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I Can’t Believe I Didn’t See That Coming 2017-06-09 12:15:27 Post No.9615552
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I Can’t Believe I Didn’t See That Coming
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Write a story that starts with the line “You’ll never get me to tell you where the jewels are,” and ends with the line, “I can’t believe I didn’t see that coming.” Be as creative as you can.
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Fuck off underage kid
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“You’ll never get me to tell you where the jewels are!”, said OP defiantly.
"Buoeheheh! TELL me? You think I don't know already? This is 4chan! There is only one place they could be!" So with that, our hero stretched a rubber glove over his crooked fingers and made a fist in preparation. He wasted no time in jamming in straight up OP's ass where he knew the jewels were hidden. After a bit of rummaging, the tips of his fingers connected with something smooth and spherical. He managed to just barely grasp hold of the object with his middle and fore. His dexterous fingers wiggled the ball until he could grab it entirely, at which point he violently yanked.
A brilliant string of emeralds and sapphires was ejected from OP, frosted lightly with blood. Through the pain of his prolapsed anus, he was able to gasp the words: “I can’t believe I didn’t see that coming.”
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can someone post that guide to poetry chart. not the flowerposter one or the shitty one on the wiki, the newer one with the background readings on verse and composition,
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You didn't even say please.
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Did DFW predict Donald Trump?
‘[...] the government will be the parent, with all the ambivalent love-hate-need-defy charges that surround the parent-figure in the mind of the adolescent, […] I don’t think the American nation today is infantile so much as adolescent – that is, ambivalent in its twin desire for both authoritarian structure and the end of parental hegemony.
‘You can see where it’s going. The extraordinary political apathy that followed Watergate and Vietnam and the institutionalization of grass-roots rebellion among minorities will only deepen. Politics is about consensus, and the advertising legacy of the sixties is that consensus is repression. Voting’ll be unhip: Americans now vote with their wallets. Government’s only cultural role will be as the tyrannical parent we both hate and need. Look for us to elect someone who can cast himself as a Rebel, maybe even a cowboy, but who deep down we’ll know is a bureaucratic creature who’ll operate inside the government mechanism instead of naively banging his head against it the way we’ve watched poor Jimmy do for four years.’
‘Look for a candidate who can do to the electorate what corporations are learning to do, so Government – or, better, Big Government, Big Brother, Intrusive Government – becomes the image against which this candidate defines himself. Though paradoxically for this persona, to have weight the candidate’ll also have to be a creature of government, an Insider, with a flinty-eyed entourage of bureaucrats and implementers who we’ll be able to see can actually run the machine. Plus of course a massive campaign budget courtesy of guess who.’
‘You’re saying the next president will be able to continue to define himself as an Outsider and Renegade when he’s actually in the White House?’
‘You’re still underestimating the taxpayers’ need for the lie, for the surface rhetoric they can keep telling themselves while deep down they can rest assured that Daddy’s in control and everyone’s still safe. The way adolescents make a big deal of rebelling against parental authority while they borrow the keys to Daddy’s car and use Daddy’s credit card to fill it with gas. The new leader won’t lie to the people; he’ll do what corporate pioneers have discovered works far better: He’ll adopt the persona and rhetoric that let the people lie to themselves.’
‘[…] We’ll have a tyranny of conformist nonconformity presided over by a symbolic outsider whose very election depended on our deep conviction that his persona is utter bullshit.’
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I mentioned this in that other thread about that 90s book.
People gotta understand this wasn't an uncommon observation.
It's just Reagan all over again. That's kinda the significance of the passage.
David was a big reagan fan in the 80s who ended up becoming disillusioned.
Much of Johnny Gentle's character in IJ was inspired by these feelings.
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Well, let me go down the list.
Prediction: a president who is a big phoney and like insincere and stuff
Outcome: Trump is a big phoney and like insincere and stuff
Well shit, all his predictions came through.
Who would have guessed that a tall, cool, rebellious orator with connections to wingnut radicals would be elected with a vast wave of popular support and desire to end corrupt misgovernment and cronyism, with subsequent disappointment and disillusionment? That hasn't happened since 2008.
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"covfefe"
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>leave Searle, Foucault and Habermas to me
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Reading his book on Husserl now. Well, so far it's been half-hidden Judaic mysticism. Which means "pretty painful" for the Hegelian in me.
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The Hunger Games trilogy vs. The Divergent trilogy 2017-06-09 10:57:01 Post No.9615426
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The Hunger Games trilogy vs. The Divergent trilogy
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Which one is better?
