

>>9825087
The Name of the Rose

>>9825087
The Enchantress of Florence

Captain Alatriste

The Abyss, by Marguerite Yourcenar. Both literary and enjoyable. The travels and travails of an Alchemist.

so this is what rei has been up to all this time...

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wtf...

I like it.

>>9825100
>fucking normies reeeeeeeer

pls no fountainhead

>>9825086
thanks lad

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you're like a little baby

>>9825161
That's so masturbatory it makes me sick

>>9825532
secular philosophy is a spook

>>9825016
That's why you have to have a vice as well. To fuck up your face. Please proceed into a heroin addiction.

>>9825021
For a moment there it sounded like you meant a literal vice, well done

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>>9825016
Who cares? Beckett lived as a recluse and had only a few long term relationships. He did not really exploit it that much...


... Who am I kidding? Look at him? That's perfection... what would I give to look like that.

>>9824978
read good writers

what's yout mother idiom?

Try just keeping a diary. Just consistently doing it should help, you'll also spend more time thinking about how to describe things when you're out and about.

>>9824963
quit literature, it's not for you. feel free to come back with a snarky (You), I don't give a shit. It won't change your lack of talent and inability to understand art

>>9824963
I'm no expert on this stuff, but try the old Constance Garnet translation. It was a very enjoyable reading experience, once things got rolling at a certain point.

Very much enjoyed her translation of War and Peace, too. If you can get through the first fifty-odd pages of that, which are a bit dry, a lot of drawing room stuff, it catches the main wind and becomes absolutely compelling. It is truly the Great Novel experience.

>>9824990
So it feels as such because of the translation then? Was the Russian version really that good?

Start with the Greeks.

>>9824893
slave morality

>>9824893
It's a lie by omission.