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If a writer can't express himself clearly then it's evident that he himself doesn't understand what he is trying to say and is useless read.

>>9794131
>implying the sole purpose of literature is to be comprehensible
pleb alert

>>9794131
>useless read.
bruh please. I feel like i'm the only guy who doesn't get this person and if I play sour grapes, then i'm gonna be pleb4lyfe

>>9794076
you are taking the wrong path kid.

>>9794076
I have an alternate suggestion. Read the Art of Fiction interviews by the Paris Review. They have interviewed writers over the past century, and they have many fine insights into writing. Read Hemingway's, Nabokov's, Vonnegut's, and anyone else whom you recognise.

As for books, Slaughterhouse-Five by Vonnegut is a good book to observe. Watch for his pacing and the specific words he uses, and how he is able to convey a idea through language.

>>9794076
The dummies guide to series.

Its goes over the snowflake method, which works for genre fuction and regular shit as well.
Essentially it teaches you how to develop a character and a story over the course of a few weeks that saves you hundreds od hours in editing later down the track.

hit him up on insta i hear hes real receptive to dl hookups w homofans

>>9793851
>>handsome as fuck
He's ugly as shit lmao (left)

>>9793851
this faggot has paid some one to shill it all over the chans, ignore this shit

I dont remember that well and it might be a shitty teenager book but i loost it or gave it away long time ago,I remember that i really like it

Im bored too soo best sci-fi stories?Its the fundation series of Asimov all that good? Never gave it a go

>>9793195
foundation = boring

read Bruce Sterling's "The Caryatids" instead. crazy Serbian warlord creates six clones to take over the world, instead they fight each other.

Anything by George Orwell, Ernest Hemmingway and Raymond Carver.

>>9793038
I got you 100%, op.
>www. Epublibre. Org
Simply the best source on ebooks, mainly in spanish.

>>9793297
Well, shit. My bad, they didn't have it.
Sorry, op.

it's mostly a meme but at the same time if you can smoke pot and take psychedelics without feeling anything like creativity you're probably a really boring person

>>9793031
The Beatles, for example, took drugs such as LSD and were hence inspired to produce albums such as Magical Mystery Tour. (Though they obviously did not record while high) However, other musicians such as Frank Zappa, who was arguably just as creative as the Beatles, swore off the use of drugs as enhancers of talent. The common element between them is that both groups possessed talent beforehand. Drugs may enhance creativity by relaxation, as did Eddie Hazel on the titular Maggot Brain guitar solo (one of the greatest guitar solos), but talent has to be native first. Otherwise, there's nothing to enhance.

>>9793031
Creative people create. They work really hard. Coke helps you stay up, alcohol relaxes, heroin helps with anxiety, etc. They enhance performance because the human body and spirit is liable to fatigue and other difficulties. Also, an addiction is something that will force you through some very awful self-appraisal and that in itself is good. There are other ways but an addiction gets you in touch with it on a more visceral or primal level, precognitive i guess. I don't recommend it, the hell of recovering from addiction, of readjusting to reality in its full effect cannot be overstated. On the other hand Anton Artaud said: It isn't morphine that makes me work, but its absence, only for it to be absent it must from time to time be present.
>>9793040
>frank Zappa
Fucking maymay music

>>9792142
nigga has like 4 books just read him.


saged

Just jump into The Recognitions tbqh.

>>9792142
Skip The Recognitions.

No book needs to be that long.

>>9791157
>lovecraftian
>good
Op.. easy on the niggers

>>9791157
Sweet Ermengarde

>>9791157
The one with the old german playing on viola in his apartment is suitable for play I think. It’s short too.

>>9790985
HD

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A stunning literary achievement.

>>9790985
Lang Leav's Sad Girls is nowhere near the god-tier. This thread must be a joke if you truly believe so. Women such as Djuna Barnes, George Eliot, or even early Toni Morrison are leagues above Lang Leav.

>>9789527
the word order is ambiguous that's all, should have said in a office filled with junior staffer the aide found a fridge etc.

I fixed it without changing any words.

In an office filled with junior staffers, the aide found a fridge and told them Spicer wanted it.

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I love it when these gaffs slip through. In newspapers it's almost always a missing word, or a misspelling. Its seldom something as rich as the pic.

>>9801763
Ass so fat, make me say DAMN!

Booty jiggle, make my dick wiggle.

>>9801763
>>9801768
>>9801795
try the redpill, women are inferior to me

>>9801573
To the untrained mind french continental philosophy might look strange but it's really not, you're just a brainlet.

>>9801588
hey, dumb faggot, that's not what i'm saying

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>Outsight was the greatest thing that never happened in psychedelia. The project was planned in the 1950s by Humphrey Osmond, neurophilosopher John Smythies, and author Aldous Huxley. The objective was to collect, as Osmond briefed, ‘personal reflections on the experience of taking mescaline by 50 to 100 notable subjects in philosophy, literature and science.’[50] These leading intellectuals included C. D. Broad, A. J. Ayer, H. H. Price, J. C. Ducasse, Gilbert Ryle, Carl Jung, Albert Einstein, and novelist Graham Greene. A lot of interest was shown by these figures but, alas, the funding for Outsight was never awarded—a rejection the organizers blamed partly on the stuffy reductivism of the time.

>it was certainly unfortunate that the first wave of psychedelia occurred concomitantly with the point where the philosophy of mind was at its most reductive. That is, at the point in the West where the intelligentsia favoured, spurned on by arguments in linguistic philosophy and in psychology, a view which reduced the mind to mere verbal confusion, function, physical behaviour or physical identity. Were an Outsight re-proposed today, with our less-reductive and multifarious theories as to the mind-matter relation—the ‘world-knot’ as Schopenhauer called it—funding may be more forthcoming.

>unfortunate
that's putting it mildly. the record of a mass psychedelic wave rolling through oxbridge & elsewhere & thoroughly rinsing the greatest minds in analytic philosophy would be the comfort read of the year

>whereof one cannot speak, thereof one might be tripping one's fucking balls off

>>9801041

That sounds pretty depressing and suprisingly accurate in describing my inner circle of family+friends. The guy also concludes it does little to treat individuals into therapy since they only spiral back into the cultural chaos sooner or later. I suppose this is when autocracy kicks in claiming to restore order.

Hey OP how was your day at work?

I think I saw one of your shitposts this afternoon so I guess you have a somewhat comfy job?

>>9801041
This has been self-evident for quite some time to me. Even more horrifying is that the pace keeps accelerating. Things are going to shit on so many levels.

>>9800978
That looks amazing, I wish I had time to devote to it.

>>9800978
No idea but the format of that chart is horrendous.

If you're interested, there's a Sufi translation of the Quran: https://www.amazon.com/Noble-Quran-Abdalhaqq-Bewley/dp/1874216363

Islam forbids images of living beings. What kind of haram on these covers?

>>9800954
Supposedly at the end of this year. I don't know if it will be good but I'm sure it won't be bad. He keeps postponing the release to edit it more.
I honestly feel like McCarthy, Pynchon, Morrison, and Gass have huge tomes they're working on in their old age to publish posthumously. They probably have a group chat where they place bets on who's gonna die first

>>9800984
>I honestly feel like McCarthy, Pynchon, Morrison, and Gass have huge tomes they're working on in their old age to publish posthumously. They probably have a group chat where they place bets on who's gonna die first
who really writes great novels after they turn 60, let alone 80 like these guys are. I'm sure there are some exceptions, but judging from all their outputs post 60 i wouldnt get too excited

>>9800984
Pynchon's last novel is the only thing postponing my suicide desu