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What's the longest you've ever written in one sitting?
I just sat down from yesterday night, to just now and wrote 10,000 words.
It's probably all shit but I"m glad I did it.
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>>9660785
I write on paper and then transfer it on Computer so I get a second read next to correcting simple mistakes auto correct doesn't get.
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>>9660785
It is shit.
Kill yourself Gaskun.
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>>9660785
>What's the longest you've ever written in one sitting?
i don't know
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Does anybody know the name of a writer from America (I think) who wrote during the 18th or 19th centuries (I think) but had terrible spelling and grammar? I recall he wrote something regarding his poor writing and it was hilarious, I want to find it again.
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Timothy Dexter?
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>>9660718
Zadie is so goddamn attractive.
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>>9660743
yup that was him lol
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Why do so many French people pretend to not like Houellebecq?
Is it because he's the only honest writer their country has produced in generations?
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>>9660661
>It's a '/pol/ retard makes up ridiculous claim that isn't true at all, solely to get to talk about identity politics on /lit/' episode
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>pretend
It's my understanding that abrasiveness is part of his schtick.
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>>9660661
If they admitted they liked him he'd just be even more horrible to get them to pretend they hate him again
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>The third man argument (commonly referred to as TMA; Greek: τρίτος ἄνθρωπος), first offered by Plato in his dialogue Parmenides (132a–b), is a philosophical criticism of Plato's own theory of Forms. This argument was furthered by Aristotle (Metaphysics 990b17=1079a13, 1039a2; Sophistic Refutations 178b36 ff.) who used the example of a man (hence the name of the argument) to explain this objection to Plato's theory; he posits that if a man is a man because he partakes in the form of man, then a third form would be required to explain how man and the form of man are both man, and so on, ad infinitum.
who gives a fuck if they go on to infinity?
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>>9660244
Infinite regresses are problematic not because they are infinite, but because they do not provide a primitive explanation as to where, in this case, "man" comes from
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Not a third form but an ultimate form.
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>>9660244
>who gives a fuck if they go on to infinity?
>he thinks he's everybody
this is why you have no room left for forms of your gf, in any dimension
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>>9659864
>My summer meming
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>it will take him the entire summer to read three pamphlets and a YA novel
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>>9659864
Jesus christ. Back to /v/ with you
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I work for Penguin Books USA in NYC and a few weeks ago, a friend of mine who works in proofreading brought up that she had received the new Thomas Pynchon novel revised draft but couldn't talk about it. A few weeks down the line, because his name keeps coming up, some other coworkers stumbled across a pasta that is supposedly from these forums (I'll talk about that a little later, too). While we're out having drinks last Friday, the pasta comes up in a conversation with the proofreader, and we read it aloud (I wasn't the one responsible for finding it, and I don't feel like hunting it down) but it was about snakes popping out of cans, etc. The proofreader freaked out, because apparently there is a direct reference to this in the novel, which she reconfirmed with me yesterday when she had a second opportunity to look at it on Monday.
Also, apparently he's at the very least looked at these forums, as there's also a name drop in the new book (of the website, don't know if it references the literature boards in particular).
Anyways, congrats on getting a mention (I guess?) And no, I've never met, seen (that I know of, but I work in NYC), interacted with, talked on the phone with Pynchon.
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I want to believe.
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Tell those fuckers to stop rejecting my job applications
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>>9659743
prove that you're in nyc right now
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https://qz.com/1007144/the-neo-fascist-philosophy-that-underpins-both-the-alt-right-and-silicon-valley-technophiles/
This is not a drill, our guy Nick Land has started to make his way into mainstream media. Seems that people are really scared of him, which is a good thing, because they deserve his ideas being spread.
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>>9659361
Didn't good ol' Nicky say he deplores the alt-tight? Not that I would care. Nicky and the alt-tight can go both fuck themselves. We need caesarism asap.
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>>9659387
nick agrees, except Caesar is a machine and there will be no conspiracy powerful enough to assassinate him.
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They should be fucking scared, he's telling them and everyone else exactly what has been wrought on the future.
Most interesting philosopher alive today. Exiled to China.
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New World Translation is the best translation. DEBATE ME.
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why?
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>>9659653
It's readable, and has objectively better prose.
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It really isn't a bad translation outside of using Jehovah in the New Testament.
I want witty satire.
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>>9659260
Naked Lunch
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>>9659260
No one ever topped Gulliver's Travels.
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Don't we all?
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What are you cunts reading?
Currently I am reading Iron Mind by Randall Strossen, a great book that deals with the mental side of lifting. Also, there is a whole lot of carry over into everyday life with the lessons learned.
I going to be finishing up my current book soon and need another one. What would you all recommend?
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>>9658390
John Locke, Two Treatises on Government
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>>9658391
Thanks m8, I'll have to look into that.
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Just finished up Antifragile by Nassim Taleb.
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Let's write a novel, /lit/ 2017-06-20 06:48:24 Post No.9657948
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Let's write a novel, /lit/
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One paragraph at a time. If this gets 100 replies I'll record a dramatic reading of it.
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Winkleberry shrugged
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The smell of pancakes waft into the room, following a jocular crashing. What a joyous occasion it is.
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-yet Burger King had not opened yet. Disappointment filled the air like oxygen, but he didn't care. He knew the Thyme was coming.
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How does one legitimately practice writing fiction?
Everyone says "Just write and keep writing" and while it's certainly true you can't practice an art without actually doing it, but that doesn't mean you aren't practicing terribly and reinforcing bad habits.
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>>9656983
you're thinking of writing practice in the same context as arts/sports that require fine motor skills. "reinforcing bad habits" is a lot hard when you can write a slowly as you want and the produce is perfectly preserved to look at afterward.
just edit and have people shit on your work
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>>9656994
>reinforcing bad habits doesn't exist for writing
If you write long run-on sentences constantly, that's a bad habit
If you usually write flat characters, that's a bad habit
If your dialogue always sounds stiff, that's a bad habit
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>>9656983
This may be a SHOCKING and REVOLUTIONARY idea, but have you ever AT LEAST ONCE considered the POSSIBILITY of taking, WAIT FOR IT, a CREATIVE WRITING COURSE at a UNIVERSITY?
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What is the most immersive book you have read?
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the bible
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2017-06-19 07:51:52
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>>9655801
The ones I like best.
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The Book of the New Sun. I found myself making bleak choices for myself for bare reasons for like a month. I wish I could read it again for the first time.
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This book was a fucking page-turner for me.
It got me back into 'actual reading'
Where can I get more stuff like this?
Hit me with your recs /lit/
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I thought Solaris was just the poor man's Moby Dick. So go read that.
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>>9655551
Strugatsky brothers of course.
Roadside Picnic and Hard to be a God are the only plots I'm familiar with
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>>9655566
>poor man's Moby Dick
come the fuck on, don´t do that kind of pleb comparisons.
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How's the writing career coming, /lit/?
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Finally have the confidence to try writing competitions. Finishing a book this month.
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>>9653999
taking a hiatus, before i continue to more difficult exercises that will hopefully churn out better poems. (was writing sonnets, going to Villanelles and Sestinas)
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I'll never make it. I'm 22 and I don't write.