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Anon, that's like comparing piss to diarrhea. Now, the appearances ARE different enough to distinguish the two, but both are offering the same disgusting level of physical substance.
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Further reading after Aristotle's Rhetoric? 2017-06-09 08:28:01 Post No.9615217
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Further reading after Aristotle's Rhetoric?
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2017-06-09 08:28:01
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I just read the Art of Rhetoric but I find Aristotle's writing style to be very repetitive and not specific/precise in nature. Are that any good books that expand on his ideas? Specifically ones on rhtoeric and oratory
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If you were introducing someone to each genre for the first time, what would you say are the best examples of each and why?
Fiction
Comedy
Drama
Horror
Non-fiction
Realistic
Romantic
Satire
Tragedy
Tragicomedy
Fantasy
Mythology
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posting in an epic thread
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i dont know if you are shitposting or a pleb but we (we?( don't really divide up literature into the same easy genres as movie people do
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Perhaps you should google it.
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alright /lit/, what makes a cult classic and what is your favourite?
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It has to have a frisson of weirdness about it, some esoteric quality that sets it in opposition to mainstream lit/culture. A good example would be the Illuminatus Trilogy.
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wait so like tao lin?
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>Remember the happy days, when this was all one big funny joke, and it would all work out? we would bring in Dunkin' Donuts in the morning and everyone would have some, but now... there's no more fun, no more donuts, and its not a joke anymore. We thought it would be so funny, but the joke is on us...
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“So what if I’m not some burned-out decadent faggot like yourself,” McDermott says, getting in ahead of me.
More works on the tasteful exploits of Alpha males.
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Who Wants to write a fucked up story?
2017-06-09 06:28:06 Post No.9615023
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Who Wants to write a fucked up story?
2017-06-09 06:28:06
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>be14
>sleeping
>wake up
>remember weird ass dream
>had sexual relationship with Dick Cheney, but oh my god it felt so good
>He impregnated me
>o shit.jpeg
>wouldn't let me abort
>last thing I remember is being pretty far along
>getting an ultrasound done, but a transvaginal one, idk why it was weird
>especially at that far along
>guess the baby was unhealthy?
>it was a boy
>remember Cheney standing near me in the room... expresionless
>don't know how this story would end
>oh well
>dream turned into some weird ass fanfiction shit
>continue the greentext story with what you think would/want to happen
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>library book due in 9 days
>900 pages to go
>Its a book of short storys
>there are like 10 people waiting on this book so i can't renew
>plan to just pay late fees for an extra week
Librarian is gonna FREAK
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Just buy the book on amazon senpai.
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I get like 200 bucks in university library late fees every semester and pay it off in pell grant money.
I have so many library books sitting on my house. I'd say it's criminal but I guess the late fees get paid.
>tfw ostensibly hate moochers and parasites
>somehow get 5 grand in FAFSA and scholarships every semester because snowflakery and boohoo I was raised by an unemployed single mother
idk why I haven't sucked a tailpipe for being such a hypocrite yet.
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Duuude that pell grant money is the best. Its such a mooch move but at least it can be considered a reward for studying and bettering oneself. Not like we are just sitting on our stoop .
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I-it's never coming out, is it /lit/? 2017-06-09 04:52:33 Post No.9614801
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I-it's never coming out, is it /lit/?
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No. This was confirmed weeks ago
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Link pliss. Not that I don't believe you, the guy's never gonna have to work again even if he lives to be 150 so why not let HBO finish it off?
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>>9614801
Is that golden snitch? Fuckin hell, Martin.
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An Affirmative Love Story, of sorts... 2017-06-09 04:49:38 Post No.9614794
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An Affirmative Love Story, of sorts...
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"Gregory Hicks had worked all his life so that one day he could marry a black woman."
A tale of the trials, tribulations, and treacle of interracial love in an alternate version of modern life.
https://crimsoneruption.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/an-affirmative-love-story-of-sorts/
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Woaaajhhh interracial love, I'm calling the cops!
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The Conspiracy Against the Human Race 2017-06-09 04:15:35 Post No.9614738
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The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
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Just finished it. Any thoughts?
To be sure, it's an unsettling book, but some parts were weaker than others. His dismissal of Buddhism in particular didn't seem very fleshed-out. Same goes for his general rejection of anything supernatural whatsoever.
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is there any good books or authors who talks about Ataraxy?
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